“Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen”

• President Pudding Brain

I asked ChatGPT and it told me I don’t believe that.

Of course

Get fucked cunt.

What a nonsensical point.

Since you like links;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

“form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that following the logic of a contrary proposition or argument would lead to absurdity”

I need to add

You are setting up a false equivalence. There is a vast difference between a baseless, unprovable fantasy (like alien clones) and evaluating a public figure’s actions based on a well-documented history of psychological projection.

When someone constantly accuses their opponents of staging events and has a documented history of projection, it creates a lack of trust. The reason people question the narrative is because of that history, not because they are entertaining fantasies about the Matrix or alien clones. Equating a discussion about someone’s known behavioral patterns to science fiction doesn’t address the core issue of trust.

More than one thing can be true.

Trump could have staged it.

He could be taking advantage of the situation to push an agenda.

Both can be true at the same time.

The reason so many people are quick to believe is because Trump has a history of projection where he accuses other people of doing things that he himself would or has done. And Trump and his followers have accused so many others of false flag or staged events.

CONSTANTLY

So when you have a history of a guy who’s face shows up under “psychological projection” in the dictionary, constantly accusing others of things, you can credibly believe that he would do those things himself.

I’m not saying this was a staged event, and I have no idea of the reality. But I 100% believe this is a thing he would do.

You know what else will save Linux? Not being in the US.

I know it’s not common knowledge, but there are as many as 3 or maybe even 4 other countries.

You have such a serious lack of understanding as to how the fediverse works that it’s not even possible to have a conversation with you about it.

I would be more than willing to pick this up again when you do understand.

I really don’t think you understand how this works.

If I start an instance, it is impossible for you to censor me, on my instance. Even if you were a billionaire. I cannot censor you on other federated sites, but I can defederate from a site which is run by billionaire assholes. They can have their space, and I can have mine and there doesn’t need to be any cross pollution.

It is impossible to censor anyone within their own instance. But you can block instances.

This is not a single site. It is dozens, or hundreds, or thousands, or millions, and so on. In theory, every person on the planet could have their own instance and no one could censor them.

So safe spaces for me, but not for thee?

You’re saying that because assholes have their own space, that we can’t?

Your point makes no sense. Do you understand federation and defederation? It’s not a tool of censorship. It’s literally the solution to the problem you’re complaining about.

I can defederate from those instances. Problem solved. So can you.

That anyone can run a node. I could put one in my basement.

All they are going to do is drive a dark internet

Agreed—me neither.

I submitted some things I wrote years ago to AI and asked if it was written by AI and it said yes.

If you write intelligently and using proper sentence structure, the default now is to believe AI. It’s sad.

“This isn’t chatgpt, it’s an endemic change!”

:D

I don’t know if that was a purposefully funny comment, but it was both clever and funny if so.

Well, they do want draftees and don’t want democracy.

So yeah…

I was specifically referring to charging a fee for using a credit card. But that apparently went away in 2022.

There are actually laws in some places in Canada against providing different pricing based on payment method. I worked at a store years ago that gave discounts for random things that were not payment methods that coincidentally only applied to people who paid cash.

The rewards thing, I run things through my credit card because of that. The only thing that the CC company makes money off of me directly for is the yearly charge.

We have Interac. Very few places don’t take it.

Co-badged cards have always existed since the beginning of Interac. Any card from PRE-Interac would have had Plus, Maestro or Cirrus co-badging. That’s not new. Your debit card also being usable as a credit card in no way takes away from what Interac does.

I have had an VISA debit for something like 15 years. I got one almost immediately after they became available. I don’t think I have used it as a credit card maybe ever. Interac only.

The only thing we don’t have at scale is credit run through Interac. If we allowed revolving credit, it would operate exactly the same as a credit card, but that’s currently not allowed.