Yes absolutely. It’s just that the compact requires much higher levels of commitment to democracy and resistance to corruption under immense political pressure than we have now and we can barely keep this together.

You would literally have to put the will of the country above that of your state’s citizens when you swore an oath to represent your state’s citizens.

I don’t think you’re understanding it. Let’s say you have enough states in the compact. The popular vote is close but for posterity’s sake should go to to the Republican. You’re the governor of a democratic state that voted strongly Democratic. The compact SAYS you should instruct all your electors to go Republican, but if you just tell them to go with the will of the people in your state that would sway the elector votes enough that the Democratic candidate would win.

That would be more in line with what the people you represent want. You would have to throw out your duty to your state’s citizens in order to improve democracy at a national level. The political pressure would be insane.

Now imagine you’re a corrupt Republican governor and the roles are reversed. There is no way in hell you’d instruct your electors to vote Democrat when you can cheat the system, break your agreement through underhanded state supreme Court bullshit and elect the Republican president.

The compact works mathematically and is a great idea to improve democracy. But it requires everyone in the system to constantly put the values of democracy above their own values and winning and destroying the libs and we just don’t live in a world where that’s going to happen.

I’m not against the compact, or supportive of going back on it. I think it’s probably worth trying, but I completely understand where the author is coming from.

I like Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobe (FART)

Albertatech has a video about a manager who fired his last software engineer because “he could code faster with Claude than an SE” and she was all “most programmers can code faster than an SE even without Claude, the point of an SE isn’t speed, it’s making sure your codebase is maintainable, scalable, and reliable”

These managers decide who stays on their teams without any understanding of what their team does. It’s like a 5 year old firing Davinci because he can draw a lady smiling with long brown hair faster with Claude crayons.

That’s not true. The first exemption from AI on religious grounds was a Unitarian universalist (another secular, values based religious organization), back in June.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/religious-exemption-ai-work

While using Dazzle to plot out her 14-year-old son Macallister’s birthday party, the AI tool recommended a glow-in-the-dark theme, including glowing pool toys and phosphorescent corn hole.

“He was like, ‘Mom, I don’t want to hit the theme that hard,'” Mayer said of her son’s reaction. “I just can’t help myself.”

Even her kid is trying to get her to stop with the AI shit

Jumping Redditor living in a world where capital has all the power and labour is effectively crippled: “what if labour hypothetically somehow goes too far and becomes the real enemy… Yeah that would be bad… Best keep things like this just in case”

Maybe it has the same volume as the real Dr. Pepper, but the graphic artist thought they meant a can. Easy mistake!

That’s not how shares work at all!

You can’t turn them into the company at market value, you have to sell it to other people to cash out. The only time a company buys its shares is when they do a buyback, but that wouldn’t be a debt on the balance sheet.

The shareholders are just the company owners.

I don’t know what to tell you there. You’re saying that people who think we should change the system from within get mad when you try to change the system from outside of it?

It feels like you’re just describing being a leftist in a world of neo-fascists and neo-liberals.

I didn’t say voting wins the libs over… I said being a revolutionary leftist doesn’t free you from voting. If you want to improve material conditions you have to fight with every tool you have. Voting is quick and easy and improves material conditions for minorities Neo-fascists want to oppress.

Libs are not going to be on our side in this. They’re part of the oppressive system we want to dismantle. A part that’s just as hard to overcome as the fascists.

Besides, making progress on a revolutionary front also forces libs to make concessions which only improve the outcomes of voting.

Fuck fascists and fuck the libs. We don’t vote lib because they’re good, we do it because it’s an easy way to limit oppression against marginalised communities while we work on anticapitalist pursuits like community building, mutual aid, and other more assertive strategies as the opportunity arises.

Even in 2 you should vote. If your Revolution fails at least you’ve mitigated harm to your neighbours.

It’s really

1. Vote because you believe in working within the system.
2. Vote because you fight against the system but are in solidarity with those most harmed by it.
3. Don’t vote and hope things magically get better while you watch.

When you have option 2 as don’t vote people tend to do option 3 while telling themselves they’re doing option 2. Voting is praxis, non voters don’t get option 2.

They’re not our representatives. They never were. They’re the representatives of the ruling class.

Each election there is a set of choices on the table, usually only bad ones. But one of them always included extra suffering for minorities. It’s your duty in good solidarity with the minorities to vote against that.

If you want better choices you need to fight for a new table. That gets done every other day that isn’t election day. 99% of your time spent on getting a new table, like the French. 1% of your time protecting the vulnerable through harm reduction.

Make no mistake this is a trick.

Russia HAS NO DIESEL TO EXPORT. They’re importing at a huge government loss from India.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/russia-import-diesel-fuel-while-135000913.html

This fake deal accomplishes exactly two things:

1. It lets Trump give Putin money for arms against Ukraine and all Putin has to do is middle man Indian diesel.
2. It lets Trump attack Ukrainians when they strike Russian refineries because they’re "bombing our American diesel supply chain.

The US is a NET EXPORTER of diesel. They don’t need more fuel. The problem is the market price is increasing due to mostly Hormuz since Russian oil is sanctioned. All he’s doing is lifting this sanction to pay Putin to buy arms. Stopping Putin from trading fuel for arms was the entire purpose of the sanctions in the first place.

Trump is a traitor.

Russia doesn’t have diesel to export. They’re now a net diesel importer, mostly from India.

That’s two different things. We SHOULD use violence to defend ourselves against fascism. But that doesn’t mean killing all the conservatives once in power. That’s hierarchal thinking.

Fighting fascists isn’t the same because fascists are clear enemies literally seeking our death and misery. That’s defending yourself and your community.

That’s a conservative thought. The main feature of conservatism is a social hierarchy where the law is meant to bind and punish those at the bottom.

Even though conservative ideology is poison which should be eliminated through education and a clamp down on “opinion” news networks like Fox, and conservative leaders have committed endless crimes they should be punished for them. However the average conservative voter is no different than you and I except for the fact they’re massive scared gullible little idiots and that’s not a crime.

The second we start to group people and decide to treat different groups differently then we’re succumbing to conservatism ourselves.

I have long had head canon that Trump basically is only doing stuff to make people riot and he actually had more faith in the left’s willingness to fight back than was warranted. (Taking away abortions, trans rights, right to teach the history of slavery, “DEI”, migrant incarceration camps, deploying the army against citizen) … But like making a bill that kicks everyone off of food stamps and health care JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION… Like… I’m not saying he’s doing it if purpose, what I am saying is if he were trying to start a riot with plausible deniability would he do anything different?

The fact it replicated incomprehensible bad Cantonese as if spoken by an English speaker who sucks at it is the first thing approaching Art that this clunker has ever simulated.

Thank you for indulging my curiosity!

The reason (other than fraud and gambling) open AI is projecting 30trilly is that the big problem AI will solve is wages. This is stupid because the economy depends on wages. AI knowledge workers will shrivel, like the industrial Revolution turned artisans into line workers, AI will turn creatives and engineers into a new generation of cogs in the machine designed to generate profit for the rich.

Which is the real problem of AI, it’s owned by the rich so it can never have an emancipatory power only one which further oppresses us.

That’s basically the video, but it’s excellent and worth a watch.

What does it say in Chinese? Did it respond to the question in another language or is it warning us of the coming end times?