Why do republicans think about trans people so much?
Do they? Certain "leaders" find it useful as a divisive issue, or for distraction. But ordinary people are far more concerned with the economy, public safety, education. Maybe immigration. LGBT issues just don't come up so much as in urban liberal communities or colleges.
Modern-day identity "woke" politics is doing the opposite: pushing peopel apart by emphasising differences, moral righteousness, tribal suspicions, and ideological conflict.
More accurate, the right-wing accuses "woke" politics of pushing people apart by emphasizing differences, etc. Actual left-wing politics does not in fact do that. It emphasizes accepting people for what they are.
Which left? mainstream centre-left or woke identity-politics far-left?
But it does also embrace things like not erasing the uncomfortable parts of history to make American look better than it was. The right wing thinks that allowing any mention of lynching or Jim Crow laws or internment camps in their American history class is "pushing people apart".
Thats good, we need to honestly acknowledge the past. And the present - how does your part of politics deal with the "uncomfortable parts" of diversity? ie group differences. Does it persist in a oppressor/victim dichotomy narrative to explain all differences in outcomes?
I'm not sure about the US, but in the rest of the world, every form of power get subsidies, one way or another.
Better to be subsiding nuclear (and batteries for solar) than coal and gas, I suppose.
Whats this I hear about Trump paying out billions to NOT build wind farms though?
nah - never mind, I'm not sure I can take any more of that stuff.
"flooding illegals". I pictured a big wave made of people. I've met illegal aliens, but I've yet to witness a flood of them. That would be quite a spectacle.
As a tourist crossing the US/Mexico border, I saw dozens jumping the fence -- was certainly a spectacle. Though from their casual manner and lack of luggage, I expect they were more like a weekly commute than a migration.
The migration situation in the US is insane, and bad for everyone, except those who get the cheap labor. Millions of 2nd-class non-citizens with few rights, reminds me of Dubai.
oh no, it was. Lets check that card:
[x] - AI frontier research model escapes lab and hacks major AI repository
[x] - AI startup floats for > 1T$ .
[x] - Claude Code goes open source
[x] - massive AI cyber-attack from North Korea
[ ] - millenium problem solved
[ ] - P=NP proven
[ ] - unsupervised full self driving released across multiple US states
[ ] - robot uprising
[ ] - AI wins Nobel Prize
[ ] - The First $10B "Solo Unicorn"
[ ] - an AI Earns Full Sovereign Citizenship
[ ] - AI designed pathogen released by terror group
[ ] - Sable 1.0 released
So far, OK
Also, "sexual preferences" is an incorrect term, which I will gladly demonstrate by asking: When was it that you decided to be heterosexual?
While 'sexual orientation' is usually the preferred term, that argument is not up to your usual detail-oriented posting.
A preference is an internal orientation or predisposition. A choice is the external action taken based on those orientations.
Our preferences determine (in part) our choices.
Does anyone choose to be gay? or male? Or good or greedy? Can I choose to believe in free will?
I can choose what to do, but not necessarily what to be.
MLK jr knew how to make a speech. He sought forgiveness, integration, and mutual understanding, framing racial injustice as a moral failing that could be overcome together.
Modern-day identity "woke" politics is doing the opposite: pushing peopel apart by emphasising differences, moral righteousness, tribal suspicions, and ideological conflict.
King succeeded by advocating fairness and liberty. - ideals common to all.
Now activism often relies on call-out culture, tribal outrage, and ideological enforcement, (to paraphrase Jonathan Haidt)
I have some sympathy for the likes of OpenAI not being able to fully monetise the results of their expensive training, from those who benefit by distillation. But it wouldn't be an issue if OpenAI just opened the weights like they promised.
And obviously they distilled the internet without paying.
1980s Bill Gates
"Well, Steve, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set, and found out that you had already stolen it."
2020s Liang Wenfeng
"I think it's more like you pirated ten thousand bit-torrents to your home TV NAS, and now you're mad that someone else is watching it through your window."
When was Star Trek ever not woke? IMHO it has had a progressive slant ever since TOS.
You can be progressive without "wokeness", even dealing with present day identity, race, sex politics.
Check out "Orange is the New Black" - deals with American marginalised minorities, but zero heavy-handed preaching.
Lesbians, trans-gender, every race, inter-racial adoption, neurodiversity, religion , rednecks,
Maybe OG Star Trek was a bit "woke", but TV was so often moralistic back then that it didn't stand out. And it was a bit more subtle than now.
Heavy handed messages about race - like, one race is white on the left half, the other race is white on the right half,
Actually, that particular episode, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", was cringingly preachy, especially Kirk's sermon.
Most of Star Trek was better.
What a stupid question. We don't know. The 'silently scheming' part shows you have no clue about the threats. If you can't be bothered learning, that's OK, but no need to loudly proclaim such ignorance. They are many, and difficult to quantify, but a head in the sand will not make them go away.
Nothing is ever going to be cheaper than the thing before it.
Go back 100 years and tell me how
Eh? I thought the nutter must have been being ironic. You telling me he's actually just a moron? No!?
It's too late.
Probably. But if there is a 0.01% chance of saving humanity, that's like definitely saving a million lives. Or billions yet to be born.
Or 0.00001% ? Just maybe, we get to be the one civilisation that passes the Great Filter.
I may have to steal that one.
Its an old and popular economics joke. Origin:
"Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties."
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson. September 19, 1966
The four astronauts will now be known as Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy America.
In other NASA news, the new Artemis lunar lander, currently in development, will be powered not by dimethylhydrazine, but by steam.
To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland. -- Jack Paar
