james1

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[–] james1 3 points 1 year ago

I made a kind of "if you like PHM you might like these other books" rec chart thing when I first read PHM; if you've finished reading it you might enjoy some of these (although it does mention a few key elements of the book so if you're going in completely blind and aren't far in yet then don't look at this yet).

[–] james1 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This mindset is why a lot of Blairite Labour policy is "be slightly less right wing than the Tories; the policies might suck but as long as everyone left of Thatcher and Farage feels we're the lesser evil we don't need to actually try and be good." Not having anyone representing the left on the national stage is just going to result in more rightwards drift. I've commented elsewhere in this thread on not wanting to split the vote too much between dozens of tiny splinter parties, but also voting for Labour in their current state builds complacency about the voters they think they've banked because they used to stand for something, and just leads them to chase more of the Tory vote.

[–] james1 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The strongest centre left candidates at the moment are the Greens. As far as electoralism goes, it would be better to stand behind a party that actually has a membership than split further into parties which frankly look the same as countless other "like the left flank of Labour but better" parties.

At least something like the Northern Independence Party could raise the priority of the North. I'm not sure what this offers that, say, the Breakthrough Party doesn't apart from further vote splitting.

Feels like it will offer a similar level of political success and distinction as when you are trying to look up CPB vs CPB-ML vs CPGB-ML vs NCP vs RCPB-ML vs... except with everyone having platitudinal tech marketing guru's branding like Transform, Change, Breakthrough etc.

[–] james1 2 points 1 year ago

Sticking to rock/punk/metal adjacent genres, the best I've been to so far this year was Show Me the Body, although Tinariwen were also very good, and my most anticipated for the rest of the year is Lingua Ignota supported by Ashenspire and Ken Mode (amazing combination!)

[–] james1 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] james1 2 points 1 year ago

The Professor Elemental Justice League looking one is funny and the Elijah Nang is hella comfy looking, but my favourite here is the Scartoon cover. The art style looked familiar but I don't know David Mancini (https://www.instagram.com/dart_works/) it just has that slightly like Michael DeForge style energy.

Here are a few more, although I only know the Larry June one as a record

[–] james1 2 points 1 year ago

Nationalising energy is such an obvious step, compared to our current subsidising of private sector energy providers working for profit not public good in sectors which require central control anyway. I don't have much faith in the current lot to do it though.

[–] james1 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your favourite song? It's a bit basic, but my favourite is Fiath.

[–] james1 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know that that's true, there can be other cultural reasons.

In Hindu-based cultures you wouldn't eat cow, as in largely Muslim ones you wouldn't eat pork.

Eating horse is common in a lot of countries despite falling into your "useful enough not to kill" category. Sheep are useful for wool production but people still eat lamb.

Rat is easy to domesticate and they are frankly useless at drawing a plough but eating them is still taboo in many places. A couple of billion people eat insects daily, but there are still many other countries where it is very rare to eat them at all despite the ease of farming.

[–] james1 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

It's a machine learning chat bot, not a calculator, and especially not "AI."

Its primary focus is trying to look like something a human might say. It isn't trying to actually learn maths at all. This is like complaining that your satnav has no grasp of the cinematic impact of Alfred Hitchcock.

It doesn't need to understand the question, or give an accurate answer, it just needs to say a sentence that sounds like a human might say it.

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