Yeah, don’t do that. 3 day temp ban, come back nicer please.

As is tradition

@amazingwizard@lemmy.ml I can’t reply directly to your comment because lemmygrad is defederated from everywhere lol

Anyway, makes sense. Yes, councilestatemedia is very bad I think, I am happy if you want to leave it off.

How about Jacobin? I was very curious to go and see how lemmy.ml was reacting to this but I didn’t see any of the Jacobin posts in pravda_news. Was it not in lefty_news before?

(Not really a big deal, I will plan to add it on the lefty_news side because I don’t see it now… I just thought it was weird because I thought it was in there.)

This has always been. Women on average just make better spies for a multitude of reasons, but this is one.

I have no hope of digging it up, but I think in the 90s/2000s or thereabouts, there was some Catholic figure who was quoted saying that the real lesson of the priesthood sex abuse scandal was that it demonstrated what they had been saying all along about how homosexuals were all degenerate predators who needed to be stopped.

Like, to him the most important part of “pedophile priests are abusing boys in industrial quantities and getting systematically protected by their employer, the Catholic Church, who also claim to literally be God’s infallible messenger on Earth” was the word “boys.”

Hey, good to know. What about those naked bike riders or the guy in the frog suit?

“TREASON”

Ding ding ding

Actually, I think it’s both. They are mostly unconcerned with what happens to the actual country, after having been fattened on legalized bribery to the point that it’s unthinkable the idea of going to war with the people who “kindly” put them in the position they’re in, fund them, and solve problems for them. But also, that same circumstance has made them complacent, and blind to the idea that they could genuinely be in danger and lacking the courage to fight in this new war which is even more urgent than it was before (and it sure wasn’t unimportant before).

Look at Schumer’s reluctance to do the shutdown the first time around. He’s afraid to call the cops while people are literally in the house and ransacking it, because he doesn’t want to cause a commotion. They’re waking up, but terrifyingly slowly, and it will be far too late by the time they actually do anything. If I am placing faith in anything that is inside our governmental system right now, it is actually in state governors starting to band together and fight against what’s happening. Pritzger is trying to get it started but no one is really stepping up alongside him in a real way so far.

More than half?

Yeah, it is a really good idea. The sticking point is that the modern structure of LLMs really doesn’t allow it, it is not that they haven’t tried. But at least so far, whatever secondary structure you try to apply to check the first answer suffers from the exact same issue, that it doesn’t really “understand” and so it’s subject to spouting totally wrong stuff sometimes no matter how carefully you try to set it up with awareness and fact checking.

Yeah but that was an outlier, it was just the one instance only and generally his stuff is fine. Anyone can have one wild cocaine-fueled few page abomination that should have never seen the light of day, out of a long and illustrious career.

(Also, I think it’s interesting that it also references the life-altering trauma that at least one of the characters suffered because of that one incident, just plainly honestly and without any kind of judgement in any direction. Just “well here’s how it happened and what result, moving on now.”)

I have no real idea about British politics, but I suspect that the forces at work are pretty similar to what fucks up American politics: Once you get in power, there are all sorts of shadowy bad actors who will be willing to shower you with advantages and rewards if you fuck the world, and punish you if you don’t. And so, over time, unless the people are strongly engaged to keep things on the rails, they won’t stay on the rails.

The Republicans started as the party to end slavery, the Democrats started as the party of the common working man, Labour started as the people’s check on aristocratic power. It just all goes down the shitter over time all other things being equal. I do really like that the UK seems to be having the reaction of “Our ‘left’ party is a pile of corruption and filth so let’s make a better way” as opposed to the most prevalent American left approach which is “Our ‘left’ party is a pile of corruption and filth so let’s stop voting for them until things get better on their own, which will definitely work.”

based on a separate meta-analysis of the data it has available to it vs. its response

I feel like you need to know more about how LLMs operate before you can really be lecturing other people about what they are and how they could be improved.

As far as needing to have an “awareness” of how confident they are in the answer and communicate that data point along with the answer itself, yeah that sort of thing would be 1,000% improvement, it would be wonderful. You are right about that part but your diagnosis of the details needs some work.

Well this is sure going to go well lol

OP: On the off chance that you are sincere about this: The modern Trump administration is snatching random people including citizens off the streets and stuffing them in extra-judicial hellholes where they sometimes die and sometimes get ejected from the country to God knows where, without the semblance of due process that “deported” would imply. For no other reason than that Trump and Stephen Miller wanted them to be punished. He’s also claiming that making fun of him on TV is illegal and that attacking American cities with the US military is fine. He was close friends with Epstein and, apparently, raped several children. Any person with even a shred of deceny or law abiding nature is going to hate him and everything he stands for.

If you’re not on board for that stuff, then I think you should say so. I have some isolated views that someone could call “conservative” (certainly in Lemmy’s overton window), it is fine, in the abstract. But in the modern US political environment, calling yourself “conservative” is a death sentence for your credibility. Certainly if you’re not going out of your way to say that you’re not on board for all that (probably even then).

If you’re just trolling, then fine, good luck with it. If you don’t think that Trump is actually doing any of those things, come to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world and let’s talk. But if you want to make a conservative community on Lemmy, and your idea is to be pro-Trump in any way, I think people are just going to laugh at you.

Hm… so part of my concern about the “everything else” politics community is that I feel like it is guaranteed to not really get used all that much. There’s always going to be !ukpolitics@feddit.uk or !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !canada@lemmy.ca, I feel like pretty much all the political content that is put up by denizens of whatever part of the world is going to go into a region-specific place, and the “everything but the US” community just wouldn’t get used.

I feel like the two obvious options are:

• !politics@piefed.social which is for “anything” with a specific focus on political news, and in practice is 99% US politics
• !uspolitics@piefed.social, which is for US politics only, i.e. the same thing but we have to have little disputes every now and then about whether something like Petro wanting to move the UN belongs there or not

I went with the first option. I really am fine with renaming it to !uspolitics@piefed.social, completely up to you. If it’s the second option I feel like just deleting !politics@piefed.social unless someone has a use for it, to keep things clean, is probably better.

I do get the concern from the rest of the world that it’s annoying to have US stuff as the “default” and everything else get put in its own region-specific “non default” category. Maybe uspolitics is a little more forward thinking in terms of getting away from that thinking (especially as the years go by and the US collapses in on itself like a rotten pumpkin, geopolitically speaking).

(And yeah, !world@quokk.au is fantastic, I like it. I sort of bounce between quokk.au and piefed.social currently in terms of my “main” account.)

Yeah, I get that. But also, 2 of the 5 stories I posted were not US politics stories. I would like to be able to post stuff about what’s going on in the world without needing to sideline it if it isn’t US stuff.

I do get what you’re saying. Like I say, I’m just going to defer to letting the person who’s organizing the top-level communities on piefed.social have the final say. I did add a “US Politics” flair, to make it a little easier to block US Politics stories if that’s what people want to do, but I feel like more likely the people who don’t want US politics in their feed are just going to block the whole community regardless which is completely fine (and I categorized it topic-wise accordingly).

Like I say, I do get it, I’m just deferring the decision to someone else instead of you and me arguing back and forth about it.

Why do you want to refer to Rimu about the name, while you didn’t consult him in the first place to create this community?

Because I wasn’t intending for it to “go live” yet, I just didn’t fully grasp what it would mean to leave the box checked to publish to other instances. I mean it’s fine, I don’t see a reason to delay now that it’s published, but I had intended for more discussion and populating it with content before making it fully live.

It didn’t even occur to me that the name would be an issue. I’m open to the idea. Like I say I think it should be instance owner’s call at the end of the day, since “politics” is kind of a naturally heavily iconic community. I was actually a little bit surprised that there wasn’t one here already. I’m fine changing it if the judgement is that it should have a different name.

Oh, I didn’t realize it was going to make a public post about it before I had a chance to populate it lol.

Hm. I’ll defer to @rimu@piefed.social about the naming. To me, “politics” while allowing politics from any country is fine, but I’m American so maybe that is just my exceptionalism. I generally follow the Beehaw conventions, they seem to strike a really good balance of short concise names without being overly chauvinistic about it.

Lol

Democrats do nothing: “See, I told you”

Democrats do something performative: “Bills like this don’t do shit”

Democrats try to do something meaningful and fail: “Ratchet theory”

Democrats try to do something meangingful and succeed: “Is this a Hollywood community? Can’t wait for ‘Saving Citizen Abrego’” or “No that didn’t happen I know because (emotionally resonant anecdote)” or “You should probably get that politicians dick stuck in your mouth.”

I’ll be sure to send Bukele a note, saying that you’re out here doing marketing for his allies. I’m sure he appreciates your efforts.

True that. They also keep charging people with crimes for interfering with (“assaulting”) ICE, and the grand juries keep tossing the cases before they even get to the trial, which I’m sure really irritates them.

Were you joking? I’ve gotten so accustomed to people on Lemmy reacting to any news about Democrats trying to stop the slaughter in Gaza with “YeAH tHaT’S riGhT DemOcRAtS = GenOciDE as we all know” that I took it 100% seriously.

Sorry if I sound dense but what was the joke? That it would likely be a lot more than 5 Democrats that voted for this ultimately?