geekwithsoul

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[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 1 points 3 minutes ago

Wait, you didn’t reply and you edited your comment to add the “e” to the end of “syndrom” but you’re still spelling it “charactor”?!

Bwahahahahahaha! Oh, that’s just precious. 🤣

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 0 points 4 hours ago

"main charactor" syndrom

If you’re going to quote what I said, could you at least spell it correctly? I thought you’d be well experienced copying and pasting by now?

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If it makes you feel any better - you and I often disagree but I’ve been a fan of Roan’s since 2020 and Pink Pony Club and I try and upvote your posts about her when I see them 🙂

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

So this is likely one of two things: a clog in the line or the sewer line between your house and the service is broken. You didn’t say how old the house was, but the older it is, the higher the chance the line is actually broken (especially if you have any drainage issues near the foundation or foundation settling issues). No matter what you’ll likely need to figure out what the issue is first by having it scoped and then figure out your next steps. Hopefully it’s just a clog!

Source: had a broken line in a fifty year old house. It was awful and definitely not cheap.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 49 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

“But within the context of our broken electoral college system, we know that voting a third party is ultimately inadvertently supporting Trump”

Wow, that’s going to be crushing news to certain folks who clog our feeds with claims to the contrary.

On a serious note, I am happy that they recognize this and encourage everyone to pressure the new administration next year to address this. Democrats are imperfect but are at least susceptible to popular and organized pressure. The same cannot be said for the GOP or even more especially Trump. And push for some form of ranked choice voting and getting rid of the electoral college.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Go back and read what I wrote again. I never even talked about any purported reason for you sharing it. I simply pointed out that what the article presented is indeed something that sane people would worry about and compared it to your well known penchant for saying you have no concerns with Trump getting elected.

Between your misguided reply to a three day old comment where I clearly did read and understand the article, and your copypasta wall of text that talked about a dozen different things but didn’t address the point I raised, I honestly can’t tell how much of your schtick is sealioning and how much is just incredibly poor reading comprehension.

You’re the one that brought up possible motivations, not me. My original comment was simply agreeing that any sane person would find the situation described in the article worrying and how you famously don’t share that worry. So if you don’t think Trump is anything to worry about, why did you find the article worth sharing? Or was it that you were desperate to post anything that wasn’t downvoted into oblivion?

I don’t think you’re a Russian operative (they’re honestly much better at this than you are, but it’s true that their standards are slipping). I just think you have the worst case of main character syndrome I’ve ever seen and you love the attention that comes with intentionally playing the heel. And that’s because you never attempt to discuss a single issue with any forthrightness or honesty. If you weren’t just playing a character, you’d actually try and make a case for your beliefs. Instead you spend your time reinforcing your self-induced martyrdom and engaging in bad faith with everyone that bothers to respond to you. You profess to wonder why people react the way they do to your posts and comments and yet you keep engaging in the kind of behavior that demands such a response. Your comments especially bring no value to the community and the majority of your many, many posts are transparent attempts to support an agenda with just enough other stuff to offer (im)plausible deniability. Whether that agenda is even for real or just because you enjoy being a perpetually online edgelord is unknowable to anyone but you - but from the outside it’s certainly unflattering either way.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think anyone has a problem with shitty opinions. I think the bigger problem is a pattern of behavior that impairs the community.

  1. Copying and pasting the same low effort text multiple times in replies
  2. Refusal to engage in good faith discussions/interactions
  3. Excessive volume of low quality posts and comments
  4. Rampant sealioning in comments
  5. Outright trolling which you all have only moderated a portion of

Overall you have a user that disrupts the community in a variety of ways and contributes nothing of value - especially in their comments. I think at least a temporary ban has been justified for quite some time.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 0 points 17 hours ago

This shows so many gross misconceptions and with such utter conviction, I’m not even sure where to start. And as you seem to have decided you like to get free stuff that is the result of AI trained off the work of others without them receiving any compensation, nothing I say will likely change your opinion because you have an emotional stake in not acknowledging the problems of AI.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Nothing likely a timely response 🤣

And yes, your point is? It’s well known how uncaring you are about Trump winning and the lack of empathy you show to anyone else who is concerned. After all this time of “Don’t talk to me about the articles I share because I often share about things I don’t care about” - are we now to believe there is an agenda to your posts? If so, why don’t you illuminate us all?

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I inherited brain structures that are natural language processors. As well as the ability to understand and repeat any language sounds. Over time, my brain focused in on only the language sounds I heard the most and through trial and repetition learned how to understand and make those sounds.

AI - as it currently exists - is essentially a babbling infant with none of the structures necessary to do anything more than repeat sounds back without understanding any of them. Anyone who tells you different is selling you something.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hopefully not too pedantic, but no one is “teaching” AI anything. They’re just feeding it data in the hopes that it can learn probabilities for certain types of output. It “understands” neither the Reddit post nor the scientific paper.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

I know I probably shouldn’t engage, but I am curious. Do you believe Scientific American has some sort of ideological agenda?

 

Platforms can also respond to misleading content that does not violate official policies using community-based moderation that adds context to misleading posts (like X’s Community Notes and YouTube’s new crowdsourced note program). Larger platform changes such as ranking content based on quality, rather than engagement, might hit at the root of the problem rather being than a Band-Aid fix.

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Edit: had no idea “poll” was such a four letter word, especially when talking about them in the abstract. Anyone want to chime in on the downvotes? Is it just “all polls are bad” or is it Nate Silver? Honestly had no idea talking about poll weighting would be so unpopular.


Since there’s always a lot of interest in the validity of polls, I found this to be interesting. It’s Nate Silver’s explanation of how they do weighting of polls when aggregating based on the pollsters track record. He makes it clear that the bias is often a result of the methodology and not necessarily a “thumb on the scale” and how the pollster executes a poll can introduce bias - and how they account for that.

Many folks have issues with Nate, but he’s at least very transparent in how they account for bias based on previous performance, not just the poll source. So while you may disagree with his decisions, you can at least look at his numbers and know how they got there.

 

“Federal Election Commission records show Stein paid $100,000 in July to a consulting outfit that has worked with Republican campaigns, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid. The firm, Accelevate, is operated by Trent Pool. The Intercept reported that he appeared to be part of the mob that breached the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., 2021. The Journal hasn’t independently verified the reporting.”

 

Donald Trump has complained bitterly to Jewish donors that a majority of Jews vote against him in US presidential elections, suggesting that the Democratic party has a “curse on you”.

This is more Laura Loomer bullshit, isn’t?

 

“Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance said Wednesday that Haitian migrants with legal immigration status are “illegal aliens” who have been unlawfully protected from deportation, suggesting that would change if Trump wins the election.”

Articles like this remind me of how absolutely fucked we are if these assholes win.

 

“With membership at new lows and no electoral wins to their name, it’s time for the Greens to ditch the malignant narcissist who’s presided over its decline.”

 

Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) renewed their efforts to bring ranked choice voting to U.S. congressional elections, reintroducing their *Ranked Choice Voting Act *. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) is introducing companion legislation in the Senate. 

The legislation would require ranked choice voting (RCV) in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028, allowing voters to express support for multiple candidates for public office, with the candidate receiving the most votes declared the winner.

 

“Asked how many members of the House of Reps there were, Stein guessed 600-some before hosts corrected her.”

 

"According to FEC filings, the Synapse Group has worked for Republican Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination this cycle, as well as GOP candidates for Congress. Synapse has also been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for field and canvassing work by America PAC, the outside spending group started by allies of Musk that has spent millions of dollars this election cycle to boost Trump and oppose Democrats."

 

A group called “Lion of Judah,” led by self-described Republican opposition researcher Joshua Standifer, is traveling the nation to recruit Christians to “key positions of influence in government like Election Workers.”

 

In light of at least someone around here announcing that they were switching from supporting the Green Party to the Socialist Worker Party, I thought it would be helpful to provide an introduction to the kinds of things that party believes in. This is offered straight from the party's official website without additional comment and it stands to reason that this viewpoint is endorsed by their presidential candidate Rachele Fruit.

 
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