stickly

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[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

One of these two actors is actively and aggressively siezing strategic territory needed for a sound position in a changing climate. I'll give you a hint: neither of them give a shit about living in Russia.

I hope to see this same victim blaming enthusiasm when America invades Canada and Greenland for the same reasons.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

Lmao what the fuck is this take? Somebody tell Egypt to start tearing down the pyramids. There are 1000s of Roman monuments still standing that celebrate specific conquests of slavers. Why are there still statues of shitty imperial colonizers all over Europe?

You only get your blood-monuments torn down when your state is systematically destroyed.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Modern media spin would say Hitler's just really pumped to see his country compete in the Olympics. He can barely contain his masculine vigor, like any true patriot. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²πŸˆπŸ₯‡

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

But I was told they all wake up at 4am for their 15 mile morning jog before a carefully balanced breakfast of a protein supplement and ancient grains. How could they take drugs?? The billionaire body is a sacred temple!

[–] stickly@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are people today rightly pointing out the looting of the global South by the global North, and yet nobody in the north is volunteering to give it all back. What disgusting human beings, if they had any decency they'd give it back and ritually kill themselves

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They absolutely would have if they had the resources to swing it

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To play devils advocate with the original comment, if you're pretending it's a police action then he's a hostage

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One bad thing doesn't make a different but also bad thing ok. And in my opinion it is worse, imagine if their world view could only come from 5 second videos. Throw those history books away.

And I don't know that it's overstated and it's not at all perpetual. Look at... everything these days. People "disagree" with fundamental facts and are blindly allowing our planet to be burnt to the ground.

It takes concentrated effort to build and maintain an educated populace. The wide availability of books and increased literacy directly caused the Renaissance, pulling down the status quo and giving us access to modern medicine and literally every right + luxury you enjoy today.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I mean it's the same use; it's all literacy. It's about how much you depend on it and don't use your own brain. It might be for a mindless email today, but in 20 years the next generation can't read the news without running it through an LLM. They have no choice but to accept whatever it says because they never develop the skills to challenge it, kind of like simplifying things for a toddler.

The models can never be totally fixed, the underlying technology isn't built for that. It doesn't have "knowledge" or "reasoning" at all. It approximates it by weighing your input against a model of how those words connect together and choosing a slightly random extension of them. Depending on the initial conditions, it might even give you a different answer for each run.

 

As an English speaker, most easily accessible news sources on the internet are very Americentric. Given the current state of global politics, I want to break out of that bubble.

I have dual American/Italian citizenship, so I'd like to keep up to date with Italian + EU current events. All I can find are the most major national scandals, Prime Ministers talking about Trump, and the results of ~~soccer~~ football matches.

So leggere un po' di italiano, but not enough yet to read a newspaper. How can I keep up?

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