I’m not saying they shouldn’t resist.

I’m saying right now it’s neither wise nor warranted, as messed up as it may sound.

When Trump actually orders them to do something unconstitutional, they can refuse it. When he refuses to step down from the end of his term as president and order them to crush the states that don’t ratify his third term, they can remove his ass.

But the things you want them to do right now, while I don’t inherently disagree with, just sound impulsive and foolish.

Are you saying the National Guard should fight ICE right now?

Or are you saying the National Guard soldiers should frag their officers?

Or just the soldiers here and there resist how they can and go to jail for refusing to pick up trash? This one leaves you with a National Guard completely not on your side instead of at least half on your side when you might need it most.

I know, but I understand and acknowledge that using Google Maps makes my natural navigation ability worse.

Similarly with not being able to remember phone numbers because of saving contact info.

It’d be problematic if I pretended these aren’t issues.

(But I also don’t think AI is the level of usefulness of Google Maps or even the contacts app on your phone.)

The friends in article seem to still be friends, just they’ll be the target of a little teasing for asking AI instead of just thinking or even Googling it.

In the context of dates, people have just met, so I don’t know why people keep talking about dropping friends.

Look man, you don’t know the military well, so it’s easy to criticize the actions of people whose position you never have to imagine yourself in, but it’s like open-and-shut, you go to jail and fail to change anything if you’re not careful.

If they resist, they have to be smart and do it as a collective.

And jesus christ, these guys aren’t being told to attack civilians and kidnap children like ICE is doing, so forgive them a little if they’re having a hard time between deciding if they want to risk being marked a felon by the federal government for life or instead pick up trash while carrying a gun so Trump can scare people a bit because he knows he can’t legally use them for any more than that.

I think the point of the article people seem to be missing is that she doesn’t like how people are letting themselves be lazy to the point that they want to offload any and all of their thinking and creativity to an LLM, and not being able to see a problem with that can be quite a turn-off.

They don’t just mean ‘who’ individually. They’re in that group chat together because they don’t know who or how many of them feel similarly enough that they can reasonably challenge their command.

Right now, the orders are deliberately vague enough, technically legal, and not blatantly unethical so that they can’t refuse it. They can’t disobey orders to guard federal property and go pick up trash from the streets because that’s not something you’ll likely win against in a UCMJ case, even if you know the real purpose of the orders is for Trump to make a show of force.

Also, a lot is up to their officers, who are obligated to disobey illegal and unethical orders. They have to set the climate for the soldiers. It’s really hard for soldiers to speak up if they don’t feel like their leaders have their back.

Same same. This is why I use YouTube only through Firefox Focus or DuckDuckGo on mobile.

Any videos I want to watch later, I’ll save the URL in a note app. On the PC, any videos I want to keep in history, I open up a Firefox container specifically for whichever genre of recommendations I want from it.

I wholeheartedly agree with this guide.

When I was in college, I reached a point where I was wishing I was dead. I couldn’t even remember what it felt like to be happy. What was the point of living? What was I suffering for? But I remembered there are things I really want to do in life. So what was keeping me from doing them?

I decided, if I’m going to die, why don’t I just go ahead and do the things I truly want to do in life.

Even if I fail and want to die again, I can wait until after trying all the things I want to do in life first.

Today, I’m feeling great. Ever since that time, I’ve gotten to do more and more of the things I wanted, accomplished goals that would’ve felt impossible for me back then. Because I figured out what was important to me and decided to keep moving forward.

So don’t stop! Don’t be afraid to fail horribly. Just keep moving. Life is too short to always be worrying about all that stuff all the time. Figure out what you want to do and do it!

Okay, that’s enough imagination for today.

The name’s Bond, J

As border tensions intensified, the sight of soldiers and journalists carrying heavy field gear underscored the harsh terrain and long deployments at the frontier. For those in such unpredictable conditions, reliable equipment becomes essential.

Like the 5.11 Tactical Backpack, Rush 72 2.0, designed for military and field operations with multiple compartments for carrying essentials.

The sudden shift to advertising gear in the middle of article caught me off guard, lmao

The disappearance of the moth memes were what made me think about how memes nowadays come and go way too fast.

But the moth memes are so unforgettable that they they still come up every once in a while. I’m strangely happy when I see it. It’s like an old friend.

P.S. Nice username.

The stars of the PRC’s flag

In a post on social media on Friday, Lt Gen Ben Hodges of the army compared Tuesday’s gathering to a 1935 “surprise assembly in Berlin” where German generals were “required to swear a personal oath to the Führer”, Adolf Hitler, in the lead-up to the Holocaust and the second world war.

Is this site just going to use the results to train AI to generate better fake imagery?

Everything he touches turns to 💩

The animation is so crazy, it even bankrupted Madhouse at the time.

I met a Russian student studying abroad who was very intent on staying out of Russia as much as possible because he’s aware of how messed up things are. Had very a good sense of humor. His jokes about Putin and the Russian government would be enough to get people there thrown in jail.

They’re not even doing the making money part. Generative AI / LLMs are still highly unprofitable, and will cease to exist the moment venture capital funding stops. We’re burning the planet for nothing.

I like those 1900s French drawings. They’re pretty steampunk.