The reason it is such a difficult topic and it is thus weaponized by right wing politics is the uncomfortable fact: the vast majority of CSA is committed by a family member, usually parents. The boogeyman monster rhetoric is comfortable and easy to digest. The fact that your own husband, father, grandpa/grandma, aunt or uncle, etc. could be the monster causes uneasiness. The anti-sex-education rhetoric is not accidental. A third party teaching proper consent and protection from CSA to children means it dilutes the power of families to either, get away with CSA or protect their family members from the consequences of CSA.

There’s also the reproduction of capitalism side of things. But that argument drowns the discussion of pedophilia and CSA even more in a global culture primed to hate communism and socialism as a knee jerk reaction. Essentially, the familial (let’s be honest, paternal) ownership over children is foundational for the cultural reproduction of capitalism. It is the suppression of sex education and the absolutist domination of the family, and fathers specifically, over the bodies of children that enables later in life the reproduction by similarity of capitalist exploitation of labor. This goes to the root of ideological differences, the right speaks of “the protection of children” as a mere tool to further control and exploit. Protect the family, in so far as alternative families (like LGBT, mixed race, adoption and reconstructed families) pose a direct threat to the scheme of capitalist extraction of wealth from people. At the crux of it all, the oppression and domination of human sexuality as a whole as a political means. The result, the normalization of sexual exploitation of women and children as an acceptable (even desirable) collateral for the ensuring of next quarter’s profit.

You are both right. Arguing for completely unrelated things. Potatoes with pasta is indeed way too much starch for a healthy diet, if you are eating it on the regular and doubling your ingestion of carbs and starch. But it has nothing to do with taste, they taste fine together, as the many fine recipes and dishes everyone else have posted. They will make you bloaty though, the best is to regulate the portions back to a recommended protein/fibre/carb proportion, and you won’t even notice.

To be fair. A historical Jesus person might have never existed. But, several authors of books in the Bible did. They were probably several con men who realized that they could collaborate to coalesce their respective cults by coopting the prophecies of Jewish religion. Thus gaining more power. The strategy took off and even today Christianity survives by pure syncretism. Absorbing groups and beliefs to stay palatable to the widest audience possible. Same strategy that has proven successful for mormoms, which are basically Christian fanfic.

As the old adage says, the difference between a cult and a religion is the number of members.

The costs have ballooned too much. When seasons were 18 episodes and it costs $100k per episode, it made sense to serialize. Often they were written as they were filmed. Now every episode costs $10 million and preproduction takes a year before the first scene can be filmed with massive post production. No one has really cracked the formula for making TV formats work well on streaming services. The all at once for binge watching only works if you already have a massive archive of shows to expose. The one episode a week for short boutique series that run a season every 3 years is not working well either.

Yeah, it’s going the be a whole ordeal. I will have to block an afternoon for the migration. Definitely not a “never breaks anymore” scenario. Everything can be broken, there’s no perfectly stable software.

Comparing code bugs to cholera. Nice way to be utterly disconnected from reality and what really matters in life. Let’s burn the planet down and waste all of our clean water because of code review.

Funny enough I had to rollback, since it doesn’t start in the latest version in my setup. I have to make a conscious effort to keep it one or two subversions behind. It is not the first time an upgrade breaks my install. It will probably be a whole thing when I decide to actually upgrade it again.

Right now, the latest update doesn’t run in my otherwise until now perfectly working environment. It’s frustrating because there’s no easy way to downgrade it in my setup.

It’s the curse of time that the elder generation only has life lessons for what they went through and the younger generation will live through new things that no one had even imagined possible. So every generation has to figure it out for themselves. Our parents educate us for a world that will not exist when we grow up.

That’s a living meme, essentially an anime character in the flesh. So nice of him to pose with Hatsune Miku. Erling Haaland is proof that we found the way of making animated characters come to life. He is just reuniting with his waifu.

That’s a lot of words just to reiterate what OC said. None of your examples disagree with the fact that these companies are using AI for a ton of stuff they’re not good at. And the stuff it is good at are not bottlenecks. If you removed LLMs from the face of the planet today, code quality will not suffer significantly. Sure, doing code review en masse is good. But that is not what was holding back computer programming. It’s existence is not progressing software in any significant way either. It’s a nice to have, not a must have. Code was fine for four decades without LLMs. Indeed it makes me wonder, if a machine learning model was purpose made to do code review, instead of general purpose LLMs doing it, how much better it could be, if we actually leveraged what they’re good at.

It depends on how an individual consumes Lemmy. I don’t see votes and my client neither buries nor highlights comments based on votes. I only browse by new or active.

This means that votes have little to no impact to what I consume or interact with.

As I’ve said elsewhere. I don’t care if you downvote, I’ve seen what you upvote.

“old time good! new time bad!”

Classical old people afraid of death and irrelevance.

I meant as a means of corporate sabotage.

Same reason Google gives away Chromebooks and Microsoft furnishes computer labs and gave free computer classes to teachers and corporations. Plain market capture. If you convince people that your product is what computers are, then they will prefer it due to familiarity and aversion to change.

They loved it too much and now it costs more than paying a living wage to a human being. The end goal of AI was always to cut cost and layoff people. The best sabotage right now is to setup a script that constantly prompts an LLM for something useless. I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water. But it would send a message. AI is not cheaper, it never was. Even with today’s outrageous token prices, LLM companies are still bleeding money per user. It will only get more expensive as data center contracts fall through and the investment craze fizzles out.

Originally the folk concept was heavily affiliated with violent sexual energy, occultism and dark ritualistic sadism. I guess male protagonists conform more readily to those gender stereotypes of the cyclically violent and uncontrollable rapist. During the few witch hunting incidents involving werewolf accusations, the accused were always male. They were also linked with profanation of tombs to devour the recently passed or cannibalism in general. It was also almost always portrayed as either permanent or even voluntary power. The involuntary property or its curse nature rarely universal. With the full moon transformation being almost entirely a Hollywood fabrication.

I think it is interesting to think about the weaving of gender into such symbolism, as the periodic monthly phenomenon is not universal. There’s an Armenian belief that it was a punishment to women, who had to eat children every night for seven years in wolf form. That one is very bleak, but more related to godly punishment of sin by having mothers destroy their locus of adoration, their own children and children in general.

Modern werewolves are related to late 19th century narratives, heavily inspired by Serbian vukodlaks. Dracula himself was kin to werewolves and could transform into one. With some interpreting the gothic tales as an expression of the contemporary anxieties and fears of the victorian era, specially the fears of the patriarchy towards anything they couldn’t control or understand. Anything that was besides the proper order and structure of religion and enlightenment.

BTW, how is starship, or whatever the exploding giant dildo is called, doing?

Still massively behind schedule, costs keep ballooning out of control. This year’s test also blew up. Still can’t even reach orbit. Still promising orbital refueling for a ship that barely even flies.

It’s a truncated quote from Diderot. The full verse is:

J’en atteste les temps ; j’en appelle à tout âge ;
Jamais au public avantage
L’homme n’a franchement sacrifié ses droits ;
S’il osait de son cœur n’écouter que la voix,
Changeant tout à coup de langage,
Il nous dirait, comme l’hôte des bois :
« La nature n’a fait ni serviteur ni maître;
« Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois. »
Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.

A slightly better translation would be:

I bear witness to the times; I appeal to all ages;
Never, for the public good,
Has man willingly sacrificed his rights;
If he dared to listen only to the voice of his heart,
Suddenly changing his tone,
He would say to us, like the dweller of the woods:
“Nature has created neither servant nor master;
“I wish neither to give nor to receive laws.” 
And his hands would tear out the priest’s entrails,
For lack of a cord to strangle kings.

It is the voice of the forest, dweller of the woods being a stand in for anarchists. So the hands strangling kings with priest’s entrails are those of the man realizing the importance of rights and freedom. Diderot elaborates across the poem about the character of political order. Declaring that no law or political rule is sacred or natural. Mankind makes sociopolitical structures, they are not natural, and thus nature will gladly unmake them, as a king dying, for example. Essentially, he says that no elevated, supernatural, or godly power exists that will stop the hands of a person who has chosen to defy political oppression. It was extremely controversial in the XVIII century, a liberal cry for revolution against political systems that still stood over the pillars of a god given right of monarchs to rule. It’s called Les éleuthéromanes, I’m not gonna try to translate that, but the full text can be found freely.

Victim blaming is never a good take.