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  • saltesctoScience Memes@mander.xyzSo many successes
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    1 hour ago

    My female friend had a female doctor try to talk her out of a contraceptives prescription; that she was 28 and should be having babies…

    It’s not a misogyny thing, per se, rather just people that define their lives by the templates supplied by societal stereotypes. Never take advice from a person that doesn’t think for themself.




  • saltesctomemesConvenience is relative
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    1 day ago

    More than that. Planes are just fancy flying cattle trucks. A lot of the time I’m in one it’s so I can get to a destination I’ll be hiking for several days lol. I’m all for Team Pilgrimage.











  • True, but as you see by their post, the exact same flavour comes from either side; too far left is too much, or in their latest situation, too far right. They even specifically mention alienation.

    We could say their head is screwed on boringly sensibly, while also saying they’re the most annoying on the fence sitters ever. But I don’t think they’re idiots, they just lack the passion or interest that others with confident positions stand. If there is red and blue, they are purple and either blissfully unaware or chosenly apathetic. Strangely enough, that outlook at times helps a lot; other times it’s very damaging.

    Either way, they’re highly sort after as voters and if you want that huge cohort on your side, you gotta be understanding. They’re a simple folk. They don’t want to encroach on others as much as they don’t want to be encroached upon.

    One of the downfalls of the left’s charge was they went too much; too fast. Just as the right is now going too far—same shit; different ends of the sociopolitical spectrum. In the end, the Average Joes end up deciding when enough is enough, every time. And those the most extreme to the left or right have the least control in the matter.




  • I think they’re an incredibly average person and they were in the middle of a societal bottleneck. Average Joe here is basically a centrist.

    From what I’ve seen, the drift away from the left is frequently a matter of tempo rather than ideology. Average Joe generally supports social improvement, but they prefer an incremental approach. When progressive movements demand rapid, radical shifts, they create a progression paradox by pushing too hard and too fast, so they alienate the Average Joes they need for long-term success, ironically backfiring any progress.

    And, well, now look at the US sociopolitical landscape; oh boy.

    For Average Joe to stay engaged, progress must be ‘slow and steady’; otherwise, the resulting exhaustion leads to a defensive retreat into more conservative positions. And there are far more Average Joes than any other cohort.



  • saltesctoFuck AIIdiocracy is here
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    2 days ago

    The way generative intelligence works, it fundamentally cannot ever be AGI. Hell, if we didn’t recently update the definition of AI to include “stuff that mimics intelligence”, current AI wouldn’t be considered AI.

    But reliance on tokens, knowledge, and algorithms is anti-intelligemce. There is no format of critical thought, problem solving, or analysis. It’s just a knowledge compiler with bad knowledge for reference and no ability to understand the knowledge prior to repeating it back.