The last three I think are especially important - many people don’t really understand how political national flags can be and that they never really just represent a people/region/language in a completely unbiased way.

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The dissolution of the state is the final stage of Communism. The material conditions of Stalin’s time did not call for it; and if anything, the greatest critique of Stalin among modern Leninists is that his economic policy of mass collectivization was Ultra-Leftist.

That’s functionally the difference between Anarchism, a fundamentally Individualist and Idealist ideology, and Marxism, which is fundamentally Collectivist and Scientific.

A Marxist political society will also tend towards Classlessness and Statelessness, though in the case of Marxism both of these are not goals but an inevitable result of a society dominated by the Proletariat according to Marxist theory.

Oh okay, so option 3 is a win/win

I’m part of a coalition trying to prevent a private equity firm from buying out a local nonprofit hospital and using AI to “Improve efficiency” is one of their plans that we’ve had to study (done by people much more competent than I).

The main thing they plan to use AI for is filling out paperwork - nurses will record their introductory interviews with patients and the AI (basically, speech recognition + knowing what fields to fill out for certain information) will automatically fill out that patient’s chart.

I’m sure they’re planning on using AI for other purposes as well, but this is the most prevalent use - speech recognition and filling out charts automatically.

I think the issue is that games are games; an example that springs to mind is Caves of Qud’s Markov-chain generated books. I don’t mind them, but once I realized what they were, I stopped reading them. Unless it’s written by a developer, it doesn’t matter. They might as well be empty, unopenable items, like books from Dwarf Fortress where they get a description of what is inside but not any text from the passage.

Even random dialogue is interesting in games not only to “immerse” the player, but to receive messages and information from the developers; if they are randomly generated, they have no purpose. The game would only be improved by their absence.

Lmao amazing

I really enjoyed the first six Dragonlance novels - after that, not so much.

Instead of picketing the streets and striking their jobs, they should try picketing Musk and striking him in the head

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One of my accounts consistently gets a “JWT token expired” error about once a minute, is there a way to fix this?

Basically the upper management was getting mad that Paper Mario was taking on too much of its own identity compared to the broader Mario brand. It’s why Origami King is mostly just Toads all over the place.

I really think you’re onto something - just the headline (and, remember, the vast majority of people only read the headlines of articles - so the headline is where the company gets the information they want to convey to as many eyes as possible) calls the company:

• Dying
• Fraudulent
• Anti-Privacy
• Anti-American

Just to give a potential shareholder as many reasons as possible to decide “I no longer wish to support this company/I want to get out before this company fails”.

Maybe TEMU is a bad company with a bad product, but it’s worthless arguing about whether or not this is the case when the article itself cares very little about making concrete points and has an ulterior motive in publishing the article.

Crypto is not “technology”, it’s a grift and a scam

You could always message an admin and ask them to transfer the account to you.

You can replace most anything with wood or sheet metal. Not only that, but without subsidies to the fossil fuel industries, it would actually be cheaper to make many products we make out of plastic of wood or metal instead.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say we need to ban plastics entirely. Expensive, long-lasting items like certain electronics (televisions, game consoles) are probably fine made of sturdy plastics (think the old stuff SNES’s were made out of, not the brittle shit they make Xboxes out of today). And I’d have to guess there are certain electronic components that are best made of plastic and not likely to introduce any microplastics into people’s systems.

What we need to cut down on are disposable plastics and plastics in food service. Styrofoam trays, plastic wrap, tupperware, plastic bottles, plastic grocery bags, plastic packaging, plastic dishes, plastic handles on silverware. All of these could be replaced with glass, metal, wood, or fabric and become more renewable/reusable/recyclable and less dangerous to people’s health.

If I could drop two bombs, the second one would be on Silicon Valley. Tech “workers” are a scourge on society.

Good, we don’t want them

Caves of Qud completely entranced me when I first played it. It’s a great example of what modern Roguelikes can be. My only complaint is that the story and some writing is just bad (in a cringe kind of way). But most of the worldbuilding is excellent and really captures a sort of Dune-inspired science-fantasy feel. I think the game would be basically flawless (in my opinion) if they removed or reworked the Barathrumites and the Consortium of Phyta.