Do you assume women's prisons are meaningfully less violent than men's prisons?
Without bothering to look this up: obviously yes. Do you have compelling prison violence statistics that show the opposite?
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1d ago
Anduril makes drones that fly into other drones, smashing them. You have a bunch of these waiting and they launch when hostile drones come in. If they don't find a drone to intercept then they land and wait for another attack.
https://www.anduril.com/roadrunner/
Also quite a variety of other military drones.
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4d ago
It has definitely happened before. Egging on terrorists and then they actually try to mass kill people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack
Actually had a single FBI agent following them as they attempted a mass shooting. Only stopped because of a shootout with off duty law enforcement acting as armed security. If it weren't for armed security they would have slaughtered attendees and I don't suppose a single FBI agent would stop two guys with rifles.
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6d ago
All good points.
My issue is the common trend of people asserting what the views of their opponents should be and declaring them hypocrites based on a simplistic understanding of their views. Attempting to assign ideological positions to someone and then hold them accountable, rather than asking and listening to their actual views.
There are of course actual hypocrites and valid accusations of hypocrisy. But culture war accusations of hypocrisy tend not to be that. They are instead extreme extrapolations from vague sentiments.
I for one don't want to get into a race to the bottom against the poorest people on Earth. They'll win and I'll be dragged most the way down to their economic level.
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7d ago
Also the context of that Reagan radio address was his justification for applying tariffs against Japan. "Of course we all know tariffs are bad, but..."
"Of course this argument wouldn't work on me. But just maybe it will make you do what I want."
Accusations of hypocrisy tend to be failures in recognizing nuance, different factions or different situations and context. I would put very little stock in accusations of hypocrisy from someone hostile to my views.
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7d ago
American leftists warned everyone against this from day one
Yes I recall the hysterical cries about how Romney was like a Nazi, going to put black people back in chains, etc. Endless warnings about the existential threat of Mitt Romney.
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10d ago
Then they did it to white Americans 20 years later with the fentanyl epidemic and blamed China (and now recently Venezuela). People with their heads firmly lodged up their asses refer to this as a “conspiracy theory”
Something about proactively providing evidence for inflammatory claims.
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10d ago
they even have the latest tech gadgets, though I have no idea how they pull that off
Under the table cash work. Or straight up black market work. Selling tax free single cigarettes, weed, whatever. Double dipping government benefits and some irregular work.
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10d ago
I think we should integrate over a person's life. You took a brief break in working due to the reckless actions of EcoHealth Alliance. That shouldn't negate the entirety of the rest of your life.
Otherwise every full time student or sick person taking a break to recover is a parasite. That seems too harsh to always be judging on an instantaneous basis. We need integrals, not derivatives for this measurement.
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10d ago
Also the half million capital gains tax exemption for a married couple selling their primary residence. Quarter million for single people.
An elderly couple selling their house and downsizing are getting an incredible cash payout with little or maybe no taxation.
For decades there have been synthetic THC pills approved for medicinal use such as Marinol. THC is FDA approved. So strange that extracting THC from marijuana is Schedule 1 but synthesizing it in a lab is not.
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12d ago
They'd have to really commit to it. It takes one click to turn on a VPN with an exit node in the US. There'd have to be a Great European Firewall.
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12d ago
The data wasn't "hacked" so much as "left on a public facing website". Not so much as a password protecting it. They left their dirty laundry in the street and 4chan had a giggle looking at it.
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12d ago
Sure, you can rather trivially copy American social media and phone apps. I've been to China a number of times and they did just that. American apps are banned. Equivalent Chinese apps are available for download if you have a Chinese mainland phone number and bank account.
There are European search engines. They collectively enjoy single digit percentage of European searches while American search engines take the other nearly 100%. Someday there will be commonly used American AI and EU regulators leeching a bit of value from them in the form of fines. There will be some combination of none or deeply unpopular European AI that approximately no one would voluntarily use as an alternative to American tech.
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12d ago
They enjoy selectively enforcing it to fine American tech companies billions. I consider that obvious parasitism. They can't compete with American tech, but they can siphon off value and assert that they are the regulatory leader of something they are incapable of making themselves. They're already proudly stating they will be the global regulatory leader for AI also. I'm sure the American and Chinese researchers are thrilled.
Literally "Yes [practically] all men!" That's correct. "Locker room talk" is real.
There's a Chappell Show sketch about a woman who develops psychic powers and hears men's thoughts. She is comedically horrified at every man she meets including a middle school boy. You are resembling that character a bit.
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21d ago
The rightmost and "our beliefs" may be different things. Extrapolating your views to the most extreme failure state possible is not endorsing hyperbolic extremism.
If a Young Democrat said we need more government control over the economy and another one sarcastically replied "okay, Chairman Mao", I would not interpret that as literal support for Maoist economic policies.
Worse yet "assault" includes hard talk in many jurisdictions. Credibly threatening someone is assault.
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