Jrockwar
I fortunately come from a country where there’s actual left wing parties that I can vote for, so I understand the desire to go more left.
What I don’t understand from these posts is how voting for the far right, or voting for a party that essentially favours the far right, can make sense if what you want is to turn to the left?
Is the hope that the democrats will see they’ve alienated their base and turn more left, instead of now catering to what to them looks like a population that is more far right leaning than ever?
Is it that one of the seven independent parties that constitute 0.5% each will increase tenfold, gradually over the next 6 or 7 elections, and after 42 years of republican mandate maybe there’s an independent party that represents half of the population, and therefore is defacto the democratic party?
Or that by seeing how fractured the left is, the republican party chooses to remove gerrymandering and implements a system that allows a left coalition?
I get that the alternatives weren’t great but that someone can call themselves left leaning after not voting against a party that is anti abortion, anti LGBTQ, pro genocide, pro Russia… Just doesn’t seem logical to me.
The strategy is to break the ratchet by making it spin faster to the right!
What size does it need to be?
I would do something with the butterfly from the “is this X” meme.
Maybe just the butterfly, with “FM” in white/black IMPACT font as a good meme
If it’s glance.com, it seems Glance puts ads directly on your lock screen. So that you can be served ads without even unlocking your phone or going to their app.
I agree with you with the fact that it’s wild, very distopian sci-fi.
However, even it this very much an ethical no-no, I’m not sure which bit is the technically illegal part.
If he were selling normal sheep, that would be perfectly legal. Nobody would bat an eyelid, despite being similar treatment to animals.
Is it the cloning that is illegal? If he were to clone a species on the brink of extinction to re-populate an area, would that be ethical but illegal?
Is the problem that he’s cloning without authorisation? Who decides whether we can bring new animals to life via cloning? Is there a Ministry of Clones that needs to authorise people to clone stuff?
A friend of mine was in a similar situation with a dangerous chemical that he used for some hobby projects (an acid for glass etching)?
It wouldn’t be accepted anywhere so he ended up calculating how diluted it needed to be and pouring it mixed with a lot of water down the sink.
For 5 litres of nicotine to be safe you’d need a lot of water though if you’d want to make this remotely ok for the environment…
What about mixing it with cat litter and then disposing it?
The least unreliable LLM I’ve found by far is perplexity, in the Pro mode. (By the way, if you want to try it out. You get a few free uses a day).
The reason is because the Pro mode doesn’t retrieve and spit out information from its internal memory bank, but instead, it uses that information to launch multiple search queries, then summarises the pages it finds, and then gives you that information.
Other LLMs try to answer “from memory” and then add some links at the bottom for fact checking but usually Perplexity’s answers come straight from the web so they’re usually quite good.
However, I still check (depending on how critical the task is) that the tidbit of information has one or two links next to it, that the links talk about the right thing, and I verify the data myself if it’s actually critical that it gets it right. I use it as a beefier search engine, and it works great because it limits the possible hallucinations to the summarisation of pages. But it doesn’t eliminate the possibility completely so you still need to do some checking.
My partner and I got invited to a wedding with a funky, everything-goes sort of dress code. For £50 we bought enough clothes for two blade-runner-esque outfits (we added some bits of our own so the ensemble wouldn’t look too cheap) and a big goose plushie (bigger than an individual pillow). The goose was £14 and not cheaply made at all! That one was genuinely a nice suprise.
Logseq is also open source but it does have plugins, it’s extensible, and was launched in the last 5 years, not 20.
The caveat is that it’s more of a Roam alternative, so it works for the many people who use Obsidian/Notion as a powerful outliner, but it might fall a bit short as a wiki. I’d still favour it over TW though.