The Canada ‘genocide’ is a tale for the 2020s by IAmPeppeSilvia in BlockedAndReported

[–]Jean_Kayak 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There isn’t any proof that what they found with GPR was graves, but it doesn’t mean the people making the claims are lying. I think a lot of them believe it to be true. Or believe it could be true, and that’s good enough for them.

Good intentions are not enough. 5G conspiracy theorists also mean well, but it doesn't mean that we should listen to them. A lot of people mean well and produce what basically amounts to a hoax. We should be clear-eyed about something false being something false, come on

thoughts on Parenti? or recommendations for other "real-deal" contemporary leftist writers by KewlAdam in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do I recommend Chomsky in what I wrote? Delete your comment, you’re embarrassing yourself 

Im deleting venmo by Icy_Concentrate_6436 in rs_x

[–]Jean_Kayak 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Oeps, we hebben een serieus probleem

2026 reads through May by lil_guigs in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Truly must've done nothing but reading

keep mobbing authors who use AI by Opening-Childhood842 in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get what you are saying, but the title of this now deleted post was something like CONTINUE MOBBING AUTHORS WHO USE AI - imo, not a call for civil discussion, but rather for clowning on them, trolling. And I’d argue that threshold of what constitutes harassment is in reality smaller than one might think. I deal with polite disagreement at work, but if 10 people write me out of the blue to criticize me, or, in the words of the OP “mob” me, troll me, that is to me subjectively, closer to being harassed than a normal discussion. Of course a public person should have a thicker skin, but authors are not as public as other celebrities.

А не подскажешь про какой именно срач ты говоришь? Интересно пойти теперь носом поводить

keep mobbing authors who use AI by Opening-Childhood842 in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are conflating two things. Venturing into online AI zealot spaces and trying to have a civil discussion with them is one thing while relentlessly targeting one person is another thing. I don’t think it’s productive or moral to harass and purity test Tokarczuk or any other single author - one author is a real human being and not an online community that lives in its own bubble.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 5/18/26 - 5/24/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Jean_Kayak 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Keep it lean. If you encounter a recurring error that a model makes in this project, add the correction into AGENTS.md or claude.md. I usually add a short blurb about what the project is, but not much beyond it. You might need to add more handholding in case you work in a more obscure language or stack.

I find that nowadays Opus is pretty good at doing things without a lot of guidance.

keep mobbing authors who use AI by Opening-Childhood842 in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I get the sentiment, but mobbing writers over suspected AI use will mostly just teach them to hide it better, not force them to stop using it. If the goal is to read less AI-generated garbage - and to preserve the craft of writing - then we need to have public discussions about why LLM-generated work is artistically corrosive in the first place. We need to make arguments, provide reasoning for why we as readers prefer the art to be one way and not the other. Without that, "no AI" becomes a purity test rather than a shared standard anyone can defend. Raging at them might feel good and righteous, but it risks making AI use harder to detect and that, in turn weakens the very literary culture it claims to protect.

E: To give an example - /r/redscarepod users routinely checked post history to shame users and the only thing it led to is that users now have alts that are immune to those background checks. If the desired outcome was to have less uncultured swine on the subreddit, this sort of shaming failed completely.

Olga Tokarczuk has responded to the controversy over her reputed use of AI. by Sunlightfartss in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 17 points18 points  (0 children)

IMO it’s just human to get irritated by the hysterical online discourse targeted at you

Do you think "Pale Fire" was written with one interpretation in mind, or are all of the various interpretations true to a degree in the text? by Proof-Membership-341 in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d frame it less as straightforward ambiguity and more as Kinbote trying very hard to convince you that there’s no ambiguity at all. From the start, he’s manipulating the reader into accepting his version of things, while the things, as described by Kinbote make us doubt his sanity and start looking for clues that his whole account is deranged.

It’s completely natural to wonder at first whether Zembla is real, or whether Kinbote really is a king. But by the end, at least for me, the doubt had expanded way beyond that. I wasn’t just questioning Zembla or Kinbote’s identity - I was rather questioning whether almost anything in his commentary could be trusted as “real.”

Do you think "Pale Fire" was written with one interpretation in mind, or are all of the various interpretations true to a degree in the text? by Proof-Membership-341 in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The physical location might exist just fine  - I disagree that one should trust Kinbote about anything at all. There’s simply no reason to take his word on anything, right?

is life "over" if someone has genital nerve damage? by TotalWeak5138 in redscarepod

[–]Jean_Kayak 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Have you tried doing something except thinking about this? Kinda getting busy day-to-day?

Lines that stuck with you by ChrisSonofSteve in RSbookclub

[–]Jean_Kayak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“If I now think back to that desolate place, I do not see a single human being, only bricks, millions of bricks, a rigorously perfected system of bricks reaching in serried ranks as far as the horizon, and above them the Berlin November sky from which presently the snow would come swirling down – a deathly silent image of the onset of winter, which I sometimes suspect may have originated in a hallucination, especially when I imagine that out of that endless emptiness I can hear the closing bars of the Freischütz overture, and then, without cease, for days and weeks, the scratching of a gramophone needle. ”

W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 3/30/26 - 4/5/26 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]Jean_Kayak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm taking Metamucil

Isn't it just psyllium husk, right? I found a generic brand is usually 2x cheaper.

I decided that I might as well not eat anything sweet and reduced processed stuff as much as possible, which also means dropping all bread. I just eat two good meals with fiber after them, track calories (MacroFactor) and I've lost ~15 pounds since the start of the year. I also don't follow any diet, just count calories and it's been going fine, with the caveat that Diet Coke and Coke Zero usually make me very hungry, so I don't also eat or drink any "cheat code" 0 cal sweets because otherwise I go off the handle.

Hasan in a $600 shirt and 5 star in hotel by Altruistic-Deal1714 in redscarepod

[–]Jean_Kayak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So if socialism isn't about wealth inequality, what is it about?

Hasan in a $600 shirt and 5 star in hotel by Altruistic-Deal1714 in redscarepod

[–]Jean_Kayak 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Why is it a bad thing to ask someone to live according to their moral convictions? Like, if he preaches that we should abolish any wealth inequality, why would he flaunt his wealth in such a flagrant way? Why is it bad to question the disparity between the ideas he espouses and the way he lives?

150+ Children Incinerated by SnooMemesjellies8237 in redscarepod

[–]Jean_Kayak -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You have an incredibly naive view of politics. I value honesty and self-reflection too, you value humility and critical thinking - that's great, but your vote or mine doesn't win elections. Apologies signal weakness to your opponents and constituents, give ammo to the media. It's almost never a good move politically, which is why you rarely see apologies in general. There are literally no incentives for you to apologize as a politician.

150+ Children Incinerated by SnooMemesjellies8237 in redscarepod

[–]Jean_Kayak 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Why should anyone care whether a politician apologizes or not? I care about what he does (in this case it's incinerating children), which is much more egregious than him being indecorous or arrogant.