[-] Juice@midwest.social 15 points 1 day ago

If the algo detects you have left wing views, it sends you ultraleft conspiracy theory stuff. If the algo detects you're liberal or moderate, it sends you right wing punditry. That's why Bad Empanada is such a fucking maniac, its his job to be unhinged ultra, he plays a particular role in the hegemony, whether he does it intentionally or not.

All insta shows me is hotep content and conspiracy theories.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

Tbh I can't really detect AI text. I can detect AI pictures and voices, but text fools me, so I'll take your word for it

[-] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

Well in the interest of good faith, this is the most coherent thing ive ever seen from Hunter, so I think either had AI write it or some wonk wrote it for him

[-] Juice@midwest.social 32 points 1 day ago

Incredible how "its not x its y" is being weaponized against critics of the establishment. Like, I really couldn't give a shit about Hunter Biden, he's a joke. Also fuck AI, I wouldn't defend it.

But what you're describing is a teaching method. Just because it gets aped by ai doesn't mean all comparisons are AI. Paulo Friere uses it heavily in his pedagogical method. It was also the name of a book series on teaching methods.. Both were written years, even decades, before the invention of generative text.

Its a basic way of explaining complicated concepts, where you not only have to describe what something is, but what it isn't. You are using a negating method by saying that the text of this tweet is actually not worth considering, because it was generated by AI. Its rhetorical sophistry, presented without evidence, to create confusion and cheapen people's ability to explain or understand complicated concepts, and criticize our own reality.

I dont agree with all of his points, but your argument is cheap and socially toxic.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago

Hunter is gonna run. Maybe not in 28, but he will run

[-] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The market isn't free so much as it is anarchistic, according to Marx. That is, production isn't directed by human need, which is, i think, what you refer to as communism, but by profitability. Stuff doesn't get made based on whether people need it, it isnt made available to buy so that its available for people who need it, its all based on whether companies can make money.

The USA government does direct production somewhat, but directs it in a way that resources and the means of production (which means "the stuff that is used to make other stuff") goes to the capitalists, individual and corporate, rather than belonging to the people. For example, in the State of Michigan, Nestle pays about $200 per year to extract millions of gallons of water from lake Michigan, meanwhile many people in surrounding areas dont have access to clean fresh water at all. While Flint is, a decade later, replacing lead lines, and government regulation now requires reporting maps of lead lines in municipalities, Chicago conspicuously is exempt, and around 400,000 households are being supplied leads contaminated water.

Another is railroads. Back in the day the government gave land to build them to the rail companies, and used the military to clear and protect the lands so that the rail companies could run them profitably. By the 70's, passenger and commercial railroads were no longer profitable, and rail companies started going bankrupt, starting with Penn Central, and then cascading to other industries. but they were critical national infrastructure, so the US government first injected subsidies into the businesses (very similar to the "too big to fail" attitude of the 2008 great recession) and then the US Government took over the failed railroads, which created Amtrak for passenger and Conrail for commercial. In 1987, Conrail was sold off to Norfolk Southern and CSX, once the government had fixed up the failing, disintegrating infrastructure, for 1.8 B. A decent return to the taxpayers, but last year CSX generated 3.25 B in profit. Norfolk Southern reported 4.4 billion in income, but paid out a lot in "derailment stabilization" which, despite its mention in financial reports, people are still sick and reporting bad water in East Palestine OH. Also talk to someone who works for a major railroad and you'll hear about worsening safety conditions due to deregulation. So the company is free to make money, but the people are not free to live in peace, and to raise our children in good health. These trends have been realized in other places, such as New Zealand and UK.

Depending on how you look at it, and this is how I look at it, the market isn't free because it is controlled by the capitalists. We are allowed to use it in limited ways, like we can sell our labor on it, but when it comes to producing and selling commodities, there are often fees, restrictions, monopolizing factors that prevent people from converting our own work into a good living. In the USA, the government ensures high returns on capital investments for the capitalists. In China the system is at least somewhat blended and contradictory. Imo its very difficult to pin down exactly what the Chinese system actually is. State Capitalist doesn't really fit, social democracy doesn't really fit, full communist doesn't really fit. But in the USA, the "free market" invokes Marx in "On the Question of Free Trade":

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if there is to be talk about philosophy, there should be less trifling with the label “atheism” (which reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man), and that instead the content of philosophy should be brought to the people.

--Karl Marx, Letter to Arnold Ruge, 1842

[-] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

Lex Luthor

See, I think he looks more like the dopey buzzard from Looney toons

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Bloodborne was my first Soulsborne, but I couldn't get into it, at first. DS3 was my first darksouls game. Its still so friggin good. Other than the lacking a jump, I still prefer it to Elden Ring. But being a late-phase Souls gamer, I find DS1 too clunky to play, and ive never tried ds2

[-] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the insight, appreciate your input!

[-] Juice@midwest.social 14 points 4 days ago

Connor Grubb was then acquitted

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The other day a mod on Hexbear told me that "now is the time for monsters" referred to "what we must become during the revolution." I was like no, its about old people

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300+ hours in Nightreign, prob 200+ on one character: Executor. Generally, the worst character in the game. Low HP, low damage resistance, low damage except for status procs. If you go in unga bunga you will die, you will suck. Has a special ability called suncatcher that looks very flashy but itself does almost little damage.

So let's focus on his most important feature, arguably the most important gameplay mechanic in any soulsborne:

looks very flashy

Suncatcher is basically Sekiro playstyle. He has a cursed sword that can deflect all damage, with a satisfying clang and bright sparks, if timed near-perfectly. After 5 deflections, it lights up, and lets you do a golden sweep attack. Deflecting with Suncatcher builds up some stance damage, but the weapon itself did minimal damage on its own, even the flashy golden sweep.

His ultimate was a free heal that does a little damage but ever dark bosses and Deep of Night games would kill you easily despite being a giant horned beast. His ult has some utility, like healing other players when roaring with a certain relic. Synergies were found when using the seppuku skill with his special ability, but sacrificing a huge chunk of your health pool for a brief damage buff took a lot of situational awareness to make sure I didn't get ganked mid-buff, and it still happened frequently.

A lot of players use his high Arcane stat to proc statuses but dont really even use suncatcher. I myself became obsessed with it. Eventually I developed a "stance/status/tank" playstyle: after practicing with suncatcher for a long time I got pretty good at deflecting enemy attacks, and could hold off most bosses by myself while teammates did damage, or if one team member needed to go revive another. I learned that Executor's charge attacks are best after ive procced status a couple times. I could carry teams through the base bosses as long as both players weren't completely worthless.

But ultimately, the character had a high skill floor in order to become like a medium value character. It could be argued that his sekiro-deflect is too powerful, it has a generous "perfect" window, more than we got from Sekiro, but other characters were straight easy-mode. Raider has great damage resistance, a huge health pool, incredible DPS, and the ability to nullify attacks with his special poise-counter.

But last week, they buffed Executor. They buffed suncatcher immensely. It does more stance damage, it does significantly more damage, blocking uses less stamina, can't be stance broken with perfect deflects, and many atack up relics now apply to suncatcher. This character gained immense value. I was absolutely stuck in the new Deep of Night hard mode, I struggled to make any progress in depth 2, and while ive only played a single DoN match since the buff, we easily cleared it.

With a few relics, suncatcher can be made to be significantly stronger than even a legendary Katana, available at level 1. His HP and damage negation are still low, but he can't be stance broken on perfect deflects anymore, making him much more reliable and dependent on skillful deflecting rather than the enemy's attack spam.

I have become so powerful, it is intoxicating. Absolute incredible week for Executor mains

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Part of a response I received in a thread on .ml

https://midwest.social/post/41018287

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I was invited here to participate in discussion. But when I visit, all I see is a bunch of anti-tankie posts from a prolific anti-tankie, an Atlantic smear article about DSA from months ago, and a few genuinely good discussions. Let's get those numbers up, and start drowning out the "based" memes.

As of today, the most divisive and urgent issue du jour, is about the government shutdown, and the legislative drama surrounding it. People are angry.

There are a lot of people directly affected by the shut down. I know someone who is basically working for free at her govt job because she's scared she will lose her job completely. A department of 20 workers, reduced to a staff of 4 temporary slaves. She doubts she will get back pay, but hopes she will. Many of her coworkers will not. My friend doesnt think about it like that, but that is def one major pain point in the middle class.

I'm willing to bet the dem house legislature is just gonna fold with no healthcare demand, which is a seriously pressing issue for workers who rely on ACA.

Back of the napkin, about 45% of ACA recipients are at or below the poverty line. ACA subsidies cut off below 65k indiv/130k fam.

That bracket would include many government workers, except govt workers receive healthcare. 65k is like barely middle class in the US, with housing costs, soaring energy bills, etc.,

Interesting and tragic how the shut down is just a way to divide the working class over material issues, especially the working poor vs the middle class.

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I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast, and its all thanks to Armored Core 6. Thanks Armored Core 6 (I will not elaborate).

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