Asians, especially Chinese/Japanese/Korean people, have an interesting standing in many places outside of asia. They still experience a tonne of racism, but for some reason they don’t get nearly the violent hate that other people of colour get.

Racism will say that Black people are criminals, latinos are lazy, and Middle Easteners are terrorists but most of what asian people seem to get are comments about weird food, good grades, and racist caricatures. They’re treated as this white-adjacent group. It won’t save them, but it does sorta explain why that kid is there.

Now, the black and hispanic people who are part of ICE can get absolute rat-fucked a million ways to Sunday because they’re there for the love of the game at that point. Everyone in ICE is a bare-minimum terrible but holy shit, the fuck do they think they’re doing?

Someone asked a Discord server I’m about if they were too old to start learning mandolin. I told them that if they wanted to do world-wide tours then maybe, but if they just want to play mandolin then absolutely fucking not, they’re fine. To their credit, they immediately went “oh yea, true!”

Also the main reason kids learn so well is because they are often fully immersed in whatevee it is(especially languages). Even kids can’t really speak their language perfectly for many years, so we gotta be easier on ourselves when we only have a few hours a week to practice something.

An incredible pull, but hell yea I see you.

And between the two options you presented, even when the latter is surprisingly easy to pull off, for “some reason” we just keep diving head-first into war-crime territory.

It’s the same mentality that got the DNC fighting their own guy who was turbo-winning in NYC. Anything is preferable to building a strong, sustainable, cooperative future as far as these kinds of people are concerned.

As a Canadian(and not the guy you replied to) I can pretty comfortably say that I don’t trust the US at all and “the vast majority” is not nearly good enough. Thank goodness I’m not a person of colour because it’s wild how frequently people will shot those folks through their door for the crime of knocking on it.

Fuck the US.

Not a single fucking person is suggesting that if a woman walks into a waiting rooms screaming about ants under her skin who are telling her to put babies in fires everyone needs to stop everything to immediately tell her she’s right and good and not argue even a little bit. Stop trying to act clever by deliberately misunderstanding something and being the dumvest person in the room, it’s embarrassing.

It’s like the fuckheads who think being against car-centric infrastructure means wanting to put a stick of dynamite in every car ever and not knowing that farmers exist. It adds less than nothing to the conversation and just makes you look stupid as hell.

I know it’s a joke but like, that’s what the bus/train is for.

That’s one extreme way to take the comment, I guess. I worked from home for a while and I think these return to office orders are stupid as hell, largely because going to the office needs unpaid commuting time, annoyances related to needing to bring a lunch, and it takes away your ability to do small chores and stuff during the work day that might be often impossible during the evening for one reason or another.

Look, if you want to work at the beach or whatever then go for it, but the idea that California is the “envy of nations” because people can do labour at a beach is insanity.

If I’m ever envious of someone doing work in places where they should be relaxing, please kill me.

Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?

These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.

Whenever the governments of the US and Canada do anything we can’t even be fucked to do much of anything, so I think shutting the hell up and letting the French do what they do is probably better than trying to mock them for at least trying.

Except that what your comment misses is that the right thinks that the left wants to use the government to control their lives and the left in places like the US and Canada is not authoritarian just because they want the most basic government regulations on the practices that we can all see are screwing us over. The problem with your comment is that it acts as if both are operating within the same reality but we can see very fucking clearly that that simply isn’t true.

Conservative ideology is historically always authoritarian, it has to be. It is an ideology which exists to protect the system of a few people on top who own everything else, with a good bit of hating anyone who isn’t a straight, cis man because that helps get the voting base riled up.

I had been paying for it a while ago since, to be fair, the service is free otherwise and often times it pays the creator more. Then Youtube decided to give about $45mil or so worth of energy toward making pro-Israel content and suddenly I didn’t mind the ads so much anymore. Now they’re making it a lot worse and my solution is going to need to be an adblocker.

Yea, at least China puts on a front. The rest of us use the US as the butt of our jokes when we want to drive home the point about some system or other being purposefully cruel to those it claims to have been designed for.

Right? If I don’t otherwise pay for the service then sure, some ads are fine. Problem is that at this point I’m seeing ads every few minutes, and if the video restarts in a weird spot and reloads funny after I reopen my laptop I might even get the same ads looping after literally two seconds of video.

Also, I was paying for the service and then they gave a fuckload of support to Israel to spread propaganda so I stopped.

Republicans like “Noooo don’t deadname my special thing! Nooooo!!”

The anti-pronoun party once again fully understanding the concepts and yet showing us once again that the point is the cruelty, not consistency.

Do hallucinating LLMs, that have done such things as convince a child to commit suicide before, really count as “information machines”? The Mayo clinic website might take a single whole other braincell to read through but at least it’ll be written properly.

I mean, the fact that you consider these programs to have enough credibility to be called “information machines” is exactly why they’re so potentially dangerous.

“Would rather have disabled people with cancer suffer and die…”

My guy, that’s not a lack of LLM access, it’s a completely fucked US healthcare system that forces people onto the internet because they can’t get what they need from the state, you goofy-ass weirdo.

You know damn well there’s an important difference related to the confidence of a bot that has been a key problem since this whole thing started.

LLMs and chatbots should not be giving medical advice. You are afraid of the private healthcare system, not the lack of access to the most janky bandaid fix for its failures.