ZombiFrancis

Conservatism can easily be a form of liberalism, and can even be considered progressive. It sounds contradictory but conservatism of progressive traditions, customs, and values is a component of many liberal societies. That’s your Teddy Roosevelts, the Southern New Deal Democrats, and the Blue Dog coalition. there is no necessary overlap afaik. As long as it is recognized that overlap isn’t a necessity, I think this is fine. The important thing to remember is that none of these terms are wholly exclusive to each other. Discussion just needs to agree to the context of used terms. Plenty of (big C) Conservatives want to conserve the social institutions of racial segregation or other regressive concepts. But you can also legitimately say Xi Xinping is a conservative in the context of the PRC. So there’s a wide field for the context of the terms to get stretched around and (mis)used and (mis)interpreted. Liberalism too. It is a concept that has existed and been applied to right wing monarchies and left wing republics. The entire French Revolution is exemplary in how these terms have no strict limit and so a baseline of agreed context is what is necessary.

Naturally.

It means maintaining constants through change. So it can be applied way more broadly, actually. The 'old ways' or 'traditional' ways are agnostic to whether those ways are progressive or not. 'Progressive conservatism' exists. Many consider the form (or a prominent one) that it takes to be 'neoliberalism'. Neoliberalism isn't specifically used as a defined term political science. So these terms have a whole lot of room tp be used and misused as needed.

Conservatives aren't working towards those things, no.

National Democrats are horrible allies, they’re unfortunately the best we have.

So much so it becomes plausible that they might not actually be allies.

It is the sole argument from the losing coalition of conservstive democrats and liberal zionists. These people were fully convinced to defend and support a genocide. It's easier for them to dive deeper into the AIPAC coalition than to reject it.

The problem stems from the term 'GenAI'. These systems use math to predict things. There are a lot of valid mathmatical calculations to predict out there. Rendering lighting is one of them. Human language and imagery isn't one of them, which is what idiots have been trying to funnel through these models.

The best single pizza was a pepperoni pizza from a street vendor in Hawaii many years ago, with hot sauce I still special order from the islands. However… if we’re just talling toppings a pineapple, peppercini pizza is my dark horse favorite pizzas. I first tried essentially on a bet. Never would’ve expected it to be so good, and have since determined it’s best (optionally) with chicken, feta, and/or roasted garlic.

Johnny Sasaki. All the way down.

There’s this one neat trick: Just call the communists fascist! Now you can support foreign invasion and regime change as a proud member of anti-fa! …Still won’t oppose capitalism though.

I hear you, though I am more inclined to take a Gramscian view that cultural hegemony of capitalist/imperial core entities convert those anarchists to libertarians, or some form of compromised anarcho-syndicalism or libertarian socialism. So I wouldn’t call them anarchists. But it’s not a True Scotsman thing for me, so I don’t fundamentally disagree with that perspective.

Anarchists usually don’t need the kind of deprogramming of capitalist, monarchist, colonial, or imperial systems that socialist and Marxist theories typically focus on.

Not how March was in 1998 or 1999. Also the shadow leading from the firearm along the arm is also bogus.

I have to use windows 11 and teams for all my work. Teams is being utilized as the central file management system. The benefit these days is if something doesn't work I can shrug and say 'must be ai' or 'just windows 11 things' and generally get tacot agreement.

I have seen those Breaking Bad arguments before too, and I am more inclined accept that sentiment there.

Misogyny is a massive problem on reddit

Yeah but this is Lemmy. There’s far more overlap between ‘sausage party’ and ‘women’ here than most other social media can even handle.

And like, I never watched GoT nor read the books but still caught the reference. So this doesn’t feel like a form of arcane misogyny.

Gotta respect the cern.

Sadly this fake Toilet Paper USA type stuff tends to provide cover for the heinous shit they actually say, while simultaneously obscuring the crazy things they do with the absurdity.

Twenty years or so ago I’d give MS credit for helping spawn a global PC hardware industry by standardizing an OS platform. I figured not just the Nvidias and Intels but the Dells, the EVGAs, and the MSIs all were a net positive and supported by there being a windows. This was because I always compared them to Apple. So much more now I understand the folly of being limited to comparing the bad choices and ignoring the good options.

Nearly ten years of my life essentially reduced to “Keep poop in ground, not on ground.”

The lab work v field work divide transcends both politics and history.