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jtrek

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  • Dumbass

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  • One of the only things that changed minds (and behavior) is peer pressure. But as you said, it has to be peer pressure. Pressure from your in-group.

    One of the big changes in our society is idiots and assholes can run off to Fox or 4chan or whatever slimy gutter appeals to them, and find their fellow idiots. Fellow idiots and people manipulating them for their own reasons.

    It sucks that reasonable people need to spend all this effort to babysit large children, but if we don't then they go shit themselves and vote for trump.

  • China Just Dropped Another Bomb on America's Frontier AI Companies

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  • Because I thought China had literally bombed the US for a very tense moment before I finished reading the headline. Especially because of how the words wrapped. I didn't need that stress.

  • China Just Dropped Another Bomb on America's Frontier AI Companies

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  • Can we please not write headlines like that when we're on the verge of ww3 and literal bombs might be dropped on the US in the coming months?

  • Bike lanes and speed cameras disappear from the DOT's list of proven safety measures

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  • Something like that should be required for all drivers

  • It's all lip service

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  • I've seen Christians argue that good works should be from the individual not from the government. "But God acted to put this government in place so you can act" typically isn't compelling, because they just make up stuff to justify what they wanted to do anyway.

  • Rule the system, I won't do what you tell me

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  • There was a big thread a while ago where one subset of posters were like "you clearly CAN compare them this is stupid" and another subset was saying "but the point of the idiom is doing so is fruitless". Not sure what's so hard to grasp about using an inappropriate metric to judge something.

    But then again maybe most people use the idiom in senseless ways.

  • Peter Thiel Snags Top Prize from Politico’s Owner

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  • The Axel Springer Award [...] will go to the Palantir billionaire at a ceremony in Berlin on September 24

    So we know when and where he'll be...

  • Before and after data centers

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  • This is violence against the bulk of humanity

  • ‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’

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  • Cool. Fuck Microsoft

  • Bike lanes and speed cameras disappear from the DOT's list of proven safety measures

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  • We should make trump ride a bike. Up one of those busy streets with a painted lane and double parked cars.

  • Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works

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  • I will continue not giving Microsoft money. Fuck them.

  • 23&Me to settle for a whopping $2.60 per affected person

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  • When the legal system neither delivers justice not makes people whole after being harmed, people start getting ideas. Like taking up plumbing

  • Abundance!

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  • This reminds me of that time when Fox news tried to say that poor people don't have it bad because 82% of them have a microwave.

    Turns out if you're a conservative shitbag you can just say stuff and for some reason you're neither shunned from society nor beaten and left for dead!

  • How would you design online communities so they don't degenerate over time?

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  • I wouldn't do it based on join time. Age doesn't always map to quality, and it might encourage people to make sleeper accounts to age up.

    I would do it based on a graph of trust.

    Let's say you're user 0. You trust yourself. You can then invite or vouch for a user. If they misbehave, it should reflect badly on you. If they post good content, you should share some of the glory. If one of those users invites someone, the good and bad flow upstream.

    People no one has vouched for have very little power. You can filter them out with a toggle.

    You'd be able to see the web of behavior. If someone keeps inviting or endorsing assholes, then they're a problem.

    Endorsing is different than upvote. You can upvote whatever, but endorsing is saying you trust this person and you're willing to put your own reputation and access on the line.

    Something like that.

  • About 300 Netflix Programs Used Generative AI This Year, Company Reveals

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  • I'll continue to use free sources like the public library. Fuck Netflix.

  • Recently watched the Terminator trilogy, and damn, now I know why people are calling it Skynet...

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  • Conservatives are famously kind of stupid. They're bad at empathy and critical analysis.

  • Air quality across the Eastern US & Canada right now

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  • There are people responsible for climate change. We should feed them to the fires. Perhaps it will appease the gods.

  • Bit harsh?

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  • The later you start learning a language, the harder it is. High school is so late it's sad.

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    ABC, NBC, CNN do not air Trump’s election-security speech live on primary channels

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  • Maybe they don't want to air it live because that'll make it harder to sanewash