Alternatively, you can make fun of those people for being stupid. And lying.

They know they’re lying, you know that right?

so that there can be no question when they are found guilty,

That’s right, guys, we just gotta wait 14 more months.

Wah~ pls no bully

It does actually.

As bad as Trump’s administration is,

1. they own the federal level, not the states;
2. there are still a lot of proceduralists around;
3. doing whatever they want only works if there’s no resistance. Trump’s administration in particular crumbles under resistance, which is why it’s so infuriating that Democrats keep rolling over.

Anger also clouds the mind.

I’m not going to disagree with you because that would be silly. But, what are you referring to? I hope you can read the comtempt in my voice. Whose mind is clouded over the murder of Renee Good?

I was going to explain something about farm houses keeping cameras out of their slaughterhouses, or use an analogy about trying to explain magenta to a blind person, and how your own description can both be truthful and insufficient. But I don’t think that’s even important.

The only thing that matters here is that you are struggling to watch these videos, you feel as if you are being made to, and everything you’ve said since those two feelings has been sophistry to explain why you shouldn’t have to.

merc, I’m snapping my fingers. You are free. You can go play Factorio or whatever it is that you wanted to do. I absolve you of the responsibility.

I mean, maybe.

In Walz’ case, I don’t necessarily think it’s money. I don’t think a bribe is necessary, it’s just a cultural expectation among DNC politicians that you must be limp, ineffective, meek, weak-willed, civil to a near suicidal degree, and ambitionless.

But, those virtues ultimately come from the (corporate) consultants anyway, and I’m not much interested in defending Walz right now either, so fuck it. May as well be fucking bribed.

I’d probably be a lot angrier if I did. Which is the point. We, people, need to stay angry. Anger motivates action.

I’m sorry, I meant what are you doing in this comment section. As in, “what are you trying to accomplish.”

[edit] Also, I’m just going to assume these are good organizations: Right on, man. I’m glad you’re out there helping your fellow people.

And replaced him with who?

I realize that we’re speculating about a universe that has not happened, but her vice president is allowing ICE to kill his citizens. Replaced Merrick with who, exactly?

What are you doing?

One of the primary goals of grassroots organizing is to take power. Walz already has the power. He should wield the state power against the federal government.

Can they be instructed to resist ICE presence

Yes.

Keep in mind, the only alternative to the Minnesota state government resisting the feds directly is armed, citizen militias, which will be way the fuck more bloody. ICE can possibly be intimidated by the national guard, but especially against citizens, they’re not going to just tip their hat and leave.

I think it’s mostly just fear. Like a fear-induced executive disfunction.

Reminding them “you need to get out and do something, you need to get out and do something, you need to urge your representatives to get out and fucking do something” sounds to them a lot like you’ve just tied a bungee to their waste and are telling them to jump off the bridge. And they’ve been afraid of heights their whole life, you know?

Unironically, we have too many sugary treats here for a meaningful resistance to mount yet. American’s lives need to get less comfortable before they (finally) start feeling like they have nothing to lose.

If I lived in Minneapolis, I would step up just to grind your nose into the shit you just took. Stop capitulating. It’s weak.

we’ll see this ICE occupation ends.

I’m sorry to you and Walz, but this is not good enough. I don’t want ICE occupation to end, I want ICE gone, and this panzy-ass “keep the peace” rhetoric does not indicate that he agrees with me.

Jonathan Ross needs to be charged with murder. Now. We need to see the charges, or we can effectively write this country off as spiritually dead.

Getting more democrats in office in November doesn’t mean anything if Merrick Garland is not even capable of prosecuting republicans attempting a coup on our government. Minneapolis is being occupied by an enemy state, fucking act like it.

I need Jonathan Ross and whoever this new shooter is to be charged with murder, Walz.

I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking, but the main difficulty here is that using AI, even just for temp assets, is a virtue signal that demonstrates bad virtues. That’s why it’s socially repulsive. It’s like inviting someone into your home and watching them stick their fingers in the soup.

It’s not that using an AI asset for exactly 5 minutes only before swapping it out, and never even committing it to your git history—it’s not that this disqualifies your work from being meaningful in other ways, it’s just that being weak on this front, morally, makes you seem like kind of a dipshit. It’s a failure to reject the siren’s song that leads sailors to their death, you know?

And for what it’s worth, I love seeing passionate work. As a proper art enjoyer, a professional liker of things, cubes and cylinders do nothing to dissuade me.

Stats.

Does anyone else think that the old refrain of letting nerds run the world was actually incredibly misguided because nearly all of them lack the social skills necessary to not be sociopaths?

Nope. AI is a black box that gives you what it gives you: you lose the creative direction of whatever decisions you leave up to it.

You think my problem with AI is that it costs money?

Well, you’re not putting it to very good use.

By feeding people’s collective cynicism, lack of social skills, general paranoia, lack of trust in each other, waning hope for the future, etc.

Do have a humanities background? All tech people should have one.