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How we frame the issue matters. The Left loses the Right as soon as bike lanes are tied into identity politics. Multimodal equity is simply “freedom of movement” to a Republican. But when Republicans talk about freedom, the progressives hear privilege. Aren’t the Left and the Right essentially saying the same thing?

Except even if the left had framed bike lanes as "Freedom of Movement" the right would have still forced Identity politics into it. People who ride bikes are seen as nuisance on the road to reactionaries. I don't know how often I heard jokes from someone I was riding with about how hitting a Bicycle would be "20 points" or something similar.

If the problem I had with the the right was their insistence that we name things terribly, I would be an (actual) centrist! I would be okay with calling bike lanes "Trump lanes" if it meant we actually got good bicycle infrastructure.

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    It's a generic bad guy uniform. Like the picture easily fits in with an Imperial Officer from Star Wars.

    Like straight up if I saw these guys on the street I would assume a nerd convention was happening nearby.

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  • These are very good points, even goes over the things I personally thought LLMs might be actually suited for.

    I want to stay the tiniest speck of optimistic that we can at least get something good out of this all, but understand that it's all idealism based on little to even maybe nothing.

    Though maybe it's more "Can all this suffering at least have a silver lining?" Line of thinking dominating my subconscious as a burnt out jaded 30somethin'.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Certain Mathematical models seem to work well. And I've heard that some decent programmers like to use it to get together code they would have spent hours on GitHub looking for to copy and paste.

    And if it wasn't so wasteful, I like the idea of using generative AI for getting visuals for (PRIVATE) TTRPGs. When I just want my group to have a better understanding of what my BBG, "Lord Gargle Deeznuts" looks like. And that's only if I can generate something decent for free. If I have to pay, it would be better to pay a real human to do the labor.

    Other than than those very specific cases, I really don't believe there is any commercial use for current LLM. Everything is so completely unethical IMO, that even the grey area of generative AI that I mentioned above immediately become unethical the moment a human profits off it.

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    I mean isn't that what we basically did? I didn't vote for Kamala or Trump myself.

    All I'm saying is that 2024 was a terrible time for any American with a tinge of actual leftism to participate in electoralism.

    I don't think Hassan was 'Vote Blue no matter who" but was more "If you have to vote, please vote Kamala." While actively criticizing Kamala for just being Biden 2.0. I'm pretty sure mainstream Dems hate him today because they think him not being balls deep for Kamala is why she lost.

    You don't have to be a Hassan fan, but don't be a hater just because his opinions on a dozen things are two degrees more to the right side of the left than you want.

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    First off, Yes. I work in property management. No I am not a Landlord. I am an Assistant Community Manager for a Section 8/LIHTC project apartment, which is part of a larger company that buys older properties to convert into projects.

    I have a resident who has made it their goal to write a manifesto on all their rent checks. Please note that their monthly rent is currently $29. Unless they make over 100k a year, their rent is generally going to always be 30% of their gross monthly income.

    There are some late fees on their account, but we are legitimately trying to get rid of them and make sure that they are caught up and doesn't owe us anything but their monthly rent.

    Now that I have given that infodump... What can I do?

    If they keep sending these IRL Hexbear posts (some of them reference Luigi) eventually my manager or someone higher is going to see this and be able to use these little rants as ammo to evict them. They see me as an enemy. I'm one of the people sitting in the office in the A/C supposedly making more than the maintenance team slaving away repairing people's stuff. Btw, I'm the lowest paid gal around here, and half the maintenance team is low-key liberal Transphobic.

    So Hexbear, what can I do to save another comrade from losing their housing? Any idea how I could help them funnel that energy towards something productive for the cause? How can I make them see that us here in the community are not their rivals just because we have to sell our intellectual and emotional labor?

    In which a comrade cannot hide their power level
     

    Hi again Hexbear.

    Last we spoke I was needing help to get a trans girl in Florida enough to make it to moving in with me outside that hell state.

    This has been a success, but now my network of people who need help is growing and my resources limited.

    I have a friend, a trans woman we will just call K for now. They have been couch surfing for a while, and has stayed with me and my two partners for time to time, however we are three people in a less than 800 square foot house so a fourth person has put a little strain on us. However K had one place that seemed okay until recently. The person at that place has recently been becoming more abusive, and is now asking that K mule drugs in exchange for being allowed to sleep on a couch.

    It doesn't have to be long term, and I will happily connect you to K on discord so you can talk to her yourself, but any Hexbears in South Denver willing to give K a place to sleep for a few nights a week at their place, I would be grateful, and would happily meet up to make you some meals or something in exchange.

    Me and my partner are on the hunt for a bigger place so hopefully K will have a more stable place to be at that is less likely to cause literal friction with the rest of us. We have only been on the hunt for about two weeks, though.

    You can DM here to get my discord/matrix info.

    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/mutual_aid@hexbear.net
     

    Hi Mutual aid. Last we spoke, I was asking for help on behalf of another comrade. The good news is, I got her out of her situation in her home state, and she is living with me. She has already found a good paying job, and we are soon going to look for a better place to live and find stability in the increasingly unstable world we live in.

    Our plans went awry in the move a bit, we safely made it to our new home, but it destroyed my entire savings and I still had to borrow from family to make ends meet. Now a miscalculation on my part means I'm in the hole with my credit union and I hope Ya'll will be generous enough to at least get me out of this, before I'm hit with constant overdraft fees. I am safe for a few days, but after that, it is a lot per day, and payday is almost two weeks out.

    I appreciate any help, and plan to give out a fair amount once I am not paying 70% of my paycheck to rent alone.

     

    All over 5 dudes who are probably not Venezuelan, part of a gang or anything else. One of the dudes had a back pack and attempted to flee by jumping off the roof, but stopped when the alphabet agencies, aimed their guns at them. Couldn't get many pictures, but we had ICE. FBI, DEA, and Aurora PD and SWAT on the scene. About 40ish people all together. Local residents were not ordered to shelter in place. And we were even seeing FBI helping to escort residents who walked nearby. The street was only closed already due to sewage maintenance. Bonus look into where Aurora tax money goes!

    News story about the raid and the further raids going on

    It appears to once again be related to the CBZ Slumlords properties located in Denver. Although the city did the right thing by taking these properties away, the bank wasn't any better for the residents. Offering a paltry sum to move overwhelmingly poor people out of their apartments, instead of working with the displaced residents to either rehabilitate the homes they are in, or get them into the newer low income housing that is being built all around them.

    Instead, it seems, the can was kicked down the road long enough that the local government alphabet thugs now have a perfect excuse to give Denver and Aurora this show of force of how ICe will bypass Denver resistance to giving ICE assistance.

     

    Hi all. MissPosadas is back and I'm asking for mutual aid to help out a comrade. She is stuck in Florida and on the edge of homelessness.

    We have plans to move her and another friend out of Florida, but unfortunately we are about 5 months out from that.

    In the meantime she needs good shelter (the place she's at now kicks her out during daylight hours), a job and money to get out of some debt. She is also working to fix a vehicle so she can maybe move out sooner than our April timeline, currently it seems to needs a replacement alternator.

    Any help is appreciated, especially if you are in Jacksonville and could spare a bed for a few months.

    Please DM me, and I can show proof of her need.

    Again, I want to stress really hard that this is not for me, but to help out a vulnerable trans comrade.

     

    Hey everyone, I've never asked for help here, cause I'm usually okay. However I over spent my budget a bit, helping out a comrade who was left nearly stranded in my home city. I have some cash coming in on Monday, but for the weekend I could use $15 to pay for bread, to make PB&J sandwiches along with some of the soup I have frozen, and to do a couple loads of laundry.

    Help an old Hexbear veteran, who fought the Kerry Menace back in the Chapo.chat days?

    I don't know what the best system for getting donations are so just DM me and we'll figure it out!

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