Oh sweet summer child.

and the US is not an easy place to unionize in.

Moreso now than ever before.

Yes

Until very very recently, not if you’re a rail worker in the United States. And even now, not that much. The exploitative nature of our country’s “work ethic” is beyond ridiculous.

I don’t follow Russian propaganda and I’m not a tankie. And I know for a fact that the DNC did Bernie dirty. And that’s why I don’t trust the DNC. That’s not a problem caused by Bernie, that’s a problem caused by the DNC being a shady organization.

And blaming Bernie for Hillary’s loss in 2016 is just idiotic because Bernie had nothing to do with Hillary losing the general in 2016, that was all on her. She’s the one who failed to get the votes. There may have been vocal Bernie bros who were talking about how they didn’t want to vote for her but most of the people who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for her in the general. That’s because people who voted in the primary are politically engaged. The problem is that Hillary failed to get those who are not politically engaged on board with voting for her. And the people like you who blame Bernie for her loss are part of the problem not part of the solution. You make excuses for her and you make excuses for Kamala Harris and you make excuses for people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy pelosi who have basically ceded the entire Congress to the Republicans in exchange for keeping the meager power that they currently hold. Because that’s all they care about.

Hillary might have had a lot of advertisement money to play with but we also know that outside influences were promoting Bernie on social media to create a spoiler effect.

What spoiler effect? He was running for the Democratic nomination, not as a third party candidate. And with a very small number of vocal exceptions, everyone who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for Hillary in the general. It was her absolute failure to get independents in multiple flyover states that lost her the election. And a huge part of that is her attempt to appeal to republicans. A strategy that also failed spectacularly for Harris in 2024.

Hillary Clinton started with over 500 delegates before even 1 ballot was cast in a primary. And it was widely reported by every news outlet as if she had won some kind of campaign. They failed to mention that those were super delegates, meaning powerful individuals within the party who could cast their own full delegate vote for a candidate. Then she secretly took control of the party’s finances and then her friend, who was the DNC chair, arranged for every debate between her and Bernie to be on Sundays late at night when people wouldn’t be inclined to watch. They pressured the news outlets to downplay Bernie’s victories and over report on Hillary’s. Yes, she won the primary by many delegates, but the effort to lock the nomination up for her was a mafia style fix that undermined the entire democratic process.

And in 2020, when Bernie was gaining a great deal of momentum against Sleepy Joe, they used the pandemic to cancel all the remaining primaries and declare him the winner. The DNC doesn’t have my support and won’t for the foreseeable future. They’ve made this bed with Trump and we’re the ones who are going to have to lie in it. We need a different party. Not the fucking “Green” party either. Cause fuck those neoliberal assholes.

Food is one of the few things we export more to China than we import.

Oh we should absolutely be fighting but not with guns. We should be fighting with the law and protests. We should be confronting these fuckers at every junction. But the moment we pick up a gun or a rock or some other violent means we just give them the excuse to escalate the fascism.

Unfortunately, this is a exactly what Trump wants. He wants riots and chaos so he can declare martial law and gain even more power and possibly delay or even cancel elections. All of this is calculated.

I’m sorry where are you getting this information from? Everything I’ve read about him says he’s progressive and looking for progressive candidates. He’s a very staunch gun control advocate (I think you’d be shocked at how many corporate Democrats are not). Which is understandable because he was a survivor of a school gun massacre.

If you look at Alexandria Ocacia Cortez’s primary, when the DNC realized what was happening they tried desperately to undo her primary win. Going so far as to endorse the incumbent Democrat who stayed on the ballot due to a technicality.

These people are not trustworthy at all.

Another example would be Biden’s primary win in 2020. The DNC used the pandemic as an excuse to end the primary process early and just declare Biden the winner. And even before that they were heavily pushing Biden on everyone and doing their best to lock Bernie out of just about every poll they conducted, pretending like had no chance even though he was pulling numbers that were equalling, and even surpassing in places, Biden at the time.

“Let me be clear, this is not about shielding incumbents or boosting challengers,” Martin said.

Liar liar pants on fire. These people are so steeped in their own bullshit that they can’t even recognize how full of crap they truly are. I’d be willing to bet if this guy could reverse AOC’s win in the primary in her district in New York he would do so.

It’s just a TNG-era Star Trek with a different coat of paint.

This is why I found it so boring. Not only was it full of tired McFarland humor but the storylines were just rehashes of old Star Trek episodes. I peaced out around half way through season 1.

Yeah, none of that shit was planned. His little “Now’s a great time to buy!” message was just his way of making sure the market didn’t continue to spiral downward due to his incompetence with the tariffs. Trump is simply full of bluster and pomp but there’s no actual intelligence behind any of it. He’s a used car salesman trying to sell his broken down policies to the people who voted for him. He’s also trying to sell himself to those billionaires. Hoping for a golden parachute when this gig finally expires.

BTW, don’t get me wrong. These things have their uses. It’s just that their misrepresentation as “AI” is causing people to put them in a category they do not fit in. True AI or AGI will not be achieved through these methods. But these GANs have uses and if marketed the way they should be, they could lead to some terrific innovation.

But the way they’re being marketed right now is just a lot of hype whose only goal is to squeeze money out of investors and those gullible enough to believe that this is more than it is. And in the meantime they’re going to do a fuck ton of damage by stealing the artwork of people who actually have artistic talent thereby taking money out of those creative people’s pockets and the LLMs that are being wantonly plugged into search engines are outputting misinformation all over the place while enforcing a lazy attitude toward research and information gathering.

You would have to be able to concretely define what "intelligence " is first before you can do that.

The Turing test is not a valid determiner because the thought process behind it is 80 years out of date. Intelligence has to be capable of actually processing data on its own without external sources to draw from. Otherwise it’s just copying and pasting in approximation of language and art. See article below:

https://www.techradar.com/news/calm-down-folks-chatgpt-isnt-actually-an-artificial-intelligence

As the article states, these things should be called GANs but that doesn’t sound as sexy as AI.

This goes for Stable Diffusion as well as every other generative art program in existence.

Not at all. AI models are constantly developing. Compared to even a year ago they’re so much more advanced and there’s no reason to believe we’ve hit any sort of peak. And from what I can from my freinds that are still in Acedemia and places like deep mind, there are some truly groundbreaking changes coming pretty soon.

https://youtu.be/-wzOetb-D3w

It’s all hype in order to get investment dollars. These will never become AGI or anything close. They don’t “think”, they simply search their databases based on inputs and then output the closest approximation of what the user is asking for. It’s why AI art always looks wonky and LLMs output made up garbage.

No, but don’t you understand? Tesla is not a car company, it’s an AI company. They were just making cars while developing AI systems. So it’s fine if they stop selling cars. So just keep buying TSLA stock and everything will work out great!

~Elmo

AI is a misnomer anyhow. It’s been pretty definitively proven that these machines aren’t using intelligence of any kind, just really efficient search algorithms that are designed to smash things together in a way that looks like something resembling human speech and human made art. But that is the absolute limit of their ability and their potential.

I don’t think it’s just Canada either. I get the feeling that a whole lot of countries are reevaluating their relationship with the US and US made goods. And the way ICE and border patrol are behaving, I think it’s likely that overseas tourism is going to completely dry up in less than a year. Hell, even interstate tourism is likely to take a significant hit.