Reddit was always like this.

Now they’ve made ads indistinguishable from posts.

The discourse is generally low quality, divisive and likely bot driven.

Old people. Boomers still use Facebook. Many even use it as their primary news source.

State control of corporations and industry through force is a key ingredient of fascism. Might as well put a swastika on the MAGA hat wearer also.

Global South wouldn’t be a fair example since you’d have to factor in historical (and current) exploitation by Western nations. This tends to bolster corruption by having leaders sell out their population to align with Western prerogatives, enriching themselves in the process.

The social democracies in these nations is generally an attempt to protect the populace from Western capitalism moreso than domestic capitalism.

One example would be when the US overthrew the Shah in Iran back in the 50s because they socialized ownership of their oil reserves (previously owned through exploitation by a Western coporation). They staged a coup d’etat to install a pro Western leader so that the Western exploitation could continue. This inevitably led to the Iranian revolution, playing a significant role in Iran’s current state as a theocracy.

The Global South, particularly South America, has countless of examples of this. The term banana republic is used to describe this very situation.

This is by no means an indictment on Western culture, just that the global rich will inevitably be in a position to manipulate the global not-so-rich for their own gain. Western nations are the global bourgeoisie.

Nordic nations are a better example of social democracies as they are not subject to the same type of meddling.

At least they didn’t carve them into a mountain though?

US is in a state of slow implosion. Rest of the world needs to look at collaborating while excluding the US.

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

I strongly encourage all nations to begin violating US intellectual property rights. Nations like India already do so with pharmaceuticals.

Eventually other nations will need to take on the mantle of tech and pharmaceutical research and development and we don’t want to live in a world where all this progress is lost.

Americans have chosen to nuke their own democracy and we need to minimize the damage done to the rest of the world as much as possible.

These the excuses you start to make when you’re losing. Not looking great for the US…

Deepthink R1(the reasoning model) was only released on January 20. Still took a while though.

You’re watching an empire in decline. It’s words stopped matching its actions decades ago.

Since it’s open source is there a way for companies to adjust so it doesn’t intentionally avoid saying anything bad about China?

Very generous outlook on Gen X, who are mostly seen as boomer lite in my experience.

Why did you make the switch

“There is an urgent need for a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of hostages, alongside a surge in humanitarian aid”

East asian countries after WW2 (minus China) are essentially subsidaries of Western/US imperialism.

How is MPVs impementation? Does it work fairly well?

SimpleX absolutely destroys battery life on older devices. Had to disable it.

WhatsApp is the most commonly used messaging app globally. What would be considered ‘normal’ means here? SMS or iMessage?

Thanks! I’m not sure if you’ve come across this but I get a ‘conversion cancelled’ error with certain voice models like Morgan Freeman but STD and David Attenborough seem to work. The error is very vague so not sure how to troubleshoot it. Wanted to see if you had any insight into it. I am running it on T4 GPU on my huggingface account.

Thabk is for the response! I was looking at fine tuned models and see mainly male voices, is there a way to get other voices too?

Is there a mix of male and female voices or just male voices for now?