I thought scoobididoo was what dogs say when you offer them scooby snacks?

I love this picture, because nobody is wasting time wringing their hands about the impropriety, they’re all just doing what they see as needing to be done. Whether it’s the guy speaking, the one handing him notes, the people yelling at him or trying to physically stop him from speaking, or the people defending him with their bodies and physically holding back the ones trying to stop him.

The sense of duty is on full display from all sides in this image, and everyone is doing it with a sense of decorum too. A breach of procedure for sure, but who can say anyone in this photo doesn’t look in total possession of themselves?

¿Porque no los dos?

It should come out of their operating budget.

You can start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

The report states that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred “in sweeping and systematic fashion”, and was welcomed by the Trump campaign as it expected to benefit from such efforts. It also identifies multiple links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials,about which several persons connected to the campaign made false statements and obstructed investigations. Mueller later stated that his investigation’s findings of Russian interference “deserves the attention of every American”.

And here:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-mueller-investigation-explained-2/

According to Barr, the special counsel found two main Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election. The first was through the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization that conducted “disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election.” The second was the Russian government’s hacking operations “designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.”

And here:

https://investigaterussia.org/media/2018-03-18/cambridge-analyticas-russia-connection

Mr. Nix is a director of SCL Group, a British political and defense contractor, and chief executive of its American offshoot, Cambridge Analytica, which advised the Trump campaign. The firms’ employees, who often overlap, had contact in 2014 and 2015 with executives from Lukoil, the Russian oil giant.
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Christopher Wylie [whistleblower], who helped found Cambridge Analytica and develop the company’s voter-profiling technology, said Lukoil showed interest in how the company used data to tailor messaging to American voters.
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Though Lukoil is not state-owned, it depends on Kremlin support, and its chief executive, Vagit Alekperov, has met with Mr. Putin on a number of occasions. Reuters reported last year that Lukoil and other companies received instructions from the state energy ministry on providing news stories favorable to Russian leadership.

And here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum

The report discussed more broadly Russian interference in British politics, including an extensive “laundromat” of Russian investment into the United Kingdom often connected to the Russian state and the Putin-linked elite. It discussed the likely effect on politics and that many members of the House of Lords have business interests in Russia.
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In September 2020, the Electoral Commission raised concerns about Russia-linked donations to the Tories that occurred prior to the Brexit referendum. In October 2021, the Pandora Papers revealed more information about the potentially Kremlin-linked donations and multiple others.

And if you still have doubts that it’s a concerted and deliberate strategy that’s an explicit part of Russia’s internal policies, try this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

The textbook advocates a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian secret services.

And this:

https://www.bbc.com/video/docs/series/10141108

(That last one didn’t used to require a subscription to watch… you might be able to find it on the high seas)

Edit: bonus Putin Ordered Kremlin to ‘Destroy NATO and EU From Within’

If someone presents work that a person is impressed with, it shouldn’t matter to that person if the software they used is perceived as inferior.

Also, I think it’s more likely that a person simply hasn’t heard of GIMP, rather than having heard that it has a reputation for anything.

that the lanyard or boondoggle string is named gimp in some places

I had no clue, I’ve never heard of that. What region is this in?

and no one around here knows that it is a slur in other places.

It’s not just a slur though. That’s what I understood it as for a long time, but then I found out that it’s also a thing in the kink/bondage community. Apparently it’s what they call a dude wearing leather straps on his torso and a leather face mask that covers his eyes and sometimes mouth. I think it’s a submissive role? I don’t know much about it though.

But yeah so I can see how saying that in a professional setting could be off-putting to some colleagues…

That’s such a stupid response. As if I’m going to dig through old comments looking for the places where it happened? This isn’t a court of law, and it don’t have to present evidence to you. Especially if you’d just going to sealion about it even if I do.

And for the interactions that happened in person? How do you want me to prove those to you? Do you suggest I should carry around a device always on record and keep a record of every conversation I’ve ever had?

Everyone who’s interacted with a tankie knows glazing pol pot is exactly the kind of thing they do. Many have directly seen them do it. I don’t need to link specific examples for you.

Thanks for that, that was really good

You haven’t been paying close enough attention…

It’s not about being childish, prissy, or clutching pearls. It’s about how in a professional setting, image and reputation matters. And if the name of the software you use might damage either of those in the eyes of others, it can be risky to say you use it.

I’ve heard stories from people who say they’ve been to conferences or networking events where someone seemed interested in their work, and asked what they used. When they tell them Gimp, the person walks away and never contacts them.

If you’re a freelancer especially, losing potential clients and contracts over the name of your software is a serious issue that many people can’t afford to ignore.

Yet tankies will still glaze pol pot for some reason…

I’ll clarify that it wasn’t my intent to defend the AI hype. I agree that LLMs are just predictive algorithms that use probabilistic and non-deterministic heuristics to extrapolate likely responses.

I was just pointing out that saying they can’t come up with anything original is maybe not the best angle because it opens up a can of worms about whether even humans can come up with anything truly original, which is philosophically fraught.

Yes the mathematician solved the equation. But he couldn’t have done so without spending years devoted to learning the state of mathematics today, including all the work and research and theorems and proofs from all the mathematicians who came before him.

Maybe he applied old concepts in new ways to solve a problem that hadn’t been solved before. I doubt he invented an entirely new form of mathematics not based in anything that existed before. And even if he did that, chances are he only knew how to do that because of what he’s learned from pre-existing systems of mathematics.

That’s the point I was trying to make

Probably because vegans bludgeon anyone who calls themselves vegetarians, because apparently we’re worse than carnists because we see that there’s a problem yet only go partially through with the solution.

Like I’ve tried going vegan before, but after a few days I get really cranky and then the cravings start and I end up crashing. I never made it a full week, and it made it harder to even stick to vegetarian foods.

But apparently I’m a terrible person if I ever call myself a vegetarian within earshot of a vegan…

Also there are some obnoxious asses out there who insist that it’s really “ovo-lacto-vegetarian” because apparently vegetarians only eat plants? I’m like no, that would be vegan.

Not that it’s ever been convenient to be vegetarian. But now you get hit from both sides…

Some areas have a “swam list,” where beekeepers put their name on the list and whenever someone in the area finds a swarm on their property they call someone from the swarm list and they come out to get the bees.

It’s a lot better than the alternative, which is ignorant property owners spraying the swarm with wasp poison… :(

Greasy fingers and scalpels don’t really mix…

It’ll take them as long just to boot the program, and every time they change tools they’ll have to wait for it to catch up

Yeah, how do they expect people to talk about it in professional contexts?

Do/can domesticated bees swarm/rewild?

It is possible. When a colony grows too large for the hive it produces a new queen and then splits itself in half. Usually beekeepers who monitor their colonies notice this and start a new hive, but if left to do their own thing (and if there’s not a queen trap on the entrance) then one of the queens will take half the colony and go search for a place to build a new hive.

If so it seems like it would be the best argument that bee keeping was mutually consensual.

I generally agree, but how do you define that? You can’t exactly get a bee to sign a legal document. Sure you could opt against using a queen trap, and make your hive as enticing as possible so they stay. A good apiary will provide ideal conditions, and cultuvate botanical and herb gardens in the immediate surroundings. Basically make it a paradise for bees, and give them medicine too.

Just because some people abuse their dogs doesn’t mean pet-keeping as a whole should be damned. Punish the abusers and prevent the abuse as much as you can. But don’t take away granny’s sweet little shitzu just because Dale down the street kicks his pit.

Are there apiary industry standards/certifications?

That unfortunately depends on the state. Some do a better job than others.

It seems unlikely most folks are buying the backyard chicken version of honey.

Yes but try asking a vegan “Is it fine if I only choose local honey?”

Honestly, I’m on Team Honey, but that argument has a glaring hole in it.

Which is that many apiaries put an object over the entrance to the hive which lets worker bees pass freely but blocks the queen from escaping. And worker bees bonded to a queen will literally die before abandoning her.

So they can’t just leave. Bees that do that in the while travel as a colony in what’s called a swarm (which is actually very docile because they have no hive to defend). A bee that gets separated from its colony dies.

I’d say it’s defined by the dominant group, but that group isn’t necessarily an ethnic group. For example, Sundar Pichai and Jensen Huang are certainly a part of that group. It’s not limited to white Anglo-Saxons anymore.

We really need to stop looking at the issue by pigeonholing it into racial, gender, or sexual categories, because that does not reflect the reality. There are gay oligarchs. There are women oligarchs. There are oligarchs of every skin tone.

These are counter-examples, of course; deviations from what we might consider the “norm,” which is cishetero white male oligarchs. Pointing out that it’s not limited to the latter isn’t a denial that the latter form a disproportionate majority of oligarchs. That’s the part a lot of people miss when I bring this up.

The fundamental issue though is class disparity, which we cannot lose sight of; even if there are other demographic trends within that disparity. Trying to make it about anything else is overly reductive and harmful.