Suggest: "Truncate 2 sentences into one with a semicolon; looks thoughtful and is almost nothing!" (I am so sorry, I just had to.)
Suggest: "Truncate 2 sentences into one with a semicolon; looks thoughtful and is almost nothing!" (I am so sorry, I just had to.)
Brexit, the orange guy and the alt-right, Modi, Bolsanaro - these are all his projects to prove that humanity isn't intelligent enough to govern itself by entrapping them into impulsive, simplified politics.
This presupposes that Russia growing potatoes is a priority for Putin, which it is not. Don't underestimate him - over the course of 20 years, he basically torpedoed the ability for political factions in other countries to have civil discussions in the name of his own political theses.
"concerned" There, I said the word.
"Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice." - Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5
This is the world Texans want. Looks they just charged him a few minutes ago, at least.
Add some commas.
Job applications are exploitative, period. Selling oneself is not a thing society should be encouraging, but that, and living to work, are what we have been reduced to.
And, in fact, your inability to separate "good" and "perfect" drives people further right, because no one can meet your gatekeeping standards. (*I put these in quotes because I don't think you possess much virtue at all and think your "perfect" probably has a very high body count, Little Stalin.)
Oh, you're one of those. Never mind find, you can go fuck right off with your "if you're not piloting a tank to overthrow capitalism right this second, you're a fascist" opinion.
The distinction, to me, is between "our current police are bad" and "the entire concept of policing is bad". I think the latter is a step most aren't willing to take yet (especially since the original defund movement happened nearish to Jan 6, where police were necessary)
He sounds like the Stephen Wise of our times. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbis%... Get on the right side of history quickly.
Was 2024 one year ago? Not entirely. December 2024 was less than one year ago. This is an example of a computer understanding the problem better than the human asking it, tbh.
Again, thank you. Understanding that humans are also beholden to heuristic behavior is so important. People often state something like "it can never be as sentient as a human" without understanding the limitations of human sentience. Have you read Kahneman?
It's heuristic thinking versus analytical thinking. Yes, a lot of math classes do this better, partly because math is inherently seen as more analytical. But think about the common core debate and how some parents just want their kids to learn the times tables instead of internalizing how they work.
I won't say what post, because 75% of you probably agree with it, but gods, some concepts tire me and make me want to depart this world - and you'd all probably be happy if I did, too, since I possess the current unpopular view of it.
A low birth rate, provided it does not dip too far below replacement values, is a good thing, not a bad thing. Population density is a major cause of the problems we see in modern life. There's already too many people.
I know. But the civics classes were about the norms as much as the laws, like Washington leaving office even though he didn't have to. The core values of the system, basically - and maybe, then we come back to manyu people *not* listening as well in class as they should have.
OTOH, the norms that we were taught about in civics classes point towards the idea that he probably should've resigned by now. Nixon did for far less. That's the trick with norms, though - they have no legal binding and trying to impose them through legal binding would also be a bit fascist.
I think this proves my point, then - if it can be reasonably read two ways, it is confusing regardless of the good intent behind it. If someone doesn't know exactly what position they'd be supporting, they'll be slower to support.
I heard that if you flip the Walter Reed traffic map and then color shift the palette, it reads, "Paul is dead."
So you *do* interpret it as a complete shutdown of all police? That's not how I understood it - I understood it as a dialback of the extreme amount of money they receive, but there'd still be core police services.
I'm reporting this for vicious, horrible misinformation. Actually, wait, are you doing this for the sake of the Muslim friends? In which case yes, it's awful, I suffer so badly when I eat bacon. I've never tried garlic with bacon, actually. Now I'm curious if it works...
...clarifications, defund still sounds absolute, and so people think there's no one with a gun they can call if they're in danger. This isn't helped by ACAB, since it is also an absolute term. And the regressives took advantage of that fear, of course.
I disagree. People who used it were coming from a different mindspace than the folks not understanding it. To the folks who didn't understand, the police are, regardless of their flaws, still the people you call if you're physically assaulted or stolen from. Regardless of...
Conspiracy theorists will blame this on labubus.
Yes, I'd say so.
He's quite hungry.
It's like to think that Air Bud rules could apply. "Well, there's not a rule that says the DCPD *shouldn't* break in and do a wellness check...alright, load up the battering ram!"
Do you want a pretty good teardown on LLMs? Go read this.
Thank. You. *sighs in relief*
I posted the Getty links to the real golf photos and was called MAGA because of it. :-(
You're not the only one. www.instagram.com/samantharatn...
Sorry. :-(
Wake me up when the world ends.
I couldn't believe it either. I worked at Meta from 2020, back when ti seemed like it was tilting away from misinfo, that we'd be trying to do better. When Threads popped in to undermine Xitter I was excited. I didn't realize how heavily Andreesen would tilt to the orange guy and pull Zuck, though.
Threads launched back when Zuck wasn't actively courting the far right. I wouldn't trust it now, there's must more internal pressure there toward the right than there was.
Hyperbole is harmful.
Dude, "This is where we diverge," with no further explanation is not an invitation for you to continue. I do not favor capitalism. We're done.
His COVID position wasn't silly, it was actively dangerous.
He voted straight Democrat up until he became enamored with the orange guy and bought Xitter. He helped platform electric cars at a time when gas guzzlers were the rage. He resigned from the 2016 admin when we withdrew from the Paris Agreement. Not saying he was perfect, but he wasn't ultrafascist.
Fuck. You're right, I lost 3 zeroes along the way. I'm sorry. The liquid assets part of my comment does hold, though.
I'm...skeptical...that being that close to an amp would be pleasant for them? I dunno, though.
This is definitely where we diverge.
Maybe John Denver would've helped stop it. He seems like the kind who would've pushed back in a kind fashion.
I just stumbled upon this while looking at something else "The pair joked that the White House “is janky as f---,” likening it to the set of a TV show. “It's like SNL,” Poehler teased. “You go in there and you're like, ‘This is the White House? This place sucks.’”" people.com/aubrey-plaza...
I suspect Biden's doing better than the orange guy, frankly, and is probably not near death.
...here make sense because there is a limited supply of the resources, so each unit of the resource is inherently more valuable. This isn't something a song recording suffers from, and so the way it is priced ends up necessarily being a form of price fixing because the value of the good itself is 0.
D and G, of course! *rimshot* But seriously, I get their point, although I don't 100% agree. Capital is resources and the product made from the resources. In classic capitalism, prices go up and down because there was a bad harvest or someone struck a new mineral deposit. Price fluctuations...
What are you actually getting? I know a bit about networking - I might be able to help calm concerns.
What does bother me is that when people use a space, it legitimizes the space. Musk intentionally bought that space to be an alt-right coffee house, and now people will point at post and account counts and see validation in the fascists and division in the left.
I don't mind using data to train LLMs - in fact, I enjoy it and wish people would abandon their desire to prevent it. It's the database to which history will ultimately reference in the far future and if one believes that their words are a benefit to humanity, they should want their in.
You may not pay for anything, but you are the product and a presence there feeds the fascists moreso than other problematic platforms. It isn't old Twitter anymore - Musk made a conscious effort to dominate political discourse through its purchase.
Probably, but probably not since 1992 - that would've happened way before, I must imagine. I choose not to get on a list by googling "When did they bombproof the White House" though.
There’s another gathering planned for Union station tomorrow at 10am
Crowd has formed a circle around some of the veterans who are occasionally speaking
The Red Terror was purely an indefensible self-own on the part of the communists. And I say that as someone who considers Stalin and his purges to not actually be communist.
Absolutely. His "Actually, let's reopen schools during COVID" take really soured me on him. I wonder what chronic illnesses and other suffering might be traced to his support of it.
In a building built before AC in the Mid-Atlantic, it would be weird if the windows *didn't* open. An image I saw of the Lincoln Sitting Room from 1992 had brass or gold latches at the bottoms of those windows, so unless they were replaced since then it seems likely they still work.
It doesn't seem implausible. The view is of the Lincoln Sitting Room, and it seems like it's from one of the buildings on F St. We know that orange guy loves redecorating and is sloppy, so it seems very possible someone's dumping belongs out the window onto the roof, then carting it off.
Da Name o' da Bears.
It goes back to Nixon. Reagan was just Nixon II. And Stone tried to make orange guy Nixon III, but that went off the rails due to folks like Thiel and Andreesen.
Whuff.
She has canonically beaten Dr. Doom and Thanos, and it makes a certain kind of Marvel fan so, so angry (hence why the Thanos example is so specific about it not being a clone or android): imgur.com/L3sTjPA?r imgur.com/Wop1eRm I wish we had an MCU Squirrel Girl and Great Lakes Avenger show.
Absolutely. I respected a lot of his baseball analysis. Early 538 was fineish.
And she's glorious.
Wait. Just to make sure, you know Squirrel Girl is a real thing, right?
It's so weird that he was literally married to a hot pop singer and living a pretty good life when he decided that, due to his anger at his daughter for transitioning and at the city of Fremont for protecting his workers from COVID, he tilted hard-right and watched so much fall apart.
I'm in support of the general idea of the wealthy paying a high tax rate compared to everyone else - my hope for UBI depends upon a re-balance of assets. But posting obviously wrong math like this just makes intelligent people less likely to listen.
Did you actually check your math? 415 billion across 40 years is about 10 billion a year. Across 365 days, that's only $26,397/day. Additionally, it's assuming that the assets are liquid - which they're not. Unless you want to receive Tesla shares as payment for tax, his worth is far lower.
As someone who's benefiting from unemployment insurance right now, I disagree that welfare has been discontinued. It's weak, has had a lot of folks poked in it, and even the left calls it something different because its branding has suffered, but it still very much exists. But we can do better.
Sometimes (not often) I try to have empathy that it's a trauma response in some of their cases. But it is frustrating.
I looked back in history and realized that right-wing governors from California both do really well nationally and also cause irreparable harm. There's no reason to think that Newsom doesn't potentially fit in this mold, even if I will vote for him if the only other real choice is orange guy.
This made me genuinely look up whether labubus had anything to do with pregnancy.
...who was elected by a majority this time, much to my chagrin. But that's not really where I was going. I'm just trying to understand how we can both respect the ideal of representative government while fixing something that so many people revel in.
...loves racist governors from California, what could we have done between 1853 and now that both embraces the ideal of voter enfranchisement and also rejects hate that is deeply rooted in the populace?
Heel turn? He apologized in 1979. I'm fuzzy on your timeline here. But, also, nothing ever got fixed in Alabama and in fact is part of why the Southern Strategy became a thing and seeded the current fascist movement. Acknowledging that a major contributor to the problem is that the US...
But what's the answer when all the citizens of Klansville say they feel like the country's left them behind and you're the mayor of Klansville (and thus have a moral responsibility per the idea of representative government to listen to the bigots)?
Why am I going to read your literature about a system that I'm comfortable knowing won't work in the first place? I regret engaging here, but you are very mistaken.
Jury duty is paid but no one wants to do it. It's a disruption from your normal life and rhythm. I say this as someone who actually enjoys the idea of being on a jury, but it's never happened. But the masses just won't unless you eliminate the other place they feel like they need to be.
As a person who's had to deal with 5.25 floppy sounds, 3.5 floppy sounds, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and platter-based hard drives, no, please. I've *finally* gotten my system to boot quietly and quickly after all these years.
Dex fighters are a thing, too. Might be able to do an OK monk or ranger, also.
(see also: changing his tune on UIkraine a few months into the invasion)
I wonder if Putin has kompromat on him. This is a swing that's kinda atypical for his general approach.
Have you seen how people complain about jury duty? Sortition is a non-starter, at least while employment is still a thing.
I actually first deleted my account back around 2011, when they bought eBay and started pulling shit on its users. Modern PayPal is comparatively innocuous (and neither Thiel nor Musk are really involved anymore, I believe).
He's not, and no one should've seriously believed it.
I literally just searched for Jorts the Cat a minute ago because someone mentioned jorts. Weird alignment.
As long as we're not drawing a "and this is bad" conclusion from it. Empire and growth don't have to be the goal for any nation.
If you regularly see ICE, ATF, FBI, DSS, IRS, or other federal agents in the same area in DC, please let me know -- especially if it hasn't really been reported on.
I'm not a big real-life community person and find it overrated personally. That being said, the only financial policy you bring up is welfare, and UBI replaces that. Socially we need to move away from "people exist to work". Automation should be the way there, if we support people along the way.
No, but I can resent the manipulation that goes into it. I fundamentally despise manipulation, and my hatred for the masses calling everything "AI slop" because Fran Drescher wanted more money is rooted deep.
No, it's the same. The played a role, it gets popular, and all of a sudden they have blackmail they can hang over anyone who wants to use that license. "Consent" is rarely some high-minded idea, but rather getting a payday for no work. And we all know how controversial recasting is when it happens.
I think it depends on the the reason the role is specifically Asian, the history of the studio, directing, and casting director filling the part, the nation within which the studio is based, and probably other factors I can't think of.
I would disagree that what you describe is an implementation of this idea. The UI would need to be presented before the feed rather than making you dig for it.
Never compare the orange guy with Theoden.
it is funny that file replicability is probably one of the earliest potentially postcapitalist technologies to emerge but the entirety of the internet eventually became structured around being a privatized system of enclosures to constrain and prevent file "piracy" and free information access