@nati_icee@catgirlprostate No, that's not it. That doesn't even make any sense because you can still pay with a credit card at Walmart. Apple Pay does not cost more than using a credit card physically. The reason is because they want data from the transaction that Apple Pay hides.
@owl_posting I think this is different from any of the routing down to Opus stuff. I've noticed this sometimes in Opus' thinking traces from before Fable was even released. I think for less severe stuff (swearing, violence, etc) it flags it allows the model to decide how to proceed
There is something so deeply sinister about this completely manufactured fantasy of kids being given transition surgeries at school at a time when kids are quite literally being murdered at school.
This is a 43-year-old-replica bell.
In Gaza, the US-armed IDF has destroyed:
• Grand Omari Mosque (7th century)
• Saint Porphyrius Church (3rd oldest church in world)
• Sayyid Hashim Mosque (burial place of Prophet Muhammad’s grandfather)
• Anthedon (World Heritage Site)
I can’t stop thinking about that line. That line is absolutely incredible. “There’s no place for violence in our democracy.” Said by a war criminal about a war criminal, during an active genocide they both support. Mainstream society is ran entirely on self-deluding psychosis.
Israel's government is very open about the fact that it intends to ethnically cleanse Gaza, which means the US is financially and militarily supporting an ethnic cleansing campaign. This is a basic fact of reality and it's weird the US media doesn't talk about it this way.
I will stress again how virtually no pundit wants to debate the SUBSTANCE of the protestors grievances. This is being avoided at all costs because few want to defend clear-as-day war crimes so all there is concern trolling, front row kid legal formalism & anti-zoomer psychobabble
This is the nihilism at the heart of American society. The desire to be idle and unbothered before anything else, and the idea that anything could intrude on that from the outside world is to be opposed with all the might you would otherwise reserve for caring about someone else.
This is exactly what’s making any normal observer feel insane.
A pro-Israel mob attacked these kids with slurs, fists, mace, and fireworks. Police watched for HOURS & did nothing.
A day later, police instead bombard *them* with rubber bullets & flashbangs.
(All in a “blue” state)
The single most jarring thing I’ve learned from social media time and time again is that so many people *sincerely* cannot imagine that anyone would simply care about other humans
Think about this. This person in Gaza is identifying the political function of genocide as severing a people from human existence and saying this moment of international solidarity is even more powerful than that
Police gave no warning on the Transportation Bldg side before they attacked here. By then they had also blocked the Boylston side and both other exits, allowing no escape even for compliant witnesses like me. As a journalist, an Emerson alum, and Boston resident, I’m appalled.