wpb

@wpb@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same picture!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bestween this and Yemen, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Indonesia, Timor, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Korea you’d almost start to think that. I wonder how many countries the real baddies have attacked. Must be way more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Death to America

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “My house is on fire and there’s NOTHING I can do”

  “Maybe call 911, leave the house, get the fire ext…”

  “NOTHING, I SAY, NOTHING!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So wait for a charismatic and perfect savior.

  Did you not read what I said?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of a broad question, and there’s at least two contexts in which I can answer it. One is on a personal level, and one is more on the level of “what should the DNC do if they want to win another election”.

  Personal answer first. Quite simple:

  • join a union

  • engage in mutual aid

  • read theory (yes really)

  • local politics (no matter how local) matter, act like it

  • vote for politicians and their policies because you believe in them, not because other guy bad. If your choice is between Hitler and Hitler wearing a funny hat, voting uncommitted is not only your democratic right, but your duty. If you guarantee your vote to a politician regardless of what rhey do or advocate for, the politician has no reason whatsoever to listen to you or cater to your needs. None.

  Now if you’re asking as a card carrying DNC member with influence:

  • Do not capitulate to right wing framing. You will never win at being right wing, the right wing is much better at that than you. Concretely, engage in counter messaging. For example, when it comes to undocumented immigrants, frame them as a boon to society (which they are) and aggressively fight anyone who claims they commit more crimes (they don’t, in fact they commit fewer per capita), don’t say “I agree mr republican, and my border policies are just as draconian, if not more, as they should be!” Same with fracking, genocide, crime, taxes, etc. Be an alternative, not a weak derivative.

  • Don’t fund a genocide. So easy. All you have to do is not send 17.8 billion in military aid to any country committing a genocide. You see a country committing genocide? Do not send 17.8 billion dollars in military aid. If you can’t help yourself and have to send the money anyway, don’t go bragging about it on your campaign trail, you fucking idiot.

  • Start advocating for worker’s rights. Stronger unions, higher minimum wage, forced and paid parental leave, paid sick leave, and so on. These are deeply popular positions, as polling shows, also among people who normally vote republican. A one time tax credit is not worker’s rights.

  • Start advocating for universal health care again. Or at least fucking mention it every now and then. The US is the only nation in the developed world (and beyond?) that doesn’t have this, you can gain so much on this.

  Follow these simple steps and you’ll win your next election!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not perfect. A lot of advocacy groups for the homeless are actually critical of the plan, primarily because it doesn’t address the underlying issues that cause homelessness and because the efficacy of forced drug and mental health treatment is questionable at best. But it’s better than putting arm rests on benches, that’s for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  apnews.com/…/california-newsom-homeless-61ebe5b2a…

  For anyone saying that the democrats are bad for the homeless, please look at this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Big tent liberalism is exactly what got you the anti-union, pro-war, pro-fracking, anti-immigrant democratic party of today. Every single time someone argues for speaking to a broader base it’s used as an excuse to move further right. And it isn’t working. Please, for the love of god, learn from the past three election cycles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both? 17.8 billion dollars to murder children with seems pretty pointlessly cruel to me. All jokes aside, are you not seeing these in the blue states? They don’t have these in New York?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think that? Do these not exist in blue states?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hygiene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a hard enough time accepting it* for myself, and I can’t expect a stranger on the internet to do so quicker than I did. I hope that some day you can reflect back on this conversation and realize you’re being a bit of a dick about this.

  • “It” meaning the inability to shape my social life the way “normal” people do it, and simultaneously live a happy and healthy life
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah my bad, I thought you were complaining about people not wanting to engage in small talk, and I thought you were suggesting that people should just suck it up and talk about the weather even if they don’t want to. I’m a bad communicator, and I sometimes misread stuff like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great that it worked out for you, and I’m happy for you, but we don’t need to force everyone to fit the same mould.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re probably joking, but know that there’s a subset of us that gets pathologically anxious and confused by small talk. Autistic people for example. Different folks, different strokes. Not everyone deals well with talking about the weather, and that’s ok. There’s billions who do deal well with it, and that’s ok too! Be a mensch and talk to them instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 5 stages of Charles Manson⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Top right Ricky Gervais.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Such weather we’re having huh?”

  Truly peak romance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People who deny genocides (either the current ongoing one in Palestine as committed by Israel, or the one carried out by the Germans in WWII) are the lowest of the low. Absolute scum. To see people make excuses for atrocities as the Nakba, Sabra and Shatila, and the Holocaust in real time, as one is happening has been the most disturbing development of our age.

  I don’t think downloading things illegally is OK, and I also don’t think spending money on genocide deniers like Irving is ethical. I also don’t think reading Irving will help you in any way, because genocide deniers are pretty much all the same. If you still wish to see genocide denial and defense of people who say stuff like “Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live”, and the denial of that which is obvious, you’ll find plenty of it available for free in modern day conservative shitrags talking about the ethnic cleansing Israel has been carrying out for 77 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I try, every now and then, and I’m fairly consistently disappointed. Every time I end up finding out that the output is wrong. Not in the sense of aesthetics or best practices, but truly incorrect in the sense that it either doesn’t work or that it’s a falsehood. And there’s two explanations for this that I can think of.

  The first is that I’m using them wrong. And this seems likely, because some people I respect swear by them, and I’m an idiot. Instead of asking “how does mongoDB store time series data” or “write a small health check endpoint using Starlette” maybe there’s some magic invocationsor wording that I should be using which will result in correct answers. Or maybe I’m expecting the wrong things from LLMs, and these are not suitable usecases.

  The other possibility is that my prompts are right, and I’m expected to correct the LLM when it’s wrong. But this of course assumes that I already know the answer, or that I’m at least well-versed enough to spot issues. But then all LLMs automate away is typing, and that’s not my bottleneck (if it were, what a boring job I would have).

  I think a key thing I’m doing wrong is occasionally forgetting that this is ultimately fancy autocomplete and not a source of actual knowledge and information. There’s a big difference between answers and sequences of words that look like answers, but my monkey brain has a hard time distinguishing between the two. There’s an enormous, truly gigantic, insurmountable, difference between

  “Ah yeah we’ve used terraform in production for 5 years, best way to go is really not putting your state file under version control for …”

  and

  “Sure! When using terraform it is generally considered a bad practice to put your state in version control for these reasons <bunch of bullet points and bold words>”

  But I’m only human, and it’s really easy to trick me into forgetting this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s better to avoid the axiom of choice in discussions about sexuality, as it seems to upset the conservatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This smug denialism is what got us Trump the first time around and it’s what got us Trump the second time as well. At least the guy acknowledges there’s a problem (even though his solutions are designed to make it worse). The Dems piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining. They dropped the ball by trying to play diet republican, and losing the election is on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s how you recognize a Russian election interfetterance bot, because it’s categorically false. The genocide Drumpf is carrying out is millions times worse and very different from the special military operation in Palestine that the Biden administration really had nothing to do with if you think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just kill one guy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Franz Ferdinand was not the cause of WWI. WWI was caused by numerous geopolitical, economic, and societal conditions that all drove us towards it. Can I tell you what those conditions were? No, because I’m an uneducated idiot who knows next to nothing about history. But at least I’m not dumb enough to believe that killing one guy led to the killing of 40 million others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my goodness you are in for a treat! Pourover coffee is in my opinion the best way to prepare a cup. Get yourself a v60, and the paper filters that go with it, watch a James Hoffman video on proper v60 technique, and enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is jealous⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing to abandon the alt right for. If the democrats decided to run on a platform that was even remotely progressive, do literally anything for worker’s rights, they’d win a lot of disenfranchised voters. Obama won, and that’s not because all of a sudden, just for a moment, America wasn’t racist. No, it was because he promised to solve one of the problems that’s killing Americans in every stratum: healthcare. Instead, we get fracker and border wall builder Harris.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh won’t someone please think of the poor nazis?

  Liberals and fascists, name a more iconic duo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is jealous⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty based take for a reactionary shithole