yeah probably, I just wrote in another comment though that this is a problem with capitalism and not really AI and machine learning. There are a lot of legitimate and good uses for it like replacing animal testing and communist planning. We need to put Elon Musk to death and seize the data centers and use it for communism.

I’m not really aware of that I had to look up the American news to hear about the newest twitter horrors. Up to now all I heard were complaints about fucking video games and intellectual property.

I have no idea what is happening on twitter 🤷

I just know that real engineers and scientists have been working on AI and machine learning for decades for good reasons besides American gooners and empire and in the hands of communist government it can be put to good use. Seizing the means and production and all that.

I dunno I know people are very upset that AI is contaminating their treats and threatening the petite bourgeois status of artists but I would really like for machine learning to replace animal testing so they can develop new therapies for thalassemia so maybe I can stop getting transfusions without killing a billion animals.

The US, since it positions itself as the greatest country ever (lol), should be able to power all the data centers it wants to with renewable energy and not incur grid collapse.

I think it is so funny burgerland is blaming AI and data centers for this and not the fact that they privatized utilities and extracted out maximum profits while doing less than bare minimum maintenance and upgrades for 40 years

Why bother talking to this person, they already ran off to their thought policing community where they can jerk off other liberals and settlers about how smart they are to screenshots.

What the lemmy libs really don’t get is that even if not every protestor is Mossad, the protests are caused by illegal sanctions of the country with the express purpose of starving people to the point of desperation so that western countries and their puppet Shah can resume resource extraction and using Iran as a geopolitical pawn. They do not care about anything else, everything else westerners are bringing up are not relevant to what is going on - gay people, women’s rights, workers rights, kurdish nationalism, baloch nationalism, MeK or any other thing besides destroying the industrial capacity of the world and enforcing periphery politics on the Iranian people. No one with understanding of Iran wants another power vacuum where material conditions will definitely get worse for everyone.

VCJ went down hill after I left as the most active mod lol

I’m glad that they post these threads so I know who to block.

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It is a Lemmy server running Voyager instead of lemmy-ui, it is like an alternate front end

yeah cm0002 is on a personal crusade. It is a really sad way to live lol

To be honest, and maybe this is a form of racial bias but like I don’t want to live anywhere that is 75%+ people of European descent. I find they kind of don’t like people that look like me lol

China seems cool I’d like to go there some time.

Eh, as a person who has had the privilege to move around the world for work and to live I kind of agree with their take up to the point they moved back to the US. I don’t like being in Northern Europe either. I really don’t like places that get cold and I had a similar experience in Northern European cities where it is very difficult to make friends. Fine to visit and work but not somewhere I’d personally want to live when I can live in a hot place with warm people and food more to my taste.

Yes, they’re billionaires. But sending the tax money overseas is giving it to multinational corporations to rebuild bombed infrastructure in a no bid contract lol

I didn’t realize the avatar was so cute

No, it isn’t the same. Islam functions differently than Christianity there. The understanding of ‘being Muslim’ often transcends theology and encompasses culture, history, and family lineage, rather than just what you do on the weekend. I can easily see how a Muslim person who isn’t religious would still call themselves Muslim even if they practice the same amount of religion as a lapsed Christian who no longer identifies that way. Identity isn’t monolithic there either despite being 90+% Muslim. It is a multi-ethnic state. While the majority are Shia, you have Kurds (who are largely Sunni Shafi’i or Alevi/Yarsan), Baluchis and Turkmen (who are Sunni Hanafi), and Arabs (who are ethnically distinct but largely Shia). Asking “Are you Muslim?” misses the complexity of it all.

The US is a settler colony that was founded on a concept of separation of church and state as described by Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptists and the constitution of the US states there will be no established religion or religious tests for office this creates a “wall of separation” between religion and government. Additionally many non religious people, Muslims, Jewish people, Non-Trinitarian Christians like Mormons and other belief structures have been present since the beginning. This plurality of belief creates a self reinforcing secular culture and civil religion. Americans have a civic identity (the Constitution, the Flag, “Founding Fathers” like “Saint” Jefferson) that creates a unified identity separate from faith. This allows for that “wall of separation” where one can be American without being Christian. In Iran, the state currently fuses religious and national identity so to them being Iranian is tied to being Muslim so people in this current environment would say they’re Muslim when asked because saying no would isolate them from the entire society. There are cracks there though, Persian culture is ancient and distinct, containing deep pre-Islamic traditions (like Nowruz) that some hardliners might consider haram. Because of this, there is a tension between National identity (Persian) and Religious identity (Muslim). If forced to choose, many Iranians in my opinion may prioritize their heritage over their religious label. This is complicated by being under siege by the west though.

I wouldn’t call the population of Iran deeply religious. Somewhat religious would be more accurate. More likely to support Islamic government over western despotism for sure. But I would be shocked if most people in Iran even regularly followed the call to prayer or anything like that.

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