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- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 hour ago:
The main difference is:
Republicans do stuff then Democrats challenge it thru the courts.
Dems challenge their own stuff first, and if they think it’s right after a year or two, they start talking about if they should do it. And Republicans will still challenge it thru the courts.
You can argue over which path is morally the right one.
But no one has a legitimate argument that says republicans aren’t more effective.
They’re skipping steps that take us years to complete.
I mean, Biden talked about all types of shit he would do when elected. And his first day he said he’d start looking into if he was allowed to do any of it.
trump ain’t waiting to ask anyone if he can do something. He’s just going to do shit, and we’re going to have to try and fight a bunch of battles at once, all the while his policies are in effect.
It’s not that they’re fighting dirty and we’re fighting clean.
It’s that when the gun goes off to start the race, we start stretching so we won’t cramp up.
Doesn’t matter how slow Republicans are if we give them a 10 minute head start on a 100m sprint.
- Comment on Bring your kid to Genocide day 1 day ago:
I keep getting reports on this comment hours after it was removed.
If you’re from a different instance than lemmy.world, I think it’s a federation thing where your instance isn’t removing comments properly
- Comment on May 13, 1985 1 day ago:
I’ve reviewed the older messages and you’ve kept this going for over a week, never sourced anything, and have not been civil…
I’m not sure why you’d want a mod to look at that, but thanks for bringing it to my attention.
- Comment on May 13, 1985 1 day ago:
you’re having an aneurysm.
That’s a borderline insult, and you reported them for misinformation when what they’re saying is how it really was.
I think the confusion is they’re talking about what really happened, and you’re acting like they’re saying it was right.
“White” was expanded in America to include Irish and Italians.
As they lost the majority, they’d let in more groups to maintain the majority. No one is saying that made logical sense, and those lines are arbitrary.
But that is what happened.
- Comment on 81% of young people say a 4-day workweek would boost productivity, new CNBC/Generation Lab survey reports 2 days ago:
Vote progressive.
Bernie is about the only Senator and up that even talks about it.
Republicans and neoliberals will fight it out of principle that workers need to work, even tho most businesses are open 7 days a week and 4 days for full time would create a significant amount of more jobs.
- Comment on Congress to examine Havana syndrome again after Russian involvement report 1 week ago:
I still think it’s going to end up as something intended to work with a passive bug, but they discovered this as a side effect and Russia being Russia immediately turned it into a weapon.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
Why would you think they all do it for the same reason?
- Comment on 85,000 Police Officers in the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade 1 week ago:
Federal agencies should be holding them accountable.
But “moderates” only like protests when they’re not in power.
Look at how they’re treating the people protesting US support of Israel’s ongoing genocide.
If you protest while republicans are in power moderates do the “fellow kids meme” and talk about how important protest is.
If you protest while Democrats are in power, the moderates start calling protests a threat to our nation and making shit up like republicans.
I don’t know why anyone thinks moderates are on our side, the main problem they have with republicans is the letter by their names. Not their policy or actions.
- Comment on PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required 1 week ago:
At a large corporation like Sony, the people making decisions about video games rarely know anything about video games
At a certain point your career is “executive” and it doesn’t matter what product you manage.
PlayStation isn’t a huge deal to Sony compared to all the other shit they do. It’s like 1/4 of revenue.
So, it’s significant, but the people calling the shots aren’t video game people, they’re “executives” who assumed gamers wouldn’t mind signing up. They don’t understand how fickle their username and how early it still was to start money/data grabbing.
- Comment on Logitech Launches An “AI” Mouse That’s Just A 2022 Mouse With A Mappable Button 1 week ago:
From the Ars article it references:
I was disappointed to learn that the most distinct feature of the Logitech Signature AI Edition M750 is a button located south of the scroll wheel. This button is preprogrammed to launch the ChatGPT prompt builder, which Logitech recently added to its peripherals configuration app Options+.
That’s pretty much it. Just a shortcut to an AI tool, so being mappable is a huge positive so people can actually use the button.
Definitely a gimmick.
But I remember there being a mouse/gamepad that really did us AI to fine tune aim in first person shooters. I think Ars did an article on those too. Not sure if it was commercially available or just someone filing a patent tho.
- Comment on PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required 1 week ago:
Sony really fucked this one up.
They could have just offered some bonus for linking and most would have done it.
It’s what’s Ubisoft does.
But this move really set back PlayStation’s entry into PC gaming.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 1 week ago:
To clarify:
We don’t even know how human intelligence/consciousness works, let alone how to simulate it.
But we know how an individual neuron works.
The issue with OPs idea is we don’t know how to tell a computer what a bunch of neurons do to create an intelligence/consciousness.
- Comment on Biden Echoes Fascist Rhetoric in Speech Denouncing “Lawless” Pro-Palestine Protests 1 week ago:
In his remarks, Biden falsely claimed — without citing a single instance of pro-Palestine demonstrators instigating violence — that the pro-Palestine protests have been violent and threatened the safety of their communities. He then condemned the supposed “lawless[ness]” of the protests, purposefully neglecting to acknowledge the U.S.’s role in Israel’s repeated violations of international law.
Motherfucker acts more like trump every day…
At least when trump said this shit about BLM, all Dem politicians and the media called him out.
Biden says this about people protesting a genocide America is funding, and if you mention it people get made and accuse you of helping trump.
Why the fuck aren’t people demanding more than either of those two old assholes?
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
That’s not Israel’s land getting smaller, and only one link works…
You’ve been reported a lot for misinformation in this thread, because you keep saying things that aren’t true.
I didn’t remove your comments tho because the people responding to you provided good sources info.
But since this isn’t a major community, people that do what you’re doing tend to get banned.
If you’re making dubious claims against sourced comments, source your stuff. And don’t just post random links and think that’s enough.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
Sure, Roger Penrose is a decade older, and he’s probably the most intelligent living person
But a professor working out a few more tweaks to their life’s work is not the peak of their career.
The standards are just that much lower, and if they’re actually intelligent then they’d freely admit that their age is a negative.
That’s just biology, there’s no way around it. No one peaks at 70 years old…
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
Your mistake is thinking everyone that does a shitty thing, did it for the same reason:
That they’re a monster.
That way of thinking is easy, but the “why” is the most important part if you’re trying to prevent the next person from doing the same thing.
I’m not making excuses, I’m explaining the “why” and hoping some day we have a choice for president whose able to make rational decisions.
Fingers crossed for 2028.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
It’s not like their choosing to do that.
It’s a normal thing our brains doing we’re lucky enough to live that long.
Humans didn’t evolve to live in such fast pace worlds. So if someone made it to 60, running on “autopilot” wasn’t as big of a deal. So as we lose critical thinking skills (again, completely normal) we fall back on stuff we learned as kids and stereotypes to be able to keep up.
It’s why not having an age limit on elected representives so crazy.
It’s outright denial of science to pretend an 80 year old is still capable of leading a country. For more reasons than just that one.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
If it is to capture all historical Israel
What?
Name one time Israel’s land area got smaller.
It’s only increased since it’s been created…
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
Do you mean “the west” doesn’t support Biden?
When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the U.S. president assured them: “I don’t believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist.”
reuters.com/…/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelon…
I’d agree that most people planning on voting for him are really just voting against trump again.
But the sitting US president literally calls himself a Zionist…
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
Biden is older than Israel, he was 6 when it was created, and he has said he will always support them no matter what because when he was a child his father made him promise to.
Elderly people often don’t realize how much has changed. In Biden’s eyes Israel will always be the victims because of WW2.
For him to accept that was generations ago and lots has changed, he’d have to come to terms with how old he was.
And if he could do that, he wouldn’t be trying to increase his record for oldest president ever.
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
Right, in this case that we’re talking about…
Do you not understand how “answer unavailable” is a better answer than taking a small percent of strips of paper at random and filling in the rest with words that sound relevant?
It’s like a mad libs
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
Imagine searching your computer for a PDF named “W2.2026”…
Would you rather the computer tell you it’s not in the database? Or would you prefer a random PDF displayed with the title “W2.2026”?
This isn’t a new problem.
You’re getting hung up on “know” instead “has relevant information in it’s database and can access it”.
But besides all that and the other things you got wrong:
It’s still about capitalism for the reasons I just said
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
It “knows” as in it has access to the information and the ability to provide the right info for the right context.
Any part of that process the AI can just “bullshit” and fills in the gaps with random stuff.
Which is what you want when it’s “learning”. You want it to try so it’s attempt can be rated, and the relevant info added to its “knowledge”.
But when consumers are using it, you want it to say “I can’t answer that”. But consumers are usually stupid and will buy/use the one that says “I can’t answer that” the least.
And it’s legit really hard to differentiate between factual things and random bullshit it made up.
Which is why AI should tell end users “I don’t know” more often.
- Comment on Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians 2 weeks ago:
Only if you believe a POS like the Intercept.
mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-intercept/
Seems fine…
Is your issue that they lean left?
- Comment on Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians 2 weeks ago:
It’s the natural result of decades of the only standard being “I like the letter by their name”.
Shitty people will always win in a race where cheating is legal. And as the DNC loves to point out: primaries aren’t real elections and they can just ignore results if they want, so cheating is fine.
They stopped short of saying “only an idiot would think primaries matter” but unfortunately I don’t think we’re that far away from it.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 patch makes life hellish indeed for smaller parties, but also makes maps more fun to explore 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the issue wasn’t one Quaser being OP, it was a full squad of four using it, and having more than one a second. That’s ridiculously OP. I’ve spawned in sight of shrieker nests and the whole squad clears them in under a minute.
They’re balancing stuff for a squad of 4 that’s competent and coordinating…
Which just isn’t the reality for people joining random missions.
I went to Quaser when Railgun got nerfed, not sure what I’m going to use now. But they need to start buffing the stuff no one uses, not nerfing what everyone uses because it’s the only feasible option in level 9
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
If scientists made AI, then it wouldn’t be an issue for AI to say “I don’t know”.
But capitalists are making it, and the last thing you want is it to tell an investor “I don’t know”. So you tell it to make up bullshit instead, and hope the investor believes it.
It’s a terrible fucking way to go about things, but this is America…
- Comment on Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, like I dont understand how someone can’t not get that geopolitics and Ally’s change…
The US was the reason the Taliban gained power, it’s not like 9/11 happened and people said we couldn’t be mad at Osama bin Laden because just a few decades ago we gave him a bunch of money, weapons, and training.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 patch makes life hellish indeed for smaller parties, but also makes maps more fun to explore 2 weeks ago:
Elsewhere, there are lots of weapons balance changes, among which the beloved Quasar Cannon has had its recharge time increased by five seconds. That’s a whole lot of seconds, rendering it a lot less spammable and, probably, more of the weapon it should’ve been in the first place.
That’s a hell of a nerf to not get it’s own headline…
Like, what was it before? 5 seconds and now it’s doubled?