Whoa. I’m American and I just discovered that I had been using that word…uh…wrong for my region but right for the rest of the world? I thought it was phonemes in general, and that the vowel thing was an archaic usage. Interesting.

I knew it wasn’t alliteration, since it isn’t all the first syllable sound. But it’s always fun to learn new stuff about the language I’ve been speaking for nearly forty years.

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Not the point of the post, but–dang, that headline assonance is amazing.

I’ve got a kitsune gunslinger in a homebrew campaign who kind of talks and acts like Captain Picard and a dwarf barbarian in Abomination Vaults who is basically “what if Gimli’s laugh after Legolas asks him if he wants a box was a character?”

Plus I GM a game for my kids and their friends. That one’s super fun.

Judge Sebutinde, your eschatology is bad. But your paterology is even worse. You might be a heretic; whoever taught you this nonsense definitely is.

As a Christian, who has actually read the Bible, I think the venomous bigotry actually self-selects them out of Christianity. “They’ll know you are Christians by your love for others” was maybe Jesus’ clearest definition of what it meant to follow him.

This may be similar to “actual libertarianism,” but I wouldn’t know, not being a libertarian.

Have you checked Artstation?

His real first name is “Emory,” so make sure you put that in there too.

(Last I heard, his fans hate it)

Those are silly folks lmao

Eh, I kind of get it. OpenAI’s malfeasance with regard to energy usage, data theft, and the aforementioned rampant shoe-horning (maybe “misapplication” is a better word) of the technology has sort of poisoned the entire AI well for them, and it doesn’t feel (and honestly isn’t) necessary enough that it’s worth considering ways that it might be done ethically.

I don’t agree with them entirely, but I do get where they’re coming from. Personally, I think once the hype dies down enough and the corporate money (and VC money) gets out of it, it can finally settle into a more reasonable solid-state and the money can actually go into truly useful implementations of it.

This is one of the few things that AI could potentially actually be good at. Aside from the few people on Lemmy who are entirely anti-AI, most people just don’t want AI jammed willy-nilly into places where it doesn’t belong to do things poorly that it’s not equipped to do.

Cool, so I guess you’re done blowing up Gaza then, right?

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You’re done blowing up Gaza, right?

It’s not all about him, no; but my understanding is that conservatives in Canada massively underperformed yesterday, and the analysis seems to point to mobilization against Trumpism.

Fair point.

They’re not good, but they are easy to win…if you have all the manufacturing facilities and are okay with plunging your country into depression for the sake of absolutely no benefit whatsoever.

Wait, what’s the definition of “win” again?

So now we see whether Trump gives in or makes up bigger and bigger numbers. “900%! 1,776%! A BILLION PERCENT!”

He’s like a 4-year-old king being used by his regent to consolidate power.

It feels longer than that to me (weren’t people talking about America’s influence when discussing our entry into the world wars?), but you’re absolutely right: it took decades to accrue, and it’ll all be frittered away in weeks.

Of course, Trump’s no stranger to bankruptcy caused by mismanagement.

“Take over the world” might be a bit of hyperbole. I’m talking mostly about his desire to take over Greenland, to take back Panama, to annex Canada, to be put in charge of Palestine, etc. Of course, this too is Trump trying to enrich himself; how many Trump properties would end up being built in Greenland if the US ended up with it? How much would shipping companies pay him in kickbacks if he took the Panama Canal and offered them priority passage? How much money would he and his cadre make by decreasing regulation in Canada, or getting access to Canadian oil fields? And, of course, you’ve already heard of his plan for the “Palestinian Riviera.”

He wants to “take over the world” in the sense that he wants to rule over more swaths of land and extract the value from them, and in the sense that he wants to tell Keir Starmer to jump and hear him say “how high, sir?”–but yeah, I agree, he doesn’t seem to have the desire to actually do any ruling.

Definitely a Russian asset. I think that’s more or less clear at this point. But the acts he’s taking seem more…stupid than calculated right now. I don’t think it’s his goal to destroy America (though it’s certainly possible that his handlers want that); I think it’s his goal to enrich himself, and he’s just not too bothered by the prospect of destroying America in the process.

Trump wants to take over the world. All he’s succeeding in doing is remaking the world into one that doesn’t need the US. And indeed has no use for us at all.