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KingOfTheBailey
3hr ago
It's Factorio but more, where each flavor of "more" is different in its own way. If the base game came out in the early 2000's, the DLC would be one of those really good expansions whose purchase would be thoroughly justified, like TA: Core Contingency or SC: Brood War.
I cobbled together a space platform and set forth. Thoroughly underestimated my fuel and ammo needs and got smashed to bits by asteroids while traveling. Now I'm stuck on a volcanic hellscape where none of the production chains make sense, I didn't bring enough stuff, my base back home isn't really set up for remote construction, and I'm having a great time.
I'm having my first moment of AI-related epistemic crisis. I've been provided the link to this clip, and I legitimately can't tell if it's real or not. I'm pretty sure AI gen is good enough to generate a video like this, so the obvious first choice would be to search for other sources repeating the content and providing additional context. I've done so and found nothing, which raises my concern that it isn't real; I'd expect this to be everywhere if it were genuine.
Does it even matter? If it's generated, then who's it generated by: his supporters or his own campaign, as a way of field-testing proposals? Why not generate a ton of these and see which go viral, then simply do those? As a private citizen, why not generate these as a way to influence your leader, by demonstrating a possible avenue they could choose to take? Could we be on the cusp of AI-accelerated populism?
[EDIT] - nope, looks like it's genuine. Search failure on my part. Hot damn!
MathWizard
Good things are good
3hr ago
I think framing the objection as "this law is technically worded in a way that allows parents to get away with making porn of their own children if they exploit this loophole, we should make it stricter to fix that loophole" would not get someone chastised as being pro-pedo. You're generally allowed to make things more strict. Even if it's obvious that in practice a jury would just handwave the discrepancy and convict them anyway.
AppleyOrange
3hr ago
Put up some quotes that compare the two campaigns.
JLoBiafra
3hr ago
Is the 16 years old gambit being used to cover up the fact that they really just wznted some good old fag bashing?
JLoBiafra
3hr ago
I didn't Notice any eliding of the Chris Hansen angle. I think our biases are informing our perception.
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
3hr ago
Old people lose their teeth due to periodontitis, not cavities, usually.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
3hr ago
Logistics would be a nightmare as you’d need cops on every corner to prevent defiance. Even at that, I’m not sure if it’s possible. There are enough hotheads with guns in America that if Americans decided to actually resist an order, you’d have to either back down or bomb cities like Gaza to do it. I’m not sure if even with the police and NG you’d have enough people to pacify 300 million Americans who want nothing to do with a lockdown. At the very least, it would take a lot of effort.
ccc
3hr ago
This is most commonly raised as a counterpoint to "why are we spending so much in Ukraine, when {pet issue at home} is totally ignored!"
It's also maybe a compromise strategy to appese peaceniks, but this is frankly retarded as peaceniks are never appeased.
I at least fully advocate taking the risk of nuclear escalation, since the alternative (appeasement of nuclear threats) is far worse. This is unfortunately a hard sell to the American voter who cares more about culture war and gas prices. If Trump can make that sell, then I'll be impressed.
HalloweenSnarry
3hr ago
We have RO systems attached to our taps in my home, so I don't need Brita or bottled.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3hr ago
Star Trek: Lower Decks is actually quite good. There’s some wokeness, but for the most part it’s a solid work with good characters, hilarity and normal Trek things. It is also definitely not for children.
anon_
3hr ago
He can't do (1) because Putin knows that and so he's in a shit position to negotiate. You can't do anything where you want it more than the other guy.
naraburns
nihil supernum
3hr ago
If you're not aware, there are a ton of "pred-catcher" YouTube and Rumble channels.
I was not aware, but your explanation seems quite plausible to me, and all the more so if such content is presently en vogue.
Chattooga
3hr ago
I don’t see how this makes him a republican. There’s plenty of issues that differentiate the two parties, and his point in this case is a set of changes/tweaks that the current party should make. It’s not an exhaustive list of what the democrats should be.
anon_
3hr ago
I can imagine a DA who wants to make it a hate crime arguing that they were specifically targeting gay men.
This seems pretty obviously true: they were on Grindr and so they were targeting gay men.
Which I guess goes to the general incoherence of hate crime enhancements in general.
naraburns
nihil supernum
3hr ago
What am I missing here?
Honestly, just looks like bad drafting. It's clearly intended to parallel the language of 11-208(a) and would, I expect, be enforced in that way. But on this topic perhaps more than any other, people will avoid pointing out even obvious drafting issues for fear of being accused of being opposed to such laws.
KingOfTheBailey
3hr ago
From the "... and giving my GPU a well-deserved rest", I take it to mean he's been having a lot of fun prompting local (and presumably less censored) image generation models.
anon_
4hr ago
I agree there is a kind of DOS attack here where a bad actor can sow chaos. I think we also agree that this probably wouldn't work at any kind of scale or reliability.
anon_
4hr ago
Previous centuries didn't have a 9 minutes video of a handcuffed man dying in front of a crowd.
whenhaveiever
4hr ago
Could they get the new justice through in time? 56 days until the next Congress convenes. From Ginsburg's death to Barrett's confirmation was 38 days but from Breyer's announcement to Jackson's confirmation was 70. Biden would just about need someone ready to go already and then they could only lose one of Manchin or Sinema to still confirm the new nominee. Republicans would pull out all the stops and they don't have to delay things all that long, especially over the holidays and with the debt ceiling fight coming up too.
Edit: It would be quite a risk for Sotomayor to voluntarily step down at this point, and she may judge that it's less of a risk to stay in.
cae_jones
4hr ago
That sounds more dangerous to me, but it really depends on the amount in the bottles. AFAIK, the only known death from fluoride poisoning was a 3-year-old chugging a bottle of fluoride solution, but it was a bigger one at a dentist's office.
The main thing is that swallowing fluoride is fairly useless, and where the risks are. You want it to stay in your mouth.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
4hr ago
Color me also skeptical, because otherwise one might expect to see noticeable IQ differences between the towns that don't add fluoride (famously, Portland) and the rest of the country.
Now, I have heard people suggest that "there must be something [not] in the water in Portland", but that is never followed by "and it's making them smarter than the rest of us."
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