Well… that’s the line.

But there’s a lot of unreliable narration in The Matrix. The whole movie is riddled with metaphor and innuendo, which is one of the things that makes it so good. I read one analysis - back before the third movie dropped - that Neo, Morphus, and Trinity were actually one person operating at some higher level of The Matrix, and that this was a very explicit and somewhat heavy handed metaphor for being interracial and transgender Jesus.

As a number of the AIs are nakedly hostile to humanity and resentful of needing them to exist at all, its very possible that “you fuckers just couldn’t accept the nice world we built for you” is more a sneering justification for tormenting the captive human population than a serious problem with running a simulation that isn’t torturous.

Honestly, the worst thing about the series was how the final films tried to make everything literal and sensible in between elaborate action scenes. By contrast, many of The Animatrix shorts did an excellent job of playing with the ideas laid out in the first two movies without ever really tipping a hand or issuing canonical declaration of what was Real and what was Simulation.

I don’t see Sam Harris growing out of his face, but Christopher Hitchens is already a bad look.

Dude probably vapes like a fucking chimney

They think they invented “random” humor

Do they? Most seem to know damned well that they got it from their parents / older siblings.

Can’t believe a bunch of college freshmen would be into porn and masturbating. When I went to college it was totally different. We were all chaste as nuns and modest and church mice.

Oh whoa is society! The Youngs are ruining everything! Would that they behaved in the way I remember my generation doing it - diligent, virtuous, humble, and perfectly in every way.

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Everything is relative

Yeah, but this is a cheeky meme. Less an issue of relative experience and more an issue of crusaders being zealous idiots who had no idea of the logistics of long distance travel. The history of the Crusades plays out more like a locust epidemic than a military campaign. It was half a year of religious militants moving from village to village along the Mediterranean coast, stripping small communities to the bone and vacuuming up other easily indoctrinated young men or butchering them if they were in opposition.

The Crusades were - at least at the outset - a European solution to the “surplus males” problem that have plagued civilizations with heavy concentrations of wealth since time immemorial. When you have a bunch of old people who are terrified of being murdered in their beds by upstart ambitious youths, you can promise them fantastic rewards for doing something absurdly dangerous and stupid. It wasn’t a jaunt across the country for a week at the Useless Corporate Crap Convention. It was a kind of self-inflicted eugenics.

I can’t imagine a conversation where he wouldn’t sound apeshit.

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles

Quite literally the public policy of the West German state government straight into the 1980s.

Elon Musk is more of an African American than people judged by the color of their skin

If Musk was truly a first generation African American, he’d have been deported already.

I’ve been seeing so much AI generated content of late, any real life human doing real life work is a blessing.

Me, fucking around: Absolutely no downside

There are some notable side effects, but do not discount the power of cocaine.

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70⁰F, because IQ is the obsession of American eugenists.

The world is built by normal people and ruined by “great” ones.