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So is support for abortion, but what party is passing anti choice laws?? Don't make the mistake of excusing those who vote for fascists because they claim not to support the things republicans do in office... That is the issue of centrists.
Missing the only important bit because of some polls. What they do. The laws they pass. I do not care what republican voters say they support in a poll. If you vote for republicans you vote for evil, for death. From ectopic pregnancies of those who can't access medical care to excessive covid deaths, eg medical workers who got it from the maskless hog who ended up in their ER. Republican voters are not excusable people because they say they support some less than evil shit sometimes in polls.
If you can recognize the need to at the end of the day be pragmatic why do you give a fuck what the polls say they support? The only thing that matters is what those in power do. And republicans are going after something ~70% of the public support in birth control access. So i don't care what they say they support. The fascists they vote for do evil.
>I don't have to reduce all of reality to some Manichean conflict between good and evil.
Again this hand wavey platitude acts like I'm not talking about a material reality. A real political party. One that empowers climate change denial, vaccine denial, voting rights restrictions, bans on women's medical autonomy, trans discrimination, book bans, etc etc etc I could go on. This is not some philosophical exercise on good vs evil this is a cold hard recognition of the material evil that the conservatives are in the US. That said to be clear I make no statement on any conservative s/ism outside of the US.
The first issue I take with your comment. Politics is not a religion you need be fervently impassioned about, it's making a pragmatic choice.
Especially in the US, that means choosing between two corporatists, agreed. But this gives me very big "a lefty was mean to me on twitter and THAT'S why i vote for fascists now" vibes. I don't care what their ties to wall street are. I care which party is the better option for the working class. Which support things like a stronger NLRB? When you stop with the religious purity bs you can ask material questions about who is better for X. And the answer is always democrats if the X is anything but "the .1%".
>I am more centrist on social issues, in that I share mainstream opinions on gay rights, etc (I've always supported gay marriage)
Ok, you must be longggg out of politics or playing glib here. Supporting gay rights is NOT centrist. One party supports gay rights, the other is burning and banning books that mention gay people existing and calling trans people groomers. This is what i mean when I call centrism fucking evil. The sides are NOT comparable.
Saying "durrr but dey both take money so samsies???" is so ignorant and vacuous a statement as to be malicious from someone who has SEEN a college, which I presume most people here have.
>It's not great if you think I'm the big evil supremely ignorant person that you think is an enemy in sheep's clothing
Big evil? Nah, probably not.
>supremely ignorant
Yeah. Much more likely you are. If you think supporting gay rights is a "centrist" position, you are not paying attention.
>Brandishing people with whom you presumably have much in common as evil makes it difficult to build a majoritarian political coalition.
No, the literal fucking fascists in our midst gutting the voting rights act, removing polling stations in democratic counties (look up harris county voting), gerrymandering to the point 65% votes gets you 35% of the legislature, trying to literally stage a fucking coup, deny vaccines, climate science, etc etc etc, are the f'ing problem. If you are a centrist comparing them, you are complicit in their fascism, or supremely ignorant. Which are you?
Do you think that is a sensible allocation of ANY resource??? Don't suck off a boot just to be a contrarian.
Disgusting to me to see people on this forum of normally highly intelligent people comparing in any degree the side that tried to over throw democracy, denies basic science from vaccines to climate, is against voter rights like mail in ballots/accessible polling stations, against women's and gay rights, with the democrats, even with all their problems. Frankly it is straight evil, or supremely ignorant at best to do so.
Enlightened centrism is indeed a fog used to hide conservatism though, just like "libertarian", "centrist", and "independent" (in the US), but you have to be careful calling out centrism on this forum.
Side B: Puts net neutrality in place.
You: "It's not clear to me how these are different."
Seriously? You have to be kidding or downright silly to be an enlightened centrist in this situation.
If your objective is to get only first hand accounts, sure. But like wikipedia it's good as a source to find where to look deeper. I disagree there's zero value there. I often use it to generate a few things I go look at more serious sources for. Surely that's some value when web search's well has been well (heh) poisoned by ads?
>Do you understand why you should not cite wikipedia
If you find the primary source through wikipedia, did wikipedia provide "zero value as a source"? I don't think so. Bad analogy I suppose - I meant like how wikipedia was seen as not trustworthy to use even if you just used it to find the primary sources. I guess I should've said "use as a source" wikipedia not "cite" it.
Hilarious comment if serious. Do you think women who chose to do onlyfans were making good money in whatever job they were doing before that?[0]
How much money do you think gardeners make? Perhaps one of the most comically out of touch statements I've ever seen. Up there with "what could a banana cost michael, 10$?"
>Learning about fifth-century Roman society may be instructive
Like their countless famously failed attempts to police morality? From augustus imposing the lex julia for adultery only to have the law laughed at because he fucked anything that moved? To the early christian empires acting like worshipping the wrong god was treason. Moral policing is and has always been a farce at best, a vector for general oppression at worst. See: Iran women's protests.
How about you penalize parents lack of parenting their children before you start moral policing other people's lives. Silly that any adult is going to get barriers put up in their way to protect and do the job of some reckless parents who shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Insane policy. Pornhub should be responsible for the content the 12 children you thoughtlessly popped out see on the internet???
Maybe pay people more and provide universal child care and reduce the gilded age inequality that requires both parents work to the bone to provide for a kid in the first place? Maybe then they wouldn't be so inclined to pawn their children off on the internet and then go around on moral crusades because they decide legislators need to parent for them while they work.
[0]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brianna-co...
>an additional $8,000 to $10,000 every month from her OnlyFans earnings, in addition to her $42,000 annual salary as a teacher
I'd wager people aren't likely to be as methodical in their analysis of comments' verity on this topic as they might be normally. I thought US politics was polarizing, israel palestine legit seems to drive people to even further extremes
Exactly to a T how I feel about Khanmigo. I pay for it because I love the idea of a maths tutor in my pocket that wont make me feel stupid, even if by accident, for forgetting something simple.
But there's a "battery" that resets every day and it just makes me anxious. I'd easily pay 50-100$/m instead of 10/m I already pay if I could get unlimited access but there's just no option for that.
If anyone has any recommendations for something like Khanmigo with unlimited access please please let me know. I'd pay so much for a good personal private tutor in my pocket. For maths if that helps.
Idk, maybe start with the 8 people who own more wealth than 3.6 billion people combined? 3 own more wealth than half the US. Probably freaking them?!? I really hope this is rhetorical.
>There's no overarching devious plan to enslave us all, here.
Of course not... Enslaving us is not the goal, just the best means to infinite wealth/power accumulation. The US is built on free labor, from slaves to the prison labor we use as slaves today.
>It's just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence and disinterest.
Laughably naive. You're describing the apathetic's contribution, the banality of the evil, not the people who really drive decisions who rely on that apathy.
[0]Fantastic discussion with Suleyman and Yuval Harari https://youtu.be/7JkPWHr7sTY
Would be a great idea! Your wish is granted! Only one catch. The only consequence they can actually level is an insignificant fine ~ 1% of the profit they've made violating the law. Oh, plus a pinky pwomise to not do it again after a finger wag, or they'll get real angry, and the fine will be UP TO a whopping FOUR percent of profits!!!
Seriously though, re offsite storage, one could encrypt all data locally and then offsite anywhere, right? Could be google drive for all you care.
Great analysis though, "blogspam" in video form is a fantastic metaphor for the over produced algo gamey vids. (Perfect length to hit max ads, thumbnail, title, intro template, etc)
>It's possible to explain the idea of feed-forward/backpropagation computation visually without having to dive into the math of matrix multiplication, and certainly in isolation from other CompSci theory.
Was a perfect summary of. The visuals are excellent too.[0]
[0]https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_...
the book Pegasus by laurent richard chronicles the challenges the journalists who brought us the pegasus leaked list with 50k + targets had to go through. Anyone who has grown cynical to journalism over time will be humbled by the death and terror that journalists endure to challenge regimes like SA or morocco. Pegasus was on jamal Kashoggi and his mistress(? iirc) phones.