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It's funny how certain things feel a lot easier than others. Long colored hair, nail polish, eyeliner, even lipstick haven't been too hard but jewelry and any remotely lady-ish top makes me hella self conscious. And I live in Portland, where none of this is unusual
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Instant Pot has tons of competition now, this is desperation
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I tried to guess what this would sound like from the piano intro and the singing was much worse than I imagined in my head. I was expecting more of a gooey Ed Sheeran
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Left media and activists need to work harder on highlighting victories won by allied politicians as well as pushing for more. It is bad that US progressives often believe that the Democrats have moved right over the past several decades, for instance. It is a narrative of permanent failure
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This definitely feels like a "you will end up spit-roasted [not in the good way]" kind of profile
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Me too
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(Me hating a thing that he did isn't necessarily the same as it being the wrong thing to do. I will never and should never be President of the United States)
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I have never been a huge fan of Obama and I could list off things he did I hated for hours and it is simply not meaningful to talk about him as "evil" in the same sense that Donald Trump is evil
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He gave a speech where he said it made him sad when young black men are shot and millions of people turned into Nazis overnight
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Right, but he didn't go out and bang people on the head and tell them everything he was doing to empty out Gitmo, which means 1) he was actually able to get stuff done without being totally blocked by congress and 2) most people think he didn't do anything at all
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Successful protests either have a very specific goal or a very general one -- trying to organize mass action around a concrete agenda is doomed to failure. "Down with this asshole" is what gets people on the streets. Activists need to be working in other venues if they want something to come of it
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Clarence Boddicker Leftism
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I think I may have seen this from you originally
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I have it on good authority that 12 million Americans marched against Trump yesterday¹
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The last paragraph is almost entirely things that are _more_ democratic than the status quo, other than the low participation (which isn't the fault of the new system).
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"Trump might even come out a bit better than [Biden]" is a foolish thing to say
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OpenAI has been especially shitty when it comes to safety but it's not like they haven't taken measures to avoid situations like this, even if only to avoid ugly headlines. It's just that LLMs have an incredibly broad attack surface and there's tons of people working hard to exploit them
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I'm not sure if it's mentioned in this article but from what I've read a lot of people doing this kind of thing are jailbreaking the LLM's system prompt in the first place. There's tons of info online about how to do this and people do it for pretty mundane reasons like roleplay (even non-explicit)
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I sympathize, I have short legs, a long torso, skinny arms and legs, and most of my weight is concentrated around my hips and lower belly. Approximately nothing off the shelf fits me right and custom fitting/tailoring is $$$$
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This is particularly funny in a thread that is about leftists pissing and moaning about too many liberals being at anti-fascist rallies
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Revolutionary leftists can do their own thing while also making common cause with liberals to fight fascism
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The sideways mugging at "do-it-yourselfers or fly-by-night handymen" made me laugh so hard I had to rewind
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🌏🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
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I have gotten those but it's weirdly inconsistent who does them and when. I get many fewer father's day emails in the first place though
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I should get around to playing this
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I feel like people are coming around to this position, to the point that I'm more surprised when I see someone expressing the opposite. The synthesis of these positions is that the VA overshoots the mark a bit even for an intentional fake laugh
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The memorable FF8 moment for me is the whole space visit. It feels like a fever dream
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The first act of Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, up through the Swamp of Gorlab. There's a few cool things later in the game, but that's when it, too, gets Obsidian Disease (and Obsidian didn't even exist yet!)
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The trial in Neverwinter Nights 2. The game overall is fine, it just has Obsidian Disease, but the trial is Obsidian at its best.
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HBD to one of my fave posters, hope this year's a good one!
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American greatness has everything to do with what happened in thousands of cities and towns today and almost nothing to do with the pathetic display in the nation's capital
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Hey, you should put a content warning on explicit filth like this
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I really hope so, because otherwise I think we might get conquered soon
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I am absolutely baffled that Mr. "Central Casting" didn't insist on John Philip Sousa
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A song about corrupt men who would tell any lie to get what they want, huh
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I saw someone citing the recent vote to remove undocumented immigrants from MinnesotaCare, which was... a deal that Walz was involved in making and had agreed to sign
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who chops up the tasks and ensures they all get done
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I do not believe it is possible for _groups_ of people to cooperate in any meaningful way that does not result in persistent delegation of responsibility. And that is the seed of government
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Walz has no choice but to say this. It is his duty. People then need to make their own risk analysis about attending.
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The moment you form sustained social and economic obligations between those small social units you have created a larger social unit that requires its own regulatory processes distinct from those used by the constituents
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It's not the police force I'm counting on, it's the large-scale industrialized society
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I don't think a world of sixty or seventy million communal bands can exist, nor do I think I would want to live in such a world. The viability of anarchism as an organizing principle for society relies on a solution to that problem, as far as I'm concerned
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I rate "ability not to be brutally subjugated by neighbors" pretty highly when evaluating ways of organizing a society, yeah
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Basically the only concrete thing Jeffries can do is call for an investigation, and it is reasonable and desirable for national Dems to let Walz take the lead on this. Both because it's his job and he can handle it, and because we do not want Kash Patel's FBI involved any more than necessary
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Right, this fits with my expectations (tiny, culturally and ethnically homogenous, barely survived extermination by larger neighbors within the past 25 years). Very small societies can enforce rules by consensus, certainly
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Here last year they referred to the "MN Democratic Party Chair" www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/p...
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I don't remember this but I already thought he was the dumbest guy ever and this is actually the dumbest thing I've seen him say