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  • Yeah, it’s not that people don’t like the lemmy.ml users, or even really their mods…

    It’s (at least one of) the admins.

    If they see something they don’t like on their server, they delete it and give a very very short ban. Because they don’t want those people gone. They want them enraged and chomping at the bit to come back.

    It’s ran like a troll instance, and it’s not alone.

    The only time they permanently ban someone, is when they see someone in a neutral place they can’t control talking about it. Advocate for people blocking them, and they don’t want anyone signed up to their instance seeing your comments




  • They absolutely could run, whether that means selling their property, hiring people to manage them (they already do that), or whatever other way to facilitate leaving.

    They can leave, and they can afford to leave and live almost anywhere else for cheaper.

    They just don’t want to.

    It’s an important distinction because it highlights the truth about every future argument the wealthy make: they’ll yell and cry and say it’ll be disasterous, and then nothing happens.

    But your comment isn’t correct in any way, I guess people just up voted it because they agree with the spirit of it?





  • If it bursts the world wide economy collapses, because most “wealth” is loans against stock, which are then invested in stocks driving the price up.

    I think we’re past a trillion sunk into the ponzi scheme just in AI stock, but if it goes down banks call in their loans triggering automatic sales of whatever collateral they used.

    Billions and billions being sold automatically regardless of price would cause cascading crashes…

    But if it works…

    Corps can fire the majority of their employees and starving desperate people turn to Mad Max after a few consecutive missed meals.







  • We have a lot more than five senses…

    Close your eyes and clap your hands, now how did you just do that?

    Proprioception is a sense of where our body parts are in relation to each other, and how we can walk without staring at our feet the whole time.

    What you’re looking for is a “gut feeling” which is often your subconscious, but your gut has a shitton of neural cells too. And can function like a “minibrain”.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/your-gut-directly-connected-your-brain-newly-discovered-neuron-circuit

    Most likely it’s an actual “proto-brain” hold over from before organisms even had heads.

    But anyways, most likely it’s coming from your subconscious, there are things it puts together and recognizes, and especially if danger is around then it’s just gonna flash a warning light and not walk your conscious mind thru the logic that tells you why there’s a warning light. Because it’s better to respond fast and later work out why the warning light was flashing.

    So, an example would be before I learned about the correlations between prenatal testosterone, in group bonding, and facial width; it was a joke among a specific friend group that “don’t trust guys with skinny faces”.

    Not that low prenatal testorone makes someone untrustworthy, just that in situations where you need to 100% count on people to have your back, the people most likely to not are the ones that are not biologically wired to blindly defend what they recognize as “us”, their in group.

    But this is a thing on a wider social scale, guys with “rat face” are often cast as villains and betrayers in media, because on some level even tho we consciously don’t recognize why, we all just instantly distrust to some extent. Not from conscious logic, but individual lifetimes of experience and us just automatically picking up the pattern.

    Prenatal androgen exposure, approximated via 2D:4D, was associated with prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous research in older children, higher exposure was related to stronger prosocial tendencies, which corresponds to earlier findings on fairness in adults. Our findings point towards a potential role of sex steroids in the early development of children’s social behavior, but they have to be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size of the current study. Nevertheless, they underscore the importance of integrating biological and psychological perspectives, while also highlighting the significance of studying the development of prosocial behavior within peer groups.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378224001245


  • It’s not just this specific issue:

    After Newsom failed to sign the bill in October, he said, “Last year, I vetoed a substantially similar bill, stating that it would limit the ability of health plans to engage in practices that have been shown to ensure appropriate care while limiting unnecessary costs. That is still the case with this bill – despite my call for a more tailored solution. This bill’s expansive coverage mandate, in conjunction with a prohibition on UM, is too far-reaching.”

    Newsome is a neoliberal, and he’ll always put profits over people.

    Never forget as soon as trump took office again, Newsom had Charlie Kirk and Alex Jones on his podcast sucking up to them and saying Dems need to be more like MAGA.

    He didn’t pivot back to anti-maga until maga refused to let him join.

    Newsom isn’t fit to be president, but he’s not fit to hold any other political office either. We can’t afford to waste time with these shit birds


  • Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

    No, it wouldn’t.

    I think search engines didn’t work with it;

    No, they worked fine. It doesn’t take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.

    Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.

    So if a few people try this, it’s not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.

    But that doesn’t stop people from constantly having this idea


  • does it not then have the potential to water down enough districts to make them swing districts,

    That’s how gerrymandering always works…

    You want to get every district to where you’d barely win, and jam all the extra people who would vote against you into as few districts as possible that they will definitely win.

    The obvious danger is if you gerrymander too much, and a wave shows up, you could potentially lose everything because you no longer have any “safe” districts.

    I’ve been saying since the beginning that we’re better off letting them do all this redistricting ASAP, that way we can start the groundwork to win enough of those close districts to take the whole state government