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"Bleach blonde bad built butch body"... Not a bad description.

REMIX!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TVgPw9kU50

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Why do so many Americans support a neofascist? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

REMIX!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TVgPw9kU50

that was quite enjoyable

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Why do so many Americans support a neofascist? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

anyway thanks for this one, it was good, he repeats some talking points from his movie, and he's right about biden, but he didn't really explain why people would support a fraud and a scumbag

however the issue with biden's policies is that they are "investments" that will pay off "in the future", which might be never at this rate, while inflation is felt in the wallet today

part of what reich explains about the division of america since the 70s etc is also in how people are experiencing inflation. and it's the bottom bracket that is feeling it the most right now. the cost of this fiscal investment in the future is paid by those price increases

the homeowner who locked the 2% mortgage is sitting pretty, while renters are having to sell their plasma to keep up with increases. the reason it's "hard to explain" is because the benefit of having green union jobs 5 years from now is a cost today, and people who are living hand to mouth can't wait

of course the fraud and scumbag will give a tax cut which only reintroduces the problem at a future date, but with interest

there are also cultural issues that are not mentioned where the left is scoring many own-goals: censorship and cancel culture (mccarthyism of the left i guess) are diving adults who grew up speaking their minds into the hands of the scumbag, the stupidity of defund the police and the rise of crime moves the center closer to the right, etc etc.

eta: notice it's "disorder" not crime rising https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-c...fbi-rcna144100

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

[...] and the rise of crime moves the center closer to the right, etc etc.

eta: notice it's "disorder" not crime rising https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-c...fbi-rcna144100

It's not semantics. Unless everybody who calculates these statistics is wrong and/or we're living in a parallel dimension, crime in the US is down. Of course, if people turn on the TV and the first thing they see is cops dragging students across the dirt and "Just like 1968!" and bullcrap, and they cannot make fine distinctions, well...

As for "cancel culture", I... can't have this discussion again. I'm tired.

I like what Bernie Sanders said. Paraphrasing: We have differences with President Biden, he's accomplished things he should indeed be proud of, while his response in other matters has been either inadequate or completely fucked up, but this November vote Biden, NO EXCUSES.

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just a reminder that censorship and cancellation used to be the right's game

 

they're still doing it in "don't say gay" florida and various book-burning states across the south

but the side that was supposed to be in favor of the open exchange of ideas and the light of reason isn't for those things anymore

now the left has its own word police. speaking banned words carries severe sentences! liberalism has been taken over by cultural revolution

and if you're offended, you can shut down any discussion on any subject

okay, maybe people got tired of right wing propaganda and decided to fight fire with fire

but-- it's not working, it undermines the principles of liberalism that sustained our era (liberalism broadly understood as inalienable individual rights). and because of polarization there's a serious backlash now... which will doom us, because in war the fascists are tougher and more disciplined, while the left bickers over purity issues and it eats its own

https://youtu.be/a0BpfwazhUA

classic

bernie is an old geezer and knows better from experience, but it's the children that are deserting biden. "not pure enough!" good luck with the alternative...

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

that was quite enjoyable

If you think that was good, hold on to your bell-bottoms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwCcHxbAakw

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

at this point i feel biden is toast.

Glass half full (or "reasons to be cheerful", as David Byrne would say):

10 Reasons I'm Cautiously Optimistic About the Election
The polls are not predictive but these ten fundamentals of the race just might be.

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New Big Lie! Good, I was pretty tired of the old one oh wait it's about the same shit bummer.

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Then there's this fucking guy:

Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.

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SCOTUS fucked the US again today.

What the fuck is wrong with this guy.

At least Elena Kagan got to troll Alito el Maldito.

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We should have a tech thread, but this is politics too. From Futurism:

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage
This sucks.

Google's AI search, which swallows up web results and delivers them to users in a regurgitated package, delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries in a concise, coolly confident tone. Just one tiny problem: it's wrong. A lot.

Over the past week, X-formerly-Twitter has lit ablaze with screenshots of Google's "AI Overview" spewing a seemingly unending torrent of inaccurate, though confidently stated, answers to user queries. They range from hilarious to bizarre to even downright harmful, rewriting history and offering extremely bad pizza advice along the way. Reading through the AI-spun results, it's enough to make you wonder: what, exactly, is Google spending billions of dollars for here?

One absolute banger of a Google AI-promoted health tip is the recommendation that "eating ass can boost your immune system" — this was in response to the query "health benefits of eating ass" — a claim that Google's AI says is supported by a 2018 study by the University of California, Santa Barbara.

A healthy sex life is known to contribute to an individual's overall immune health, so for those who frequently partake in anilingus, it could possibly be argued that the sex act contributes in part to their overall well-being. Google's source, however, isn't a science-backed analysis of sex and its relationship to immune health; instead, it's a clearly satirical article published by writers at UC Santa Barbara's student paper The Daily Nexus, in a comedic section of the paper titled "The Daily Stench."

There's no research to back up the Google AI's added claim that "people who eat ass are 33 percent less likely to catch airborne illnesses," although the line that really gives away the robot's lack of judgment is the note that "people with higher levels of truffle butter" — sexual slang that you may look up yourself, if you absolutely must — "in their saliva have stronger immunity" to common airborne ailments.

In sum? This is all gross comedic nonsense, but Google's AI didn't get the joke.

 

Other more humorous Overview mistakes include various ill-advised cooking claims, like the suggestion that gasoline can be used to make a "spicy spaghetti dish," or the widely-shared proposition that pizza chefs might consider mixing glue — yes, glue — into their sauce to ensure that the pizza cheese doesn't slip off.

As netizens quickly pointed out, the latter claim appears to be sourced from an 11-year-old Reddit comment posted by a user named "Fucksmith." So far, Google's AI is getting a negative score for media literacy.

 

Elsewhere, the AI was seen spouting nonsensical math equations designed to help users figure out exactly how many sisters they already have (the AI's final answer: 680 sisters, because this person must be the child of Genghis Khan.) It was also telling users to eat "at least one small rock a day," and still doesn't think that any countries in Africa start with the letter "K."

Many of the responses weren't quite so funny. Take this AI Overview, flagged by Nieman Lab's Sarah Scire. When asked how many Muslim presidents have led the US, Google's AI told Scire, falsely, that "Barack Obama is the first Muslim President." The AI also went on to say that current President Joe Biden has "no formal religious affiliation." Neither of these statements are true. Obama is a self-described Christian and attended Protestant churches; Biden is Catholic.

The AI's bungling of Obama's religion goes beyond incorrect, though. The statement reflects the beliefs of the "Birtherism" movement, or the baseless and racism-driven conspiracy theory that Obama wasn't born in the US (he was) and that he's secretly a Muslim (he isn't.) Google's AI, then, is not only spitting out wrong information, but feeding damaging fringe conspiracy beliefs at the same time.

 

A Google spokesperson told The Verge that the AI errors being shared were made in "generally very uncommon queries, and aren't representative of most people's experiences." We'd argue, though, that a search being "uncommon" isn't an excuse for an AI tool to give bad advice, especially in cases where a bad answer could cause real damage.

To that end, it could also be argued that AI Overview makes Google liable for possible harms in ways that it may not have been liable in the past. By introducing its text-regurgitating tool, it's no longer just a content aggregator or host, but is also a content creator. Spouting conspiracy theories, or offering glue-laced recipes, has a different set of consequences when you're presenting it as paraphrased fact, and not just as a blue link to a bad source on a results page.

It's incredible, really. Google controls over 80 percent of total search marketshare, making it the go-to gateway to the internet for the vast majority of global internet users. Search is also an incredibly lucrative product, printing the billions that Google is now pouring into its AI endeavors. And now, because of those costly AI efforts, Google's golden goose is imploding.

Now Google finds itself between a rock and a hard place. Halting its AI search experiment would be a terrible look for management; at the same time, it's unclear if Google can even fix the problems that clearly plague what's an objectively bad product. In the meantime, the internet continues to crumble.

Dumpster fires everywhere. Anyway! Anyone in the mood for pizza?