Reminds me of the fanclubwallet song “Solid Ground” https://fanclubwallet.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me
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sometimes you miss sleeping next to them even though if you don’t miss them anymore
sometimes the music’s different if you listen to it in your old bedroom
and if the friendship’s over you still remember the color of your shoelaces
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But don’t LLMs not do math, but just look at how often tokens show up next to each other? It’s not actually doing any prime number math over there, I don’t think.
Idk, I’d be really upset by my partner knowingly doing this without talking to me about it
What is the “this” you’d be upset about exactly?
Also US policy makers: We refuse to do anything about the low wages, crushing debt, inaccessible health care (physical and mental), and other problems I can’t even think of right now.
They cannot do both! Time is finite.
So I guess they better not sleep or have other hobbies then, either, right? I don’t think expecting maximum optimization is realistic.
It doesn’t matter because if we take direct action and prefigure mutual aid networks for improving our lives the state fucking collapses from its own contradictions.
Many people will suffer and die if the state collapses abruptly. Especially if it continues on the trajectory the right wing is aiming it right now. We should avoid the equivalent of an unsafe shutdown. We can do more than one thing at a time, especially when one of those things is “spend 15 minutes once a year voting against the store brand nazi”. If you just forfeit on this front, people will be rounded up and disappeared because that’s what won the election, and there are enough people that comply, and enough people that are eager for that. Voting won’t magically fix everything, but it can act as harm reduction.
And yes even the little old ladies volunteering on food kitchens would be thousand times more valuable than doing election tables.
They can do both!
I’m not ignoring the real world at all. I’m saying that if we put the electioneering efforts into direct action, it won’t matter if someone else has the state.
In what way will it not matter if someone else controls the state?
It sounds like you’re ignoring the real world when you say we should abandon elections and let our opponents take full control of the government. That will lead to incalculable tragedy.
I really don’t think the little old ladies volunteering to run the tables are an untapped vanguard of the revolution, nor do I think that them spending an afternoon there is mutually exclusive with other activities.
You can’t just ignore the world because you don’t like it and expect it to conform to your desires. Laws and government exist. If you forfeit this front, the people who do put effort in will use these apparatuses to do real things in the real world. People on food stamps can’t eat your idealism. (And programs like that are not mutually exclusive with mutual aid)
Oh maybe. I read that a long time ago but don’t remember the details anymore.
Most people follow election results and those people’s actions have real, discernable, effects. If you yield on this front, even if you think elections are flawed, you’re letting your opponents have this power uncontested. That’s a terrible strategy.
I’m not sure I follow. I was talking about what individuals should do: direct action and also voting. Voting is often just a few minutes for the end user.
I’m not talking about what the state should spend resources on.
True, true. Saint Luigi inspired people. But that alone didn’t fix the world, and it’s a very chaotic move.
I meant the amount of effort it takes for the end user.
If we’re going to talk about higher order levels of effort, then everything gets very expensive very quickly.
No single thing alone will fix the world. Voting alone won’t fix it. Throwing a molotov alone won’t fix it.
Voting (in many places, for many people) takes almost no effort. Go do it. But don’t call it a day and think you’ve done everything you can do. Refusing to vote just yields one of the many fronts in this conflict without a fight.
There was a book I read where the exorcism failed when the Christian guy tried to do it, but worked when the best friend sang their favorite song. It was corny but sweet. (I might be remembering it slightly wrong)
I don’t think the fumes from vaping are especially safe or welcome, either. At least there’s no littering, though
You probably watch YouTube with the sound on and no headphones in public, too.
Every smoker I’ve met gets very defensive about “why can’t I breathe my toxic fumes on everyone else?? What’s the big deal?? And then they get so mad when I litter like get over yourself”
Smoking in public is indefensible. There are smoking cessation programs.
Probably because they’re addicted, enjoy the high, and don’t have the means or strength of character to quit.
I didn’t realize until adulthood that some households don’t really prioritize music. My parents were always playing and telling me about the music they grew up with (classic rock, because I’m old and they’re older)
Every once in a while I’ll meet a peer who’s like “oh yeah we didn’t have a lot of records” and I’m like oh that checks out with you not knowing the velvet underground
But I try not to be a jerk about people not knowing stuff, because no one needs that.
Is it running arbitrary python code server side? That sounds like a vector to do bad things. Maybe they constrained it to only run some trusted libraries in specific ways or something.