What’s up with those huge stains on the sides of the cooling towers? Guessing rain?

Let them fight.

When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.

I can’t wait for the US socialist party to get ousted by a military coup in 2053

That’s not a surprise, nor was it unknown. Pretty much all pre-“social media” discussion sites were PHP. Myspace probably was, too. PHP also isn’t intrinsically insecure, it just doesn’t lend itself very easily to security.

Liberal institutions with the capability to easily stop Trump through solidarity instead watching idly he steps all over them:

I call it the numbing hour. It’s only scheduled as a half hour but it always runs for nearly an hour. I never speak for more than two minutes, I just stand there as my motivation to do literally anything for the rest of the day burns down to zero. Sometimes I wake up 110% motivated with a list of stuff I can’t wait to get done, fortunately the numbing hour is first thing everyday ensuring that I am always fully neutralized.

I imagine your view of the white male identity is informed by your own personal experiences. All the same, this is abuse of identity politics. Though I know it’s not intentional, as misunderstanding of idpol is systemically propagandized.

Actual identity politics seeks out the white men who leverage their privilege for the benefit of others and champions them as examples. It seeks to show other white men how they can leverage their power in a positive fashion to accelerate a movement without coopting it and encourages them to do so. Most importantly, it demonstrates how white men are an important piece of a holistic, synergistic, all-or-nothing social force called the working class, which is exponentially empowered by and relies upon the diversity of all it’s social identities. It - We - Cannot succeed unless all are included and considered, and when all are included and considered we cannot lose.

The disfigured and toxic identity politics promulgated by the democratic party is an individualized one that very intentionally begins and ends at the personal level. The history of class oppression and struggle is therefore replaced by a zero-sum history of identity oppression and struggle. Class resentment is swapped for personal resentments. There is no holistic synergy of identities. If society is bad it is because the privileged identity is bad, and revolution ie fixing all our social problems looks like simply replacing them with a different identity. It is ultimately compatible with racism, sexism, ageism, and classism. It is a misunderstanding of the nature of power and the history of social classes. It hurts us all.

Sorry for the infodump, I don’t mean to sound overly critical I just write a lot.

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This is a cool use case. Just make sure you retain your own voice! If you read an AI-generated sentence out loud and think “I’d have said it this way instead”, IMO you should absolutely then change it to be that way.

AI has niches but they’re exactly that: Niches. Small duct tape tasks for fudging over “hard problems” where manual code would result in a worse outcome and take far more time. Little esoteric problem spaces, which notably don’t actually require you to use several states worth of electrical power training on a 50PB dataset of anime titties.

An example: I have a name generator in my game that strings together several consonant+vowel phoneme pairs into a name. This means that the names are always pronounceable, but often the spelling looks really unintuitive. Eg Joosiffe, which the player would likely pronounce as Joseph. However, the leap we do in our head between those two spellings is a process of declassifying phonemes and then re-classifying phonemes, and is actually a “hard problem” from a coding perspective due to the unintituive, multifarious complexities of written, spoken, and conceptualized human language. Adding this step to my name generator in code would be a project of it’s own, larger than the game itself, and wouldn’t ever work nearly as well as it needed to. But relatively small (30MB) AI models that do this with something like 99.8% satisfaction already exist. They didn’t require a data center’s worth of resources to train, and since they’re academic projects they have licenses that allow them to be used for free in a game.

You can’t know that with absolute certainty. Sorry, but if you’re using someone elses server for your communications and they’re not end to end encrypted, you should just assume that they can and do read your emails, and act accordingly.

Seek out and meet a christian anarchist. Those folks are badass and will change your idea of christianity’s potential (I’m agnostic).

Core spirituality vs institutional religious baggage

I actually take a critical eye to the word “work” itself and think that it’s too encompassing a term. In our society it’s a blanket word that covers all labor. From punitive, fruitless toil all the way up to invigorating, actualizing applications of trained skill. Lots of what we call “work” are actually things we could want for ourselves in a utopia and would miss without, while IRL we’re currently on the crest of an economic trend in which the majority of society are trapped in ultimately meaningless and forgettable toil under wage coercion. Literally just being kept occupied and oppressed.

Put very simply I think you can slice our current idea of what work is into two halves, work that removes happiness from ourselves and society and work that adds happiness to ourselves and society. As utopians I think a society that contains only the latter is a reasonable prize to keep our eyes on.

You could literally describe early christianity as the spiritual arm of a revolutionary front.

Yup, but Lemmy is a federated service so if that fact makes you uncomfortable or something you can always spin up a liberal instance with corporations and classism.

Heaven was literally [re]invented to be a description of utopia specifically so that toiling workers wouldn’t get distracted trying to create it on Earth.

“oooh heaven is a place on earth” take that shit literally, fam

Some Canadian outfit should try selling “11th Province” or “4th Territory” merch to us Oregonians and Washingtonians. We’d buy it.

He was quickly ousted from his position as a popular and respected Minnesota senator during early #metoo, for accusations that you’d never imagine a Republican resigning over, allegations in fact that have failed to take out other more core-party Democrats (Andrew Cuomo comes to mind, he still has a millionaire warchest and is running for NYC mayor this year with full support of the DNC). Democrats fall easily for the virtue olympics.