Thank you for your insight. I might try cutting just one to see how it goes. If it starts outgrowing its pot after I’ll try repotting and then I’ll at least know if they’ll start getting needy before I commit to repotting them all. Fingers crossed.

Would you be able to share a link to the information you’re referring to regarding voter registration tampering, even if it does not directly mention her?

I’m not sure what lies specifically you’re referring to about how she spoke about the 2 party system, but it seems you recognize that’s not an actual crime, so you’re probably not expecting her to be jailed over that.

There were several investigations into her, and none were able to actually substantiate anything. Here are two BBC articles: This one showing that even after they went after Clinton for it, they did not hold themselves to the same standard: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46271021

This one stating that even if it was just a her issue, it’s not going to result in jail time (emphasis mine): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31806907

The State Department inspector general report, released in May 2016, found that Mrs Clinton’s email system violated government policy and that she did not receive permission prior to instituting it - approval that would not have been granted had she asked. Such transgressions, however, do not constitute criminal conduct.

FBI director James Comey announced the results of a separate FBI investigation on 5 July and concluded that that while “there is evidence of potential violations” of criminal statues covering the mishandling of classified information, “our judgement is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”. It referred the matter to the Justice Department, which closed the case against Mrs Clinton and her aides with no charges.

The State Department has since resumed its investigation into whether Mrs Clinton or her aides violated government policy in their handling of classified information. If it determines that they did, the punishment could include a formal letter of reprimand or loss of security clearance.

I think there’s a bit of a disconnect because Trump, even before his first term, but definitely after was clearly ok doing illegal things. Other than him saying he wanted to lock her up and that being something you wanted, did you at the time or now perceive him to be honest and someone who cares about the rule of law?

I disagree about your population density comment, but we can just leave it there since it’s more tangential.

I think it’s somewhat telling what rights you associated with the parties. Do you think you’d want to end up in the republican or democrat portion if the union split?

Yea, as someone with family and acquaintances that are into Trump, I have generally only seen them become more fanatical.

If you end up finding it, I would be interested to know where. If you remember to, please feel free to come back and let me know.

I commented elsewhere in the thread, and I hate having multiple threads with the same person, but would you mind explaining how she rigged the election against Bernie and why that is illegal?

I’m a Bernie supporter and you can see in my comment history that if anything I’m a Bernie Stan, but what “Hillary did” mostly relates to how the DNC operates. The only reason the DNC has so much influence is because of our election format which favors a two party system. The best way to resolve that is by changing how voting works (ranked choice etc) which is mostly supported by democrats not republicans. Additionally, Hillary won the popular vote. Do you not think it’s a problem that the electoral college was able to invalidate the will of the majority of the population? Is that not a more direct threat to democracy, especially as states attempt to gerrymander more?

You can’t expect a war criminal to hold war criminals accountable. What’s happening with the Venezuelan boats is criminal. He obviously doesn’t care about criminality. I think the issue is that most people that actually cared about criminality were against him in the first place. He has been on record many times about how little he cares for the rule of law, so that dissuaded most people who earnestly cared about the law from supporting him to begin with.

I’m not saying people like you don’t exist at all, but most people that cared about accountability were against him, and the ones that for some reason still supported him are likely now too deep in the Trump mindset to speak against him, or have been convinced that anything said against him is a lie. It has to be said that a lot of people you potentially perceived as “like you” were also grifters, bots/foreign agents, or just trolls, and many of all of those groups have pushed even further right. If you were on Reddit, feel free to go back and see which accounts you saw posting or you were chatting with. See what they’re up to now, if anything. It’s possible I’m wrong and the community you’re referring to is still over there and still feels the same way you do. Otherwise, there are only so many explanations as to what could have happened, and I’m open to hearing other theories.

I was not on that sub because in case it wasn’t clear I’m not a trumper, but if you were in it for the memes, I hate to tell you but a lot of that was foreign influence or people with no actual political views other than lulz. Both those groups have moved on to even more meme-able things with even worse more extreme views. I don’t think people with coherent political positions want “politicians to go to jail”, I think most people want criminals to be held accountable. People rallying around jailing people in general are not my vibe, but maybe it’s worth reflecting on why you think certain people should be jailed and others shouldn’t. Trump is a felon many times over. You can read or watch plenty on what he’s already been found guilty of, and plenty on things he was able to get out of, so maybe jailing politicians has just fallen out of favor with his die hard fans. If you believe that the Epstein files are real, how do you square that with the president calling it a hoax and all the waffling and lying the administration has done about them? The die hard fans are taking the line that it’s all a hoax and the rest are ignoring it because it’s easy to do, just like they ignored all of the other issues with him and his administration. Only you get to decide what you will do with that information. I hope you’re able to find your way out of it.

Lemmy is probably not the best place to expect responses from Trumpers. Your history seems to indicate you hold some leftist views, so maybe some reflection on or engagement with people you’re in community with will help you more, but Trump was never going to accomplish anything you likely wanted him to. He’s a grifter and always was. I’m not familiar with the “you’d be in jail” quote, but presumably most people running for office and threatening to jail others are probably not going to be accomplishing things that benefit most people.

I don’t know why you supported him, but he’s a bad guy with no actual morals and his administration is being run by bad people with possibly even worse morals.

Other than being an obvious ad for their own AI, the article was pretty informative.

Per the article, the following were found to be affected. Probably anything by the publisher should not be trusted as they’re just a data mining company, so make sure not to download any rebrands or new releases from the same people. Chrome Web Store:

• Urban VPN Proxy - 6,000,000 users
• 1ClickVPN Proxy - 600,000 users
• Urban Browser Guard - 40,000 users
• Urban Ad Blocker - 10,000 users

Microsoft Edge Add-ons:

• Urban VPN Proxy - 1,323,622 users
• 1ClickVPN Proxy - 36,459 users
• Urban Browser Guard - 12,624 users
• Urban Ad Blocker - 6,476 users

Absolutely infuriating. I’m upset the judge did not award the full extent of monetary damages even though it’s evident that Verizon is in violation of multiple agreements.

I know it’s not how this works, but since the FCC put those rules in place as a condition of their acquisition of the other companies, and since they violated those rules, the government should be able to nationalize/seize the assets of the other companies. Verizon should not legally have them since they broke the agreement. I’d love to see not just a one time fine but a legitimate punishment. If this guy hadn’t done this they’d be knowingly violating their agreement still. The people doing this are disgusting and taking advantage of the people with the least amount of time and resources. I truly wish they all have the day they deserve.

Not to support Disney or IP/copyright laws here, but that’s not really how that works. A musician can choose to not be on Spotify but be on Apple Music. A movie can be licensed to Netflix and not Hulu. A writer can publish in one paper and refuse to work with another. I think for how these things currently work, that is an important right that holders can claim. If I’m an artist and I want to make an AI generator from just my art, that should not give other companies license to use my are to train their AI.

To a certain extent, isn’t it still enshitification? They lowered their standards (making the product/marketplace worse) to capture marketshare/increase profits.

Also, blaming consumers for being “bad at shopping” is certainly a take. What about the gold plated HDMI cables sold at a huge markup? More expensive doesn’t mean better and we can’t expect everyone to have the knowledge or ability or time to know about every single thing they purchase. Shitty companies are charging more for less and consumers are being squeezed. Photos are all manipulated and there’s no real way to know the quality from a picture. People are trying their best to get good products for their money without being scammed.

I have a lot of users tagged as AI/uses AI, but I don’t have this one. Did you have them tagged from before or are there obvious AI signs I’m missing in the post?

Thank you for clarifying. I stay away from religious stuff for the most part now, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are drawn between sects. Totally understand why having a new name etc makes sense mostly after there’s an established religious text and doctrine, which at the time of Jesus there would not have been. Appreciate the response.

I have never really discussed Jesus’ religion irl, mostly because I don’t care, but I see your UN and I have been curious, why would Mary/Joseph/jesus not also be considered Christian Jews? Were they not the first to accept Jesus as a new prophet? I understand he probably was raised Jewish, but seeing as his core religious belief was not accepted into general Jewish faith, is he not at least the founder of Christianity? I figure at the time it made sense to not have a direct divide because Jews didn’t have the time yet to decide if Jesus was the real thing or not, but if Jesus was able to be on the TV/radio at the time and the majority of Jews rejected him as the messiah immediately, would they still use that interim term? I understand that the term Jewish encompasses a large cultural element, but as far as religious identity, it feels strange to group people who believe Jesus was the son of god with people who think that’s a lie and heretical.

I at no point said that anyone wasn’t worth the time for personal interaction. I said multiple times that my preferred solution would not involve having to resort to AI. That’s such a bad faith interpretation of my position that I can’t imagine this being productive at this point. Best of luck.

By getting better, I mean it will be improving on itself. I never meant to indicate that it will be better than a trained professional.

I agree that showing ND people empathy is the best path forward, but realistically being able to socially signal empathy is a life skill and lacking that skill really only damages their own prospects. It’d be great if it didn’t make people less likely to be employable or less able to build a robust support network, but unfortunately that’s the case. Yes, ASD differences are often a reflection of how society treats people, but a demonstration of empathy is not a platitude. It’s an important way NT and lots of ND connect. If you think that the expression of empathy is difficult for people with ASD because they are more honest, then I think you might be equating lack of empathy with difficulty expressing it. There’s nothing dishonest about saying “I’m sorry that happened to you” unless you are not sorry it happened. It might not be something you would normally verbally express, but if hearing about a bad thing happening to someone doesn’t make you feel for them, then the difficulty isn’t expressing empathy, it’s lacking it. Society certainly does a lot of things for bad or nonsensical reasons, but expressing empathy generally isn’t one of them.

I don’t personally find the framing offensive, but I’m not on the spectrum so I can’t speak to it from that perspective. My comment was less about the article and more about not offloading that work onto unsuspecting and unprepared people.

That being said, I’m not as anti-ai as maybe some other people might be when it comes to these kinds of tools. The study itself highlights the fact that not everyone has the resources to get the kind of high quality care they need and this might be an option. I agree that sacrificing quality for efficiency is bad, in my post history you can see I made that argument about ai myself, but realistically so many people can potentially benefit from this that would have no alternatives. Additionally, AI will only be getting better, and hopefully you’ve never had a bad experience with a professional, but I can speak from personal experience that quality varies drastically between individuals in the healthcare industry. If this is something that can be offered by public libraries or school systems, so that anyone with the need can take advantage, I think that would be a positive because we’re nowhere near universal physical healthcare, much less universal mental healthcare or actual social development training. I know people who cannot afford healthcare even though they have insurance, so if they were able to go to a specialized ai for an issue I would think it’s a net positive even if it’s not a real doctor. I know that ai is not there yet, and there’s a lot of political and social baggage there, but the reality is people need help and they need it now and they are not getting it. I don’t know how good this ai is, but if the alternative is telling people that are struggling and have no other options that they have to tough it out, I’m willing to at least entertain the idea. For what it’s worth, if I could snap my fingers and give everyone all the help and support they need and it excluded ai, I would choose that option, I just don’t have it. I also don’t know that LLMs really can do this successfully on a large scale, so I would need evidence of that before really supporting it, I just think it shouldn’t be written off completely if it’s showing promise.

I really don’t think a random D&D table is the place to learn to express empathy. I really wish people would stop acting like local D&D groups are a good way to learn how to socialize in general. I’m not saying you can’t learn things at the table, but the games are not actual reflections of reality and there’s a lot of go along to get along, or just run of the mill toxic group dynamics. The hobby overall can be hard for other minorities to enter, and having a table with someone still learning social skills (especially how to express empathy) and someone from a marginalized group can lead to unfortunate outcomes that your standard DM/group do not have the ability to address. It can lead one or both parties to have negative experiences that reinforce the idea they are unwelcome and leave the rest of the table with negative experiences of playing with ND people or minorities.

Sometimes practicing first with people trained to do this is the best step, and second to that would be practicing empathy in a space where the main goal is bonding rather than another nebulous goal of having fun playing a game. I don’t know if AI is the answer, but trusting your local DM/table to be able to teach empathy is a big ask. It’s almost insulting to the people that teach this and to people with ASD. Teaching empathy can’t be as passive as it is for non-ASD people, and acting like it’s just something they are expected to pick up while also dealing with all these other elements makes it seems like you don’t think it’s something they actually have to work to achieve. I’m not on the spectrum but I have a lot of autistic friends and I would not put just any of them in a D&D situation and expect them and the rest of the table to figure it out.

Also, generally comparing to an unaffected control is the gold standard. They did what is generally needed to show their approach has some kind of effect.

The meme is also a false equivalence. Unless someone really likes medical/legal dramas, they are likely watching other things too. Game of thrones, black mirror, stranger things, the sandman, white lotus, severance, succession, ted lasso, euphoria. All of these were steaming hits. I don’t know what’s on tv now, but to act like it’s all of anime vs two types of western media is ridiculous off the bat. People talk about rewatching Futurama and Seinfeld or friends, which I think were all extremely popular traditional tv shows. You could easily remake it as “all American shows” vs “generic isekai/gundam” and it’d be equally as valid.

Realistically, I think cultural differences play a big role. Anime is often over the top from a western perspective and produced in a way western media isn’t. There’s also the fact it’s animated, but even live action media produced in Asia doesn’t resonate as well with average American audiences.