Kimika

I look at AI usage at work as basically taking on a bad but salvageable employee. For every use case, it needs a manager overseeing all their work and adapting to their strengths and weaknesses while also considering cost. It's a deployment problem created by over promising.

I don't really game anymore after having almost a 40 year run. However, I used to regularly recommend going digital only up to several years ago. Then, store delisting started becoming more common and affecting games I previously played, so I completely gave up consoles and retracted all my recommendations.

You should believe in yourself more.

You said you couldn't speak for them, but that's a spot-on impression

I'll speak for that user. They can't observe very well.

I shared with them a 2022 UN report that acknowledges human rights abuses of the Uyghurs and other minority populations (via OHCHR), but I purposely didn't say it was the UN. They then went to say the UN said there was no genocide.

You had a mission. It was really time to stop browsing and put away the phone to recharge, but you said "No, I must investigate and share!"

Edit: This was meant to be a supportive joke commenting on the battery level in your screenshot

To clarify, you're saying the UN disagrees with the OHCHR assessment...

Edit: Clearly pointless to continue a thread of comments

The UN says there's no genocide of the uyghurs taking place in China.

I'm a little surprised I was able to make you say something so stupid so quickly. The OHCHR Assessment is a UN statement. It concludes the many claims about human rights abuses are supported and there is cause to claim China has committed crimes against humanity. It never discredits genocide, for—as I summarized previously—it avoids addressing the term genocide completely.

I'm newer to the "site", but way to go on making a statement that presumes truth with nothing to back it up. You may be using reverse psychology or be a bot, but for posterity, let's put out some actual info.

If we presume your comment to be sincere, then it would logically follow that you would dismiss all the western nations' legislative declarations that genocide has taken place, and that dismissal would extend to claims made by all the activist organizations.

How about some reports and declarations from international bodies who jump through hoops to avoid commitment? I'll link them below, which you can evaluate on your own. An example of noncommittal can be found in the activist criticism against the OHCHR assessment. The assessment goes in great detail of all the human rights abuses but doesn't mention the word genocide or try to address if it meets the definition. Unsurprisingly, China's retort to the assessment was "Nuh uh we are fighting terrorism" and NK, Cuba, and Venezuela advocated on behalf of China with "Shhh please don't publish"

https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Final-IAGS-resolution-Uyghurs.pdf https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/icc-complaint-alleging-uighur-genocide-cites-china-cables-as-evidence/ https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ohchr-assessment-human-rights-concerns-xinjiang-uyghur-autonomous-region

I think you meant rooter sounds ruder

Regarding valence, both pronunciations I've heard and used put emphasis on the first syllable, it's just whether the first vowel is long or short.

It's one of those things that just doesn't come up often enough to actually address it and nobody has ever misunderstood or challenged me whenever I've said it differently in conversation, during a presentation or afterwards, or in lecture. It sticks out as an example for me because any other words I was uncertain about definitely get challenged (e.g., route and router)

You don't have to be an ex-fascist to understand what causes an exit for them.

It's a very similar experience for anyone getting out of a cult, religion, abusive relationship, gang, etc. Something random in their life, whether a thought or concrete consequence, seeds their exploration of evaluating whether they want to stay, and then they reach the point where hope exceeds the sunk cost and anxieties of change.

There are all kinds of avenues that lead one into harmful ideologies and behaviors, which could be ignorance, self-preservation, community seeking, frustration, or whatever. They invest themselves in various ways through connections and warping their worldview. The human brain is capable of all kinds of compartmentalization/mental gymnastics/self-delusion to maintain the stability of their new reality. Breaking away from it comes at a cost, and the cost is usually realized to be relatively small once on the other side, but before you get there, it can feel huge and insurmountable.

If anyone has had an experience like that, the generalized template described above should make sense, but I'm more interested in the reason for asking. If it's about whether you can be hopeful that we are on track to put this behind us, there are three realist aspects to keep in mind. (1) It's on average a slow process for individuals because it stagnates until that random catalyst, (2) we repeat history and there will always be people going in the wrong direction, and (3) not everyone encounters the catalyst that helps them break free.

However, it is eventual. Our rebound from the push toward authoritarianism as a society will either come from a build up of realizing we're suffering from a thousand cuts or one major catastrophic incident. It sucks that we have to repeat this cycle periodically, but the fallible human psyche just doesn't seem to permit any other way.

I try to avoid watching anything that shows his image or replays his voice, but I've seen Trump be absolutely humiliated at least once. It was the WHCA dinner when Obama roasted him over Trump's birth certificate flop.

It's could very well be the point at which he dedicated himself to raping America and never would be able to stop obsessing over Obama, the man who smirked while he spanked him in public and everyone laughed.

Sounds like instances where they become more familiar with the written forms first and then hear only one of the forms later that became reinforced somehow. Estimate is a common word, so I'm guessing the mispronunciation must be coming out of a unique environment.

For myself, yhere are definitely words in which the correct pronunciation still escapes me, such as valence. To this day, I might pronounce differently depending on my mood with no certainty on how it's supposed to be said (either rhyming with cadence or balance).