Found the Republican senator! 😏

I mean, I’m pretty sure guns are banned.
For now…

(I don’t think that law passed allowing teachers to carry, but just a matter of time before they try again)

Cell of Theseus

But then so will also talk like that, making it indistinguishable once again

“use” might be a stretch.

I have a mastodon account I check occasionally
I have a pixelfed account I use rarely
And a loops account I think I logged into once

The problem of manufacturing weapons would be significantly less controversial of LM (for ex) had even a few scruples.

Defending yourself is fine.
Making tools to defend yourself is fine
Making tools for people to defend themselves is fine

Making and selling those tools for use in attacking is not fine.
Profiteering from harm is not fine.\

Don’t say that he’s hypocritical
Say rather that he’s apolitical

That number is shrinking alarmingly fast

I think history is full of rulers who were hated by their people, but were deposed by their peers for selfish reasons, rather than by uprising.

But there is lots of wiggle room in that argument, I admit. My point was more of a technical one than a practical one.

I think that a rigid class/caste system can probably work purely on jealousy rather than on propaganda, but this isn’t based on real world example.

Likely true by example, but not by definition.

Overthrowing power may be hopeless, but propaganda may still be used simply to prevent the masses from causing slight discomfort to the people in power.

Propaganda is a tool, not a last resort, of the powerful.

Hmmm

I haven’t watched many sitcoms recently. I felt like those pauses for audience laughs were often where they’d cut to other camera angles anyway (likely to distract from how unnaturally long the characters paused in the middle of their conversations)… But I don’t have any concrete evidence to back up my feeling.

Meat grass

I’d be interested to see an edit of classic sitcoms with laughs (tracks or live), edited to remove both the laugh and the associated pause in the performance.

Yes, in the proportion of furries vs weebs.

He comes out and you miss your shot because you’re blinded by a bright light he has with him

All computing is just shit tons of math operations.
That’s the “artificial” part of “artificial intelligence”, so I’m not really sure what you expect AI to look like.

I’m not a big fan of LLMs and I don’t think they’re intelligent, but if you’re disqualifying them based on using math then nothing is ever going to satisfy you

The difference is that tech bros are selling the promise of replacing expensive skilled labour, to business owners, who keep funding it because they’d rather pay one of their own than pay a living wage to a normal person.

So the money keeps coming which let’s them keep working on it

Why TF did someone down vote this??? Lol

Dust in the wind in my ass

I’ve started sitting to pee, when at home