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striker
22hr ago
To clarify: I’m not saying mainstream media as the only info source is preferable. I’m saying it’s preferable to give preferential visibility to respected media sources, manned by journalists and editors with bona fides and track records of truth-seeking, and with investigative teams given the latitude to do the legwork that real journalistic work entails, over Alex Jones and InfoWars.
cjet79
22hr ago
This and the Barbarian from Dungeon Soup are my favorite https://youtube.com/watch?v=817E64rtzj8?si=LtWw7xAHo5gKIjM8
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
22hr ago
I don’t like this, and we should not trust every word the mainstream media says, or even trust ANY of it blindly, but it’s a damn right more preferable than loads of far left and far right crackpots producing their own propaganda and all of it being given equal billing with FT, BBC, NYT, Economist etc.
Why is it preferable? Because such propaganda might lead to people believing absurdities and following them off a cliff?
striker
22hr ago
You won’t find me disagreeing that the privately owned internet is a bad thing. Protocols such as SMTP and HTTP are sort of owned by everyone, but log in to Facebook.com and everything you do there (or even, for a long time, everything you do ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET while your Facebook-logged-in cookie was active) is owned by them. Mass adoption of public social media protocols is long overdue.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
22hr ago
Back when dollar shave club started online ads, I did some research into them and found out their razors were made by doroco and bought a box of refills from them. I still have 2 retail packs left.
striker
22hr ago
I can't even say that all of this is wrong
Exactly. Things like the Trusted News Initiative. I don’t like this, and we should not trust every word the mainstream media says, or even trust ANY of it blindly, but it’s a damn right more preferable than loads of far left and far right crackpots producing their own propaganda and all of it being given equal billing with FT, BBC, NYT, Economist etc.
TeknOShEeP
22hr ago
Reading through the first case, while it is only the appealate court's decision rather than the actual criminal case, it seems to be far less alarming then first glance would have you believe. Unless I am missing something, the defendent seems to have admitted to brandishing a "black semiautomatic (as opposed to a revolver) handgun", and pointing it at the two women (his cousins). This is, broadly speaking, rather antisocial behavior, especially from a felon who is a prohibited person, and frankly seems like grounds for restricting their liberty for a substantial duration. The appeal does not appear to dispute these basic facts, and relies on technicalities such as "the witnesses could not have known it was a real gun" and "a real gun wouldn't click twice [ignoring the obvious issues that a real DA hammer fired gun would in fact click with each trigger pull]".
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Back when I shaved my face I used a straight razor; now I use an electric to trim it how I want it, and keep it relatively close to my face with scissors.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
23hr ago
That depends on who creates the AI and what they want it to solve for. Unfortunately I think most of the early adaptations of AI are going to be for functions that “be nice” actively hinders.
For example, if I’m using AI to keep people engaged with my social media site, I don’t want that AI to think about whether or not pushing content that keeps them scrolling is “good for them”. I’m farming attention to sell to advertising companies and if my AI doesn’t optimize for attention farming, yours will and you get more advertising money. Or maybe im trying to cut costs, and I want AI to trim overhead. I don’t want my AI to worry about whether laying off people is “nice”, im looking to improve my bottom line. Maybe im working on automated targeting for the military. I don’t want AI to be squeemish about pulling the trigger. It’s not necessarily a tax on performance, but that the functionality you need AI for has no place for the “don’t be evil” function because it’s frankly being used for at least quasi-evil things.
Fears of disaster as Russian nuclear submarine reports major malfunction in Mediterranean | The Standard
This triggers my submarine autism. To be fair, I'm not blaming you, I'm blaming The Standard (or rather, its headline writer, the article correctly points out the subtleties).
When someone says "nuclear submarine" without any qualifier, it means "nuclear-powered submarine". Though I would usually cut some slack if someone meant "ballistic missile submarine with nuclear weapons".
The Kilo is neither, it's a fast attack diesel-electric submarine. If it had one, which I wouldn't think likely, the Kilo could, in theory, fire a Kalibr cruise missile holding a smallish tactical nuclear warhead. By that token, every single platform that is capable of firing a Tomahawk is nuclear, seeing how they could technically fire a TLAM-N (I think they were officially retired, but I mean, the technical capability is still there, and if any still exist covertly...)
ControlsFreak
23hr ago
Double-edge razor, brush/soap; cheap stuff (found a brand of blades I like and bought a hundred pack; no fancy scents). I used to do it very regularly, but the wife likes a beard, so now I just do my neck less often. I follow the standard with-the-grain/across-the-grain/against-the-grain pattern for three passes. I almost never cut myself anymore since I got the hang of it.
anti_dan
23hr ago
But Somalia's government isn't incapable of stopping pirates because theoretically. It doesn't care to because the people don't care to. And/or there aren't enough functional people in somalia to erect a state with that sort of state capacity.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
23hr ago
I’m talking about mostly civilian discussions of political issues, especially over the Internet. It does no good to tear apart communities and create the conditions for political radicalism and political violence. In fact that’s the worst thing that could happen. Societies that radicalized and created the conditions for political violence are generally shit-holes, places with zero social trust, weak economies and crumbling infrastructure. Much of Latin America is like this, parts of the Middle East, and some parts of Southeast Asia. Nobody really wants to live there anymore because of the poor conditions caused by the political chaos.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
Take away Trump's money and fame, and he would not be the kind of person who makes other men nervous and easily picks up women.
Sure, maybe not today when he’s 79. But when Trump was a young man he was six foot four, fit, and had good hair. And he was always very confident, with a good deal of physical courage. Even if he were just an insurance salesman making middle class income, I don’t think he would have had any problems getting a date.
I keep meaning to make a Friday Fun thread screed about how Presidential hotness rankings are totally wrong because they only judge at the time the person was President. Gerald Ford was a male model who was on the cover of Cosmo for God’s sake!
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
23hr ago
the collapse of contractualism
This is, fundamentally, what 1980s media was trying to warn us about with the whole corpo-state meme. They didn't call it that, but they were all gesturing at the problem the "1A only protects you from government" meme would result in today, though they couldn't fully predict the eventual extent of the power of the semi-private (or plausibly private) actor.
We failed to solve the problem then- we expected our infinite material greed to do that for us, and in our defense that solves a lot of problems- and now the capture has set in and it's come home to roost.
Right, and I think when there is a real division in the community, we do have a higher obligation than when fringe elements try to pass off their ideas.
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