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   a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 12:51:05 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

   Re that podcast about the war department AI announcements: At risk of tapping the sign I will highlight I evidently don't particularly care for defence contractors in general or this type of them in particular, so this is right up my alley in theory, but...

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     parody really did just die in the past couple of years didn't it

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     or else they just come across as unserious, in the same sort of way as I view chapo trap house as unserious: a bunch of people who when you really look at it have revealed they don't actually care about the issues and are just sitting around using political issues as fodder for chatter and drama they ultimately have no position on in the manner of a sort of debate club

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     like ultimately when somebody is cynically making multiple mutually exclusive arguments against immigration and voting rights in parallel, those arguments do belong in that square hole -- and I can't rule that out in this instance, but if you want to present a case for that and you have one to present you still have to actually present it if you want to convince anybody

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     it is however, kind of funny that we are all thinking about dr. strangelove at the same time

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     I think even this sort of armchair podcast level criticism needs to be able to tackle arguments like the one in the palmer lucky tweet they mention head on by actually understanding the point it's trying to make and addressing that point directly first before putting it in the 'great replacement' square hole