Yes but I could see someone assuming some combination of Continental drift and different sea levels allowing that with a much wider gap in the present day.

Basically has been my reaction to the clankers thing.

I mean, it’s like a good bit that has the soul sucked out of it with more than 0.5 seconds of thought into why it’s being done.

Only to have to navigate an increasing mire of paywalled content, anything of value slowly taking the same rigid forms of nonsense, and no one to discuss these niches with as all community platforms become increasingly niche and small, or overrun with grifters and bots.

If you wanna learn something from the internet, best use is the navigation to your local library.

Actually, looking deeper seems she’s arguing this to a point:

Newscum is using this as a presidential campaigning ploy to draw attention to his counter action as opposed to the original issue and that this needs to be resolved with grassroots pressure as opposed to letting the Dems also further their grip on what power they can maintain via bipartisan activism.

This is stupid in a very different way.

A. This assumes that grassroot activists are heavily interested and able to get a large enough anti gerrymandering protest/strike combo going at a level and sustain it long enough to cause actual harm to the nation. B. That the above wouldn’t be swapped with a massive crackdown that just diverts the issue as the only thing people would be able to focus on is the crackdown. C.That we have the organized capacity setup for these activists and people to do that or can establish it before 2026 D. That a nation, that she has mentioned in the follow ups has been repressively fascist to its minorities before, is a democracy and these institutions are worthy saving E. That even if the institutions are worth saving (not) that they aren’t going to just be bulldozed with fascism anyways making the gerrymandering issue and any resistance to it only temporary until it’s supplanted by something much greater.

And there are like a dozen other things, but we’re getting into the territory of liberalism as opposed to logistical and strategical issues the more I go on so I’ll digress.

In a Gucci Hefty collab

I have it blocked and thought the same for a sec lol

I mean this is just how discussion around things in the U.S. goes, no? Seems pretty business as usual

Don’t think Mormons do women missionaries. If they do it’s after my family stopped going at least.

I mean, those are still mental skills, even if we typically consider them so ubiquitous that they are thought of as typical function. I know children with particularly overbearing parents have previously had issues with independent assessments due to not having to, or sometimes being alone to make their own decisions. If you sit there and go, “grok is this true?” For every single idea you hear and take the cyber prophet at its word I wouldn’t be surprised if you essentially cook your brain, as most critical function are still skills that can weaken and atrophy.

If they weren’t, education wouldn’t be able improve assessment abilities. It’s worse because the skills are far more critical to function, I can live without my second language at the end of the day and it probably won’t have catastrophic consequences.

The second language thing was the quickest analogy I could think of, something closer is how post-covid, educators I know mentioned students were far less socially capable as during isolation they essentially missed building some social skills and those they did have atrophied, leaving them relatively socially incompetent compared to students that predated COVID lockdown.

There is a similarity for students with LLM use (also just noting hear were probably talking very differently technologies in this example than what the doctors are using, AI is being used as an obfuscating term that is technically true. We’re talking about the harm caused by bullet trains and lifted diesel pickup trucks like they’re the same exact thing because they both transport you somewhere), they don’t build some of the skill needed if they’ve been using it since it’s gone mainstream, (3ish years) and those skills they did have are probably weakened compared to where they were before.

Yeah lol, he could be compromised but this is just delusion lol

I mean, you’re outsourcing all of your mental labor, some cases good, some cases bad. Not like this particular case listed about is new to more modern, AI either, rudimentary forms have been causing skill atrophy for decades.

It’s like me complaining I get worse at my second language when I click on English subs for a few months,

The “(no tax on overtime!)” actually got a snicker out of me, that shit is so ridiculous.

I was gonna say the above, but I wasn’t sure if “dragged pissing, kicking, and screaming,” counts as “let”

https://archive.ph/xulPa here is an archive link.

Man, Yogthos really knows how to find the most insufferable articles with a nugget of useful information.

It’s like the entire reason containerization was such a big deal

At every level of abstraction, someone did due diligence to ensure that the processes that they wrote worked

We know very different programmers lol

What are the brain worms you’re referring to? (Besides I guess the idea of totalitarianism but he seems to deride it’s common use from the vibe I got).

That we can only sit back and be ready for a potential split in the ruling class, which may not even happen for lifetimes.

Where does it say that? It says that after that is the only time to bring about revolution. However the ruling class is not divorced from reality and this still would allow for attempting to agitate the situation to work towards accelerating a split in ruling class. That is also ignoring needed work in recruitment and organizing to properly capitalize, survival programs so the working class of a state to find itself survival tied with their ruling class, etc.