the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

The Republican Party is defined by spending their days trying to impose suffering on other people.

It is deeply inappropriate that "AI" images and video are becoming so prominent. It's dangerous to people and to their psyches. It promulgates falsehoods. Nothing that is worth creating is out of the reach of a real artist. Only the most grotesque visions and imageries thrive in the hallucinations.

There isn't a single piece of generative visual media technology that is worth the evil it unleashed into the world. The text generation and charts, graphs I will relent on, there may be some narrow useful applications. Not talking about ML of course.

But the images, the videos... pure evil.

Same, I've never seen it at all. Know a shocking amount from literally every friend I had watching it.

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

You think posting is more important than laws?

He enabled Trump's secret police usage of ICE and has a pathetic excuse for it. I'm sorry, but empty words of criticism are not enough. He did something that materially aided fascism and I do not think Trump critics should be absolved for what they do that aids him and his allies.

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

One reply to you is obviously the sum of my life and my habits, because only things that affect you and your feelings matter.

I don't like it when there's collaboration with fascists, and between Schatz making excuses for supporting ICE and his stance on the CR, I don't trust him. Deal with it.

I never criticize Republicans? Are you going to keep making ridiculous assumptions about me that are blatantly false just because I criticized your special guy?

So much for all the grief I felt and tears I shed when Trump won. It didn't personally register for *you*, and that's all that matters.

The thread is about Brian Schatz. I don't understand why you keep bringing up Bernie and now me, who is not a US Senator lol

You're acting like a cultist and projecting all sorts of hero worship onto me.

Did you know that you can criticize multiple people at once? Besides me and Bernie, I mean.

Can you get your head out of 2016 and listen to yourself? I make a critique of Brian Schatz that he has an awful excuse for voting for an awful bill, and you bury your head in the sand and whine about someone else. Why in the world would *anything* Bernie Sanders has done excuse Schatz's vote?

imagine being this mad about the suggestion that everyone gets healthcare that five years later you can't look at Democrats promoting a Republican line on immigration and see how maybe some things went wrong when the organization they wanted to fund is terrorizing us as a secret police force

This is outrageous.

For so much of the world, including for many, many American Jews, Israel has completely and forever lost its credibility.

Not only does the genocide need to end, but Netanyahu and others need to face human rights prosecution and the apartheid must be abolished.

Waynesboro is very plausible for a flip considering how close it was in 2020!

All of this applies to 05 to me, and then 06 is another impossible one. It's just too far still

They aren't big enough. I know TMac flopped hard with turnout, but only Williamsburg in 01 was a true flop, the other cities don't have that much room to grow.

I don't think the 6th either. Reversion will be in the suburbs and cities, there's simply too much rural there.

Anecdotes observed today: Bloomberg 2020 supporter lifelong "Boomer" - aged Democrats who are completely affirming of trans rights, especially for children who don't feel safe at home and who have preferred pronouns at their schools, etc.

Swing voters aren’t confused or undecided. They’re asleep

Every Republican official, whether appointed or elected, is already a saboteur.

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