I imagine early intervention helps, but right-wing (ie: authoritarian) people don’t want to invest in quality education. Not the kind with a good teacher-student ratio and time spent on social skills.

People were saying “but if you arrest the Republicans for crimes, they’ll put you in camps when they get power back!”. Now we have camps.

They’re going to be evil no matter what. Might as well try to break their spine while you can.

I guess it’s only a few highly visible billionaires who seem colossally stupid.

Is authoritarianism also cluster b? There are a lot of people who seem to get off on being part of the group. Like, it brings them chemical joy to be screaming in a crowd about how that other group of people need to die. Those people kind of suck, too.

I don’t think every maga hat is a narcissist, but a lot of them are trash humans who value their in-group feelings of solidarity over everything else.

Basic income for poor people: lazy people want a handout

Government backed interest account for rich people: perfectly reasonable.

It is an interesting point. Many people don’t care about facts. They care about feelings and what their in-group believes. I don’t think facts should be completely discarded, but they are not the most effective way of convincing people.

I’m pretty sure Wikipedia isn’t a government entity and thus not subject to whatever their fever dream is. Republicans are the worst, and many of them are quite stupid as well

Too many people are class traitors and useful idiots

Is meta going to face any consequences? Probably not. Seems unjust.

People are emotional creatures. Some people are almost exclusively driven by emotions. Amusingly, it’s usually the right wing saying “facts don’t care about your feelings”, because everything from them is projection

Nice! I installed Mint on someone’s old MacBook recently and so far so good. No complaints.

Maybe, but the bug report was it was showing them in the “wrong order” in the UI. I could look at the API response but then I need to map that to what’s displayed somehow. I think I used the dev tools to run js on the page to get the actual dates in one go (since that was in the dom), but that kind of sucks. A customer certainly isn’t going to do that. They see a bunch of stuff that all says “yesterday” or “two weeks ago” and they need to do extra work to get information that we went out of our way to hide.

At work I had a page with 50 “friendly” dates and I had to figure out with ones were wrong. They all said like “yesterday”. Hell. Could have hovered over each one and taken notes, I guess, but that would suck. Had to use the dev tools and do a lot more thinking than just looking at them.

When Facebook or openai or whoever is like “oh we didn’t mean for this consequence of our decisions” is that supposed to be an acquittal? If you make a machine that shoots rusty nails out sometimes, and you know this, and it kills people, that’s still some sort of crime or civil suit.

I kind of despise relative time. You see a bunch of stuff that says “yesterday” but can’t tell exactly when without taking more actions. Just tell me the date time I’m not a child.

Can I get a writeup for those of us who can’t watch videos right now?

If I’m out of my home for a day my cat comes running to the door meowing when I return. Then he paces around for a while, but if I sit on the couch he’ll join me.

The entirety of conservatism is “there must be in groups for laws to protect but not bind, and out groups for laws to bind but not protect”. That’s pretty much it. Everything else follows from that. Facts don’t matter. Consistency doesn’t matter. They are shitty people. Cartoon villains

It’s not equating it with Auschwitz! You said, quote, There is no line in finding a job. No line! That’s a bold claim! So I picked a very extreme example to demonstrate that there, hopefully, is a line. It’s not equating AI to Auschwitz. It’s saying that your claim, that there is no line and you should work any job for money, is false. Once we establish that, we can then go into details about AI and where that falls. Please. Please understand how this line of reasoning works. We weren’t even talking about AI specifically yet in this sub-thread.

Your entire group’s reaction to my post was one of attack and derision, so I am well aware of where you all stand wrt to empathy.

This is funny because your opening here was calling us idiots in an echo chamber.

That wasn’t the argument nor the question. The question is where do you draw the line. I gave an extreme example I assumed is on the far side of your line. Once we have that, we can do like a binary search and try to find it. Come on, man.