I have made my sleeping schedule 30 minutes earlier due to our cat. He also knows when its bed time, and will let me know its bed time so that he can clean himself on me for 15 minutes before leaving and terrorizing mice until the exact moment the sun rises. I used to joke saying “well he knows what’s best for us” when waken up at like 5am. Not a very popular joke at that time in the morning.

We have a churu time now too. Just everything is a routine and if you do something new he expects to do it again the next day. One day I brought him out and we hung out by a fallen tree sitting enjoying outside. Next day he wanted to go sit at the tree again.

I helped him dig a hole to pee in and now when we are on a walk first thing in the morning its my job to dig him a potty.

And you have to stick to a schedule or they start acting out in some way. Out cat meows at us while staring every 20 minutes, or will try to initiate play and do a trill noise, then promptly run away trying to get us to chase him. He will run up and down the stairs and through the house, or up the truck of a tree if hes outside. If he gets playtime and his routine in hes content and will sleep the rest of the day. Otherwise he is very disruptive to what you have to do in the day.

I’m not anti berni in anyway I don’t think hes malicious in any shape or form.

Just now that topic is on ai something I’ve been a little more tuned into I’m noticing the cracks.

I’d still support much of anything he is pushing for, because frankly he has much more lived experience for me and despite his lack of knowledge in some areas, vastly out performs me in all others.

Theres things in too stupid to understand, I’m not a economist, or a historian etc. I’m just some dude on the internet who spends too much time politicising everything. Maybe I’m wrong about things, and Bernie’s one of the few that has earned enough trust with me where I would be blindly faithful. Like if he spearheaded a successful anti Ai, pro socalist movement theres a lot I would kind of feel I have to go along with, just to keep mom/dad or the kids from fighting in the family. If that anology makes sense.

I’d still spout my long winded over opinionated wall of texts on Lemmy and stuff, but I’d vote or go along with things I don’t nessisarly agree with if I seemed like it at least brought us a little closer to where we should be.

I still don’t trust when people talk about UBI though. (Not us I assume we have the best intentions here, but politicians, news ankers, podcasters, etc) Tell me the plan to make ai pay for it, and ensure me all social welfare service are intact and I’m all for it. But bribing everyone with cash to get rid of health services is insane. These companies have made every little thing as addictive as possible to extract wealth out of you, and that UBI check is just going to end up back in the hands of people like polymarket, fentenal dealers, and fast food companies.

Like we should do things like reducing the cost of fresh fruit and vegetables on food stamps so people could get more benifits while encouraging healthier eating. Instead food stamps have been dramatically reduced and require people to work. Well the poorest of the poor often don’t have a home, and due to that they can’t work.

What’s worse is people like RFK are talking about bringing in labor camps, as if the prison belt wasn’t making enough money from forced labor of the underclass. So we are actively creating yet another extractive/exploitative system which profits off of the suffering of the people who have it worst.

It doesnt have to remove all the social welfare programs but every single time its mentioned in a discussion that’s how its described to work. Not our discussions but think tanks, podcasts with politicians, news talking heads, etc.

Also if we keep losing the welfare services we have now due to ai, what makes you think suddenly they are going to be okay with adding more. Especially one of such massive scale to promise every single human cash money.

These people keep using the term effiecency as if welfare needs to be some profitable thing.

As a study of what these Ai people think we should look at asha sharma who used to hold a position at the Ai division at Microsoft, who recently took over as the lead for Xbox.

She is there to pretend they are doing compromise and working for the people, yet at the same time cannibalizing the product they are working on to further chase the all mighty ai dollar. Xbox game pass the cloud gaming service keeps hiking up prices, making ad tiers, and now adding 25 hours a month limit to how much you can stream. Xbox game pass is already doing the worst it has, and Xbox doesnt want to make game consoles anymore, meaning game pass is all they have. All that compute at the data centers is getting repurposed for Ai, leaving xbox to die on the vine. Potentially bringing down all the developers that it bought with it.

Asha sharma was recently asked to be apart of some federal reserve task force. If you ask me that sounds like she is going to be incharge of the same exact thing. Canabilizing the system she was meant to “help” and funnel those profits to ai.

And asha sharma is just the name that’s in my head right now, this is practically everyone on goverment, or the head of a buisness. When they talk about UBI, its not because they believe in some greater good, or want their companies to get taxed more to pay for it. No its because it benifits them in some way. The system is pay to win, and people can easily be manipulated into fucking themselves over because they don’t want to think two steps ahead.

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Even when the progressives mention ubi it ALWAYS comes at the cost of removing all other social services like health care, low income housing, food stamps, social security. So imagine recieveing up to 5000+ dollars a month in benefits being taken away from you because the dumb majority is excited to get their 600-800 dollar a month bribe so that they can go yolo it all on ai driven polymarket.

We need more social welfare not less. Trump already is gutting social welfare services to pump that money into ai.

The homeless don’t even get benifits now due to work requirements, and they can’t get a job because they don’t have a home. And RFK is talking about putting them in camps.

Even when the progressives mention ubi it ALWAYS comes at the cost of removing all other social services like health care, low income housing, food stamps, social security. So imagine recieveing up to 5000+ dollars a month in benefits being taken away from you because the dumb majority is excited to get their 600-800 dollar a month bribe so that they can go yolo it all on so driven polymarket.

We need more social welfare not less. Trump already is gutting social welfare services to pump that money into ai.

The homeless don’t even get benifits now due to work requirements, and they can’t get a job because they don’t have a home. And RFK is talking about putting them in camps.

I’ve had a few critisims with Bernie with what hes saying about ai recently.

I don’t want to discredit him because I feel hes doing what he thinks is best, and honestly is kind of all we got for a big name right now. The people in the anti Ai space that I look up to havent really reached the average American you interact with daily in real life.

I think much like all the other politicians he doesnt fully understand the technology, and hes coming at it from the perspective he always has had. Which is protecting workers from corperations, and pushing for more socalist causes. Which I still think we need desperately, I’m not trying to say otherwise.

What I am concerned about is that Bernie is in some shape or form aiding these Ai companies in some way.

Like pushing for Ai devs who try to create agsi to be sent to prison for 20 years sounds great but then you realize that Sam altman and elon musk agree with him, and you wonder why. Regulation capture? A morally ethical excuse to slow down when ai is hitting brick walls in progress.

And with the idea of a 4 day work week, and ubi. In theory yes I do want those, but if you been paying attention to the conversations around Ai and stuff like ubi you learn that in order for ubi to work they have to remove social security, healthcare, food stamps, low income housing which cost dramatically more than the measly check you will receive every month. Thats my worst nightmare, everyone only gets 600-800 a month and is left to fend for themselves in a world where ai manipulates them with dark patterns into lighting national Forrest on fire so they can get rich on polymarket. Or they have to use the claud slot machine to pay for multiple spins on a chance to get working code for their gig working job, that takes a 30% cut ontop of all the api tokens.

So I’m torn in some ways because I’m worried that the path through all this is riddled with mine fields, and we could some how end up in position worse than we are in now just due to how much people are pushing for ANYTHING right now.

The change I ususally see fit is much more radical and not really realistic, and I don’t see the general publics mindset really catching up for a few more years. And in two years the landscape could of changed dramatically.

OLI OLI OILI OOOOOO!!!

Crab battle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHKHKR8x6A

This is coming from the guy who said you are a terrorist for “spreading lies” that they are recording everything.

Odd that the people incharge of hunting down and tracking “criminals” would want to add you to that list too.

Also money comes from Israel and they employ people from unit 8200.

Which repacker lol?

It doesnt have to me a gun or missile to be a weapon, starlink massively invades privacy, is used for survalience, and used to deny certain countries access to information while sharing it with others.

I think they use starlink to help coordinate airstrikes just because they are like 90% of the satelites in space.

They are also just cluster up the sky to the point its going to become increasingly hard to launch more and more satellites in space.

Yeah fucking starlink

My cat has a prescription diet and only like the cans that cost 2.35 a can, and can eat up to two full cans a day. He has unlimited dry food but only grazes.

As a way to stave this off I decided to introduce some treats so he would get a churu and for a week that was good enough to where he wouldn’t complain as often a hour before dinner. Now theres two churus a day he demands, and I have to wake up a hour earlier to accomidate how important churu time is.

He only learns when he does something and I react when it benifits his goals and wants, and thats how we have this schedule. Other then that theres no fucks given, and unless my goals align with his goals we don’t make progress. Like for example he used to play rough with hand playing, when he scratched hard or bit or something I would say ow loudly and we would stop playing. He doesnt do that unless hes high on cat nip now because he knows play time is over.

Most dogs you just repeat a command at enough and they understand, and then when trained will listen, their goals don’t matter, its whatever is best for the group. The cat won’t really learn stay off the counter unless they learn there is a consequence for their action thats impacts the treats/play/attention or what ever your cat prizes the most. But with dogs they just love rules, you teach them once and they kind of know. They’ll tattle on eachother too, or ive seen dogs nip at the other whos being bad even when they think youre not watching them.

Like horses, and cows too form herds or whatever and have that same kind of collaborative spirit?, which we exploit.

With horses they used to just catch the dominate wild horse and the rest of the herd of wild horses follow.

Those where the first to kind of get domesticated.

Like a fox can be bread in 6 generations to be a domesticated dog by selective breeding. For whatever reason we can’t or havent done that in cats to the same degree we do with livestock and dogs.

You are bonded. As I said in that long string of poorly spelled words above, they often bond in pairs and its ususally a family bond.

Its not the same to dogs where if you abandon a bunch of random dogs in the woods they will naturally just form roaming gangs.

I don’t think cats understand fully that they are not supposed to do something.

Fron my understanding of how they view the world they think you just become an asshole when they are on the counter. They don’t really precieve easily what someone else wants unless its in line with their wants/goals. Like food, attention, playtime.

Most domesticated species we where able to domesticate easily because they had a inharent family/pack order. So with dogs they run in a pack, hunt in a pack, sleep in a pack and are more geared to socializing with others.

Cats don’t verbally meow at other cats generally, its more about body language. And if you ever been in a house hold with lots of cats you will notice they don’t work as a pack, they are more terroritorial and live in different parts of the house and don’t really overlap unless its feeding/play time. Sometimes cats do bond but ive noticed its ususally only family members or in pairs. If this is a 4+ cat house hold, they won’t act as a pack like dogs will.

Cats are only occasionally communist, but only in a anarcho communist sense. Less communial. As in they are bored one day and bring you a mouse because they think you are hungry. Its not really the same, its not like a dog who thinks in order to survive the group must survive and I must follow orders from the leader. No cats think they are more equals like room mates who live a independent life from you and get the benifit of a free friend.

Ive still yet to find one I trust to not retain logs, accepts mail in cash/crypto, abd is around only 5 USD a month.

Its not that im unwilling to change just have not seen anyone mention a good alternative yet. I suppose I could look it up, but everyone claims to be private and in my opinion need to be raided fruitlessly to be proven otherwise.

It should be noted that the input of all human knowledge is getting the door closed and locked behind it. Requiring you to buy tokens to access said information.

And if you refuse to provide more training data to their services that collect said data, like reddit, facebook, x, then you can’t access essentially the entire internet. With google locking down captchas to only “verified” android phones. And every website requiring you to sign up with a ID card, and locking you out when you use a VPN.

So not only will your jobs will be taken away but your autonomy and access to what used to be free information. Or not even information sometimes your job or access to a services requires you to use these things. Even just getting into your apartment with a RFID reader on your apparments official app. You have to exist in their panopitcon just to even exist in many situations.

Oh and the best part the only thing worth money in the ai industry is all your user data and how it gets fed into palantirs networks. From every single comment you make on their services, and everytime you order a cheese burger in public, that all gets logged because you are a domestic terrorist for thinking maybe we should hold these people accountable.

I think feral unnuttered boy cats get chubbier cheeks for that classic tom cat look. I could be misremembering some reddit comment that was telling a fib though.

Its only bad once it takes the form of Communism/socialism.

Lol.