Doubledee

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Part time rural is perhaps the worst job in the postal service, regulars have it pretty good but RCAs are pretty screwed over in really weird ways. It depends a lot on the office for everybody, but especially for rural.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Guess there's a handful of postal persons on here. Feel free to ask about work stuff if you need a second opinion, supervisors will absolutely try to abuse you if they think you don't know they aren't allowed to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I prefered the LLV to the alternatives honestly. Got a great turning radius and high visibility.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anecdotally the chud I know that talks about political stuff the most really likes Pool and thinks he's a great journalist. So there are people out there that actually seem to like him.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The function of a ratchet is to make an object go in one direction more easily. Democrats fulfill a function in propeling the country rightward. This was arguably not true 80 years ago but post-Reagan they are part of a process of rightward movement. Voting for and legitimizing them is moving the country right and making things worse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

It's especially funny because the Bible itself is clearly a self critical process of picking and choosing over time, the earliest writings are revisited and reconsidered in light of later events and subsequent authors explicitly point out the limits of the received wisdom they have available to them.

Modern fundamentalism has thoroughly fucked this issue so badly that they have skewed the terms on which even people who do not believe it have discussions about the text. It's honestly an astonishing accomplishment on their part

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

It's kind of encouraging how there's only like 5 people going for his bullshit at least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're observing a problem of scale. There's basically no people in Nuuk relative to Rio. It takes a lot of resources to create dense efficient layouts, and those resources are easier to concentrate and more profitably invested in places with more people.

There's enough people in Rio for density to make economic sense. Space is cheap in Nuuk and resources are more scarce.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Right, isolating the US is good for everyone else, the more tied to us they are the more leverage we have over them and the worse we can hurt them if they don't do the evil things we expect of them. Weakening the US is critical to the freedom and dignity of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

I don't think this accounts for all of it (I think the other posts here have a lot of valuable insight) but one little note I'd make is that I think right-wingers tend to be very uncritical in their consumption of art and often have a very poorly developed ability to evaluate something as art. Art is often 'good' if it has a surface-level moral that is good, or if it is 'pretty' in a nondescript way. The point of art is to be didactic and AI can achieve that very low standard, so there's nothing to sound any alarms about how ugly or ridiculous the imagery actually is; that would require paying attention to the image longer than they are willing to think about it.

I think it's the logical conclusion of the same phenomenon someone like Big Joel is always observing in the media right-wingers produce. Art is shackled to their messaging and their messaging sucks. With rare exceptions this is the obvious result of that process. AI generated images take the amount of effort they would willingly put into their messaging to create.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People will literally kill each other if they cannot get an oven mitt for $3 a month after they ordered it. Americans are not well, this is going to be very bad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Well now I'm confused. I guess you meant it was an impressive clown show?

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