I was too busy still chuckling at your grams to liters conversion.
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I was too busy still chuckling at your grams to liters conversion.
And (c) both of those cities are in states with Republican governors.
Shhhh... he's undercover.
Yes, but this is not what @road2lexington.bsky.social was saying.
Who told you this?
Most Israelis (>70%) identify as Jewish, not atheist. Your source probably conflated Hiloni (secular or non-observant Judaism, ~33%) with atheism. That is not accurate. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiloni
Hey Mark, I've had positive discussions on this site on all of those topics. Perhaps it's not this site or the topics which are the problem for you...? Just something to think about.
Absolutely. It should have been promoted for that brilliant cross-marketing insight. Pope GPT I !
Doesn't surprise me at all. They have coalesced around the core group for which the Civil War never ended. The America they love is the one in which the South won, and they're still fighting for it to this day.
Yeah, you don't know what you're talking about. Try listening to people with real lived experiences for a while instead of just exposing your prejudices with rage-filled, factually inaccurate posts.
Also, most of Europe is more rural and more liberal than the US. I live in a rural area that's more liberal than the nearby cities. Your stereotypical framing of rural vs urban belies a fundamental lack of understanding of the actual drivers at play.
What about those who don't get an opportunity to move?
Fellas, is your wavefunction prone to embarrassing collapse? Ask your doctor if Paulinol is right for you!
Yes, and many others don't. At what point do you think it's acceptable to blame people who cannot relocate for some reason for living in a place with bad conditions? That's what you said. What is that specific point?
You've got a question to you pending, Mike. It's rude to ask others to answer your question before you answer theirs. And theirs is a super easy question to answer. I'm beginning to think you're not operating in good faith here, Mike.
What point would that be, Cole?
Tell that to @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and all your other chums that keep calling this a "distraction."
"If there are any adults left in the White House..." Senator, with all due respect, if you are claiming this is a possibility at this point, you have not been paying attention.
Think of how much even greater good we could do with a candidate who doesn't believe human rights are negotiable.
Oh, they knew about it.
Good.
Piece*
Lots of good choices for this, but I'm going for a specific niche. Post a movie gif from the year you were born:
Especially given Trump's consistent misunderstanding of the meaning of "asylum."
Yeah, no, we don't need any quislings. Thanks anyway.
"This is just a distraction." - Chuck S., Politician
I think it's more likely this is just another distraction.
Is this just another distraction? You guys keep saying everything's a distraction. It's very distracting.
The evidence: everything Trump has said and done his entire life.
Yes. Anyone who fights with a turtle is an asshole.
The. Job. Of. A. Candidate. Is. To. Get. Elected. Whatever that takes. If that means finding a way to meet voters to your left - or right - you do so. Harris failed to do so. It's not complicated.
That's what she said.
To be fair, that is 11PM Eastern.
Why did Harris count on the far left to vote for her when she spent her whole campaign distancing herself from them?
Or maybe the simple and obvious answer isn't the whole answer. Both Clinton and Harris had issues connecting with voters in a very similar way to John Kerry, the most recent losing male candidate we had. Obama and even Biden to a lesser degree were positively energizing in comparison.
Barack Obama thanks you for your consideration.
That doesn't answer my question. I'm not asking if she did "enough." I'm asking if there's anything more she COULD have done. Not SHOULD have, as you seem to be interpreting it. And to be clear to you, I'm looking for answers, not insults. Please keep your rage in check.
So you're fine with censorship as long as it targets a small group of the population.
Except this weirdo. bsky.app/profile/john...
They're just Republicans at this point.
Could you answer the question I asked, though? Here, let me make it as precise as I can in this limited space: Do you think Harris could have done something to convince enough progressive holdouts to vote for her to sway the election in her favor?
So in your mind there's nothing Harris could have done to reach them?
More progressives voted for Harris than Cheney fans did.
I thought that was a given.
Bigger deal to warrant a boycott: it's Cracker Barrel.
Wet he PP
I would accept you still being on X if it means you posted this there.
No context changes the outcome.
More than enough.
I'm trying to find sense in what you're saying. Jeffries and Schumer have proven incapable of any meaningful resistance to fascism. We should just accept that?
Tell it to your "editorial" board.
"Trump is batshit insane and doing batshit insane things. But we're going to softpedal it and phrase it in semi-rational terms because we're afraid of alienating people who will never vote for us anyway." Get a fucking spine.
Considering all the times groups of humans have chosen to do the right thing, sometimes by majority and sometimes even unanimously and trying to figure out what your definition of "consensus" even is.
That's the job of a follower, not a leader. As leaders, Jeffries and Schumer are responsible for setting the messaging and leading by example.
...martial law in violation of the principles of our country. You know this, yet you're willing to parrot his talking points and grant his crimes legitimacy. Why?"
Or... "DC's crime rate is at a 30-year low. It's not even in the top ten US cities by crime rate. If Trump and his cronies were actually concerned about crime, they'd be working with the mayors of Memphis, Detroit, Little Rock, etc. What Trump is actually doing is incrementally implementing...
Political messaging: famously a private activity.
The lack of unity isn't coming from the left. It's coming from the establishment. Look at how they're treating Mamdani, for example. Man decisively won the primary, but they're throwing all sorts of false antisemitism accusations and backing a sex pest because he's too progressive for their donors.
Nah, The Onion has standards. They would never publish anything this obviously fake.
Wikipedia provides references directly for you to validate it. AI, if it provides references at all, is likely to manufacture them based on what the median reference from its training data set looks like.
"Reuters to stop printing news."
"Please," says bigot, "let me into this space I routinely criticise." "Yes," says @theguardian.com , "why are those people so intolerant of the intolerant?"
Maybe because the election is THREE YEARS AWAY. Why are you so eager to jump behind a terrible candidate when we have years to find a better one?
Wow, you're a rare bird! Not too many MAGA trolls brave BlueSky! Good luck peddling your intolerant stupidity here!
#2 - probably not?
Increase a band: Oh My God, They ARE Giants!
For example, 40 years ago "millionaire" was the financial goal and most people were making 5 figures. Now many are making 6 figures, but the club is billionaires. And so many of us are voting to protect the club because that's where they dream they'll be any day now.
The sad thing is the general trend has been up overall but many don't see that because the gap between their current state and their goal has widened considerably.
@npr.org is already doing that with this headline.
And what are those "cultural directives?" You're whitewashing racism.
There are several good candidates listed in the article if you'd bothered to read it. The only thing they lack is a party willing to invest in them.
Gerontocracy forever!
No, apparently we need more, as we're currently making the same mistake.
We could argue about the particular flavor of the oppression, perhaps. But the attitudes and (lack of) action among those allowing it to happen are essentially the same.
Strictly literally, yes. I'd like to introduce you to this new analytical device called an "analogy."
*quite yet
They own the people on the Court.
Sorry if I haven't been paying close attention. Is this all coming before or after a substantial donation to the Trump administration?
Which is why he shouldn't have blabbered that nonsense. Know your audience is the first rule of public speaking.
Mark Cuban straight up admitting his only moral compass points to wherever he can get more money.
Then you haven't been paying attention.
That doesn't answer my question. Did you not understand the question?
Hmm. You don't seem to be able to directly answer a question. Let's go back to my original question. Do you think the fact that Democrats have chosen not to take advantage of methods currently at their disposal to resist Republicans' attacks on our country is grounds for valid criticism or not?
Do you think that Dems should not take advantage of those rules as they exist?
And they're doing even less than they could. They're not objecting to unanimous consent; they're making deals on appointees to preserve long weekends; they're not holding strong as a bloc on important issues. Are these not valid criticism?
To bring it back to the fire analogy, would you not criticize a fire department who took the opportunity of your house being on fire to hold long press conferences and ask for financial and political support instead of ... get this ... actually putting out your burning house?
Evan, a house on fire is an immediate crisis which needs immediate, professional response. Who is in a position to respond immediately and professionally to a crisis of governance if not those in a position of governance?
Midterms are over a year away. Now is the time to let our politicians know exactly what we expect of them.
The best candidate we have for a "universal vaccine" platform is ... mRNA.
It'd be illegal. It'd be wrong. It'd be used specifically to gerrymander districts so that more racists get elected. So many more precise and meaningful terms than "unprecedented." You're actively whitewashing criminal activity.
DC isn't even one of the most dangerous places in the US. realestate.usnews.com/places/ranki... It's #72 in the world according to this source: www.numbeo.com/crime/rankin...
You consistently read others' posts with the interpretation most likely to prove you "correct" and them "wrong" - even when a straight surface reading would show more nuance than that. I suggest you seek out a therapist qualified to help you with this issue.
You clearly don't have the critical thinking skills to recognize the deeper meaning in my responses. Key to critical thinking is recognizing your own biases and how to counter them to understand different perspectives, which you have failed to do throughout this thread. bsky.app/profile/stev...
On the contrary, I used an illustration that you misinterpreted. My goal was to show that LLMs will confidently provide an incorrect answer, and I used the calculator example because it neatly dovetailed into your post.
This is not just a sales person. It's the CEO of OpenAI. If anyone should accurately represent their products, it's the CEO, no? And I never said I was for abstinence only AI education. You keep making assumptions about me. Why is that?
So why did the LLM not just respond with "I am not a calculator" and/or pass the result on to a math API such as Wolfram Alpha? And before you respond, be aware that I know about system prompts and how powerful they can be in the hands of experts. So I know what I'm describing is quite possible.
Oh Joey, how little you know. I know LLMs weren't designed to be calculators, but: 1. They attempt to function as such even though they shouldn't, and 2. The people who sell them are selling them as general-purpose expert tooling even when they know that's not the case: bsky.app/profile/aa.d...
More importantly, why describe the initiative only in terms of how the Trump administration has "depicted" it? Surely there are other perspectives on it worthy of including?
A calculator, you say? bsky.app/profile/sony...
We've already lost a major term because this logic was used against immigrants and Palestinians. When will you realize that throwing people under the bus is a losing strategy? (I'd appeal to your sense of morality, but you've shown that you have none.)