Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
Centrism is what gets large numbers of votes.
Obviously I hope that they’ll do well and make good decisions, but in a choice between a left-wing party that makes a principled stand but fails to secure power and a more centrist one that has more good ideas than bad on balance and does secure power to implement them I think the latter is preferable.
A leg up on running for president.
Or alternately you vote for Trump, either directly or by wasting votes on third-party candidates because the Democrats were insufficiently compelling.
Yes, I know it’s idiotic. But a lot of the American electorate are idiots, or more charitably are not familiar with the game theory behind all this stuff. The Democrats do need to learn how to get the support of those people.
Especially since whoever’s VP in Biden’s next term would have a big leg up on running for president in 2028.
I suspect it’s probably too late for the Democrats to switch horses now, but I hope that this finally pile-drives some smidgen of a lesson into them that they need to actually try to win elections rather than just assume that since they’re not crazy or evil like the Republican candidates people will naturally prefer them. They need to pick candidates that the people like and put in the effort to run those candidates well.
There’s still five months until the election, there’s plenty that Biden can do between now and then to show people that he’s a good choice. And then maybe this time once it’s all over the Democratic Party can do a major rethink of what exactly they’re doing with all this. Like they should have the last time they ran a candidate against Trump that they thought simply “deserved” to win.
Cloaks are actually quite historical, they’re very easy to make and useful in a variety of conditions.
When you delve into the details of what those bullet points actually entailed, they were all far far worse in medieval times.
Would be nice if SCOTUS had defined what “official acts” actually were.
His wrist would break, but it might be worth it.
I suppose Biden could have him officially assassinated. That’s legal now.
If one needs to modify corporate behaviour I did mention regulations as one way to do it.
It’s not meant to be a good thought or a bad one, just a description of how things work. If you want the customers of this company to change their mind then you’ll need to direct your own arguments and/or “propaganda” (as it will likely be perceived by some) at those customers and outdo what they’re being fed by opposing groups.
Did take companies long to stop pretending like they care.
Of course they care, they care about what their customers think because that’s where their money comes from. This is just how corporations work, and it would have the opposite outcome if their customer base wanted those goals of theirs.
If you want corporations to change then convince them that they’ll make more money that way, by whatever means. Through customer preferences, regulations, etc. Don’t expect a corporation to “do what’s right because it’s right,” any more than you should expect a shark to “do what’s right.” It’s not designed that way.
And sometimes that’s exactly what I want, too. I use LLMs like ChatGPT when brainstorming and fleshing out fictional scenarios for tabletop roleplaying games, for example, and in those situations coming up with plausible nonsense is specifically the job at hand. I wouldn’t want to go “ChatGPT, I need a description of the interior of a wizard’s tower is like” and get the response “I don’t know what the interior of a wizard’s tower is like.”
Yup. Fortunately unsubscribing from politics subreddits is generally advisable whether one has been banned from them or not.
Being slightly wrong means more of an endorphin rush when people realize they can pounce on the flaw they’ve spotted, I guess.
Don’t sweat downvotes, they’re especially meaningless on the Fediverse. I happen to like a number of applications for AI technology and cryptocurrency, so I’ve certainly collected quite a few of those and I’m still doing okay. :)
There was a politics subreddit I was on that had a “downvoting is not allowed” rule. There’s literally no way to tell who’s downvoting on Reddit, or even if downvoting is happening if it’s not enough to go below 0 or trigger the “controversial” indicator.
I got permabanned from that subreddit when someone who’d said something offensive asked “why am I being downvoted???” And I tried to explain to them why that was the case. No trial, one million years dungeon, all modmail ignored. I guess they don’t get to enforce that rule often and so leapt at the opportunity to find an excuse.
Downvotes for not getting it right, I presume.
Which makes me concerned that the “Hole for Pepnis” answer has so many upvotes.
Those holes look open to me.
I mainly use LLMs as a programming assistant, as a brainstorming buddy and creative assistant while working on adventures for the tabletop roleplaying campaigns I run, and as a search result summarizer/interpreter over at Bing for the sorts of generic queries I used to use Google for.