Once she had won the election, there really isn’t any reason for her to change her stance

It would have been used itself as the reason not to listen to leftism since the headline (written by Ezra Klein) would have been “Neoliberalism Shows It Is The Only Winning Strategy For Democrats Again”.

Yep, I could not agree more. Seeing the smug and the self-righteous still proudly argle-bargling about Gaza is infuriating

This is a two way street, your lack of perspective makes your self-righteousness just as insufferable.

Same

The newly opened solar plant in Karbala will eventually be able to produce up to 300 megawatts of electricity at its peak, said Nasser Karim al-Sudani, head of the national team for solar energy projects in the Prime Minister’s Office. Another project under construction in Babil province will have a capacity of 225 megawatts, and work will also begin soon on a 1,000 megawatt project in the southern province of Basra, he said.

The projects are part of an ambitious plan to implement large-scale solar power projects in an effort to ease the country’s chronic electricity shortages.

This is cool as heck, for someone who has always lived in very temperate, rainy, cloudy places with long bouts of darkness Solar power generating technology has always been inspiring and exciting… but when I imagine growing up somewhere arid with brutally intense sun being the norm… solar technology must look like alchemy in being able to transform an ever present aspect of your existence into buckets and buckets of electrical power.

I hope that a future for arid places like the Middle East is not far away where there are solar panels everywhere and living in arid places becomes known for living among solar power instead of fossil fuel power.

There is also a direct benefit for Iraq here in that Iraq has historically been a battlefield for empires because of its geography and the behavior of other nations, living as a citizen in a place like this must be exhaustingly difficult from having to grapple with the regional power dynamics always collapsing and being replaced while locals try to just live their lives. The presence of distributed solar generation I think reduces some potential leverage of oppression, it makes it easier for more localized groups to take getting access to electricity into their own hands at whatever scale of governance is most actionable.

The international geopolitics of fossil fuels have dominated countries like Iraq for the past 100 years, but this is something different, this represents a material possibility to construct things more resiliently so they can’t be as easily destroyed for no good reason by countries like mine.

What leftwing groups or even prominent individuals in the US with any actual following advocate for political assassinations and direct violence against rightwing people they don’t like? Where are all the lefties supposedly making calls to violence and terrorism?

The media and even a lot of people here will flip a shit about someone like Hasan Piker being so radical and yet if he even remotely said something like “maybe we should just start shooting rightwing media figures” an overwhelmingly massive chunk of Hasan’s audience would tell him to fuck off and cause an uproar because that clashes with the basic foundational ideologies of leftwing movements in the US, they are about obtaining a state of freedom for all, the idea of targeted violence has little salience to a US leftist as we are well aware that 1. senseless violence doesn’t change anything, it will not lead to freedom for all, it just accelerates the bad things. 2. the ruling class in the US will jump at any chance to radically villainize the left, the bulk of the country will blindly follow along in this, thus random senseless acts of violence aren’t just bad because they are evil they actually existentially threaten leftwing movements in the US as a whole, leftists in the US are WELL aware of this…

The difference between the left vs the center and rightwing of the US is that the left actually builds coalitions on shared values, most leftists in the US these days are strongly influenced by figures like Bernie Sanders who has been mainly focused on broad social programs to improve people’s quality of life like healthcare and for fighting wealth inequality. How the hell would advocating for shooting someone like Charlie Kirk make affordable healthcare more likely in the US? How would it help get the public focused on Citizen’s United and getting money out of politics? Leftists in the US are about ideas and policies, this isn’t just an aesthetic, if you enter US leftist circles and start advocating for targeted violence as retribution, preemptive violence or really for anything for any reason at all the leftists around you are going to turn on you for being a hateful bastard trying to distract from the actual issues at hand.

If there is one thing that ties virtually all leftists in the US together it is that we fucking LOVE to argue about things… so much so that sometimes we can never agree on stuff because we want to argue the little details on and on forever. It is not lost on us that the very first thing that happens when you commit violence against others is that they stop listening to the wisdom of your arguments and ideas.

If AI worked the way techbros think it does it would be an affront to god that intelligence was so easy to artificially make. If you believe in god you likely believe humans are special creations of god but then why would god build our brains in such an inefficient, wildly overcomplicated manner if sentience and intelligence were so trivially easy to do it would only take a bunch of computer bros less than 100 years to build a far simpler machine that can achieve a similar and surpassing intelligence?

If you do not believe in god you are an idiot if you think techbros can outsmart hundreds and hundreds of millions and millions of years of evolution in a couple of decades of hamfistedly hacking away at concepts while ignoring the necessary integrative knowledge from other fields like the humanities that is a prerequisite to even setting the proper goals in the first place in the process of creating artificial intelligence.

These are simply pattern matching tools with a limited degree of context memory that you can interact with in plain english language. Further, these machines are even worse logic machines than humans are and as much as logic isn’t popular these days, it is a VERY necessary underpinning element to functional intelligence in any real context.

I think this kind of critical analysis of the Fediverse could be completely right in every single one of the details and still miss the more important point that corporate social networks are being used in a directly hostile fashion towards vulnerable people RIGHT NOW to a near catastrophic degree of negligence to put things in the most charitable terms possible. Further the people who own those corporations publicly endorse narratives that invisiblize the violence happening to real human beings.

Realize that by getting lost in a baseball stats esque evaluation of the Fediverse that we cede ground already to people who are disengenous. We have to consider the context of the alternative reality of corporate social media to fairly evaluate the Fediverse.

Yeah and that is possibly the least heterosexual, “manly” trait I can possibly imagine.

These people define themselves around being one of only two genders and thus the attractiveness of a person is most reasonably defined by the opposite gender “that is supposed to be attracted to them” and yet none of these men could have ever possibly made a woman orgasm on purpose in their entire life, you just have to listen to them for 10 seconds to realize that…

…so according to their own definitions they are incredibly unmanly men if they can’t bring a woman to a place of utmost pleasure even as she does so for them, they are inadequately manly, they are basically boys who haven’t learned what it means to be a man yet right? How could it be otherwise if they so catastrophically fail to fulfill the desires of the very gender they are supposed to be entirely obessed with pursuing at a definitional level?

Even if you take the toxic framing of masculinity that women are objects to pursue, I would still bother to learn more about objects I spent my entire life pursuing and coveting than these men do about their wives. Ughh spits on ground these people are lazy and disgusting even according to their own trash standards.

What do you mean by cancel culture?

I feel like you are mistaking all acts of boycotting or mass comment submittal for “cancel culture”.

I am not arguing for DDOSing Wikipedia, to edit articles with a hostile intent, or of smearing Wikipedia people in public places…

…I am arguing for organizing a campaign to submit feedback on the articles about the Fediverse FROM people on the Fediverse that explain in their own words why they think the way Wikipedia describes the Fediverse is incomplete, problematic and misleading.

Those are two VERY different things and I see no danger in slipping into “Cancel Culture” because the basic objective isn’t to silence, hurt or destroy something it is to correct the narrative ABOUT US being pushed by a prominent source of information that should be beholden to people coming to it and saying “this isn’t right what you wrote about me”. They can disagree, but the more of us that argue the point in a genuine and substantiated way the harder it gets to ignore us and keep the distorted narrative intact.

1.) This is part of the background narratives being pushed by the rich and powerful that we need AI and big tech to moderate us when the opposite is true, we need more humans involved in moderation who have a stake in their community.

2.) The prevailing winds in the tech journalism sphere have always been strangely blowing against the Fediverse since the beginning. The simplest possible explanation to me is there is a lot of money in writing off the Fediverse as a cool nerdy space that nonetheless is an unrealistic solution for everybody else and pushing the axiom that a Harvard MBA is needed to translate the Fediverse into a product the public can actually use.

You will NOT notice this same prevailing winds against for profit corporate social networks like Bluesky and Threads… and it is a curious thing isn’t it…

This is ironically an inevitable consequence of Wikipedia’s centralization undermining its strategic objective of making knowledge free and accessible to all.

I am not arguing for the opposite extreme, rather pointing out that Wikipedia is simply too centralized to be a durable vehicle of truth.

Federated architecture provides differentiated redundancy and the possibility for existential conflicts to be preserved in splits between elements of that federation rather than require the leaders at the top to be perfectly lucid and uncorruptable by encompassing forces (state or private) or risk cementing problematic lies as truth.

I think this would be a thing worth organizing around, can we mass report (edit ok “report” is probably the wrong word, this is about a broader editorial tone on the fediverse not attacking the particular person) this person or their particular edits on the fediverse? I don’t mean a mindless spam wave, more like a well written consistent push from a large, disparate range of people that continually highlights that Wikipedia really doesn’t have an accurate picture of what the Fediverse is (to put it charitably for Wikipedia).

Do you think these men have ever actually made a woman orgasm? Like… in their entire life?

They wouldnt know how even if they wanted to.

You remind me of myself

Imagine a highschool level biology textbook that almost exclusively uses GTA San Andreas memes and metaphors to explain biological concepts.

wait but the problem they always say we have is that we are too impulsive and just keep doing things that give us instant gratification instead of things that are good for our future… so how does that square with the background radiation feeling of being so anxious that things that make us feel instant pleasure also make us feel instant guilt?

hmmm

looks at the concept of “instant gratification” with a skeptical squint of a lone cowboy in a standoff

“I have beef with you Instant Gratification, but today is not the day, no matter, I swear I am going to make consequences come for you soon, any day now. Maybe tomorrow I think I just have some other things I need to do, I have been meaning to get it done so that means I will you can rest assured about that.”

Can’t kill a reanimated corpse, reddit is already dead.

Seems like a good fit for processing maybe?

https://processing.org/examples/arm.html

Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley though, he is on a whole different level of hallucinatory nonsense that powerful people at the top are enamored by.

What was the last non-gibberish thing Altman has said?

I feel like he has been playing the “you can only speak in gibberish” improv game for as long as I can remember.

err, you sound like an FBI agent trying to provoke people into saying wild shit…

Na, let’s not talk about casually bombing media outlets, it only normalizes things further in a dark way.