Pierbattista Pizzaballa, I hope.

And that is not a joke, that is the legal name of the best cardinal for the job

That’s really easy. Never let go of the joy of learning, and take pride in admitting your mistakes.

It’s that simple. When you’re told there’s another way, your first reaction should be curiosity

I think in thoughts. It boggled my mind to learn this isn’t how everyone thinks

Like, I don’t have a running narrative in my head - words bubble up, but it’s just like muttering, just occasional words. I only try to put them into sentences when I’m talking or imagining talking - like everything I write.

I don’t read like this, which is part of why I’ll terrible with names - if I read a book, I don’t know how to say or spell a character’s name until I try

If I had to describe it, it’s like memories. If you think elephant, you might see an elephant, you might hear the word elephant - but on some level you also probably think about things related to the concept. Like memories of seeing an elephant, elephant facts, other African animals

That bundled concept is elephant to me - the word is how you say it, I can get the impression of looking at an elephant, I can hear their cry - but at the center of this web of details is an elephant

I build my thoughts by chaining these concepts together, and where they fit together is the main thread of the train of thought - I can then move my focus across this thread and the hanging threads to solve problems

Things just click together or they don’t

If you tell me you feel like an elephant (and I have no idea what that could mean) I’d take the two concepts and try to draw threads between them. I cycle through concepts that feel in between them - elephant in the room, large/imposing, unforgiving, powerful - these loosely fit from elephant to your mental state. And from the other side, ugly, isolated/seen as an outsider/problem, or maybe you mean you literally feel like an elephant in a human body

Threads link between them or they don’t, maybe I’m missing an intermediate concept I haven’t yet associated with either and I have no idea what you mean

And that’s how I think. If I had to link it to a sense, it’s like proprioception - I’m moving through my thoughts and linking together connections, but it’s my my own mind I’m moving through and around me

But ultimately, it’s not words - there are concepts I don’t know how to label, although words help me identify concepts

Press your middle finger against your thumb. Pull the middle finger down, but barely stop it with your thumb. Play with that hand movement

That’s wasteful and dangerous

Harvest the beast for batteries and GPUs

Well, at least it’s set for 1/1/2027. By then, free speech will be long gone anyways or we’ll have gotten our act together

I’m sick of this constant fight to stay in place. Fuck the Democrats, we need a party that will do more then slowly cowtow to the fascists

What do you mean? It’s a problem in your way, it takes how long it takes to get through it

I love the in between, where you have to actually adapt algorithms to useful situations

It’s like 2% of all the work I do, but those moments stick with me

But again, hacking is a tool when they want to go after something in particular - a single lemmy server is minuscule. Even the full scale of everyone on lemmy is a very small target… They might go after it if they have specific reason to, but they’re unlikely to do so when there’s plenty of work to be done on bigger platforms

Be careful what you say - don’t call for violence, definitely don’t make threats of violence against specific figures, especially ones in office, and as a general rule don’t spread personally identifying information

Past that? Let’s say there’s a crackdown. They’re going after low hanging fruit to instill fear. By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you

I wouldn’t worry too much. Dissatisfaction is insanely high… They’re more likely to do a great firewall and kill the fediverse long before they bother looking into lemmy accounts

I prefer the second picture, but angled back 30°

Yep… My first “career” job was for a mid sized company. In my onboarding they gave me my employee number but said “you’ll never need this, here you’re a name, not a number”. One time I emailed security saying I forgot my badge because it was with my lunch, and one of the founders called me up and gave me his prepackaged lunch because he said he usually doesn’t get through them all. When we closed a big deal, they called us all upstairs to have champagne during the workday. Our mission was unambiguously to help people

Then we got acquired… They gave me my new employee ID and told me I’d be using it for everything. They just milked our contracts and refused wages until we all left

And unfortunately, mid sized companies can give an equally good experience with much better pay and job security… But they’re being bought out to secure contracts and gutted at an insane rate.

It’s late stage capitalism… If you want to keep growing but you’ve already destroyed your ability to complete, buy them out to take over their contracts

Oh absolutely… There’s tons of petty tyrants out there too, which is different, but also bad or even worse. They might also be just staffing something just as soul crushing too, so it could just be worse in every regard

But small business means your boss is probably there to stay. Ideally, you meet the owner in your interview, often they’re the same person. But if you find someone loyal to their people, you can actually give them your loyalty and they’ll see you as a person

IDK if this would be viable with an H1 visa and I’ve seen many other options I’ll be looking into, but here’s what I normally tell people in this position: small businesses are built different

They’re harder to find, they usually don’t pay amazingly, but they’re way more human. It’s not all run through spread sheets, you work for humans who get to know you and (can sometimes) actually be like a family…(If they say that phrase it’s a red flag though)

It’s hit or miss, you likely would be working on legacy stuff or have to wear many hats… But it’s work where you know what you’re doing and who you’re doing it for

I mean, true, although I thought they were pretty upfront on wanting to produce the fuel in-house and specialize two reactor lines

Which, yeah, isn’t ideal… But if it works, they can’t patent an element. They won’t be able to monopolize the tech forever

It seems like a very elegant solution… If they can overcome the engineering challenges. There’s probably far better designs that could be made from the core idea

They’re different - when I say “brush” my tongue stays in the middle of my mouth against the bottom and the back spreads slightly on the r, when I say “blush” it touches the top of my teeth before flicking down on the u

They’re slightly different phonemes, if you don’t hear it naturally it’s difficult. But if you focus hard enough on the details you can eventually learn to hear it - you have to listen intently to the comparison over and over until you can hear the difference. From there, you can practice to make the sound yourself

I think the CIA has used them pretty extensively, but I don’t think they set them up directly

What the US did is force Mexico to join in on the drug war. We threatened to block all pharmaceuticals to Mexico if they didn’t ban marijuana, which they really didn’t want to do

He bowed out when he let Hilary take the nomination. He said as much. Dude has been tired for a while now… Watching the conflict in his eyes while he was practically mouthing the words to Biden’s speeches was heart crushing

If we had another Bernie, we’d rally behind them. That’s what Bernie wants, that’s what America wants, and the closest we have is AOC… Who is great, but at least a decade too young to take his place. Optics are what they are, no matter how stupid they may be… And the Democratic party really loves the idea of seniority and waiting your turn

He’s back in the spotlight because he has to be. He has to be because he has too much integrity to say “fuck it” and just retire. He wants to, he deserves it, but his county needs him

We need a leader for the transition to a better progressive party…I hope he can hang on to be that for us, because we don’t have a replacement

The idea is they’re marketable worker replacements

If you have a call center you want to switch to ai, it’s easy though to make them pull up relevant info. It’s harder to stop them from being misused

If your call center gets slammed for using racial slurs, that’s an issue

Remember, they’re trying to sell AI as drop in worker replacement

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