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should i FUCKING DELETE my bloog
I'm going to add categories together (gtfo v not gtfo) and do the winning thing in the winning category even if it's not the number one voted thing
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“The notion that we “have a nature,” far from threatening the concept of freedom, is absolutely essential to it. If we were genuinely plastic and indeterminate at birth, there could be no reason why society should not stamp us into any shape that might suit it. The reason people view suggestions about inborn tendencies with such indiscriminate horror seems to be that they think exclusively in one particular way in which the idea of such tendencies has been misused, namely, that where conservative theorists invoke them uncritically to resist reform. But liberal theorists who combat such resistance need them just as much, and indeed, usually more. The early architects of our current notion of freedom made human nature their cornerstone. Rousseau’s trumpet call “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains,” makes sense only as description of our innate constitution as something positive, already determined, and conflicting with what society does to us.”
— Mary Midgley, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature via Alan Jacobs
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hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok
It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.
This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.
Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.
You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?
also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD
Another problem with those posts is that some people cannot avoid AI usage. I have been required to use some AI at my job (mainly in product assessment). Some students are required to use it in the classroom. If you are learning to code, it is and probably will continue to be a major factor.
AI pushback is important, but the real enemy is the companies trying to shove it into every aspect of your life
I had sex with AI, literally and physically. It wasted so much water and power that we had to institute water rationing and rolling blackouts. I'm doing it again soon.
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WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE WANNA BE LITTLE GIRLS ITS PISSING ME OFF BE A GROWN WOMAN. NOW
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The Great Temple of Abu Simbel, 1900
Henry Roderick Newman (American, 1843-1917)
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really dont see the 4D chess involved re: the greenland thing--it seems unhinged actually, on a level unlike trump's other crusades. I can normally see the line of reasoning involved even if I think it's bullshit, but here it's nonsensical
Denmark already lets the US Military use that shitty rock, and there's nothing of value to Greenland besides its location, which is why there's only like 50,000 people living there now. Threatening a supposed ally and trying to hold their allies (who are also nominally our allies) hostage with tariffs over control of a shitty fucking rock seems insane
about the only thing he's got right as far as I can tell is that yes Greenland is strategically important, at least if we're using cold war logic.
So what could all this be about, if not Greenland itself?
Well, Trump has been saying for a while he isn't very fond of NATO, and Congress tried to tie his hands by requiring a 2/3rds vote to leave the alliance...so maybe he's threatening a NATO member with the intention of the other members backing out in protest. If Congress won't let him pull the US out, he'll just leave the US as the only remaining member.
That's all I've got at the moment because lol this is literally the most anyone has ever cared about Greenland in history
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Lefty AKA Leftie (2003) by Ken Hewitt, UK. Lefty – a left-hand wall-follower – came second in the non-contact wall-following category at RoboTIC 2007, with a time of 54.64 seconds. It then came third in the wall follower contest at MINOS 2010, with a time of 56.65 seconds. The video was recorded at UK Micromouse 2003.
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Display of different handguns in service with GROM in 2006, the Desert Eagle was reportedly only used in training, for what purpose is unknown.
