All they need to do is train on /r/AnarchyChess

Bro what? Have you not read anything in this thread?

https://hexbear.net/comment/6223363

Isntreal is a military base masquerading as a country.

Because that’s not in the US empire’s interests

It does but the lobby wouldn’t be allowed to exist if Isntreal weren’t a useful tool for the US-aligned empire. The lobby is a how, not a why.

I don’t think Epstein dirt is that powerful. We live in a post-truth time. Powerful men have been getting away withremoved kids for a long time, see Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin for a less political example.

I’m talking to humans about human concepts. The birds don’t care, but humans do. It’s probably necessarily going to seem anthropocentric to talk about how all life is beautiful and deserves to be preserved, therefore we need a better approach to the environment than “destroy it all and save a few individuals”.

I don’t think it’s paternalistic to appreciate other creatures. I am certainly not coming at it from a paternalistic standpoint, more a stance of loving our fellow living creatures and appreciating them.

Plenty of organisms aren’t particularly aesthetically pleasing but are still important, and I feel like projecting a human framework over them risks concealing that.

Aesthetics can be part of it but also I disagree, I think there’s beauty to be found in the vast majority of organisms. You just have to look closely enough or consider more about them than how they look, but also their behavior, life cycle, or just how interesting they are evolutionarily. Absolutely true that it’s not just appearance that matters. Their place in the ecosystem matters too. Beyond that and more importantly, the fact that other organisms exist and live is enough to make them matter. They live, therefore they have value and rights. I cannot think of a single species that is beyond appreciation. Even ticks and mosquitoes, which I do feel negatively toward for parasitism and being infection vectors, have redeeming qualities. Even blood flukes have things about them that can be appreciated.

Dignity is a very human idea; some vultures shit on their own legs to cool down, there’s no way to describe them as “dignified”

Hard disagree. Vultures are wonderful. They’re really cool, many (not all, but many) are super cute, and are absolutely dignified and majestic in their own way. The fact that they shit and vomit on themselves to keep themselves cool is just part of their charm.

it worries me that so much of the work that has to be done needs to be packaged up to appeal to human aesthetics even if that hurts the work itself

I think I agree in that charismatic megafauna get more attention and support than more ecologically critical creatures, but the solution to me is to preach the gospel of loving all the creatures so that people care about the environment more as a whole rather than just isolated superstars. But I am interested in hearing you say more about that and your concerns. I am not trained in any of this.

It’s horrible. For example, I just googled “baby peacock” and 3 of the top 10 results are abominable AI-generated images that are just babified (by mammalian standards) peacocks instead of what an actual peacock chick looks like. It’s not just “misinformation”, it’s actual sacrilegious. It’s disgusting, it’s offensive, it insults the natural genuine beauty and cuteness of these birds. I do not have words to express how vile an affront to the dignity, beauty, and adorableness of birds these abominations are.

Sooo many “wholesome” videos of predator and prey animals together and it’s horrible because eventually that cat or dog is going to kill and eat the little bird and it’ll be all the fault of the irresponsible asshole human owner who put them together. It happened with someone I knew irl and was completely predictable.

And these assholes always get defensive when you say something, like “my precious baby isn’t a cold-blooded killer! They’re siblings! They’re both my kids!” No, animals are intelligent and sentient people too but you can’t just anthropomorphize them, you have to respect them for who and what they are

Yeah you’d think the media would have more sympathy for a pretty young white woman but they’ll dehumanize anyone who opposes genocide and capitalism. The media turned on her hard already.

She got so based and I really hope Isn’treal doesn’t assassinate her.

Very true. I don’t see .world though because they defederated from us, and alhamdulillah for that

Congratulations! I hope the job is low stress, pays well, and makes your life better!

Crab rave moment, I think there was about a 60% chance that if there was a lem.ee handle commenting here, it was some shitty take. so I’m not upset

People who are easily triggered belong in therapy tbh

True, but that has no bearing on the appropriateness of content warnings. I like CWs because there’s some stuff I just don’t want to engage with so this way I can just not.

And not everyone has access to therapy, let alone good therapy.

red, white, and blue

Sounds Fr*nch to me

I do aspire to reincarnate as a bird. To be cute and to have this rizz

Such a catchy song

Really well done, you nail the soulless flatness of these LLMs really well

1. Are you writing this all yourself or are you using an LLM?

2. Kill the Boer is a banger of a song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n5Myxx-0ig). Have you considered people may be singing it just because it sounds good and is catchy?

Look, Shrek 1 is great, Shrek 2 is OK, but I don’t recognize any other Shreks. With just 2 movies that are both over a decade old there isn’t that much new to discuss.