xantoxis @ xantoxis @lemmy.one

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Stopped reading at the uncritical use of the word "transgenderism" and the unanalyzed repetition of the falsehood that Budweiser suffered financially from the Dylan Mulvaney thing (it didn't).

Not sure what fence the author is trying to sit on, but I'll take my opinion fluff pieces from people who aren't actively aiding the conservative culture war.

This thing's been around since the 70's. I think any generation would recognize it.

Literally still better than what he actually did

why not just let lose of this crippling desire to align ourselves with some historical identity

Fair enough. Counterpoint: It doesn't freaking matter what word we use. No matter what the word is, the right will attempt to poison it and stir hatred of it and assign meanings to it that aren't real. Look at what happened to "woke". It will keep happening, because the modern right is Fascism, and poisoning language is a fascist tactic that goes back to the very beginning. You call yourself an Anarchist; where on Earth do you live that nobody has negative associations with "Anarchist".

Use whatever word you want, just use it consistently. Don't expect it to stay free of propaganda, because they do that to our words on purpose.

Not the plant you think, though.

Ideas for the new logo? I think he should go with a black-red motif, with lots of right angles.

That's why they call me Dollar Bill. Because I have one.

I'm confused why backups would even matter. Are the servers physically hosted in Mali and the government seized them?

Because if the government just invalidated the domain, that's completely different. In that case a server device with everything on it still exists in the same place it always did, it's just DNS that has changed.

(And yes, I understand that losing the domain name and the certs attached to it would be a big deal, but there's no data loss, hence no need to pull from backups.)

Lol haven't seen it yet. I rolled the dice

I zoomed in on the notes. I couldn't make it out completely, but here's what I saw:

1. No close-ups of Barbie's feet
2. No close-ups of Ken's feet
3. Barbie always wearing shoes even in long shots

This is exactly how I'm tryna be (I live alone in my house with my dog and my $0.003M fortune)

I think it's easy to get sidetracked on "magic" vs. "law". It seems clear to me that both of these ideas are tied up in human interpretation, otherwise we wouldn't be able to have a disagreement about them, we'd simply look up the correct meaning for "magical rules that govern vampires".

I suspect that we have a fundamental disagreement that we're not going to resolve with debate, but I'll take one more shot anyway.

I appreciate that you've given a pretty succinct definition of your position: to summarize, you can only invite someone to a place where you live, although you can also invite someone into a place when you are already inside that place, regardless of whether you live there.

Can a person who lives on the street invite a vampire? If so, then a vampire is circumscribed from any outdoor location where a person lives (sans invitation); and if not, we see that "where a person lives" is not actually the deciding concept.

If you own multiple homes, which of them do you "live" in? Can a vampire enter all the others? Do you have to be in the home at the time of the invitation, or could you invite a vampire to use your summer house for a month while you're in your winter home?

All of these things cloud the idea that "living in" a place is not actually all that straightforward, and still requires the interpretation of mankind to be meaningful to the vampire. Indeed, I think the magic relies on the consent of a human, not the literal words of an invitation, and consent is innately tied to interpretation by the person consenting.

However, if anyone in the home can make the invitation, then I think the way this plays out is: the vampire cop gets a warrant, one of the other cops goes inside, and then shouts at the vampire to come inside, and then you're boned anyway.

Why should it care about the religion of man, then?

For that matter, why should it care about the invitation of man?

If there are rules a vampire must follow, and those rules can be satisfied through the agency of human beings, having been interpreted by human beings, then we have to consider what a human being means by invitation.

If a 4-year-old invites a vampire into his parents' house, does that count? It's not his house, either. If you think that a vampire can enter on the invitation of a 4-year-old then you must concede that people other than the owner can invite someone in. If you think that invitation is not valid, then you must concede that a vampire respects a hierarchy of rights.

I think that the state asserts a right to invite other people into your house which supersedes your right to prevent them. We call that overriding invitation a warrant.

I think it's very much like regular ice cream, but a flavor an octopus would eat.

Crab, maybe.

Ah, 25 million per child? Finally a fine big enough to make a tech company feel conseque--

[Touches earpiece] one moment, I'm getting an update--

Because they're bad people, Jan.

Demographics? That has nothing to do with it. They are different genres, but lots of people like multiple genres. Me, for example. I want to see both. Since I can only sit in one theater at a time, that means they are competing.

Right. Again, though, I don't recommend having an LLM do that particular chore for you.

I don't disagree, but most business emails aren't quite that strict.

Sometimes the only requirement IS to have words on a page. Think about a disaster recovery plan, for example. Now, you probably don't want an LLM to write your disaster recovery plan, but it's a perfect example of something where the main value is that you wrote it down, and now you can be certified that you have one.