PhilipTheBucket

Fucking commie is fine. Genocide denier, not so much.

Well, but that's just a bad opinion. I don't think we need to go full-on attack mode against any particular person who has any particular "incorrect" opinion even if it is hateful or whatever. People can just talk it out. I'm probably in the minority on that, I know that it's popular at this point to go on the attack against anyone who steps on any one of a set of particular rhetorical land mines. I just feel like by doing that, you aren't really educating anyone, you're just introducing coercion into the equation and teaching people to be dishonest about what they believe if they don't want to get attacked.

The issue with Dessalines that I haven't seen from Nutomic is that he requires everyone else to have bad opinions, too, and will ban or attack them if they ever express anything other than his own bad opinions, on certain topics. That's a lot more toxic to me than someone just saying something that I think is ignorant.

It'll "fix" the adblockers. As in "we had our dog fixed."

Well, the next time someone recommends to me that I fuck him or something, I’ll be sure to refer them to your relevant comment. In the meantime I think letting him air a montage of Kash Patel being a POS is okay.

Grok responded to X users’ questions about public figures by generating foul and violent rape fantasies, including one targeting progressive activist and policy analyst Will Stancil. (Stancil has indicated he may sue X.)

When you fine-tune a coding AI on code that has deliberate flaws in it, and then switch it back to having conversations in English, it starts praising Hitler and constructing other deliberately hateful content. It wouldn’t surprise me if fine-tuning Grok to be Nazi also led it to “generalize” some additional things that weren’t intended by the operators.

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This is a weird comment

Having observed some different types of team dynamics in my day, I feel like Nutomic is clearly the one who does most of the dev work and Dessalines the one who makes most of the noise and pisses people off. It’s a fairly common dynamic.

I have no real idea about the details of manifest v3, but they've already made it come true and it didn't stop this from happening, so that tends to lead to me believing not.

Wat

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/9q557l/why_is_asmongold_so_hated/

So, basically, no reason. People just like bullying him, it sounds like. Great. I'm leaving it up unless someone has some kind of reason, he's barely in the video and it is an informative little clip collection.

Is Asmongold bad? I barely know of this guy, I'm not up to speed on Youtuber drama. I can replace it with a different link if he is objectionable, I don't really care about his minimal commentary here.

Well. predicting the future is a fool's game, but here goes: I think it'll be minimally funded, interfering with its effectiveness. I don't think debt traps of the IMF / Belt and Road variety are really Russia's style. They involve too much give and take (at least on the surface or in the propaganda telling). I think it'll be more along the lines of "we've set up this outpost and it is here to help you, acceptance is not optional, we're here to help." They'll just make a deal with some leader of whatever small country, and then just show up and start doing their thing, whatever it is. Also, the USAID type of operations were generally competently executed on the ground by people who at least somewhat cared about the mission (regardless of whether they perceive that mission as helping the people they're working with, or advancing some other unrelated US interest), or else can fake it. Russian governmental organizational structures at this point are nothing like that.

So, it'll be poorly funded as I said, and the people on the ground trying to make it happen will be wildly corrupt, kind of lazy in what they are willing to do or make efforts towards, and violent. There is actually some precedent for this in Russia's efforts to "make friends" with some African countries. Mostly the result was Russian mercenaries tasked with guarding the operation roaming around raping people and stealing money. The people "running the operation" didn't really care enough about whatever the official mission was to accomplish much of anything at all that I know of, except for sending reports of wild success back home and collecting paychecks and bribes.

I would expect the Russian version of USAID to be more or less more of that if it does get going.