Was there a contradiction? Point is, there is no loyalty beyond that. If the favours for Russia were to no longer serve his own, personal interests (or at least, for as long as he believes them to do so, let's not forget he is also very much fallible), he'd not support them. There is no ideological solidarity, or alliance or higher loyalty is what I was getting at. Just his belief that the world is fundamentally strong people preying on and using the weak, and that he thinks that he can cooperate with Putin on that - conditionally.
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There's always people that need reminding, like, I am sure there's at least some people thinking Trump has some sort of higher loyalty towards Russia besides agreeing with their new world order of every country acting as "fuck you, got mine"-imperialists.
Oh, thanks for the info, that is great to know!
As far as I know, from when this was discussed after the first Reddit exodus, only commenting and posting makes you an active user. So the number is somewhat deceivingly small, as the vast majority on platforms like this are lurkers who maybe post/comment every once in a while at most.
This is the way, after all, Lemmy has lots of great mobile apps.
Sunk cost fallacy. Also, admitting to having been wrong is hard. It's one of the core mechanisms cults use to ensure loyalty. The more embarrassing, absurd and shameful the accepted "truths" become, the harder it is to exit the cult.
Okay, that is fair enough - although one small thing I'd add is "psychological issues not greatly exacerbated by his former employer" - where I also don't think intentionality is important, as long as they callously don't consider the potential of that exacerbation.
Thing is: psychological issues don't exist in a vacuum. For example - let's say he was robbed of all perspectives to ever work again in a field he was passionate about by his former employer de facto "blacklisting" him - they surely did not explicitly have this outcome in mind, but they accepted it as a possibility. Similar situation with the high suicide rates in countries like South Korea - they don't exist the way they are because of independently existing, isolated mental illness, but because of a material system that interacts with, and sets the conditions of, psychological development.
So, you are right, it's true that it could be, that it ends up as the result of a completely unrelated mental illness. But I'd be wary to take reports like "he actually had a diagnosis of depressive disorder" as simply washing OpenAI clean of all responsibility.
This just as a reminder: Even if this is to turn out to really 100% be a suicide, that just means they were able to silence him by driving him into suicide - basically by all important metrics the same as a corporate assassination with extra steps.
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Well, you are doing a great job, and I like what I have seen so far! Keep up the good work!
I just rejoined PeerTube after I had a quick look years ago, and it's gotten way better since then, actually. I found out Space Quest Historian is on it, too!
But yeah, discoverability isn't good. Lack of an algorithm also makes bingewatching impossible - for better and worse, I guess.
As you linked them, I'd also recommend peertube.wtf - they even reacted very quickly when I reported a transphobic german conspiracy channel/server.
Ah, to me, it is important to consider where it comes to the US foreign policy going forward in their era of fascism. I live in the EU, and I guess that was the foremost issue on my own mind. And I am not expecting something like a Russia-US-alliance myself, because of that lack of mutual loyalty. Only cooperation of convenience.