Oh woops, flipped em. Good call. Editing

The virile black man stereotype? Not in the US. it’s apart of the myth that black men are naturally very strong and thuggish. It’s also usually paired with the concept of them being extremely sexual (think of the giant black penis stereotype and the constant fear mongering surrounding black men ‘stealing’ all the white women). These are extremely old stereotypes that harken back to when black slaves were viewed in a fashion closer to beasts of burden than to human beings.

EDIT: woops, saw my typo, should be fixed now.

It’s because they are in a performing role. They are token individuals destroying their bodies to create entertainment for the audience. It’s no different than how the south treats rodeo as some kind of beacon of equality for black individuals. It’s purely a facade to point at when denying the existence of inequality and dismissing civil rights arguments.

It’s also directly tied to the myth of the primal black man - all brawn and no brain. A racist sex symbol.

EDIT: typos

EDIT 2: flipped brain and brawn, didn’t notice. Fixed.

I know a certain firearms guy who’s pointed out gun culture’s hypocrisy for quite a while (most recent video regarding it).

Leather daddies (Tom of Finland style) are cool. So there’s some things about man-on-man sex that can be cool.

• Israel is deranged and has the strongest military in the middle east atm, and nukes
• The US has its navy on every major trade route
• Europe’s biggest members are all still aligned with Israel.

Basically Any nation attempting to jettison Israel would be devastated in multiple fashions, so none of them wants to start a large-scale fight.

He’s currently trying to get a 51st state (Canada would need to be at least 6 or more, in all honesty), but it looks like he’s at risk of losing some states from where I’m sitting.

OP has furry waifu. The caveat is that they cuddle in bed, but because wife is a furry, she constantly sheds hair all over the bed.

I agree with you. You hate them, that’s reasonable. They represent humanity’s failure at cooperation.

You’re also totally justified to hate those who fetishize them.

You are wrong about them being designed only to kill, though. The point of them is to wield deadly force, and they are designed to send a high-speed projectile in order to achieve that goal, of deadly force. It’s alittle semantic, but an important distinction imo, because the point of wielding deadly force is to make opponents compliant even if you never use it.

Swords, spears, bows, atlatls, and pretty much every weapon of war was the exact same way. A key difference between them and the firearm, though, is that the firearm takes little to no training in comparison to the others, which take considerable amounts more.

Everything else, we’re in agreement about. I think you hold a hate for violence as well, based on your stance. That is also healthy, but I hope you also see violence for the liberating force that it is, able to protect those that are targeted.

We are on the brink of having the US become a full-blown fascist state - as opposed to the fascistic nation it’s always been. Should that happen, I fear the only way back is through violence, and I’d much prefer having a rifle in hand to the alternative of charging down gunfire armed with a lesser weapon, as the Egyptians had to during their revolution in 2011.

This whole thing reads not like a codebase versus, but a traditional engineering approach (don’t act like you can patch this once you release it - get it done so it’s stable the first time) versus the more modern “move fast and break things” approach.

Romeow

It’s a thing

With audio

I think the best way to understand the Planck length is to understand how we came to Planck’s constant in the first place. Science Physics girl has a good video on it (she shared today that she’s getting better, which is fantastic news)

This is just the start, and will likely involve the West bank next. After that, it’s likely that Israel will attempt expanding into its neighbors.

And it’s not just to get some old dudes even richer - it’s also to further crush the ability of the middle east to rebel or obtain meaningful autonomy.

Make it into a hill over the hole

I think we should avoid simplifying it to VLMs, LMs, Medical AI and AI for disabled people.

For instance, most automatic text capture ais (optical Character Recognition, or OCR) are powered by the same machine learning algorithms. Many of the finer-capability robot systems also utilize machine learning (Boston Dynamics utilizes machine learning for instance). There’s also the ability to ID objects within footage, as well as spot faces and referencing it with a large database in order to find the person with said face.

All these are Machine Learning AI systems.

I think it would also be prudent to cease using the term ‘AI’ when what we actually are discussing is machine learning, which is a much finer subset. Simply saying ‘AI’ diminishes the term’s actual broader meaning and removes the deeper nuance the conversation deserves.

Here are some terms to use instead

• Machine Learning = AI systems which increase their capability through automated iterative refinement.
• Evolutionary Learning = a type of machine learning where many instances of randomly changed AI models (called a ‘generation’) are run simultaneously, and the most effective is/are used as a baseline for the next ‘generation’
• Neural Network = a type of machine learning system which utilizes very simple nodes called ‘neurons’ for processing. These are often used for image processing, LMs, and OCR.
• Convolution Neural Network (CNN) = a Neural network which has an architecture of neuron ‘fliters’ layered over each other for powerful data processing capabilities.

This is not exhaustive but hopefully will help in talking about this topic in a more definite and nuanced fashion. Here is also a document related the different types of neural networks

Not a member myself, but I agree that this makes alot of sense, where proof of membership is a requirement to join this instance.

On a seperate note, how does one become a member of SDF?

No

Classic creepypasta. It’s this one, the search and rescue stories, and I think there’s another that slips my mind right now.

EDIT: boy did I miss a few.

• Ben Drowned
• Candle Cove
• Russian Sleep Experiment
• Squidward’s Suicide

Of course, some of the weaker ones imo are also classics:

• slender man
• jeff
• the backrooms