Doesn’t really counter anything I said in my comment, so I stand with what I said. I won’t complain if war profiteers want to self-sabotage.

Simpler explanation: Trump is a fascist, and wants more power. Having more territory means having more power.

The comment I was replying to insinuated that Russian propaganda was the primary if not only factor. Which is, again, ridiculous. Besides, as far as I’m concerned, Russian propaganda is an excuse used to prevent people from realizing how many of our problems have a domestic source, and that our government is and has been insanely terrible for a long time. Is it there? Sure, but it’s far from the biggest issue. Capitalism is an excellent incubator for fascism all by itself, and you don’t need an outside push to make the decay hit.

Personally, I’d rather more countries stop fucking around with LLMs generally, thanks!

This is honestly such a stupid goddamn thing to compete over. Maybe I should be thankful in that regard, then, since it keeps the U.S. and China’s ridiculous dick-swinging contest more focused on areas that don’t actually matter, rather than weapons development programs that are eager to ruin our rights and our lives all the more.

Kill a billionaire, another takes his place. You have to make systemic change in order to actually remove billionaires from the equation. That requires a lot more than a bullet. Organizing will always be more effective.

This is exactly what I do, and I think it’s honestly a very healthy way to engage with that kind of content. If you find someone you like, and/or who has a lot of overlap on preferences, then that’s a great way to get an idea for how much you’d like a game.

Hell, even if you don’t tend to prefer the same things, if the person reviewing is sufficiently passionate or entertaining, you can still develop an appreciation for why someone else likes what they do. I’ve absolutely struggled trying to get into Fallout: New Vegas for a variety of reasons, but I still respect it a lot because Hbomberguy had a very compelling video on what he liked about it.

Fascist rhetoric does not require Russian propaganda to spread. If you feel this way because right-wing talking points and Russia tend to line up, that’s because Russia’s government is terribly right-wing and has been for decades. But correlation is not causation. Blaming Russia for its own fascist trending is perfectly correct; blaming the country for everyone’s fascism problems is ridiculous.

Personally, I really dislike thinking like this. Blaming Russia for everything distracts us from problems our own countries made all on their own. It’s an overly-simplistic answer to a complicated and wide-reaching set of problems, and prevents us from properly thinking about those issues.

Someone being fired and replaced by someone else is not inherently wrong, and that doesn’t change at all whether they’re an immigrant or not. What you seem to be complaining about is the practice of companies doing so specifically so that they can get a cheaper worker who can be abused more, or doing so when the original employee had done nothing wrong; however, phrasing this as “an H1B visa holder is working a job that should be occupied by a domestic worker” is the absolute wrong way to go about it, because this makes it sound as though an immigrant having a job is fundamentally less worthwhile than a citizen having it.

Why are you singling out one small part of their comment to the exclusion of the rest?

That’s the fault of the employer, not immigrants. Immigrants having jobs is never the issue.

A friendly reminder to everybody here that the problem with this is not that “H-1B immigrants have the job instead,” but that “H-1B immigrants can be easily abused via deportation threats.”

It’s an easy thing to forget when you’ve got headlines like this one that subtly phrase this scenario (intentionally or not) as though it’s the “immigrants work here now” part that’s the problem. Were it that H-1B workers were properly protected, and citizens were given sufficient social safety nets and welfare programs to thrive despite this, there’d be no issue whatsoever.

The Cybertruck is very much an actual shitty thing that Tesla does. Sure, maybe they don’t literally “have a habit of exploding all on their own,” but I don’t think Gork was exactly trying to play off as an authority on the topic. Just mocking Cybertrucks being shit.

Nobody’s attacking EVs writ large, here. Just Elon and his awful ideas.

This has two issues with it that are sourced from the fact that most people here are likely from the States or similar. Namely:

1. How are we supposed to do anything about China or Russia? It’s anger for its own sake.
2. Criticism of the U.S. is unlikely to make Americans racist towards themselves. Sinophobia, meanwhile, is a real risk.

This aside, I personally am irritated by the quantity moreso than anything else. As I said elsewhere, it’s the same few users, and I find it obsessive. It stops sounding to me like “I want people to be aware of particular issues from China” and starts sounding to me like “I want to bombard people with all possible negativity about China until they hate everything related to the place as much as I do.”

Thanks to these folks, Beehaw virtually always has at least one post about China or Russia on its front page. Often several. Credit where it’s due; I’ve seen a pro-Palestine post here and there, which I appreciate. But Christ, I’m sick of the rest. Blocks are fair, but I feel like that just hides the issue rather than solving it. I feel like I’m seeing a propaganda mill in action, and I don’t like the idea of just ignoring it.

In what way is it meaningfully different? Does the intent of the creators of an LLM – a kind of system notorious for being a black box – fundamentally change the outcomes of what it says? It’s spouting propaganda either way.

Please don’t be deliberately obtuse. You can do better than that.

Condescending attitude aside, don’t bring up an irrelevant scenario if you don’t want me to point out its irrelevance.

Are we in a court?

Reading philosophy texts that were written a hundred years ago and haphazardly translated 75 years ago can be a challenge.

For a human, at that. I get that you feel it works for you, but personally, I would trust an LLM to understand it (insofar as that’s a thing they can do at all) even less.

There’s 2-3 users who post about China/Russia to an extraordinary degree. I could mention them here, but for the sake of avoiding potential harassment (however unlikely) I’d rather not publicly single them out. Suffice to say if you spend a decent amount of time here you probably know who they are.

I find it obsessive and obnoxious at best. At worst, I start to wonder if there are more accounts doing it than there are people behind them.

That’s a distinction without a difference.

Sorry, what? I don’t know where you think you are, but this site is pretty pro-Palestine. Even the pro-Israel people here don’t sound as insane as what you just said.

I really do not understand how you would manage to read my posts so poorly. Maybe you need to spend more time cooling off before you start writing, or maybe something’s going on in your life, I don’t know. I do not know you.

Either way, several of the things you mention here were once again huge misinterpretations of me or outright ignore things I’ve said, and it’s clearly not worth it trying to talk to you anymore. I can no longer trust in your interactions being in good faith. Goodbye.