I mean, it’s not like Amnesty Internation regularly criticizes the US, especially in the current situation. But oh, it said something against the CCP, I guess it must be bad.

Shit, you blew my cover!!! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck what am I going to do with my life 😭😭😭

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Said it in another thread, I have yet to meet a strong advocate for LLMs that isn’t a cunt.

I know someone who is very convinced of LLMs, and while I have strong disagreements with her in that topic, she definitely isn’t a cunt.

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OK, I was actually asking about accidental things, but this is pretty neat.

Ah OK, I guess the lines part was what I was missing. I guess without any straight lines the probability of something like that containing something offensive drops pretty low.

I’m sure it would be possible to do it on purpose, I’m thinking more of the scenario of a company pumping out thousands of different QR codes and one of them accidentally having something offensive on it.

TACO in 3, 2, 1…

Multiple reasons.

1. As is always the case when fascism, authoritarianism or similar takes over, things happen slowly, and there’s a reason for that: humans notice fast changes very quickly, but not necessarily slow changes. They didn’t start building these concentration camps yesterday. This has been going on for a while.

2. Because at least right now, there isn’t the stated goal of keeping people there, but just keeping them there in the intermediate term. We all know where this is going, but it does make it a little more difficult to use that term.

3. The Trump administration has a habit of suing the press. This has already had a chilling effect. See CBS, BBC, and I think ABC as well. They have decided that it does not make sense financially to fight it, and there are probably a number of lawyers much smarter than I who know what they’re talking about. And since most major news sources are profit-driven and public broadcasting is chronically underfunded, that’s all you get.

4. The word “concentration camp” often gets confused with the word “death camp”, and we have failed to properly differentiate. How often do you hear about the Nazi concentration camps where they killed people on an industrial scale. No, those were death camps (they had concentration camps as well). But the term has been used wrongly for so long that when people hear “concentration camp”, they think “death camp”, so calling it a concentration camp, while correct, could make a fair number of people think the wrong thing - as of now, there is no systematic extermination, and I hope we get a handle on this before it gets that far.

Except they can’t escalate nearly as quickly if they don’t have an excuse. They’ve been wanting to escalate way further than they have, but everytime they tried to paint protestors/… as violent mobs, reality betrayed them. So far that they’re somewhat pulling back. That didn’t happen because someone shot at ICE, quite the opposite.

It really depends on when this happens. If it would happen today, there would be bloodshed, but probably not on a Tiananmen level. The longer we wait, the more likely that the number of deaths is higher in such a case. Which makes it that much more important to act now (which, to be fair, is easy for me to say, considering I don’t live in the US).

No, what the hell, don’t buy a gun for that reason. That will only escalate the violence. And there’s only so far that you can escalate as a civilian until they roll out the tanks, and your guns can’t do shit against tanks.

You need power in numbers. That’s how you can build a proper resistance.

That’s not the point. Trump is known to use the law to intimidate, even if he loses.

I swapped it out because it wasn’t working on my end, either (I think the site didn’t like me linking to the picture

Interesting, but I wonder how accurate that is, taking myself as an example. I know that I don’t have a drinking problem (as in, I don’t feel a need to drink alcohol and sometimes go weeks or months at a time without alcohol simply because the opportunity doesn’t present itself, and can control and have controlled my alcohol intake when necessary without any issues), but points 2 and 3 have definitely applied to me, and 1 possibly as well. The problem wasn’t my drinking, but that an abusive person needed something to criticize and degrade me, and that was a perfect opportunity. If I had stopped drinking that person would have found something else (and they did when I drank less due to covid).

I think that’s really the problem, the Democrats are actually multiple parties forced under a trenchcoat due to the electoral system. Unfortunately, the center (-right if you compare to other countries) is the wing that is in control at the moment, and that seriously has to change. Obama was more from the center-left wing of the party (yes, I know, that changed later on), and look how well he won. Yes, a lot of his policies got watered down, and he wasn’t without his faults, but it was still a move in the right direction, I’ll take the healthcare plan he got passed before the clusterfuck that was before it any day.

If you had a proper electoral system you wouldn’t have the Democrats as such but instead at least two parties that cover the ground Democrats cover today.

So yes, condemn the Democrats that aren’t doing shit. But don’t forget to give credit to the Democrats that are giving proper resistance.

Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas

Part of the problem is there are plenty of humans pushing agendas as well, which makes everything that much more difficult. They, like bots, don’t have any interest in honest discussions, either.