jkf
1d ago
If it's just a bunch of random people doing it without greater coordination then yes it could be theoretically possible, but this would also not be what is alleged
Who alleged that? Literally everyone in many spaces hates trump; they don't need to coordinate in order for many people (particularly people in the class involved with counting/monitoring elections) to be working towards the same goal.
jkf
1d ago
Likewise if there was a mass fake voter scheme,
What if there were a number of smaller fake voter schemes? Some of them better organized/more skillfully implemented than others?
jkf
1d ago
How do you feel about the toupee fallacy? It seems like the sort of thing that you might agree with in... other contexts?
jkf
1d ago
It wasn't some youtuber, it was like a real old-fashioned TV news reporter -- I do think a lady got charged on that one, you could look it up? But I have no reason to think it was staged.
jkf
1d ago
Fact check: if you call them "indians" in canada most people will know who you are talking about -- slightly context dependent, but getting less so every day since just about nobody calls the native indians indians anymore.
"East Indians" is completely unambiguous -- "East Asians" works for slanty eyed yellow people, but "Asians" would normally mean the same thing.
I never heard anybody in Canada talk about "South Asians" until ~10-15 years ago -- I do think it came from the UK.
TLDR: somebody who's not racist enough to say "chink" but wants to complain about what's happening in Richmond will just say "Asian" -- in Surrey, the alternatives might be "binder/pakki" and "East Indian". ("Chug/native" if you are bitchin about some reservation or guys killing all the moose)
This is Canadian usage as I know it since the 1970s or so. Western Canadian I should say -- I don't really give a shit how Toronto wants to talk, but I don't believe it to be much different.
jkf
1d ago
A whole bunch of people saying they were signed up at the homeless shelters and that they didn't vote yet somehow votes were submitted in their name would be noticeable.
Dunno about a whole bunch, but I recently saw a reporter interviewing homeless people in LA saying that they were paid to fill out ballots for/against some ballot initiative -- so what if it's both happening and noticeable, but nobody does anything about it because the people doing the fraud keep getting elected?
jkf
7d ago
They will be too busy trying to get the SKS added to the list of banned rifles -- although watching him fumble with the stripper clip to reload makes me think that The System Is Working, maybe?
jkf
8d ago
Pretty much -- that's why countries (should) have air defenses and/or plausible deterence for such attacks.
jkf
9d ago
The fact is that any country can attack any other country at any time -- as you point out, formal declarations of war haven't been a thing for many many years; it really is the law of the jungle.
If Iran had bombed Trump's inauguration, that would be an act of war; there's no moral valance to that, just that they would get their asses kicked for it.
Did Egypt et al send a diplomat to Tel Aviv to formally slap Golda Meir with a glove or something in 1973? If you want to go to war, you just do it.
jkf
9d ago
jkf
9d ago
The US and Iran have been at war since about 1979 -- and Iran started it! Invaded sovereign territory, took hostages (diplomats!), the whole bit... seriously, I'm pretty sure there was never a truce declared or anything like that?
"Perfidy" AFAIK specifically refers to violating a flag of truce or wearing enemy uniforms -- surprise attacks don't qualify.
jkf
10d ago
duplicitous
What was duplicitous about it? Everyone has known that the relevant aspects of the US Deep State have wanted to bah-bah-bah-bah bah-bah-bomb Iran for like... forty-ish years?
"Surprise" I could live with (although, it wasn't exactly surprising!), but nobody was saying "nah, we love Iran -- we'd never bomb them!"
jkf
13d ago
Pretty great place for home decorating inspiration though! (He is building a ballroom, after all...)
jkf
17d ago
Eh, there is a new-ish 'de minimus' exemption on paperwork for lots of things, but scopes are not those things AFAIK.
Many companies don't want to mess with even the low-value exemption in any case due to people getting hammered with huge fines in the past -- but without the exemption it's pretty onerous AIUI -- to get an export permit for a scope you need to (IIRC) fill out various convoluted permit forms on the US side, which also demand import authorization from the Canadian side -- which is not a thing that Canada cares about, but that makes it worse because there's nobody in charge of processing the forms that the US side is demanding!
There are people in Canada with associated FFLs in the US that will do it for a fee -- but that fee is like $300 bucks, which gives you some idea of the hassles involved. (again, pretty much all on the US export side -- Canada doesn't really make it too hard to import actual guns even, so long as they are otherwise in compliance with our somewhat Byzantine rules around whether they are legal to have at all)
Actually militarily useful technology is right out though, even if it has relevant consumer applications -- any sort of night vision would be a common example. And an AGI that lived up to the hype would certainly be better for harming America than some shitty NVGs...
jkf
17d ago
It's still a real hassle getting something as simple as a scope for a hunting rifle from the US to Canada -- which IIRC is ITAR (the hassle is on the US side, and there were some big fines for exporters before people started paying attention), and has been the case for a number of years.
Certainly an actual AGI would be a bigger threat to US national security than a nice cheap scope from SFRC, so I guess it makes sense?
jkf
19d ago
I wouldn't say it's common usage in Canada, but you certainly hear it from time to time. A non-USA quirk maybe?
jkf
26d ago
Miscellaneous would have been better in fact -- organized crime is a thing in India, and these groups are purposely bringing in flunkies on fake student visas to run drug and extortion stuff in Canada for quite a while now. There's also a tradition of pretty extensive drug dealing and such by ethnic Indians in the suburbs of Vancouver and Toronto going back 30-40 years -- but this was mostly the children of first-wave immigrants and carried out in conjunction with local pre-existing gangs, so kind of a different thing.
jkf
1mo ago
It's also typically presented in a pretty oversimplified/watered down way -- like, "what if a computer could talk to you and you couldn't tell that it wasn't a human -- wouldn't that computer be reasonably described as 'intelligent'?"
In Turing's actual paper, he proposes a very specific and adversarial game -- with which I think current AIs would struggle greatly. Not that Turing's arguments that winning would mean AI are all that convincing either (as I recall he knocks down a bunch of strawmen for like 2/3 of the paper) -- but his game itself is deliberately very hard to win.
jkf
1mo ago
I'm showing my age perhaps, but I swear there was a time when double-clicking a word in windows selected just that word -- I understand that sometimes people would also want the trailing space, but now even if you drag-select, that gets helpfully added in many programs (eg. Word).
Clippy lives on as a sloppy ghost in the machine...
jkf
1mo ago
Even when it does point you to the right thing, it is also showing you other things now -- in the deep(ish) past, if you put something in quotes it would only show results containing that string. Similarly (although I think this went away first), a search for -(thing you don't want to see) used to result in zero results containing that term -- now if you search for "used cars -chevy" it probably shows you fewer chevys than otherwise, but you are still going to see some. Particularly harmful when you are looking for something with one extremely common straightforward set of results (that you are not interested in) and an alternate niche interpretation. (the thing you want to find!)
AI influence seems to be making this a bit worse, I suspect since the "this is probably what he really wants" is more strongly weighted -- but it might be corpus frequency effects too I suppose.
jkf
1mo ago
Verbatim and minus have just meant "more/less of this please" to google for years now -- well before LLM influence. I'm not sure why exactly, but corporate policy seems to be that (even setting aside sponsored results) the algo knows what you want better than you do. And the algo is getting worse.
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Staircase goes at the back; perpendicular to the long axis of the house and either facing the entry or above the basement stairs. (which would then be facing the entry, probably behind a door)
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The traditional mudroom is behind the backdoor (which is probably on the side of a colonial); front doors are for guests, and you should be taking their coats for them and laying them on the bed in the spare room! However, you could build something like #2 or #4 here in which the exterior wall of the house (including the front door) is bumped out about 3 feet in some part of the porch area, the roof of which extends something like a further 3 three feet). This creates space for hangers inside the entry and funnels people into the living area; there's a nice spot for a closet if you have winter coats. (or just want to piss @ToaKraka off)
Like this:
(stairs are up here somewhere)
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They all hate Trump too! (the opposing campaign people, you need to find a way to shut them out -- the other workers will support you in this, because those people support Trump! They are icky and annoying!)
Nobody was on the lookout for it though -- people still make arguments like "nah, that could never happen -- we have the most secure elections ever!"
Why would anyone need to coordinate -- votes are votes, right?
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