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  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldOPto196@lemmy.worldrule
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    10 hours ago

    The issue really comes down to religion being a freely used control mechanism that used to be a tool for governments to control people.

    So however ethical your church or mosque or whatever is depends entirely on the pastor and their desires. Religious people are taught from a young age to never question their masters, and often confuse their pastor as their authority instead of god.











  • I think a big issue is people expect democrats to enact the thing’s they promise to enact and then they don’t. And there’s insane coping and denial used to justify it instead of allowing real critique.

    Biden did student loan forgiveness,

    Biden tried, no loans were forgiven, some loans were forced to be more ethical, but nobody was freed from the debt.

    So that isn’t seen as a win by a lot of people who wanted loan forgiveness and got a half assed attempt that didn’t help.

    Hell, he said he would forgive all student loans and make college free. Lol

    He puts money into infrastructures and unions and again, people go “I guess, it’s a bit better than Republicans!”

    Again, this isn’t really as true as I wish it was.

    They put money into green energy corporations that hoard it offshore like other corps.

    And Biden literally fought against unions while in office.

    Democratic voters suck ass at rallying behind any cause, because the base is filled with “well actually…!” people, that demand 100% problem completion on day one, otherwise they are not impressed.

    I try really really hard to not be contrarian about this shit, but Democrats aren’t making partial progress on anything, they are failing to make positive meaningful change for working class people at the expense of the rich, which is a requirement for fixing wealth inequality, which is the source of the vast majority of economic and societal issues. Until Democrats are willing to force their rich owners to make concessions they will not be capable of supporting these kinds of policies.

    Also blaming voters for the outcome of an election is not valid, it’s up to politicians to provide something worth voting for and being capable of communicating those policies to their target voters.

    Meanwhile, Republican voters will literarily vote for a rapist because they see the bigger picture.

    Republicans vote for strongmen because their religious upbringing makes them subservient to anyone who can imitate the way their pastor made them feel.












  • The current algorithmic approach to AI hit a wall in 2022.

    Since then they have had to pump exponentially more electricity into these systems that result in exponentially diminishing returns.

    We should have stopped in 2022, but marketing teams had other plans.

    There’s not a way to do AI and use less electricity than the current models, and there most likely won’t be any more advances in AI until someone invents a fundamentally different approach.