sulla
2yr ago
It is ridiculous to call this a racist incident. She was mad Tyrone cheated on her with Kylah. She only started saying the N-word after spending time with Tyrone. She was too drunk to remember that for white people the N-word card doesn't apply to all situations.
Source: It came to me in a dream.
sulla
2yr ago
I would prefer a clown-world Democrat over a moderate Republican. Fetterman is a radicalizing force for Republicans. The notion of mental retard in the Senate is offensive to anyone with a sense of Republican virtue.
The worst possible outcome is a moderate Republican in the White House. Nothing can be achieved through such weakness.
sulla
2yr ago
The omens favor Republicans. The meaning cannot be mistaken, none other than the spiritual death and overthrow of the King! I confidently predict that the tides will rise for the right, but a price will be exacted in blood.
sulla
2yr ago
Also I disagree that a "de-biased" crime model would discriminate against white men! Men commit a highly disproportionate amount of crime compared to women; any sort of adjustment you make has to adjust for that, adding a whole bunch of likelihood on women especially, probably more than the racial difference even.
You are missing the point. In de-biasing, blacks will receive an adjustment that favors them, whites will not. Women may receive some adjustment that favors them, men will not. If some model rates men negatively, this is because of the deficiencies of men. There is no need to debias the model: men are simply worse, as the model captures. If the same model rates blacks negatively, this is a flaw of the model and it must be de-biased.
This double standard is very obviously the consequence of radical anti-racist ideology. Bias is privilege + power. You can't be biased against whites or men. It is by definition impossible.
sulla
2yr ago
You are right, they are not really trying that hard. Anybody smart enough to build bleeding-edge AI systems is smart enough to understand why if you try to predict the likelihood of a criminal repeating a crime, it will always say that black people are more likely to repeat (it's because black people are more likely to repeat). The problem is fairly hopeless, because AI's accurately that black people are more likely to commit crimes, women are for the most part uninterested in studying machine learning, and other things that true but verboten.
So their manager asks them to do something about bias, and they apply the laziest possible hack. I think this disinterest is more prominent in top-tier researchers. Low-end researchers who will never accomplish anything useful are happy to feast on the de-biasing funding teat.
There are some other niche cases, like facial recognition software not recognizing blacks. But this requires no special debiasing effort, it is simply a weakness in the system that can be addressed the same as any other weakness.
Obviously, the only possible "de-biasing" technique that can work is explicitly biasing systems against white men. If two criteria are mutually conflicting such that one group or the other must be "discriminated" against according to one criteria or the other, choose the criteria that discriminates against white men (in that order: first discriminate against whites, then discriminate against men). It is very simple.
sulla
2yr ago
Most mainstream sources can be trusted to report certain types of basic facts accurately: If CNN, Fox, or any other source says that Biden gave a speech on the White House lawn on September 16th, 2022, you can reasonably assume it to be true. If they report a quote from a named source, you can reasonably assume that the source made the statement (thought it may certainly be taken out of context).
On the other hand, all such sources are extremely unreliable in terms of interpretation. If Fox reported that Biden gave an "authoritarian" speech on the White House lawn on September 16th, 2022, you can be reasonably sure that he gave the speech, but the "authoritarian" claim should be regarded with suspicion. Similarly if CNN called the speech "unifying."
The quote you included, ""PolitiFact appears to be shielding President Biden and Vice President Harris from criticism over their past rhetoric expressing distrust in the coronavirus vaccine during the Trump administration," is clearly interpretation and therefore unreliable. Every mainstream new source is unreliable on this sort of "fact." That doesn't mean Fox invents fake speeches on the White House lawn, or lies about quotes from named sources, etc.
sulla
2yr ago
I encourage all young people to have at least 4-5 children. Having only 1-2 children is selfish and insufficient, failing to even replace the parents once the likelihood of a premature death, failure to find a mate, or the likelihood of taking an unsuitable mate (e.g., with incompatible sex organs) is taken under consideration. For this reason, 3 children should be considered the bare minimum for anyone with an interest in continuing society.
4 children is where the greater benefits of family begin to manifest in creating a sense of community, especially as the children age and create grandchildren. Being raised with many aunts, uncles, and cousins creates a lifelong sense of belonging. Children will smaller families sense the absence of their extended families yet do not know that of which they are being deprived. Many parents selfishly have only 1 or 2 children, not wanting to take on the challenges of larger families. They deprive themselves, their children, and their grandchildren of the benefits of a greater family community, and for what? To preserve their free time so they may pursue degenerate hobbies? To preserve their material wealth, which does nothing to nourish their souls?
It is an astroturf. Nothing has changed re: Trump v. DeSantis. His "Florida is where woke goes to die" speech was based though.
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