Other nations struggle with those issues too

I agree with you but other nations is vague. If by other nations you are comparing us to other very developed nations (Ex Europe) I would counter that the US has these issues to a way more extreme degree.

As an organizer in my free time it’s hardly unrealistic to suggest other people do the same.

Im sure as someone who does it everyday you do think that

God forbid political power take work and time. Better to be ineffectual and rhetorically entrench the sociopathic status quo, eh

This is the largest point I’m trying to make the time and effort it will take cannot be completed before the election. I mean you even agreed:

Do you think this can be organized 1 before the election, 2 before the election with enough time to actually change things in it

Your response was No.

Yes. This is how it has been for hundreds of years. People with less time and means did far more than this

Do you think every American agrees and will just jump on board?

And to defend the status quo.

No defending it I hate it but stop acting like it can change before the election, it is not enough time which is my point, not a defense.

How much time do you spend on social media, for example? Why not spend that time organizing meetings?

Couple hours after work, 10 mins before work, and while shitting. Drive times alone wouldn’t be meet with this time.

How on earty could you ever take credit for anything?

Don’t know what I took credit for but sure

Do you even live in a swing state?

Do you even live in America?

They want us to magically fix all the problems overnight, while blaming us for everything in the meantime.

You gonna bother explaining the MAS movement and provide a reasonable road map for how to achieve it?

Nah it’s easy just rewire the whole government in your free time, that’s what I don’t understand about these people. They have all these great ideas about organizing and starting this and changing that. The suggestions they give are just not realistic in our society currently, but they act like you’re the problem for voting.

Y’all understand that your little suggestion of starting a whole ass movement with the only resource of “unified voters” in one of the most diverse countries in the world will take a ton of time right ?

I’ll even play let’s say we:

If you care how you vote, you should be getting organized with likeminded people to create a voting block that makes demands

Do you think this can be organized 1 before the election, 2 before the election with enough time to actually change things in it, 3 by people working full time jobs and probably living paycheck to paycheck 4 while being fought back against the entire time by media oligarchy? No it isn’t realistic

What is realistic is trying to save the country from a centralization of powers into the executive branch (project '25) that will almost surely lead into fascism, which will then in turn fuck the rest of the world even worse.

Yup

Team aluminum all the way. A higher up where I work is obsessed with stainless steel, he gets these monstrous heavy duty tables made out of SS that hold objects 1/3 of their weight. Makes lab rearranging a nightmare lol.

Didn’t see this mentioned, look into type 2 bud which means the ratio of thca:cbda is roughly 1:1 or at the very least the cbd is much higher than type 1.

There are research studies that confirm that cbd dramatically reduces the side effects of thc, anxiety being a big one. The psychoactive effects will be dulled down but the side effects will be majorly mitigated.

I disagree, I think it is basic human/biologic that drives us to grab up resources and hoard them to ensure survival/reproduction/future generations. Capitalism is just a vehicle in which we are capable of expressing that biological greed on a global scale.

I think it’s more about being sick of an absolute lack of any attempt at representation. I will avoid the topic of race and come at this at a completely different angle because it was my experience.

I decided this would be the first election I would vote in, I have been apathetic for a long time. Cuss me or praise me it was how I exercised my right and I did it with thought. I decided to change that this year and I’ll be damned if I’ll vote uninformed, so I tuned into the first pres debate I’ve ever paid attention too.

I fully expected to see Trump lying/ talking out his ass and I had already seen some of the points of project 2025 so I already had an expectation. I hadn’t really ever paid Biden attention and was curious, but honestly my vote was well decided. Again though I wanted to know exactly who I was voting for. I was shocked, I felt deceived, but above all I thought " this is the elected official that is supposed to represent my ideals?". Which he already wasn’t and I had made so many many small concessions, it was just the straw that broke the camels back. I felt all the anger and frustration that I had quelled resurface with vengeance. Now I recognized even in the moment this was an emotional knee jerk reaction, so I decided to watch every interview after to find genuine motivation to vote for Biden. Never did, it was just Grandpa refusing to even acknowledge giving his license up after ramming into a pharmacy with his car. Biden always spoke of the past when asked about inflation, everyday struggles, his accomplishments, his wealth, his political career, half the shit he referenced happened before the birth of my parents. The entire time I just felt so disconnected from him as a representative of my vote.

Now I’m not trying to justify not voting because of this, you should always vote and I’m trying to be better as well. I’m just saying I can empathize with how hard it is to be motivated to vote when you already don’t feel represented whether that’s ideologically, physically, racially, gender, region, or whatever it’s all going to play into it, consciously or unconsciously. Even when you vote, you still can feel powerless. I suppose I can’t say that for sure yet but I am pretty positive I will about that because the broken things I want to see fixed wouldn’t start to mend immediately after voting because of how broken they are and how complex the solution probably will be, but I’m trying to have hope long term.

That really clears things up, thank you!

I wish articles would just call them Larian studios instead of BG3 devs.

Fucking terrifying form of life, I remember seeing this on Animal Planet as a kid. The whole cycle is fascinating, thank god it doesn’t fuck with the birds brains. Can you imagine a parasite trying to pilot an avian? Reiteration: fucking terrifying.

First thought when I read this headline was this is absurd, vanillin is super easy to synthesize the scent/flavor isn’t going anywhere. Now actual beans may become super scarce which sucks for sure.

Strong agree here. You hit on a lot of the core issues on LLMs, so I’ll say my opinions on the economic aspects.

It’s been more than a year since chatGPT released this plague of “slap AI on the product and consumers will put their children down for collateral to buy!” which imo we haven’t seen whatsoever. Investors still have a hard-on for the term AI that goes into the stratosphere but even that is starting to change a little.

Consumers level of AI distrust has risen considerably and consumers have seen past the hype. Wrapping this back around to the CEOs level of power, I just don’t think LLMs are actually going to have enough marketability for general consumers to become juggernaut corpos.

LLMs absolutely have use cases but they don’t fit into most consumer products. No one wants AI washers or rice cookers or friggin AI spoons and shoehorning them in decreases interest in the product.

Isn’t fascism very loosely defined? Is it because Maduro seized power but doesn’t have other characteristics of fascism? Just curious it’s a newer situation and I’m fussy about the details.

I personally disagree, mainly because the interactions have much more depth than the same 30 unfunny comments that people make on reddit ex: this. Don’t get me wrong it happens here as well, just way less. I also see people back claims up with evidence here way more, it’s not always valid evidence but at least an attempt is made more.

The thing I like the best is the lack of self righteousness (ironic I’m making this comment on this post haha) that reddit has, that was my personal biggest complaint there. Like on reddit if there is an animal in a video in any way shape or form you can almost always find someone screeching about animal abuse, even when it is obviously not.

I of course have bias in favor of Lemmy and this is highly dependent on the community. I will admit Lemmy is super left leaning, which I like, but definitely supports your hive mind argument. Even though I lean left I think it would be healthier for Lemmy to have more of a presence from the right. Unfortunately with how the political landscape is today I think it won’t be very achievable but hopefully when we hit the post Trump era divisiveness will ease making coexistence here more achievable.

Fair enough, Jesus they’re getting really brazen

Those are grow kits not actual mushrooms, it’s more of a grey area although selling spores for growing is expressly illegal.

I’m so tired of hearing this about America, we have one of the most diverse countries in the world. I understand the narrative that the media shows the world, the most horrendous of Americans (which are the smallest groups) get a totally disproportionate amount of media time because of their awful actions. A majority of the population tries to be decent human beings, of course bias exists subconsciously and people aren’t aware of it.

I am in the SE region of the US, which everyone loves generalizing as the most ignorant and racist area. I have seen true racist when I was delivering pizzas and my coworkers were black, it was horrendous. I can assure you the racists are a minority and a shrinking one at that. Not only that but it is exceedingly rare that they are under 50 years. Not only both of those things but both millennials and gen Z call out that shit immediately.

It really starts to wear on you when you actively try to fight these things and everyone still only sees your country as full of racists. Yes they exist but it is a shrinking minority.