I have used AI a little for Linux adaptation but I do want to caution overuse since it’ll sometimes give you really bad advice, like regarding important dependencies and such. Sometimes it cites info for a wrong distro or outdated info, so it’s not so much made up BS, just bad search results essentially.

I’ve been tempted to! I’m not sure how well I’d do though, it’s a weirdly religious part of LA and I’m very not. But I think I could run for school board when my own personal life settles down a bit more and I have money to run, though.

Valid point, haha. Also I’m still voting anyway, my local city has pretty awful choices though for some reason.

Only for the presentation itself, there’s a written part that has a rubric. With presentations, the social aspect is enough to get people to do as well as they can because most people prefer not to look like an idiot in front of the class.

I’ve already seen (almost) this exact model with RetroAchevements subsets and it is indeed an improvement. It’s not just about having organized achievements, but mastering a base set and skipping the grind set is a nice touch. (They also do multi sets, glitch sets, challenge sets, etc).

RA is a bit strict on guidelines though, like all achievements being single player unless in a multiplayer subset, etc, which would be a good model for games with multiplayer modes that go defunct. Too bad I don’t see many developers going back and making that adjustment, though.

I’m unfortunately in one of the cities in LA with its own local government so no go on being able to vote on this… which is unfortunate given how much of an impact it’ll have on us.

You should have seen what he did with his eyelids. He really has Jar Jar Winks now.

At one point, I saw 99% and laughed. I knew we were in for bad polling.

Vote early if you can, too.

Yes, although it breaks down a bit better when you look by state. Unfortunately, iirc Tesla Y was leading in the West and the other sections are just other trucks, like the Silverado.

I’m half grateful it’s not at all true in Los Angeles*, but my neighbor loves loud muscle cars so I can’t say we’re better. At least in every neighborhood I can spot the asshole pretty easily.

*Edit, should say overall. Plenty of pavement princesses in some locals. Our trucks in my neighborhood are usually older and full of gardening equipment lol

Correct, it’s somewhat rare but for example, the city of Santa Ana was in the news sometime in the last year for allowing non-citizen voting in local elections. It makes sense for them, although it I’m being honest, it makes sense for any long term residents to be allowed to vote if they’re paying taxes.

I was just thinking that, since it’s easy to generate a video long enough to satisfy their requirements. That’s probably what I’d do if any of my services required this (but they don’t, yet).

Well, yeah. But first, tune into their warcrime trials first. Highest ratings Trump ever got, I bet.

When it happened to one of my students at least I was able to play it off and make fun of Windows instead of embarrassing them. But I also give full credit on presentations regardless of how bad they go.

That said, woe is you if it’s literally anything else, like a conference or a business meeting. Lol

I’m OPs defense, there isn’t always one. I’ve run into some that say you gotta compile it yourself, use docker, or whatever.

Sorry, my phone corrected conform to confirm. I think most people picked that up by context, but simply typing it several times just now it reverted to confirm. Lol

I picked up a fair amount from an OER textbook that references the studies on its chapter on conformity and obedience, but I bet there is a meta analysis out there with a more comprehensive list. The only issue is later studies on this can’t ethically go beyond a certain amount of fake voltage, as the original studies went a bit too far it’s getting people to think they killed someone.

The textbook in question is available here: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/

Absolutely, empathy is easily the enemy of fascism. And the worst thing to them is unity, as we have the most empathy for people we consider in-group, so division only feeds into their agenda.

I love that I didn’t remember that line because I parodied the song for my daughter when she was a newborn needing to sleep and I used melody, mine being “your screams make me cry…”

Studies on obedience (e.g. replications of Milgrim Experiment) suggest a lot of factors play into people harming and killing others on behalf of an authority. Original was 65% of participants, but it can to up to 90% with men in authoritarian cultures.

My favorite was Australian women having the lowest rate of obedience in the shock experiment, at only 16%, being relatively individualistic and rebellious culturally, but even less obedient then men as women are less likely to conform when it involves harming others. That may have changed in recent years though, as people more comfortable with authoritarianism tend to be more likely to obey.

Typically, people least likely to obey the order have better social intelligence and moral development. Unfortunately, those traits are far and few between lately…

Per usual, fuck the nation, not it’s people.