And importantly, even impeachment doesn't have almost any specific crimes associated with it, it's mostly just vibes.
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And importantly, even impeachment doesn't have almost any specific crimes associated with it, it's mostly just vibes.
There's no actual laws that say how the Supreme Court has to behave. Our entire government is built on a foundation of traditions and courtesies and unwritten rules (which we learned from you, BTW). Even the written rules mostly just say "don't do this" but there's no consequences or penalties.
One possibility is that we have in fact ALREADY entered a New Dark Age — signs: none of this will be preserved, interest in history is collapsing, the barbarians are taking over, etc. — but that this fact is masked because the info-phenomenological experience of the moment is of hyperabundance.
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It's funny, initially you only hear about Kikyo from people who knew her, or legends, and she sounds like an angel, a victim of circumstance and tragedy. And then she gets resurrected and you actually get to meet her and slowly you realize she's just a terrible person. Selfish, thoughtless, & awful.
Entire use-case for Excel is making pixel-art by filling cells with different colors.
You have to defend the right for art and media to be "sexually gratifying" You have to defend "gratification" You have to defend the right for people to get off nasty style You need to be more disgusted with people who want to say what people can do with their own time and money than x or y kink
We seem to have it in our heads that the term "Sexually Gratifying" is negative when it's really not! Yes, art can be sexually gratifying. Yes, sexually gratifying art has artistic value! We should all be able to indulge in our sweets after a hearty meal! stop-paypros.neocities.org #SaveSpeech
How many Scaramuccis did he last?
Except it's actually worse.
They can't say that though, because machines are actually better at those tasks *without* AI, and actual tech people understand that. They can only sell it to marketers and salespeople because they're the ones who are gullible enough to buy into the hype.
Yeah, no, it really isn't even "technologically impressive" though. It does the main thing it is intended to do poorly, and does everything else worse. It's impressive that it works at all, I guess?
Similarly "tutoring" is because Demonic Tutor was the first card that let you search your deck. And I don't know how widespread it is, but in my hometown tapping a creature to do one damage is called "Timming" because the Prodigal Sorcerer was nicknamed "Tim the Enchanter".
Honestly... 10% trans population seems plausible to me if everyone was safe to discover and come out.
There have literally been male cheerleaders longer than there have been female cheerleaders. It used to only be men.
5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood. This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.
You have a point with the uncanny valley stuff, but it can only do that by accident. A lot of machines can create body horror when they fail. I'd rate genAI failing to make a good picture of a human, similar to a grain thresher failing to keep the operator out of the hopper. Accidental body horror.
I know that's tongue in cheek, but AI isn't even the best at body horror. It accidentally creates some decent body horror, but it never looks like it was ever human to begin with. There's no soul, no emotion, no actual horror. Human artists still make the best body horror.
History has no arc. It is only by our own hands that justice will come into the universe. It is our duty to do so — to be, ourselves, the point at which the falling angels meets the rising ape.
Good thing for him there won't be another election then.
What lawyers are at risk of being disbarred if a bunch of ICE agents black-bag some state senators on the president's orders? Who is going to stop him?
That's the problem, they're the ones designing the models.
The newer AI models keep taking more power though, not less. You can't just point to dishwashers and say "see, it's the same".
Yeah, but LED/LCD TVs are a complete change in the technology. CRTs didn't get better, they got replaced. Are you suggesting that something will replace LLMs?
What the fuck are you talking about? Power requirements have steadily gone up for personal and industrial computing for decades. My current video card uses more power than my entire computer did in 2003.
Basically, yeah. Their entire business model just assumes they'll get away with it somehow.
What makes you think power requirements will drop, when every new model needs bigger and bigger data centers and more GPUs to run?
It would still use obscene amounts of power and water to run, but if it weren't for the plagiarism and copyright issues I don't think most people would care as much.
If they only trained their models on uncopyrighted material, or material that had fallen out of copyright, they would be completely in the clear. The LLM companies decided that wasn't enough training data and it was too much trouble to sort out copyrighted stuff, and they just scooped up everything
I was skeptical the new "custom AI movies" thing was going to work, but I tried it last night and there, on screen, was Spiderman banging my wife. Later we watched a Tom Cruise film and he too banged my wife. And when we put on an old Marx Brothers movie, all of them were going to town, on my wife
I work for a mortgage company, and if our data backups were "deleted due to a technical failure" we be shut down.
straight up medical doctors and pharmacists should refuse service to elected republicans and i'm not kidding
The pandemic emergency response and multiple UBI studies have shown that just giving poor people money dramatically improves their lives and is much simpler to administer, but that makes it harder to humiliate them, so here we are.
I mean this is literally the future they kept telling each other “the feminists want” when in reality it was the fake feminists, terfs, and conservatives pushing for it. It’s like when the dwarves, elves, and humans are all about to go to war in the hobbit but the goblins and trolls show up instead
"I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a troll." *unintelligible roaring followed by a greasy fist bump* "No... no I don't think so..."
The moment the automated voice says you might be recorded, you are legally allowed to record as well.
FYI, *67 still works from a cell phone. Just put it before the number you dial and your caller ID info will be blocked, even when you call Visa. You can even include it when you save a contact.
QA at most companies only has time to listen to about 0.1-1% of calls. It's a panopticon, it's supposed to intimidate the agents because they never know whether QA is listening or not.
Yeah, it's weird to be fighting alongside the worst people from the depths of 4chan (and worse places) against a common enemy that basically sees all of us as equally sub-human because of capitalism.
ChatGPT rolled out in November of 2022 and even without the 'hallucination' problem, it still produces cliche, lame prose that no one actually wants to read. You could get the thing to write 10,000 books in a day, and people have and somehow not one of those monkey-typewriter novels is good. 5/
Dementia riddled criminal can’t stop confessing.
screenshotting to agree not dunk since her quotes are disabled but; if you're making payment processor calls and you hit this, I think bringing up Game Of Thrones is such a huge brain strategy to throw at a layperson. GoT was HUGE and has all the shit Collective Shout weaponized to start this.
You just admitted they don't believe any of the evidence so far, which already includes hundreds of pictures. Why the fuck would more pictures, especially ones that have to be edited to censor out the victims, convince any of them? They don't want to believe it, so they won't.
It’s been reported that Jeffrey Epstein remained a member of Mar-a-Lago until 2007. So we are being lied to about the breakup between Epstein and Trump.
I remember when this happened.
Here you go Diddy apologists. It's not about race, it's about US vs THEM. Diddy doesnt care about you, he cares about other rich assholes like Trump.
The Epstein investigation started in 2005. MAGA didn't exist yet, and Trump was still publically friends with Epstein.
Some Dems suck, but most of them are fighting to release, while the vast majority of the GOP is fighting not to. I want them all released, but the leader of MAGA, Trump himself, is the loudest voice against releasing the info.
The Republican Speaker of the House ended the legislative session early to block a vote to release the files. The Dems exploited a loophole in a committee to force the files to be released and the Republican chair lied about the vote until a Dem forced a roll-call. Miss me with that "tribal" shit.
Been a long time since I've seen a beloved game brand torpedo their reputation this fast. It would have been one thing a decade or two ago, but Rowling and the HP brand are toxic in 2025, and they really should have known better.
Gavin Newsome 🤝 Pete Buttigieg 🤝 throwing trans people under the bus for their presidential campaigns
It's not the Dems that are scrambling to block any attempt to release the files, it's the GOP and the President. The Dems have been pushing and pushing to release them and the Repubs have been using every dirty trick and lie they can come up with to prevent it.
No, Dems couldn't pursue it last term because it was still sealed by the Grand Jury. And yes, we've seen the flight manifests and I have no doubt that Dems and Repubs and apolitical rich assholes are all represented, and they should all burn. I don't give a shit what party they are.
The Epstein child trafficking investigation was started in 2005 by the Palm Beach, FL police department. Qanon started in 2017, and MAGA first appeared in 2016.
You're conflating insane and debunked conspiracy theories that have no evidence, with the very real Epstein investigation that has mountains of evidence.
Oh, there are? You've seen the list? Do you still have it? Why are you keeping it secret? I bet you could sell it to a news outlet for millions.
Qanon/MAGA has started hundreds of conspiracy theories about child sex trafficking, almost all of them bullshit like Pizzagate, but they didn't start the Epstein investigation.
Lol! MAGA didn't start the push, they latched onto it when they thought it could be used to smear Dems and celebrities, and now many of them are dropping it because their Dear Leader told them to.
[spends months building up a new daily routine] [forgets one day] [never does it ever again]
Or, like many other internet randos, you have no idea what you're talking about. Gotta pull your head out of that rabbit hole, bruh.
Yeah, but yours probably is closer to actual bread. Ours keeps that long because of the sugar and preservatives. The contrast with actual bakery bread is shocking.
You can't defend gore, violent, gruesome media without defending sex and erotic media. Both go hand in hand, there's eroticism in the grotesque, theres horror in the sensual. Your "purity" about sex won't save you if you think making war is better than making love
Sure, donate a few million bucks to them and they might be able to find lawyers to file a case against several of the largest corporations in the world, which would immediately get thrown out because the first amendment doesn't apply here.
For God’s sake, the reason we have MAGA is because we have consistently met their uncivil and grotesque misconduct and abuses with kindness and civility. Not every thought spoken deserves civility. Not all behavior should be met with kindness.
I really felt like they were entirely unconnected. It didn't feel like the same world, but I was also 17 the first time I read them. I didn't like Diamond Age as much, so I haven't reread it, and I eventually moved on to his newer work. I should go back.
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O.o Wut?
...omg... I need to read those again, it's been years, I literally never realized.
Not to be pedantic, but Diamond Age and Snowcrash take place in different world and are not connected to each other narratively.
All I'm saying is that *feeling threatened* doesn't mean that the behavior was objectively *a threat*. Please explain how that makes *me* a threat? I'm not familiar with that portion of feminist theory. And don't bring OP into this, her discomfort had nothing to do with feeling threatened.
If I say "would you like some cake?" and someone feels threatened by it for some reason, their feelings are valid but it doesn't mean that offering any person cake is a threat.
...no? I will grant that it makes you feel threatened, but it is not "a threat". That implies intent, not just an action. Unless you define a threat as any action that makes anyone feel threatened, but that isn't a very useful definition.
95% of *your friends* think it's nonsense because they're as ignorant as you are. 95% of the population don't have an opinion on "decolonizing psychology" because they've never heard of it and don't know what it is.
Mass-market sandwich bread has enough preservatives that it stays good in my cabinet for a month after the pull date, and I still end up throwing away one or two moldy slices eventually. Bakery bread lasts about four days, so I have to really try to use it up.
When Fascists win, they attack. When fascists accuse, they confess. When fascists promise, they lie.
And when they lose they're "just a little guy, a little guy who did something. You wouldn't punish a little harmless guy for just doing a thing, would you?" until they can get power again.
So that's a "no". You and your conservative friends just think big words are scary and assume everyone else does too.
It's a service. Wouldn't you want to know if it was going to work before you had to use it? If I can resist the taser, I'm not being a threat, I'm showing you that you need a better taser. The fact that I'm doing it primarily out of curiosity doesn't change the fact that it's useful.
Yeah, but men wrote that story. And in ancient Greece it's entirely possible they'd never had a conversation with an actual woman, so they just wrote her like a dude.
I mock more than block.
They're not, you just can't parse simple English.
Failing to understand context cues and parsing simple English seems more like a "you" problem. Also, I would never have found this post to mock you if you hadn't *quoted yourself* in the original discussion.
And the other adults involved.
Most American cars barely fit on Japanese roads. The only people who own and drive them are rich and powerful people making a statement.
Yeah, that's what I do now. The whole complaint was that it's hard to cook for one without waste. It's not about cost, it's about feeling bad throwing away food because I didn't use it.
Interestingly, once she gets a pardon she can say anything she wants, and further isn't able to claim the 5th (since there's no risk of incrimination any more). In a sane society that would be helpful.
I happen to like balanced flavors so if I add more peppers I need to add more of everything else too. More importantly, the specific produce isn't the point. This all started with Strangleskid saying just not to make "complicated dishes like Pad Thai" as a solution to cooking at home getting harder.
I still end up throwing away a lot of it because I just didn't use it in time. I haven't tried freezing peppers, but my solution for green onions is just putting them in everything. I still can't go through a whole bunch before they turn either brown and slimy, or dry and brittle, but close.
If you can't replace the words in the logo without the Brand Typeface still being recognised as your brand, you have not rebranded. You've just selected a font
No. I didn't call you stupid, and I didn't think it would be taken as aggressive. I consciously chose the mildest "insult" I could think of to be clear it wasn't meant to be hurtful. The intent was for the childishness to blunt it and make it funny, but clearly I misjudged. Hence the apology.
This kind of experiment has been carried out multiple times across several countries and every time the result is the same, so you'd think more places would implement it but no, they don't. These results will be swept under the rug, ignored, or lied about by the rest of the world.
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
I didn't realize it would be taken as "aggro" to sarcastically call you "genius". That was a pretty minor playground insult when I was growing up, and wasn't meant to be a serious attack. I apologize for any hurt it caused. The point stands though, "just don't make Pad Thai" isn't a good solution.
Your suggestion was literally just not making Pad Thai. I'm not asking you to solve this *for me*, i can make it just fine. I'm asking what *you* think the solution is, because I'm curious how your brain works. Especially after that angry, defensive non-answer.
Okay, genius, what if I *want* Pad Thai though? What if I only have one or two nights a week home to cook for myself? Do I just stop cooking with fresh vegetables? They won't just sell me two green onions or half of a bell pepper.
Yeah, cooking is significantly more expensive and/or more difficult when you live alone. It's hard to buy enough ingredients to feed myself but not so much that it goes bad in the fridge. This is compounded by any unexpected plans or no-motivation nights.
It's just going to drive traffic to the shady and less responsible sites, just like every time they've tried this before.
Okay give me your rough estimate. How many kids that were accessing porn before will not access it now with this new law. Just your best guess, how many kids already seek out and consume adult content, and are actually going to be prevented from doing so by this law?
Ah yes, the Lesiure Suit Larry solution.