Buckle up Buckaroos…

Ignorance is bliss homie…

https://afresearchlab.com/news/department-of-the-air-force-launches-niprgpt/

People really don’t want to know how much AI is being shoved down the government’s and military’s throats these days.

It ain’t even just a musk/trump thing, most of it was put in motion under Biden, but now idiots are running with it.

Like, who the fuck really wants the space force using a closeted version of the same consumer level chatbot coding shit?

Fucking no one who understands anything about any of this, but the people calling the shots believe the hype.

So ignorance is bliss.

Dude just forgot an oxford comma…

/s

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=12494

The one for bad punctuation from the troll community you can probably get overturned…

All the ones for racism and explicit advocation for violence though, you probably won’t be able to get changed.

Quick edit:

Looks like you can comment on lemmy.ml tomorrow, have fun with that I guess

Do you think the Democratic Republic of North Korea is an actual democracy?

It’s right there in the name…

The soviets were authoritarians…

Ones with a terrible human rights record.

Like, even if you ignore everything except a left/right economic scale, their wealth inequality was insane. Most people had the same: nothing. And a few people had almost everything of value in the country.

That’s not communism, that’s an oligarchy. The only further right on an economic scale would be a single person owning everything.

Same with HW bush…

Didn’t stop him from becoming president on Reagans coattails.

And HW not only caused just as much damage as Reagan, he was smart about it so still gets a fraction of the blame. His name is almost never brought up anymore.

People just talk about the idiot fall guys, because the whole reason they’re there is to be the lightning rod of criticism so no one looks at the ones calling the shots.

It’s a shell game, but at least when it’s an idiot they’ll get caught and some things will be stopped, or at least noticed.

Today, a university-wide email went out from Harvard President Drew Faust detailing the initial results of a survey completed by Harvard students which asked about individual experiences with sexual assault and campus perceptions of sexual assault.

You find things where you look for them…

Of all the schools surveyed, Harvard had the highest participation rate: 53% of all degree-seeking students across Harvard schools responded. This was significantly higher than the 19% average across all the schools surveyed.

And you only find them when people feel confident and safe enough to speak up.

You seem to be arguing for the trump/RFK method where you don’t count things and then deny they happened…

Because they can’t understand that being more exposed to more ideas tends to make you less conservative.

Vance is Yale educated and the professor who set him up with his wife also got her SC clerkships… He and his wife were literally groomed to be a political power couple similar to the Clintons.

Stop acting like hes stupid and uneducated.

He 100% know what he’s saying is bullshit, hes a liar not an idiot. trump is an idiot, and believes it.

That’s why Vance is so much more dangerous, it’s like comparing HW to Reagan. Both evil, but an evil elderly person with dementia does less damage than an evil intelligent person.

Yep.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/harvard-university-palestine-solidarity-committee-letter/

But no matter how “tough” they were to appease Biden’s admin and their own donors, it’s not enough for the rightwing.

It’s the base reason you can’t meet fascists halfway.

They fought against free speech and watched their students be abused, and now they’re getting shit for not going further.

It’s literally the plot to First They Came For

Don’t do what you’re passionate for as a living. Eventually you just start to hate it. At best become disillusioned with it.

Do what you’re competent at that will make the most money. That will (hopefully) give you the free time and resources to do what you enjoy as a hobby.

Your first year focus on the “gen ed” requirements that are required for every degree, a couple of intro classes in what you think will be a good fit that should count as electives even if not your major.

Every Dept wants as many students as possible. So you can usually find professors willing to talk about their field and more importantly other students.

Lots of people are “undeclared majors” officially their first year even, but you can still declare and easily switch.

That it’s less than half of the 1% and less that a fourth of the 0.1%…

What I didn’t go I to was a lot of what’s counting against the top 50% is global shipping, which these days they have no control over.

People in the first world buying cheap plastic junk made in the third world aren’t doing it because it’s cheaper, these days it’s still expensive and often the only available option.

Like, why are people having difficulty in 2025 understanding that this shit is just so the 99% fight each other instead of uniting against the people who are actually the problem?

That’s not as true as it used to be…

Co-author Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, said: “If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50% of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990.” On the other hand, if the whole world population had emitted as the top 10%, 1% or 0.1% had, the temperature increase would have been 2.9C, 6.7C or a completely unsurvivable 12.2C.

And that shows that even the top 10% isn’t a problem.

It’s not like any group is perfect, the poorest in India and China still use very inefficient coal stoves/heaters, some even use dung. That has an oversized effect on glacier melt due to particulate deposit which goes on to exacerbate climate change.

It makes zero sense to try and start with normal first world citizens while ignoring it still literally doesn’t matter because the wealthiest are doing so much.

Like, putting it the average first world citizen to make them feel like that could fix it is literally fossil fuel propaganda…

Did you know that when you repeated it?

Not just with emissions but plastic recycling too:

https://climateintegrity.org/news/view/not-just-climate-big-oil-lied-about-plastic-recycling-too-and-must-be-held-accountable

Best case scenario here. You’ve fallen head over heels for corporate propaganda…

“So if you’re looking for a certain type of pants, you may find all kinds of pants, but not the type you want. And the type you want….are going to be priced up,” said Seroka.

For decades now that has been a “reason” why we can’t have things every other modern country has like universal healthcare…

And when I was in the military we kept having to go out to sea so they could fly helicopters on and off the ship…

Because you train as close to how you’ll fight as possible.

If you’re talking people doing routine patrol flights, sure it’s the same as fighting. But no one is going to an airshow to watch a helicopter casually fly by.

Like, do you have any frame of reference how much it costs to do that shit in a f16 let alone f35? It’s around 10k/hr just got an f16, and that’s not including the pilot or mechanics, just fuel and parts.

It’s not taking your Prius to the grocery store, it’s taking the Lambo on a 12 hour drive for the hell of it.

But like, you all know this isn’t a hypothetical we’re discussing, right?

It’s literally propaganda:

As recently as 2015, the Department of Defense was doling out millions to the NFL for such things as military flyovers, flag unfurlings, emotional color guard ceremonies, enlistment campaigns, and — interestingly enough — national anthem performances. Additionally, according to Vice, the NFL’s policy on players standing for the national anthem also changed in 2009, with athletes “encouraged” thereafter to participate. Prior to that, teams were not given any specific instructions on the matter; some chose to remain in the locker room until after opening ceremonies were completed. (It’s unclear whether the policy change was implemented as a direct result of any Defense Department contracts.)

In 2015, Arizona Sens. Jeff Flake ® and John McCain ® revealed in a joint oversight report that nearly $5.4 million in taxpayer dollars had been paid out to 14 NFL teams between 2011 and 2014 to honor service members and put on elaborate, “patriotic salutes” to the military. Overall, they reported, “these displays of paid patriotism [were] included within the $6.8 million that the Department of Defense (DOD) [had] spent on sports marketing contracts since fiscal year 2012.”

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/nfl-dod-national-anthem-6f682cebc7cd/

I guess it was a decade ago, some people might not remember I guess.

but I do prefer it when the public gets at least entertainment out of it.

So you only dislike propaganda when it’s not effective?

Cool story bro, but I can admit I was wrong. I didn’t think this shit works on anyone, but you seem to downright enjoy it.

If Lemmy is developed by those same authoritarians or their apologizers, then you shouldn’t stop at donations and you should delete your account.

Using a different instance based on their code does not support them in any way.

But it’s important to draw the distinction between not wanting to give them money, and not wanting .ml to exist.

I’m fine with them having their corner of the internet, but I’m sure as shit not going to financially support them. Especially because if they quit, it wouldn’t end Lemmy. It’s open source code, once it’s out there, it’s just out there.

The entire point of this is no one person has the keys.

Especially for naval aircraft. I would assume the same for air force, but they don’t typically land on boats.

What air shows come with aircraft carriers?

Like, you know they can’t just roll up anywhere, that’s why LHDs are the biggest at fleet week, and NYC’s pier isn’t exactly low quality.

I don’t think Canada wants to hurt so many innocent people because Trump runs his mouth

If that’s true, that’s backwards logic.

Because Trump is hurting a lot more people, and while unlikely if his voters feel the pain they will realize it’s not working. Congress can hold trump accountable, but they won’t until well into the “find out” phase.

So our traditional allies shielding the American people from our own government may seem like the ethical move, but only if focused on today and ignoring the future…

Which is how we ended up here.

Long term, America needs consequences yesterday, but we’ll have to settle for today

Quick edit:

Sure some people may have voted for Trump but a whole lot didn’t. They don’t deserve that.

As close as majorities are, a handful of seats getting pressured is all it would take. You think there ain’t a single red district getting their power from Canada?

You think Montana is a deep blue area?

https://connect2canada.com/2022/04/mapping-the-canada-u-s-energy-relationship-2/

It really doesn’t take many people to switch to take congress back, but if we never pressure them, they’ll never fold.

You think that’s adequate training for active fighter pilots?

That would explain the downvotes, it’s not like flying commercial where you just need hours in the sky, it involves specific maneuvers and simulated dogfighting at highspeed.

It’s like saying NBA players should practice by playing Cornhole, it makes sense if you don’t understand either activity and think throwing something thru a hole is close enough…