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10hr ago
Thinking about the Obama administration: malicious tax audits of non-profits, Operation Choke Point debanking conspiracy and Citizens United outright censorship. So yeah I don't have to imagine very hard.
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1d ago
Their policy manual and official department rules do not supercede the law. A cop can follow their procedure to the letter and also be convicted for his actions. Their procedures are something they made up and very much not the law.
We can have sanctioned violence with law enforcement follow the law rather than the "official rules" their department made. State legislation defining murder is not inferior to department policy.
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1d ago
They are okay for summarizing research. But if you think it may be wrong, it can't back its facts up. Or you tell it you think it is wrong so it pivots with equal confidence to a new set of claims more in line with your demands.
Your post well could be correct. But with low confidence.
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1d ago
excited delerium
I thought this was a fake thing cops made up. I'm sure their internal documentation refers to it and recommends methods of dealing with it. Pretending as though it was a medical diagnosis they are sensibly dealing with. That way when they get caught behaving in an unjustifiable manner they can use procedure as a shield from criticism. A procedure they made up and may not be legal if actually applied. As seen by this cop following procedure and then being convicted of murder.
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1d ago
Did you copy-paste Grok output? This might be correct or approximately correct. But I have low confidence in raw LLM output. I use these things at work and they say weird stuff and I demand a citation and they cannot find one. I'm pretty skeptical of these things.
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1d ago
staff are trained to always take the side of racial minority complainants
The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence.
Paper bag testing people and blindly siding with white suspects is dumb. This, doing the opposite, is just as dumb.
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3d ago
threat of release to the 'public domain' or open-sourcing
Off the top of my head: make the released version of code so complicated and obscured that people can't effectively use it.
Out of curiosity I googled and found Washington state passed rent control last year.
Washington state has sweeping statewide rent stabilization laws limiting how much landlords can increase residential rent. Most rent increases are capped at 7% plus inflation (or 10% total, whichever is lower). The Washington Department of Commerce sets the precise maximum cap, which is currently limited to 9.683%.
Of course they did. It is a bit more nuanced than this, but strictly bad with some nuance softening the blow of terrible policy.
"Democrats are the technocratic party" proven wrong again.
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7d ago
Seriously, who looks at the present system and says "the problem with that is that landlords have too little political power"?
That would be me. Renters protections are excessive. Rent control is destructive and sadly becoming more common.
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8d ago
Yes to your points and also the matter under dispute was if the Federal government can ban a documentary that was critical of Hillary Clinton. The government's representatives were arguing that they can and additionally have the power to ban books that have even a small portion political advocacy. Even one sentence of political advocacy is enough to trigger this power. They claimed they hold these powers during election season but not during other times.
It is a travesty that four justices agreed that the government can strip us of our first ammendment rights if a group makes something critical of Hillary Clinton before an election.
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9d ago
Their apartment gets rattled by that train. I thought that was some east coast thing. I don't specifically know about Seattle but I don't suppose they were getting rattled like that by light rail in the 90s. Google backs up my vague feeling and says Seattle had no light rail or commuter trains in the 90s.
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9d ago
We just break the law. Mass disrespect of the law and youth alcohol consumption are common. Starts in high school for most. College is awash in alcohol.
This is the replication crisis. And it wasn't just one metastudy. People try replicating published results from prominent journals and keep finding around half don't replicate. And of course for psychology it is a vast majority not replicating.
I think I've said it before here: given the replication crisis a single published paper is a very weak unit of evidence. No one should significantly shift their views based on so little and so weak of evidence. If many papers by different researchers all point in the same direction then we should seriously consider the results.
If you are in the mood: Google "snl joke swap" some time and watch some funny really edgy race humor. Or "mid day news". Their crassest race humor is their most popular bits.
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11d ago
here in Europe we certainly have companies which have both the capabilities to manufacture PCBs
Yeah same thing in the US. We also have PCB assembly in the US. With a few emails you can get PCBs etched, laminated, drilled, plated, SMT parts assembled, etc; all in the US.
The US pcb supplier cost more than 10 times as much as the equivalent shenzhen house. They took the order (nothing special, an OTS bit you can get by the 40 foot container from china), made promises, delayed for a couple weeks before providing samples which failed to meet requirements, delayed for a couple weeks before providing samples which failed QA, delayed for a couple weeks until providing samples which were great, delayed for a couple months and then shipped the first tranche, which failed QA, then dipped.
I've ordered many PCBs from many American vendors. Most accept ITAR and EAR projects and only have US persons work on those parts or see the design files.
I have not had these problems. Quality and timeliness is good. Yeah it is more expensive than Chinese PCBs.
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11d ago
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
My go to recommendation.
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11d ago
That 80% gets to vote too. I wonder what sorts of welfare they'll vote themselves.
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12d ago
And if you think marriage and children is a conservative pipeline
There is a gulf in voting preference between unmarried women and married women. Unmarried women are almost +50 D, married women are majority R. Looking at the stats from Pew it appears that getting married and having kids transforms a significant portion of women into Republicans. I get the opposite could be happening in that those women who already leaned R seek out marriage and children. But the first possible causal claim is defensible. Not some "selling you a bridge" obviously wrong idea.
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12d ago
Still got the guns though, I don’t trust the fascists to act politely.
If someone actually believed the sort of hysterical anti-Republican "they're fascists and they'll never let us have a fair election again" rhetoric common on reddit, then this is the only sensible view. He's wrong in a bigger sense, but starting from his premises this is the only correct conclusion. It's the "they're fascists, they're running concentration camps, every cop is bad, and you must disarm so only those wicked cops have guns" people who are silly.
The myth that if you can talk you can breathe.
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