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pgm_01,

Yup. Global Warming is literally burning and flooding people to death, but political leaders and citizens are focussed on UFOs and aliens. Where are the hearings on how the oil industry knew this was happening and covered it up? If you are looking for a conspiracy to hide something huge from the world, that would be a good place to start.

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Message sent. One of the cosponsors of this madness is one of my Senators. We need universal healthcare. Instead, we get a proposed universal tracking system for people to access the internet. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

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I have used SanDisk cards for years, without issue. They are a huge manufacturer of flash memory, which is why their prices were always good. It is certainly possible and even probable that the quality has gone down. All kinds of companies lower their product's quality and reliability to make them cheaper to increase profits.

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That's not good at all.

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I believe the phrase is:
"Lock him up! Lock him up!"

Seriously, put his ass in home confinement, slap on an ankle monitor and take away all of his electronics because he can't behave himself.

pgm_01,

I'm fine with Republicans attempting to impeach Biden. It will fire up the extremists on the right, but it will also fire up Democrats while turning off any moderate voters out there. It hurts republicans far more than it hurts Democrats, it makes them look like petulant children, and that should help persuade voters to push them out of power. If they are going to abuse the tools of power, which they will, I would rather have it happen with Biden, who is about as clean and boring as a politician gets, rather than having them going on a fishing expedition and finding something like Clinton.

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Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years.

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The magazine name is Modern Misogyny and rule 1 is "No bigotry - misogyny...".
That is like dividing by zero.

Right now, it appears to exist only with one user posting to himself. It is not a big problem. However, if you don't clean these things up quickly, you end up with a Nazi bar. Voat started out very Libertarian, but by the time it closed, its front page was dominated by hard-core antisemitism, it literally became a Nazi hang-out. Tolerance of intolerance ends up allowing the intolerance to spread and become the majority. kbin.social can not end up like that.

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Fixed. Sorry about that!

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It is unclear how long Amazon will continue to support their assistant in the future. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

People use exactly as you are, to control various smart devices, but that doesn't pay for the infrastructure that makes Alexa run, and people are not using it to buy stuff from Amazon as envisioned.

Google's products are getting worse as they are now deep into the enshitification process, and making investors happy takes precedence over users. I would welcome an improvement in Google Assistant, but it will probably manage to make things worse.

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Your Mileage May Vary

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We must protect high income individuals at all cost. It can't be considered an improvement if some rich asshole is less rich because of a law, and so the laws need to be rolled back. Republican obsequiousness toward corporations will get us all killed.

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There are a bunch of new 5-star ratings, including some that mention the API, others put in language referencing other apps. Either fanboys brigading or paid shillery of the reviews is occurring.

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That's how human intelligence works. We assign a value to the source of the information. The fact that the AI's seemed to be trained without that explains why they "lie" so much. They simply reconstruct patterns without giving any weight to specific patterns.

For example, if you have the information "President Biden will launch a ground invasion of Russia." If the New York Times, BBC, and CNN are all reporting it, we would give that information a higher likelihood of being true than if the information was found on random blogs. However, if the random blogs reporting the information belonged to reputable reporters or bloggers on military and international affairs, we would assign the information a higher value of being correct than if the information came from Bob's Bigfoot and Alien sightings Index.

Without the ability to check the level of accuracy of source data, all the generative AI could be corrupted. If you fed an art AI photos of the Statue of Liberty but kept telling it that it was the Eiffel Tower, when asked to draw the Eiffel Tower it would spit out the Statue of Liberty. Right now, without the ability to assess the accuracy of a response, any of the chat-based AI are garbage for most of the use-cases companies are deploying them in.

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I have been trying to wrap my head around why some Republicans seem genuinely surprised at what is happening. I have come to the conclusion that some thought it was a game. They honestly thought that when you had people calling Obama a secret Muslim, that it was "just politics", a bit of fun name-calling and that's all. They thought they were playing games, throwing fake red meat at the base to get them to have a fake angry response. Even after some of their constituents were goaded into attacking the government, they were still in denial about the reality of the situation they helped create. The monster is real, and they have spent multiple decades feeding it, and it was all fun and games when the monster was chained up, but Trump broke the chains, and now they are worried about what the monster will do to the village.

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Nuclear is very expensive, which means it needs to be run for a long time to make up for the initial investment costs. There are not very many places where you will be able to have enough cooling water for 3 to 5 decades that is not on a coastline. However, if you build on the coast you have to build with 50 years of sea level rise, tsunamis and flooding in mind. All of that adds to the already high costs.

Cover everything with solar, build up on and offshore wind, improve existing hydroelectric and invest in geothermal, make the grid larger with more grid storage, and if you still need more energy sources then add nuclear.

Trump Says He’s a Target in Special Counsel’s Capitol Attack Investigation (www.nytimes.com)

It would be the second time the special counsel has notified the former president that he is likely to face indictment, this time in connection with the criminal investigation into the events leading up to the storming of the Capitol....

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Done!

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Joe Lieberman wanted single payer health care. When Obama tried to implement it in Obama care, Lieberman killed it out of spite. The left wanted it and since the left voted him out during the primary for his Iraq war support, he decided to kill it because he wanted to hurt the left. He is a terrible ,spiteful person who should go back to the lobbying groups he worked for after being in the Senate.

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AI only "knows" what it has been trained on. Since structural racism exists, racism will be present in how AI operates. It does not mean we will have AI Hitler trying to kill Jews, but it might mean things like an AI drawing program defaulting to a white woman when asked to draw a generic woman. It could mean that bias that already exists gets amplified, for example an AI "pre-crime" program targeting Black neighborhoods as potential hotspots while ignoring similar White neighborhoods.

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Fear of barely known candidate x is the new "democrats in disarray."

A distro and desktop environment recommendation for an old laptop (Read all of it, please.) (kbin.social)

'sup? So, I am a beginner that has an old Samsung laptop from 2013 with an i3 4005U, a GeForce 710M, 500GB HDD (I will probably upgrade it to an SSD, but not for now.), 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3L RAM (the same for the HDD, will probably upgrade to 8GB some time.). It currently has Windows 10 Home but Linux is probably lighter (right?)...

pgm_01,

I am currently running KDE Neon 5.27 which is Ubuntu based, on an Inspiron 3551 with an Intel N3540 @ 2.16GHz which is a 4 core Atom,
and 4 GiB of RAM. With this 1 tab of Firefox open, the system is using 2GB of the RAM. I have had no issues running Neon on such a slow system with little RAM, but I don't usually have many tabs or programs running at the same time. Pretty much all the desktop interfaces for Linux run with far less resources and bloat than Windows, I would start by finding which desktop environment you prefer. I have been a fan of KDE for many years now, but try different bootable distros to get a feel for which interface you would like.

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Yourself is the second person reflexive pronoun.

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squabbles.io/

spyke.social

If you want something that has no left, you can also try
saidit.net.

Also Threads is so hot right now.

Can I use Linux from a portable Hard Drive to use whenever/wherever I need it? (kbin.social)

So if I have my Desktop at home, my personal laptop, and my laptop I use for work/business trips, can I have my own personal Linux setup on a portable drive that I can plug into and boot into from any of my devices? Like a cloud Linux setup, but I'm the cloud. Fear my cumulonimbus rumbles!

pgm_01,

I inherited a crappy laptop (4 core atom processor, with 4 gigs of RAM, fear the power!) because Windows was running slow on it. I decided to try different Linux distros booting from a USB and had no issues. I literally ran the system for months off of a Sandisk USB drive, and it was faster than the spindle drive in the machine.

My recommendation is, don't cheap out on the USB drive. No-name drives are fine for word files, but the performance increase from a Sandisk, Samsung, Kingston or equivalent is worth it for any media transfers and will work fine for a bootable Linux.

pgm_01,

Plato's cave. If all you have ever experienced is a shit app, then the shit app seems fine to most people. Others will recognize its faults but not how bad it is because they think that the only alternative is to have no app.

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NSFW seems to still load if you use old.reddit.com

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I am fine with them, especially since they can be used to indicate the tone of a comment that would otherwise be difficult to discern. However, when you do that every other word as emoji thing (like the various copypasta that go around) or you put hand claps after every word, then I will hate you for the rest of my life and haunt you from the grave.

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K Holes 🤣

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Absolute insanity. Republican victimization culture is out of control.

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Of course, Musk wants it to be a far right playground so anything that goes against that will be removed, either as non-right-wing people no longer feel comfortable participating there or by moderator action.

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And yet, he is doing a piss-poor job of winning. Trump is polling miles ahead, he is getting no traction from any part of the Republican Party, and he picked a losing fight with Disney, a corporation known for having legions of lawyers and winning whatever battle they are fighting.

pgm_01,

The submarine company is also an example of this. Why listen to material scientists or engineers when you can cut corners to save a buck? Submarine experts told the CEO it was just a matter of time before the carbon fiber went pop, and that would be really bad for anyone inside at the time. But they saved so much money!

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