@DaywalkingRedhead @oscarjiminy @carnage4life
If everyone can vote, the entire US shifts left, and the "center" becomes closer to what is considered the center in most of the rest of the world. That's way to the left of Biden/Mancini/Sinema/Romney/Clinton. It's closer to AOC.
What's left of the GOP becomes huge, and less racist/transphobic/hateful.
Sometimes when we say conservative we mean conservative. But sometimes we mean "racist and hateful." Black and Latinx people are conservative.
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus:
https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
(Spoiler: the PNW Tree Octopus immanetized in 1998 via the internet and ONE DAY someone will genemod one into existence—octopi can live a surprisingly long time in air—so that we can be suitably terrorized by the arboreal droptopus.)
It is simply astonishing that companies are embedding technology into search engines that makes them vastly, vastly worse at finding accurate information.
I think I failed to introduce James Tiberius Cat in the past but #Caturday is always a good time to fix that.
Prints and more here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/cat-astronaut-james-tiberius-cat-mark-tisdale.html
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt
I should probably actually do an #introduction because I never did it. Hello! My name is CottonCandie, I'm a #genderfluid twitch #streamer from America, and also a complete idiot who will post random stuff and also stream announcements whenever I remember :)
I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay to love science but also want to go home occasionally
#worklifebalance
#cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon
#academia #science #research
#errantscience
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If you feel a little lost,
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"Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business"
From now on, philosophy, language, religion, politics, and culture will be exclusively the purview of the very rich.
For everyone else, college is where you will acquire specific skills that you will trade for wages on the capitalist market. Nothing else.
#FediTips It is important here to observe respectful communication. For example, be sure to make a blood offering to Ninhursag every morning. (If you don’t have homegrown blood, store-bought is fine). And regarding the hypnotic bees’ conspiracy against the fashion industry, is it advised to not take sides.
I realize belatedly that this question is obviously derived from Edsger Dijkstra's comparison to the question of whether a submarine can swim. Exactly!
Proposal: "Does Bard / ChatGPT think?" is no more interesting than "Are viruses alive?".
... and looking ahead a bit to the next few sections / paragraphs, one rather despairs of having a merely finite amount of cogent stuff to say! But one perseveres...
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.