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Where did you get “it costs literally 12 cents a box”? Is that a random number for effect or do you have some insider knowledge and know that for sure?

Either way is fine with me, just curious because it seems like a very small amount after paying for the raw materials, the workers wages, the shipping costs, and the grocery store overhead, etc.

Anyone interested in a local llm should check out Llamafile from Mozilla.

Trump’s all about using strong emotional language without actually saying anything. Using vague language so that you can interpret it however you want is kind of his trademark.

Rush Limbaugh was also a master of it, and conservatives have convinced themselves he was a great man too.

I think the issue is that there is sexual imagery of the person being created and shared without that persons consent.

It’s akin to taking nude photos of someone without their consent, or sharing nude photos with someone other than their intended audience.

Even if there were no stigma attached to nudes, that doesn’t mean someone would their nudes to exist or be shared.

I watched some of it, all I saw were specious arguments that I’d expect to hear from goth teenagers at the mall. Maybe tankies find this kind of stuff compelling, rational people probably won’t.

One person doing something bad? You clearly didn’t read the article.

And to suggest that our scientific research institutions shouldn’t be scrutinized or there isn’t room to improve the process is a little naive.

I generally have a pretty high trust in science, but my faith is shaken when I come across shit like this

That’s “doing what you can and not taking responsibility for things that aren’t your fault”

I think it’s a combination of learned helplessness and an unrealistic expectation of your ability to affect change.

As of July 1st, 2023, there are 334,914,895 million people participating in the US political system, I think it would be a little ridiculous if every one of them could influence our government. Not all the people can vote, but they’re still participating in the political system whether they know it or not.

Each of these people have their own ideas, hopes, dreams, ideologies. It takes a long time to sway that much public opinion, even when you aren’t fighting disinformation campaigns from powerful corporations and state actors. Keep at it and have realistic expectations about the impact you’ll have and how quickly things will change.

Do what you can, live the best life you can, and don’t take responsibility for things that aren’t your fault.

Edit: corrected the population of the United States because people oddly focused on that part of my comment.

I’m a data scientist for a mid-size finance company.

My masters degree in statistics has been instrumental in my job, both in getting the job and using the skills I learned on a daily basis.

My degree 100% improved my life and opened doors for me that I wouldn’t even have known about without it.

I typically only go when she’s working because she and I get along well

I think this was the part where things might have gotten creepy

I’ve had my eye on the Framework 16 and it has an option for an AMD processor and dedicated graphics card.

At the risk of sounding like a monster, I can’t think of a single main/side I wouldn’t combo.

Can you give an example that doesn’t go together?

Are you implying FUD is a conspiracy theory? Or that FUD exists on the fediverse is a conspiracy theory? Or that the recent “vote uncommitted movement is FUD” is the conspiracy theory?

Regardless, I’m not dismissing the vote uncommitted opinion, and I certainly don’t dislike it. Even if the “vote uncommitted” movement is Russian FUD I’m all in on it, and I’m even committed to taking it a step further because I’m so upset about the Joe Biden’s extreme facists policies.

I’m not talking about the primary, my apologies for conflating the two streams of thought.

I updated my comment so hopefully it’s clearer. Its well documented that Russia and China use social media to spread FUD, which undoubtedly includes the fediverse.

This part is conjecture: it seems likely that the fediverse is an entry point for FUD because the lack of moderation and the large number of users sympathetic to their cause.

That was an example of how FUD works. I can see why you think state sponsored FUD is a conspiracy that doesn’t exist.

Which part is the theory?

That’s not really a conspiracy theory. It’s exactly how propaganda and state sponsored FUD works.

The spreaders of propaganda find a point where they can create dissension, create a talking point around that point of dissension, convince people that it’s their idea to buy into the dissension.

Example of how FUD works. This is not something that I know happened. This is just a hypothetical example of FUD works, it is not known fact. I was not sitting in a room with a bunch of Russian agents that decided to AstroTurf beehaw or some other radical left wing Lemmy instance with a trendy talking point so they can influence the 2024 American presidential election in an effort to get a president elected who will withdraw American support for NATO, eleminate funding for the Ukraine war effort, and support Zionist ambitions in Israel. This is just an example of how FUD works.

Russia/RNC/whoever see they can exploit the genocide in Israel to weaken Joe Biden by framing him as a perpetrator of genocide. They go on internet forums that are sympathetic to this cause like Lemmy. They pose as upset Democratic voters that are going to teach the DNC a lesson by refusing to vote for Joe Biden and help get Trump reelected. They have bad faith discussions with well meaning but gullible Lemmings (known as useful idiots or “UI”) and convince the UI that not supporting Joe Biden is the right thing to do and that the UI is a reasonable person that is just responding the facts in front of them. They do this by coming up with catchy nicknames like Genocide Joe and appealing to the UI’s need to feel heard and be represented. The UI then goes about their day spreading this message far and wide never realizing they were manipulated into believing something and engaging in an action that will ultimately harm them.

It’s standard procedure perfected by the Russians over the last 10 years or so. People are incredibly easy to manipulate, that’s why advertising and marketing are so effective.