All language is a mental model, shared between the speaker and the audience. Math without any context like this is just a language like any other, encoded for two or more parties to communicate something abstract.

If the speaker and the audience both believe two plus two equals five, then it is true.

“Five” might look like “4” and be called “Five” or perhaps “Two” is instead written “2.5”, but the truth of the original statement is only actually dependent on the shared mental model of the speaker/audience.

There is no telling what the objective meaning could be, if there was ever an objective meaning at all. For example, the entire meme itself could be a password that means “buy Bitcoin”.

Or for another example, two plus two is five if this is a shorthand for two 1.25lb baskets of strawberries plus two 1.25lb baskets of strawberries being equal to five 1lb baskets of strawberries.

You might say “Hey! That’s adding outside context! Not fair, it’s nonsense!” but consider that the original statement didn’t specify any context for the numbers at all. What are the numbers in reality, without any context? They represent nothing but the concepts they represent until they relate to a physical context anyway, just like any other fragment of communication.

Maybe they’re just trying to learn how elections are supposed to work?

Have you noticed what’s going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

There is a small wing of the extreme right wing that is kind of like that “tea party” movement after the last Bush administration that is starting to question whether Trump has their best interests in mind.

If that continues to grow, and I do not believe Marjorie can stop it now that she’s started it, then America really is on a bonafide track to violent uprising. That momentum is why there is urgency over the upcoming open enrollment period, because doubling annualized healthcare costs will activate a LOT of conservatives when they see the whole year’s bill in front of them.

As much as left-wing politics makes people mobilize to march peacefully, it’s usually been the extreme right that has the weapons to take it from protest to open murder in the streets.

I think that administration officials know this, and that is why they are afraid of the protests.

They fear their own supporters if they become disaffected and they know that a bunch of lefties peacefully marching is going to signal permission for one of their own to start shooting(stochastically, statistically, not intentional permission nor official support for violence).

Oligarchs in America have the dangerous desire to enjoy American society using their very mortal fleshy bodies. Unfortunately, that requires enough support of the populace to not get murdered.

Sorry if it was a weird phrase. I just didn’t know if other racial identities were allowed/wanted there. I didn’t want to presume what the intent of the community founders was.

Thank you for your answer(and thank you to the others too).

Is Blacksky a racially self-segregated competitor to Bluesky?

I read the article and watch one of the videos linked in it and that’s the impression I got, but I’m hoping someone can confirm/explain.

I’m not on either network, so I think I’m woefully ignorant on this. I apologize if it’s a silly question.

Yep, this is exactly the controversy I was referring to from two years ago. It only applies if you choose to upload video to their cloud, not your local storage hub.

If you read more about this, you’ll find that the vulnerability has been sensationalized by Gizmodo. A malicious actor would have to go to great lengths to obtain a very long hash string and then append that to a URL to get access to the unencrypted content. That hash string itself is not accessible, so it is highly unlikely.

With that being said, I wouldn’t recommend putting a security camera of any brand inside your home and pointing it somewhere you can’t risk being seen on the off chance of a breach, but how many people are really looking to do that anyway?

I agree that this is a meme. It’s not a meme with widespread meaning yet, but I think a chip on the forehead, the obvious young age of the boy, and his expression of mixed happiness/fear is enough to convey something about the state of society that calls for nervous laughter.

Eufy, by Anker, is a great choice imo. They keep data local by default, no subscription required. Very minor record of controversies.

I 100% agree with you.

I do, of course. I even do my hair. I didn’t mean to imply that one should not care about it hygienically, just for your own health and personal self image.

I just don’t understand the urge to thrust gender identity onto hair style and then argue about what that means to the polity online.

Why do people put so much energy into projecting identity politics on a superfluous detail like hair? Who cares? It’s all just a vanity concern, selfishly obsessed with what others think about how you look.

Does your hair make you have some intrinsic identity to others that you are or are not going for? Fuck you, I don’t care.

Do you authentically care, yourself?

Maybe you care about the politics - I can understand that. There is legitimate fear around legislating serious, dangerous things to your identity (not hair). Why the fuck are you spending your time and energy on hair???

Two party consent laws in California come down to a “reasonable expectation of privacy” and that has been worked out in the legal system over time to be pretty much any place with an open door or window, even a conference room inside a private business is fair game if the door is open to the hallway.

I’d recommend trying Ollama+OpenCode to DIY removals. It can at least help find the sites and their removal request pages, but then you’d need to solve captchas and do the requests.

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Some of these PII removal companies go to great lengths to request removals on your behalf without providing ANY additional information that the data broker does not already have.

The problem is that nobody can tell which PII removal companies act responsibly and which ones are merely data brokers themselves.

Even the ones trying their best to not distribute more information about you need only to screw that up once, and that single incident of human error leads to a neverending cycle of leaks between downstream data brokers.

It’s the perfect industry for local AI agents to replace, but the only way to know you’re properly requesting removals without making matters worse is to do it yourself.

Emotions are each examples of a continuum. You can be any level of sad or happy or angry, etc.

I’m not sure the distinction of spectrum from continuum is useful for understanding the world though. It’s just conversationally helpful.

Perhaps everything is a continuum but we just manufacture a spectrum so we can classify people for our own ease of conversation.

Just get the dates right, down to the month. Beyond that, you can make just about everything else up and since most employers don’t want to foot the bill for actual due diligence, your interview performance is what matters next-most.

Change your job titles to whatever fits the job you’re aiming to get now(remember you’ll actually need to interview for and do the job if you get it, so consider inflating only about 1 level of seniority upward).

You can add unverifiable resume items to explain gaps, such as a side gig or volunteer experience or family event.

You can make up 90% of the bullet points under each experience item too, which will increase net job search performance by 28% on average and 122% of hiring managers won’t read them or will read them and not ask about them anyway.

If you think companies are going to keep your data and blacklist you, then you just need to formally request your complete PII file under applicable data privacy laws such as GDPR or CCPA. If they did keep your data, the same laws can be used to make them delete it entirely (assuming you’re not also their customer, in which case they’ll have permissible reasons to keep it until you discontinue your subscription).

Oh, if this is just about what people want and not about shelter for the unhoused, then that really changes things. I may have misunderstood, as that’s a totally different spirit behind the bill.

If that’s the case, then it just comes down to which group of people have the political power to mandate what they want.

The central valley does have some of the highest rates of housing expansion in the country though, so I wouldn’t count it out. There’s a lot of opportunity there, it’s just not directly on the ocean.

Is this a weird kind of “war” where there are only two choices?

It seems like a lazy solution to pass a bill at the state level which overrides local zoning ordinances instead of actually handling city planning on a case by case basis.

Why wouldn’t California just incentivize building homes in the central valley? Or inland from Los Angeles on all of the completely open land? What is keeping homeless people at the city center, and will that cause actually be changed if the buildings around them are 3 or more stories tall?

People who live near the areas affected by state-level bills like this will be pretty upset that their local layer of democracy was circumvented by voters from out of town.

Meanwhile, people who move into the new high rises are not necessarily going to come out of the pool if unhoused Californians who were sleeping on the streets nearby. Does the bill control who is allowed to live in these new units? Does the bill account for housing the unhoused during the multi-year period while high rise construction is underway?

If the government has cameras then the footage should be public record and available to the public to download - street cameras, body cameras, security cameras, etc.

If you are ticketed based on camera footage (not the testimony of an officer who was at the scene as a witness), then footage from these camera systems should be enough evidence to prosecute government malpractice when it occurs too.

I suspect that won’t be the case, but California should not let it’s government uphold a double standard wherein citizens pay fines while footage is guarded and not used to prosecute police/politicians when they’re on the other side of the law.

In recent years, people have used increasingly mixed metaphors to obfuscate partisan loyalty tests and characterize objections as suspiciously avoidant or condescendingly elitist so that they can make friends with bigots online and feel a part of something bigger than their lonesome, superficial lives.

For example, the list in the meme hardly makes any sense. It’s true that some people consider some harsh words to be ‘violent’ but there is no reason to believe they are the same people who conflate ‘stress’ with ‘trauma’. So the question “Do you agree?” is a poor question because any straight answer risks confirming the implication inherent to the list of metaphors in the meme: That there is a specific group who believes each of those statements and that group is being “increasingly extreme”.

The meme itself is a political wedge device to make people feel bad and neg on the disaffected and vulnerable in our society so that people who feel tough right now, most of whom have not been through trauma or discrimination, can also feel correct and ethically justified by virtue of not being part of the vulnerable group being called out as “increasingly extreme”.

What’s sad, or funny depending on how you look at them, is that this kind of meme is so awkwardly transparent to both the political left and center that it makes the right seem pathetically ignorant. That’s a shame, because stress is not trauma and only certain words actually lead to violence and disagreement isn’t related to gaslighting at all and being irritated is a matter of opinion while harm is most often not a matter of opinion and people who are repeatedly difficult for the sake of being difficult really are toxic personalities and really do exist in the world.

Any one of these statements make for decent conversation, but this meme turns them all into one long and fruitless gish gallop so that nobody can really discuss any of it and all we’re left with is a loyalty test and virtually zero substance.

Hey what part do you think looks like AI slop?

I can’t see anything suspect but I’m looking pretty hard for it. If I’m wrong then that’s scary.

Is the photo somehow glitched that I don’t see?