Yes, this

Representation matters in so many ways because it helps normalize diversity.

Normalization is so important. Unfortunately, humans need to be shown how to treat people who are different. Even though the answer is mostly “just treat them like a person”

$10.1 million to do something that didn’t need to be done (they painted it). $100 million is the estimate to actually fix the leaking pipes that pump water into the pool

I think there’s two distinct concepts at play, thin skin and thick skin. I do not consider them interchangeable concepts, even if they sound like it

I think a good church is great for hobby projects ready to be taken out of the basement

You do have to belong to such a church already though

I don’t think anthromorphizing the AI has really been the issue when you look into the negative effects of AI

It usually boils down to codependence type behaviors. It’s people who let the Internet genie make their decisions for them that really get into trouble

That is absolutely massive for a browser. Like multiple orders of magnitude too big. Like what are we even doing

And I don’t care if everyone is doing it, it’s still too big!

I find the fact you’ve learned to speak clickbait concerning

At least finish reading the damn summary

The state is also requesting that the judge force a series of design changes to Meta’s platforms aimed at improving child safety, including universal age verification, de-encryption of children’s messages

Does this not sound familiar to you?

In fairness, neither do Democrats. Or at least they’re not releasing the report

Tankies are authoritarian lefties, which taste a lot like any other flavor boot in your mouth IMO

They are in no way “more left”, they’re just less liberal/anarchist. Because they’re authoritarians, you see

Where did doctrine that come from? I’m not sure where you’re getting it. Kinda sounds made the fuck up

You can absolutely criticize the pope as a Catholic. What you can’t do is attempt to supercede him on matters of faith

Which, you know, we’ve got people doing that already, no need to make shit up

Meant by who? The pope?

They’re going higher around the far side of the moon than previous missions, so further from earth

We are going to the moon. Artemis II is going to bring humans further from earth than any human has ever been, and doing a drive by like this is part of the process of landing on the moon

What happens when the people no longer fear the regime?

They lose their power. It’s that simple. They’ll continue to break the government until we get them out of office, but their emails will be ignored because they can’t administrate properly

Apartment buildings have multiple circuits that connect to the grid. Sometimes my power partially goes out, so like these outlets work but those don’t, because there’s three circuits and one tends to break first

Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade

They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things

Yeah, I think you have to try to make the world better, so that when you come back you have a better time

They’re house members. They’re generally not all that rich and powerful, they’re protected because they’re useful

They’ll be thrown in front of the mob the second a billionaire feels tight under the collar

I think it’s more that they see the writing on the wall… The people want consequences. There’s likely to be trials