How do you maintain a set-up like the one in the factory when the color vibe check should reveal "Yup, you assholes are all guilty of pre-crime harassment and conspiracy to commit harassment, everyone to jail
The factory has no wifi for security reasons. They are completely isolated from the net and even shielded to prevent transmissions or spying. The guns themselves can't do a scan, they need the Sibyl system to look through the sensor and make a judgement. The guns are bricks when offline. In the absence of Sibyl's judgment they can't even shoot in nonlethal paralyzer mode. Police gun combat training begins and ends with point the gun at someone, hear Sibyl's judgement, shoot if Sibyl allows you to. It seems to autoaim and blow criminals apart if an investigator pulls the trigger.
Other locations in the series lack scanners, such as a fancy boarding school. Some criminal characters spend their whole lives successfully avoiding scanners. That means they can never visit a public place in an urban area.
Full scans are computationally expensive and not that common. Investigator guns are very privileged in that they can demand immediate scans. In all other contexts there are rather low accuracy scans generally checking groups of people. Or none at all depending on the location.
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2d ago
Some people need a refresher on sigmoid functions. I've thought this for a long time about singularity believers.
Early in the process it looks exponential and projecting forward a few periods gives implausible results. "At this rate of bacterial growth, the entire universe will be this bacteria in a few months" level of silliness. Obviously that doesn't happen and instead some physical constraint is reached and the system slows in growth and flattens off over time.
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2d ago
It seems like there doesn't exist an organization that doesn't have a child sex abuse problem.
Yes, in the sense that pedophiles commonly have the big-brained idea to get a job working with kids.
Child actors are commonly sexually abused by Hollywood executives. I don't think that means the typical Hollywood producer is a pedophile. I think it means the subset of Hollywood producers who happen to be pedophiles make sure to work with child actors.
It's like that with every organization. I don't think the average youth pastor is fucking the kids. But if a pedophile happened to be a member of that church, he might get the clever idea to volunteer to be youth pastor.
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3d ago
a crude comic of some guy (?) giving another guy (?) a BJ
Both women. One wearing a strap on.
There have been school board controversies over Gender Queer when parents discovered what was being presented for elementary schoolers to learn about gender identity.
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3d ago
Gender Queer is, among other things, a book of gay cartoon sex. Targeted at 8 year olds and stocked in public school libraries at my expense.
I support sex ed and some Motte interpretation of the positive things you mention. But the current popular Bailey of sexual cartoon books for young children supplied at taxpayer expense has nothing to do with those positive vibes.
I read your posts and just hope your children against the odds manage to become well-adjusted adults despite your efforts
Sneering contempt against most parents.
Someone here recently criticized drivers for "selfishly trampling" on this shared infrastructure by driving their kids to school. You have the opinion that these roads are not for use by suburbanites.
A tiny portion of my taxes are spent on roads. Having paid my taxes, I feel entitled to use of public roads and entirely unsympathetic to people saying my use of public roads is actually bad.
Every now and then I get roped into visiting the nearest major city for some reason. No one can rightfully tell me to keep in the suburbs or block my use of public streets.
And I notice the contempt and sometimes hatred new urbanists have for suburbanites. I'll not pretend anti-suburban policy is neutral and just coincidentally harms me. They declare me prospering to be a negative externality and propose suitable Pigouvian taxes to correct the problem. They cannot make me want to live in an apartment downtown or ride a train to work. But they could possibly make me too poor to live any other way.
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4d ago
Congestion pricing could be a wonderful tool to help steer more people to mass transit
I suppose. But I also really don't want to be "steered" in this one manner. They almost entirely lack pull incentives to make me voluntarily want to use mass transit. So instead they use push incentives that are naked attacks on suburbanites by urban enthusiasts. I notice how disgusted they are by me and my lifestyle and wish to avoid the punishments they have in store for me.
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4d ago
red states will benefit from an influx of [Californians and New Yorkers]
Spicy opinion in light of Californians desperately fleeing poor governance but then importing it with them.
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4d ago
it appears they made a mistake
"Oops. Looks like I, a career bureaucrat, accidentally foiled the Republican executive I derive all my authority from yet again. I sure hope these accidents don't keep happening every time a Republican is elected president."
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5d ago
white liberals who unironically believe this is a railroading because their brains fell out.
They're the only group with significant outgroup bias. And they outnumber black Americans. Naively I would expect most donaters to be them.
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9d ago
getting a mediator, and when he presents his relatively unbiased, fair compromise
Specifically in the case of the war in Ukraine? Russia keeps invade and taking territory. A "compromise" in which Russia gets part of Ukraine and Ukraine keeps part of Ukraine is merely the starting point for the next invasion in a few years.
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13d ago
Trying to determine what liberal white women are thinking about Trump and modern America, I found some fun subreddits.
/r/twoxpreppers is for women prepping for the worst. And supporting each other in their decisions not to arm themselves. Sure, they think we are entering the Republic of Gilead and they will be cattle in a living hell. But, that doesn't justify such extreme actions as buying a gun or in any way preparing for violence. Accusations of LARPing are too common, but these people are actually LARP resistance. Not even trying.
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13d ago
Trump is very comfortable with gay men. What little evidence I am aware of shows he doesn't care about trans people.
A journalist asked Trump what bathroom a transwoman would need to use in Trump Tower. He said he doesn't care.
Trump's mentor was Roy Cohn. An interesting guy worth a googling.
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14d ago
I have no reason to think this is real. In fact I suspect it is entirely imaginary.
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15d ago
I don't think this was miscommunication. Mike Johnsons was referring to a recent executive order, Biden denied signing such an order. News articles phrase it correctly as a ban on new export permits. But there is no transcript of the actual conversion
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16d ago
Am I supposed to be holding the fact that he followed through on that against him?
I see this a lot. Trump campaigns on doing something. Then he does it. People are blindsided and demand that Trump supporters be equally shocked and regretful of voting for him.
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16d ago
To add to this: Mike Johnson claimed he had a meeting with Biden in which Biden denied recently signing an executive order to block natural gas exports. So Biden either signed it and forgot, or staffers signed it for him without his knowledge. Either an unelected cabal was the real president and/or his brain didn't work.
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I don't feel very bound by this meme format. If there is a strained analogy about leopards and eaten faces, then I would like to point out the predatory behavior of the Biden administration aimed at tech companies. To follow the format anyways: "When Biden said he would break up monopolies and trusts, I didn't think he was going to target my tech monopoly!"
These tech companies and their owners are historically big supporters of Democrats. They were extra big financial supporters of Biden in 2020. Their reward was the Biden administration attacking them. Saying they are monopolies to be broken up, blocking acquisitions so they don't grow bigger, threatening regulations intended to choke their businesses. It's a real scorpion and frog or "I didn't think the face eating leopard would regulate my industry" situation. And then of course Democrats acting betrayed when major tech companies and their owners donate a million dollars to the Trump inauguration. I listened to Pod Save America for a while, "how could they do this to us?" was a theme for a bit.
Sybil system is very much not a panopticon. The scanners are mostly in nicer urban public areas.
In slums and outside the city there are no scanners as best I recall. So nice houses outside of the city or a boarding school are scanner-free. There's a criminal underclass and illegal immigrant criminals who don't go anywhere there are scanners. There's plenty of characters who if they were scanned would get immediately death-squaded by Public Safety. There's illegal thoughtcrime music concerts that the cops eventually track down.
The Sybil system seems to mostly judge people on how emotionally cool they are. A somewhat emotional rock-loving lesbian gets solitary confinement and gassed with sedatives if she gets mad about her poor treatment. An actual psychopath feeling nothing as he runs a knife down the back of a young woman is judged as 0 crime coefficient. A really well made and rigorously implemented Sibyl system would be a very different show; as you mention about politicians and rich kids getting culled.
It's a good show. Watch a few episodes and you'll see how it makes sense as they present it. Which is a rather shitty and hypocritical implementation of this system.
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