Barabas [he/him]

As the old guard gets replaced, the hope is that we bring in more and more liberal people over time.

We just today had the poster child of the “new guard” of the democrats coming out and talking about how great it is that nothing happens now. While we are one year into a genocide. While we are further building the wall and enforcing all the border policies that she went down to the border to have a photo op crying at.

Do you think AOC will save anyone? She’ll just go back to brunch while the world burns.

Voting third party is ineffective no matter how you look at it, at least not in the Presidential election.

If you can’t see further than a single election cycle ahead I guess. Consistently voting for the “lesser evil” will only make the “lesser evil” more evil. If there is a voting bloc that is strong enough to apparently scupper the democrats maybe they should try to appeal to them in any way rather than court the people voting for the “greater evil”?

Risks such as killing the journalists reporting on the war crimes since they make Israel seem bad. How is this lady still employed?

Didn’t know that the expectancy rate in China was that bad in the 1800s. Medieval peasant levels.

Reads like a communist shitpost. I can understand the urge to scream into the void but the UN probably isn’t the best forum.

Does this mean that my TI-84 calculator was actually an AI since it could solve equations I put into it? Or Wolfram Alpha? Or a speed camera? These are all able to read external inputs to produce an output. At which point does your line go, because the current technology is nowhere near where mine goes.

We are currently ruining the biosphere so that some people might earn a lot of money by being able to lay off workers. If you remove this integral part to what “AI” is and all other negative externalities of course it will look better, but not all of the externalities are tied to the capitalist mode of production. Economies and resource allocation would still be a thing without capitalism, it isn’t like everything magically becomes good.

They don’t understand though. A lot of AI evangelists seem to smooth over that detail, it is a LLM not anything that “understands” language, video nor images.

There are uses for these kinds of models like semi-automating analysing large pools of data, but even in a socialist society the resources that allocated to do it like it is currently is completely unsustainable.

Macron aiming to have RN in government to prove that they are bad in order to boost his chances for presidential reelection. Ended up having to cooperate in supporting a tiny right wing party along with RN meaning that his party will be equally blamed. RN can just grandstand in parliament and have the power to block legislation while being politically rehabilitated.

Masterful gambit Mr Macron.

Cyan is blue, colour codes can eat my ass. At hue 167 in the test.

I think that the joke is that European honey bees are used as a universal pollinator in half-assed greenwashing schemes this outcompeting native pollinators. Conservationists want to save all the other pollinators.

Ghost Trick Phantom Detective is an amazing game. Just play it.

Got oddly hooked Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes too.

Donde esta la discoteca? If you had a ‘cool’ teacher.

They would come to a mutual understanding and unite against their common enemies.

I don’t think it driven by hate watching but people constantly talking about something still does a lot of free advertisement. I would never have heard of Velma if it wasn’t because of people losing their shit online about it.

When it comes to rings of power I doubt that first season success was any part of future seasons being green lit, it is far too big of an investment to just throw out.

The thing they’re against is communal handwashing apparently.

That would be a ‘universal’ toilet and thus allowed.

According to ministers, 81% agreed with the intention for separate single-sex toilet facilities in a consultation on the proposals, while 82% also agreed with the intention to provide “universal” toilets – a self-contained, and a fully enclosed toilet room with a wash hand basin for individual use – where space allows.

Cement is kind of a big pile of rocks if you think about it. And yes, that is Treriksröset.

Can’t recall there being an active genocide going on with the full throated support of the US government when Biden got into office.

Rooks. They’re the right blend of creepy/ugly/cute.

I used to be bored at work as I had too much downtime, so I decided to just accept more duties. Was nice to be able to solve problems learn new things and it made the time go faster. But you just keep getting more and more work and responsibilities heaped on you for doing a good job, and absolutely nobody notices it until you start falling apart. Then all of a sudden people you’ve never heard of are ‘concerned’ about you. At this point I am burnt out and do even less work than when I was bored, but the difference is that it also drains me.

The lesson is to never try to work at or around full capacity. Don’t fall into the trap of being bored and deciding to take on more work.

One of my pastimes as an incredibly lonely teenager was just observing jackdaws, crows and magpies. You can tell that they actually think before acting which is fascinating.

Also jackdaws have very pretty eyes.