I'm way more confident in my ability to take a goose than a cat. Geese are mean and can hurt, but push come to shove I could tank that with adrenaline.

Cats will claw your eyes out.

Then you have more revenue so it's easier to launder large cash payments through it.

Oof, if you're going to run a money laundering business at least either provide a good product or a cheap price.

I think there's a useful discussion for why these technologies can be effective at getting people to connect with them emotionally, but they themselves don't experience emotions any more than a fictional character in a book experiences emotion.

Our mental model of them can, but the physical representation is just words. In the book I'm reading there was a brutal torture scene. I felt bad for the character, but if there was an actual being experiencing that kind of torment, making and reading the book would be horrendously unethical.

I have a preconceived conclusion about my anthropomorphized view of a statistical model with some heuristics around it. People who know what they're talking about say I'm wrong, but I need an idea for an article to write that people will read.

Yep that sounds like a flying object that no one identified.

a few dozen fake internet points.

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The usage of the yellow rice below the chin like shading screams AI to me. If it was real they probably would be leaning more into a flat cartoon art style and just have the neck just go down as white.

Also, that grain of rice making his right nostril is jank.

Make sure you use organic short half life poisons. Don't poison the surrounding areas with rainwater runoff just because you want to live in a nightmarish hellscape.

Desolate responsibly.

That's a plucky kitty.

Don't worry, we're working on making the earth look WAY shittier so you can work your 9-5 without worrying about missing out on anything.

No, I'm saying we need to clean house before looking across the aisle. If we can't even convince our own side that this is urgent and not a game, how on earth are we going to convince the people actively tearing the country apart?

Also, if you think a well reasoned article and an open ear are enough to get the republicans to change, you're sorely mistaken.

It doesn't help that Indian English often still uses a lot of colonial terms, like Capsicum instead of bell pepper. That being said most Indians in the US will adjust to the local vocabulary pretty quickly.

I'm no English major, but I'm pretty sure @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world calling it weird is a rhetorical device known as sarcasm.

I mean, it's a valid question. Why are the Democrats censuring their own? Why aren't the Democrats supporting the popular candidates who can mobilize voters but are more progressive than they would like?

That being said, you also don't know where the bottom will be, so slowly buying into a falling market should let you get a good amount of buys in close to the bottom.

Thankfully, Elon has shown that whatever Trump mystique there is won't magically transfer to someone else just because they're associated with him.

So what would mobilizing them look like? They know what we want them to do, is it a lack of motivation? A lack of incentive? If the threat of losing their core voters isn't enough to get them to act, what is?

It's not that we don't recognize the fault of Republicans, but yelling at them is less effective than mobilizing resources that are supposed to be more accessible to Democrats.

There are tons of campaigning dollars, expertise, and connections locked away behind intransigent Dems.