We’ve had one, yes. But what about second Mamdani?

Can’t be blamed for putting boots on the ground if you made them eat all the boots first

The Ukrainian point of view is that Russia somehow infiltrated both regions, faked a 90+% vote for independence in those regions, and invaded when Ukraine denied their independence.

I mean…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Austrian_Anschluss_referendum

Have I got the tool for you

It’s bad enough that Wikipedia no longer allows linking to pages archived on there, and they’re actively working to replace any links already in use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance

There’s a massive difference between taking the deer you hit with your truck and whatever the fuck RFK was doing with bear cubs in Central Park

You’re not wrong, I was just poking fun at the original comment making a hyperbolic statement about hyperboles

I’d bet that a lot of it comes from how pervasive advertising is; we’re constantly bombarded by ads that use that kind of language, so it’s worked its way into everyday language

The irony of saying that only the US uses hyperbole

Call us Yankees because it’ll annoy the “the South will rise again” crowd

Schoolhouse Rock was a foundational part of my childhood. It’s because of those songs that I have the preamble to the Constitution memorized, and know what a preposition is

But the history songs… Wow. Presented as fun and educational, but the one about Manifest Destiny might as well be called “Lebensraum”

That’s why I have my own olive trees, chicken farm, lemon orchard, anchovy fishery, and a dairy farm in Parma

I don’t know why anyone would buy readymade olive oil, eggs, lemon juice, anchovies, or Parmesan, they’re dead simple to make

At least The Birth of a Nation and Riefenstahl’s films had an impact on filmmaking. No one’s going to cite Melania as inspiring anything other than suicidal thoughts while being forced to watch it

This is why I just never talk about brand-name products online, I don’t want to seem like an advertising shill account (I’m just here to get into heated political arguments and shitpost)

I’ll recommend things to people I know IRL, but very rarely will I do it online

No, they showed me their antifa membership card, they’re legit /s

We just have to succeed before we get drone striked

The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.

It absolutely does, because this time the enforcers wouldn’t be on the same side as the rioters

Hegseth has to be a master of drunken boxing

Not like any actual fighting style, just years of experience trying to punch people outside of bars

Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”

I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.

Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.

You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.

This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.

No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.

Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.

We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!

No.