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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • What they say is immaterial when their actions betray their flimsy words. Your argument is akin to claiming DOGE is an earnest effort to cut down on government waste because of the claims that Musk has made. Taking someone at their word is a fool’s errand, especially when it comes to politics. We agree that israel is committing a genocide but for some reason you think someone giving billions of dollars in weapons to them is not aiding this process. I do not understand this line of logic, please help me understand how empty unrealistic promises (made over decades and never sincerely acted upon) and flowery words are enough to make giving billions in weapons to a genocide-committing country not an act of support for genocide.




  • In the first, the AI model was programmed to detect whether it was about to be shut down and to replicate itself before it could be terminated. In the other, the AI was instructed to clone itself and then program its replica to do the same – setting up a cycle that could continue indefinitely.

    Like how any regular application can be instructed to copy itself i.e. a computer worm? Not exactly shocking for a computer program to do.













  • From the article you posted (emphasis mine):

    Democrats passed their sweeping anti-corruption bill known as HR 1. It’s already doomed in the Senate.

    Democrats love to bring up impressive-sounding bills when they’re confident they won’t actually become law. It’s part of the tag team play they do with republicans. I’m surprised people still fall for this shit. Please let me know when democrats pass bills like this during the times they have the power to actually bring it into law.

    You call seizing power like trump hypocritical, but when you’re faced with fascism, you have to fight back and I mean actually fight back, not sit around and wail about “muh institutions” because those institutions will crumble under force unless you actually protect them with your own force. Doing things “the proper way” is just another tactic to look like you’re doing something while actually welcoming the fascists. It’s a dog and pony show.



  • Biden was getting his sorry ass kicked until South Carolina where he got one critical endorsement to edge out a slight victory. Then the party’s buddies in big media ran a “Biden miracle” story and the party got all the other candidates to drop out and put their full support behind Biden just before super Tuesday. They also funded a PAC to keep Warren in the race to split votes with Sanders. Thanks to the moronic primary process, after that point it’s like a snowball rolling downhill because by the later states, it will appear as if one candidate is the guaranteed winner so supporters of other candidates won’t bother showing up. It’s why superdelegates were used in 2016 to make it look like Clinton was too far ahead for Sanders to matter. All that plus it’s a party-controlled process where diehard party supporters are more likely to vote in that process than normal voters, so you’ll have an automatic bias for the party favorite (some milquetoast center-right stooge).

    If you want to ignore all that and focus on raw dumb numbers, then you should consider that the voting population of the US is much greater than ~30 million people. Do you think all those other voters’ choices don’t matter?