Ugh, the AI personalities are even offensive caricatures to boot.
CicadaSpectre
joined 2 years ago
I saw an article about how the photo doesn't matter anymore and everything has changed, and I thought people somehow finally realized the picture is taken out of context to prop up a conspiracy theory, but... no. It was an article about AI editing and how people can "erase history" and remove "Tank Man" from the photo and people can be "tricked" into thinking it never happened.
Which is stupid as fuck. The pic happened. The video happened. Ironically, they do more to disprove the massacre narrative than support it. The massacre didn't happen, and editing a picture isn't going to erase that myth from a country obsessed with believing it.
They've got some demons.
I live in the freest and most powerful country on Earth, and certainly not a crumbling dumpster fire of a dying empire.
From what I've read, most modern scholars agree it was likely a sperm whale. The Roman records about how it sank ships, and descriptions of the body after it washed ashore (before being butchered and consumed by the locals), support the idea.
This video is a good breakdown of it: https://youtu.be/K9rZ9OFQEgw?si=7rF8KuHKQfMi-Joc
I feel your pain. Reading and understanding ML theory while growing up in the Imperial Core is a uniquely painful experience. Thank God for spaces like Lenmygrad, where we can actually communicate and realize we're not going insane.
They're irrelevant because the Ghost of Kyiv is single handedly trashing Russia's air force. /s
Well, I'm poly, so I'd just discuss it with my girlfriend. Idk how monogamous people deal with these issues. In my experience, my attraction to people wanes pretty quick when I focus on interests/ideas they have that I don't like or disagree with, things that would bother me if we lived together, sexual compatibility, etc. Suck the wind out of infatuation's sails by doing a pragmatic analysis of what a potential relationship might look like. It also helps you appreciate your partner(s) more, because you already have compatibility and comfort there.
But I would still take the job, yeah.
I had several catalysts while earning my BA in History. It's a sick joke, and if you cry foul, they hold you in the same regard as Holocaust deniers or anti-vaxxers because you're "fringe".
They're half-aware of the double-standard, too. My professors talked a lot about the dubious nature of sources, and how much of modern historiography amounts to reinterpreting the available evidence to challenge narratives, and how much academia requires funding for research and catering to your sponsors.
My favorite professor told me you wouldn't find any "Stalin apologists" in academia today. He, and others, all astonished (and horrified) me once. We got to do this trip to Italy, and I mentioned an interest in seeing Roma culture. The prof leading the trip (an American, mind you) called them the g-word and said they're all thieves. When I brought it up to my other history professors, all Americans, they agreed.
The foundations are rotten. The body of "experts" is intentionally stacked to control the narrative. If you somehow get into a level of status and respect in the humanities, it will be through omission or deception. And if you ever speak against the narrative in regards to communism, you will be destroyed. Want to humanize Nazis or explain away responsibility for their actions? You're free to do that. Want to point out the inconsistency of anticommunist fables? You won't even be allowed to operate on the fringes. Even climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers will have more status than you.
I wish I had any helpful advice.
I suspect the elites prefer Trump but keep up appearances. He's a tool, like Mussolini or Hitler: a lacky of capitalists to bludgeon socialist movements and organize the rabid far-right into a tool to use for imperialism. But liberal values are still the dominant trend here, so they must keep up appearances. But, in that too, they like Trump. He's a perfect scapegoat. They can give him some slack to crush their enemies, then use him as something to condemn in order to shift all responsibility from themselves. In that way, even the tragedies he causes become profitable.
A better question is what are we (American comrades) doing in preparation for the inevitable crackdown we'll receive?
Most Americans aren't vegan. Also, the egg is symbolic for fertility and much of Easter traditions are based on the pagan Ester traditions, which celebrated spring and fertility. Hence the eggs and bunnies. I think it might also be because of how they're dyed and how that might not work on potatoes. Maybe it'll be a new tradition though.