LarmyOfLone

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

Only like 3.5% of the world's population lives in the US. So if you happen to live in a country that has been negatively affected by US foreign policy in the last 50 years and don't much care what happens to people inside the US right now, or what labels and pins they put on their jackets, yeah there is little difference between red and blue. Like if you ignore what ideological they profess to and simply look at their actions on other countries.

Empathy can be "disabled" though certain ideology or religion. Saying such radical things like "no difference" is an attempt help people snap out of this "sociopathic trance". Or at worst an attempt to mock or scold you for defending an imperialist regime that has caused countless deaths and immense suffering over the last 7 decades.

Obviously this is futile. And lemmy is much more pleasurable when blocking such people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If you imagine some kind of multi year "relationship education" instead of just sex ed where all kids at ~14 learn about pathological psychology and all the ways people can manipulate you or fuck you over I imagine it would be far less off a problem.

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

No somthing more than just "mere" syntax highlightinng or prettifying like e.g. in VS Code. Being able to change line height for a "headline" when you declare a new class. Or maybe lines that illustrate how a temp variable is used. But it's all vague ideas and I can't picture or describe it well and you'd have to demo this with a graphical design tool I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is there some language or "syntax formatter" that turns source code into something more off a visual programming language? Like a WYSIWYG markdown editor.

Like python doesn't have curly braces, but you could add some kind of "block illustration".

Or you could have illuminated initials for variable names to make them more unique.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I actually think often about how franchises are (miss)managed and how IP laws suck and should work. Just watched "Dune Prophecy" yesterday, which I avoided so far because it's partially based on Frank Herbert's hack writer of a son's novel (it was ok though). Besides the profit motive, there it seems more like a psychological need to bastardize the franchise. Marvel was never serious so I don't mind it much, it's just annoying. Star Wars sequels suck but again, never was serious literature. I do hate the new Star Trek Kelvin timeline with a burning passion though because Star Trek was a cultural touchstone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Haha forgot about the Hobbit and didn't know about the anime. Comics, well, whatever. But I don't think it can be compared to the constant marketing and big screen content of the other franchises. Tolkien estate is pretty careful not to turn out endless pulp.

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

I believe most image generating models are too small (like only 4GB RAM). Deepseek R1 is 1.5TB ram (or half or quarter that at reduced precision) to get some semblance of "general knowledge". So to get the "semantics" of an image right, not just the "syntax" you'd need bigger models and probably more data describing images. Of course, do we really want that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah neoliberals... the reason they want that is to get cheap laborers. Can't believe they are so brazen about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think ultimately we need to design an economic system that allows less work and less consumption. You want those outsourced jobs to come back but done by robotics. Coming back to stop needing to ship them halfway across the world, wasting energy. But we need to have a clear(er) vision to what we want to transition to. Like a partially planned and circular economy that covers the basic needs (food, living space, education, news, healthcare) for everyone for free. Otherwise there is nothing to believe in.

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

If this doesn't go through, impeach him again and more protests. Again and again and more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, did he get his phone?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

r/changemyview is one of those "fascist gateway" subs, or at least one of the subs that I suspect as that. The gateway works by introduing "controverial" topics which are really fascist but they get upvote because "look at this idiot!". But slowly it moves the overton window and gives those people who actually do believe in inequality a space to grow in. Opinions that are racist, anti-feminist, anti-trans, ultra-nationalist, authoritarian or generally against equality and justice.

Reddit was slowly boiled over the last decade like a frog.

And you can be absolutely sure that not only researchers are researching this for science, there are plenty of special interests that do this. It really started with climate change denial.

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