overview for Beaver

Of all the guntubers, he's the one that most strikes me as eager to participate in a death squad. I used to watch his videos, but his little off-handed comments got genuinely quite frightening.

A brave "I can" lib explains his hopes for ICE. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope all ICE officers comically slip on a banana peel

[CW: Transphobia] YOUR BODY BETRAYS YOUR PAPALCY in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Quick, we gotta figure out his blood quantum!

84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

No to "all life going extinct". Previous great extinction events have been triggered by truly wild shifts in global climate, albeit over longer periods than we are experiencing right now. And while there was a huge loss in diversity and living biomass for an extensive period of time after those conditions (lasting at the very least thousands to hundreds of thousands of years), life is resilient and bounces back once conditions stabilize.

The problem for humans is: we and our livestock are most of the animal biomass on earth.

MAIN HATRED: AI IN STUDENT WORK in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

(it's writing/research, so like, engaging in a discipline and looking at what's been written before on your topic, etc.)

BTW, I took time to look up some of these sources my student used, couldn't find the quotes they quote, so told them the paper is an "A" if they can show me every quotation and failing otherwise. Does this seem like a fair policy (my thought is -- no matter the method, fabrication of evidence is justification for failing work)?

I think they will learn an important life lesson: that if they're going to cheat, then they have to, at a minimum, be sure that they are at least "getting the right answer". The tide of AI dystopia is unstoppable, but you can at least teach them that they can't just completely shut their brains off to the extent that they are just presenting completely fabricated research and factual claims.

China understander explaining China: imagine a Mcdonalds in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

This is kind of a restating of the apocryphal Friedman quote about how a work gang in China should use spoons instead of shovels if it's a jobs program. This seems to be the extent of western understanding of how Communism is supposed to work.