You want to make allies out of fascists? I sure don't. Fuck em all to death.
Thruxton is love.
Great pic too.
"new". Fucking scum.
I am only one data point. But I left a well-paying job working for a US startup primarily due to the current climate at the border. I will definitely take a pay cut once I find something Canadian or European, but I think the peace of mind knowing I will never be put in the position of risking my job for refusing to enter the US will balance it out. I hope...
Get a nice bar-sized cylinder of CO2 (sometimes called beer gas) and a 15 dollar adapter. Get you that (nearly) guilt-free bubbly water by never sending them a cent for gas!
My retort to this standard 'ai has no place in leftist spaces' is pretty straightforward
I 'stole' a model that has now been fine-tuned on my own hardware, which is powered by solar.
I use this model primarily to write letters to judges for leftists, lgbt+, and street kids, to use when they go to court for small infractions. These will usually contain some old case law, some cultural references, and historical references, as well as the statements from these victims of a police state gone mad, and character references from their neighbours/community.
I am not a lawyer, nor a scholar. I live in the woods and maintain a mostly off-grid lifestyle. I do not have access to lawyers, or community spaces where leftist legal scholars might hang out. The closest damn grocery store is an hour away.
I would not have the time nor ability to source these cases, check on outcomes, and write eloquent letters tailored to each case, but I do have time to prompt my model a few times with the standard template I used to use pre-LLM and then check that any mentioned cases or historical stories are real before sending the letters.
I can say with certainty that 4 of those letters resulted in people going home free who would have likely spent time in jail for simply existing in a manner not approved by the state. And at least 3 more were a significant part of the judge's decision.
Dogpile me if you want. But if you shit on this usage without offering an alternative way to achieve the same thing I will discard your comment as worthless and not reply.
IMO - The small harm done by my local model is VASTLY outweighed by even one innocent person not being confined by the state.
Someone in this thread had mentioned 'We do not simply destroy the means of production, we seize them'. And that feels a lot like truth to me.
This area contains the town that my wife grew up in and where I went to high school. PP would be shunned in any of those small towns for being a highfalutin City [homophobic slur].
I would love to see him show up at the A&W in hanna or the bar in three hills unannounced. Nobody would recognize him and everybody would instantly hate him.
Just fyi. That downvote was not me. But seriously, a little inconvenience should not stop us from supporting shiity businesses.
Maybe consider going to open those two accounts.
There ya go. Now you're thinking with gasoline!
Hey look. Another arbiter of what belongs.
Cut it out.