Forgive my ignorance of the condition but what are her limitations? Can she communicate? Care for house plants? Read a book? Perform any artistic expression? Can she make you laugh? Even once a week/month/year?

I’m struggling to think of a scenario where a person has any amount of conscious agency but can’t do anything of that produces a even a minor amount of value, unless you’re unduly restricting the definition of labor.

Counterpoint: find all corporate vibe coded IP and make everything public domain

TIL that only anciene royalists are right wing. You can’t claim otherwise, that’s what it means.

you can make shoes so you make people shoes

Here’s a hypothetical:

I’m in a feud with the person who runs the pasture land. He won’t kill his cattle/sheep if it’s to provide leather for my shoes. Everyone else likes him and his milk and they tell me to bury the hatchet.

But he insists on ever thicker and higher quality boots because the pasture he “works” is so overgrown and muddy from poor maintenence. This cuts into my ability to supply quality shoes for everyone else so I can’t do it.

Of course, I stutter and don’t do well with public speaking but he has a silver tongue. I can’t even lay out half the facts before he’s convinced the town that I’m a lazy parasite and a bad shoemaker; I’m exiled. I will now die starving and alone. The town will waste time and energy wearing through low quality woven shoes, content with the thought that they’re not wasting milk cows on that shitty cobbler.

If there was a market/bartering economy:

• I probably never have to interact directly with the herdsman
• The value of shoes would counterbalance the lazy herdsman, forcing him to properly maintain his field or go shoeless
• I’m not punished for my poor social skills and the herdsman is not rewarded for his. The value of our labor is insulated from our social ability, allowing for a less biased assessment of our goods and services.

Giving real “party of Lincoln” vibes 🙄

The majority of Party arrests in the last 5 years

Lmfao OK so this is eating shit straight from the horse’s ass. They feed you this sound bite but then say the number of arrests and executions is a state secret. They’re talking out of both sides of their mouth and you just shut your eyes to the dissonance.

Everything is working perfectly as expected and above board, except for when it isn’t. But even when it isn’t it actually is, source: trust me bro

“Give me one source that I won’t arbitrarily subject to a genetic fallacy. Just one single one.”

Yep, there are two things that can trigger regime change: precarious drops in material conditions and concerted foreign intervention. The Ancien régime’s food and debt crisis, Czar Nicholas’ economic collapse, post-WWI German austerity and economic struggles, Cold War coups and power plays all over the world, etc… It’s the same story over and over.

The core value of sedentary civilization is stability and predictability. No population has ever, or will ever, flip their lives upside down and plunge into an uncertain power vacuum out of the goodness of their hearts. And yet ideologues on the internet insist that they can will revolutions into existence with memes.

No reason they wouldn’t be filling cans as well. Would probably take quite a few to break even tho

I’m not both sidesing, I’m pointing out that misinformation and biased studies have existed forever. It’s the responsibility of the media to suss that out and verify it before reporting. That’s just a plain fact of the job, nobody can offload that onto the source.

regular polls are sometimes wrong too

“Sometimes wrong” is an incredibly generous way to put it. If reporters had got out ahead in vetting the bullshit vaccine-autism study before amplifying it, we wouldn’t have people dying of measles today. Asking them to do the bare minimum of checking that a human poll even happened is not asking much.

lied about everything

The source didn’t lie about anything, they used Ai mysticism to project plausible sounding answers. Anyone can do that and it’s not that subversive. The people who believe them either fundamentally don’t understand the tech or are too lazy to look closely. Don’t condone that passivity by pretending baseline media and technical literacy are impossible to achieve (especially for professional reporters).

Lotta pearl clutching in this thread, as if every poll has always been rigorous and checked against bias. At least when they run a sloppy simulation you automatically have a massive grain of salt instead of requiring every reader to sniff their methods.

Would you rather read the headline “Simulated poll implies people could love Hitler” or “Poll finds people love Hitler *poll of KKK headquarters, sample size: Kyle”?

Seems like Axios fucked up by not properly vetting their source but it’s no better or worse than them failing to catch a dishonest pollster.

I’m not understanding, studios are going to insist that their artists bloat assets for no reason? Are these professionals being paid per VRAM GB used?

Also this is some pretentious argument. If you’re distributing art through the audience’s hardware then you’re meeting them where they are no matter what. It defines your constraints; a good artist will make art that works nicely with AI in the same way that pixel art worked with CRTs.

Weird diagram. Why are we starting at 1619 in Virginia when it would be just as fair to say 1493 in Puerto Rico (or similar when you include Florida or parts annexed from Mexico). And the end of segregation is wrong as well.

Bruh French never had a chance couldn’t even spell 😂😂🇬🇧 🇬🇧

This clearly can’t be right. I’ve read many comments saying any action less than grabbing a 2A tool and perforating my neighborhood (and posting proof after) is enabling fascism.

Democrats are shit but God what I wouldn’t give for politics to no longer be a playground for twitch streamers, failed TV actors, retired sports stars and podcasters. Anyone with a mic and inflammatory hot takes can be a political force majeure without any risk, effort or leg work.

Even though they’re both influencers, I respect the shit out of Kat Abughazaleh for the bare minimum fact that she’s actually out there organizing and helping her community. Hassan can say similar stuff from his $2.7m mansion but that doesn’t mean he deserves the same respect.

They also are one of the worst shrinkflation examples ever. Get those tiny eggs outta here.

It also makes no sense to shrink them if you think about it. Square-cube law means they’re packaging way more milk chocolate per sale, which is almost certainly the most expensive ingredient.

Depends. It would be ideal to sleep in, skip eating and eat on the clock.

A well reasoned and logical reply. Completely air tight argument. We’ve got an enlightened free thinker over here!

“Semantics”

My guy, they just laid out your argument and demonstrated the particular flaws in your reasoning. What you’re describing isn’t secularism, it’s wishing the state would enforce your particular world view.

Guess what? Removing religious mysticism from the equation doesn’t make that viable or ethical. They already tried this during the French Revolution and it sucked. Giving the state powers to attack nebulous things like metaphysical beliefs is reverting back to the problems we had for thousands of years under Popes and Kings and Caliphs and Emperors.

Putting aside how dumb of a statement that is, will the state be mandating homes and forcing people into them? If they have to do that just to accommodate my private beliefs, how is that different than a prayer room in public? Should I be arrested if I’m homeless by choice or want to live out of a tent in the woods?

Just skip the argument to state enforced atheism and don’t pretend this line of thought is rational and secular.