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  • Trump's video on Kirk appears to be AI(contested in comments)

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  • I disagree. I recently saw this analysis:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok

    It seems pretty thorough, and this guy specializes in exactly this. Some of the weirdness seems to be due to a miss match between the 24fps the video was filmed in and the 60fps it was encoded in.

  • AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America

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  • Thats why I said "come close" - there are plenty of crimes committed by the ultra wealthy.

    However, those aren't the kind of crimes this kind of mass surveillance is targeting either. They are trying to get rid of petty crime, gang violence, theft... stuff like that. And those kinds of crimes would almost dissapear entirely if you eliminated poverty.

  • AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America

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  • The only way you could actually come close to eliminating all crime would be if you eliminated poverty. But that would make the rich less rich, so not gonna happen.

  • I declare bankruptcy!

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  • Most 10 digit phone numbers dont start with a 0...

  • What do you call these?

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  • Power brick, power adapter, or USB charger are what come to mind for me.

    I gotta say I disagree heavily with your fiancee on dongles. IMO dongles are adapters for data of some kind, not just power from the wall. But to each their own I guess.

  • ‘Mushroom murderer’ given three life sentences for killing lunch guests | CNN

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  • We Investigated Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s Scarier Than You Think - More Perfect Union

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  • This is ancient news, but I still cant believe they ditched lidar. Relying in computer vision alone when you could easily give it more reliable data to work with is just stupid.

  • More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

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  • So let's look at these requirements:

    • violence: not really. Vandalism and destruction of equipment aren't violence, to my knowledge PA has not harmed or attacked anyone.
    • non combatants: they targeted weapon shipments and military equipment. While I suppose you could argue the UK military aren't combatants as they aren't part of the war directly, but honestly that point is entirely moot given that they didn't target people.
    • political and ideological aims: sure, they are a political activist organization. Obviously that alone doesn't make them terrorists.

    So, even by what Wikipedia defines as the "broadest" definition, not terrorists.

    I mean, at an absolute minimum, terrorism requires violence against people, which they did not do. They targeted planes and other military equipment. That's not terrorism no matter how much damage they caused.

  • More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

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  • Im not saying what they did isn't illegal. I'm saying it's not terrorism. This is like if someone was charged with murder and punished for it only to turn out all they did was rob a store and you're like "well akshually ☝️🤓 they're a criminal so it's fine"

  • More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

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  • Then the UK's legal definition is fucking stupid. Terrorism is when a group attempts to strike fear and terror into a populace to coerce them. It definitionally requires violence and fear.

  • More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

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  • So they vandalized some planes and snipped some cables? And this got them declared as terrorists?

    I've noticed a pattern where "terrorist" is often used as a stand in for any group that opposes the government.

  • More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

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  • Sure they did something highly illegal, but anyone who thinks that illegally trying to stop a weapons shipment is terrorism is insane. If "using force to achieve a political goal" is terrorism, then nearly every country on the planet is a terrorist organization. Idk if thats like actually the UK's definition or something but that is a ludicrous definition for terrorism.

    Terrorists use terror. Its why they are called that. Not the use of force, but specifically attempting to strike deep fear into a civilian populace. At no point was PA trying to make people fearful. They were trying to stop people from dying.

  • More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

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  • What's acts of terror has Palestine action committed for it to be classified as a terrorist organization?

  • Trump signs executive order renaming Pentagon 'Department of War'

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  • I have mixed feelings on this one, tbh

    On one hand, that was actually the original name. That changed after WW2 and to be honest I kinda think the name was part of a greater campaign to make it seem as though, somehow, the military actions that followed in the next few decades in the middle east, Asia, Latin America, etc. were actually all just "defending" the US. Which is bullshit.

    On the other hand, having perhaps the most insane president this country has ever seen saying that calling it war instead of defense because its more accurate to the current times is quite concerning to say the least.

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    TIL american public support for requiring vaccines against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

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  • People have talked about this before, but it really does seem like people have forgotten how bad some of these diseases could get and how much vaccines helped us. In 1991 plenty of folk remembered polio, maybe even had a relative who got it. Good number remembered smallpox and/or got that shot themselves. But now less and less people really understand both the scale of devastation those diseases caused and the scale of how many were helped and saved by vaccines.

  • What do you think of imitation and lab-grown meats?

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  • I find it very promising. As much as I love meat, its pretty undeniable that raising livestock is super inefficient. It takes so much food to raise livestock that, iirc, more farmland in the US is dedicated to growing food for our food than to growing food for us. Lab grown meat doesn't completely solve this - there are still lost calories in the process to my knowledge - but its way more efficnient. Plus less land usage, less fossil fuel emissions, overall it would be more sustainable.

    I see 2 big problems facing it right now:

    The first is scale, which is the more significant. We'd need to figure out how to grow meat on a truly massive scale. Definitely doable though, just needs more research.

    The second is "realism" or how close it seems to natural meat. Lab grown meat has the advantage over like plant based stuff because it is actually meat. However, ifnits too perfect or uniform, or maybe doesnr have enough fat or variety, it might be seen as unnatural by many (even just subconsciously) and push them away from it.

    But yeah, could be awesome.

  • Hardware monitoring

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  • btop for sure. Shows current processes and their resources usage, us can terminate and kill them from the program kinda like windoes task manager, shows CPU usage/temp, and ram, storage, and network use. Only big thing it doesnt have that I use is GPU monitoring, I use nvtop for that.

    For stress testing, mprime is def best for CPU stress test. You may know it as prime95 on windows.

  • Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?

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  • The middle class still works to make a living. So they are part of the working class.

  • If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?

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  • Yeah this is the thing that makes me really disagree with the whole "landlords are necessarily bad" thing. A lot of them are, to be sure, and there is so much wrong with our housing market, but there should still be a place for those who wish to rent to rent. I mean just speaking for myself right now, I would not want to own a home right now, even if it was affordable. I'd like to some day but where I am at life right now I would rather rent.