I love how one of the issues the Imperium has with the Tau is that they keep losing worlds to the Tau because they secede after the dramatic improvement in quality of life vs. life under Imperial rule.
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It's a delaying tactic. If the government shuts down, nothing can move forward. They can't fire people and continue destroying offices because those employees all get paid through the shutdown but nobody can do any work. Any of the paperwork involved - pink slips, etc. can't go through because there's nobody there to send them or even read the emails.
If a shutdown helped the Republicans, then that's what they would've been going for in the first place.
Every extra day it takes them is a day where things haven't gotten worse for everyone and an extra day for the already fracturing Krasnov administration to continue to fall apart and eat itself.
When did I say that they weren't? I said that I suspect that people who grow up under specific conditions are probably more likely to hold conservative beliefs.
In fact, I'd say that that is one of the examples I'm talking about. Think the white kid who grows up poor and hears his whole childhood from his parents and neighbors that it's all the fault of those job stealing immigrants and those communist Democrats. He's just as likely to grow up to be conservative as the kid who grew up wealthy or in a middle class white suburb where everybody looks just like him and who never faced any hardship and therefore can't imagine a situation outside of his own limited life experiences. The first group blames their problems on The Other, while the second two can't imagine that things are as bad as they say because the system benefitted them and therefore it must be good.
All run the full spectrum of conservative ideology, from indifference at best to the suffering of minorities to actively reveling in it. In short, my point was that cruelty and hatred are learned in these cases, not innate states of being, because one of the most effective tools against conservative beliefs is simply exposure to diverse groups of people.
Great question, because I had the same thought.
I think there's a "nurture" factor in here, where people who grow up in "conservative" households, grow up benefiting from the status quo/without real hardships, or are just generally insulated from diverse groups of people when they're young are more likely to hold "conservative" beliefs. Because one of the biggest fighters against bigotry is simply meeting people with different lived experiences than yours.
Fun fact: A study was done that apparently showed that the parts of the brain responsible for empathy are smaller on average in Republicans than the rest of the population.
The best evidence of this is the creator of Tumblr. He sold it and got a payout of like a hundred million dollars or something and completely disappeared from public life. He only ever appears in the news when he makes some big donation to a charity.
In short, AI is useful when it's improving workflow efficiency and not much else beyond that. People just unfortunately see it as a replacement for the worker entirely.
If you wanna get loose with your definition of "AI," you can go all the way back to the MS Paint magic wand tool for art. It's simply an algorithm for identifying pixels within a certain color tolerance of each other.
The issue has never been the tool itself, just the way that it's made and/or how companies intend to use it.
Companies want to replace their entire software division, senior engineers included, with ChatGPT or equivalent because it's cheaper, and they don't value the skill of their employees at all. They don't care how often it's wrong, or how much more work the people that they didn't replace have to do to fix what the AI breaks, so long as it's "good enough."
It's the same in art. By the time somebody is working as an artist, they're essentially at a senior software engineer level of technical knowledge and experience. But society doesn't value that skill at all, and has tried to replace it with what is essentially a coding tool trained on code sourced from pirated software and sold on the cheap. A new market of cheap knockoffs on demand.
There's a great story I heard from somebody who works at a movie studio where they tried hiring AI prompters for their art department. At first, things were great. The senior artist could ask the team for concept art of a forest, and the prompters would come back the next day with 15 different pictures of forests while your regular artists might have that many at the end of the week. However, if you said, "I like this one, but give me some versions without the people in them," they'd come back the next day with 15 new pictures of forests, but not the original without the people. They simply could not iterate, only generate new images. They didn't have any of the technical knowledge required to do the job because they depended completely on the AI to do it for them. Needless to say, the studio has put a ban on hiring AI prompters.
Well, he's being the same failed businessman and bigot he's been his entire life, the biggest difference between the two terms is that now he doesn't have undoing all the things that a black man did while in office to keep him busy.
He promised that he would bring down prices by putting tariffs on everything. So you can check that one off the list. The tariffs are in place. And he promised to end the war in Ukraine by bullying them into surrendering to Russia, and finishing the genocide in Palestine, so you can check off ending wars as well.
The only one he didn't promise was to not be a little bitch in the White House, because we all knew that's exactly what he was gonna be. We had historical evidence of that.
This is one of the things that pissed me off during the election campaign. Calling Trump "weird" worked as well, for all of a couple of weeks, and then the party muzzled Walz and never let anyone say it again.
They had an effective ad campaign that hit their opponents right where it hurt - their fragile ego - and they just...gave up.
- This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
Didn't Twitter go down multiple times for similar periods of time not long after Musk fired everybody? Or am I just hallucinating wishful thinking.
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