While Trump is obviously a POS and I’d love for him to be banned from running, not allowing anyone to run for office from prison would set a really dangerous precedent.

It’s terrifying how similar the Trump playbook is to that of a cult leader. Convincing someone that they must trust you over their family and friends is step one to getting them isolated and exploitable.

Thank you for the very well thought out and detailed post!

Problem is that the morality taught by Christianity, and most other large organized religions, is extremely outdated and has spent many hundreds of years being corrupted by those in power to oppress others. I mean these people literally believe that God will punish our entire society if we don’t eradicate LGBTQ groups. I actually think these people would be much more tolerant of others if they had never encountered organized religion and just learned to coexist with others organically.

Wow good for UPS workers. As a tech worker I can say I’m genuinely happy for them. They have a hard ass job. A win for labor is a win for labor, regardless of which type.

I’ve been using a Pixel 3 for about 5 years and I love it. I actually got a pixel 7 for work earlier this year and honestly prefer the pixel 3 lol. I’ve had some charging issues because lint gets stuck in the charge port, but I’ve been able to mostly solve those by cleaning out the port with a toothpick.

Same with competitive sports. As a tennis player, if I lose a match I’m usually doubly motivated to get back out there for another one.

I feel like these discussions are ultimately much more about semantics than the technology itself. Intelligence and consciousness are such vaguely defined concepts that anyone can just assume a given definition and then declare that an LLM is either “intelligent” or not. It’s pretty much useless to even start these conversations without specifically defining what one even considers intelligence in the first place. Either way the capabilities of the technology are relatively well understood and obviously are impressive but well short of human capabilities in many aspects.

Vow didn’t say nothing about being alone with other men 😏

Idk man I’m pretty sure the number 6 transitioned from number 9 and now wants to have sex with children.

Taylor Swift is the most popular artist right now by a long shot. I’d say less of an over population problem and more of a social media hype machine problem lol. There are plenty of other incredible artists one can go to for much less. Even Ed Sheeran who is very very popular can be seen in my area for less than $50.

That moment when you learn what .ml stands for.

Yup that is a real rough pill to swallow when the default is free AND no ads. If I’m going to drop money on lemmy I’d rather just donate to whoever is hosting my instance.

You’re spot on. Fascism and communism are at their core extremely similar ideologies. It all comes down to how you define your “tribe”. In fascism this is defined by race, ethnicity, and religion, whereas for communism this is defined by class. Both ideologies favor populism, in that the good of the “tribe” is more important than the good of the individual, and if you’re not in the “tribe” then you can get fucked. And both ideologies view the tribe as infallible in so far as that anything wrong in society must be the result of outside influence. I’d recommend looking into the work of Yuval Noah Harari, he’s written a lot of very insightful books on these topics.

Communities in California could also just let people build more housing, but God forbid the poors move into my neighborhood.

About 14 years or so for me. Was starting to get a bit bored of that place anyway. I’ve been enjoying Lemmy a lot so far.

Unfortunately fascism can’t actually work without an “other” to be a scapegoat. Fascism frames history as the struggle of an infallible ethnostate towards prosperity. Therefore any imperfection in the state is the result of the influence of “others” working against the state. Without an “other” fascists would actually need to take responsibility for society’s shortcomings.

It’s important to recognize that fascists are not evil comic book villains. If you are a member of their ethnostate they will come off quite pleasant. They will say “You are beautiful, you are kind, you are wise. We are building a utopia and we’d like you to join us.” Then eventually they will say “We cannot build a utopia because they stand in our way. They are ugly, they are cruel, they are stupid.” And then before you know it you are building gas chambers.

While this would make a big statement, the real victims would be innocent teenagers. Arguably we should be doing the opposite and trying to get as many of them out of that state as possible.

We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.

But in all seriousness, this feels like the chronological feed given to users was just a straw man intended to make their algorithm look better. Also the claim in the article that Meta’s algorithm does not impact users politics is completely ridiculous and not at all supported by a study like this.