Newer laser can work on lighter hair, still less effective but possible nowadays.

From the abstract:

Findings on avoidance were mixed, suggesting either that warnings have no effect on engagement with material or that they increased engagement with negative material under specific circumstances.

If I understand correctly something like “touch AI” is already used, at least on keyboards. It’s actually very difficult to touch what you think you’re touching on a phone screen, so your device does some degree of prediction of where you really wanted to touch.

Antifa might be violent, but they are violent in their opposition to violent ideologies, not to random members of the public. Aaron Danielson, I’ll take a guess, is the single example of someone actually being killed by a far left terrorist in the US in a 25 year period, mentioned by the earlier commenter.

far left extremists are completely capable of terrorist and other deadly behaviours the question is when and where.

Sure, I mean Pol Pot was a communist, he killed loads of people in Cambodia in the 1970s. But today? There is objective evidence that the far right is worse!

i concur,this conversation isn’t really going anywhere other than you trying to change my mind on the left.

I’m trying to convince you, and anyone reading this, that the left is not the same as the right. If you can’t see that, well that’s on you. You have been deluded by the right. You think you’re in the middle, but you aren’t. You are sitting with and minimising the abundant actual crimes of racists and bigots by trying to equate them with trivial internet bullshit and a single solitary actual murder.

the right wing nutjobs are crazy for sure but the left wing nutjons are getting crazier.

Hahahah, the left is getting more reasonable with time, not less! I mean, I refer again to Pol Pot, do you see anyone like that on the left today? Nowadays the right are just getting more sensitive, and people like you are whining because you aren’t allowed to be transphobic without people being mean to you and hurting your feelings. Get a grip.

both end of the extreme aren’t that much different in a sense that they are basically extremes that drives people to behaving badly, uncivil,intolerant and discrimitory

The extremes are different, the behaviours are different… wildly so! One extreme involves advocating for the extermination of entire peoples, while the best example of the other extreme you can come up with so far is accusing people of transphobia! How can you think these are the same? And they “drive” people to obviously very different ends, too! The far right version of “behaving badly” is fucking murdering people, while the far left version is apparently being mean to you on the internet.

Please, provide an example of leftists actually doing something you think is as bad as killing people, or advocating genocide. Otherwise it seems like you are the apologist - and you aren’t just an apologist of some nebulous group who you won’t define, as you accused me of, you are actually being an apologist for far right child murderers. Because by comparing the far right’s crimes to something as people on the internet policing language you are minimising those crimes, and that is a disservice to the victims of those crimes.

so you tell me,when the extreme left wingers are found not guilty of doing the same as their right wing counter parts??

I’m not sure what you’re asking here. Are you suggesting that modern leftists are fascists?

The origin of this conversation was the your idea that left- and right-wing extremism is the same. My position is they are different. I’m not saying that people on the far left don’t do some of the things that the Nazis did. It would be impossible, really, I mean they also built roads but I’m not about to call civil engineers Nazis. Looking at modern (i.e. neo-) Nazis, my point is that they are not comparable to left-wing extremists around today. Their views are not similar, their goals are not similar, their methods are not similar. Can you find a racist leftist? Of course. Can you find a non-racist Nazi? No.

I’ll stop using Nazis or neo-Nazis as examples, though, because it’s clearly not helpful. Consider white supremacists, instead, if that helps.

Going back to the other commenter who shared the blog post - we see that far right extremism is responsible for >90% of extremist murders in the US in recent years. Clearly far left extremism cannot compete! The trans activists you mentioned earlier, are they similar? Are they going out and killing people? I glossed over it before but your point was that they “label” anyone who “disagrees with them” as a transphobe… Even if you disagree with that label, it hardly seems comparable to killing people. ___

I would define a Nazi as someone who follows or supports the socio-political ideology Nazism - to quote Wikipedia:

the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

I would also include neo-Nazis who, again quoting Wiki:

seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology

I will grant you that some people use the word in a much weaker way (see “grammar nazi”), which I find frustrating but I have to acknowledge is a modern usage… but not the one I have been using in this conversation.

What is “behaving like a nazi” to you? Are these trans activists advocating the extermination of the Jews? No? Then they probably aren’t fucking Nazis are they.

It’s hilarious that you’re accusing trans activists of “labelling anyone who disagrees with them” as teansphobes… While yourself labelling anyone you disagree with a nazi, with no regard to what the word actually means!

Please, define what Nazi means to you, because otherwise this conversation is pointless.

Edit to add: and seriously, to you “trans women are women” is the same level as “we should exterminate the Jews”? What the fuck dude?

If someone is behaving like a nazi they aren’t a left wing extremist. The OG Nazis called themselves socialists - but they were not socialists, were they? They were fascists.

Can you show me any of these extremists who you think are both on the left and Nazis? And explain why you think they are both of those things?

And to be clear - I am not calling all right wing extremists Nazis. All Nazis are right wing extremists, not all right wing extremists are Nazis. You seem to be content to throw the word around for anyone who you disagree with, but it is in fact a word that represents a specific political ideology which occupies a particular place on the spectrum.

What are you talking about? Nazism is a fundamentally right-aligned ideology, how can you argue otherwise? You can invent definitions of what “left” or “right” means to suit you if you want, but why bother saying anything if you’re going to make up the meanings of words?

Can you tell me what a “leftist” is? Or what they might want for the world? Can you tell me what a Nazi is? And then why you think there are parallels?

I just don’t believe that anyone who understands what these words mean would think they are alike.

Extremes are all relative, no? The political views that are centrist today would be extreme 100 years ago. Just saying they’re extreme and therefore bad is a weak argument.

Sure there are bigots on both sides, there are bigots outside the extremes too. There are centrist bigots! There, now I’ve shown that extremism is just the same as centrism… Obviously that doesn’t work, though, does it? You can’t just pick one thing that happens and say “well everyone does this so they’re all the same”… Does it happen to the same degree? What are it’s consequences?

I think you’ll find significantly more racism, sexism, etc on the right… Far right extenists are literal Nazis and white supremacists! Feminism, the civil rights movement, pride movement, etc, are all left-aligned… Extremist leftists sometimes lose sight of one aspect of this, but they so obviously aren’t the same as literal fucking Nazis!

One death from left wing extremism in 25 years, versus 329 from the right, 32900% more. To say that this is the “same shit” is clearly absurd. We aren’t discussing the merits of the middle ground. You seem to be suggesting that just because something is labelled as “extremist” it is automatically bad, regardless of what it actually is or what harm it causes.

Did you read any of that?

The only person I know who really uses Facebook a lot is my dad 🤷

(Also thank you 😁)

I’m right now downloading all my pictures so I can delete my Facebook and Instagram accounts… 1) I’m transitioning so it seems like a good time to disconnect myself from all the embarrassing photos of me as a teenager and 2) Facebook is just full of utter garbage these days anyway.

I don’t think that using regex to basically do regex stuff on strings that happen to also be HTML really counts as parsing HTML

I always wanted these little cube things with an LCD on the front that had a stick man on it. There were various different cubes each with a different character, they basically went through little actions on the screen, and you stick the cubes together and sometimes they’d travel between them. I bought them as an adult, it was amusing very briefly lol

I sort of knew but didn’t properly understand this is my early 20s. I always thought that transitioning would be easy and I put it off, since I had a fairy femme figure… Of course then I hit 25 and out of nowhere seemingly my whole torso changed shape. Really surprisingly suddenly!

Oh man, that’s a good story pitch.

You might be right, actually, I stand corrected! After some hunting I did manage to find this as far back as 2019, and I don’t rememberAI image gen being that good back then. Must just be the jpg making it look funky.