Man, it's almost like there's some reason to keep us all busy and physically exhausted from work, too tired and out of time to pay attention to the evils of the ruling class

Wouldn't that be a silly idea?

Yeah that was my issue too. It's absolutely fine to disagree, but no reason to take a sincere question as some kind of personal affront and start being a dick to the asker.

Just rubbed me the wrong way.

Anyway, sucks this played out how it did. Cheers to you.

I don't really have a strong opinion on either side of the topic here, but I will say this: people were wildly disingenuous when dealing with OP in this thread. So much double talk, goalpost moving, standing on plausible deniability. Some of y'all lose sight of things when the topic is something that ruffles your feathers, like LLMs.

Somebody said, "But points you made like the snide remarks one may also indicate that you’re having these conversations with assholes."

...I dunno, maybe the world has just gotten more assholes lately, because jesus christ did they show up in force in this post for some fucking reason.

For what it's worth, OP, I think you've got a point. ChatGPT and the like certainly can't replace spontaneous and genuine human conversation, but they also don't come with the myriad problems and bad habits of human conversation either (not to say they don't have their own). And especially if you're really just looking for a sounding board to work through an idea, that's actually a pretty fantastic use of LLMs, in my opinion, so long as you're the one providing factual data and working it through your own understanding conversationally, and not relying on the LLM for facts or figures.

Or at least, that's my singular lukewarm opinion. Either way, you at least deserved to be engaged sincerely and without the weight of insulting subtext, OP.

I can't decide if I'm proud or sad that this answer was buried so deeply into this post

🎵 "(dont) Give a fuck about tradition, stop impressin' the dead" 🎵

Corporations fund the big name democrats and their campaigns. These same corporations benefit greatly from Republican wins. They are buying intentionally ineffective democrats who are unincentivized to either win races or appeal to worker interests as they are typically directly at odds with these big bankrolling corporations.

I am not saying every democrat is paid for or every democrat is ineffective or democrats as a whole are an entirely bought and paid for organization, but what I am saying is that enough of the prominent enough democrats legitimately are financially disincentivized from helping the people they're supposed to represent so as to effectively gum up the works of the whole machine.

Live Action Cowboy Bebop was amazing, people just didn't realize what it was supposed to be because Netflix was stupid and coy about it. It was never meant to be a 1:1 adaptation, it was meant to be an expansion of the anime into a whole ass franchise. The show had to lay the ground work and deliver enough of the anime to show promise and appeal to fans, but as far as I can tell it was always intended to diverge in a way that allowed more storytelling and development in Cowboy Bebop's incredible and therefore tragically under-utilized universe.

Also the casting for the main three was perfect.

I'm a 4 and 7 with a touch of 1, so I guess I'm a hot commodity.

....my dating history tells me otherwise.

Finland also has a Sesame Street-like heavy metal band of dinosaurs making educational and children-appropriate heavy metal music for kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWSc0uwrxYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhhlYdySqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPXd918_REs

Comments deleted by moderator: who the fuck are we moderating for? This isn't reddit where we have to mind our Ps and Qs to make a bunch of advertisers happy. Why the fuck are we still moderating like we're beholden to advertiser-friendliness?

And because of ignorant idiots like you who can be manipulated by fascists like chess pieces, minorities will continue to be oppressed and the Palestinian genocide may become full-blown extinction of a people.

But you didn't have make any compromises ever personally, so I guess that's right in your book.

Fuck off.

edit: I blocked them after giving them long enough to read my message, but you can see exactly what this is all about from the behavior below thinking they're dunking on me "thought you blocked me." This isn't a person who gives a shit about the Palestinians or anyone else at all, they only care about being "right" and their own moral superiority. The world is full of evil men sanctifying their own virtue who cause harm with their selfishness, this is just another one of those.

"Removed by mod"

I will never understand why the fuck we are moderating Lemmy as if we're beholden to advertisers. This shit is fucking stupid.

All things are not equal.

"You fell for a scam" does not feel anything like "somebody else thinks the normal choice backed up by the whole of human history that you also made is immoral."

Shame is a tool, and just like how you can't use a screwdriver to fix a leaky pipe tools don't apply to every situation.

Shame is valid when a person is making bad decisions that cause harm to themselves and those around them, not when somebody else is grumpy because we like fried chicken.

Not everything has to be about teaching a lesson, sometimes it can be just an observation of a fact.

What pisses me off is you don't even understand the place of privilege from which you speak. It's such disgusting selfish egotistical mentality to think that if a candidate doesn't represent your exact desires, that you think you can wash your hands of the whole thing and absolve yourself your part in the system.

The world is not designed to cater to your personal sensibilities.

Meanwhile, as you abstain and wait literally forever for a candidate that you don't have to pinch your nose to vote for, you are proudly throwing away your ability to impact change for the better.

Basically you're saying if you can't have ice cream for dinner then we should go ahead and burn down the grocery store.

You're a child.

Mine is full of big titty adults; I don't know what y'all are doing wrong.

Well I don't respect Pelosi, so I feel like we've got balance here

Shit, that's a good deal!

Yes, this is what I'm saying. I'm not saying take up pitchforks and bring the fight to the democrats like they're the villain, I'm just saying not to blindly trust them either. They are a part of the system; even if not in permanent institution certainly in effect. Bernie didn't say go fight the Dems, in fact he proved that you can strategically use them. But don't think that D = good or D = hero automatically either.

It's not about fighting the dems, it's about trusting in ourselves instead of others. It's about autonomy and the fact that nobody is going to fight the fight for you, you've gotta get your knuckles dirty. Don't trust anyone to do the work for you, red or blue; get out and do the fucking work yourself.

People have got to stop believing that "things will just work out."

No, they won't.

We aren't guaranteed anything. I'm sorry after school specials lied to you, but there is no "spirit of goodness" that permeates reality that will make all of this okay.

There are no heroes coming to save us from the fire.

We let the worst happen, and now if we ever want decency again, we are going to have to fight tooth and nail against tyrrany to make it happen. Period.

Don't waste your time listening to anyone still talking about this situation in terms of candyland simplicity and standard decorum. Not even the shitty status quo will save us, because we blew up the status quo in favor of fascism.