imperious_melange

China isn't LGBTQ friendly? Why not? It's interesting they have that same story that it's a foriegn disease like across Africa aka they are not "foreign forces."

Personally I believe homosexuality and intersex to just be a natural aspect of humanity and many other animals. Humans are pack mammals and all pack mammals have a means through which to decrease the breeding population. Most pack mammals maintain a harem or single breeding pair to maintain this. As for a human pack it would be extremely useful to have individuals who won't reproduce but can add resources to the tribes offspring. You don't want all breeding pairs to reproduce when there are limited resources, it would decrease the biological fitness of the offspring.

Most of my communication is text based on different platforms from good old rcs text message but mostly through online or app based platforms / services. I don't think you would need enough to train a model but just to prompt as in the model already understands language and how to write and you're just setting a parameter on what style to write much like how voice or video synthesis can take just 30 seconds of audio or just a few images of a person.

While(response.list != null) { respond("ok"); }

Just the needles and avoidable suffering. Some suffering actually helps people get closer to wellbeing like exercise or surgery.

It depends which AI and how you prompt it. If you give it some old text messages and tell it to respond like you then it may be a while. If you just copy paste vanilla chatGPT responses then probably not that long..

Maybe now I can get to know the real Lucy Liu

The way you worded your previous comment seemed very dismissive of any other genocide besides the one in Gaza. If it's worth anything as someone who lives in east Africa, there's generally little news or care in reverse for other areas such as Gaza and Myanmar or what's happening in the west, middle east or east as they don't care about Africa. Even care extending beyond neighboring nations is hard to find here sometimes. In actuality most people don't care about most things unless it directly affects them. In the end the safest assumption is we are on our own and our suffering doesn't matter to anyone else even when it is reported in the news which is indeed unfortunate. The only time action seems to be taken is for political or financial gain, not to actually to help people.

Most definitely what happened to the native Americans was a genocide. It would be difficult to argue it's an active genocide but you're free to your opinions. Similarly I'm not sure the US domestic war on drugs meets the criteria for the word like the instances such as Gaza or the above. You're free to your opinions. As for running guns, if not them then it would be the Russians typically although they have their hands full with Ukraine. If the US stopped selling weapons today little would change because the money to buy is still there. I will say the US actively destabilizing Latin America and allowing the open export of weapons is very noticeable. Similarly China selling chemical precursors to Latin America cartels who run drugs to the US is noticeable, a smart reversal of the opium tactic the British used.

In actuality it's hard to find a nation these days that hasn't or isn't causing something horrific.

There is Sudan, particularly the Darfur region in which non-Arab ethnic groups, such as the Masalit, Fur, and Zaghawa have been targeted for eradication by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Direct deaths from conflict 30,000 to over 150,000+. Indirect/Famine Deaths are estimated at 500,000+ (primarily children).

Myanmar (Burma), where the Rohingya Muslims are being eradicated by the The Myanmar Military. Initial Genocidal Campaign (2017) at least 9,000 to 25,000+ Rohingya deaths. Ongoing Post-Coup Civil War (2021–Present): Thousands more across multiple ethnic groups.

China (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) where the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other predominantly Muslim Turkic minorities are being eradicated by the Chinese Government. Death toll is inconclusive due to strict control of information by the Chinese government. Watchdogs rely on state data which showed an 84% drop in natural population growth rates in predominantly Uyghur regions. Another point of importance is the consistent (relative to anywhere else on earth) surplus of human organs for transplant in China.

Ethiopia (Amhara and Tigray Regions) where the Ethnic Amharas (and previously Tigrayans) are being eradicated by the state security forces and various regional ethnic militias. Tigray War (2020–2022): Estimated 600,000+ deaths. Amhara Conflict (2023–Present): 7,700 to 10,000+ deaths.

For reference the Gaza genocide. Direct Violent Deaths: Over 73,000 Palestinians. Presumed/Indirect Deaths: 10,000+ missing under rubble; tens of thousands more from disease/starvation to date.

So it's interesting to watch the global outcry for kinda only one of these genocides particularly given how horrific the incidents in the Tigary and Darfur region are. Its almost as if the global and western news doesn't care about brown people.

Also the way you worded your comment seems very dismissive of the horrific human suffering that is going on anywhere besides Gaza.

I remember one is more of a political / atheist group and the other is more so what it says on the tin but I always mix them up. Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure that's a constant happening.

Oh goodness, what's that reference? Futurama?

Yeah that could work as long as you never change your mailing address to where you are staying but there's nowhere you can rent for $700 in SF.

Of course there's a specific German word for this. Thanks for the fun fact.

Sidebar, has anyone else watched the cult classic The Network (1976)?