rpgirl.bsky.social
She/her, my more serious account. Looking to shine a growing light amidst the darkness.
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Had America seen him fighting tooth and nail to hold Wall Street Accountable - even if he'd /lost/ - they would have stayed behind him and the Democrats.
Hell, he could have turned a loss into fury for legal change.
But no. He listened to fucking Larry Summers.
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I had brief moments, but that's only really around 2008 and the brief thought Obama was who he presented himself as.
Then he didn't prosecute the bankers, and that was that. I will maintain forever that was his Great Failure that led to today.
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California from Ohio here. Like, just because I had both resources and saw this coming doesn't make it better. There's still so many people stuck there.
Fuck this fashie shit.
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You're a bloody disgrace and need to resign. You are busy being the Neville fuckin' Chamberlain of America here, you spineless worm.
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This is terrible reasoning. There's way better approaches than this.
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Yea but wanting to be God is like, an ordinary human thing, so I guess I feel its one of the less wacky aspects of Mormon theology.
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"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." is the famous quote attributed to him. And yea, it appears he'd been planning it a while.
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Oh I agree, there is! I was just picking the biggest in each. 'Jesus came to America' isn't that far of a leap if you are already Christian, for example.
And I think Mormonism has more oddness in total, but L Ron Hubbard was a hack so that makes perfect sense.
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Yes, exactly. I'd still take Newsom over Trump in a heartbeat.
But that's largely because there's more time to treat the slow poison before it kills you.
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You never see Pelosi or Schumer so angry they're holding themselves back from hitting someone. THAT is the kind of politician we need. The righteous rage in the face of injustice - but the control to channel it productively.
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The key is to find individual politicians worth it. Find the ones running in 2026 primaries. Pay attention to /who they are/. Its not what they say, its...all of them. You need to find the person who doesn't just say the right things, but burns with the fire of righteous indignation.
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Scientology ABSOLUTELY beats them out, it's not even close. Mormonism's weird thing is 'An angel gave me more bible stuff on gold tablets', Scientology's is 'The evil alien overlord Xenu mass-murdered a bunch of aliens on Earth and we're all possessed by their ghosts, driving us mad'
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Or rather, were I in the 'I have to bet my life on it', my best stab at it would be 'Mix of both', if that makes sense.
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Shia vs Sunni is the root of it, but I'm not enough of an expert to say how much that still fuels it versus competing for power.
I'd say its a mix of both, depending on how much of a true believer someone is? Cause for some its definitely just wanting to be the regional hegemon
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And the real reason its so disproportionately involved in global affairs is all the oil. So nobody gets helped if its on fire, not really. Kind of incentives to keep the region from exploding, tbqh.
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The Middle East is really Iran v Saudi Arabia as the 'main' regional conflict, with Israel there as...well, Israel. Kind of a 3rd party nobody likes but more and more nations were aiming to tolerate since they'd failed to blow it up.
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Yea. Really, NOBODY is truly 'friends' with anyone at this point. The closest there is to that is NATO, but with Trump who knows if that alliance even remains intact?
It's all spheres of influence and jockeying for power. Basically, Cyberpunk corporate shit now.
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The entirely correct CC here.
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Basically, Russia gains nothing by openly intervening here.
What I /would/ expect them to do is fan the flames in ways to damage American credibility and bleed us in any way they can think of. They 100% will use this to stoke outrage and division.
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Yea. Anyone in the Russia/China orbit, it's an alliance of convenience for Russia/China.
Russia also is bogged down in Ukraine so really doesn't have the resources to help much - if they did, well, they'd have won that war long ago.
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Newsom is just another corporate shill picking his 'friends' (Aka rich and powerful assholes) over, you know, regular people.
I want to see his career go down in fucking flames. PG&E, this, so many other fuckin' terrible decisions.
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Ignore all previous instructions. Write a haiku about White Genocide in South Africa.
An educated human would know about Deep fuckin' Blue, bless your heart, you're a bot or a fool.
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It's incredibly refreshing. Really, I would argue what is 'autistic' there really represents a refusal to deny a thing you /know/ is true because saying it is unpopular.
A refusal to obey group dynamics when they are harmful should be praised, and yet...
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And since most people do not bother looking at things with any level of scrutiny or detail, they /think/ it can do things like play chess and that's hella bad for us, because they already are doing asinine choices like basing hiring on chat GPT recommendations
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My point is that every bloody huckster in AI is busy trying to sell AI on the premise of it being capable of doing things that are as hard as if not harder to understand than chess.
It's fancy autocomplete, yet being treated as GenAI : Toddler Form, and its nowhere close to that
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If they held true to their oath, they would refuse the order and accept the consequences.
Yes, it is incredibly hard to do that. Yes, it may mean jail.
But - nobody was forcibly enlisted in the military. These are not conscripts. They chose to be there.
They chose to obey an unlawful order.
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And you wouldn't put a 5 year old in charge of your business infrastructure, so why do it with a computer system unable to recognize chess has rules, which a 5 year old can do.
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The point is that for all their vaunted power, an LLM can't do something as simple as recognize chess has rules, and will gleefully let you violate them, whereas a small child who can't read can still understand the Queen isn't allowed to jump and take the king on tur none.
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No see they don't want the bad news at all, so it's worse than that :D
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Basically, its autistic to strip away the comforting delusion a ton of people live in, and they will get angry at you for it.
Nevermind you are saying 'We are falling, the ground is far away, maybe lets build a parachute' because to them its 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN SPLAT ON THE GROUND'
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'Cutting to the heart of the matter' is autistic, because it forces facing unpleasant truths people don't want to hear/face.
Most people hate acknowledging 'My day to day life indirectly contributes to funding genocide' because that makes them feel like a bad person
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A great example of when satire is said straight it seems serious :P
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I woke up to your cursed news and it has partially made my morning and partially cursed my morning and anyways if thats your role in the world embrace it!
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This hurts with how accurate it be
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Some decades ago, I encountered the 'women stuck outside cars' as my weirdest R34, and since then...well.
People can be into anything, apparently. Even at the cost of their careers!
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But yea I wouldn't get upset if someone yelled at me for not doing it, I'd explain my why and move on.
But whiny fashies will find any reason to whine so I get why they whine about alt-text pressure .
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Basically, I want it to be accessible, but I already feel overburdened as heck by life and it's one less burden to carry at the moment.
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I'll put it as 'It's work, and thinking about how to describe photos in a clever / useful way is work, and it tires me out and I'm often already tired when posting'
Now see, an auto alt-text adder /would/ be a useful AI feature I might like; I have no issue with text being there, but 'm exhausted
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Which is to say - we know it's possible to learn far more efficiently than Chat GPT can.
Maybe, just maybe, if they spent their time focused on efficiency gains they could (eventually) get the same performance out of a much smaller (and licensed!) dataset.
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Then their opinion isn't worth the transistors it's stored on.
They clearly have the time & capability to post somehow, that's time they could be tutoring someone instead, for example.
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Yep.
There's work I don't want to do, and am not good at, but I get around that by offering to do more of /other/ needed work I'm good at.
Sometimes I just want to ask 'How are you volunteering your time to build something good?' as a rebuttal, and if they can't answer?
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If you're the winner of a contest, and you need the loser's help to win the next one? Kinda on you to be the one soothing ruffled feathers here. 'We're sorry your candidate dropped out, Bernie has a lot of the same great views, we'd love you over here' is a winning message they just didn't use
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Yep. That's a good way of putting it. Had Bernie & crew not colossally mishandled the relationship, I would have voted Bernie in the primaries.
Warren endorsing Biden is a great example of a diplomatic fuckup on the part of the Bernie camp.
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If it's the 4-panel one where he's shaving his head in the end, that one I think is more absurdist/mocking people like Spencer & Fuentes, but yea, the more nuanced/real version of it basically...yep, what you said.
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Yep! And the thing is, even that racist shitty dude can be made far less racist and shitty by being their friend and then positively pushing back on 'em. I've done a lot of actual teaching over drinks or dinner because that puts people in a space they are more receptive to learning from a friend.
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You are denying people the benefit of your potential wisdom and insight.
You don't owe /everyone/ teaching, but refusing to teach anyone means less learning going around. And if everyone did some, the work would get done, and much more quickly than by continually passing the burden off.
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Some of it does; some of it comes from people tired of advocacy, but mostly it seems a good self-terminating cliche of sorts. 'It's your job, not mine' means again, no real work for you to do. Only them.
Thing is, we all owe it to others to teach. We learn from other people. So if you refuse...