this is a different attack from the ones people are usually talking about with Assad, that report is about a mustard gas attack (which ISIS has/had access to) and the notable attacks people accuse Assad of perpetrating were sarin gas attacks (which ISIS never had access to afaik)

there are some wonderfully salty threads on /r/neoliberal about this

but postcolonial theory is decades old, why are they all acting like it's something that only sprung up recently?

because now people are applying it in ways that pose a very immediate and significant threat to western interests in the middle east, and discourse about how palestinians are somehow the colonizers didn't stick, so the best move for maintaining western hegemony is to denounce it. up until now, ignoring it or paying small inconsequential lip service towards it was the better move (because jumping the gun on that would end up being received a lot like republican fearmongering about CRT), but that only remains the case as long as the material impact of it can be contained.

The delivery person isn't the person smashing your packages, I can assure you that mostly happens in the hubs.

source: husband works for UPS

Religious people have been doing shit like this for centuries, this is just the same thing in a shiny new package, just like the whole "Fight The New Drug" campaign.

Really? Dolphins are by far the obvious candidates for first uplift. (They will be immediately sent the the Hague for perpetrating a genocide against porpoises)

Always being right about everything is a terrible burden for Marxists to carry.

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I happen to have a textbook that has some citations for the incidence.

Kinsey and colleagues found 8% of men and 3% of women did it at least once, and 17% of men raised on a farm (all self reported). This was in the 50s, but more recent studies have also found that a fair number of people have done it at least once. The large majority only did it once or a few times, often as a dare, initiation, or out of curiosity. And clinical zoophilia (where it's the primary means of arousal) is extremely rare and usually has a lot of comorbidities.

It doesn't happen often, clearly, but the research we have suggests that it's common enough to where you almost certainly have met someone who has done it.

That is a very open ended question so it shouldn't be that surprising that the results are like this. What part of the response are we talking about? Are we talking about whether it is justified for Israel to respond at all? Are we talking about whether the severity of their response is warranted? Who the fuck knows! Probably a lot more of the people who interpret it as the first would agree with the poll.

The propaganda is how this will be presented as 70% of Americans being pro-Israel, which this poll does not demonstrate.

Yeah, spoiler, you know all of that talk about "AI safety"? It's pretty much just porn that they care about. They will pretend to care about biases, but they really don't give a shit about anything else. Read the DALL-E 3 System Card if you don't believe me: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/DALL_E_3_System_Card.pdf

They went through an absurd amount of dataset cleaning, implementing classifier models, and all sorts of other things to prevent "racy" content. Which is really the only way you can solve that problem -- neural networks actually pretty much never completely "forget" anything they've been trained on, trying to make them do that is an area of active research with few if any promising leads. But it shows that if they really wanted to make the model have less of a western bias, they've definitely got the labor power to try. But instead, all of the other considerations had at most low effort solutions if they were even addressed instead of being ignored. It's all about what will make the company look bad. They know that "harmful biases" won't really do anything to threaten them, but OpenAI wants to be the serious, respectable AI firm, and they're also trying to position themselves to have Congress impose regulation that will allow them to have something closer to a monopoly, so they know they have to avoid nudity like the plague.

Also I tried this in Stable Diffusion and most (~60%) of the time it is making the US red. So, there's that.

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