Some people, when finding out that their husband is creeping on their younger sister, might reject that idea and save their marriage. That’s just how brains work.

If her brain thinks it’s in her interest to blame you, probably talking to her won’t change that? Maybe but in my experience you can’t reason people out of unreasonable beliefs.

I’d not approach her, I’d wait and see how she is after some processing time.

Yep! Always has been.

Ashoka the great who’s credited with doing a lot to spread buddhism globally was a murderous warlord known for his personal torture prison called “Ashoka’s hell”. After he brutally killed uprisings against his rule he plowed state funds into a PR campaign to change his name from ashoka the cruel to ashoka of the dharma.

Bill gates is another good example, he’s a pedophile known for running one of the most toxic work cultures, but he can use some of the money he made illegally stifling competition to rehab his image.

I must say 4 incorrectly

I move my lips the same way you do. Another poster mentioned four, five as well.

It’s not incorrect though - there’s not really such a thing as pronouncing incorrectly. People just speak how they speak and it’s always changing.

over 30% of people somehow still voted conservative.

It’s similar numbers for determined trump supporters. 30-40% of people just seem to enjoy the idea of living under a punishing overload. Maybe it makes them feel safe, or they think of themselves as superior so presume they’ll end up on top. Probably a lot of other drivers as well - poverty and uncertainty seem to play a role.

I tend to think of this more as a flaw we possess as an organism, something we need social institutions to counteract, rather than as the personal failing of one in every two or three people.

I lived in Western Australia when I played WoW - 400ms was a good day.

People always think that the spark of invention is all that’s required, ignoring the social and material tinder and kindling that’s required for something to be useful and take off.

Since russia took over the government, we the population of the US are the foreign adversaries. And boy howdy are we being treated like it.

as a teenager he was associated with terrorists.

As a teenager he was the head of the youth wing of a group the israeli government deemed terrorists.

a statement about a Christian politician, and like a day later he was killed.

He personally held up yitzhak rabin’s car hood ornament at a press conference and said “we can get to your car, we can get to you” shortly before the then prime minister was assassinated by a fellow far right israeli.

Ben Gvir is a lifelong, on-the-record proponent of genocide who was officially labelled a terrorist by israel and almost certainly helped kill yitzhak rabin and end the peace process.

Nope, the latter was correct.

having the ability to create art from scratch is what makes someone an artist.

But in that case all AI artists are artists because all humans can create art from scratch. Everyone draws in the dirt.

I’m happy considering all humans artists - I do think that - but again that means that burning a stick and drawing on a rock is just not a valid metric for being an artist.

If all it takes to be a “real artist” is drawing proficiently, then every ai artist who has also learned to draw is a real artist and every performance or installation artist who can’t draw is not an artist.

I don’t like AI slop, but this argument against it just doesn’t make sense.

I prefer the original “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”

Is the lacking sophistication bit a reference I’m missing?

CuntGPT, is that you?

I feel that spreading lies, even to make fun of them, is ultimately counter-productive. I know others disagree though.

I was really hoping they’d keep him, rather than replacing him with the next most sycophantic rich boy in line.

We all know they tolerate rank incompetence and have no care for the lives of americans. Keeping hegseth would be saying that much louder, so now it’s someone else’s turn to endanger our lives.

So I’ve not paid close attention to opera in over a decade, clearly, because I just checked wikipedia and didn’t even know that it was chromium now.

I don’t have a problem with using a Chinese owned app - I’m neither tankie nor sinophobe, an increasingly lonely position - but I can see now why opera wouldn’t be included. Thanks!

Is there a reason that opera isn’t listed in browsers, or that OpenOffice isn’t included in office suites? I thought they had a relatively decent userbase.

Also Reddit -> Lemmy/Mbin could be added in social media.

Her phone wasn’t in the bag from any reporting I’ve seen. But she could easily be lying about that.

If it was a targeted intelligence action, all they got was her (now cancelled) DHS access badge. Russia already has front door access to the white house and probably everything doge has touched. China can just ask Russia if musk hasn’t filled them in yet.

I think it’s much more likely that she’s just a clueless rich moron who got her bag stolen.

A global government would prevent this from ever happening.

A few elites have the power to inflict violence on everyone else and get away with it - aka the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. This allows them to enforce injustice like unlivable wages but also to starve, jail and kill anyone who is serious about taking aware their power.

Setting up a global union would drastically curtail the power of elites, and they would prevent it. You would have to defeat the world’s elite, and in that case a universal wage is small potatoes.

He just opposed a plan to put money behind progressive candidates.

Progressive candidates in safe seats would allow them a platform to spread progressive messaging, showing americans that the Dems can offer a platform to get excited about, without sacrificing their ability to tack right in specific electorates where that’s tactically sound.

There are seats where the realistic choice is a fascist or a conservative dem. Focusing funds to those battles ensures the democratic party stays conservative, fails to offer a meaningful alternative, and fails to avert fascism.