Julesman

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by Julesman 3y ago
I found this telling. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conspiracy+the...
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by Julesman 3y ago
I know what it means better than most. I also know that it's application as a means of establishing liberal identity as opposed to basic historical facts is a long time feature of our empire. Liberals punch down at leftists. Someone qu
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by Julesman 3y ago
Thanks for the correction. I think it would have been better for me to say that counter-intelligence operations in the country have long intentionally colored inconvenient facts as wild conjecture, regardless of their historical foundation.
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by Julesman 3y ago
There are three types of people circling around conspiracy theories. 1) Literate people who care about history and know that industry does what's best for profit at all costs. 2) People who don't read much looking for a hobby. 3)
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by Julesman 3y ago
I wouldn't say most. And I'm no fan of echo chambers. We have to expect a certain amount of industry support in any mainstream social context. The notion that the problem is the "academic/philanthropic complex" come
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by Julesman 3y ago
This is not, in any way, a direct response to my comment.
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by Julesman 3y ago
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a... I have a dark fascination with the inevitable industry-friendly responses you find on a post like this. I always wonder if the people know
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by Julesman 3y ago
LOL!!! This HAS to be parody.
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by Julesman 3y ago
I saw a e-ink license place last week in LA. Anyone know what's up with that? Seems kind of hackable.
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by Julesman 3y ago
People who honestly believe that the world was created in 4004 BC are quite free in this country to imagine that facts have a liberal bias. But that doesn't make it true. But really, this is a question of alignment to industrial values
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by Julesman 3y ago
Sky blue. Ground green.
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by Julesman 3y ago
Someone those businesses hired sold them on shortcuts that are just bad. Trading UX for production speed isn't a thing. Claiming bad UX is a business decision isn't a thing. Bad UX is bad for business. Sure, some of these concerns
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by Julesman 3y ago
Where exactly do people say Mariguana? Not in Mexico. If you over-pronounce Spanish the J catches in your throat a bit, but it's still an H sound.
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by Julesman 3y ago
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make
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by Julesman 3y ago
We can talk about alignment of LLMs. We can also talk about alignment of people who write Wikipedia. To imagine there is no bias is foolish and dangerous. More accurate isn't truth. More accurate for whom?
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by Julesman 3y ago
Absolutely false premise from the first sentence. It is NOT possible for the world to live like the first world did in the 20th century. And nuclear energy is an apocalypically short-sited solution, mostly favored by the current energy indu
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by Julesman 3y ago
Wow. How drastically edgy. What an independent thinker. Really sticking it to The Man. Epic.
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by Julesman 3y ago
Half hour of blocking and I have no problems at all. No brands or big celebrities. This is not rocket science.
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by Julesman 3y ago
"News"
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by Julesman 3y ago
It's hard for me to capture the level of nostalgia I have for those 4px graphical elements that you could use for graphics. They allowed you to control graphics with the conditional logic of Basic. I had so much fun making animations w
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by Julesman 3y ago
I'm pretty good at CSS. Getting good at it is not a straight line with perfect logic, like say Python. Browser issues, different ways of doing the same thing, cascading in general. I get the issues. But a) we have no serious alternativ
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by Julesman 3y ago
I don't get the down votes. Blackrock owns a good 10% of every industry. That's not controversial. So the possibility that they would have their hand in right wing businesses isn't a stretch.
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by Julesman 3y ago
Blackrock owns all those companies too. lol.
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by Julesman 3y ago
This is one of my favorites. Many here correctly point out that modern art was not created by the CIA and that's certainly laughable. However, there are a lot folks here who don't seem to got the intent of this operation, and it w
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by Julesman 3y ago
Yawn. The PR campaign continues. If you haven't noticed, the mainstream (read: industrial) stance on generative AI is decidedly negative and there have been an absolutely unending stream of negative opinion pieces on it. None of them a
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by Julesman 3y ago
Well, that's nice. Not gunna stop sea level rise from flooding every coastal city within 30 years. But hey, a slightly better apocalypse just gives me a warm glow all over. Totes.
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by Julesman 3y ago
Wait, who still says Burma?
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by Julesman 3y ago
What would you like to call it? That's the only logical response to that complaint. The deep state has a meaning. It's a useful meaning. And the term is used based on that meaning by many political scientist and historians. The de
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by Julesman 3y ago
Depression is not a disease for most people.
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by Julesman 3y ago
This isn't free speech. This is someone's website. They can have opinions. They can be different than yours. Right?

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