Elementary school through high school, and they taught socialism to basically be when the government runs services or really does anything someone else could be making money off it

I think healthcare was a big sticking point for the label, but they basically described any social safety net as socialist.

It not have been in your curriculum, but teachers watch mainstream media too…

I’m trying to think what shattered the illusion for me… Weirdly, one of the first ones was when I was in high school, my Spanish teacher told me that in Spain, they had hardly any computers (she had just visited that summer). I told that to a friend of my dad, and he was like “uh… No, pretty much everyone has them”. Which wasn’t propaganda, but I think they was the first time I felt ashamed of my ignorance

Then in college, I was having a discussion about politics with someone from Paris, and mentioned offhand how it’s different because they’re a socialist country. He laughed and said “what? We’re not socialist”. That was pounded into me since elementary school, that the UK and France were socialists.

The guy owned a business, and I knew this and the fact he was fairly wealthy due to said business… And that’s when the illusion completely shattered, and I realized I was repeating shit I’d been taught without evaluating the information

Propaganda works. On all of us… It works less if you’re aware of it and examine your own beliefs, but that shit creeps in through the cracks. It’s insidious

That’s fascinating, I assumed it would be the default business to business debt, where most companies would basically hold onto the money until they’re asked for it, and just make damn sure they’ve accounted for it

I’m not a money guy, I just remember hearing some project managers talk about it and thought it was an interesting thing I’ve never considered, so there might be more to it

Can you tell me a bit about the legality of it? Is it just a matter of balancing your books to avoid getting in trouble, or is it different for individuals than businesses, or am I missing some piece of context and jumped to the wrong conclusion?

Just in general the motivation for you to do it that way for my own edification, I had no idea this kind of process existed

If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I’m going to laugh my ass off

So I’m not crazy? I could’ve sworn I looked into it, and it was basically just a credit score where you also get dinged for police interaction or living with someone who committed a crime

That’s actually brilliant

Holy shit…I think short form video is unhealthy and I thought this red note thing was fabricated to recapture an audience, but maybe it’s organic (or maybe just too big and too fast for a walled garden to stay walled). And it just goes to show the one fundamental truth so many struggle with - people are people

I still firmly believe short form video is terrible, but these interactions are beautiful

Honestly, you’re probably better off without tiktok. Short form video is bad for humans, and it’s much worse if it’s not educational

I’m genuinely sorry for the potential friends you’ve lost, but tiktok was not a good thing… An American controlled version wouldn’t be better, I hope you double down on the fediverse

Poss-i-ble. That’s how you say it in French

Because you can’t just use up the easy to remember names like that. We’ve had bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu, COVID… We might need cow flu to name a different coronavirus in a few years

Because you’re one of their leads, and you too could cold call people from a list if you pay now!

Always was

Unwashed eggs?!? Gross

Just kidding, I’m actually extremely jealous, those eggs taste so much better (and are probably way safer at this point)

Sure it does, tool use is huge for actually using this tech to be useful for humans. Which openai and Google seem to have little interest in

Most of the core latest generation models have been focused on this, you can tell them what they have access to and how to use it, the one I have running at home (running on my too old for windows 11 mid-range gaming computer) can search the Web, ingest data into a vector database, and I’m working on a multi-turn system so they can handle more complex tasks with a mix of code and layers of llm evaluation. There’s projects out there that give them control of a system or build entire apps on the spot

You can give them direct access to the terminal if you want to… It’s very easy, but they’re probably just going to trash the system without detailed external guidance

I too embrace deathklock as better dictators. I would also accept a dog or a sheep

Tencent is an investor there too

Well that’s one layer, but when you decode a url, you’re probably going to get a url, and then it’s going to go to that url

So now you just made them to to a website. What’s there? Whatever you want. Maybe you ask them for Facebook/Google/GitHub or whatever authorization to see their name and email, which a lot of people would do. Then redirect them to a page saying “now I know who you are, delete the photo, <user>”

Or you could send them a payload based on fingerprinting their request, you could give them a fake page to steal their password, etc

Double time, half power. Everything just tastes better, it’s heated more evenly and less dried out/mushy

The amazing thing is I can’t get people to try it… Every time I mention it people look at me like I’m crazy to suggest they wait an extra 3 minutes for their food

It seems unlikely… The vessel wasn’t up to the challenge of anywhere near that depth, and they intended to go that deep from the get go.

I mean, it could be, but Bluetooth shouldn’t work like that - it’s a digital signal with a bunch of failure modes in the spec. You’d have to code it particularly stupidly to have that kind of problem - it’s a very time-synched protocol, even a sudden disconnect with no disconnect signal is something a coder would have to confront explicitly if they were using off the shelf components

I’m not one to bet against bad code, but the decompression seemed to be pretty much instant and within the planned trip, it just seems like it doesn’t survive oscams razor