So if someone says they’re a cat person then it must be a really great accomplishment lmao

WHO THE FUCK TOLD YOU‽ Fucking damnit, it was fucking Larry wasn’t it‽

https://lemmy.world/post/29072279 relevant thread

But yea, a lot of tankies love to hate the fact that we’re not immediately resorting to violence to install some authoritarian flavor of communism or something or another and scream about bLuEmAGa all the time

Can the ballot box fail? Sure. Is it guaranteed to be ineffective? No. Are corporate Democrats good? Fuck no. But violence isnt ruled out, it’s just the last resort

Good luck! Im looking for a similar sized jump myself and just had 2 interviews today that went really well. So hopefully I can pass some of my luck to you!

I don’t know what you’re talking about it was absolutely spelled correctly this whole time and you don’t need to check to see if the post was updated or not it’s totally unnecessary :)

That fandom site needs to be updated then lmao, there was a whole episode where Terrence makes an imaginary friend (https://breezewiki.com/fostershomeforimaginaryfriends/wiki/Red) and it’s also explained in another episode that the most dangerous imaginary friends are often made by teens

Though it’s definitely more difficult with them to make (as shown with Terrence) it can still be accomplished

and authoritarianism is a practically useless word that’s based purely on one’s ideology.

All states are authoritarian because they have monopolies on the use of violence. Liberals don’t view the routine weaponization of the bourgeois state against poor people as authoritarianism, but will instantly decry the reverse as such. Thus, a billionaire landlord evicting a single mother isn’t characterized as authoritarian, but Maoists giving landlords the boot is. Germany seizing the bank accounts of critics of Israel (as happened recently) isn’t labeled authoritarian, but the Stasi doing the same to corrupt capitalists in East Germany was.

Aaand we’ve reached authoritarianism isn’t real. Go ask average people what they think “authoritarianism” means and you’ll get answers that center around suppressing freedom of speech, journalism, censorship.

Are there people who do call your examples authoritarianism? Absolutely. But there are also real people who claim the earth is flat.

I’ve done it lol, but there are a few serial downvoters/downvote trolls out there

https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

Why how odd you didn’t copy the entire block

What is a “tankie?” Tankie was originally a pejorative term referring to communists who supported the USSR’s invasion of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 [87, 96]. Over the years, the context of the usage of tankie evolved. For example, it has been used to express derision towards pro-Soviet hardliners [42], to describe communists who support China’s policies [69] (e.g., supporters of China’s actions on Uyghurs [95] and the Hong Kong protests [7]), as well as young, online Stalinists in general [44].

Thus, tankie is now used to describe much more than the set of communists who supported specific events from the Soviet era. The term tankie now covers communists who support “Actually Existing Socialist” (AES) countries; especially those with a Stalinist or authoritarian leaning.

Thus it is of wide spread usage to mean “authoritarian communists” regardless of whether or not it’s in a bonafide dictionary. Which, I might add, is a follower not a leader in language.

Furthermore, the entirety of their large scale study seems to be based on that definition

!recipes@feddit.uk

Sorry about the delay in my reply to you.

First of all your argument can be basically summed up as “They didn’t LITERALLY say those things, so it’s all invalid” like LMAO it’s called interpreting ones actions and subtext

For example, with this

No Dessalines didn’t literally say they openly support Russia, but the meme they posted says it. It states that if you support Palestine and Russia (aka fitting into the upper right quadrant), you “understand the core of geopolitics”

And dessalines very much positions himself as someone who “understands the core of geopolitics” so…put 2 and 2 together lol

Second, it was quite disingenuous of you to not even mention the “Full Collection” listing which is probably 50 links deep with a variety of evidence that any number of paints a clear picture of the censorship, what they support, the ideology and literal propaganda they spread or allow to spread.

Finally, I’d like to point out that your rebuttal thread sits at a 0 after over a month for the !rant@lemmy.sdf.org version, with quite a controversial voting total.

Note, that instance that comm is on is probably one of the most federated instances on the Threadiverse, as a matter of their instance policy they have a very very light touch on defederation. Your write up had the widest possible exposure and still couldn’t end with a net positive. Along with a very wide range of comments.

But, your hexbear version, on probably the most defederated and blocked instance, ended with a positive 80 or something when I last saw, with nearly every comment just being in agreement. That’s an echo chamber right there LMAO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

Boycott as in don’t donate and block the instance as a whole and make it irrelevant by contributing to off-.ml versions of comms

I’m … intrigued

You’re still conflating the tech itself and business. The tech can exist without the business or without it being part of the core business model (Think, a smaller LLM to generate game dialogue (which imo (if done right) could be a very cool thing)) trained and shipped as part of a game

LLMs are here to stay, but when the bubble pops many MANY businesses will not survive as we all know. But every bubble has its survivors and those will be the ones that actually use it for proper use cases that can actually turn a profit or use it to support or enhance other features that are part of their product (and I’m sure a few giant ones will survive just because of their size, though they’ll be damaged)

There are also plenty of good open source LLMs that don’t depend on profits and business models, so that’s another reason LLMs are here to stay

Though they will evolve im sure, new research and techniques will come and make them more useful

I think the hate needs to be properly directed towards the companies pushing it and not the tech itself. Because that’s pretty much here to stay.

And it does have good utility, in tailored ways wielded by people who know what they’re doing (e.g. you should be an experienced programmer already so you can catch when it’s fucking up or just doing things on a weird way)

Companies that use it over creatives (e.g. using it for ads or animation for a commercial product) can also fuck off and die

AI technology yea, lots of us find utility and value in AI itself. It’s a decent tool, it’s not an end all be all like the AI tech bros scream about.

AI companies fuck no, fuck them especially fuck OpenAI

I’ve been trying to get an archive.is link, but their service doesn’t seem to be processing properly

What the heck is Nebula lmfao