snobby new yorker accidentally gets stranded back in time in the revolutionary war and they genuinely cannot handle the fact that everything important is happening in boston and philly
like they understand it rationally but in their heart they’re like “lin manuel miranda lied to me.”
I honestly do not think “AI will never be as good as human creativity” is a good argument at this point. Like yes, it is true right now, but they’re just going to keep trying to prove it wrong. To me the line is, “Modern AI is built off of PLAGIARISM, UNPAID and UNDERPAID labor.” AI is a labor rights issue, not just for the people who’s labor it would replace, but for the people whose labor was STOLEN for the AI to “create” anything.
One of the interchangeable ghouls running in 2024 is talking up his plan to tie voting rights to passing a civics test & it’s amazing watching people discuss this in neutral terms
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A lot of the response to this is “oh, that’s great, next let’s restore civics education in schools”, but the entire point is that they’re not going to improve civics education. The age range gives a hint: this is a ploy to disenfranchise young voters, by, presumably, demanding they pass a test the state won’t train them for in order to get rights granted by the states. It’s like saying “oh, yes, literacy tests for voting makes sense, it’ll really inspire the South to educate black people”. It uh. Didn’t. And I think many of the people agreeing know that and support it bc it’s disenfranchising, but some seem to just agree bc it’s “COMMON SENSE” and they’re not digging any deeper?
This would be a civics test authored by a far right administration, to be clear. The tests we give immigrants are already propagandistic nonsense, imagine that in the hands of the “slavery taught people valuable skills” crowd
Also, his amendment would allow young people who can’t pass the test to vote if they join the military. This is a “service guarantees citizenship” amendment
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Many young people don’t realize that the entire reason we don’t have civics, and why we have such a public degradation of critical thinking, come specifically from Republican efforts to sabotage education. Their goal in state legislatures for generations has been to destroy education to maintain control at any cost. Most states have grown out of that, but not all, and many states still have recovered important classes like civics, the arts, and other things that add value to life without also feeding into capitalist employment properties where they take science and math and wage compensation wars against everyone.
It’s the conservatives that keep healthcare in the US tied to employment, and why we don’t have paid sick days for all the sick days someone might need. Conservative values are an illness that will bring the dark ages back if we don’t keep pressure on to unfuck our governance structures.
this 50′s hungarian comic strip I’d never heard of until now is so damn cute for something that also gets so horny
It helps that the writer was trying to create something he hoped would appeal to women as much as men.
Yeah and I think where it really succeeds vs. modern anime wifey fantasy shit is that Jucika really is just a character super comfortable with being sexual, likes looking sexy and even has no shame in using it to get her way:
….But at the same time, she doesn’t tolerate being objectified against her wishes:
….And the comic takes her side in both cases, whereas I’ve seen countless modern narratives in which this same character would have only been framed as like a Slutty
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or full blown villain.
One of the things I also really like about this comic, besides what’s already been stated, is that the humor isn’t always about her being sexy. Sometimes it’s just about other goofy things in her life!
oh yes many of them are experienes just anybody can relate to
but then there’s also the time she just….built a functional AI?
she just didn’t predict how the robot rebellion would really manifest
I love how there isn’t a single dialogue bubble, yet you can fully understand what’s happening.
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