uriel238
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- Comment on Saying "It is what it is" when it is all that it is 2 days ago:
Obama campaigned on getting past it. ( Hope amd Change ) but then he didn’t. Corporations got their bailouts. OWS was cleared violently with the cameras off. BLM notice law enforcement kill a lot of people. The disposition matrix was a thing. The IWOT went on and on. The mass surveillance state was a thing. The economy was better but 88% of households were in precarity, and a lot of people were homeless.
And then Trump won by the EC.
So Ive been waiting for things to get better for a long, long time. I’ve just stopped expecting the suck to ever reverse, or even ebb.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 6 days ago:
I just use LGBT+ since it was LGBT for a long time (it was GLBT but the Ls earned their place at the front during the AIDS crisis) then it became LGBTQ, then a bunch of other letters were added while the community was recognizing is profound variety before it turned into LGBTQ+
Q+ has a nice ring to it, but since I’m an unusual form of NB, I fit squarely into the catch-all variety of Q.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 6 days ago:
Welsh?
- Comment on spicy one 1 week ago:
That is a good assessment. Yes.
In fact, the race between capitalist interests to bypass safety and get AI soonest is entirely about getting that power to be able to use it to hold everyone else hostage.
- Comment on spicy one 1 week ago:
Courtesy of XKCD, long before we have to contend with unfriendly AI (we have committees of AI-techs working on this problem already) we’ll have to contend with someone like Musk or Bezos determined to own everything and capable of creating an AI-controlled army of killer robots.
We’re not sure how rogue AI is going to manifest. We are sure rogue power-seeking humans exist all the time, and positions of power are commonly filled by them. (That’s the primary argument for election by sortition, or by lottery.)
- Comment on spicy one 1 week ago:
Whatever made that crater was an ELE. Bigger than Chicxulub.
We have plenty of great filters to navigate:
We end war, or we die.
We restore the atmosphere and rebuild global ecology, or we die.
We end stratified society and power disparity, or we die.
Where are all the aliens? Fermi asked. The first question is, how do we navigate our way to becoming a space-faring, world colonizing species, ourselves? It’s turning out to be pretty difficult for the common hominid.
- Comment on Teachers Are Not OK 1 week ago:
We may have to revise our education system so that it’s not connected to our credential system.
There’s a story about Einstein teaching physics and letting the kids who didn’t want to be there leave and do something else with the time. The ones who remained were quite attentive.
There are multiple models for teaching that do something similar, let kids approach a subject when they’re ready. Yes, they goof off a lot early on, but eventually even STEM and literature call to them, and they pass equivalency exams in their late teens.
In the meantime even when I was in high school in the 1980s, our system was created to sort kids into sports stars that might become college players, STEM kids that might become scientists and engineers, and House Hufflepuff (common laborers).
The education system has only gotten progressively worse since then, as its budget increases have not kept up with inflation. And then there’s the whole effort to insert evangelist Christianity (+ American Exceptionalism + Conservativism–Capitalism) into public school.
And to this day, we still use the lecture / lab / test model that excludes a lot of alternative comprehension and learning models. We’re not looking to teach kids, rather we’re looking to harvest the geniuses, and turn the others into bonded laborers and soldiers for billionaire vanity projects.
- Comment on Future aspirations 1 week ago:
The… Crowmistress? Queen of Corvids?
- Comment on Future aspirations 1 week ago:
From the witching community, you’d have pretty good luck befriending the local murder of crows with cheap bread. Upgrade the bread as the shinies they bring you improves.
According to the meme, pretty soon you’re a Batman villain.
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 2 weeks ago:
Sacramento Police department has a helicopter, Air One, that the department is super proud of. I live in a not-rich neighborhood where Air One likes to hang out and help which sometimes includes shouting inaudibly on the PA. Air One has its own webpage which is sometimes current about what it’s doing, but not always.
Air One also likes to fly low enough that we can hear the thumping of the rotors through our apartments. At 11pm on a school night. We know it doesn’t have to because the rescue choppers zing by quietly on their way.
And lately Air One has gotten, whinier. This loud screeee! that wasn’t their before that makes me thing something in the rotors is not sufficiently oiled, or something is about to fall apart. I wonder if Air One is soon going to make an unscheduled landing in my neighborhood.
- Comment on Just be that way 2 weeks ago:
Well, I needed an example.
- Comment on Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’ 2 weeks ago:
So did the Brevard County sheriff’s department murder anyone today? Or beat them brutally? Or otherwise dispense unjustified violence?
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 2 weeks ago:
You’re going to have to elaborate on both. I can’t imagine a far-right opinion I agree with.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t know what, in a meme format, differentates a shitpost from a non-shitpost.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Saw it after I posted it.
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- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 2 weeks ago:
Note that Disney and Universal pirate other people’s stuff whenever they want.
Note also that all the Generative AI services are very protective of their big cistern of web-crawled data, say when China borrows it for DeepSeek.
Content, content everywhere and not a drop of principle.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 3 weeks ago:
I presume the point that you only need one methane source connection for two appliances that use it heavily.
So, an appliance for low-drag homesteads.
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 3 weeks ago:
My first instance shut down permanently within days of my signing up. I believe it had sometime remotely doing with Russia suddenly deciding to invade Ukraine.
It really gave me that full cyberpunk experience.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 3 weeks ago:
Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I’d assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.
To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it’s just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg’s mayorship taking much of the blame.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 3 weeks ago:
3000 abductions a day is the ICE quota. They just want warm (non-white) bodies.
- Comment on this is my hole! 4 weeks ago:
Whenever I see memes based on this comic, I remember the original and the creepy squicky feelings come right back.
- Comment on I feel attacked 4 weeks ago:
I’d suggest a BDSM munch or a LUG at a cafe. Also writing groups.
- Comment on I feel attacked 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t pay $15K but I got a new one. And then the gears were two low because it was a mountain bike and I had to install a custom touring drive train. (I’m having the same problem with my current e-bike, in that I run out of gears and e- at about 20mph.)
- Comment on I feel attacked 4 weeks ago:
As a fellow gen-x, I had one in my early forties and again at fifty-seven!
- Comment on I feel attacked 4 weeks ago:
Um, a deep dive into moral philosophy? No academic institutions were attached to it. I just read a lot.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 5 weeks ago:
I’m getting a paywall or adblock block or something. Anyone have a less problematic link to the article?
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 5 weeks ago:
The climate crisis has a good chance of completing the job. And then there’s a lot of not-quite-worst-case scenarios where a tiny number of humans are able to survive for the tens of thousands of years it’ll take for the earth to repair itself. Everything we know about humanity will be lost and replaced by an entirely different culture.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 5 weeks ago:
BMW and VW are the same beasts they were when they were backers of NSDAP in Germany.
Between the VW emissions cheating and BMW’s subscription car features, it seems their attitude towards commerce has not changed a jot.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests 5 weeks ago:
Then let’s see Microsoft do this with full transparency and keep a publicly accessible list of forbidden words. Then evidence this is a general policy should be plain.
