Eventually, yes, I think it will be. Not yet though, the tech just isn’t strong enough atm. But an AI is resistant to the emotional toll, burnout and low pay that a real life therapist has to struggle with. The AI therapist doesn’t need a therapist.

Personally though, I think this is going to be one of the first widespread, genuinely revolutionary things LLMs are capable of. Couple more years maybe? It won’t be able to handle complex problems, it’ll have to flag and refer those cases to a doctor. But basic health maintenance is simpler.

it has the resources and will to outlast the West.

Yeah, they have sorely underestimated how entertaining dumb internet arguments can be.

tbf, kids content on youtube has been a shitshow for awhile. Here’s a short Folding Ideas piece on it, that’s equal parts surreal, sad and scary:

https://youtu.be/LKp2gikIkD8

That’s uh … basically a playbook for implementing Orwell’s 1984. About 40 years late I guess?

I really hope this doesn’t start an actual cult. People don’t need much in the way of an excuse, you know.

They don’t need evidence when they have their “gut instincts”.

Probably don’t want to just believe that her words reflect her stances. Much like McConnell, she’ll say whatever she thinks she needs to say to help accomplish her personal goals.

World is a complicated place, especially when you’re trying to not fall quickly to a purge, which is pretty clearly a goal she has. Otherwise she’d be gone by now.

If you don’t acknowledge the repubs trying to fight against the fascist slide inside their own party, you’re just helping fascists get what they want. They’re doing a political purge. This should be remembered.

ozma isn’t as bad imo.

This cat is a malicious commenter that shits on almost everything. ozma posts news articles and pushes on some genuinely important issues.

I argue with ozma from time to time, I definitely don’t always agree with their stances, but I have no real problems with them. I think people like that are important in a healthy democracy. Not a troll imo.

This one though, has me doubting sometimes.

Haley does not have the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 plan in the wings. She would probably not have done a Jan 6th. If you can’t see the difference between a fascist and a shitty Mitch McConnell type, the problem with our country is you.

Nuance and details are important. People’s bullshit gut checks based on their feelings are not.

Dude’s comment was clearly saying that Trump and Haley were the same. If someone cannot see the very clear and obvious differences between the two, their brainwashing has been strong.

Except I wonder if its brainwashing or just trolling.

This cat has been lumping 90% of the country together for months now, we’ve gone back and forth on it before. There seem to be zero colors asides black and white in his eyes.

I’ve been curious where the hell he came from for awhile now.

It should be pretty damn clear there’s differences between an outright fascist and a generic pro-business idiot.

edit for typo

“everyone I don’t like is all the same”.

How do you extremists get made, anyway?

Let me help:

In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.

In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]

Under Newsweek’s current co-owner and CEO, Dev Pragad, it is profitable with revenue of $60 million and also growing: between May 2019 and May 2022, its monthly unique visitors rose from about 30 million to 48 million, according to Comscore. Pragad became CEO in 2016; readership has grown to 100 million readers per month, the highest in its 90-year history.[15][16] The operations of the company were researched by the Harvard Business School; they published a case study in 2021.[17]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek

Then just check into those companies and the CEO.

Can we not find a source for the news that isn’t owned by an East Asian religious cult since 2018?

Like most propaganda, it has both truth and gross exaggeration in it.

The true part is the asylum process does get abused, which results in extremely long wait-times for asylum requests, and an overall stressing of the system.

The false parts are the normal Fox News propaganda lines. Way more of them than there actually are, it’s an “invasion”, they want to replace you, etc etc etc. Be afraid, be afraid, be afraid. Oh, and give our guys money.

Trump is against arming Ukraine. Biden is for arming Ukraine.

Militaristic? Check. Hyper-patriotism? Check. Heavy focus on discrimination against out-groups? Check. Totalitarian power structure? Check. Subjugating citizens for the greater good of the state? Check.

By golly, I think he’s right.

Don’t underestimate the number of registered dems that simply aren’t very progressive, and have zero interest in talking a progressive talk. We’re a coalition party, after all. The fix for that is voting reform, ranked choice, something like that, so we don’t all have to cram into one party just to survive.

Some people are just pro-choice and want some more business regulation, but that’s it. They can be dems too. I’m personally not in favor of any kind of ideological purity, I think they should be allowed within our ranks.

edit: underestimate, not overestimate, which made no sense.

I agree, we generally do try to look at the bigger political picture, and especially since Citizens United, money is a very, very major consideration. Politics is an inherently ugly practice that involves a great deal of compromise, just to function in a complex world with large numbers of different interests in it.

Though I’d say the modern day is a more mixed bag, it’s easier now for a more independent politician to rise with grassroots support than it was pre-internet. This was a major factor in Bernie’s success, and we have people like Katie Porter proving it wasn’t actually just some fluke. Even Obama did well, mainly with grassroots support against Hilary.

The big conspiracy theory that these considerations amount to some shadowy suppression is bullshit though. All the interests are pretty out-in-the-open with what they want. People who did not like him were not hiding their distaste for Bernie, or reasons for not supporting him.

One thing I think gets underestimated by younger progressives is just how many educated, middle-aged soccer moms with two and a half kids that we have.