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moakley

@ moakley @lemmy.world

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  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • No, but I'm very familiar with the mid-quel tv series, Lion Guard. It was my 6-year-old daughter's first real info dump. She'll go on about the lore for an hour, explaining about Scar's return, the Roar, and why Kion doesn't show up in Lion King 2.

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • Yeah, my kids are obsessed with it. It's... not great.

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • Kovu

    Like from Lion King 2?

  • Under pressure Kash Patel claims FBI has ‘evidence’ that 2020 election was stolen

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  • No way. A strong response against COVID would have been an easy win.

    Remember at the beginning of COVID, when Trump was asked "What do you say to Americans who are scared?" A softball question so soft that it would melt in a cup of hot chocolate. Literally any president ever would have a historic soundbite as an answer. George W. Bush would have sounded like the most presidential motherfucker you've ever heard.

    Trump said: "I say you're a terrible reporter."

    So I think Trump's response to COVID was uniquely disastrous to him on every level. The fact that anyone ever took him seriously will continue to be a national and historical embarrassment.

  • This is gonna be good

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  • Whenever I uncensor something, I like to add thematically appropriate emphasis to the curse word. A glowing "fuck" on a Fallout post, a Star Trek font "shit" in a Star Trek post, a big veiny "cock" for a post about cocks. I take pride in my work.

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  • For a while there I was trying to emphatically uncensor any memes I found. I already did this one, because it's an old meme.

  • Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’

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  • You're just trolling? Or your reading comprehension needs a lot of work? Or maybe you're some kind of paranoid, living the loneliest life, because all you see are bootlickers everywhere. I genuinely don't know which one it is.

  • What is a 'social rule' that we all follow but nobody ever actually agreed to?

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  • When they're alone or with other people? If I'm alone, I'm facing forward.

  • Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’

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  • It still sounds like this was an experimental treatment. It was brought to the doctor by the patient's wife. So we don't know all the specifics of how likely it would have been to help.

    Even so, these kinds of experimental treatments are often paid for by the companies that provide them. There's still a process they go through to get a "compassionate use" case approved, because they don't have the resources to provide it to everyone who asks. I wonder if they were denied for this, if they never applied for it, or if this particular company just doesn't offer it.

    I'm not saying that US healthcare isn't fucked or anything. Just that the situation has more nuance than the headline suggests.

    Edit: sorry, should have realized when I saw the same headline on reddit that this was a reddit thread.

    The treatment definitely would have worked, and if we didn't have health insurance companies then cancer would literally never kill anyone, because we'd just keep trying experimental treatments until everyone lived forever.

  • TIL the color "chartreuse" is named after a liqueur

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  • Orange was considered a shade of red until the 1670s. That's why people with orange hair are called redheads: the word "redhead" predates the naming of the color orange.

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    [Meta] New Rules, and New Future

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  • Ok, those are all great things to hear from a mod.

    But it doesn't solve the problem at hand. These vandalized images are still right there, doing harm, making things worse for comic artists. How do we get them removed?

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    [Meta] New Rules, and New Future

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  • That makes sense for allowing beep to stay. I still don't think it's the right move given the extreme level of bad faith in which he operated, but ok, you guys are making a point about objectivity. Rules shouldn't apply ex post facto to members of the community.

    However. Rules should and typically do apply ex post facto to content. If I dig up an old comic with the word "fuck" in it that was never removed, would you remove it now that curse words are allowed? Or would you say there's no current rule against it, so it stays?

    I'm sure it would stay. Common sense wins out in that case, just as it should in the other case.

    The point of having rules around content isn't to punish users who break the rules. It's to shape this place into the community we want it to be. If we want it to be a community that respects artists, then we need to remove the content that's so blatantly and aggressively disrespectful to artists.

    Posts that broke the per-day rule or the old NSFW rule aren't harming anyone. But these posts that are an intentional perversion of a creator's art, removing their name and in some cases surreptitiously modifying the content of the picture, are passively harming those artists every day that they exist in this community. You're leaving them out there to be found and disseminated, to supercede the artist's original work.

    I seriously doubt the community values artist integrity less than "hundreds of existing discussions" about what an asshole the poster is, so I think this should be a pretty easy stance to take.

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  • Did you end up removing his posts with the altered comics? Or are they still out there to disseminate his inferior versions across the internet?

    And just to be clear, I think not banning beep is an idea with no upside.

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  • Personally I'd say it's the hero being an orphaned "chosen one", or maybe the damsel in distress trope. But maybe it depends on what kind of media you consume.

  • Trump supporters burn MAGA hats after president's AI Jesus post and pope attack

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  • I am aware of at least one real instance of this happening. Not the hat burning, but my wife is Facebook friends with an old coworker of hers who is self-identified MAGA. This is his latest post, under the Trump/Jesus picture:

    Always been a fan of the guy, but the last 3-4 months I've lost all respect for him. Has turned into Israel's puppet with this war, turned the entire world against us by joining a side that is quite literally murdering thousands of innocents left and right in Gaza and Lebanon, and now posting this blasphemous shit, on the day of Orthodox Easter, no less. Fuck him.

    I don't know if this is happening in numbers significant enough for it to matter, but it's one real case.

  • Remember, living wages is less expensive than this!

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  • How?

  • Fox News doc says not enough ’15 to 19′ year-olds are having kids: ‘The fertility is down’

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  • Did you not understand that I was talking about immigration? Which is one of the ways we solve that. All of that.

    Besides which we're actually talking about keeping the population stable. A declining population is bad for everyone economically. Luckily population growth naturally slows down in modernized societies, which is why allowing people to immigrate is good for everyone.

  • Fox News doc says not enough ’15 to 19′ year-olds are having kids: ‘The fertility is down’

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  • The replacement rate is down to 1.56, meaning every couple is having, on average, 1.56 children in the United States. We need two or above to keep the population at the same amount.

    There's actually another way to keep the population up, and it's great for America economically and culturally, and it makes the world a better place at the same time.

  • MTG finally frustrated the beast has turned against her. 😂

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  • It's LLM-generated. I've seen this tweet discussed in a few different places now and I'm surprised I'm the only one pointing this out.

    The spelling, grammar and sentence structure are too good for it to be Trump. It's too coherent and fact-based, but it's also too cohesive. It meanders like Trump, but then it gets back to the point. It's presenting a formulaic argument. That's something LLMs always do and Trump never does.

    It's also loaded with em dashes. There is no possibility that Trump used an em dash on purpose.

    Trump probably put the prompt into ChatGPT himself and then didn't bother to read it.