If they are interested in it, then why is it boring to them? Genuine question.

There is value in learning things that at first glance seem boring or dry.

Is there? If the school system is any indication, people can spend literal years studying things they find boring without retaining them. Plus they can develop a hatred for the subject. Plus all sorts of bad intellectual habits like pretending they know the answer so they’re allowed to move on.

I agree that things that feel boring to someone can turn out to be important to them, but that’s a contextualization issue, not a nose-to-the-grindstone one. As the game design adage goes; you have to show the lock before having them hunt for the key.

Things seeming boring and dry is your mind telling you that you’re trying to learn something that isn’t interesting to you. Fancy tricks to hide that core truth won’t undo it.

Why do you think you want to learn Marxist theory? To have status among leftists? Go punch a Nazi. To understand modern or historical leftists? Their actions aren’t guided by Marxist theory. To have status among political theorists, economists, and liberals? Lol. Lmao even.

To gleam a better way to have a succesful revolution that results in a better society? Okay, cool, do you have a community of people that won’t starve to death within days of trade being cut off? If no, congratulations, now you know all Marxist theory that you need to know until you do have such a community.

They don’t need to notice to change. Unpleasant or uninteresting experiences can lead to them frequenting these places less until they just don’t anymore. A big part of subscription services’ profit comes from these changes being made so unconsciously that people forget to cancel.

If it’s any consolation, we’re all its training data. Your style is just the one the training and fine-tuning settled on as the one that passed its checks the best.

The EU keeps coming within inches of voting for making secure encryption impossible. Chat Control would have been worse for privacy than anything the US has.

I mean, it could be both.

That’s valid for workers in a capitalist system or for capitalists trying to scam people. But why would someone sign their real name to unchecked AI slop for an open source project? It would risk ruining their reputation for little personal gain.

The Artemis program (more specifically the Space Launch System) is kickbacks for senators in the form of a spaceship that uses components manufactured in every congressional district at a massively inflated cost. It has been in the making since before SpaceX launched their first rocket, facing massive cost overruns (more corruption) and delays (more corruption).

Yeah, they’re out back injecting themselves with estrogen and planning anarchocommunist revolution.

So like USAians having to pay taxes to the US when they work outside the US?

Lemmy doesn’t have an anti-AI policy. It has people that hate AI, and some communities have rules that forbid AI in some contexts, but any instance federated with db0 is at the very least tolerant of AI.

Allegedly, the “developers” of the app behave poorly towards “code contributors” who did large amounts of work for free, leading to those contributors leaving to start Morphe.

Later, ReVanced allegedly copied a lot of Morphe code without attribution, when the Morphe open source licence required attribution, with an alleged screenshot of the ReVanced discord channel showing a developer wanting to use AI to automatically copy Morphe code. The ReVanced subreddit also allegedly bans people who bring up Morphe.

In many cases, it’s easier to have an online culture with an anti-AI policy than a local one. A bunch of people already insist on using AI when interacting with others irl, and many more are passively supportive of them doing so. (i.e. “they don’t care”, but in a very different way from how “they don’t care” about someone eating vegan).

So an online group that has persistent identities where it’s hard to get a new account with a good status whose culture opposes AI is going to be much easier to keep AI-free than your local neighborhood third space.

But by the same token, what is unsuitable for trees today doesn’t have to be unsuitable a decade from now. Plant growth affects the climate. Retaining moisture, stabilizing day-night temperatures, retaining topsoil, changing surface albedo, triggering cloud formation, etc.

Ideally a mega-project is thousands of small projects being attempted at once in a way that is useful even if only a fraction of them work. Those 10% of places that worked could be used as a jumping off point for further efforts in the region, and in all cases people learned valuable agriculture skills they can take with them for the rest of their lives.

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The US founding fathers only gave voting rights to men with capital. I think that maybe those rich slave owning genocide enthousiasts who revolted because they were being taxed to pay the wages of the soldiers that suffered permanent injuries to defend their property might have been cool with capitalism.

Almost as if this one guy is just a figurehead for a larger political movement.

Rowling spends almost every bit of income she gets on funding anti-transgender organisations and literal fascists (such as Posie Parker), whose lobbying efforts have turned every major British party against transgender healthcare, resulting in transgender healthcare becoming practically inaccessible through legal means with waiting lists lasting decades.

In terms of its material impact, buying HP merch is equivalent to buying a swastika flag from a neonazi store. You can be assured that every cent of profit will go to funding fascism. The only difference is the aesthetic of having HP merch versus having nazi merch.

The last time everybody was touching a solid object connected to the Earth by touching other solid objects is probably around 15,000 years ago, when humans crossed over into the Americas. Before then, it would probably occur regularly that nearly all humans are asleep and the handful that are awake happen to all be touching the ground.

Genetic engineering is quietly making headway, but has the potential for massive changes to our way of life. If we can start reliably programming living material, nothing will look the same, hopefully avoiding Cronenbergian results.