We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
Life gets to be so much easier once you've defined yourself as anti-fascist. It instantly makes everything you are not fascist. If you're poor, being rich is fascist. if you're ugly, being beautiful is fascist. If you're lazy, ambition is fascist. If you're dumb, smart is fascist.
It's like you don't need to think critically about anything ever again.
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Another guy named Dan
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2026-09-11 08:44
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I was working on the 18th floor of a skyscraper when the fall of the Twin Towers was on the news. Our IT guy remarked that it was a message from Allah---which it was.
Declare Islam a terrorist organization. Remigrate all Muslims. Then free all the countries that Muslims have infiltrated and taken over in the last 50 years.
Islam is a totalitarian ideology bent on world domination masquerading as a religion. There are no moderate Muslims just some who hide their intent and willingness to follow what Islam demands of them.
Will AI lead to the end of the world? That is, will AI become "cognizant" and take over the world and kill all humans?
Of course not! That is ridiculous. It is like saying if we put in millions of flock cameras to help law enforcement protect us will they misuse them? Oh wait!
I suspect that AI will be used against us but I feel confident that it will directed by humans and not, necessarily, be acting independently. Imagine a million, or 100 million drones and/or robots designed to make war/kill under the control of a AI system AND China. There would be no effective defense. You may be able to build systems to defend against such a threat but the cost would be prohibitive and the sheer number of cheap drones/robots with 1 kilo of explosive would massively favor the drones.
But could it; would it happen??? Absolutely! Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And if you want some insight into how indefensible we are to such an attack search YouTube for a video of a Russian drone hunting down a Ukrainian soldier. A cheap 5 lb drone with an explosive can kill and destroy defenses at a cost of a few hundred dollars. And with AI they wouldn't need to be controlled by a human. That means you could release 8 million of them in waves into LA and kill every human there. And if you could do that, what couldn't you do.
But don't worry, humans wouldn't abuse that kind of power. Right?
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