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  • Like on the ticket as a Democrat and everything? I thought it was too late, and an independent doesn't have the time to build name recognition

    If there's a better way to salvage this I'm all for it... I'm just so sick of how politicians can shit into the fan and just slink off without consequences

  • He's probably going to anyways, but there's not time for a replacement... Why does he get to just slink off and leave the seat to a Republican by default?

    He fucked it up for everyone... The least he could do is own up and open a slim path for someone else

  • What he should do is vow to resign if he wins so Maine can choose someone else

  • Do individuals have platforms?

    Yes? Of course they do. It's a collection of beliefs, goals, and promised actions presented when you're rallying support from the people

    Our government has certainly been chosen by a teams sports mentality, but that's absolutely not the norm. They used to have long public debates and publish essays... What we're going through is a heavily degraded democracy, none of this is normal

  • The first scandal was basically that he's a CHUD dumbass and an edge lord when he was younger... But who cares? That much was obvious, and his platform is on point. The media just presented it as more than it was, because the billionaires own the media and are terrified of progressives

    This is the first serious scandal. Unfortunately it's too late to replace him, and supposedly there's something much worse that hasn't been released yet...a depressing day of news all around

  • One of the major complaints of the luddites were quality too. The (quite literal) orphan crushing machines made a lot of cloth. So much new uses for cloth were created, because no one needed so much cloth before

    But it was cheap cloth that wore down much faster. It was also the birth of consumerism

    There's a lot of aspects to the struggle of the luddites that very much apply to modern issues, this aspect has been on my mind in relation to AI lately... The displaced workers aren't the only victims, society gets worse for everyone at the altar of profits

  • Not slightly. We're already having problems with food and water in even "first world" countries... Just little hiccups before a true systematic failure

    The disasters will get worse and way more common, but those aren't where the true horrors will be. It'll be the disease, conflict, and mass starvation

    We could certainly overcome it. Humans are very adaptable... But it's already starting, and we aren't doing anything. We can't even organize enough to agree we should do anything at all to save ourselves

    So things will get horrific. It could take billions of dead to figure out a new way to live at this rate. Every lesson will be learned though desperation. And then one day, we'd reach that new worse normal

    But if we got our act together and started actually preparing, it wouldn't be bad. Scary and hard, but we'd get hope back. We'd regain connection to each other, and be united against an outside enemy. We'd share a dream of bringing the green back. We

    We could come together pretty quickly once we accepted the necessary sacrifice of the old ways of living... But each day it progresses and we do nothing. It's depressing and terrifying, but the truth can't be ignored anymore

  • It's how llms work... The points in vector space are basically tokens. The distance is correlated to aspects of things/concepts

    So you can use geometry to search the vector space and get very good results, it's mainly used to store/index information for later retrieval

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  • I've noticed things getting worse personally. My main complaint is that people have started being much less charitable readers... A lot of people jump to conclusions that make me think "when the hell did I say any of that?"

    I've mostly just stopped replying at this point, no amount of clarification seems to help with these people, they're just itching for a fight

    It's definitely a minority, but it's got me posting a lot less

  • He's the avatar of their interests. He doesn't matter, and yet he's the linchpin holding it all together

  • There's very few "original" Pokemon. Most of them come from Japanese folklore

    There's a reason Nintendo didn't use the trademark angle, they would have lost very quickly

  • I think a good church is great for hobby projects ready to be taken out of the basement

    You do have to belong to such a church already though

  • That is absolutely massive for a browser. Like multiple orders of magnitude too big. Like what are we even doing

    And I don't care if everyone is doing it, it's still too big!

  • I find the fact you've learned to speak clickbait concerning

  • In fairness, neither do Democrats. Or at least they're not releasing the report

  • Where did doctrine that come from? I'm not sure where you're getting it. Kinda sounds made the fuck up

    You can absolutely criticize the pope as a Catholic. What you can't do is attempt to supercede him on matters of faith

    Which, you know, we've got people doing that already, no need to make shit up

  • Meant by who? The pope?

  • They're house members. They're generally not all that rich and powerful, they're protected because they're useful

    They'll be thrown in front of the mob the second a billionaire feels tight under the collar

  • I think it's more that they see the writing on the wall... The people want consequences. There's likely to be trials