When people are so quick to point an accusatory finger so frequently and unprompted towards them as you did commenting on this post is it any wonder that 3rd party and non-voters start to grow bitter towards their accusers? It would be far more productive of you to join their calls for a better Democratic party and not constantly chastise those with whom you agree on all except their choice to vote on their principles. Harm reduction is not a persuasive argument, it is a strategic decision to acknowledge your moral culpability in both action and inaction, informed by reality not ideals. It would be ideal if everyone understood this concept and voted to cause the least harm, but that is not the reality, and you will not convince them with finger-wagging and moralising. I am asking you to continue practicing harm reduction by keeping your frustrations with non-voters to yourself - knowing that voicing them only causes further harm - and instead direct them to dem electeds and primary candidates to be better at inspiring their vote.

It would be easier to list the things that should not be done and over with by now.

IMO the best vegan substitute for chicken nuggets is breaded and fried lion’s mane mushrooms. They are absolutely perfect in taste and texture for this purpose, and the best part is that they can be grown very easily and cheaply.

You should give it another viewing. There’s violence, but it’s not just random murder for its own sake like in The Purge. The protagonist carries out a series of targeted assassinations against people who were involved in detaining and experimenting on him in a concentration camp, and blows up a couple of empty buildings at the beginning and end of the movie in a symbolic act of defiance against a fascist regime. There’s a bit towards the end where he ships a bunch of guy fawkes masks to everyone and there’s some robbing and looting, but no killing until a secret police guy shoots an unarmed child in the street and some people jump him. The plot overall is about people rising up against and toppling a fascist regime, which is pretty relevant to current events.

Don’t wait for midterms, vote in the primaries for the most progressive candidates. We should want strong candidates in the general who aren’t compromised by corporations and who run on a progressive economic platform. This is what it will take to make a Democratic win a true victory rather than a brief respite from only the most visible aspects of fascism.

Jasmine Crockett being better / more aggressive in a debate doesn’t make her better on policy. She’s the establishment choice in this primary, an AIPAC-compromised ghoul with a snazzy coat of paint. Roasting Republicans with sick burns on fox news doesn’t wash the Palestinian blood from her hands, and she’ll keep up the appearance of fighting while caving at every opportunity to corporate interests.

Where did they mention wanton violence? That’s not what anarchism is, and that’s also not what’s portrayed in V for Vendetta.

Japan’s just lagging behind, they recently elected a reaganite/thatcherite to implement austerity policies. Fascism will soon follow, and they’re no stranger to it.

Whenever the Pentagon catches even the slightest whiff of a conscience among its contractors they move immediately to snuff it out.

In the show, it’s his desire to be a healer and embrace Federation science that causes tension with his family. Of that, I’d argue his family was visibly more angry about him embracing the Federation.

Given that his parents are a polyamorous throuple it seems likely that if there is any anti-gay bigotry in Klingon culture it wouldn’t come from his parents.

The point is that mirroring the prompt style puts the LLM in a context space where it performs badly. This is because it doesn’t try to give correct answers, but likely ones. Incorrect answers are more likely to follow a prompt that is written with poor grammar and spelling.

“Underage woman” is an oxymoron. Woman means adult female, and cannot be described as underage without contradicting yourself. These journalists are attempting to lessen the emotional response and confuse people by avoiding saying child or teenager.

We also get cravings for specific foods when our bodies are lacking in a nutrient that food contains. I don’t think we have them for every nutrient our bodies need, hence why people can get nutrient deficiencies by accident even when the nutrient they need is available, but there’s some instinctual failsafes for certain ones that must have been scarce or intermittent enough for cravings to confer an evolutionary advantage.

The multitude of marks that support a fascist regime get the emotion right and the facts wrong, making them useful idiots for the ideological fascists as they will fight to defend the fascist state with the same zeal with which they ought to oppose it. The environment of fear that fascism creates ends up fueling their hatred because the virtual reality that fascist propaganda maintains for them allows them to misattribute all their negative emotions to the enemies of the state.

Something I love about this is how even though he’s noticeably nervous to be speaking in public and even when his emotions rapidly flare up and he’s overcome with rage he doesn’t become any less articulate in his speech, and even interjects to assert himself when they try to cut him off. This is a man whose passion for justice overpowers what appears to be quite strong social anxiety.

“Being exploited for profit as a child gave me an early understanding of how exploitative the world of casual labour is. I think other children should be exploited too because it teaches them how to escape exploitation, like I did. Huh? selection bias? What’s that?”

Wow. Hey, I have an idea. Touching a hot stove teaches kids not to touch a hot stove, therefore we should make kids touch hot stoves. It’s genius!

I hate that word. I used a possessive apostrophe like this (its’) for years before somebody finally told me that rule doesn’t apply to its for some unknown reason.

A whippet is a dog breed lol. They look a bit like a cross between a greyhound and a borzoi (slender bodies, long faces).

Inhaling nitrous oxide gives a very short-lived euphoric high. Using the little canisters this way is colloquially referred to as whip-its. Prolonged use is known to cause severe and irreversible brain damage.

More slop op-eds blaming systemic issues on personal failures.