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  • There was never a McDonalds promotion. At the end of season 1, Rick mockingly exclaims his entire arc is about getting “McDonalds to being back the Szechuan Sauce” which was just supposed to be a random ass reference and imply that everything that happens in the show really is for nothing or for an inane purpose.

    Then some dude went viral for mocking the shows fans threw a fit in a McDonalds and made a big scene and people watched it thinking he was an actual fan of the show and that was how they’re all being influenced to act by the show, and that this was happening all over the place.

    It blew up from there with like the entirety of Reddit thinking that was how shit was going down. Didn’t help that there were plenty of online posts (some sarcastic and some real) with people acting cringe AF defending the show (“you have to have a high IQ” etc) that people could point to; and suddenly it was considered toxic to even admit to watching it.








  • An LLM can summarize the rules of chess, because it predicts the sequence of words needed to create that with incredible accuracy. This is why it’s so weird when it goes wrong, because if one part of it is off then it throws the rest of the work it’s doing out of balance.

    But all it is doing is a statistical analysis of all the writing it’s has been trained on and determining the best next word to use (some later models do them in groups and out of order).

    That doesn’t tell it fuck-all about how to make a chess move. It’s not ingesting information in a way that lets it create a model to tell you what the next best chess move is, how to solve linear algebra, or any other activity that requires procedural thought.

    It’s just a chatterbox that tells you whatever you want to hear. No wonder the chuds love it








  • 4am@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    We aren’t talking about the majority of homophobes; we’re talking about homophobic lawmakers who push for anti-gay legislation - already performative of “banning” or “being tough on” their other “sins” like drugs or crime, and they keep getting caught doing drugs and gay things.

    Statistically there are far fewer politicians than LGBTQA folks. So when some sociopath rises to power because they figured out they should be “tough” on all the things people hurt them for, all the things people appear to dislike, you’re not gonna get people with empathy who speak about a brighter inclusive future, you’re gonna get bullshit artists who draw on their own pain and twist it into a performance of what, in their mind, people seem to want. They prey on the prejudices of the masses.

    And it works. The anti-drug politicians get caught with coke and speed. The anti-sex worker politicians get caught with prostitutes. The “save the children” freaks get caught with underage kids. The “fiscally responsible” get caught insider trading and money laundering. And the homophobes get caught with men.

    Because the biggest flaw of democracy is to allow a person to deflect all the hatred they receive back out into the world and if they can perform it charismatically enough, they can use it to rise to power. Hell look at Trump, that’s how his superpower works. He can shit talk anything, and it fucking works on just enough people that it’s always been worth it for him to do it.

    So if you are someone who sees the “anti-LGBTQA politicians are always closeted!” (or, are someone who is using/making jokes with it!) and it upsets you - make sure you understand that it’s not a comment on LGBTQA folks as a whole, it’s a remark about how society who’s majority is empathetic (normal humans) yet prejudiced (unfortunately currently also normal humans) will elect people who speak from their pain, and those abused by it will exploit their suffering to give that crowd exactly what they want.

    The sociopath cornered into being closeted their whole life will scream from the rooftops about banning homosexuality, because not only did people stop hurting them but now have rewarded them greatly.

    So no, the majority of homophobes are not closeted. But I’m willing to believe that doesn’t hold up in Washington.