[–] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

Ultimately what needs to be done is to solve those existing problems. You get extremists like this when the people feel like there's something wrong that the "mainstream" politicians are unable or unwilling to fix.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago

    "The house is on fire and the arsonist is running around spraying more gasoline everywhere, but we think we should also be focusing on the furniture arrangement when we're given come control."

    I mean, I guess health care is important, and it's possible to do more than one thing at a time. But maybe not the best thing to say in the midst of a gigantic crisis.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    It actually already does work that way, there are plenty of local models you can run on an ordinary offline computer. I use them myself, I just finished having one do a big analysis of my old email archives to ensure the headers were well formatted and nothing was corrupted and since it was personal mail I didn't want any of it leaving my computer.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    It's an interesting idea to have an AI psychiatrist or AI confessional where you can talk to it about anything at all in an air-gapped environment and then at the end you can push a button that completely wipes every trace of the conversation that's outside of your own mind. Could be beneficial.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Just the other day I watched a neat video by the Feral Historian in which he argued the theory that the Mirror Universe is not actually a traditional "alternate timeline" that diverged at a particular point in history and just developed differently from there. He argues that it's a more amorphous psychoactive kind of place that is "recreated" whenever visitors enter it based on those visitors themselves. I rather liked it.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    As someone who utterly loathes Trump, I'm hoping he manages to get this eyesore built.

    America needs permanent, prominent reminders of what they did.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    In a socialist system the "wealthy cunts" are not in charge. If they are then the label "socialist" isn't really correct any more.

    Though in some circles the label "socialist" actually corresponds to "a political structure or philosophy that changes based on context but always means whatever I don't like", in which case I guess go ahead and use it. I find this definition to be somewhat less useful, however.

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