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ristoril_zip,

It’s that feature that makes me want to like start replying to them and just see where the rabbit hole goes. Never give them money or at least never much money (if it costs money to play the game y’know).

Just to throw off their algorithm.

But then I wonder if I could enlist some LLMs to do it instead? Like get all the emails the dupes who have fallen for this have written and start training from there. Then get an LLM trained on recordings to generate a script realtime for an audio bot so they can call the scam farms in India, China, and Vietnam.

Eventually maybe have a bunch of LLMs tied up emailing each other and calling each other.

ristoril_zip,

I will legit try to find countries with constitutions and parliaments that I could relocate to to live and work. The American constitutional Republic will be over if Trump becomes President again.

He’ll certainly start his retribution with the big fish of anti Trump people and organizations, but it won’t take long for it to “trickle down” to everyday people as well.

I’m lucky enough that it’s feasible for me to find work in my field outside the US. Others aren’t so lucky.

ristoril_zip,

I mean Serling and Sterling are so close it seems stupid to me to call it Mandela effect. More like humans gonna human.

ristoril_zip,

Did you guys know the brain named itself?

Why are we so concerned with oxygen production yet we never hear about nitrogen production, though we actually need 78% nitrogen vs 21% oxygen to survive?

Excess oxygen is actually harmful to humans, but all the climate warnings are about losing oxygen, not nitrogen edit: but when we look for habitable planets, our focus is ‘oxygen rich atmosphere’, not ‘nitrogen rich’, and in medical settings, we’re always concerned about low oxygen, not nitrogen....

ristoril_zip,

We (humans) don’t need atmospheric nitrogen to survive, we just need the “other” in the atmosphere to not be toxic. My guess is any element in the same periodic table column as nitrogen that could somehow exist as a gas at STP would be fine (hypothetically).

Don’t they replace nitrogen with like helium for some SCUBA applications?

Other life on Earth obviously does metabolize nitrogen (I think we do a little bit too). So to preserve our biosphere we should not throw off the nitrogen balance. But as others have observed it’s not clear there’s any imbalance coming.

ristoril_zip,

What’s frustrating to me as a person who’s generally against violence is that Israel has a pretty elite secret police force and pretty elite special forces that they (apparently) haven’t used at all to deal with the actual perpetrators of the October 7th massacre & kidnapping.

They just started bombing thousands of civilians to kill dozens, maybe hundreds of Hamas militants.

Like, surely they could have cut the head off the Hamas Snake with surgical strike teams infiltrating Gaza, probably the West Bank, and international locations in Qatar or wherever the leadership is.

Reasonable people could conclude that Israel had to respond to Oct 7th, and that the best target would be Hamas. I can’t fathom how any reasonable people could conclude that bombing groups of people with 90% or more innocent civilians and the rest possible militants is a good response.

I can imagine that UNreasonable people might conclude that all Palestinians are guilty by association (because Hamas is their Netanyahu-supported elected government) and they’re all militants (even the babies). Or those unreasonable people might believe that Palestinians aren’t people worthy of protection.

So goddamned frustrating.

ristoril_zip,

The First Peoples of North America definitely didn’t have such sharp, well defined border lines. It’s not as of they had a bunch of written treaties establishing hard borders.

ristoril_zip,

Not an immediate solution but if or when we can make space safe to work and live in, that might unlock an infinite supply of resources, which would support infinite growth.

ristoril_zip,

A lot of cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, so it tracks that in the terminal capitalism of the Galactic Empire, moisture farmers wouldn’t have access to moisture.

youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?si=HKzSDbIVKrI9BzFo

ristoril_zip,

I love how all the people talking about how semi auto guns have been around for X years and blah blah blah completely ignore the massive uptick in production, sale, and distribution of those guns in the past 30-40 (or so).

People have more or less been able to buy assault style semi auto rifles for a long time, but they only “recently” (I guess 30-40 years might not be so recent?) started actually buying them in large numbers. Mostly thanks to the NRA, if I had to point a finger.

The problem is that a really angry or disturbed or whatever person with access to a high rate of fire weapon and lots of ammo (because they’ve been told that next election Jack Johnson or John Jackson will be taking their guns) can literally just pick it up and go kill half a dozen or more people in 30 minutes. There’s nothing we can do to intercept that. (And “good guys with guns” have a terrible track record, including cops.)

We even had a little experiment in the 90s where people were buying a lot of these and then we banned them. Mas shootings (4+ victims according to the FBI if I recall correctly) had been going up but then they went down until …

W and his Republican stooges (or maybe he was the stooge?) let the ban expire, mass shootings started ticking up.

The drivers that lead people to mass violence probably are the “root” of the problem, and I would guess hypothetically that if we could snap our fingers and solve those it wouldn’t matter how many or what type of guns there are out there. The problem is that we aren’t even trying to fix those problems, and the Republican Party is actively making them worse, AND we’re making these literal weapons of war easily available to everyone.

ristoril_zip,

I remember reading a while back that MAGA counties had significantly higher death and serious disease rates. Probably still do. I’m not sure about the apartment Republican strategy of actually working to kill their core voters, but I guess we’ll see how it works out for them.

ristoril_zip,

My guess is this is what will doom this law, specifically since they’re also looking at drugs which are certainly commodities from out of state.

It might also be a prior restraint case depending on if traveling to a women’s healthcare provider is protected expression.

Like, the problem for the county here is trying to stop people from doing something they can’t prove they’re actually going to do.

They might be able to plus up other charges based on using county property in the commission of some other “crime” (gigantic air quotes). Sort of like getting extra charges due to using the USPS to commit a crime.

ristoril_zip,

The hypothesis is pretty simple, actually.

There’s a reality somewhere. A “physical” universe in which a computer can be created. With enough time, a computer can be created in this “top level” universe that is capable of simulating one universe. Then, assuming computational power and efficiency can be improved, multiple universes can be simulated at one time. You can also achieve better simulation fidelity by slowing down the simulated universe, like 1 second of simulation time taking 1 minute of top level universe time.

If we stop there, the probability that we’re living in a simulated universe instead of the top level universe is already pretty high (or inversely the chance that we’re living in the top level universe is pretty low).

Now, if the computers are powerful enough, the simulated universes can probably have computers in them, and those computers will eventually be able to simulate universes, too. Probably in about the same ratio.

So it’s not simulations ALL the way up, but if those postulates are rational, the chance that any randomly chosen universe in the set of all universes is the top level universe becomes vanishingly small, but non zero.

I think it’s definitely the case that if the top level simulation(s) stop, all the downstream ones would, too.

ristoril_zip,

This sort of depends on what you’re looking for.

Do you just want a listing of facts with no analysis? Probably Reuters or Associated Press (AP).

Do you want facts and context and minor analysis (like historical comparisons, etc.)? That’s gonna be BBC and NPR/PBS. Maybe The Economist.

If you want deeper analysis or opinion… That’s gonna be tricky. Probably Al Jazeera, The Guardian (maybe), … I dunno if it’s possible to find one balanced need source that will have in depth analysis or opinion. Probably best to pick two that are about the same distance from “neutral” in either direction.

ristoril_zip,

I don’t know about holy but I definitely see it as the most important document in the American system of government (a Republic if we can keep it).

Literally all authority in America flows from our Constitution. The only reason the President is in charge is because the Constitution says so. The only reason laws passed by Congress are laws is because the Constitution says so. The only reason the judiciary exists as a place to go and settle disputes and apply the laws is because the Constitution says so.

Without the Constitution the only way society would run is by force.

I know that people with Gadsden flags and dog eared copies of Atlas Shrugged think that’s how society works today, but it’s not. But that’s a whole other discussion.

We mostly just agree to abide by the laws which derive their legitimacy from Constitution. If it weren’t there, we’d have no foundation. That’s why it’s like a holy document. Except it’s better than a holy book, because there’s no claim of infallibility. It is expected to be modified, and it has been modified.

Thomas Jefferson actually expected there to be constitutional conventions on a regular basis to rewrite the thing from time to time. A part of me thinks that might be a good idea. Maybe reconstitute the Congress as two proportional representation parliaments (one with single 8 year terms, one with unlimited 2 year terms or something, people vote for parties not people). Eventually abolish the Second Amendment or at least rewrite it to make it clear that “well regulated” is important, and there can be limits to personal armament. Expand the Fourth to cover modern data creation and storage. Do a better job with patents & copyright. On and on.

ristoril_zip,

Thanks for reaching out. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

ristoril_zip,

Hahahah oh man my thought of what funny stuff those sorts might lead to mostly centered around kids at school getting in trouble, but this is way, way better. :)

On the darker side of things I was also concerned about people in abusive situations with hidden phones getting outed, which probably also happened. :(

(I am not a bright guy so I can’t take credit for coming up with that on my own, I saw someone post about it on Mastodon.)

ristoril_zip,

You’re falling prey to a common trope from religionists: an ambiguous usage of the word/concept “belief.”

I trust what experts in fields outside those I’m deeply familiar with because generally speaking people like them have gone to the trouble of demonstrating what they claim is actually true in the past. That makes it rational, in my opinion, to trust claims that they make today and in the future within their field of expertise.

So to some extent I get the religious commitment of people who have directly experienced what they consider to be miracles. It’s rational, in a way, to become religious after experiencing what you consider to be a miracle.

The vast majority of religious people have not directly experienced a miracle the way I’ve directly performed scientific experiments that validate others’ reported results. They’ve heard about miracles. They’ve read about miracles. That’s not the same, and I’d argue it makes their religious beliefs irrational.

Now, what would probably happen if people were only religious after directly experiencing miracles? I bet religions would just fade away and eventually people who experienced “miracles” would instead contemplate then as unexplained phenomena that could probably have AB explanation rooted in the physical world, and also but become religious.

In a world where religion is encouraged and celebrated, of course people who experience what they consider to be a miracle will first turn to a religious explanation. But if we imagine no religion…

ristoril_zip,

Incorrect. Without intervention by hormone signals, literally every human fetus would develop as a “female” with all the traditional female sex organs and morphology. I believe they’d even be capable of generating eggs and carrying babies, but I’m not as confident on that.

A lot of people think that the XX or XY is determinative or definitional, but it’s always the hormones, baby.

ristoril_zip,

You’re exspecially not supposed to fart in front of girls!

ristoril_zip,

Our TV has a YT app on it and I never sign in. I have way better experience with it because it randomly suggests stuff that the algorithm would probably think isn’t something I like and yet it TOTALLY is something I like.

This is the problem with all these attempts at AI. They don’t have the capacity to be actually random when they’re using large databases of accumulated input from us.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the non logged in version I’m experiencing is also constrained by my prior choices, but it seems like the data they’re holding is much smaller which allows for better chances at a random find.

Plus my kids get on there and search for their weird gamer streamer blah blah BS too which I’m sure really throws a curve ball.

ristoril_zip,

Sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic, sufficiently advanced algorithms look like artificial intelligence.

Oh, algorithms that write algorithms that write algorithms… they’re still algorithms.

ristoril_zip,

It’s really sad considering how amazing DOTA was umpty bajillion years ago. Also Enfo’s survival.

ristoril_zip,

It was a last ditch plan to use only Republican votes to keep the government open.

I bet he can still bring the Senate CR (or whatever they pass) up for a vote. He’ll lose his job as Speaker, though.

“Safe” districts allow people to pull this shit. If any of these wackadoo Republicans had to explain themselves to their constituents it would be a totally different story. But most of them only have to win their primary.

ristoril_zip,

If the market crashes hard enough these huge corporations that have been sucking up all the single family homes will probably start unloading them at lower and lower prices to pay their creditors. It could be good for people who want to buy. Couple that with the coming crash of corporate office space and it could be quite an interesting time.

The real truck is going to be coming up with legal/constitutional bans on corporate ownership of single family houses.

ristoril_zip,

We have Miss Murderpants the Pretty Pretty Princess, John Henry “Doc” Holliday, and Crowley the King of Hell.

ristoril_zip,

Light Power! Light Power! Light Power!

ristoril_zip,

Retail theft isn’t really increasing or that high. This is the excuse companies give to close stores in underserved (poor) areas do they can focus on opening stores where they can make more money.

cnbc.com/…/organized-retail-crime-and-theft-not-i…

They get videos of a flashy theft and then blast them across the Internet & TV.

It’s especially telling since in the OP article they even say they’re not going to give data to actually back up their claims.

ristoril_zip,

if there are 9 normal people at a dinner table and a proud open Nazi is welcomed to sit down with them, there are 10 Nazis at that dinner table.

I know a lot of people in this thread are talking about systems, which are also important. But individuals and small groups can’t affect systems. They can affect their neighbors and communities.

We can only fix global warming or massive pollution by large collective action like voting for people who will break up monopolies and set national policy. But we can make our communities better by shunning racists and bigots and making sure they don’t achieve positions of power. Both are important.

ristoril_zip,

I mean, the dogs knew where she was…

ristoril_zip,

Unfortunately it’s an easy sentiment to promulgate. It taps into feelings of fairness and justice. Those are some very foundational emotional drivers for humans

However, I think there’s a chance to turn that sort of reasoning around. Like if we appeal to the idea of right and wrong. If using fossil fuels is like stealing or assault or worse, then the fact that someone else is doing it doesn’t suddenly make it ok. It makes the person doing it a bad person.

The problem with fossil fuel use currently is that so many people are using them and whole countries and ways of life have been built around using them. Getting rid of fossil fuels has the potential to be as disruptive as getting rid of slavery.

ristoril_zip,

They’re probably right in a very general sense, at least in the short and medium terms. Fossil fuels have a lot of qualities that make them hard to out compete for some tasks. But we can get the usage of them back to levels that aren’t destructive to our habitats. And in the long term it’s absolutely possible to eliminate their use.

ristoril_zip,

“choose” is doing a lot of work there. Have you priced housing lately? The real “choice” I see is that companies “choose” their location such that their employees can’t afford to live nearby on the wages they’re earning, or the companies “choose” to pay employees to little in wages to afford to live nearby.

ristoril_zip,

First: a company should pay at a minimum a wage that can afford housing nearby (probably within 15 minutes’ drive). The company should pay everyone for work hours + that round trip nearby commute time

If the company is paying that wage, then employees who live farther away are making a free choice to do so. They still get that round trip nearby commute time paid, but time beyond that is not paid. Or paid at some diminishing rate.

Companies should recognize a worker’s time list for the company’s benefit. But there has to be a balance because of the temptation to game the system.

ristoril_zip,

I’ve known several people in management in my industry (I’ve changed jobs a fair amount plus I’m in a consulting industry) who became managers and then either self demoted or moved over to equivalent technical roles specifically because they were forced to basically lie and say their great employees were average or even below average, couldn’t give bonuses that matched performance, and couldn’t give raises that matched performance.

It literally made them depressed to have to treat hard working people unfairly. So they stopped doing it.

Now that just brought the question to my mind: what does that mean about the people who do that and keep doing it? Are the just psychopaths? Sociopaths? Evil? Trapped?

I think the important thing to do is find the people who are forcing these dishonest review systems and challenge then directly on why they’re making managers lie about employees performance. Contact the ombudsman if they have one and point out the dishonesty.

ristoril_zip,

You’re kind of arguing against the foundation of human society. If we’re all required to “do our own research” about things, where does that requirement end? How can I buy food if I have to do my own research on what’s healthy or what’s dangerous? What about my tap water? How can I put gas in my car? Use electricity? A computer? A phone?

Somewhere along the way you have to trust the systems that have been built by the people before us to function, and for people who work in those fields who are experts to use their expertise.

Obviously oversight & verification is also important. It’s important that people earn trust and work to maintain that trust and get booted if they violate that trust.

But it’s foolish to just stop trusting experts out of nowhere. It’s extra foolish to stop trusting experts specifically because they say things you don’t like to hear. As far as I can tell, that’s been the accelerating project of the Republican Party since at least the talk radio explosion following the demise of the Fairness Doctrine. Maybe longer if you go back to Moon landing deniers and their ilk.

ristoril_zip,

It might be a big tripping hazard to go full “free trade agreement” just to get a carbon tax. The better approach is probably going to be some sort of mutual taxation/tariff/duty pledge. Something where all the countries that opt in would levy a duty of some sort on all goods that involve carbon emissions in their lifecycle outside the transportation of said goods (this is a trade agreement after all), and waive that duty on all member nations’ exports.

When people hear “free trade” they think of a system that waives all import duties, which may or may not be what is desired here. I can think of some bad actors passing a “carbon tax” just to get all the other duties on their goods dropped.

The alternative of course would be an actual free trade agreement but with a lot more qualifications than just “carbon tax.” Like union support, a living minimum wage, free education through age 18 (for example), environmental protections, reasonable intellectual property protections, no wars of aggression, etc etc., PLUS a carbon tax.

ristoril_zip,

Well, maybe in mid November 2026…

ristoril_zip,

I’ll believe this headline after I see their golden parachute details. I’m pretty sure for Forbes 500 CEOs “quitting” can be the most profitable thing they’ll ever do.

ristoril_zip,

“Supposed to do” is kind of vague, but many people have answered the “legally required to do” already.

If you or someone you love dearly were in an ambulance heading to the hospital to deal with an emergency medical condition (or waiting for one to arrive & provide transport to the hospital), what would you want everyone in the path to do? Whatever the answer to that is, do that. For me, the answer is, “as quickly and safely as possible make a path for the ambulance.”

Is that pulling over? Stopping? Pulling into a parking lot? Continuing to drive until one of those options is available? Depends. Are you on a crowded road with no way to pull over? Then stopping will impede the ambulance. Don’t impede the ambulance. Are you the only car on the road? Then slow down and move to the right (in the US).

ristoril_zip,

As if alienation from our fellow humans is somehow a young male specific problem. The Internet and social media and smart phones are huge drivers to our alienation from one another.

ristoril_zip,

They’re easy to understand: they are privileged and insulated enough from potential Republican fuckery that if Democrats lose elections, they are mostly going to be ok. They’re mostly middle class or higher with secure employment or other economic support (parents, spouse), straight (or closeted), their religious status isn’t contentious, mostly they’re male.

The other group I’d expect would be extremely low information voters who believe all politicians are the same and it’s a Coke or Pepsi kind of thing. That’s not going to be super common with anyone identifying as “progressive” due to the very politicized nature of that term, though.

ristoril_zip,

There’s no way you can know this.

Which country is this in? Some countries might have more strict rules about posted vs actual salary ranges. In the US (mostly) if there’s a posted salary range, it’s not binding on the employer. Most employers would have the flexibility to adjust the range if a candidate is particularly compelling.

If OP is somewhere like most US states, they might benefit from pointing out that they currently make more, probably before an offer is made. It would be silly to bring it up after the salary range is established.

If posted salary ranges are binding, then it’s moot.

ristoril_zip,

Wow Putin must be really feeling the pressure if he’s walking all his sleeper agents

ristoril_zip,

The other thing to note is that nearly all the “permanent” weight you lose (the loss you can actually maintain) is lost from exhaling carbon. Water weight comes back when you rehydrate (and you should hydrate). You don’t poop much weight out (it’s a lot of water and dead blood cells). But the output of the Krebs cycle (respiration) is carbon dioxide.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle

That’s carbon you ate in various forms: protein, fat, and sugar.

Strength training is useful but a weight loss exercise regime will have a lot of sustained heavy breathing, i.e cardio.

(Plus with cardio you’ll be ready for most zombie apocalypses.)

ristoril_zip,

You’re not going to have a lot of luck targeting areas, regardless of what Internet and checkout lane magazines might claim. Your best bet is generalized diet and exercise based weight loss plus building areas you want to build (arms, legs, butt, chest, whatever).

ristoril_zip,

Almost entirely dropped reddit except sometimes for specific games or some 3D printing stuff

ristoril_zip,

I’m not sure “this was used in a crime” is the sort of thing that can be legislated or sued over, if that makes sense. I think the more reasonable standard for successfully adjudicating criminality is people’s or their constructs (corporations) acting negligently in the production, marketing, sales, and distribution of “things that can be dangerous” or “things that can be used to commit crimes.”

The huge issue most of the responses in this thread have is that they say “you can’t sue someone for making something just because the end user did a bad thing with it” oversimplification of how basically the entire world works.

The only reason manufacturers of anything have plausible deniability on being partially responsible for crimes committed with their wares is the strong likelihood that they could not have known the end user would do that.

If I hand craft a knife on and sell it on the Internet to someone who sends me a message asking “hey is this knife good for stabbing my bitch ex?” there’s a decent chance a good lawyer could get me for negligence at a minimum and possibly accessory to a crime. Because a reasonable person might conclude that knife would be used for a crime.

There’s a reason a Remington settled the lawsuit from the Sandy Hook families for $75 million: www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/us/…/index.html

They were never going to be liable for making the gun (particularly since gun manufacturers have a special law protecting them). But they clearly determined there was a decent chance they’d lose in court regarding how they marked, sold, and distributed guns, so they decided shelling out $75,000,000 was a better business decision.

If there’s a company making screwdrivers out there and they’re aware there’s a screwdriver murder problem in a city and they manufacture and distribute their screwdrivers to that city and put up billboards and take out magazine ads glorifying how good their screwdrivers are in a fight… they ought to be liable. Not because a screwdriver can be used to hurt people, but because they should reasonably be aware that in that city their screwdrivers had a good chance to be used to hurt somebody.

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