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- Comment on A modest proposal 2 hours ago:
Is this community no longer going to be about posting shitposts? Because if I want political posts then I can get that from the many politics communities that already exist, or by reading newspapers.
- Comment on pls 2 hours ago:
If this community is just going to be about blatantly political posts from now on rather than shitposts, then I don’t really have a need to be subscribed to it since I can already get that from the politics communities that already exist, on top of reading newspapers.
- Comment on ..? 2 hours ago:
Just to be clear, are you calling for all communities to become politics communities, so that there are no spaces about anything else?
- Comment on ..? 2 hours ago:
Lovely rhetoric there, but I regularly read newspapers, so I am “avoiding” nothing. It is just nice to have spaces which are about something other than politics.
- Comment on ..? 4 hours ago:
All communities become politics communities over time…
- Comment on bold words 19 hours ago:
Don’t worry, I am already my own worst enemy!
- Comment on bold words 20 hours ago:
Quick! You must—
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 day ago:
Only Congress can change the name of the Department of Defense, and not only has it not passed any legislation to do so, but the most National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed after Trump’s executive order, only mentions the “Department of Defense” and never the “Department of War”.
So, no, there is not officially a Department of War, there continues to only officially be a Department of Defense.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 day ago:
I would.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 day ago:
The fact that the Trump administration can create web sites saying whatever it pleases does not make the name change legitimate.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 day ago:
Yeah, there are all sorts of ways in which standing up to the administration is hard, but calling something by its actual name should be a relatively easy thing to do!
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 day ago:
I am a simple man: I see a fascist attempt to impose his will on the rest of us, I oppose it.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 day ago:
In fact, for this reason DOGE was not a brand new department but the result of Trump taking over the United States Digital Service, hollowing it out, and turning the shell into the United States DOGE Service. This was a tragedy because the USDS was doing genuinely useful work by bringing in people from the industry to use their experience to improve the incredibly crappy government digital services that exist. I was fortunate enough to see a talk by one of the founding people of the USDS (before it had official existence), and it was inspiring hearing how much of a difference he was able to make and how it made a real impact on the lives of veterans who were dependent on the service that was collapsing.
Additionally, this was also a tragedy because other departments had essentially been gradually coaxed into granting the USDS access to their data so that USDS could make improvements to their systems, which DOGE immediately took advantage of to get direct access to all of this data after it took over the USDS.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 day ago:
Be that as it may, its name is the Department of Defense, and Trump does not have the legal authority to change that name. Calling it the Department of War, like calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, is a form of giving in to the administration. That is what I am objecting to.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 2 days ago:
Department of
WarDefense - Comment on challenge: impossible 2 days ago:
Wooly mammoths have never been known for their ability to find things at the best of times (in the modern era, at least), but in this case the task is particularly hard because all of the popcorn is behind them so they cannot see it!
- Comment on You trying to give me a heart attack? I have warrants for chrissakes! 3 days ago:
Yeah, nothing is worse than when I am listening a song and the sound of a Siren forces me to jump into the nearest body of water.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 3 days ago:
There are so many different competing apps and discord copies that have risen and fallen, it’s hard to really get attached to any that have little movement in fighting the network effect.
In other words, you are saying that there is too much discord in this space?
- Comment on Spoken like a true racist. 4 days ago:
Exactly, which is why critical race theory is so critical!
- Comment on no gag reflex / talk too much 6 days ago:
Agreed, I find nothing worse than when the person I love is eager to share something they care about with me!
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 6 days ago:
Yeah, I once talked with a woman who spent several decades being married to a guy who was physically and emotionally abusive to her, but made it clear that she would never leave him because she had promised to stay with him for live at her wedding, but it was okay because things would be better in heaven for her anyway, but not so good for him.
It made me really sad…
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 week ago:
It is possible for a movie to both correctly complete an arc and also be shit.
- Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash 1 week ago:
Ah, I was not paying much attention to the distinction; my bad, then.
- Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash 1 week ago:
Building on what you said, I think that the sum is actually pretty significant if you think of it as being roughly $100 million per person, and then multiply by the number of people hurt by the supposed “Autopilot” who now have incentive to sue.
- Comment on English Wikipedia bans archive.today 1 week ago:
It is not clear to me why archive.today is so important given the continuing existence of archive.org.
- Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 1 week ago:
The fact that I have to use a more complicated tool than
cd.But how does changing the current directory backup your files???
- Comment on I'm in! 1 week ago:
Given enough time, all communities become politics communities.
- Comment on WHOLE MILK 1 week ago:
Yes, in the NSFW version she is forced to drink RAW MILK instead of WHOLE MILK.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 week ago:
Well met, sir!
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 week ago:
Challenge accepted!
The Steam deck is pretty cool because it is just a really nice handheld PC that lets me (or, more typically, my wife) play everything in my very extensive Steam library.