I think usually it refers to someone who is given broad powers over a certain area of interest without necessarily sticking to a pre-defined title.

During event organization we would sometimes refer to the people who enforce parking rules as “parking czars”.

And there’s NYC’s “Rat Czar” who is responsible for tackling the city’s rat problem

Police unions

Bill passes with bipartisan support

You: this is because you didn’t vote for one of the two parties that supported the bill

I think this is the correct take.

The two uses in my personal life I’ve seen AI used for is easy flyers, and rpg character art.

The problem with AI for personal use isn’t usually the easy one (water/electricity use, intellectual property, etc.) for a single, noncommercial user. Artists aren’t being harmed if you weren’t going to drop the price of a car on character art for all your DnD NPCs, or if the alternative to using AI to make a flyer was spending an hour in canva to do the same thing.

There are other issues. AI-generated character art can have a certain “soulless” quality that I personally hate, which is why I never use it. AI-generated flyers look unprofessional, or sometimes can include visual design elements that give an unintended conclusion or vibe.

I vote PSL where I can, but I live in a relatively “Small-Town” area and so I’m not necessarily opposed to voting for good local Dems for city, county etc. elections.

I think a lot of Internet MLs use ideology as a way to justify not being politically literate wrt local politics because “they’re all just the same”. That’s largely true at the Congressional level, sure, but chances are there are good people running as Democrats (or Independents) in your locality who probably won’t be truly revolutionary but don’t really need to be.

The city council of Yuriev-Polsky didn’t need to be full of Bolsheviks for the Russian Revolution to succeed. I think at the local level it’s most important to fight corruption and outright Bourgeois power-grabbing and to elect representatives who roughly represent the people they govern (to do otherwise would be a form of Ultra-Leftism).

I was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. There are some Democrats - Mayor Malik, Congresswoman Emilia Sykes, Fiscal Officer Kristen Scalise, etc. - who are corrupt, Zionist pieces of shit who I will never vote for. There are other Democrats, like Donofrio and Shmidt on the county council, or Fran Wilson on the city council, who I quite like and would vote for easily.