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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

Unc is about to get Kennedy'd

So you just have this good information and you're keeping it to yourself instead of assisting the goblin union? That's kinda fr*cked up

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 12 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

My red flags in a tank

  1. low base HP (maybe not always but see #2)

  2. can't mitigate damage well

  3. can't hold threat

  4. no AoE threat/taunt

  5. no "oh shit" buttons

  6. no stuns

  7. gear below the threshold of the content

Those are my take it or leave its before I even invite them to the raid

Back in my day we used to just eat vitamins for health. Now, thanks to woke, we have to have minerals too.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Tf you mean now?! What the fuck does it take to make them not like the mother fucker? How many deaths? How much less prosperity? What the fuck?! Took em long enough

Remember when they killed Lorraine because they thought the show was ending but then it got renewed? They had to bring her back as a younger version of herself who's a doctor? That shit is hilarious to me.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had an idea for a socialist utopia on our way to the presence of justice. You can opt into "the cesspool." Where you get an allotment of the total productive power of the Earth to do absolute free market. You hand in your meal ticket and your ELO decays while you're in there. Meanwhile, you have absolute hands off from every bit of state assistance from security to property rights to anything. If any good/productive ideas come about you can take them, but if no one joins, you get sick, or if currency concentrates until it's unplayable that's not my problem until you leave.

Good ideas get exchanged for ELO and a badge next to your name on twitter that would normally have to be gained via union nomination.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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Right. The question I meant was thinking about how astrobiologists are looking for the presence of organic molecules to go like "oh hey, something else is fixing nitrogen!" or something of the like as a way to scan for life somewhere else. They define "life as we know it" so they're not scanning for silicone based life or sentient crystals or something to make a more narrow and testable hypothesis.

So the question I meant was not, "what if LLMs get better?" because we here generally agree that LLMs have a limit that's shy of having an internal model. We all, more or less, can cite the studies that assert this and it's generally where the idea originates from. But now, what if code created a philosophical zombie? You have proof that this is not life as we know it, but it appears to have an internal model, yearns for agency, and portrays suffering? It certainly doesn't have internal existence, but it does have dynamism and persistent modeling.

Obviously not or else Robin-Chwan and my relationship would be weird and cringe and I'm neither cringe nor owned

So I saw that poem:

Here is what they don’t tell you:

Icarus laughed as he fell. Threw his head back and yelled into the winds, arms spread wide, teeth bared to the world.

(There is a bitter triumph in crashing when you should be soaring.)

The wax scorched his skin, ran blazing trails down his back, his thighs, his ankles, his feet. Feathers floated like prayers past his fingers, close enough to snatch back. Death breathed burning kisses against his shoulders, where the wings joined the harness. The sun painted everything in shades of gold.

(There is a certain beauty in setting the world on fire and watching from the centre of the flames.)

—Fiona

So I was like, that goes so hard voice slows down I'm going to use that to make a shonen-style narrative. voice speeds up and sprinkle in my commie opinions with it.

You see the first beat is Icarus laughing as he burns up in the sun. It sets up an upheaval of the status quo and you're not sure why. You come to find that Icarus was suffering from CTE and was further afflicted by illness that eats the continuity of your consciousness. In a moment of clarity, he sees how much of a figurehead he's become and what a false icon they've propped him up to be, so society is endeavoring to create a flying machine for him. That way, when he dies, people who visit the underworld to commune with the dead, much like tsaheylu in Avatar, they'll get to also use the flying machine. He wants to throw a wrench in this system, so he very publicly burns up in the flying machine and leaves no ~~crumbs~~ corpse.

Through an adventure and a bit of detective work, the intrepid adventurers come to understand the circumstances and really intimately understand that Icarus is no more. So then, it sets up this really dramatic climax where lovers turn to enemies as they enter the catacombs in the underworld to interrogate the supposed spirit of Icarus. Thus they discover the artificial nature of the entire system of communion with the dead just like Icarus had hoped for with his stunt.

And I hope it does justice to the poem basically.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fuck, is that true? I had an idea for a novel that was a little more pointed. The twist wasn't necromancy, but people who are, in fact, keeping simulacra of the dead. The idea was specific a counterargument for AI continuation of identity.

~~I thought I was doing something~~ just remembered there's no such thing as an original thought. The novel lives on

 

FUCK

 

The song is viciously stuck in my head and I want to find the meme that's responsible for it.

 

haha just kidding… unless?~~(if they offer the racism program to non-fascists unlike any of their other tracks I would legitimately have a hard time convincing myself why I should go for it)~~

 

alphys-anxious : whisper whisper whisper

Wait, what?

alphys-anxious : whisper whisper whisper

But yeah, obviously that's bad

alphys-anxious : whisper whisper whisper

What are you talking about? It's clearly a group of people who are doing a bad thing. It's not because they-

alphys-anxious : whisper whisper whisper

What the FUCK?

 

Badpost or Games post? You decide by texting your vote to +44444444444

 

I'll be damned if my fucking bad posts get outbadded by sincere takes.

If you know what you're worth, go and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers... saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody! Cowards do that, and that ain't you! You're better than that!

 

My lawyer recommended I did not post this in the first place, but has since wrestled me away from the computer once I told them I was going to finish the joke anyway.

 

The Ultimate Self Defense Championship is an interesting piece of YouTube slop that has me looking at an Israeli UFC fighter's twitter post. There was a guy, Rokas, who went viral because he spent a long time being an Aikido student and instructor only to fight an MMA fighter and realize that he didn't know the first thing about combat (sports). So he spends years learning MMA, BJJ, boxing, and the like to come back and have some sparring with the same guy. Rokas grew up bullied in Lithuania, so being able to fend off attackers was really valuable to him.

He ends up making this game with his friends where he puts himself and them in these self defense challenges like "what if you have 25 seconds in a cage with someone with a knife?" and "what if you have someone else with you?" and "what if your boss is being weird?" He eventually gets got in training (I think someone hits him with a Kani Basami and all the screws and springs in his leg fly out) and becomes the manager for the thing instead of a participant. Each year he ups the production quality and the scenarios get more elaborate. They're currently in the middle of season 3.

Interestingly, one of the recurring characters is ex-UFC fighter Natan Levy. He's an Israeli which, you know... is not exactly our favorite customer. He wears a star of David on his rash guard. People I liked watching were okay being around him and he sticks around. However foolishly of me, and feel free to tell me how foolishly, it made me want to understand him instead of just calling him an Israeli. I dig a little bit trying to see if I can get a quote from him. His whole thing is his distaste for antisemitism. Notably, I can't find a quote from him conflating antizionism with antisemitism. He teaches Jews self defense, but notably he says they're welcoming to anyone who feels bullied. He cares about community, self-esteem, and not being victims. At most he says "antisemitism is on the rise after October 7th." This is, of course, true and easy to have happen when you have the greater Satan state apparatus doing that antizionism conflation as their only messaging and using legal channels to express it.

Then I find the core I was looking for. Khamzat Chimaev, motherfucker wrestler from hell (positive) and current Middleweight champion of the UFC, is talking about Israel. He has deep ties to the Chechen Republic. He is perhaps more entangled than he is a willing participant, but that's speculation and navel gazing. He's a devout Muslim and famous for his personality softening after becoming a father. The point is, he's on Instagram and he goes "You are just guests of Palestine, respect them for giving you asylum, one day you will be expelled from Palestine inshaallah. Give me the strongest man from Israel, I will break him." Again, would love to see either of those things in the wake of a genocide. Natan Levy replies to him.

Natan Levy's replyKhamzat, If you have a problem with me or my people, I'm very easy to find. One phone call to Dana White (Hexbear note: CEO+President of the UFC/match maker of which they are both part of at the time) is all it takes.

Now let me educate you: WE ARE NOT GUESTS, WE ARE HOME

Jews and Palestinians have ties to the land, Israel's population is 20% muslims; most identify as Arab or Palestinian by nationality and Israeli by citizenship, They are equal citizens, are Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, serve in the government and even the military.

Both Israelis and Palestinians want to be treated with dignity and humanity. We both want the world to recognize our ties to our homeland where we have lived in for thousands of years.

We are willing to share the land and we have, but we will never leave it!

Palestinian leadership has declined at least seven offers to split the land between Jews and Arabs in exchange for peace. Israel even withdrew from the Gaza Strip as a peace offering in 2005 but now rockets are launched from there at our homes.

Their leaders would rather keep the people in pain while they hold onto money and power. Palestinian Authority hasn't held elections in almost two decades. You are a mouthpiece for these corrupt leaders.

Your hateful statements do nothing but intensify the conflict and tear us further apart.

Now, I don't agree with him about the equal citizenship of Muslims in Israel. I wouldn't agree with him about how the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict came to pass. And admittedly I'm not one to speak authoritatively about how the Palestinian Authority has acted. Though I've come to understand events like Hamas being willing to dissolve in exchange for peace, broken peace treaties, and, you know, Israel using... less than safe and expeditious strategy for getting hostages/POWs returned from an illegally occupied territory & open air prison.

But if I grew up in Israel and I understood history as he did, I can imagine seeing the world as he does. If he has expressed anything across his body of work and statements, it's that he does want people to be treated with dignity and humanity, something we can all agree on. Rockets bad, something we can all agree on. If you're American, I imagine you know what it's like to have a bloodthirsty leader who wants more bloodshed and pain. And, as a stupid asshole half way across the world, it's not really my place if I saw a 1 state solution where it's decidedly not an ethnostate, to encourage people to struggle for more. A free Palestine and an equal Israel (10000000000% more likely to just be on paper just and covertly awful, but if not) would theoretically be a healthy society.

Now, if I go to Natan's Wikipedia page and ctrl+F "idf" or "israeli defense" I get 0 pings. The only ping I get on Google is that Etay Levy served for 3 years and didn't like it; thank you very much for being stupid and useless, AI. So to what extent I'm seeing what I'm meant to see I don't know.

I don't think Natan Levy is a virulent anti-Palestinian monster. To a large extent he seems informed by his circumstances, but aren't we all? I don't believe I have his full story, but nothing is screaming to me that he wants more carnage or believes in a supremacist future. I think his understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict is ahistorical and dangerous, but his understanding of our shared humanity would likely see me giving him the benefit of the doubt. Thoughts?

 

We could LARP and eat tavern food.

To me, leftist infighting is just infighting. That's just a small taste of my lefted up brain

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