People not knowing when to use ‘is’ and ‘are’ in English.

For reals, though? Mostly energy put into conversations, who spends the effort to initiate topics, and whether someone actually has hobbies other than just watching TV.

To the fascist dictator, the enemy is both weak and strong.

In our state, we’ve been getting RCV pushed through at city and county levels. It’s a hill climbing exercise. With every small and local hill we climb it helps us get to a bigger one next.

It completely sucks how long it takes, but that’s how big changes can happen… Eventually.

Hurting children and schools had always been an openly stated goal of conservatives. How hard they fight public education from day 1? Hard. How often do they propose legislation to hurt teachers, reduce the quality of teaching, and force children into the workforce ill educated and early? Often.

Empty classrooms for the poor (the rich just do whatever anyway) IS the goal since an ill educated population is a controllable one. Fascists always come to destroy the schools.

You mean like every year for the last 10 years? That tracks. Why it’s news, though, I’m not sure. This is a “Dog bites man” kind of moment.

My last place basically did it too. They adjusted salaries for post covid corporate profiteering inflation, but only a little. Not enough to even begin to catch up with how much less we were making.

Strangely, many of the younger people there left. They could do the math and the org insulted us with their raise after years of salary stagnation.

Mayor Mamdani should dress like President Zelensky normally does for the meeting. Or just hints of it.

The rich love to keep down the poor and the ill-educated despise those who try. Crabs in a bucket governance.

Surprise! Taxation without representation is upheld by conservatives.

If the judge is even remotely put together on the law, not a corrupt right winger like so many of them are now, and not bribed yet, it’s definitely a mistrial.

It’s a beauty queen/model turned insurance lawyer who got appointed to the DOJ by being a pretty MAGA nutjob running the prosecution. She’s never run a federal grand jury or trial and is doing very very illegal things along the way.

Duh. People are finally noticing just how bad it’s gotten. Even the well off middle® class are feeling just how horrible prices in the US have gotten.

You’re sitting on the Chinese Translator problem, and to some extent the basis of the Turing Test (mostly the translator problem).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Knowledge != Intelligence

Regurgitating things you’ve read is only interpolative. You’re only able to reply with things you’ve seen before, never new things. Intelligence is extrapolative. You’re able to generate new ideas or material beyond what has been done before.

So far, the LLM world remains interpolative, even if it reads everything created by others before it.

But they were put in there 14 years ago after they were left alone with him at his mansion.

Some of that footage felt directly out of a Doctor Who Cyberman episode.

The first 5-7 Honor Harrington books are a phenomenal read.

Was it a group of well identified law officers with a warrant and identification or a gang of heavily armed, masked, and aggressive people trying abduct someone?

These days we only see the second group and they should be treated as the criminals they’re acting like.

It’s the richest country in the history of humanity and all we did with it was oppress other nations, build a massive military, and sell the nation off to the rich. So far it’s not a winning plan for anyone outside of the top 1%. Same shit, bigger piles of gold.

The city I just left is almost through that entire arc. How did you guess the history of a city you’ve probably never looked at!?!

The latest wave of city council leadership is actively trying to build out more public transit and it’s amazing just how horrible people can be when you ask them to make a tiny percentage of the roads (often 3+ lanes wide in the city core) have a bike lane or even a few blocks of bus priority lane so the busses can arrive on time during rush hour.

At the same time it’s in the top 5 most dangerous cities for pedestrians in our state, but the mutilation of fellow city dwellers is okay as long as people can drive fast through downtown to get to the big box store 20+ miles away. Strangely, the City Council’s old members keep yelling about how the city downtown is dying because we added a few bike lanes and therefore people don’t want to be there since it’s harder to drive (but only during major rush hours).

What did this regime do to both insulin and insurance prices?

But at least some people could lose some weight along with their lost insurance.