tocopherol

I thought you were making a correction at first but this is a helpful comment for the metric folks, 31.16 feet is 9.5m 👍

I gave you the data, as they say "facts don't care about your feelings."

What would be the point in them saying something like "AI can create artful looking images" or get a point across more easily? That's not the issue, and people don't disagree with that. Everything has positive and negative aspects, if you're against a thing you will emphasize the negative. Like if you're anti-fascist you're not going to take much time pointing out all the good the Nazis have done.

Definitely, we have been trending further toward anti-intellectualism for a while, not just history but people of all ages need to recognize that learning is a lifelong process, you can't just graduate high school and be done with it. Things learned in school even ten years ago or less can be outdated, society as a whole is learning more about the past all the time.

I agree, but you said they'd never 'concede a win to AI' as if their argument is that AI looks bad or doesn't get a point across but that's not what the debate is, so that isn't AI 'winning' against the 'anti-AI crowd'.

What is the 'win to AI'? I would rather a pen and paper shitty kindergarten looking drawing than a 'beautiful' AI image, that is a very shallow viewing of the issue. No one disagrees that AI can create "good" looking images.

It's not anyones responsibility to risk their lives, I wouldn't blame anyone for not standing up against the Nazis in 1938 Germany, but in light of what we know, it's becoming more and more impossible to maintain a clear conscience without fighting back.

I don't see it as 'condemning' someone for not doing more, just a belief that anyone capable should do more and they will likely feel regret if they don't.

How do you know people posting that aren't doing it? It already is ignited, it's at a low burn, only because people aren't fighting back en masse yet, but in some places there is resistance going on. I agree though, "don't speak about it, be about it".

It's in Florida where there are a ton of alligators, essentially the 'Gator State'

Essentially all history education in the US is heavily politicized except for WW2, the only thing Americans could agree on about the last 200 years is that Nazis were bad, and even that is now becoming 'controversial', with some schools like in Florida wanting to teach more about "both sides" of the holocaust. There's a reason my mom really loved the quote "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

The average knowledge of the things you mentioned would be "isn't Jackson the guy on the $20?" "Weren't gulags in Siberia or something? What even is a gulag exactly?" And "'Know Nothings'?? Yeah I literally 'know nothing' about that."

It's up to individuals and families to teach their kids actual history, and most parents both work and have little time to teach their kids anything that the schools don't teach them. And now I see kids leaning history from youtubers, it's a pretty depressing situation.

a lot of republicans are pretty damn stupid and short sighted, including the president.

They aren't just stupid, many on the right are religiously dedicated to the idea of a judgement day and devastating war between 'good and evil'. They are convinced 'God is on their side'. Evangelical Christian fascists have been pushing this for years, it was almost guaranteed to come to direct conflict from the course the US has been on unless there was some kind of intervention long ago.