The fresh water crisis is dire. Is any candidate or political figure, past or present, addressing the issue or suggesting solutions?
If not, they are all insufficient and unqualified to lead.
We can't wait until 2028 and there may no election to vote in. We need this administration to go ASAP.
There's a whole world out there - if anybody can effectively run these models, how will they know to stop everyone?
The current US administration and sphere of influence/power may be tyrannical, but they aren't omnipresent or omniscient - even if they try to be.
For example, I highly doubt China will be able to be stopped before they burst the AI dam. Honestly, they already have - these AI companies are just in denial because they need more capital for their proprietary, inefficient, and centralized models.
Fortunately, they can't arrest everybody using open-source AI models. There are clear efforts to stop momentum with geo-tracking high-end GPUs and indirect efforts like the EU plan trying to backdoor everything.
Personally, I see it all as ineffective.
Unfortunately, we can't afford to mess around. The fresh water crisis is something America has to deal with - sooner, rather than later. There are many other crises than water and health care, and they are all very urgent.
If being a progressive has been reduced to: "I'm slightly to the left of Republicans, but just as pro-capitalist as them", then the term has been co-opted or watered-down to meaninglessness.
It's like the term "Libertarian" being co-opted by capitalists. The original meaning of libertarianism had nothing to do with capitalism, free markets, deregulation, and privatization.
And how is Buttigieg qualified to lead the country? He did fuck all as the Secretary of Transportation. He's a pro-corporate hack.
I'm gay and he has never given me a reason to like him. Him acting like Medicare for All would be a bad thing was what initially turned me off from him.
We have accessible, open-source AI models - your predictions won't come to pass.
It's ALMOST like factory farming isn't a profitable or a sane practice. /s
Unsurprising that he uses slave labor, too.
Bridging gaps, forming strong alliances and communities, starting movements, and organizing with like-minded people for change and mutual benefit is how acceptance becomes broader and is the catalyst for culture wars to fizzle out. These actions are the spark that allow people to broadly start to realize there is nothing to be afraid about. A person who is perceivably different or a minority existing, having rights, and thriving doesn't harm anyone or have to be at anybody's expense.
Our politicians and governments no longer represent us and the laws aren't moving in the right direction any time soon. Fighting unjust laws and restrictions and winning politicians over is typically what you'd do as a minority to have your existence be legalized and protected, but I'd argue that we are past the point of no return - laws, reform, and protections aren't going to come quick enough and we need to act urgently.
The more we polarize ourselves against others for holding less than tolerant views and sitting in judgement of them, the harder it is for us to focus on joining hands, organizing, and focusing on solutions and the change we'd like to see (and be). I'm not saying that we should put up with violations of our personal sovereignty, consent to being restricted unjustly by the law, consent to being subject to abuse (physical, verbal, or any other form), or enable or platform these behaviors.
Win the battles you can win - that means focusing on solutions with people that are actually on the side of all of humanity (which includes all people and minorities). The planet and all life on it is at stake.
I feel it's ideal to be generally kind to others to hope for kindness back. Some might say that bigoted and hateful people don't deserve kindness and I'd wholeheartedly agree - you don't owe them anything and it's not your job to force their heart open. But I feel it's important to listen to our hearts and act on them - kindness has immense potential to soften hearts and dissolve boundaries - hate often has the opposite effect.
For example, do you let a person with conservative views who is intolerant, ignorant, and hateful stand in your way and eat your attention and precious life - or do you join hands with others in mutual support for progress and forward movement in our societies?
We can be an unstoppable force by moving out of the direction of the immovable objects and going beyond.
You can't effectively address those who are transphobic and racist by fighting them, shaming them, and being hateful towards them. Bigotry and hate are fueled by a lack of understanding, acceptance, sometimes by a sense of superiority, fear, tribalism, religion, propaganda, incoherence and disconnection, confusion, and of course also by hate.
Adding to a cycle doesn't break it, we need to move past these cycles of hate and hurt by joining hands with those who are on the side of all of humanity.
The people living in hate and fear who have dug their feet deep into the ground, blocking progress or even regressing it, standing with their closed hearts will catch up eventually.
Why would Islamic countries not condemn China? They certainly seem to condemn the genocide of the Palestinian people. Somebody please enlighten me.
Edit: According to Business Insider, they might fear China's retaliation (e.g. economic vengeance). How reliant are these Islamic countries on exports from China and how reliant are these countries on China importing their resources (e.g. oil)?
Why would any of that matter when people of their religion are being genocided? Fear of retaliation from a nuclear-powered state and facing consequences in regards to western trade doesn't seem to deter them from taking a stance on Palestine.
And a great deal of the rights violations persist to this day, regardless of some of the treatments being viable presently to stabilize individuals.
Lifelong prescriptions are misappropriated and are too common (see Soteria Houses - they use psychiatric drugs in first-episode psychosis/schizophrenia with consent for stabilization and only for a few months to achieve remission in some individuals), people are kidnapped (sometimes in the middle of the night) and taken without due process by individuals who aren't able to assess mental illness, medicalized rape or forced psychiatry is rampant (patient choice is disregarded), there is essentially zero outside oversight, court access is wholly insufficient, you generally can't get second opinions, forced treatment orders still exist (so even when you're released you have to get court-ordered intramuscular shots), and so forth.
Some medications like neuroleptics carry a pretty big risk (20%~) of causing a condition known as Tardive Dyskinesia, which can be permanent and extremely debilitating. Polypharmacy is rampant and unregulated (some people can be on a pretty extreme cocktail of drugs).
There's still atrocities and those who fall through the cracks in the system, but there are success stories presently, which is contrasted by the horrors even in the 80's (which was fairly tame compared to psychiatry in the decades that came before it).
Psychiatry is in need of reform, and it doesn't seem like psychiatrists or the for-profit hospitals behind them are interested in enacting that serious reform.
Hillary won the popular vote in 2016 by 2.9 million votes against Trump and she was insanely unpopular for reasons most people can agree on (that don't relate to gender).
I don't think misogyny played a major factor in Kamala's loss.