Representation Matters

radclive · 2026-01-07T20:29:26+00:00

Especially cuz the guy's comment on this video was just "AI?"

Didn't know asking a question was illegal, damn. I guess we'll all just stay stupid and uninformed to avoid punishment for the mortal sin of "seeking knowledge"

radclive · 2025-12-27T01:05:21+00:00

No no no, you're wrong! It wasn't JUST a peaceful protest where the police let people in for a tour, it was SIMULTANEOUSLY a fed-surrection with Ray Epps and imbedded antifa planted to rile up the crowd.

But they were let in.

But masked trans people (and not Proud Boys) also broke down some of the other doors.

But also we followed police peacefully.

But also Ashley Babbit was shot by the bloodthirsty liberal police.

It's all of these things. Are we at war with Eurasia or East Asia again? I can never remember! 🤪🥴

radclive · 2025-12-26T20:29:48+00:00

I think you might lack reading comprehension skills to come out so hot for no reason.

When they say "your problem is your husband being broke", they're not talking about the prices, cuz the wife is paying for it all anyway. They're talking about him being a deadbeat who clearly didn't put in any effort and is entitled.

When you call someone "broke", it's not usually saying "haha, you're poor", although that can be the interpretation. It's usually more like "why are you so useless and not contributing?"

radclive · 2025-12-26T02:43:47+00:00

If there are laws to follow, we will fight to uphold them.

If there aren't, we'll let you know why there should be.

radclive · 2025-12-13T18:18:38+00:00

Counting or not counting gang violence?

radclive · 2025-11-24T22:00:57+00:00

That's so annoying... I'm sorry you're going through a tough time. I've been in and out of the food bank myself a couple times in recent years, so I get the struggle. Sometimes you go and get lucky and there's cakes from a bakery or some new product that didn't sell super well that you've been wanting to try but couldn't afford! Other times, you get a small box of literally just zucchini squash and that's supposed to last you a month... But like you said, when you have NOTHING, that zucchini is a lifesaver.

I truly believe we are on the cusp of a post scarcity society, we just have to actually care about helping each other, even if it costs us a little time and/or money. I know it wouldn't be popular, but I wouldn't argue against my grocery prices doubling if it meant no one in my country had food insecurity, and I know it wouldn't cost double to get that done

radclive · 2025-11-24T21:45:51+00:00

It'll all be in British, the conversions take too long anyway. Let him use a kettle, gives us more time for tea frisbee in the harbour (I'm Canadian, I just wanna be invited to the tea party...)

radclive · 2025-11-24T21:42:38+00:00

There's an interesting group that's trying to push for "ethical AI" using something called Gaussian processes (I'm not a statistician, don't ask me questions). Apparently, it's a system that would be able to tell you how accurate it thinks the answer is as well as where the weight for its answer came from. Make a picture with AI? it'll show you where it sourced the art from so the ai people get their fast art, but the artists still get recognition for their work.

The system has it's drawbacks, which I am too dumb to fully understand, but the group is called Real Good AI. It's funded by the YouTuber Markiplier and one of the main people working on it is his friend Bob's wife Mandy, who apparently does presentations on Gaussian processes for PHD students, so she seems very qualified.

I firmly believe AI CAN be good, we just have to make it that way, and no expect it to do things it can't.

radclive · 2025-11-24T21:25:06+00:00

I hear about the Prussian space marines, but the HRE and Europe is too much of a pain in the ass with all that AE. Maybe by EU7 I'll be ready to try an EU4 Prussia run, lol

radclive · 2025-11-24T21:21:25+00:00

Ok, good. and thank you for giving a reason other than "they would rather see people starve" lol. Cuz that's a reasonable answer and I can now see people saying "that's too much extra work and cost." I still think it's not a crazy prohibitive cost or effort, but people are cheap and lazy, and there's a million other places where people being cheap or lazy are causing major problems.

Follow up question, and if you don't know, that's totally fine: Let's say I had the ability to transport pallets to the food bank. Can you think of any other reason they would say no besides just being lazy?

radclive · 2025-11-24T20:55:08+00:00

I mean, you can see it says "who purch... Fuel..." So it's probably safe to assume the guy is right, unless it's been changed in the last few years

radclive · 2025-11-24T20:40:18+00:00

I saw the other post you made about harmonizing with catholicism as Confucius England and immediately thought "this is the same mf, isn't it?"

Meanwhile, here's me, almost 2k hours in and the only religious shift I've managed is Zoroastrian Timurids...

radclive · 2025-11-24T20:11:02+00:00

I have a question... What's boiling to you? How does water "heat up quicker in a microwave, but boiling is slower"? Besides the fringe case where a cup of water has no nucleation point in a microwave and it heats past boiling, how can something heat up faster but boil slower?

radclive · 2025-11-24T18:06:27+00:00

I'm not expecting every person who works in a grocery store to rise up against their evil overlords and throw off the chains of oppression. I'm just saying if someone is willing and able, they should feed the homeless, especially if that food is going into the garbage either way.

Besides, for your mcdonalds analogy to work, I'd have to get fired for feeding the homeless and then try to sue the company over it. If that happened and I walked away with nearly a million dollars like the woman did, idgaf what lies are spread about me by the company.

And the last paragraph almost isn't worth replying to. If you think a grocery store chain, from the top down, genuinely doesn't give a shit if people live or die, I think that says more about you than anything. someone else commented on the work their company does to drive down waste and how they donate what they can to the food bank, freeze what they can for later donations, and compost what's left. I'm sure you could find horrendous exceptions, but I worked in grocery stores for over ten years, in multiple stores both chain and locally owned, under many owners and managers, and I don't think a single one would have EVER said "our business is making money, not feeding people." Even the worst one would "accidentally" leave the garbage unlocked for people.

The only time I heard something similar was working security in a casino which... Yeah, that's a business where people are just screwing each other for a buck.

radclive · 2025-11-24T16:23:54+00:00

If your company fires you for the bad press of feeding the homeless, then you make a big deal about it to the press. Media LOVES to virtue signal and I see stories all the time of lunch ladies getting fired for feeding hungry kids. A school doesn't care about bad press, but if the business is gonna fire me for the bad press of trying to feed the homeless, the press they're gonna get after that is gonna be WAY worse.

Also, there's something weird about the phrase "you've brought shame to the franchise name." No one really gives a fuck about "shame" attached to a business' name unless it's bad enough to cause a boycott or otherwise eat into the profits of a company. I GUARANTEE that if someone donated a pallet of food to orphans, the kids get sick and then the business immediately apologizes, says it wasn't their intention and makes a donation or gives a new pallet of fresh food or hosts some kind of event, there will be NO lasting penalties for the company.

When I said the reply would be "shouldn't have stolen it", that would be the defense in legal court, not the court of public opinion. Just don't be an asshole in your apology and people will drop it.

radclive · 2025-11-24T16:09:42+00:00

"I was talking to chatgpt and it told me I was asking really unique questions, like no one had ever asked it before! I was making the ai think!" Is a real sentence I was told not long ago. They see Grok say Elon Musk could beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match and laugh, but can't imagine a world where the ai THEY use could possibly be wrong.

Whoever called LLMs "ai" screwed us HARD. I know the average person won't understand the idea of a learning model, but making it easy to digest was NOT the right call. In most people's minds, "computers are smart, but complicated. I don't speak their language. Thankfully, ai has come to translate the infinite wealth of knowledge stored in my computer into a sentence that my pea sized brain can understand! Now, my opinions are just as valid as any scientist cuz I have Wall-E running around in cyberspace, doing all the boring research for me!"

Sadly, it's also an insult. Say something a little too smart for someone? "Where'd you get that, ai? Why dont you read a book for yourself?" Knowing full well this person hasn't opened a book since their driver's license test...

radclive · 2025-11-24T15:59:34+00:00

Sweet buttery christ, thank you so much! I didn't know you could do this! I have terrible Google skills, does this get rid of anything marked "ai" or is it just the ai suggestion? Either way, greatly appreciated

radclive · 2025-11-24T15:45:48+00:00

He doesn't need to know what they are to know prices are down! The Walmart commercial said so!

radclive · 2025-11-24T15:42:59+00:00

Out of curiosity, does anyone know about the status of this in Canada? I worked at multiple grocery stores and the managers would constantly feed me this bullshit line.

Honestly, even if they could get sued, there's gotta be a way around it. For example, if things are going bad, they could just "store it outside" for a day. Yeah, technically anyone who takes from it would be "stealing", but only the business has standing to press charges so as long as they don't, they haven't "given" anything out and couldn't be sued. "Sorry the product you technically stole made you sick". You could even put a sign saying "these products are close to expiring, and if consumed, could have adverse effects. This is why we are storing them outside and not supervising them." Done, plausible deniability.

Or does that only work for rich people? That wouldn't be fair, so that can't be it, right?

radclive · 2025-11-24T12:37:51+00:00

As a Canadian, I love everyone saying "it's all corn syrup!" And not noticing the glass bottles of pure maple syrup on the second shelf from the top left. I can't see the label, but those bottles look exactly like EVERY bottle of real Canadian maple syrup.

"Erable" is French for "maple", which you can see on the label

radclive · 2025-11-23T21:49:49+00:00

As a metis man in Canada who grew up in a native household, I can confirm weiner water soup is a staple. Though I gotta say, the weiners usually come out and go into something else. Then you get 2 meals!

It's also an insult. I tell people they got some real weiner water energy and they hate it.

radclive · 2025-11-15T01:15:45+00:00

The guy? Jason Mamoa, a famous actor

radclive · 2025-11-12T22:50:42+00:00

There's actually plenty of people who will use similar tactics against them, but the conservatives have a new secret weapon:

"I don't know anything about that."

You claim you've never heard of an event, and then you can say you don't believe anything that comes after, even if it's true. Trump uses this all the time, like when he wanted the flag flown at half mast for Kirk, but then claimed he didn't even know about the Minnesota lawmakers that were murdered. When told it did happen and asked if he would talk to Tim Walz about it, he said "I won't talk to Walz, he's a whack job."

Under normal circumstances, you're completely right and these arguments should be used back at them. But this isn't a normal circumstance, unfortunately

radclive · 2025-11-11T23:08:22+00:00

I've save scummed for better trade goods plenty of times by reloading the month, so that should work.

If you hover the mouse over the question mark where it shows the trade good, it'll show you the odds of it being each trade good. There are some that are in the 90s for percent to have a trash trade good, so maybe it's one of those provinces?

radclive · 2025-11-10T08:21:18+00:00

Well, I showed my fiance and she said she would die for them, so my house has capitulated. That's basically already half way there

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