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WhiteCatTamer

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I don’t know what I’m doing, either.

I do a fair amount of boosting which, for me, means “this post has value”, so not necessarily that I agree with it.

Following is open, no worries if you dip in and dip out. I tend to wait to follow until I’ve interacted with you a bit first.

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talia_christine, to random
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I have a theory that the men who reply to posts with some version of "not all men" do so because they see some of themselves in whatever statement was made and they don't like it.

WhiteCatTamer,
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@Loukas @talia_christine On the one hand, I get that you are responsible for only your actions.

On the other hand, if you see someone hit six people that look like you, do you flinch, or think “but they don’t want to hit ME”?

There’s a nasty tendency in supposedly progressive circles to tack on an extra modifier when one is really going after a group that it’s generally not cool to go after; see “the problem with white cis women is” and then just being misogynistic.

danirabbit, to random
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The more I think about it, the major problems in tech and in society in general is that all the investment is going to solve problems that white affluent men have

WhiteCatTamer,
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@danirabbit That does explain why there’s more effort put into making AI girlfriends than making laundry-folding machines.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think someone should devise a fun Buzzfeedesque quiz which asks fundamental questions in a sassy way that will tell you which party you need to vote for.

WhiteCatTamer,
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@StillIRise1963 I remember seeing (and taking) this quiz that determined how likely you were to be conservative or liberal based on your sense of disgust, which correlates well with those views.

If I remember correctly, one of the questions was, if a fly swatter had been cleaned well and used to stir soup, would you eat that soup? It was an interesting set of questions!

WhiteCatTamer,
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@StillIRise1963 Okay I found it: http://chartsme.com/

WhiteCatTamer,
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@StillIRise1963 Are you seeing red? XD

WhiteCatTamer,
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@StillIRise1963 @MaryAustinBooks @Aviva_Gary Here’s the study it was based on: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)01213-5?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982214012135%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

In the Results page, the people who made the quiz note that obviously there’s a bias involved around medical professionals.

Alice, to random
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The person sitting next to me on the plane is being SO rude. They won’t even give me enough elbow room to be able to open my can of tuna fish.

WhiteCatTamer,
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@Alice I know how you feel. The guy in front of me keeps shoving me! It’s riduculous. It keeps waking me up when he pushes my foot off the armrest. Typical self-centered asshole…

WhiteCatTamer,
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@Alice Oh I tried that, but I guess there’s some sort of unspoken limit to how often they can help you, because they slowed down after 16 calls and did something that I consider uncalled for and drastic after 57.

Anyways.

I can’t see very well inside this overhead compartment: how near are we to landing?

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Thomas claimed that in the case of the Brown decision, the court went too far calling the ruling an example of the court’s “extravagant uses of judicial power… at odds with the history and tradition of the equity power and the Framers’ design.”

The original Brown decision argued that racial segregation goes against the 14th Amendment to Constitution…”

https://www.theroot.com/clarence-thomas-just-set-civil-rights-back-70-years-1851499947

WhiteCatTamer,
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@StillIRise1963 “I, a free black man, am using the powers granted to me as a member of the highest court in the land, to support what I claim is the agenda of these slavemasters of the past, but is in actuality me pulling up the ladder behind me because my judicial opinion is grounded not in law, not in logic, but in spite.”

futurebird, to random
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At the Role-Playing Games club today, a fun debate. The whole campaign is on this ice-locked ship in the arctic: the DM introduced the possibility of sirens.

One player declares their character is ace and therefore immune to romantic seduction.

Not so, says DM these sirens call out with "whatever you desire most" ... another player wonders if, since their character is monk seeking enlightenment and the death of all worldly desires are they immune?

Apparently the sirens do enlightenment too.

WhiteCatTamer,
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@funkula @JamesDRyan @futurebird Oh gosh, little rolly polly sirens on the ice sounds so cute, I should just step off the shi-heyyyyyyyyy you’re not getting me THAT easily!

mattblaze, (edited ) to random
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The Google AI summary suggesting that people eat rocks is amusing, but it's not a great example of AI "hallucination". The text is a pretty straight and accurate summary of a satirical Onion article. This isn't a complex algorithm synthesizing bogus conclusions from good data (something that's definitely a real risk in AI systems). This is simply Google mis-categorizing non factual input as factual, something it could have (and has) done just as easily without "AI".

WhiteCatTamer,
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@mattblaze @PlasmaGryphon While true, there’s a big difference between a search returning text that claims A with no clear source, simply presented as fact, and returning a link that has text that says A, where the link itself tells the story.

WhiteCatTamer, to random
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Pro-tip: if you are the kind of person whose exhales are very attractive to mosquitos, hiking with a mask will keep them out of your diet.

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    @thepoliticalcat
    Haiti: 87% Christian
    US: 70% Christian
    Going to a foreign country to proselytize: violation of Matthew 7:1-5

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    White with a Black partner? Kids? Hmmmm. Wonder what will happen under the Fourth Reich.

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @StillIRise1963 What constitutes child abuse will change DRASTICALLY.

    Mixed race couple? Child abuse.
    Queer couple? Child abuse.
    Failure to put children through Christian style religious schools? Child abuse.
    Feeding children any nonstandard (read: must contain meat, dairy) diet? Child abuse.
    Beating children? Ehhhh, that’s a matter of degree, wouldn’t you say?

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    "Clarence Thomas, who penned a solo concurrence demanding a radical move: The Supreme Court, he argued, should overrule every precedent that limits gerrymandering — including the landmark cases establishing 'one person, one vote' — because it has no constitutional power to redraw maps in the first place. And he places much of the blame for the court’s allegedly illegitimate intrusion into redistricting on a surprising culprit: Brown v. Board of Education," wrote Stern.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-2668366791/

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @lin11c @StillIRise1963 States’ rights when I have the states on my side, federal law when I have SCOTUS, and executive orders when all I have is the presidency.

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    @lin11c It’s basically a rewording of the famous trial strategy for lawyers: “If you the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your side, pound the law. If neither, pound the table.”

    Reactionaries think in terms of fights, not rights.

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    @thepoliticalcat In Donnie’s world, treating him the same as everyone else IS treating him unfairly.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    “ 'I’m the king of a lost world! I’m the king and I will destroy you!' Javier Milei bellowed into the microphone on Wednesday night as Argentina’s showman president took to the stage for his first stadium gig since his election last year.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/javier-milei-buenos-aires-argentina

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @StillIRise1963 @Hey_Beth @justafrog Yeah, the idea of it controlling NE is, uhhhh, unlikely.

    Likeliest in my view of actual Balkanization would be Abbott and cronies pushing too hard on Texit for the purposes of drumming up votes that several counties declare their secession from TEXAS, and then we have two options: Abbott’s Texas National Guard aides the federal forces, or opposes them.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    You’re not a loser. They’ve made “winning” impossible for you.

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @StillIRise1963 Oi, don’t tell me what I can’t be! :blobcatknife:

    DemocracyMattersALot, to tesla
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    I just saw my first live-and-in-person CyberTruck, and it did not disappoint.

    It was the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever witnessed.

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @lorgonumputz @otownKim @DemocracyMattersALot This is better than a Cybertruck because the Cybertruck cannot carry that much trash.

    andrew, to law
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    I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of , , etc.

    Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?

    @law

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @andrew @law I don’t know what’s worse: that Microsoft has done a risk analysis of losing all those professions that can’t operate with this level of spyware and deemed it worth moving forward anyways because it provides some greater value (the argument that it can be used to train AIs to replace even more office workers makes sense), that they haven’t done it, or that they have and just rejected the idea that they’ll lose customers because enshittification is the norm.

    futurebird, to random
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    Official campaign video says "unified reich" to describe Trump victory.

    Campaign blames the intern.

    I guess we should be happy they aren't just doubling down and saying "what's wrong with unity" or whatever.

    The Intern.

    That doesn't explain anything!
    Why do you have lil nazi interns? (we know why)

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @futurebird Have they taken it down yet?

    All the fingerpointing means fuck all if they continue to use it.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    No birth control. No sex. EVER.

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @cykonot @StillIRise1963 Gonna slip my personality into the top row of this chart.

    mentallyalex, to random
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    So, does Discord no longer allowed users to register accounts without registering a phone number?

    They have "detected an anomaly" with a new account I just attempted to make and have assured me that I can quickly clear things up if I just give them a phone number.

    WhiteCatTamer,
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    @mentallyalex It started doing that for me about, oh, 2-3 years ago?

    I stopped using it.

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    @gnitro @angiebaby I legit cannot watch films like that without pausing and just like…digesting them piece by piece. It would take me days to get through.

    This may be an ADHD thing.

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