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Sometimes I wonder about the full overlap between this comm and femcelmemes

Bravery requires an understanding of the danger and risk involved in the act. Going into something dangerous without knowing the risks is less brave than knowing the risks full well and still going in. In all likelihood, wisdom can highlight which risks are worth it and which are not, which means that as wisdom increases, taking pointless risks decreases.

It could also just be anxiety

I either play a fun game and never finish it, or I finish the game dozens of times and become a diehard fan for life.

I hope some brave soul infiltrates them and leaks the IDs of every ICE employee, as well as the extent of their crimes against humanity

You’re entirely right about the importance of context. I grew up the opposite of conservative, yet I’ve learned very similar lessons. When you’re on relatively equal footing with shared goals, most can become your friend. When there are power dynamics and the perception of a zero sum game, most can become your enemy. I’ve long been a person who seeks out those who are most opposed to my way of thinking, and I’ve never regretted being friendly with and understanding those people.

At the same time, getting into such neutral conditions is harder than ever for me, as the barriers get put up long before I show up. It’s not actual conversations that hold me back, but getting there in the first place. Whenever I come across a conservative I can approach, I always make sure to talk with them.

Probes and robots are indeed better for exploring space than people. There might even be multiple uses of machine learning in future space exploration. However, it’ll only be used when it is the best option, and not for the sake of it like most “AI” we see today. This is because “AI” is business terminology entirely divorced from the reality of the tech. Machine learning is not genuine intelligence, but a tool for accomplishing goals, and it has very real limitations that make it not useful in all cases.

The main thing that’ll hold back machine learning in probes is power, with probes relying on barely over 100 watts plus whatever dozens of watts their solar panels can generate in good conditions. Current machine learning hardware consumes many watts of energy to run advanced models, so whatever model is used needs to be extremely streamlined and efficient. This power limitation is not related to computing, but nuclear technology and the cost to send matter to space, so unless we pull compact portable fusion out of our asses, probes can only be so smart.

I think that’s downplaying how radical it was to self describe as a socialist politician in America when he did. His work in destigmatizing leftism was necessary for Mamdani to exist, and him winning a seat in the most undemocratic and unfair chamber of our parliament is incredibly impressive. Him challenging neoliberal hegemony in his 2016 and 2020 runs for president might’ve not succeeded, but it played a large role in every socialist win in this far right hellhole.

I don’t think Mamdani is as far left compared to current voters as Bernie was even 20 years ago. Him being mayor is more of a symbolic victory than one that will change the country. He was undoubtedly a response to the corrupt cop who used to be mayor, and the corporate opposition was a failed power grab by Democrats thinking they could use 2024 as an excuse to go further right. He’s a start, but we need DSA candidates to primary every establishment candidate they can to really change things.

Thank you. It’s always unfortunate when people try to logic people out of positions that didn’t logic themselves into. I used to do things like that, but it’d probably be riskier to try now with my current outward identity. Even if I get them to listen to a brown woman, I’m also trans and bi which could easily shut them out if I conceal it, and would make me even harder to approach if I don’t. I hope others can do it for me.

You’re not wrong and I think a lot of Americans miss that perspective. We’re bottom of list in comparison to “developed” with similarly wealthy economies, but we haven’t reached the poverty of poorest countries, yet. Right now we’re more comparable to an imperial power like Russia, but even then we’re probably falling behind (at least they have a strong labor market thanks to their war killing so many young men).

That said, it is entirely possible for us to reach that level of devastation if the coming depression is bad enough and we enter a prolonged period of war and instability following Trump. I wouldn’t bet money on it, but it is more likely than most want to believe.

You vote for the party first and foremost, not for any individual politician. Instead of voting for a local representative, you vote for a single party to represent you at a national level. That party then gets a certain number of seats based on how many votes it got. As a result, voting for a minor party that only gets 10% of the votes actually makes sense, as it then gets 10% of the seats in the parliament. In such systems there usually aren’t single parties with a majority, but coalitions of parties with varying viewpoints.

There are many mixed systems that use party voting, but also link parties to specific candidates. However, the system the previous comment described sounded more like party-list proportional representation.

For a large federal system like the US that has both local needs and far less regional differences than people realize, replacing the House and Senate with a party-list would both unify the country and destroy the power of duopolistic party elites. At the same time, the state and local elections could use any number of systems that focus more on candidates. It wouldn’t prevent a fascist like Trump from taking over, as Israel is a modern example of a party-list country under fascist control, but it would’ve required him to build a party as a politician rather than take over one of the big two.

Nah, this will not happen. People like Greene are irrelevant, as Trump has bullied far more popular politicians out of office without the power of the state at his disposal. ICE are Trump’s most loyal and will never abandon him; only service members forced to break their oaths would ever turn on him, and I doubt anything outside of impending nuclear Holocaust will build enough momentum to topple him.

anything furry or scalie

Imma need some lore. Who tf is this and who got pregnant?

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