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Elon Musk’s harem exposes the emptiness of Republican ‘family values’
  • Seems like a run of the mill liberal whose information about "the left" comes from far right talking points:

    But there is a problem with the way in which discussion about family values and having babies is split into two extreme camps – the trad-wife Right and the “abolish the family” Left. For any young couple starting out, the choices seem to be to either raise your non-binary child in defiance of the nuclear family, or to go full homestead and demand that your wife wear gingham and churn her own butter amongst a multitude of children.

    Like, what the fuck is this shit?

    The discussion about "family values" might seem like this if you only listen to what conservatives are claiming about what "the left" wants.

  • Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
  • the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working

    That's a feature, not a bug: the entire point is to make it very hard to see the effects of the regime's policies, so that they can just claim everything is working as intended and the rest of the world won't be able to verify it.

    Russia has been doing the same for years (well, decades really). They fixed their HIV epidemic by stopping the collection of data on infections

    edit: ah, and the article says as much. That'll teach me to comment before reading

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  • Yeah a friend of mine accidentally walked into the crossfire of what turned out to be a nearly 10-year-long beef between two badly medicated bipolar people that had reached some pretty fantastic and frankly scary proportions. Stalking and harrassing the shit out of each other, or the other's employers, friends, acquaintances, random people who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. etc. Justice system's been involved multiple times.

  • Elon’s Grok Chatbot Calculates Probability That Trump Is a Russian Asset
  • I didn't mean that they never called it a "chatbot", but that they treat it like a regular meatbag source, more or less.

    But yeah, maybe take a break, you've clearly decided to be ANGY about this for some reason.

  • There is very little point of talking about abortion to anyone over the age of 25. They've already made up their mind and you won't convince them to change. The only solution is voting.
  • Same here, and pretty notably I keep getting more left wing instead of more conservative and the same's been happening to my friends too, so even the idea that you automatically get more conservative as you age is pretty suspect.

    Shit, right now in Finland the under 25's are more conservative than Millennials, at least based on voting patterns

  • Elon’s Grok Chatbot Calculates Probability That Trump Is a Russian Asset
  • I'm not saying this just based on the headline: it's not like the article itself displays anything that I'd consider a critical approach to LLMs. Just because I don't agree with your interpretation of the article doesn't mean I didn't even read it.

    Weighing the real estate magnate's dealings with both pre- and post-Soviet officials, the KGB, and the Russian mobs, Grok said that although there is no "smoking gun [that] proves direct control," there's a good chance that Trump is a "useful idiot" for Putin — especially given that "Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable."

    "Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85 percent likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset," the chatbot said, "leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties."

    This just reads like Grok is any other source and not an LLM.

  • There is very little point of talking about abortion to anyone over the age of 25. They've already made up their mind and you won't convince them to change. The only solution is voting.
  • I've become much more flexible in my thinking and beliefs the older I've gotten, and statistically young people are much more likely to have extreme positions on things.

    If anything, you're probably going to have a worse time convincing young people who think they know everything, than older people who understand that they don't.

  • James Bond "To Stay British, Male Under Amazon Control" - report
  • This is just pandering to right wing extremists (ie mainstream conservatism).

    It's like if, say, Unilever bought out a company and then released a statement saying "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs will stay free of woke mRNA vaccine"

  • I voted for the leopards [Haus of Decline]

    Source: https://bsky.app/profile/hausofdecline.bsky.social/post/3ldvtptbgm22x

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    I legit went and bought a bottle of rum

    I am not going to be sober if it turns out we have to deal with Trump (or notorious couch-fucker JD Vance) for another 4 years

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