What is a single thing about Twitter that has gotten better? Selling my Tesla for an electric Mustang was the best choice I’ve made in a while.
I don’t give really a shit about him, but from the dropoff in Twitter’s usage and value to production and publicity issues at Tesla and cutting off the Ukraine army’s access to Starlink, it seems there’s, well, a lot to hate about him. And like he might not be that good at his job.
Pixelated photos of Joe Rogan, wigs photoshopped onto Putin to make him look like a woman, and a claim that he is a nondescript bearded man who, in carrying out a clandestine operation, stood next to Osama in a published video? This is the stuff of crackpot dreams, like the video that went viral a decade ago claiming Osama and Obama were the same person.
Two spirit and furry feel different from the rest tbh. I think they open queerness back up to views that it’s a choice or a learned behavior and not naturally human.
Yes, which the article does not say they’ve failed to do. In fact, the article says that the videos submitted as evidence seem to support its legal use not in Gaza, but near Lebanon, and that Human Rights Watch submitted no videos at all showing white phosphorus in Gaza.
The videos attached to the claim show it being used for smokescreens, which Reuters comments is legal.
Perhaps not the whole world, but I’m many/most countries, the larger structures, like government and business, absolutely are anti-intellectual. Nice to have an academic friend group, but that doesn’t change the fact that capitalism makes education less accessible in order to rely on an undereducated workforce, and then politicians push it even further for the sake of easy control.
A quick first note, there are only 10 listed (that I can see). I also think it’s missing a few important reasons:
Identity politics. Similar to conditioning, but more personal; someone who is deplorable but thinks they’re great sees someone just like them or who’s an archetype that they like, and they get excited to support them
Literally just to make others angry. So many conservatives start with a mild distaste for democratic characteristics and then get off on the “power” to make people like that upset. They enjoy the rise they can get out of people they dislike, and they don’t care if the way they do it is based on fact or reason. Further, some seem to dive into the maga personality just because it’s ability to polarize is the closest thing to power they have ever known. It gives them the ability to compete and connect with lunatics, and to childishly anger anyone who would otherwise annoy them.
Deification. Similar to servility, but based on willingness and impressionability rather than fear. Some folks see that problems exist and then just believe demagogues who say they are the only and all-powerful ruler who really knows what’s going on and can solve things. Once they believe that, any claims from opponents that they are wrong just “demonstrates” that others don’t understand and only the demagogue can be trusted.
Contrarianism and a desired victim narrative. The GOP has successfully pushed the idea that, even at almost 50% of the population and with enormous economic control, they are victims of Democratic control and conspiracy. By being contrarian to all things Democratic, they are fighting the ruling class, who are the source of all evil (other than brown people and foreigners, who are also Democratic tools). So it’s not important to be factual so long as they are contrary to Dems.
Idk what dicks you’re looking at, but that’s HUGE (in my personal experience)
Nope, by comparison 2mm sounds huge to me
It’s probably 6mm circumference, not length, which really changes things. That’s almost 2mm wide, which, in my experience, would be huuuge…
“Sounds like a skill issue”
Yes, the internet is much bigger than it was in 2003, and it needs more complex protective tools. The fact that you haven’t noticed cloudflare when it is working is a sign that it is, well, working.
And the fact that your favorite sites aren’t down more often is yet another sign. Downtime due to DDOS attacks alone would be so much greater without cloudflare than downtime due to cloudflare currently is. Your perspective is a pure lack of knowledge and an excess of confirmation bias.
Even as a homophone, I don’t want the word phlegm associated with my salty snacks.
Don’t call me homophonobic though, I support phonemes of all stars, stripes, and identities.
I use a chamois cloth, seems to pick up oil/smudges even better that microfiber and need less washing. Also super easy to wash when it does need it. I basically just cut a dollar bill sized section off a natural off-brand sham-wow and it works better than anything else I’ve used
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Champion can technically also refer to a notable advocate for something, like a “champion of human rights,” or even as a verb in the same way, “we champion diversity here at Tech Corp Z” etc.
When did Russell Brand become the newest D-list celeb alt-right convert? I know maintaining relevance is hard but…
As someone who works in content marketing, this is already untrue at the current quality of LLMs. It still requires a LOT of human oversight, which obviously it was not given in this example, but a good writer paired with knowledgeable use of LLMs is already significantly better than a good content writer alone.
Some examples are writing outside of a person’s subject expertise at a relatively basic level. This used to take hours or days of entirely self-directed research on a given topic, even if the ultimate article was going to be written for beginners and therefore in broad strokes. With diligent fact-checking and ChatGPT alone, the whole process, including final copy, takes maybe 4 hours.
It’s also an enormously useful research tool. Rather than poring over research journals, you can ask LLMs with academic plug-ins to give a list of studies that fit very specific criteria and link to full texts. Sometimes it misfires, of course, hence the need for a good writer still, but on average this can cut hours from journalistic and review pieces without harming (often improving) quality.
All the time writers save by having AI do legwork is then time they can instead spend improving the actual prose and content of an article, post, whatever it is. The folks I know who were hired as writers because they love writing and have incredible commitment to quality are actually happier now using AI and being more “productive” because it deals mostly with the shittiest parts of writing to a deadline and leaves the rest to the human.
Thr33