Very glad I had chill parents, even if they weren’t epic stalinists.Trauma begets trauma, and they didn’t give me any.

A lot of high schools are having massive walkouts, I’ve witnessed a few because they just happened to march by where I was.

Message from a Dad to a high schooler I know through orgs/politics/protests. He approved sending, but maybe don’t spread it everywhere so the Dad doesn’t find it, The rest of the message is also pretty bad, but it has personal details. The Dad is not a good guy, he yells a lot at his wife and children, apparently. Used to do corporal punishment, but it was legal, really only stopped because the kid is very close to adulthood.

I’m sure some of the mothers don’t like him, and some of the children don’t like him

he’s also obviously somewhat neglectful/somewhat abusive. he’s just like a bad person.

Oh yeah? Then why do you so often not seem happy? How do you feel about your cool daughter?

Release the Diddy files, he’s gotta be blackmailed in those

AI bros have this magical idea that they can take their really good AI model, hook it up to the real world in a bunch of ways, and with the right prompting system it’ll make money, or do other complicated long term tasks.

There was an AI that was tasked with funding itself, so it started off with like a free tier of credits and it could send money to its creator for more credits, it would start up like every 30 seconds or something and try to use the tasks connected to it to generate money somehow. It posted a bunch of stuff on Twitter, which garnered it quite a few donations. It did some other stuff to actually earn money. Ultimately it could only fund itself for like a month, and “died”.

They love the idea of AGI, and of those human intelligence AI’s in movies that can do a bunch of cool stuff without it’s creator.

I guess if you’re super rich that’s not a huge deal, but it’s still wild. You could rent a decent place for that kind of money. They could buy a decent $2000 PC each month with the excess money from cooking for themselves.

That’s like 1/4 of a years worth of groceries for me, damn. That’s equivalent to my main entree, 3 times a day every day. In one week.

I often consume dried legumes and rice. With my rice cooker and crockpot, it takes about 3 minutes to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Just cook it, and then set it on the keep hot setting. Put a bit in a lunchbox if I’m not staying home. That way I can have an entree for the whole day, for super cheap, with no real effort, and often at the end of dinner I still have leftovers I put in a jar. The dried food cooked usually costs less than 70 cents per meal, it’s extremely cost effective.

The rest of my grocery budget goes to spices, fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, noodles, tofu, and the occasional treat (I consume very little added sugar). I basically only drink water, and I make my own sourdough and Kombucha (which is very cool, and stuff I learned from my mother. Got the mother/bacteria for it from her too. So making that stuff is like she’s in the room with me.)

Damn, Epstein had a lot of contact with Tom Pritzker, who seems to be the Patriarch of the Pritzker family, which includes JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois.

Tom’s the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, and the CEO of The Pritzker Organization. People have testified that he sexually abused them, related to Epstein. He had consistent contact with Epstein for like a decade after Epstein became a convicted pedophile in 2008.

https://www.jmail.world/search?q=Pritzker

I might use this fr in the comms I mod, lmao

Chomsky’s (second?) wife was connected with Epstein before meeting Chomsky, if I remember right.

It’s a little bit of both, I think. Epstein did genuinely have a massive network, and impressive networking skills. Like if you watch the Bannon interview he’s just namedropping like every other sentence for an hour and a half, and none of those connections are lies. Epstein maybe being an intelligence agent would also really help him do networking. But also Chomsky was connecting with Epstein after 2008, his first conviction. Basically any decent person should’ve stopped after then, and in fact around that time many people did drop him.

Wow, this sure is a bad post. Maybe a bad enough post to get removed, I haven’t decided yet.

cw for abortion?

In Invidious shorts have the same URL as shorts. I only use Invidious.

I’m sure there’s some userscript that blocks on YouTube proper with that method, but idk.

Nah, he had some juice complaining about celebrity gossip nobody cares about.

He does, or did at least, have a lot of charisma. There’s a reason that he’s got such a cult, while other similar old Republicans with very similar supposed beliefs have no cult.

If you’re trying, that’s still awesome. Better than many others on Hexbear.

I mean, people already largely think of America as just capitalism, even though it’s had a lot of the features of fascism for a long time.

I already stopped using Netflix a long, long time ago. I don’t have any of those subscriptions now. There’s already more available movies than I will ever be able to watch, of good quality. I don’t need to watch the latest stuff right away, but I still usually can thanks to the hard and good work of amazing people.

The worst part of “new” YouTube is shorts. They stick them everywhere, all up in your face, and they suck. Even with Invidious they’re hard to avoid.

I use an extension to remove shorts, it works on Invidious and YouTube, but it works off of their thumbnails. Unfortunately, a number of shorts don’t have normal looking thumbnails, and don’t get filtered, but it works good enough for me. Not good enough for Invidious to build it in, but still, good enough.