Kobolds with a keyboard.
Late Monday night, New York prosecutors charged Mangione with one count of second-degree murder […]
This is actually funny, because from everything we’ve heard, it was definitely very premeditated; wonder why they didn’t go with first-degree murder…
“ill will toward corporate America,”
The only difference between him and everyone else not part of the elite is that he wrote it down and police found it.
But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues.
Genuine question - how long do you think we should try to fix the issues before coming to the conclusion that they can’t be fixed through conventional means? Do you think we should resort to nonconventional resolutions at all, if the conventional ones cease to function or don’t yield results? If not, why not?
That’s fair; my kid is probably an outlier in this regard as we’re a very tech friendly household in general, and my experience with him is the only real evidence I have to base that stance on.
Learning how to lead a protest and how to escalate until it is acknowledged is probably more valuable than whatever they’d be learning in that technology class. If there’s one thing that kids today don’t need it’s formal instruction on technology; I bet most of those students know more than the teachers.
This recent ‘remake beloved animated movies as awful live action ones’ trend is so stupid. Who asked for this? Who asked for any of this?
Sounds more like depression than addiction. Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in, but common symptoms of depression include:
which sounds like what you’re describing. It might be worth talking to a professional.
In fact, the clip was a scripted experiment by a Reddit user who fed NotebookLM a detailed prompt instructing it to simulate a conversation about the existential plight of an AI being turned off.
Someone gives an LLM a prompt, gets the result they asked for. Not sure what the collective gasp is about. Is it interesting to think about? Sure, I guess, but we’ve had media about AI achieving sentience for a long time. The fact that this one was written by an AI in the first person is its only differentiating attribute.
God, if this turned out to be true, and it’s investigated and proven, and Trump and Musk actually see some consequences for their actions, I’d be tickled absolutely pink. It really would explain a lot, including Musk’s absurd actions leading up to the election, as well as the baffling results.
Every time I see this, I can’t help but feel like it works better without the third panel. Showing it happening dulls the comedic impact of the final panel. Anyone who doesn’t know what Kirby is about isn’t going to understand the comic anyway, and anyone who does doesn’t need the third panel to understand what happened.
It’s about who has a chance of winning. If you’re trying to argue that any candidate other than Harris had a chance of beating Trump in this recent election, you’re kidding yourself.
I’ve said this before and I’ll continue saying it: Trying to inject a 3rd party candidate into the presidential race is foolish. A much better tactic would be trying to push for 3rd party candidates in smaller races for local / state government, or congress. Doing that is a lot easier, and can make small incremental changes that add up over time. There simply isn’t a realistic way for a third party candidate to compete in the presidential race until the voting system is changed.
If not, what would it take?
A viable third party candidate. Before anyone says it, Jill Stein is not it. Alternately, a voting method that allows voting third party without just enabling a GOP sweep (again).
It’d be great if this resulted in some major revision of the Democratic party from within, but I’m not holding my breath. I will, however, continue voting for the “less bad viable option” if the “more bad option” is on par with Trump.
It’d be more effective to try and get progressives into lesser positions, first - local government, state government, congress. Going straight for the presidency is a non-starter unless you can get the democratic party to buy in, which won’t happen. Putting progressives into office elsewhere, especially if it forces the dems to start cooperating with them to pass policy, is an easier and more realistic starting point.
Maybe for some folks…
Giving the statues “an orange makeover” implies something a lot more permanent or at least harder to remove than high-vis vests. If someone tells you they “got a makeover”, when in reality what they did was change their shirt, would you not think that was a little disingenuous?
I’m not being critical of you, or the protest, to be clear, I just think the title is a poor representation of what happened.
I feel like this title is intentionally misleading, probably trying to draw parallels to the defacing of Stonehenge with orange powder.
They put orange high-vis vests on the statues. No damage was caused.
The geography is also a huge contributor. To protest something on a national scale needs significantly greater buy-in from the country as a whole than protesting something on a national scale in a European country. We have a huge amount of land area over here and with the exception of major cities, we’re very spread out.
Spain is one of the larger European countries, and is about 500k sq. km, as an example. The US is about 9.1 million sq. km.
Protests happen on local scales but they don’t make national news, only the really massive ones do, and those require a lot of coordination and time investment from the participants just to show up.
It’s all just framing, no? You could frame all of your examples of protesting to “improve something” as protesting against something, and vice versa.
Protesting for improved living conditions is just protesting against poor living conditions. Protesting for higher wages is protesting against low wages. Protesting for lower tuition costs is protesting against high tuition.
Protests by definition are an action objecting to a thing. What are you seeing happen in other countries that’s so different to what’s happening here, when you don’t selectively frame it as “for” a cause rather than “against” a thing?
I’d hardly describe this as the product of a ‘great mind’, but I do think it’s important to discuss alternative ways of doing things. There’s some good reasons voiced here for why this (as written) is impractical, and it sounds like a solution with similar goals but better implementation is in the works, so that’s great to see. My favorite thing about Lemmy is that you can post something a bit out there like this and have a legitimate discussion about it; if this were Reddit, it’d have 400 downvotes and a bunch of replies telling me to kill myself, and that’d be the end of it.
Yeah, and I mean, he had a manifesto, and wrote a targeted message on his shell casings… this clearly wasn’t spur of the moment.