I think there’s increasingly a tendency to conflate “winning online arguments” (or lack thereof) w/actual normie voter behavior in the real world. IRL humans *will* change up their approach (if not consciously examine it) where the extremely online just dig in their heels.
I don’t think it changes minds in online arguments, but combined with the horrible obvious consequences of the bad guys winning? I dunno, worked on me, guy who alternately sat it out or voted for Nader in my young adult years, now don’t even miss a school board election.
Essential to this is the generations long hammering that rural/suburban red state inhabitants are the Real Americans, & any project that doesn’t involve their approval is inherently Not The Will Of The People. Moderates, even libs & the left, have all internalized this idea. We need to get over it.
Now do home appliance repairmen. Or entomologists, or math teachers. You can cherry pick these conspiracies from any decent sized category of people. I get that it brings in the clicks tho.
I mean, it’s almost certainly made up. Like the AI photo.
The guy is getting dunked on from this angle for sure, and I get it, I love me some genre stuff too. But like everything else it's a gradient. To me it does seem like "13 year old boy's wish fulfillment power fantasy" content saturates our media to an extent we haven't really seen before.
I mean, it’s a case that will never be conclusively solved most likely. But looking at the whole (strange) picture, Ivins does look like the most likely culprit. It was just a weird as hell act, case, time, person(s), etc, all around.
It used to (maybe up to late 1990s, pre social media) be a really niche interest populated by a specific type of real weirdos, which felt about right. Now it’s literally an industry catering to normies. Weird shit!
As a semi regular tomato sauce maker, those prices are a bit optimistic these days.
Woah, that's awesome.
The last second nose hold is a nice touch. This is a man who knows exactly where he wants to go & how to get there.
What specifically is “blatant sanewashing” here? They’re accurately reporting a standard blockade practice, right? It undermines the legit criticisms when we yell at reporters/NYT for any old thing.
Nothing's "off" about it. Small marathon in a state that barely has 1 million people total. Winners' times aren't world class, but they're probably around 99th or 99.5th percentile. And some runners do have a badass finishing kick, Alphonce Simbu won the WAC gold w/one last year. It's a thing.
Oooh now I’m excited for it, what horrors await.
“…has an organized base of supporters and it’s hard for inauthentic hateful people to do that.” Good god man. Is this satire?
It was weird to witness people in that state, for those of us who didn't get those "benefits". I worked FT thru COVID at a homeless shelter, kind of intense! Pretty alienating to hear millions of people baking sourdough & playing video games for months whine about how stressed & bored they were.
No idea where you’re getting the “conciliatory attitude” thing. The commies were global enemy #1 to us, a repulsive system of miserable people that wanted to take over the world! Like, negative nuance.
Is this (& obv feel free to decline, just curious) the city/mayor’s newish overnight shelters, or one of the independent nonprofits? And yeah, resources have really taken a turn for the worse here, for like 10 different reasons.
Totally, but having that big break automatically is a game-changer.
I had to look up Ben Stiller just now. FRANK COSTANZA IS HIS DAD??? How did I miss this.
As a (sort of former) shelter worker, I have strong opinions on this. Is this in PDX?
As a person who works in the housing nonprofit field in Portland, the obstacles to building across the whole PNW really do cause harm & make it harder to create sustainable low income housing. It’s a real problem.
“I have been computing your original request in the background” (paraphrasing). I ask if it actually works this way and it admits no, of course. A computer lying like a 6 year old instead of informing me it couldn’t complete a simple task, incredible. These issues have become more common IME.
LLM repeatedly replied with unrelated answers - X team’s conference record this year, then when re-prompted some other similar simple answer I didn’t request. When I queried why it was avoiding my question & providing unrelated data, it says…
I ask LLM to provide the W-L record of X sports team vs teams currently in Y conference over the past 5 years. The only nuance is that the conference added a few teams recently, so it would have to consider those in the total. So…
Yeah I’m more talking about lying to you like a dishonest person would. Here’s a recent example:
I’ve tinkered with LLMs for quite a while, and it’s my impression the straight-up lying/bullshitting is way more frequent now. Especially any task where I’m working with quantifiable data. Been curious if it’s just my impression, or if programming has changed to increase this.
What is even the benefit of reposting that guy? Just one bad faith strawman after another. I feel like hate reposting has reached late-stage Twitter levels here now, it’s not fun or healthy.
Solidarity.
Nonprofit person here - what specifically are you referring to in this context, I’m too dense to decode it.