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If you don't pull you're actively giving up more rope than anyone. That's exactly the point.

BTW: If you regret that we live within a political reality where we have limited choices and the risks of wasting your vote are high, then you should join the movement to implement more democratic voting systems like Ranked-Choice (aka Instant Runoff) or STAR, as well as reforms to political dark money.

Even still, many of these changes are more likely to happen at a state/local level before anything can happen federally. But that's just one more good reason to be interested and involved in regional politics also.

Uh, never? As an American I can easily recognize that we live in a 2-party political system in which you have 3 real options:

• Vote for the Democrats
• Vote for the Republicans
• Don't vote / Waste your vote

American politics is a game of tug-of-war. You can spend as much time as you want lamenting that the rope isn't exactly where you want it to be right now. But the fact is that one party is pulling the rope to the left and the other party is pulling it to the right. If you want the rope to move right you better join the people on the right, and if you want the rope to move to the left you better join the people on the left. And more to the point, if for whatever reason you don't want to pull (maybe because it seems futile or maybe because you just don't like the people on your team) then where can you expect it to move other than away from where you want it to be?

There is no politician on Earth who perfectly represents my politics, ideals or philosophy. If I wanted someone who perfectly represented exactly what I want I would get politically active and run for office myself. In lieu of that, what else can I hope for but to vote for the people who happen to be pulling in my direction, or at the very least pulling back against the mob of right-wing fascist criminals.

I don't think Biden is perfect, but he's certainly not evil. What's more, I know exactly what we're up against when it comes to Trump and the Republicans (who at best are spineless impotent political cowards, and at worst are fascist activists who want to strip people of rights, further rob the working class, deny climate change in the name of profit, destroy what little democracy we have, and weaponize the government against political enemies).

I've said this before and I'll say it again for all takers, name any politician who you think would be making more progress on important issues (healthcare, climate, education, transportation, lgbtq rights, women's rights, the economy, etc.) than Biden right now and I'll give you at least 3 reasons why they wouldn't. (Hint: the House, the Senate, the courts, state legislatures, inflation, unstable geopolitics, post-pandemic economic change, etc.) Bernie or Warren could be sitting in the Oval Office today, and we still wouldn't have universal healthcare (because of Congress), we still wouldn't have been able to wipe out student debt (because of the courts), we still would have to deal with wars and terrorism overseas (because of aggression from countries like Russia and Iran), and we still would be feeling the effects of inflation (because of decades of low interest rates coupled with pandemic supply chain fuckery).

So yeah, I'm not gonna stop voting for the better candidate of the two, because what the fuck else would any reasonable person do? Pull the rope towards where you want it to go. It's not hard.

You know, normie stuff!

It federates, but the original comment doesn't seem to have been edited...

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Blump doesn't have a dignified bone in his body.

It's almost as if machine learning is a black box that you superimpose massive amounts of random data onto.

How I like to think it went down...

OpenAI board of directors and investors: So... it's not a problem that our model is trained off a bunch of stuff that we don't own and haven't licensed, is it?

Sam: Nope....... not a problem at all!

Oh so that's what "French Vanilla" means...

Feels like there are a metric ton of furry artists on Mastodon too. I think furries are basically just everywhere. (Not that I care. Like what you like!)

Yum word salad!

So they always say... and then keep reading and posting tweets all day every day.

Sigh, here we go again.

Yeah, I'm sure she just picked up one of these at the front desk and then proceeded to casually sit down at a random table that just happened to be where Putin and Peskov were sitting.

Let me say this as nicely as possible, you're just not sharp enough to play these kinds of games yet.
Workshop some better material and then come back and try it again, ok?

The thing I've found with AI tech bros is that they're rarely interested or informed about any creative process, and instead are much more interested in typing shit into a web form that spits out some garbage that they can pretend that they created.

It's like arguing with people over NFTs or whatever, we could get down to the technical details and the merits/flaws with the concept and current implementation, but at a certain point it's like trying to tell a flat-earther that the world is round or an anti-vaxxer that vaccines have saved millions of lives over the last century. I really don't want to be an ass to any of them, but after months of trying to get through to them I'm kind of over trying to talk them through it.

Ok so for the pros of working from home that's:

• lower demand for prime real estate downtown
• less environmental impact due to daily commutes
• less employee time wasted due to daily commutes
• more comfortable and familiar work environments
• less business overhead associated with running a permanent office
• more reasons to do company events or retreats in interesting environments
• better accesses to a broader pool of talent
• more/cheaper housing options for people to live outside of cities
• less traffic and traffic accidents, with lower demand for cars and parking in city centers

But let's not forget the big cons of work from home too!

• your inferiority complex-having superviser/boss/manager doesn't get to feel powerful and important by performing workplace theater while breathing down your neck constantly or counting your keystrokes.
• you don't have to pretend to like the people you work with every day, but only some days.

Hey guys I think this Elon Musk guy might be not so great...

David DisappointedDeParents one last time.

Context note: that picture was taken at an RT (Russian state-backed propaganda outlet) dinner in a room full of powerful Russian oligarchs. Gorbachev was there but at a different table, and yet Jill Stein was one of the guests of honor at Putin's table. Also worth keeping in mind that this dinner took place in 2015--more than a year after Putin had first invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea.