Responding to the OP’s comment. Not sure why you think caring about polls and caring about what people think are different somehow. A poll is literally a measure of what people think about something

Not sure how a decentralized platform can be controlled by a single entity. Maybe lemmy.world, but not Lemmy itself.

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It depends on the subject area and your workflow. I am not an AI fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but I have found the chatbot interface to be a better substitute for the “search for how to do X with library/language Y” loop. Even though it’s wrong a lot, it gives me a better starting place faster than reading through years-old SO posts. Being able to talk to your search interface is great.

The agentic stuff is also really good when the subject is something that has been done a million times over. Most web UI areas are so well trodden that JS devs have already invented a thousand frameworks to do it. I’m not a UI dev, so being able to give the agent a prompt like, “make a configuration UI with a sidebar that uses the graphql API specified here” is quite nice.

AI is trash at anything it hasn’t been trained on in my experience though. Do anything niche or domain-specific, and it feels like flipping a coin with a bash script. It just throws shit at the wall and runs tests until the tests pass (or it sneakily changes the tests because the error stacktrace repeatedly indicates the same test line as the problem).

hey, there’s dignity in being a world champion cum wrangler

I didn’t see that word in there. I did see something like “stupid sack of shit” but I don’t recall seeing that specific slur. Maybe I missed it, can’t see the link anymore though.

Honest question: where is there a slur in that link? I’m not sure if I’m just missing it or if there’s a word I don’t know is considered a slur now in there.

When your entire manufacturing process is run on the back of slaves, the product is cheap enough that the shipping cost doesn’t matter.

The further we get from 9/11, the more impossible it is to even conceptualize the future. Like, idk what kind of jacked up shit happened to the timeline that day, but it was bad. Maybe tower 7 was the fucking gateway to the multiverse and some Doctor Who shenanigans happened when it fell.

We’ve reached the point where MTG and Candace Owens are actually saying reasonable things that no one in leadership positions is allowed to say. I sincerely do not know what could possibly happen next.

I don’t think you can advocate for anything even remotely on the “right” in political discussions anymore unless you mean MAGA. That well is so poisoned at this point that everyone is going to assume you’re a MAGA troll wearing a mask the second you voice any right-leaning opinion.

It’s pretty unfortunate. There are plenty of “live and let live” types in the US that identify informally as libertarians and would make great allies.

Your filesystem seems to have errors. Have you run fsck? That may or may not fix the problem, you may just have a bad ssd on your hands.

edit: that last screenshot is showing a read error on the SSD, even though SMART is passing. Smells a lot like a bad SSD to me.

No question this guy is a tool, he’s posting on LinkedIn. However, he’s not wrong about startups being a bad fit for anyone looking for work-life balance. You’re literally trying to build a business from scratch as fast as possible before the seed money runs out, and your compensation is usually more equity than salary. No time for anything but work in that scenario, or no one gets paid.

Brother, what Lemmy instance do you think this community is on? You aren’t going to get a good discussion with this topic here.

The Battletech books from before the Clan invasion had female characters written almost exclusively to be love interests. I’m re-reading them all and boy, are those parts cringe. There’s only a dozen or so books pre-Clan, but if you read them you’ll see what I mean. Most of the time, those characters can’t pass the Bechdel test in scenes by themselves; they’re constantly thinking about a male love interest no matter what’s happening.

The Clans have a totally different culture where people are bred in vats rather than being born naturally, and are all about glory and combat. Sex exists for fun, but not romantic relationships (mostly). As a side effect, the authors of those books had to write female characters that didn’t revolve around a man.

Derp, thanks! Not sure if that was autocorrect or just me being a bad speller.

It seems like you think that all of America is similar to NYC, during a mayoral race against a famously shitty incumbent. Otherwise, idk why you would post that image.

If you ran a candidate for the Democratic Socialist party in every mayoral race in America, I would bet hard cash that better than 90% of them would lose. They wouldn’t lose because of their ideas or policies, they’d lose because they picked a party name that will terminate thought for >60% of the voting population.

Maybe after another 2 decades of slowly getting Democratic Socialists into office you could move that needle. In that time, the facists are going to burn all of this down, so I really don’t see any** advantage in sticking with the name. We need these policies now and idc how we get them.

You’re giving way too much credit to like, 60% of the country. A wide majority of voters do not respond logically, they respond emotionally. NYC is a tiny fraction of the voting population, and assuming that the messaging used there will work in most of the rest of the country is silly.

Gotta meet people where they are man, and purity doesn’t sell as well as familiarity. Disregarding reality handicaps a movement.

It’s really not, and you can look at Trump as the perfect example. He came out and said all the awful shit that Nazis and Klan members believed but rebranded it as MAGA. Socialists could do the same thing, so easily. Just pick a new phrase/word and keep almost everything other tenet the same. Call it “Liberty Forever” and talk about how mandatory profit sharing “guarantees your right to work and access to a free market.” It would be so fucking effective.

Messaging is important.

That’s a nice sentiment, but it would have to overcome 100+ years of indoctrination that socialism==bad on top of the avalanche of attacks from the powers that be. Those attacks are going to come regardless, so insisting on playing hard mode by using the word socialist isn’t likely to result in good outcomes.

I’d rather see the tenets of socialism win by another name, frankly. The outcome is a lot more important than the word.

No argument there, but messaging is important to be effective. Most US voters are going to reflexively balk at the word “socialist” and will stop listening to anything else being said. It’s unfortunate, but it’s reality.

I think they’d actually agree with the tenets of socialism if they could get past the reflex though. For example, if “owning the means of production” were packaged as, “a fair share” they’d be more likely to listen. Silly, but you have to meet people where they are to be effective.

Mamdani talking about issues everyone but the rich would agree with is great, and I’m happy to see the upswell of support for it. I still think he’d lose in most other places in the US though, the word “socialist” just carries too much of a stigma outside the major metro areas.