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LesserAbe

@ LesserAbe @lemmy.world

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  • What are some methods of distributed civil disobedience for Americans?

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  • Something I liked about the response to LA was people showing up at hotels where occupiers were staying and driving them out. There's a sort of group denunciation happening, and then also it just makes it hard to do the work - they don't have enough sleep, they have to travel farther to the intended area of action.

    What about other ways to foul logistics? And what are other ways to shame/demoralize people supporting the regime? Totalitarians require everyday people to carry out their orders. The more people we peel away or disillusion the less control a totalitarian can exert.

  • Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air

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  • This is helpful, thanks.

  • Texas Democratic legislator to stay in state capitol after refusing law enforcement escort to leave

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  • Yeah most children I know accept the police escort over detainment

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  • I don't understand the segment of people who were excited to come up with a new slur for AI. Plus it's not even effective. It doesn't make sense, doesn't bite. Computers don't clank, not even robots clank anymore. Are we in Battlestar Galactica or something

  • Devils Panties 08/08/2025

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  • Glad to see my people in the comments

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • So in this system, would all citizens have to vote on a bill in order for it to become law? How would it be determined that a law is valid/good enough to be brought up for a vote? You could imagine thousands of proposed bills each year. And certainly most citizens wouldn't pay the kind of attention you'd hope would be given to legislation affecting the entire nation, even if it was only a hundred bills.

    I do like the idea of a referendum, where if you get enough signatures then it goes up for vote to the entire electorate. But I think that needs to be in tandem with professional legislators.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • Thanks for your reply. I'm still having a hard time understanding how it would work. Say for example that there needs to be a new law. How would it get written, and then how is it passed?

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • When you say direct democracy what do you envision?

    I'm all for that where practical, but the complexity of the necessary tasks and knowledge of issues quickly exceeds what people can realistically keep track of. Governing and legislating needs to be a full time job I think.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • A lot of stuff in the U.S. is like an early draft of democracy that never got changed.

    Whoever gets the most votes wins (aka "first past the post"), but if there are more than two people running, it's very common for the winner to have less than a majority of the public supporting them. It's why we don't see much in the way of third parties.

    Instead we have primaries, which are just elections for members of a specific political party, but which have much lower participation than the general election. These are also "first past the post" elections, so as a result we end up with a lot of candidates that people aren't happy with, but you have to vote for the lesser evil.

    The house of representatives is vulnerable to gerrymandering, especially because each state draws it's own districts by it's own rules.

    The Senate is unfair as written in the constitution - each state gets two senators, regardless of population. So a state like Wyoming or Montana gets two senators while they have a lower population than individual cities like New York or Los Angeles. It's one big reason why we can't get any popular laws passed.

    Ideally I'd love to see the president elected by ranked choice voting, the Senate eliminated, and the house of representatives elected by single transferrable vote. But we're so far from that it's science fiction.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • I've been campaigning against gerrymandering in my state since 2016:

    You're right that no map will be perfect. The best practice in cases where you're limited to electing a single candidate per district is to have people who don't have a conflict of interest draw it - an independent redistricting commission.

    In our state's proposed bill members of the commission can't be politicians, lobbyists or families of those groups. 4 members are selected from the largest political party, 4 from the next largest political party, and 3 from independents/smaller parties.

    Then you have a variety of conditions on the way they draw - not allowed to consider partisan advantage, must hold x number of public hearings, versions of maps must be published in advance of final selection and more.

    Final approved map must receive at least two votes from each of the three blocks.

    Lastly there's a fail-over process where if a winning map cannot be selected, then any member of the commission can propose a map, and they hold an elimination vote until one remains.

    All that said, I think the best long term solution is single transferrable vote. Way fewer wasted votes, pretty much everyone has someone who represents them, encourages third parties.

  • Is there a Lemmy community for discussing LLMs from a technical perspective?

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  • Same, I'm interested. I've done very limited experimenting with LM studio and follow a couple related subreddits but would prefer to support lemmy.

  • Tarantino knows what he likes, I guess.

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  • Not saying I don't believe it, but when does he lick feet?

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  • Good thing I can take personal credit for all these plants. Sort of like how I helped my local sports team win the championship.

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  • And potatoes and corn!

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  • It's rude to show AI output to people

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  • This is a good post.

    Thinking about it some more, I don't necessarily mind if someone said "I googled it and..." then provides some self generated summary of what they found which is relevant to the discussion.

    I wouldn't mind if someone did the same with an LLM response. But just like I don't want to read a copy and paste of chatgpt results I don't want to read someone copy/pasting search results with no human analysis.

  • I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good

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  • Besides the other commenter highlighting the specific nature of the linked study, I will say I'm generally doing technical queries where if the answer is wrong, it's apparent because the AI suggestion doesn't work. Think "how do I change this setting" or "what's wrong with the syntax in this line of code". If I try the AI's advice and it doesn't work, then I ask again or try something else.

    I would be more concerned about subjects where I don't have any domain knowledge whatsoever, and not working on a specific application of knowledge, because then it could be a long while before I realize the response was wrong.

  • I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good

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  • Could you try to understand what I'm saying instead of jumping down my throat?

    If I want to turn off a certain type of notification in a program I'm using, I don't need to sift through three forum threads to learn how to do that. I'm fine taking the AI route and don't think I've lost my humanity.