An often overlooked aspect is that much of the rural US is experiencing pretty aggressive gentrification. “California” is the nebulous word used to describe that process by conservatives because actual understanding and contextualizing is “woke”.

California being the stand in word due to the socio-economic reasons already stated.

You know that transformer and diffussion models, while both being forms of “GenAI,” are wildly incomparable, yeah?

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Reference to the war of 1812, it was still ~50 years before Canada slipped the British leash but there’s some weird nationalist revisionist history surrounding it.

It’s important to remember that science is inherently conservative and doubly so for climate change Erring on the Side of Least Drama.

If you read any of the IPCC reports you’ll note they are very careful to not really provide any death estimates or anything. However, one can attempt to extrapolate a risk model from those descriptions from that we can analyze key takeaways from the WG2 report ¹

The report found that climate impacts are at the high end of previous estimates

3.3 billion people about 40% of the world population, now fall into the most serious category of “highly vulnerable” ___ 1 billion people face flooding.

Based on the existential risk model, that’s 3.3 billion currently facing some level of existential risks. If the impacts remain “at the high end of previous estimates”, which they very likely will, then that’s >3.3 Billion potential deaths.

^1: using Wikipedia summary because the report is 3675 pages long and ain’t nobody got time for that^

Or revive it, I don’t think I’ve seen a James Bond movie since one of the very first ones but I would 100% watch a Goldberg Bond movie because I don’t see how they could play it other than leaning hard into how inherently silly it all is.

I would push back against phrasing the mindset as:

“I want things to be worse for someone else than they are for me.”

When that is just a manifestation of one of several mindsets such as

"I’m better ~smarter, stronger, faster, more evolved, less emotional, better looking, more educated, stronger morals, etc.~ than them. Why should they have it better than me?

“My life has gone bad because of their actions”

Etc.

It’s an important distinction because nobody rationalizes their own decisions or reasoning in such an irrational way and phrasing it as such limits the opportunity for self reflection.

It also allows for conflating very real blame assignment IE “people are dying on the street because the ultra-wealthy are treating shelter like trading cards” with “you just hate rich people because you think you’re better than them, that’s just another form of discrimination”.

go fuck yourself, ___ style

I’ll give you props for proudly wearing your intolerance on your sleeve like that.

I’m using something we can, hopefully, both agree you’re not and is problematic to demonstrate the fallicious logic. What would be a better way to communicate that?

You’re miscategorizing it and anthropomorphs aren’t real.

It’s more closely related to objectophilia or fictosexuality which are also seen in nature.

It’s to bestiality as homosexuality is to pedophilia. As in it’s not related at all.

Glad we agree the irrational and emotionally driven humans are the root problem!

Guns have no use other than killing.

Yes. That doesn’t give them agency or sentience or anything though.

She competed in the 2021 Olympics but did not finish. Same as Chris Mossier who you so casually dismissed as a counterexample.

She did win silver in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. You do notice how you moved the goalposts we previously established in order to get the answer you desired?

You are continuing to be willfully, and now maliciously, ignorant.

So your advice to people who can’t afford rent, work a fulltime job and have just had their tent and all their possessions thrown in a dumpster for the second time this month is what exactly?

Do you advise someone who is incarcerated that if they simply ignore the bars they will no longer be there?

Society has gotten far, far more unequal and oppressive

By what metrics?

Historically there simply wasn’t physical things with which to have the modern level of inequality. Historically the average lower end was was lower, but the modern high end is incomprehensible orders of magnitude higher.

Historical acts of oppression were often far more brutal and cruel but that’s because it wasn’t physically possible to maintain the constant, but relatively minor oppression that is characteristic of modernity.

If you’re calling yourself a tool I’ll concede the point.

yes, by not involving costumes!

All clothing is costume. People costume to express all sorts of identities, it’s not any more complicated than skirts, dresses, burkas, etc.

it’s gatekeeping to listen to queer people. Huh. that’s a new one.

Textbook “I have a black friend” fallacy friend argument

If people came out of the womb identifying their fursonas

Nobody comes out of the womb identifying as anything. If somebody transitions later in life does that make it less valid?

people should find love and support.

That is all I’m arguing for. If somebody self identifies their sexuality as anthropomorphic fictosexual who are you to argue with that? If they define their gender as otherkin why are you telling them that’s not allowed?

Edited to use more technical phrasing to avoid accidental aspersions.

That’s called masking, in the context of transfolk also known as boy/girl moding.

Nobody “takes their identity off”, almost everybody masks to some degree. It’s never “convenient” but it is sometimes less harmful than the alternative.

The point being made is you can’t blame the tool for the operator’s usage of it.

They are though, just going through the last 2 Olympics the list of openly trans individuals: Laurel Hubbard, Chelsea Wolfe, Quinn, Ness Murby, Nikki Hiltz, Raven Saunders.

You can look these things up, stop being a willfully ignorant bigot.