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Uh. I'm always depressed after reading the news. And loose faith in humanity. I'm far better off meeting neighbors and realizing there are actually lots of nice people around. Or partying with family. Or reading a good book or working on my projects. Sometimes I get (politically) active in my neighbourhood.

I also have the urge to follow the news and politics. But in the end I don't get anything out of it. And it doesn't provide me with anything lasting for me. So I try to balance that... And national politics isn't all there is. If you don't like that show (and I think it's more a show than anything else), you could also learn about European politics, or what's going on in Korea (for example). I think that's going to provide you with a broader perspective on the world, than just watching something that's supposed to be a show to stir up emotions.

It's really difficult to get someone to seek help or accept help. Even more so with depression.

Maybe he sees himself in a pit with no way out and doesn't believe therapy can help him. Maybe he's too depressed to become active on his own accord...

I'd say people like that sometimes need an outside perspective. Have a talk and make sure he realizes the situation he's in. Maybe he doesn't care enough about himself to do anything about it. But he may very well care about you and how it's weighing you down. So I'd try to explain that... How you feel. How it's affecting you and the relationship. What you'd like to be different. I'd say don't judge/argue or push him. In the end that won't work. The decision needs to come from him.

And I'd concentrate on your side of the story. Make it about you and your perspective, less about him. You don't need to tell him your analysis... Some people don't like being analyzed. And I'd say if he's intelligent, he can figure out the connections by himself. So tell him your perspective on him and the both of you and your emotions. And maybe give him some time to make up his mind and get to a conclusion.

You can also offer help, tell him you like him and make it easy for him. E.g. offer to make the first appointment for him. Recommend your doctor to him. Or ask him if he wants to hear how a therapy session works and how it helps you.

Obviously I'm not an expert so don't take my opinion as proper advice. And I'm missing parts of the story... For example: Has he changed? Was he different at some point? Or did you come to the conclusion he needs therapy because you changed or some external factor happened? Also are you able to communicate well about emotions? Does he have any other people who he listens to, that can provide him with their perspective?

(Or maybe he needs to take a different path. I've listened to a few podcasts about depression or emotional wellbeing. I suppose there are also good books about the topic... I mean the hardest thing is getting things going. I'm sure it'll get easier after that, the question is just how to get to the point to do the first step.)

Sure. Alignment and removing bias from AI models is hard and not yet solved.

Also the 'free speech problem' also applies to all internet services. You can't say everything in YouTube videos, on X, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy etc without facing consequences. Sometimes your content will get removed. Or a service prevents me from accessing it.

I like Eric Hartford's words on uncensored models: https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models

I see your point. But it's not based on anything. You just claim AI creativity works like human cretivity without backing that up. While I too think this is the case... The interesting question would be: Is that really the case? And why? Without an explanation and reasoning, it's just an unsubstanciated claim.

And it's not the whole story of what's happening in practice. Several companies have been proven to download everything they can get a hold of and train their AIs on it. Pirated book archives, images they didn't obtain rights to. To the point where watermarks crept in and they had to add steps to their procedure to remove them and hide the fact. And Meta had to admit to pirating books. A proper analogy would be a professor who uses bittorrent and pirating sites to obtain material and hand that to their students to learn from... And that's not how it works in real life. Schools and universities license the material to distribute it to their students, put it in a library or the students have to buy the books. They don't rip off school-book authors per default.

And am I allowed to run bittorrent and download the latest Marvel movie (without paying) to watch it and "learn" what it's about? Download lots of music from P2P networks like I used to in the early 2000s? It'd save me the money I currently spend on a Spotify and Netflix subscription.

Hmmh. That is about a different author who said that on Instagram. And reading that Instagram post (which I haven't done before) ... There seems to be more to it. Sharing documents with explicit content with multiple people seems to be the issue. And that'd align with my experience. I've worked on 'normal' Google cloud documents with ~30 to 50 people and nothing ever happened. That could be coincidence but I suppose lots of people do that. Maybe it's really the combination of the two factors.

Oh, the comment below/above was supposed to be here.

Sry, I think the innuendo got lost here. I was more holding up a mirror to their double-speak and trying to point out that if you really liked those goals, you'd take a different route. The conclusions these people jumped to, contradict each other and what they're supposedly achieving.

I think if they were for families and liberty, they'd do roughly what I said... Making me think that's not what it's about. For me they don't need to come up with wrong reasons to justify it. They could just say 'we hate people and freedom' and at least that'd be honest and free of contradictions.

I'd say give some guidance and be a good example yourself. Maybe make up some well reasoned rules... McDonalds is okay every now and then if you also eat healthy food every now and then. Make sure he gets some fibers and vitamins and maybe you can get even a small kid to understand that there is a reason behind it. In the end I don't think you have to apply force... I've seen children grow up on mostly plain noodles, water and a few other things and they turned out alright. But also don't enable such behaviour. I think there are some rough rules of thumb... Like a kid needs to try something 6 to 15 times to like it (at all). Liking food is a lot about what we're accustomed to, and not just the taste. And the early time in life is important to develop a diverse palette. And the parents are an important role model, so if they don't have a wide spectrum of food, the kids are also very unlikely to get any different, no matter what you do. I'd say maybe read a (good) book on the subject. This is a fairly common problem with children. (And drinking just water is fine. I'm not sure if that applies to 3 year olds, but in general that's a healthy thing to do.)

If your kid is special, you might have to try a few things and see what works. But from looking at several specimen, I've come to think children are very individual anyways and there's often not one thing that applies to all of them. Some people have rules. Some make the food look good, maybe carve a crocodile out of a cucumber every now and then. You can manipulate a 3yo and serve them arbitrary food in McDonalds containers if it's just that. Or have them watch other kids or people and see what they do to give some inspiration...

After World War II, the British and the USA under president Truman willed the country of Israel into existence. And helped.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American_Committee_of_Inquiry

There have been lots of ties between America and Israel and lots of people formerly living in the USA (and/or having fled there) emmigrated to Israel.

Since then the stance hasn't changed. The two countries have ties, are allied. And that's the political side. As people pointed out here there are other sides to the story... Religuous beliefs of christians etc... And obviously it's difficult to resign from a long relationship.

(Edit: Especially for a country as conservative and traditionalist as the USA. I don't see a politician getting elected for saying: 'Look, we need to rethink our old ways of doing it.' And the US is very capitalist. And selling arms is a lucrative business.)

Wow, nice. I'm definitely going to check it out.