I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.
They also devour my dreams.
Their dice remind me the ones from senet (board game from Egypt):
See the sticks there? They might look different, but they’re similar in spirit: two sided and uneven. Senet is way more recent than those Native American dice, though, probably from around 3000 BCE.
Just as a word of advice, don’t use slurs from another cultures.
I promise you sound just as ignorant and bigoted using the slurs you don’t understand.
Frankly? If there’s something sounding bigoted here, it’s your “since you’re not American I assume you’re an ignorant*, so let me enlighten you poor little thing” discourse.
I might not be a native English speaker but I’m fully aware of the offensiveness of the word in question; and it’s being used for this very reason, to highlight shit immigrants in USA go through, but emigrants from USA expect to avoid. (Ooopsie, I’m supposed to mince words and call them “expats”, right?)
And by the bloody reactions, this shite worked pretty well, innit.
*just in case: nominalisation intended.
The “I’m not racist but” introduction [SIC] did not help here.
That is not even remotely close to what I wrote in the content warning; don’t distort it.
You’re way too comfortable using the slurs you used
Don’t assume. I don’t typically use one of the words in question, except metalinguistically and when relevant to do so. I did it here because I know it makes people from a certain privileged group (Americans) uncomfortable. Note also how I am not using it to target the group it’s usually used against (Black people; they aren’t part of the problem).
And regarding “spic”, since it targets to my own group (Latin Americans), I give myself the freedom to use it.
and this whole exercise waw just unnecessary mocking of people who genuinely just want better lives
I’m not mocking anyone for wanting a better life. I’m showing what other people, who are (or were, given the current state of the things) also seeking a better life, were subjected to. “Hope you don’t need to taste your own society’s poison, and be genuinely grateful if you don’t”.
If anything I’m angry at the bloody double standard shown by the media (including this text) regarding American immigrants and immigrants in USA. And, as I said, the expectations of some Americans. “I’m American, I deserve to be treated better than those fucking spics!” (inb4 refer to what I said regarding “spic”)
You’re openly enjoying a power fantasy of denigrating people
Stop assuming. You’re making shit up about what’s inside someone else’s head, dammit. If you want to criticise what I wrote it’s fair game, but I’m not wasting my time with the next bullshit about my “comfort” or “enjoyment” or whatever.
I already stated why I did this.
trying to escape from fascism
When some people here tried to escape from fascism, guess how they were treated there?
And by “fascism” here, I don’t mean just 16 months. I mean decades, due to coups staged by USA. And people going to USA because being treated the way I represented there would be still better than “giving birth to electricity” as a political dissident.
But we don’t talk about this here, right? Noooo, only Americans (or should I say WASPs?) trying a better life.
smugly asserting yourself as superior
Okay. Third assumption = bullshit in a row. I’m not engaging further with you, go assume what the Pope is thinking.
If you don’t say anything, nobody will call you out for lying. Even if lying by omission is a thing.
I spelled out the actual slurs to not lessen their impact. I know plenty people from USA visit the Fediverse and this comm; I wanted them to see the sort of treatment immigrants in their country get (that goes from denial of deciding one’s own identity to dehumanisation), while reading the news shared by the OP, about when they are the immigrants in other countries. Because I’ve noticed a lot of them expect others to roll red carpets for them, when they never did the same towards the others.
In the meantime I asterisked “burger” into “b*rger” to show a bit of culture stereotypically associated with Americans being treated itself as a slur. (Cue to “spic”. Like, are we Latin Americans supposed to feel bad for… spicing our food?)
One more thing, since I’m talking about this. I focused on Latin Americans because I do happen to know people from here who live in USA; but the same applies to other groups there. East Asians, Meds (from both sides of the sea, but specially the southern one), Middle Easterners… and it goes without saying their society does the same shit towards the descendants of people they forced to live there as slaves, stigmatising even their bloody African American dialects.
The new season is animated by a totally different company, and the first episode looks great (aside from the OP).
That’s good to know! To be honest I don’t mind some usage of AI; but I tend to judge books by covers, and anime series by the OP, so if they’re getting sloppy with the OP I’m concerned about the rest.
I’ve read bits of the light novel already, mostly because I was unsatisfied with the manga. I think I reached the point Myne manages to get the print the children’s book?
Then I had to stop it due to time issues, and never picked it up again. Might as well do it now~
[CONTENT WARNING: I’ll use slurs here to accurately represent and denounce a situation rather similar to the one from the link. Also, if you’re reading this odds are you aren’t part of the problem people I’m denouncing.]
I wonder if those American wetbacks in Europe will be treated as bad as Latin American expats in USA. As in: semi-slave labour picking maize and cleaning latrines.
With “patriots” mocking them as «ooga booga me dumb b*rgernigger from Merkinland, me too dumb to speak [Polish, Romanian, or another]! The skwurl snits the ficashun, frund!¹» and “wondering” if people who are “racially American” (yup) are genetically predisposed towards violence and crime and stupidity, as shown by the fact they can only… pick maize and clean latrines?
By the way they’ll steal legit jobs and live off unemployed welfare, at the same time. Let’s hope Albania’s equivalent of the ICE dumps them into concentration camps in Liberia; Liberia, USA, both speak English, so those b*rgerniggers will feel right at home.
Bonus points if some American province, like Maine, gets “civilised” = annexed by some European country. Some of the locals would stay, of course; then you can complain «those fucking b*rgerniggers should get out of Maine, and go back to their maize dictatorship.»
But hey, not everyone is a “patriot”. There are also “centrists”, who look at both sides of the matter. They won’t shit on those immigrants being “racially American”; instead they’ll tell them «I think you should stop lying you’re [white | black | Amerindian | etc.], you don’t even wear a cowboy hat (so ethnic, so exotic! MAGOD SHIIIITTTTT!²). Are you ashamed of your own race? Also, since your ethnic cuisine is b*rg… my bad for the slur, mincesteaks, I have some leftover meat for you. It has been sitting in my fridge for a week, but I’ll graciously gift it to you, as an American you should feel thankful».
…seriously, I hope not. I’m not from the belief two wrongs make a right. Immigration is part of human social behaviour since some of us left Africa; and I’m not surprised they’re leaving USA, given the current awful state of that place acc. to news.
Ohio’s Republican senator, has brought to the forefront with an “Exclusive Citizenship Act” that would ban Americans from holding any other citizenship.
“Serfs should not leave their lord’s state” tier law. Feudalism is looking at capitalism and saying “well done, son”.
The only previously reported case took place in the 1970s at Gombe, Tanzania, during Jane Goodall’s long-term study.
I was reading about it (the Four Years War) rather recently; it was really nasty, seven of the adult males died in it. (All from the Kahama clan, and one from Kasakela.) Granted, this might not look like a big deal, but the community had 14 adult males, half of them died in the war.
I also found further info on the Ngogo community here. 32 adult males, 50 adult females, 166 members in total in 2011. That’s fucking huge.
“What’s especially striking is that the chimpanzees are killing former group members,” says Aaron Sandel, associate professor of anthropology at UT Austin and the study’s lead author. “The new group identities are overriding cooperative relationships that had existed for years.”
It’s the same with us humans, too: gaining trust takes years, but losing it takes a few seconds. As soon as you’re identified with “the enemy”, you already lost that trust, and things only spiral down.
“If relational dynamics alone can drive polarization and lethal conflict in chimps without language, ethnicity, or ideology, then in humans, those cultural markers might be secondary to something more basic,” says Sandel.
I admit I don’t know enough about chimps to say anything concrete, but what Aaron Sandel is saying sounds sensible. Multilingual communities are often stable and can last centuries; but once there’s “something” missing, usually in the material conditions, you see war. I believe this applies to the rest of culture, too.
Got it! To be frank I know practically nothing about the insides of your trade, so actual info (instead of my guess above) is damn great.
If you think pissing off a mother is bad, it’s worse when it’s Oma.
Oooooh, I know this. Story time:
As a wee kid my nephew kept asking me to build him houses in maiquete Minecraft. I often did it. But once, I built one as a practical joke: the house was huge and well elaborated, but there was TNT hidden under the floor, and a pressure plate (to activate the TNT) at the front door. So once he stepped on the pressure plate, to enter the house, the TNT would explode.
And then I let him play with my computer, as usual. With the house he wanted. And both my sister (his mum) and our mum (his grandma) were nearby, they knew about the joke.
So, he enters the virtual house, and… tsssssSSS-kaBOOOOM! The TNT explodes, with a loud noise, and the house is now a crater. But instead of just getting surprised and laughing it off, he got really scared, and started crying.
And my sister started laughing at her son, like a bloody muppet, because he was overreacting. And he started crying harder. Because even his own mother was laughing at him.
Guess what? My mum got extremely pissed. Not at me, not at him, but at my sis. For laughing at his distress. You don’t shit on her grandson’s woes, not even if you’re his mum! (Thankfully I copied the in-game world into a backup, after I built the house but before I rigged it with TNT. Showing him the copy with the intact house calmed him down.)
[Sorry if it’s a complete tangent of your story with your ex.]
She assumed that meant it would have to wait a week.
If you journalists are like almost every other profession out there, you’ll need to rely on stuff from one day to release your work in the next one. So when you said the print edition was Sunday, and Saturday 4:00 PM is the best spot you can hit, I was already picturing a bunch of people working late at night so the stuff could become news for the next day.
I’m binge watching earlier seasons of this series, in preparation for the one currently airing. Frankly? The story is amazing, but the series was always poor on the visual aspect.
I’ll keep watching the earlier ones but I don’t know if I’ll watch the current one, or just read the light novels as usual.
Urgh. That’s horrifying:
From my childhood? It wasn’t quite a cartoon, but a puppets series called Cocoricó. It was about a city kid living with his parents in the countryside, with talking animals and all of that. If that doesn’t count it’s probably Babar or Marsupilami.
If counting things I watched through my adult years (yup) it’s mostly anime. (I’m watching some right now, by the way. I’m 40. I should be working, it’s early morning, but I have no shame.) Then I guess Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
To be fair here’s how cats would be reconstructed if they went extinct and we had to rely on fossils:
…nah, screw that, the lady in my pic is still hella charming, the one in the OP is an abomination!
Translated from Spanish
And they didn’t even make some joke on how dumb (burro) it looks like! hglksflksdlllksdf
[Replying to myself as this is a tangent]
I think the “bots can generate misinfo even if you just feed them correct info” point deserves its own example.
Let’s say you’re making a model. It looks at the preceding word, and tries to predict the next. And you feed it the following sentences, both true:
1. Humans are apes.
2. Cats are felines.
From both the bot “learnt” five words. And also how to connect them; for example “are” can be followed by either “apes” and “felines”, both having the same weight. Then, as you ask the bot to generate sentences, it generates the following:
3. Humans are felines.
4. Cats are apes.
And you got bullshit!
What large models do is a way more complex version of the above, looking at way more than just the immediately preceding word, but it’s still the same in spirit.
I’m failing to see how this is different from making up a fact and then spreading it to news outlets.
They uploaded the papers to a single preprint server. That’s important.
Preprints are papers predating any sort of peer review; as such, there’s a lot of junk mixed in — no big deal if you know the field, but a preprint server is certainly not a source of reliable information, nor it should be treated as such. On the other side, news outlets are expected to provide you reliable information, curated and researched by journalists.
And peer review is a big fucking deal in science, because it’s what sorts all that junk out. Only muppets who don’t fucking care about misinformation would send bots to crawl preprints, and feed the resulting data into a large model; or to use the potential misinfo from the bot as if it was reliable. (Those two sets of muppets are the ones violating ethic and moral principles, by the way.)
So no, your comparison is not even remotely accurate. What they did is more like writing bullshit in a piece of paper, gluing it on a random phone pole, and checking if someone would repeat that bullshit.
They also went through the trouble to make sure that no reasonably literate human being would ever confuse that thing with an actually scientific paper. As the text says:
Feeding false information to an LLM is no different that a magazine. It only regurgitates what’s been said.
Yes, it is different. Because the large token model won’t simply “repeat” things, it’ll mix and match them and form all sorts of bullshit, even if you didn’t feed it with any bullshit.
Here’s an example of that, fresh from the oven. I don’t reasonably expect people to be feeding misinfo regarding Latin pronunciation into bots, and yet a lot of this table is nonsense:
Compare the table above with this table and this one and you’ll notice the obvious errors:
All it had to do was to copy info from Wiktionary, as it includes even phonetic and phonemic info. But since the bot is not just “regurgitating” info — it’s basically predicting what should come next, and doing so with no regards to truth value — it’s mixing-and-matching shit into nonsense.
It isn’t going to suddenly start doing science on its own to determine if what you’ve said is true or not.
If you actually read the bloody article instead of assuming, you’d know why the researchers did this: they don’t expect the bot to do science on its own, they expect people to treat info from those bots as potentially incorrect.
Its job is to tell you what color the sky is based on what you told it the color of the sky was.
And your job is to not trust it if it tells you “Yes, you are completely right! The colour of the sky is always purple. Do you need further information on other naturally purple things?”
A football field is three skwerls and 5 / 12 elbows. Now you know it~
It’s worse, they’re more like fancy chickens:
Source for the cladogram. Check the arrows: Meleagris = turkey, Gallus = chicken, Pavo = peacocks. Pavo x Gallus distance is ~27 million years, Pavo x Meleagris is 30.
ARISE PEACOCK!
I already explained why they were used, here and here.
Emphasis mine. Contrariwise to your assumption, no, I don’t dream about people getting treated like subhumans. I encourage you to actually read the comment you’re replying to, and you’ll see
Side note: if I wanted to write “vengeful dreams”, I’d have better targets. And I wouldn’t write something as mild (yes) as that comment.
i.e. a society built from oppression, living from oppression, and selling it as merit.
Okay, you clearly did not get the comment you’re answering to, so I’ll summarise:
Your typical American expects to be treated above others, as if this was a divine right granted to the United Karenland of America. And news are simply parroting this mindset, doing everything possible to not step on little Karenlanders’ toes. I’m trying to remind them that, if they get well treated, it’s because there are plenty people out there who behave like decent beings, instead of behaving like your typical American.
Now, if your depiction of Romania is accurate or not in this regard, that’s irrelevant for the sake of my original comment. But I’ll ask you the following: do the Roma folks agree with you? Technically they aren’t immigrants, but a similar situation applies. (Just like African Americans in USA.)
Side note #2: language prestige piggybacks on the power (soft and hard) associated with its speakers. And I think it’s an open secret USA is going downhill. I wouldn’t be surprised if “I’m a native English speaker!” became a liability later on.
That is not what I’m doing.