Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Lucid blog, about fascism, and Patricia Roberts-Miller’s blog, about the rhetoric of demagoguery.

Just have fun dancing

I did this sort of thing once at a Halloween party. I was by myself just dancing and it was fun af. Some random dude told me twice that I was the best dancer there, and I got to dance with a really hot girl for 2 seconds.

So follow Kat’s advice. Just say fuck it and have fun!

you’ve been chosen as a bucket of water to throw at the wild fire

Given that we live in New Mexico, where wildfires occur yearly and just get worse, that’s an apt metaphor. In fact, we’re getting a bit of smoke now from one. Yay…

My SO thinks, “We need more people like us”, as if we’re upstanding citizens lol. I mean, we oppose morally deficient nazis, as all nazis are, but otherwise…meh.

No. It’s a Republican talking point and this is a demonstration of how well they toe the line like their wealthy donors have a gun to their head.

It’s not organic, as you suggest, but politically motivated repetition so that Republicans voters have something to uncritically believe to preserve their beliefs in the face of the ICC’s actions.

This is a variation of Republican fearmongering: If they do X to someone else, they could do X to you!

Frankly, I think the proper response to Speaker Johnson is to call him a fear mongering impotent bitch, but that’s just me.

The more nuanced follow up, however, is that it’s only worth the work if you’re putting in the right amount of work.

Yeah…this is why I abandoned by privacy journey a few years ago. It felt like it took a lot of work, created hiccups for very little reason, and was overall just not enjoyable. But I was able to get Bitwarden out of it, which, I think, is a pretty swell privacy-focused app.

Damn. U.S. conservatives are at stage 6 or 7 with trans people.

So, LLMs aren’t suitable for brainstorming new directions at the frontier. That seems like a pretty specific limitation that is only applicable in a very small percentage of cases. Like, LLM brainstorming won’t be useful if you’re trying to improve LLMs in a new way unless that new way is what most people are already doing. But it’d still be useful to help a COO brainstorm how to improve operations since there are tried and true methods of operations management.

But what do you think could be the reason that has affected the cognitive abilities of the American population?

The enduring Republican attack on education and the shift to believing it’s vocational training rather than citizen development.

You’d think so…

I had the 1000XM4 until recently and it was fantastic, too. My SO would often get mad at me for not paying attention when I was in the computer.

This is really the only strategy and we’ve seen how incredibly effective it has been as the GOP changes into rabid racists.

But better democrats can’t employ exactly the same strategy as their far right insurgent counterparts, because we’re not racists assholes trying to undermine democracy.

What student protests have aged like milk? All the prominent ones I know of aged more like wine, especially the Kent State protests that turned a bunch of crybaby ass men into conservatives.

If she could let the thing she hates live a life of its own, she wouldn’t be a Republican.

Positive: I can learn a sorts of stuff!

Negative: There’s so much to learn!

Ahh, I remember this in Plague: make it easily spreadable, and then mutate it to murder everyone. The classic Two-Step To The Apocalypse. Step 1 complete. Initiate Step 2…

This is has been true for at least a decade, when they originally did the study.

This is exactly what karma is in the Buddhist system: a universal force that determines the consequences of all moral actions.

Wouldn’t it logically follow, then, that it’s fine for any person to choose to commit harmful actions on another person, since if those harms did happen to befall the person (even if it was as a consequence of our willful decision to cause them), it would be deserved due to bad karma they had from a previous life (even if they were a young child/baby in their current life for example)? And then couldn’t we use this to justify literally any harm we choose to do as being deserved due to assumed bad karma, making the idea of avoiding causing harm (ahimsa/nonviolence) meaningless or pointless?

Before I respond, I just want to clarify:

Are you asking if we can justify our committing harm based on our belief of another’s state of karma and what they deserve?

It seems this is the crux of the your arguments.