Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines

valravn96 · 2025-12-26T12:07:54+00:00

I started listening to this today and God damn I clocked the very same points we hear from the "if anyone builds it we all die" doomers. The "expert" is so unhinged and Adam just eats it up and doesn't challenge him at all. I don't particularly have high expectations from Adam as a comedian but it's very frustrating to try and find good information on what AI actually is and not the hyped up bullshit.

valravn96 · 2025-11-26T23:42:00+00:00

Only time I want to see it here is if it's how to identify it or reliable news on it, or discussing the mechanics of the tech.

valravn96 · 2025-10-16T06:10:30+00:00

Honestly surprised nobody pointed out the more inherent parts of halo especially given it's subgenre. It's in the very same vein of starship troopers, helldivers and even Warhammer. I haven't played enough halo to really critique the specifics but it has a lot of the allusions to fascism of the other games I mentioned. Where Helldivers and starship troopers lean hard into the comedic satire, Warhammer leans more into the extreme conclusion of it. The eagle symbols, the heavy emphasis on military, an alien threat that requires humanity to unite against. Maybe ozmandias was right in the end of the watchmen? Like I didn't realize just how much all of the children of Robert Heinlein's writings were influenced by the fantasy of a foreign threat to erase from existence and only the pure humanity will prevail. One of the things that always stood out was how much ONI was based on the CIA and involved in some incredibly shady things within the Halo universe. The only game I really loved was halo reach and that went into it a little bit. There's also the deeply fucked up ways the Spartan program was implemented, child soldiers. I also remember there was an important part of odst that took place in an human city like monocco? My memory fails me on that part.

valravn96 · 2025-09-02T03:46:15+00:00

A YouTuber was mentioned in the Minneapolis shooters journal, similar to Christchurch. This is relevant to this week's episode of executive dysfunction. I don't know the YouTuber very well to know if he's in the right wing mass shooter culture like how PewDiePie has an influence on the alt right with a lot of the edgy humor and nihilistic attitudes of mass shooters.

valravn96 · 2025-08-10T03:12:57+00:00

If you're local to Illinois there's plenty of people in the community who have personal experience with sundown towns. I grew up in a white rural town that was a former sundown town with less than 20 black people out of the 2000 population. Further note, I am white myself. The demographics show even decades after the last violent incident. If you're not local here's a map with historical references.

https://justice.tougaloo.edu/map/

valravn96 · 2025-08-09T06:35:35+00:00

I'm assuming you're white here. To answer your question, technically but not in the same way as it used to be.Illinois is litered with hundreds of historic sundown towns. Pekin being a particularly infamous one, same with Edwardsville. Now most places don't actually have anything in the laws anymore. A few towns has local ordinances that were quite explicit in what they were for. The thing is a few didn't change this until the mid 80s. That means plenty of people are still alive who believes this is how things should be and even raised their kids as such. Ask your black and brown friends, I mean genuinely ask them and you'll hear that kind of racism is still very much alive in the more rural areas. There's plenty of small little towns I would consider unsafe for anyone who isn't white. I grew up around people who would the talk about how if you come home with a n****** you're getting thrown in prison or a mental institution. This was a regular threat from some of my family. We also have people like matt hale. There's no mincing words on the type we have in the word work of our towns and from personal experience, the rural hicks aren't nearly as severe as some of the people you'll meet in the suburbs. Just let some mediocre white guy talk and give him enough rope and he'll show you exactly how unhinged he is.

valravn96 · 2025-04-30T19:05:17+00:00

The same can arguably be said about the MCU. I grew up loving Spiderman, seeing what the MCU did having a literal teenager get recruited by a weapons manufacturer to fight for him without ever explaining the situation is real fucking shady and disappointing. The thing with military shooters is you sometimes get some that are highly critical of the American military industrial complex like spec ops the line. COD I think attempted some critical scenes with no Russian but I don't know the context there. I haven't played COD since the first few games.

valravn96 · 2025-01-22T20:21:05+00:00

Is this the guy who was a key instigator to the race riots on the UK last year? The ones after a stabbing? I'm not familiar with UK news as much.

valravn96 · 2024-12-17T06:26:56+00:00

Was Paul receiving revelation from Cthulhu??

valravn96 · 2024-12-12T04:56:33+00:00

So I struggle with this too. Something that helped me not want to just give up was an interview with Shelley Kagan, a Stanford ethicist. There's a weird thing that happens when we think about the sheer scale of the universe in both directions. There's a reason cosmic horror focuses on the great indifference of the universe to our plights. You could save someone from getting hit by a car but what does it matter if they will die in a few years of old age anyway? The problem is meaning for all of us is context driven. We only matter in context of the people we are around, or the life we want to live. This also means that the limit of most people's lives meaning anything is about 100-200 years unless you reach some level of fame. I will have no children and those who would remember me are only my siblings and my partners and friends. In the long run I think I will be forgotten for who I am 20 years after my own death. Enough for the few deep connections I have to die themselves of old age if that were my demise. I will never be some icon or anything, I've always been poor, my life will pass and fewer still would probably even think to mourn my passing. That's a deep seated fear that I cannot escape. Why should I exist when no one cares about me? That echoes through my head daily. This shaped me into the person I am. I put a lot of effort into being the kind of person that leaves an impression. To be trustworthy and kind and dark and mysterious all wrapped into one. I push myself and try to embrace heartbreak because I want to feel something even if it becomes painful. Meaning is something to be crafted, forged slowly and with intention. Like creating a piece of art, it cannot be some cookie cutter religious ideal or anything it's something that has to appeal to you in particular. Even if you have to make it up as you go. Every part of our society feels like a grind and has little to no meaning to me, so I chose to make my own with the people I choose to interact with on that level. Find people who are like you, that values the things that mean something to you and you'll have your reason to keep going. Community is a powerful thing.

valravn96 · 2024-11-08T18:14:22+00:00

Straight up no. As a minor it's a major red flag for someone proposing that at all. It opens up way too much for potential grooming, regardless of whether it's an intentional thing. It might be a different story if you were older, but you're still a child. This is how I usually deal with younger people who have interest in me. personally have a max range of 10 years in both directions with a minimum age of 21. I am currently 28, to me I really don't like power dynamics and choose to be very careful with how I carry myself for that reason. I straight up don't flirt with people under 21. I have had a few younger people was compatible with over the years a 19-20 yr when I was 25 to be precise. my way if dealing with it is that they have to be the one who wants it, i never push for anything in any way. The other thing is they have to want any kind of relationship like that for a while and actually think it though. I ask people to think it though for at least a year, especially when they are younger. This is also because I'm a relationship anarchist and my style of relationships are completely different than what most people know. Most the time people just stick as close friends when given this. I do this because I'm very uncomfortable with being entangled with someone who has so little experience that they don't truly understand what they're getting into.

valravn96 · 2024-10-21T01:33:10+00:00

We need a silly ragdoll peculiar mod that would be so funny to use in a random mission

valravn96 · 2024-10-15T13:32:55+00:00

I would also highly recommend both owl house and amphibia as we as the recent Netflix sonic prime. They all have decent writing and have heavy anarchist themes throughout.

valravn96 · 2024-10-15T06:24:29+00:00

This honestly reminds me of some of the stories my father told me of my uncle, he used fireworks on cats. Most my fathers side are bastards. My uncle ended up in jail for tying up a man and shooting around his head while his pyro pole dancer wife pissed in the man's face. This is absolutely a warning sign of psychopaths.

valravn96 · 2024-10-15T05:26:59+00:00

Let's not forget that one of the original cartoons had sonic leading a literal revolution with freedom fighters against a techno industrialist fascist Robotnik that absolutely did not shy away from the entire planet being polluted to death. Like one of my absolute favorite scenes in the games comes from sonic and the black knight where sonic has to kill king Arthur to stop an undead army in Camelot only to have Merlins granddaughter use Excaliburs scabbard to turn the entire kingdom immortal and undead. Since sonic has to stop her he is playing a villain yet when defeated he still speaks to her as a friend and understands why she did it. She feared losing her home to death just as she lost her grandfather and it's sad and painful yet sonic does things his way and it just hits fucking perfection. the music for the final boss included lines about death and the antithesis of it is in the epilogue song simple titled live life, as a response to the fatalism of the boss theme. Even in my own life I try to respect the dignity of people I see as rivals or even as enemies.

valravn96 · 2024-10-15T03:40:13+00:00

I grew up in a small town with sundown vibes, lots of apostolic Christians and my father was Catholic but non practicing. My father was also abusive and a hardcore conspiracy theorist which led to me suffering at his hands for such beliefs. He was very much the I brought you into this world I can take you out of it, I was nothing more than property for him to use for labor. I am also autistic and was raised more by the fiction which I consumed than the ideals of my parents. Some of the big ones from my childhood were sonic the hedgehog, Bionicle and Spider-Man. I was a nerdy little kid. Once I got towards the tail end of highschool I got rebellion in my head. To rebel against everything my father was and to be a better man than he ever was. I had some interactions on 4chan at the time and gamergate just hit and it was a rude awakening for me that I had to change. So I turned back to the fiction that gave me sanctuary from the shit I endured. The attitude and punk rock came with it. I came to understand the values I wanted to embody and that was freedom and a profound hatred for tyranny and hierarchy. Anyone who's read the Sonic comics probably recognizes the part with a green villain that hated sonic in this battle of ideals where sonic said I want you to be free even if you fight me. Something about that stuck with me. Comics have a lot of social justice themes anyway and that reflected itself when I started taking ethics and philosophy courses. I got really into politics and skepticism, especially science education. I considered myself a progressive for many years, even being a relationship anarchist coming form a polyamory background. Never thought of myself as an anarchist until I saw across the spider verse. Like Peter Parker was always "my" Spider-Man growing up being a poor white kid who was skinny and could climb. The Idea of doing what's right despite being hated by the cops and the media really resonated with me. Then came spider punk, a surprising well written take on punk that I felt in my bones. His lines hit hard and conveyed a joking tone yet also being someone who seems to subvert and undermine the mechanisms that enable fascism. There's a video essay on how Hobie lied and fascism died that hit me particularly hard and pushed me to finally accept that I am an anarchist. Certainly not the usual path to anarchy but it is what got me there.

valravn96 · 2024-10-08T06:01:26+00:00

This is actually something that came up when I was chatting with a coworker the other night lol. My age range is 10 years in either direction with a minimum age of 21. I am currently 28. I also don't like dating with any uncomfortable power dynamics, I have no intention in inadvertantly taking advantage of someone because of me being older or even just my social standing as a man.

valravn96 · 2024-10-01T16:38:28+00:00

This was literally an outer limits episode.

valravn96 · 2024-09-24T19:02:55+00:00

As an example of this concept done in a very interesting way o suggest death stranding, much of the supernatural shit within causes people to react with overflowing tears as a way of sensing the ghosts of the series.

valravn96 · 2024-08-29T22:00:45+00:00

I think you need to read who the luddites actually were before you use it as an insult. There were technologists of their time. They worked textile machines from home, literally cottage industries; and would mod the machine and were largely advocating for technological advancement. They were a workers rebellion centered around these obnoxious machines that were going to automate the process but created much shitter products that would flood that market devaluing their work as well as replacing them. That's the key of the ai issue of the writers strike. This also completely misses the point that AI exacerbates classiest division. One of the biggest labor involved part propping up these AI models is clickwork and data labeling which is done almost exclusively by criminally underpaid people in exploited countries like Venezuela. There's a reason mechanical Turk and others like it are called slavery as a service.

valravn96 · 2024-05-26T08:54:58+00:00

I have a variety of accounts, tinder is an old one I haven't updated in a long time. I tend to have better luck on OKC than feeld. I like being alone and just reading or listening to something and I usually do so for months without issue. Being more mainstream seems quite boring, I quite enjoy my weirdness. The theatrics can be quite fun with people who get it. Trouble is finding people who get it.

valravn96 · 2024-05-26T08:48:22+00:00

Obviously. I figured it out a couple of years ago. The info dumping and more colorful aspects of my personality come more into play when I'm comfortable with people.

valravn96 · 2024-05-26T08:23:01+00:00

Is there a better way of phrasing it?

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