I thought we didn’t like Anglos because of the whole colonialism thing and general cracker behavior

I just went thrifting for the first time in like 2 years. I was unemployed and on a spending freeze for non-essentials, and meanwhile the HRT was doing its thing, so I haven’t been able to get new clothes to complement the changes (let alone changes in style). It’s honestly incredible to be able to do that again now that I have a new job and an income, I really got some nice stretchy tops that make my titties pop affirmation and confidence out of it.

the “intellectual father” of the administration’s family-separation policy

“I don’t see my family very much. My wife’s living separately from me right now.”

I thought he liked family separation?

Also I don’t think Zohran’s opinions on Israel would’ve swayed this election one way or the other. I still probably would’ve voted for him if he said the generic pro-Israel democrat talking points because of the material things he was offering, and I imagine a lot people who are pro-Israel but aren’t completely rabid would’ve done the same the other direction.

It’s absolutely wild to me how much foreign policy seemed to be focused on in a mayoral race. Sure, it’s a particularly important mayoral race, but it’s not like the mayor decides whether to send arms to Israel or not. The only point they could raise in the debate was whether the candidate would visit Israel - a completely symbolic gesture. Should I be interrogating my local dogcatcher about their thoughts on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?

It does, however, mention adultery quite a lot.

Arizona has been temporarily occupied as a buffer zone to protect Israel from the expansionist state of Commiefornia. Settlements are to begin construction next week.

Germany has issued a statement condemning California for making this action necessary.

I believe Franz Fanon made the argument that in some developing countries, the domestic class divide is less significant than the international class divide, and that there can be a logic to persuing a class truce. If a country becomes colonized, the domestic bourgeoisie stands to lose their positions (at least potentially) so there’s a greater degree of shared interests. This is in contrast to a more old school perspective, which would argue that a class truce isn’t really possible, that the bourgeoisie will never let up, and that attempting to persue that course is reactionary and opens the door to opportunism.

I don’t have a strong opinion on it because I’m in the imperial core, I think either approach can be valid depending on the circumstances.

At this very moment, Iran could be in possession of dozens of atoms, maybe more.

Dirt_Owl is two weeks away from developing nuclear pission.

Comrade Ghenghis Khan supported revolutionary defeatism all the way from Korea to Eastern Europe

It only has to work long enough for them to die off and they’re all like 90, they’ve probably got enough “then they came for’s” ahead of them to be fine.

The Germans learned a lot about how to evade being held responsible for committing genocide, and nothing else.

The further they push, the more regular people will recognize it as insane.

Is this confirmed true?

I think I see your point a bit more, I didn’t really think about the implications of American fascism being a new thing. Also didn’t want to single you out or anything.

I hear you, I just feel like the meme was about the ordinary soldiers rather than the government. Fully respect wanting to correct the record regarding the government, just felt it was worth a reminder that there were people like the soldier in the meme who did sacrifice a lot fighting for a worthy cause and who do deserve respect, and our criticism of the government shouldn’t overshadow that. Just a small pushback on that, but one I felt was important.

There were also 400,000 soldiers who died fighting fascists under the US flag, who were not responsible for their government’s decisions regarding the use of nuclear weapons, nor Operation Paperclip, nor any other major government decisions.

I gotta push back against the criticism that several of my comrades in here are expressing. Y’all are talking about the US collaborating with Nazis after the war, and you’re not wrong about that, but that was the US government, while this meme is about a soldier. The soldiers on the ground fought for all sorts of reasons, they might have opposed the Nazis for all sorts of ideological reasons, or they might have just been doing it out of loyalty, or any of the other reasons soldiers fight. But there were people on the ground fighting the Nazis under a US flag who were committed antifascists and even communists. As for the others, whatever their reasons, when the call came to save the world from fascism, they answered, and were willing to sacrifice life and limb to do it. That’s pretty heroic if you ask me. And they weren’t the ones who made the decision to let Nazis into NATO and stuff afterwards.

I understand the defensiveness against attempts to glorify the US while villifying the USSR and downplay their (more substantial) sacrifice and contribution to the war. But there’s nothing in this meme that’s doing that, and there were Americans who contributed to the war effort. Is it necessary to kneejerk react to a meme celebrating someone who fought the Nazis by talking about the government that ruled over them? People aren’t defined by their nation or their government.

Let’s not forget the proud tradition of people like Woody Guthrie, who explicitly tied the war effort to a broader idea of antifascism, nor of the people on the front lines who he inspired.

No offense, but you’re wrong about this.

Machine learning does have valid use cases, and chess (and go and other board games) is one of them. The thing about chess is that there’s a definitive win state that the AI is trying to reach. This is a huge difference from language and image models, which require human input to tell them if they’re any good or not, and feeding the output back into it makes it more and more gibberish. With chess AI, the goal isn’t to play like a human, but to win, which means it can judge it’s own output against that metric and train off of that, with no need for human games at all. You can start it off playing random nonsense moves, and then let it run, and it’ll play millions of games getting a little better with each one, as fast as the hardware allows. The end result is something much, much better than what any human or brute force algorithm can achieve. Speaking as a go player, AI has completely revolutionized the way we play the game, and I believe the chess world has had a similar experience.

Having said that, there have been some problems with go AI. A while back, somebody discovered a trick that anybody could use to beat otherwise unbeatable AI. It involved intentionally letting a group get surrounded with no way to live, and then surrounding the group surrounding that group in order to kill it. It was a nonsense strategy that any human player would catch on to and subvert, but because it was a bad strategy, the AI never tried it and so it wasn’t in its training data. This served as an important reminder that the AI isn’t perfect and isn’t actually thinking.

However, without exploits like that, nobody, not even the top professionals, have any chance whatsoever of beating a top AI. And that only started being the case with go relatively recently, because the brute force algorithms weren’t good enough but the machine learning algorithms were a huge leap forward, and they’re getting better and better.

I’m as much of an AI skeptic as the next person, but a W is a W.

If I say, “Knight to B4,” does that sound like something a person playing chess might say? Then it did it’s job.

Think of an LLM as an actor. You don’t hire someone to act as a grandmaster in a movie based on their skill at chess, they might not even know how to play, but if they deliver the lines in a convincing way, that’s what you’re looking for. There’s chess AIs that are incredibly good at chess, because that’s what they’re designed for and trained on. That’s why this is a very silly test, it’s like testing a fish on its tree-climbing ability, the only thing sillier than this test is that people are surprised by it.