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It’s somewhere in the back.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Not just sophomoric, as the article points out. Plain old bigoted.

“It’s one thing to mispronounce someone’s name on the first try, right? But to do it repeatedly and deliberately, it feels purposeful. It’s certainly done to make a point. It is othering, a way of saying you don’t belong here,” said Jean Sinzdak, the associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

“I would describe it as a racist and sexist attack on her because she’s been the vice president for three and a half years,” Sinzdak said. “It’s not hard to say her name. It’s not complicated.”

FlyingSquid OP ,
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That’s exactly what it is. It’s saying, “white men like me know how to really pronounce your name and you don’t.”

FlyingSquid OP ,
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The sad part is, they are.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I have a friend I’ve had since high school with that name and with that spelling who pronounced it a different way (closer to ‘camera’), so I go there for a second sometimes without realizing it, but correct myself quickly enough.

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I don’t know, but be sure and let us all know when you call Russia and make this deal so we can definitely congratulate you and not in any way contact the authorities for you violating sanctions.

FlyingSquid ,
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Why did Manchin ever call himself a Democrat?

FlyingSquid ,
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Keep going, Vance. Pissing off America’s women worked out really well for Dan Quayle.

FlyingSquid ,
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Someone made up a rumor that Vance wrote about fucking a couch in his memoir and it took off as a thing and now people are repeating it as if it’s true and I’m fine with that for once.

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No, but you have shit like this these days-

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1b538d7f-e1c3-428d-b59c-49ea3e98dfef.png

FlyingSquid ,
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If I had a good concept of Rhode Island’s size beyond ‘smaller than all of the other states,’ that would be a useful description.

FlyingSquid ,
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Hey, my house hasn’t burnt down this summer yet.

We’re out $3000 because a huge storm knocked down our huge oak trees, but…

FlyingSquid ,
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Is Rhode Island the state smaller than any U.S. city?

Daughter of late Supreme Court Justice Scalia appointed to Virginia Board of Education (apnews.com)

The daughter of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been appointed by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin to serve on the Virginia Board of Education, drawing criticism from some Democrats who called the appointment politically motivated....

FlyingSquid ,
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She has a doctorate in clinical psychology from UVA apparently. So she knows this is all bullshit culture war nonsense and is just clawing her way to the top.

FlyingSquid ,
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I like presidential candidates that aren’t cowards.

FlyingSquid ,
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Also, during the trial, she heavily implied, but did not outright say, that she did not consent.

FlyingSquid ,
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Don’t fuck with Finland, Russia. It historically doesn’t end well for you.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Plus, it would have to go through the courts. And if he gets elected, good luck with that.

FlyingSquid ,
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I’d accept an animated re-creation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vN_PEmeKb0

FlyingSquid ,
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I guess, but why another state?

FlyingSquid ,
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Now that makes sense! I think that’s a very good possibility.

FlyingSquid ,
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Yeah, but I would still think he would do schools in his area so he could see the fallout more closely… however, someone else suggested they were convinced to do it to another school through people they met gaming online. That makes more sense to me.

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Say goodbye to more insurance companies, California.

FlyingSquid ,
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I don’t know that even a nonprofit will be able to cover what climate change is wreaking on California in terms of wildfires.

FlyingSquid ,
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I would say letting a finger stop you from playing in the Olympics when you’re a hockey player and individual fingers aren’t all that necessary would be the sort of thing that would weigh on someone for years. Leading to clinical depression, in fact. I wouldn’t blame a doctor for doing it. As you said, harm reduction.

That said, this is his third Olympics, so I don’t know if that would be enough in this case.

FlyingSquid ,
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And ping pong is something people play in rec rooms. It’s also a damn impressive Olympic sport.

FlyingSquid ,
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There used to be a place in the town where I grew up that advertised “burritos as big as your head,” but they did not take large-headed people like myself into account. The burrito was smaller than my head.

FlyingSquid ,
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I would have sued, but they were damn good burritos.

FlyingSquid ,
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By ‘healthy,’ they clearly mean the portions.

FlyingSquid ,
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Yes! La Bamba! Was it a chain?

FlyingSquid ,
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Then yes, because I was in Indiana.

FlyingSquid ,
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That’s a great excuse for never trying, isn’t it? “They don’t want us to do it.”

FlyingSquid ,
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They’ve been asked to name such a candidate and admitted they can’t. And also that they didn’t canvass for anyone. So basically they want an imaginary person to magically pop into our reality and be the nominee. But not Kamala Harris.

FlyingSquid ,
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And yet cows are supposed to be sacred to Hindus?

FlyingSquid ,
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Thanks! For my case, I’m assuming none of them are in English and I’m a dumb 'murcan who barely made it through French in high school, so I’m going to have to stick with Canada. But hopefully that will help others.

FlyingSquid ,
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I used to do that when I was younger, but these days it’s usually for something like the Olympics where I want to understand what’s going on.

I do get a huge dose of Canadian pride though, so that’s fun.

A mysterious pile of bones could hold evidence of Japanese war crimes, activists say (apnews.com)

TOKYO (AP) — Depending on who you ask, the bones that have been sitting in a Tokyo repository for decades could be either leftovers from early 20th century anatomy classes, or the unburied and unidentified victims of one of the country’s most notorious war crimes....

FlyingSquid ,
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“Mysterious pile of bones” is just not a group of words you want to hear unless you’re an archaeologist.

FlyingSquid ,
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No, I did not literally do that at all. In any way. That’s just a lie. I have never tried to get you or anyone else to shut up about condemning genocide.

Why are you lying?

77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)

The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high...

FlyingSquid ,
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I see, so if we ignore the rest of the article entirely, your point is supported. What an odd way of trying to prove a point.

Also, I guess this was a lie:

Ok, you just want to shout not discuss so I wont engage any further.

Although since it was a lie, I’d love you to tell me what you think I was shouting about.

FlyingSquid ,
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Not being able to use your own words to explain something to me and having the thing that is an ecological disaster that also lies all the time explain it to me instead really only reinforces my point that there’s no reason to like this technology.

FlyingSquid ,
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Ok, let’s look at your own words then:

I heard a large AI model is equivalent to the emissions from five cars over its lifetime.

Cool, I hear lots of things. Where’s the evidence?

So, absent of AI, it’s not like we’re up in arms about the waste and usage from other technologies. AI is being singled out—it’s the star of the show right now.

Who is we? I am not happy about any of it, but especially when it is something not especially useful (you could have used spelling and grammar checkers that have predated AI by many years but you decided to waste water).

And I don’t really care about the potential of an orphan-crushing machine as long as we let it keep crushing orphans.

I love this last part the best though:

Sure, it consumes energy and has costs

We can just forget about these because you didn’t want to use standard grammar and spellcheckers and they have the potential to do a bunch of things they can’t do. Awesome. Totally worth the end of civilization.

FlyingSquid ,
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That is training, not use. You are being dishonest.

FlyingSquid ,
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Okay, but that’s a different subject. This started with the suggestion that if Russia is committing war crimes, Ukraine should as well.

FlyingSquid ,
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I do not mean to suggest a blanket free-for-all of atrocities, but rather the crossing of some useful lines that we wouldn’t normally cross.

And I’m telling you, that leads to escalation. Russia will then do something worse. Should Ukraine do something worse to then in return? At what point does it stop?

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