galenr.bsky.social
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They're not. They can't hear you over all the tinny phone speakers.
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I’m still conditioned to giggle anytime someone comes to a TF comic and is described as a “superstar” but in this case it might actually apply.
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That movie’s designs were so incredible. Even the ones I don’t like are still unique and have a ton of story-aligned personality built in (e.g. Crimson Typhoon)
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I still can’t believe that just seeing how shitty things went here made like a 25 point swing in your elections within like a week or two. I mean that’s just incredible.
If only we could learn our own lessons. But at least someone benefitted.
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Looks like that’s the Miller-Coors version of Canada. I’ll have some Labatt Blue, the Anheuser-Busch InBev version of Canada, later in solidarity.
Sorry nationalist assholes are a problem up there too.
I say as I brace myself for next week and Lee Greenwood and star-spangled burgers and whatnot.
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Later like today? Or later like "soon"?
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The not-blueness of those legs is going to give some people fits!
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The 2003 US invasion of Iraq enjoyed as high as 79% approval in May of that year. Good luck finding any of those people today.
79%! That is not a small number!
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I still think Perceptor should have also included an opaque Rewind. Otherwise looks good!
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This was both an aha and an ohno for me. Thank you.
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Better too many boxes than not enough. Flashback to Earthrise Prowl/Ironhide when Amazon just slapped a mailing label onto the figures’ box.
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archive.org or 12ft.io takes care of that in almost all cases.
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It’s only trouble if they’re a young-earther. In which case it’s good trouble AND hilarious.
So no, no objections.
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I’m just pointing out too many who clearly know to be appropriately skeptical of humans aren’t transferring that to llms and give them too much deference.
I was definitely not intending to imply putting llms into places where human creativity is good!
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We should treat LLMs a bit MORE like humans.
We all know someone who lies too much but does so with full and correct sentences. We know to use them for the right job (e.g., fiction writers) or to be very skeptical and maybe not rely only on what they tell us.
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Add an unaccountable armed action man to a situation: could the situation improve? If yes, call!
If no, think really hard about how else you can respond instead. (6/6)
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And adding cops, even in cases where they should be called, will not always result in the situation improving. See, for example, Uvalde.
Not calling cops would’ve been bad there. It wasn’t improved by adding them either, but could have been. (5/x)
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But a lot of times the answer is no. Adding uninformed twitchy armed people whose livelihoods depend on justifying arrests and convictions as their primary job assessment criteria is bad. (4/x)
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A lot of times the answer is yes, if someone’s in immediate danger, things are on fire, a school shooting in progress, there’s some chaos erupting and a single focal point of forceful control can get everyone else to calm the hell down? Sure! Dial 9-1-1! (3/x)
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Seeing a lot of talk about whether/when to call police and a lot of it is focused on specific types of situations. This is a lot simpler. (2/x)
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Real toy company energy. The nerve.
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Typed into the posting field instead of the search bar.
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Products FOR or products OF?
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But…where’s the monkey chair?
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But he's right, it's why Himmler was so successful and a great partner following WW2.
...hold on just gonna look it up to be sure real quick and... Oh, wow. Ok, none of that! Interesting what really happened.
My enemy's enemy can still be my enemy: a nazi on fuhrer's bad side is still a nazi.
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Seriously. This is a few generations for them. This family has become their Kennedys.
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Reverse! Of the two, Gin Blossoms is the reason I’d want a ticket.
I agree it clunked a bit but I figured it was the tv talk show format where almost everything sounds worse than it should. I assume the concert would be fewer mashups.
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Were you bitten by a radioactive bureaucrat? How did you gain astounding superhuman power such as this?
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Thank you! And went for the guns first thing too. Just wow.
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"Libertarians are just Republicans who like weed." It's nice to know the kids today can still play the classics.
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What's the name of the vendor, so we can recommend to our own local governments/companies to not contract with them since clearly they're willing to breach the trust and security of their clients?
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I've always liked the term "aspiring ally" for this reason. I'm trying but it's not up to me to decide whether/when I've done "enough."
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Democrats should run to the left. Run their values. Highlight differences they want to make. Energize and turnout their own base. Leave the right in the cold completely. But don't torch the left to try and warm the center.
Stop trying to persuade unpersuadable people. (6/6)
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We're basically in a prisoner's dilemma where one side will ALWAYS defect. In a game with one side always defecting, you CANNOT cooperate at all. It simply isn't possible. (5/)
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For modern times, I'd pin this on the 2013 GOP autopsy following the 2012 election - a blueprint for better outreach and persuasion. And it was roundly rejected by the party and its supporters. Republicans have ONLY gone for base appeal and turnout since. It's hard to argue with the results. (4/)
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In 2024, absolutely no one was going to be convinced by Liz Cheney's endorsement of a democrat. Democrats didn't get so stupid and mean as to interest republicans, but by courting Cheney and other right wingers, their left wing supporters and centrist observers sure noticed. Many stayed home. (3/)
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To persuade someone to be less stupid and cruel and come to your side means changing yourself to be at least a bit stupid and/or cruel to get their attention. The degree to which that must be done, even if not *that* much, will still be noticed and rejected by supporters. (2/)