But why the crab cakes? The rest of it makes sense, but… what?

Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons

something something walk or drive to the car wash something something

.bzh isn’t geographical, it’s intended for speakers of those languages. I’m not sure if I remember hearing about a gTLD intended for language-speakers, but why not? They’re not ccTLDs. :)

ahhhh, seriously knock knock let me in, that sounds delicious. If you’re not veggie, I’ll bring my family’s kedgeree^[1]. :)

Edit: Fix your link.

Link continues to work here. Title is “Can They Name 5 Countries in Africa” by @MaximBady. No clue if that’s the original or a repost, just the copy of the video I found when I went looking. Sorry it’s not working for you.

But also, quite agreed on your first para

Yeah, but why the fish and the banana? You have to explain that in more detail, my man.

hahaha. Thanks for the cool sunglasses, too. :)

You gave me sunglasses! I look way cooler now than I do IRL. :D

Ah, good. I was too lazy to look it up to get it right and wasn’t totally trying to quote it directly, but yay, glad it was got. hehe

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

At best it might not make the same mistake again if that memory is in the current context. But more likely: It will not remember.

Although latest Gemini in particular has much more room for “remembering” things, still.

But “I made a mistake”? It is not self-aware in any way shape or form to the degree where “I made a mistake” carries any real meaning.

or at my house,

KNOCK, KNOCK

First of all, relevant username. Second of all… to quote a litle youtube vid I love^[1], “You are not wrong. But also, you are very wrong.”

Education is one of the critical tools to fix this, although that will take 2-3 gererations of hard work and full control of the process, so probably even longer.

Education, however, is not the short-term tool, it is one of the long-term tools. But it is one of the tools. More of a preventative of it taking root again after we root it out.

how you’re going to get them better wages, better education, better infrastructure, better healthcare, etc.

Doesn’t work when all most of them want is for the people in charge to hurt the “right” people.

Fascism is not the result of some nebulous, nationwide hoodwink,

I’m a progressive. I see all those issues and my response is to vote as progressively as I can.

Why is it that viewers of Fox “News” and consumers of right-wing radio, who all preach some nevulous, nationwide hoodwink to the point that a third of our country is living in a parallel universe - why is it the issues that drive them to be insane and embrace fascism?

I think your premise is wildly off-base.

That said, I agree with your last para - except when things go bad enough the fascists start to doubt, that’s when you have a chance to try and engage and convert a few out of the cult.

Just fucking vote.

You are correct.

However, this doesn’t work so well if certain groups of people are disenfranchised at a higher rate. It doesn’t work if ballots are stolen and manipulated. It doesn’t work if judges stop counts or recounts of votes. It doesn’t work if there are fewer polling stations or drop boxes in certain areas. It doesn’t work with gerrymandering. It certainly doesn’t work with propaganda that encourages voter apathy.

This would significantly reduce the scope for concerted disinformation

You don’t think if Lemmy became large enough to be a target that it wouldn’t be targeted with overwhelming bots and paid people posting propaganda?

I’d like to borrow your rose-coloured glasses, please. It’d be nice to have such a rosy worldview for a moment.

Although at the same time, enshrined in there is the idea that some are worth about 60% as much as others.

Not to defend the racist fascists, mind.

Worse, in the examples they give, the legislatures and/or judiciaries stood against the dictators.

Here, we have decades of propaganda fueled by the oligarchs that has removed the world view of a third of our population from reality, and it’s not just Trump - the Republican party is in on the deal, from Congress to SCOTUS.

It’s not the same battle. It’s not the same order of magnitude. It’s at least two orders of magnitude harder.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t fight; rather, we should fight all the harder.

But that’s why I’m not certain partition / civil war type solutions are off the table.

I found the plot very hard to follow and uninteresting. No character development at all.

The media owned by the oligarchs? That media? You want to know why the oligarch-owned media isn’t making a big deal about something they’re fine with? Is that what you’re asking?^[1]