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  • I have never had any doubt that the republicans are worse. That’s not news.

    But I also don’t think the existing DNC and their policies are a solution. Multiple things need to change: the republicans need to be ousted, and the democrats need to be more progressive/socialist/whatever you want to call it. Defending the DNC doesn’t help with either of those things. The DNC are unappealing to a large majority of voters (including a lot of progressives, which is a large part of why Harris didn’t win).

    Ideally the US also implements a more progressive voting system, but that’s not really on the cards until the other two conditions are met.










  • Interesting policy… I suspect it falls apart in the details though. Like, there are plenty of creative elements in responding to questions (and any of the other categories). That mean there will be lots of weird edge cases that are hard to adjudicate. And those GenAI components of “non-creative” categories will have ripple effects into the broader project and community (as they are everywhere, so maybe not that important for a.policy to grapple with, IDK).


  • That’s sea ice extent, not measuring the ice sheet (which is the permanent glacier on land).

    Also it’s well within the historical variability, so probably not a huge flag right now… Might be worth checking over the next few weeks though. Antarctic sea ice did fall off a cliff over the last decade… There’s also an El Niño building, which is connected to warming I’m the Amundsen Sea, though I don’t know how the timing works there.