🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

But why the crab cakes? The rest of it makes sense, but… what?

Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons

something something walk or drive to the car wash something something

ahhhh, seriously knock knock let me in, that sounds delicious. If you’re not veggie, I’ll bring my family’s kedgeree^[1]. :)

Edit: Fix your link.

Link continues to work here. Title is “Can They Name 5 Countries in Africa” by @MaximBady. No clue if that’s the original or a repost, just the copy of the video I found when I went looking. Sorry it’s not working for you.

But also, quite agreed on your first para

Yeah, but why the fish and the banana? You have to explain that in more detail, my man.

hahaha. Thanks for the cool sunglasses, too. :)

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

At best it might not make the same mistake again if that memory is in the current context. But more likely: It will not remember.

Although latest Gemini in particular has much more room for “remembering” things, still.

But “I made a mistake”? It is not self-aware in any way shape or form to the degree where “I made a mistake” carries any real meaning.

or at my house,

KNOCK, KNOCK

First of all, relevant username. Second of all… to quote a litle youtube vid I love^[1], “You are not wrong. But also, you are very wrong.”

Education is one of the critical tools to fix this, although that will take 2-3 gererations of hard work and full control of the process, so probably even longer.

Education, however, is not the short-term tool, it is one of the long-term tools. But it is one of the tools. More of a preventative of it taking root again after we root it out.

how you’re going to get them better wages, better education, better infrastructure, better healthcare, etc.

Doesn’t work when all most of them want is for the people in charge to hurt the “right” people.

Fascism is not the result of some nebulous, nationwide hoodwink,

I’m a progressive. I see all those issues and my response is to vote as progressively as I can.

Why is it that viewers of Fox “News” and consumers of right-wing radio, who all preach some nevulous, nationwide hoodwink to the point that a third of our country is living in a parallel universe - why is it the issues that drive them to be insane and embrace fascism?

I think your premise is wildly off-base.

That said, I agree with your last para - except when things go bad enough the fascists start to doubt, that’s when you have a chance to try and engage and convert a few out of the cult.

Just fucking vote.

You are correct.

However, this doesn’t work so well if certain groups of people are disenfranchised at a higher rate. It doesn’t work if ballots are stolen and manipulated. It doesn’t work if judges stop counts or recounts of votes. It doesn’t work if there are fewer polling stations or drop boxes in certain areas. It doesn’t work with gerrymandering. It certainly doesn’t work with propaganda that encourages voter apathy.

This would significantly reduce the scope for concerted disinformation

You don’t think if Lemmy became large enough to be a target that it wouldn’t be targeted with overwhelming bots and paid people posting propaganda?

I’d like to borrow your rose-coloured glasses, please. It’d be nice to have such a rosy worldview for a moment.

Although at the same time, enshrined in there is the idea that some are worth about 60% as much as others.

Not to defend the racist fascists, mind.

Worse, in the examples they give, the legislatures and/or judiciaries stood against the dictators.

Here, we have decades of propaganda fueled by the oligarchs that has removed the world view of a third of our population from reality, and it’s not just Trump - the Republican party is in on the deal, from Congress to SCOTUS.

It’s not the same battle. It’s not the same order of magnitude. It’s at least two orders of magnitude harder.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t fight; rather, we should fight all the harder.

But that’s why I’m not certain partition / civil war type solutions are off the table.

ZELLO! HEYYYYYY ZELLO!!!

oh, you meant… oh… sorry… oh… I’l just go away then, shall I?

The point of the phrasing is not “this is a fair description of what was happening” but more “even if it was as bad as this, it’s still bullshit”. So you’re right, but that’s why I phrased it that way.

And that’s just if he decides to “refurbish” one!

I may not support those military actions, but we promised to take care of them. They deserve to be taken care of.

I mean, this is why you don’t trust fascists, but they sure didn’t know that when they signed up.

Listen, kid, I’ve been on reddit since 2009. I hung out with the admins in IRC back in the day. I was a default mod for a while, and I’m the “father” of /r/nottheonion.

There’s plenty I don’t know about reddit and life in general, but on this topic, clearly I know a fuck ton more than you.

There was a time on reddit when self-promotion was against the rules. That rule was dropped something like a decade ago.

The simple fact is that - from at least the article’s telling - the subreddits wanted the content, and in that case, it is absolutely fine and encouraged for someone to submit.

There’s a guy making youtube reviews of restaurants in my local city’s subreddit. The content is popular - people like it. So we absolutely are happy to see him post. Is it self-promotion? Yes, technically. It’s also relevant to the subreddit and desired by the mods and members of the subreddit.

You’re like the people saying “dis a repost” when someone CROSS-posts. Note that reddit has a BUILT IN SYSTEM for cross-posting, but there are redditors who don’t know that.

So, little boy, you can take your condescension and /r/confidentlyincorrect along with /r/iamverysmart and fucking LEARN something, or go off and continue to be willfully ignorant.

Disclaimer: If the article’s reporting is incorrect and the subreddits considered it spam, well, that’s not what the article said, and I don’t otherwise have other knowledge of it, nor do I care enough to google for any other possible sources. But that’s the informatio you’re working off of as well, so there’s that.

PS: To add a light-hearted end: I’ll go to /r/dontyouknowwhoiam now :) (that name seems too long. Is that the right one/ Well, you probably know what I mean and I’m too lazy to look it up :P )