Whats_your_reasoning

Then when you factor in the U.S. public schools' approach to children who do think critically, it gets even worse. Kids in school are encouraged to stay silent and accept what they're told. A kid who openly questions something a teacher says is liable to get into trouble, both officially by the teacher, and socially by their peers who can't yet grasp the concept of an authority figure being wrong.

Teachers can share false information all they want, and if a student dares to call out an urban myth, the student can be sent away to the principal's office. Now the teacher can continue spouting whatever non-fact-checked nonsense they like, the rest of the kids are discouraged from speaking out if they recognize something false, and the critical thinker is labeled a trouble-maker both by the administration and by classmates. It's an authoritarian hat trick that keeps a lot of kids in line.

If I recall correctly, until recently (a few months ago?), this community was legit conservative. But then someone noticed all the mods had left. Users thought it would be funny to take the community over by posting conservative satire in it. New mods applied to take charge, they updated the sidebar, and now here we all are.

Lucky for you, now’s a great time to snap up cheap, used Teslas without giving a cent to Musk. Plenty of people that already bought them now want to sell them because they are worried about vandals. But if that’s not a concern for you, then good news!

Check the sidebar - this is /c/childfree

I'm guessing you came here from All and didn't seek out this community specifically?

Scrolling through All provides a glimpse into the variety the Fediverse offers. Even when I find a community I don't agree with or care to hear about, I can simply block it. Meanwhile, I'm glad that those who do value those topics have a place to discuss things.

Which is all to say that those who feel strongly about being childfree deserve their space to talk about it, regardless of your feelings toward their opinions. This is their space, and nobody's forcing you to be here.

He added that the merger would, “unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach."

He already owns and runs Xitter as a propaganda tool. Now he's openly mixing it with his own bots.

Does anyone else get a really bad feeling about this? I see a lot of comments talking about this financially, but I haven't seen any comments talking about the disinformation potential that comes with artificially seeding a social media site with his own AI bots. Granted, Grok's responses have been based (so far), but that's not guaranteed to last.

I don't know exactly what the game plan is here, but the pieces are all laid out for Musk to spread his influence behind AI anonymity. That worries me.

Wow, the entire thing was over such a petty amount. The plaintiff was only awarded $812.02, and that was for both damages and court fees. So presumably, the price of the refunded tickets would've been even less than that. Instead of just paying that (relative) pocket change, Air Canada chose to go to court, where they not only lost, but set a precedent that holds businesses responsible for their AI's accuracy in the future.

Such a beautiful story :')

It's interesting how different people process time. For some, pure numbers make sense, and adjusting to 24-hour time is a trivial matter. But for others such as myself, who came to understand time on analog clocks, we understand time visually, especially by the angles on a clock face.

It's intuitive to me to "do math" on time by imagining what the angles of the hands would look like in two (or more) instances. If I need to get up by X time, I can glance at a clock and immediately know I need to go to bed by Y in order to get 8 hours of sleep, just by comparing where the clock hands would be in the morning. I rarely have to actually calculate anything, and even when converting between time zones, having an analog clock base means just counting the difference around the circle. Using a digital clock, by contrast, means having to visually interpret those numbers as they would be represented by clock hands. Those clock hand angles represent "the time" to me in a way that numbers on a digital display cannot. I understand 24 hour time, I've even used it professionally. But considering that it requires multiple conversions to arrive at the format (visual angles) that my brain uses to understand time, it's far too much work for me, personally, to use in daily life.

I'm not advocating for or against any particular system, and I hope that others can benefit from the switch you suggest. I just think it's important to note that some of us have a visual concept of time, and/or don't easily abstract time onto pure numbers, and that difference can make switching from an analog 12-hour system to a digital 24-hour system more difficult.

Assassination would just make Trump into a MAGA martyr. They would be riled up and energized.

Yes, then the next question is, whom would they rally behind after Trump? We can see a chain of command for the line of presidency, but without Trump, there'd be a power vacuum at the top of his cult. Either it gets filled with an acceptable substitute, or the obligate-followers in his fandom won't know where to direct their energy.

I wouldn't be surprised if such a power vacuum created drama. Would Musk still be pulling so many strings in the government if Vance were president? Would he find a way to usurp even more unconstitutional government power, like how he controls DOGE? Would Vance tolerate Musk's intrusions at all?

Or would his loyalist followers rally behind someone completely different, like a media personality? They're looking for charisma in a leader, after all, and neither Vance nor Musk have that the way Trump (or someone professionally on TV) does. It's possible some right-wing boner rises up through the crowd. Then, since Trumpsters naturally orient themselves toward the biggest dick around, he (Trump's successor would almost certainly be a "he") would get all their attention.

The way I see it is, fascists are going to paint their opposition as an extreme enemy no matter what, so why not just be real?

I'm reaching back into my heart here, but I see no difference between the fascists in charge and the bullies of my past. The day I stopped giving a rat's ass what bullies thought of me, and decided to be myself despite what they said about me, was the day I first made real friends. People respond strongly to integrity, it's just that we haven't seen that much of it from politicians in the past few decades, so it's easy to forget how powerful it is.

As a country, as voters, and as potential politicians, we need to do the one thing few Democrats have had the guts to do, and make it absolutely crystal clear who we are and what we stand for. People want politicians who aren't the status quo, and who have the strength not to fold just because those in charge don't like it - that's why so many "ordinary" people voted for Trump. Those of us who've stood up to bullies and thrived afterward already know - a lot of people would absolutely agree with us, they're just waiting to hear a strong voice they agree with.

Fuck their fear. We need to stop molding our identity around what old conservatives think. The youth aren’t scared of socialism, and they’re the people we need to reach. We need a party that will stand up for us, and that starts by not neutering ourselves to appease our opposition.

I feel you. I've been thinking a lot about my options lately (as I'm sure we all are.) As appealing as the idea to leave the country is, there's some part of me that's screaming, "No. Our place is here. These is our home. These are our neighbors. This is our fight."

I hope those most vulnerable can find a way to stay safe... But as for myself, this system has kept me too poor to afford having kids, let alone owning a house, or any other assets, without hope of affording retirement, trapped in a system where I'm basically a slave running in a hamster wheel... So what have I got to fear? I'm going to stay here and organize.

You're a good parent.

Meanwhile, my (immigrant) partner and I opened up about our fears to my family last Christmas, and my mom told me not to worry because my partner is "one of the good ones." Ugh.

So yeah, thank you for being rational.