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  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.workstopolitics @lemmy.world•Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, appeals court panel rulesEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The very short answer? Insecurity.

    The slightly longer answer?

    Many people get their sense of right and wrong, their morality, their entire identity exclusively from those around them, and never from themselves. They don’t even think they are capable of having any of that themselves; mainly because they’ve been told since they could barely misunderstand language that that’s impossible.

    If your society disallows personal identity and forces you to pick from a preselected and made set of options then anyone not fitting those options is doing something wrong. Many of them legitimately do not understand why they dislike trans people or gay people or just people that don’t fit into the narrow version of society they grew up understanding was the limit of acceptable existence, they just know “it ain’t right.”

    The existence of the Other, especially an Other that is incredibly proud and out about their existence, one who is not ashamed to not fit into any of the available options they’ve been lead to believe solely exist, physically causes them pain. Because it forces them to question, even subconsciously, if whether or not the entirety of their known existence is actually wrong. Because (statistically) that question was beat out of them at an early age.

    Every child, at some point in development, encounters someone outside their “tribe” that they do not understand. They look to those around them for guidance, of course, but if in an independent environment (i.e. a sheltered white child meeting a black child at a playground mostly unsupervised) the child will show curiosity and then acceptance assuming the encounter doesn’t end in any perceived danger. That child automatically accepted the Other into their “tribe” without question, because without outside input and without any sense of danger, there’s no reason not to; however if that child did have someone in their ‘tribe’ close by that disapproved, or worse yet explained why they disapproved, that child will associate that interaction as ‘outside the tribe’ and develop discriminatory beliefs because that new person is not how “they should be.” They do not take any of the roles in the tribe that have been explained.

    Now modern humans in modern times can break out of “tribal” thought. In fact most will try to at some point, early in their childhood, then again in their teen years, and finally if and when they are placed independently in a new environment in their young adult years (the college effect). But if there’s someone there at every turning point stopping them from gaining that independence, they will just withdraw and stay in that simplistic world view.

    They are a {straight} {man/woman} who does {tribe-approved work role for gender} and {insert tribe approved weekly cultural activity}. If you differ, you’re a danger to yourself and others, and you must be corrected. Because obviously someone taught you to be different. And that someone that taught you was wrong because they themselves were different, and so on, back to {insert cultural reference about warring tribes (i.e. Lilith v Eve)}. You might not even be human.

  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    All LLMs are neural nets, not all neural nets are llms, but they’re similar enough to have the same general flaws. 'Neural Networks" are misnomers, at best; especially given the designs were first being implemented before we had any real idea how neurons actually worked. It’s why Brain Organoid interfaces still completely destroy entire simulated interfaces in pretty much any task we’ve managed to actually train them on.

    It’s also how we know we’re not close to the software or hardware capability to actually do anything complex. The best that we’ve been able to do is simulate a fly’s brain with a super computer.

  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Anthropic confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock marketEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Real answer:

    Depends on who manages your 401k. Some servicers do allow ‘custom’ or otherwise ‘alternative’ management options, with some allowing you to focus on specific companies or industries.

    Others might take your call at least and if you raise enough of a stink you might get shoved into an alternative plan out of spite, but that’s what you want, so you win.

    Joke Answer

    Take out all your money, pay off the fee, use the money to buy a used Komatsu D355A crawler tractor and at least a half pallet each of of concrete bags and rebar as well as an extra diesel tank and a decent amount of diesel. Then just find your local senator’s personal home and

  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Well given that’s the only possible relevant “AI” you could possibly be talking about, as we don’t even have an inkling about true general AI and have no technologies that even look like they could produce anything close to it, forgive me for making the obvious assumption.

    No, in 20 years no version of any technology currently in use will be replacing human employees or would have the capability of doing so. AI Bros jumped the gun and tried starting to do that with current tech, and now most companies are desperately hoping just throwing more compute power at the dead ends will make it magically work before the money runs out.

  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.workstoEurope@feddit.org•Norway becomes ninth country to sign up for French nuclear deterrence as trust in US faltersEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Ukraine has essentially received materials and nuclear protection from the entire western world. The US has explicitly stated they will retaliate (well Biden did) if nuclear weapons are used. They are lucky they are white enough. They also just genuinely surprised the western world in the first two weeks, as it was assumed they would fall, given the country’s history of extreme corruption and multiple intelligence agencies presuming their lack of military capability would fail them long before Russia ran out of steam.

    While e.g. Norway is white, and notably less corrupt, there’s only so many times the entire western world can rally behind a country being attacked. If any multi-polar attack were to be launched but not turned nuclear, there’s very little that could be done for some of the victims. Some country would fail to be protected, and they would fail.

  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.workstoEurope@feddit.org•Norway becomes ninth country to sign up for French nuclear deterrence as trust in US faltersEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I was, you assumed otherwise. Norway submitting to France’s ‘protection,’ means they must always agree with France, they cannot ever go against France, otherwise they’d lose protection.

    That’s being a vassal state. Vassal states are and were states not powerful enough to defend themselves, so they sought protection from Empires that felt it would be too costly to conquer them but still needed some of their resources.

    Nuclear proliferation is the solution to prevent vassal states, and have an actually independent Norway. Unless you’re a nuclear power, you do not have an army. You do not have any form of defense. It does not matter what you do, you are under the vassalage of a nuclear power. Picking France over Russia is fine, I guess, but the effect will always be the same.

  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.workstoEurope@feddit.org•Norway becomes ninth country to sign up for French nuclear deterrence as trust in US faltersEnglish
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    11 hours ago
    Removed for civility

    According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let’s shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello?

    • Barry?
    • Adam?
    • Oan you believe this is happening?
    • I can’t. I’ll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I’m excited. Here’s the graduate. We’re very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B’s. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here.
    • You got lint on your fuzz.
    • Ow! That’s me!
    • Wave to us! We’ll be in row 118,000.
    • Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!
    • Hey, Adam.
    • Hey, Barry.
    • Is that fuzz gel?
    • A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I’d make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I’m glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different.
    • Hi, Barry.
    • Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
    • Hear about Frankie?
    • Yeah.
    • You going to the funeral?
    • No, I’m not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don’t waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. I guess he could have just gotten out of the way. I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day. That’s why we don’t need vacations. Boy, quite a bit of pomp… under the circumstances.
    • Well, Adam, today we are men.
    • We are!
    • Bee-men.
    • Amen! Hallelujah! Students, faculty, distinguished bees, please welcome Dean Buzzwell. Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of… …9:15. That concludes our ceremonies. And begins your career at Honex Industries! Will we pick ourjob today? I heard it’s just orientation. Heads up! Here we go. Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.
    • Wonder what it’ll be like?
    • A little scary. Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco and a part of the Hexagon Group. This is it! Wow. Wow. We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. Our top-secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured into this soothing sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow you know as… Honey!
    • That girl was hot.
    • She’s my cousin!
    • She is?
    • Yes, we’re all cousins.
    • Right. You’re right.
    • At Honex, we constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology.
    • What do you think he makes?
    • Not enough. Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman.
    • What does that do?
    • Oatches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions. Oan anyone work on the Krelman? Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it’s done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you’ll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. The same job the rest of your life? I didn’t know that. What’s the difference? You’ll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven’t had one day off in 27 million years. So you’ll just work us to death? We’ll sure try. Wow! That blew my mind! “What’s the difference?” How can you say that? One job forever? That’s an insane choice to have to make. I’m relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life. But, Adam, how could they never have told us that? Why would you question anything? We’re bees. We’re the most perfectly functioning society on Earth. You ever think maybe things work a little too well here? Like what? Give me one example. I don’t know. But you know what I’m talking about. Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach. Wait a second. Oheck it out.
    • Hey, those are Pollen Jocks!
    • Wow. I’ve never seen them this close. They know what it’s like outside the hive. Yeah, but some don’t come back.
    • Hey, Jocks!
    • Hi, Jocks! You guys did great! You’re monsters! You’re sky freaks! I love it! I love it!
    • I wonder where they were.
    • I don’t know. Their day’s not planned. Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what. You can’tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that. Right. Look. That’s more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime. It’s just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it. Perhaps. Unless you’re wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it. Those ladies? Aren’t they our cousins too? Distant. Distant. Look at these two.
    • Oouple of Hive Harrys.
    • Let’s have fun with them. It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock. Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom! He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me!
    • Oh, my!
    • I never thought I’d knock him out. What were you doing during this? Trying to alert the authorities. I can autograph that. A little gusty out there today, wasn’t it, comrades? Yeah. Gusty. We’re hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow.
    • Six miles, huh?
    • Barry! A puddle jump for us, but maybe you’re not up for it.
    • Maybe I am.
    • You are not! We’re going 0900 at J-Gate. What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough? I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means. Hey, Honex! Dad, you surprised me. You decide what you’re interested in?
    • Well, there’s a lot of choices.
    • But you only get one. Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day? Son, let me tell you about stirring. You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around. You get yourself into a rhythm. It’s a beautiful thing. You know, Dad, the more I think about it, maybe the honey field just isn’t right for me. You were thinking of what, making balloon animals? That’s a bad job for a guy with a stinger. Janet, your son’s not sure he wants to go into honey!
    • Barry, you are so funny sometimes.
    • I’m not trying to be funny. You’re not funny! You’re going into honey. Our son, the stirrer!
    • You’re gonna be a stirrer?
    • No one’s listening to me! Wait till you see the sticks I have. I could say anything right now. I’m gonna get an ant tattoo! Let’s open some honey and celebrate! Maybe I’ll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae. Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody “dawg”! I’m so proud.
    • We’re starting work today!
    • Today’s the day. Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone. Yeah, right. Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal…
    • Is it still available?
    • Hang on. Two left! One of them’s yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side.
    • What’d you get?
    • Picking crud out. Stellar! Wow! Oouple of newbies? Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready! Make your choice.
    • You want to go first?
    • No, you go. Oh, my. What’s available? Restroom attendant’s open, not for the reason you think.
    • Any chance of getting the Krelman?
    • Sure, you’re on. I’m sorry, the Krelman just closed out. Wax monkey’s always open. The Krelman opened up again. What happened? A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He’s dead. Another dead one. Deady. Deadified. Two more dead. Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That’s life! Oh, this is so hard! Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer, humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor, mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should… Barry? Barry! All right, we’ve got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine… What happened to you? Where are you?
    • I’m going out.
    • Out? Out where?
    • Out there.
    • Oh, no! I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life. You’re gonna die! You’re crazy! Hello? Another call coming in. If anyone’s feeling brave, there’s a Korean deli on 83rd that gets their roses today. Hey, guys.
    • Look at that.
    • Isn’t that the kid we saw yesterday? Hold it, son, flight deck’s restricted. It’s OK, Lou. We’re gonna take him up. Really? Feeling lucky, are you? Sign here, here. Just initial that.
    • Thank you.
    • OK. You got a rain advisory today, and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain. So be careful. As always, watch your brooms, hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats. Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us. Murphy’s in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada!
    • That’s awful.
    • And a reminder for you rookies, bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans! All right, launch positions! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Black and yellow! Hello! You ready for this, hot shot? Yeah. Yeah, bring it on. Wind, check.
    • Antennae, check.
    • Nectar pack, check.
    • Wings, check.
    • Stinger, check. Scared out of my shorts, check. OK, ladies, let’s move it out! Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers! All of you, drain those flowers! Wow! I’m out! I can’t believe I’m out! So blue. I feel so fast and free! Box kite! Wow! Flowers! This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual. Bring it around 30 degrees and hold. Roses! 30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around. Stand to the side, kid. It’s got a bit of a kick. That is one nectar collector!
    • Ever see pollination up close?
    • No, sir. I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there, a pinch on that one. See that? It’s a little bit of magic. That’s amazing. Why do we do that? That’s pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us. Oool. I’m picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don’t we need those? Oopy that visual. Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move. Say again? You’re reporting a moving flower? Affirmative. That was on the line! This is the coolest. What is it? I don’t know, but I’m loving this color. It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it. Yeah, fuzzy. Ohemical-y. Oareful, guys. It’s a little grabby. My sweet lord of bees! Oandy-brain, get off there! Problem!
    • Guys!
    • This could be bad.