alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer] @ alcoholicorn @hexbear.net

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Tidal and hydroelectric aren't great for nature.

"Current science" is really key here because it wasn't so long ago that science was convinced that heroin could be given to babies, smoking was harmless, and leaded gasoline is safe.

Science as a whole never was, there was just a shitton of money going to anybody publishing studies saying so. There's not a cannon of grant money fired at any scientist who says "radiation is good actually".

It's got all my addons.

Also gave her bf a handjob through the pants and being disruptive.

Which like it's a dark movie theater. Other than the talking during the movie, if it were any regular person I wouldn't say shit.

Both workers and bar owners would be better served by supporting public transit than the right to drink drive.

I disagree about the coherency.

Coherency requires relating symbolic meanings. AI just uses statistical analysis.

Consider if you were locked in the national library of Thailand. You don't speak Siamese, and any pictures or bilingual dictionaries were removed.

Given a thousand years, you could look at the patterns and produce text similar to what someone who writes Siamese would write, but there's still no coherency because you cannot connect the meaning behind any of the words.

That doesn't necessarily mean your outputs are useless though, someone who does read Siamese can have you generate outputs until you print out something they can infer a coherent thought from, but you're fundamentally unable to be trained to do that yourself.

If a human being takes people's work and pieces it together in a way that resembles other works without using any LLM/AI or automation tool, is the final result content theft too?

We're getting into ethics territory. IP is a social construct and we live under capitalism, our model for determining what is and isn't theft should be selected by what supports artists and consumers against capitalists.

I'd say 1849. Napoleon III was just a parody of Napoleon.

Napoleon: Frenchman with an italian accent

Napoleon III: Frenchman with a swiss accent

Napoleon: Leads 50,000 professional soldiers to Egypt, many of whom die to attrition and assaults cities, then quietly sails back to France.

Napoleon III: Leads 50 dudes to France, whom immediately surrender upon meeting actual soldiers, then quietly walks back to Switzerland.

Napoleon: Returns from exile on a desolate rock, entire army defects to him

Napoleon III: Returns from exile in England. Is arrested by customs agents at Boulogne.

Napoleon: News of his return causes all of europe to band together to stop him.

Napoleon III: News of his return is widely mocked.

Napoleon: Leads coup with popular support

Napoleon III: Gets elected because people see "Napoleon" on the ballot.

Napoleon: Makes brother king of Spanish America. Independence movements ensue.

Napoleon III: Makes some german guy king of Mexico. Leaves, guy is immediately executed.

Napoleon: Wins 5 coalition wars, abolishes the Holy Roman Empire.

Napoleon III: Gets wrecked by Germany.

they only see the AIs as content thieves.

AI is a method of content theft, it takes other people's work and pieces it together in a way that resembles other works, without any actual coherency.

I don't like that it churns out slop that displaces actual content.

I also don't like the way it's sped up enshitification of google and news sites. I didn't think it could get worse than pages of listicles written by disinterested journalists paid fuckall to churn out 10 a day, but now you have chatGPT churning out 100 completely useless articles a day.

Operating within the rules and not pursuing their lust for power is just one of the reasons we ought to be helping them attain that majority.

Why would I miss a day of work to vote for someone who is going to handicap themselves instead of using the tools at their disposal?

If dems kicked Mansion and Sinema off all committees, cut all discretionary funds flowing into the state, and Biden's AG indicted Manchin/his family for corruption and Sinema for campaign finance violations, then I could believe they genuinely wanted to pass the policies these people are blocking.

Instead the dem's actions are no different than if they opposed these policies.

There's people who say that in a non-mocking tone? I've always heard it like "We'll be home/it'll be over by Christmas!"

it has been done when 30-50 percent of our people live in poverty

A rat done bit my sister Nell.

(with Whitey on the Moon)

Her face and arms began to swell.

(and Whitey's on the Moon)

I can't pay no doctor bill.

(but Whitey's on the Moon)

Ten years from now I'll be paying still.

(while Whitey's on the Moon)

Assuming you're not talking about anarchists: Liberals are incapable of averting the effects of capitalism because they support capitalism. Their ambition is limited to setting rules that ask ticks to only drink a "reasonable" amount of blood.

How would our minds not being governed by this universe imply free will?

If anything, I'd assume the you don't have free will if your actions weren't chosen from experience, but were controlled by a supernatural ghost.

Consciousness has nothing to do with it, observe in this case means "affected something we can measure".

wtf when half the workers are willing to just walk, why isn't the union stepping in?

I still can't believe they're writing those comics without any irony.

They read exactly like what we'd do as satire.

Pawb.social and Blaj are defederated if you want other instances are that are still mostly LGBT+, but liberal/anti-communist.

You really shouldn't uncritically accept anything Ukraine or Russia says about the war. Of course they're going to say the other side is targeting civilians while we only attack valid military targets. Don't you remember Libya? Iraq? Afghanistan? Bosnia? We know how the news operates in these situations.

Russia abducted more children than died in the "people's republics".

This is misframing refugees fleeing into Russia as abduction. These aren't moustache-twirling villains.

Accept the peace offer and set the new border of Ukraine such that the Russian-speaking people whom the state-armed militias were shelling before the invasion are all on the Russian side.

Then there will no longer be people the Ukrainians regard as Russians in Ukraine.

I use all 3.

If it's very short and there's 2 or more in a row, I'll put it all in one line.

If there's a bunch of nested if statements, I'll use the second.

If neither of those conditons, I'll use the first.