Kwakigra

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Kwakigra,

This better not be what it looks like.

What do you think of the term "short king" as a term that's supposed to champion body positivity for men?

Body positivity is such a strange concept to me. There’s efforts to reclaim words while simultaneously calling them bad if used as an insult. Ideally, people wouldn’t be offended by someone describing their body with common descriptors, but socially there is so much value attributed to certain body types that it’s almost...

Kwakigra,

Your comment made me re-think this a bit, because I happen to know that the origin of “dad-bod” wasn’t patronizing but a word used by some straight women who find this body type attractive in men. I wonder if “short king” may have initially been used by people who were attracted to the attribute in men and wanted a nice sounding way to describe it. I’m totally with you when these phrases are used like you described, but I wonder how many people using these terms are genuinely attracted to the attributes they’re pointing out.

Kwakigra,

On top of a depressed economy from endless war and poor management of state funds, the details of the lives of nobles started to get published for just anyone to read which was unprecedented. Although no single thing can be attributed to causing the revolution, I think that just learning about how the nobility lived really put a difficult situation over the top for them.

Kwakigra,

This is a tool derived from that report which directly shows how the user’s local environment has changed. Kind of trippy to see that the environment of my childhood is not the same as the environment I’m living in now. It’s a good educational tool.

Kwakigra,

Companies actually factor in the fines for breaking the law in their accounting. Ford calculated that it would be more profitable to release a vehicle which was known to be deadly since being found guilty for negligence (if it got that far) the fine the corporation would have to pay would be covered by the profit from selling the dangerous vehicles.

Kwakigra,

“Put your affairs in order” say the people that have their affairs managed by a team of servants.

Kwakigra,

The soldiers are killing them in either case. Basically I’m being asked to choose whether they kill one or all of them, and they’ll make me shoot someone if I choose to spare most of them. Considering the situation, I’m not sure these soldiers won’t just kill me with everyone else anyway since I’m a witness after yhey’ve had their fun.

Kwakigra,

The only thing crazier than this idiot inventing a master race of republican-aligned tech bros whose destiny is to conquer Silicon Valley through police banquets is that an entire audience of people took it seriously. The article promised a crackpot’s raving and Balaji sure delivered.

Kwakigra,

This is a living nightmare. There’s not much more I can say about this.

Kwakigra,

Some of my common uses are:

  1. Asking extremely niche scientific questions: I don’t depend on these answers but in the answer is usually the specific terminology I can then search and find the answers I was looking for. I have learned a lot about the properties of metals and alloys this way and what the planet could look like with different compositions.
  2. Re-phrasing things: At work when I’m drained and out of patience I can tell that what I’m writing in my emails is not really appropriate, so I have GPT re-phrase it. GPT’s version is typically unusable of course but it kicks my brain in the direction of re-phrasing my email myself.
  3. Brainstorming: The program has endless patience for my random story-related questions and gives me instant stupid or cliche answers. This is great for me because part of my creative process since I was a kid has been seeing in media something that was less than satisfying and my brain flying into all the ways I could have done it better. I ask the program for its opinion on my story question, say “no idiot, instead:” and what comes after is the idea I was looking for from my own mind. Sometimes by total chance it has a good suggestion, and I can work with that too.

Fun uses which are less common:

  1. Comedy use: I once had it generating tweets from Karl Marx about smoking weed every day. The program mixed marxist philosophy and language with contemporary party music to endlessly amusing results. Having historical figures with plenty of reference material from their writings opining on various silly things is very funny to me, especially when the program makes obvious mistakes.
  2. Language Manipulation: If some philosophical text which was written to be deliberately impenetrable is getting too annoying to read, the program is decent at translating. If I plug in a block of text written by Immanual Kant and have the program re-write it in the style of Mark Twain, the material instantly becomes significantly easier to understand. Re-writing it in the style of stereotypical gen-z is hilarious.
Kwakigra,

So many times I wanted to know the name of an actor who played a character after the first episode and the top result was something like “[Character Name] (deceased)” or " Villain: [Character Name]."

Kwakigra,

This could actually happen soon. Outside of office use most casual users in younger generations are using laptops. Desktops are getting to be more niche and associated with computer builders and power users. As Windows gets shittier, Linux gets easier to use and customize, and desktop use shrinks to just enthusiasts, we could very well see Linux on the majority of desktops.

Kwakigra,

The majority of Zionists are not Jewish, and the majority of Jewish people aren’t Zionists. These protestors are the latest in a long tradition of Jewish activists opposing oppression and genocide. To take police action against Jewish people protesting genocide, something Jewish people tend to know something about, exposes this imperialist fascist-aligned grift for what it is: anti-semitism.

Kwakigra,

Data is a concept the markets still haven’t figured out. When something can be copied infinitely at no additional production cost it defies the economic nature of physical goods. Ten years ago in a business class the suggested adaption was providing data as a service through subscriptions and a lot of the market has moved in that direction. We absolutely hate that, though.

Art as a market commodity is also an interesting thing since we can’t define art. The best we can do is create art for the purpose of motivating purchasing behavior. Some great art has been made like this, but most art industries are horrendously abusive to the producers of art who often have to rely on outside forces to market their work who also happen to have a much easier time making much more money than the artists themselves will ever see.

All this to say that the systems we have in place are inadequete to support artists appropriately to the value they contribute to society. I don’t have a solution for anyone who wants to create art as their job. My personal solution is to make my work something else and produce my art only on my own terms. Supporting oneself as an artist in the market is a nightmare.

Kwakigra,

This is like early CGI effects in film. Some of those effects are the worst in film history (see Reptile from Mortal Kombat), and some were so good that we don’t even know CGI was used (See helicopters in Black Hawk Down). This is a new technology which is going to be abused majorly in tons of notable cases and we probably won’t notice the instances where it was used successfully.

The tech is clearly not sophisticated enough at this point to reliably enhance film images realistically. However, this technology at this stage of development would probably be excellent for old animation or films whose originals have been severely deteriorated.

Kwakigra,

Fortunately not even we have the combination of ability and stupidity to wipe out all life on earth. The worst we can do is wipe out most life on earth, and hopefully the survivors learn something from that. If we don’t we’ll just have to wipe out most life on earth over and over until we can figure out how not to structure societies so that they go in that direction.

Kwakigra,

Oh, it’s unacceptable. We must do everything we possibly can to prevent environmental catastrophe and a potential mass extinction event. It’s probably better not to even accept the possibility we may fail. For my mind though, the stakes are too severe for me not to consider how thinks could still be ok long-term (centuries to millenia) we could recover from it. This is what I would be thinking about while I’m dying from exposure. I would much rather not have anyone go through it.

Kwakigra,

Agreed, but Capitalism is only the most recent iteration of an issue we’ve been dealing with since we agriculture went mainstream, which is the idea of social class. “Socialism” with an established ruling and working class has been demonstrated to be as destructive if you look at a list of top greenhouse gas producers. Stateless, classless, true ownership of the means of production by workers is the only way to prevent the perverse incentives which happen when we treat a few people as above the rest of humanity when they are not only no better but socially stunted by privelege.

A New Bill In Louisiana Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association (bookriot.com)

The House Bill 777 was introduced on March 25 by Representative Kellee Dickerson, who helped fund the Louisiana Freedom Caucus. The bill would criminalize library workers and libraries for joining the American Library Association....

Kwakigra,

If Southern governments didn’t do things like this to their populations this country would look much different. This is why Southern governments want as few white people voting as possible and do everything they can to ensure that. Restricting public services so that only the voting class has access to basic accommodations through private means is another way of keeping oppressed people away from the political process.

Kwakigra,

To re-phrase: as few people voting as possible in general, and among these voters as few challenges to established US white supremacy as possible.

Kwakigra,

I think most Westerners would be shocked how right-wing the Chinese political environment is for most social issues.

Kwakigra,

There’s tiers.

I have no respect for an opinion that the holder doesn’t understand well enough to argue since they are parroting a “common sense” belief based on premises which are easily disprovable.

I can respect an opinion I disagree with which the holder understands, but up until the point where they are willing to argue in good faith. If they are deliberately spreading info which they know to be false because it’s to their advantage that others hold those beliefs, I thinknit’s a major problem. If they refuse to entertain any challenge to their opinion however obvious, that is also a problem.

The opinion I disagree with which I respect the most is one that is in total good faith which causes me to question my opinion. This is how I learn.

Kwakigra,

There’s respect for someone as a person who deserves all their human rights as I believe everyone does regardless of their behavior. Then there’s respect for someone’s ability to do or understand something, and that depends entirely on whether they can demonstrate their knowledge or ability in my subjective opinion. I can respect someone as a person even if I don’t respect their ability to, for example, argue the finer points of literary analysis.

Kwakigra,

The thing about that is that there isn’t a definable human nature, just tendencies and systems. Using technology like CRISPR to force a definable human nature for all humans would likely doom us. It would be nice until the the environment we adapted our species to changes and then no one in the entire population would be capable of adapting to the new environment since we bottlenecked ourselves for short-term peace and prosperity.

Kwakigra,

They did the same thing with Skyrim a few weeks ago and destroyed my mod loadout. They’re updating the game to attract new purchases. They don’t care what happens to everyone who has the game and all dlcs already.

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