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@SuneAuken I think this is not only true, but vital to keep repeating.
It's far more constructive to take the position "our side has a lot of work to do" but the other side is an existential threat.
This posturing as above the fray, beyond the need to push your own camp to be better, fosters disengagement and apathy - which serves the fascists. Exactly as it did in the 1930s.
Had those on the left held together in Germany, history would have been very different.
@SuneAuken Meanwhile, I think saying that 90% of dems are okay with this hate is an exaggeration. But it is fair to say that few openly and forcefully speak out, and an embarrassingly large number do indulge in at least a certain level of compartmentalisation. Mostly out of funding fears. That and the horror of being accused of antisemitism which might result in death to their careers.
It is not a pretty thing.
@SuneAuken While I can absolutely see your point here, I think intention matters.
I do not think this drives people into the arms of Republicans, but I agree that this quite common demand for absolute alignment on every issue drives apathy.
And apathy is what is really at play in the current deterioration of many flawed but progressive ideas and institutions.
And this... this is evil
And yes, I'm using the word very consciously.
Of course, if you enjoy making other people anxious about you, that's because you do not feel loved enough.
1. No one is ever loved enough. That's the human condition.
2. There are better ways of finding out you're loved.
And before you say that the vaccine doesn't make you immune, and you can still spread it to others....
Yes, this is true. But your case will be milder, and shorter, and you won't be shedding so much virus.
Be a good person - to yourself and others. Get your vaccine.
@wilpercy There's a small spike happening here too.
If you are thinking of skipping your Covid jab this year, because it wasn't so bad the last time, just consider for one moment the anxiety you can save other people who care for you from having to worry about you when you get it again. Or worry about you infecting them.
Or do you like making other people anxious about you?
I'm feeling a little crabby.
On a positive note, I just got vaccinated.
@rachel I am not a programmer, I just had a couple of Word Press websites and even I know what PHP is.
How badly is the BBC paying these days.
" the generic anti-AI sentiment is born out of fear of the unknown, and extreme conservatism"
wow. Okay, we disagree profoundly.
"It's something that flips in people's minds as some kind of defence mechanism."
The very same thing could be said for people who avidly use chat bots and do not want to stop doing so.
@vruz @passenger Voice recognition existed long before AI
@carbontwelve I think the emotional aspect of this is really quite important to consider. I like the cake mix analogy. Because, baked into it (forgive the pun) are two things: profit and the hegemonic definition of what a cake is.
@vruz The problem is that I don't buy that they are intellectual aides. I think they masquerade as intellectual aids.
The artificial limb has no agenda. It isn't owned by oligarchs who want you to walk in a certain direction.
Thinking further, and a little darker, it also speaks to just how willing we all are to be instrumentalised in one way or another.
@passenger I don't know why. But your most welcome. You offered an aspect I really hadn't considered. And the logic of it downright irrefutable.
@passenger Yes. It is so ingrained into language - this mistaking command or demand for concrete action. Wow, I really never thought of that but it's so damn obvious once I consider it.
@mfeir Here's what haunts me about this: there are two issues here.
Some people do have a struggle expressing their ideas clearly because they lack eloquence. And our society used to, at least, reward eloquence over substance often.
But often people's ideas aren't very clear. And they have not been taught how to hone them, or pin them down. In that case, the machine literally puts words in their mouth and they settle for that.
@passenger I think this is an excellent hypothesis. It's not nonsense at all. I think you've hit on something very, very insightful.