I used to think that these sorts of people were hurting the cause but over time I realized no, not really. Mostly because the kinds of people who engage with that sort of dialogue try to use it as a weapon, saying things like “see THIS communist says x y or z and that means YOU’RE saying x y or z too.” Then you try to engage with that conversation and one of two things happens. Either you explain no, that isn’t what we believe and here’s why and they listen, or they shout NO TRUE SCOTSMAN at you and pretend like if anyone ever identifies as anything, that means everyone that also identifies as that must be the same. The former group isn’t negatively impacted by patsocs because the former group aren’t fucking stupid, and the latter group will never engage with you or anyone seriously no matter what you do, so why bother wasting your time.

This lesson helped me a lot once I realized it. Only engage with people who will actually earnestly engage with you. The others are someone else’s problem or require a different organizing strategy.

A choose your own adventure novel is an AI because you feed it a set of inputs (page numbers) and it feeds you a set of outputs (a dynamic story).

I am against the marketing buzz that is pretending (lying) that computers can understand language, video, and images, yes.

I am not against actual AI but it does not exist yet

Oh yeah well it’ll raise my 69% under Trump so that’s why you gotta reduce the harm by making sure that we increase homelessness more slowly!

Hexbear is constantly sharing stuff from Norman Finkelstein and he’s a raging transphobe so honestly it probably makes more sense for you to fight this fight in our instance first if I’m being perfectly honest here.

I dare you to say that to my cats face. They’ll kill you. Which doesn’t prove anything!

That’s okay we can just funnel money into private for profit contracts that go way over budget and way over schedule without proper oversight and kick this can down the road another decade at least! Efficiency!

That’s okay the free market will fix this by destroying society as we know it leading to the next great mass extinction of which humans will be a part of. It’s not a big deal really.

I do the opposite. I will run any game EXCEPT D&D. This gets people to try new games, and if they really wanna do D&D they can do it themselves, learn how to DM and run a group, and then I get to play. It’s been a pretty flawless strategy for me overall

Depends on who they’re carrying

Are countries allowed to be part of both BRICS and NATO? Is this the first NATO country that is working on ties with BRICS?

Without reading the article how much is this because of the Steam deck

Ah yes, why don’t we just “pole the comments” about the meaning of any word we don’t understand the definition of, and we can let the comment section right here be the sole arbiters of what a word means rather than let experts in the relevant field define what a word means. That’s how language and research and science should work, via Lemmy comment section democracy.

Critical support to privatizing barracks if this is the result

So true

Undoubtedly this is because the US approaches deproliferation with a “you first” mentality, and then once the other side starts, the US says “jk lol.” The US can’t be trusted to hold it’s end of bargains like this so why would a serious country entertain talks with the US like this?

Critical support to capitalism for ensuring the troops suffer needlessly

This is why ultras, especially white Western ultras, should be ignored. Trying to build a workers movement from a western lens only that ignores the entire global south and their cultural context and their voices is leaving out the vast majority of the global working class.

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