cayde6ml @ cayde6ml @lemmygrad.ml

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I read some of the first ATLA comics, and some of the stuff I thought was wack, but I can't remember what stuck out to me.

While Ozai deserved to be in the ground, I felt like him being in prison makes sense.

The Last Airbender was kind of based in certain aspects, but the Legend of Korra become the Harry Potter equivalent.

Is this because Shanghai is often viewed as a technologically advanced yet morally depraved equivalent to Las Vegas, in China?

I hope that I'm able to move to Shanghai one day.

I think that truly intelligent and "conscious" general artificial intelligence is most likely a matter of "when", not if, and that the road ahead will be extremely long, risky, expensive, full of twists and unknowns, and I think that people who say that form of A.I. is impossible or fanciful are being extremely ridiculous, short-sighted, or will eventually eat crow. I'm not psychic of course, and I can't fully blame people for thinking that way, but I think that in just a few decades, there will be serious improvements.

That being said, I agree with your general sentiment of capitalists overestimating and mystifying and misusing A.I.

I could be wrong, but aren't we at least beginning to see some of the fruits of labor of autonomous driving?

I think you're being unfair on A.I. I understand and agree with most of your points, and I like how pragmatic and straight-forward you are. I agree that people overly mystify A.I.

I disagree though that it won't fundamentally change anything. I'm a believer that A.I. will eventually achieve true "consciousness" and self-actualization, at least to a degree that most people would agree is objectively measurable, and that they will probably surpass it. But that process could take multiple years, decades or centuries, and is long, expensive and full of risks and unknowns.

I think that for now, A.I. is as you said, a "glorified parakeet", but I'm expecting things to get interesting in the coming decades.

Based off my years of research (I'm not Chinese, though that shouldn't matter) the Cultural Revolution, while being a disaster in certain aspects, wasn't entirely a bad thing. Common people were inspired to rise up and challenge corruption in the party and across the country, were able to reinterpret and contextualize and advance class struggle, and the common people achieved great gains, such as in living standards, healthcare, political participation and horizontal organizing and social development.

It's absolutely tragic that a lot of innocent people probably ended up dead, and many cultural relics and artifacts were looted or destroyed, but I believe the GPCR helped pave the way for modern China in many ways.

I think that while the CPC is correct in many of their critiques of the GPCR and of Mao, I think that it's foolish and wrong to say that it was all a mistake or a complete madhouse, and it must be admitted that while Deng's gamble was correct in the long run, it's understandable that many saw China's "reform and opening up" strategy at first as being a betrayal of the revolution.

Thankfully, I think that the CPC seems to be taking the best of the Maoist and "Dengist" eras together to lighten the future, while learning from the mistakes of both, and that modern China wouldn't be as successful without both eras.

Speaking as a person of color myself, I totally understand what you feel, and I know there isn't a magic answer, but I implore you, please don't give up. You being alive is a good start. I want you to live to see the crackers get put in the dirt.

Its not over until Chris Christie starts singing.

I bet if I told Winston Churchill to his face that he was a fucking tub of lard fascist, he'd throw a fit.

To be 100 percent fair, tap water in China has shown a concerning level of trace amounts of heavy metals (Not the Led Zeppelin kind, unfortunately) and is often slightly worse than in the U.S., in China its more understandable given that the nation is still a developing country containing over 16 percent of humanity and installing and cleaning new state of the art pipes and irrigating water and purifying minerals from water is extremely complex and tedious work, the Chinese government at least has greatly improved water treatment over the past few decades, continues to do so, has a very strong drive to provide for its people, and has spent billions of dollars introducing tap water to Tibet, which previously didn't have running water until recently.

Where as the U.S. if anything probably wants to get rid of tap water because "its communist!"

Don't insult rats by comparing them to these pinche vato culeros.

Also very fair points. Maybe I jumped the gun, though I'm still very suspicious of Blumenthal, this analysis makes sense.

I am half-awake so please bare with me, but unless I misread it, those farmers seemed more concerned about their profits than the environment is my point.

I might have misremembered the first link, I thought Blumenthal wrote it. But these give me pause:

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/08/dutch-farmers-technocratic-plan/

Some very concerning comments about vaccines:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/03/flattening-curve-global-poor-covid-lockdowns-human-rights-vulnerable/

I never said that green-washing wasn't a problem or an important issue, my issue is that Max Blumenthal seemed to disregard all of that actual science and just throw it in the trash.

I might have misremembered, I thought this story was written by Blumenthal, or I might be confusing it with another:

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/08/dutch-farmers-technocratic-plan/

Max Blumenthal also posted a few articles that seemed to tacitly suggest that green energy and climate change are hysteric concerns.

The good kind of gangster.

Max Blumenthal is a reich-wing sellout now, unfortunately.

Speaking as Latino person, that hope is one of the only things that keeps me alive. And in a slightly dark but bright side-ish way, we don't need every settler to adopt decolonial thought. Just enough to have an army.

Meanwhile the South dismantles POC's ability to get food and housing.