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- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 4 days ago:
Seems all you need to use to get the threat of the insurrection act is a snow shovel. Go big or go home I say. And even without it, he deployed marines in so cal.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 4 days ago:
Well TIL. I though they couldn’t make them that small back then. But anyway, the russians were producing the latest version of small tactical nukes in the 20 teens. Those are pretty new.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 5 days ago:
What I would like to see is local organizations, like even city councils, running programs to arm thier citizens. Ideally with free training and such as a requirement. Super awesome would be if they setup shop near protest sites to do some basic training and then sell the weapons to the people legally for like $10 or something. Essentially, legally and responsibly arm the protestors. If ICE starts shooting, they return fire. That should really give ICE pause.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 5 days ago:
I didn’t need to reach at all. I brought down to several simple examples. You just aren’t willing to open your mind and consider it.
I 100% agree that it confuses and ill informs many adults. That is why I think it is so important that kids be exposed to it, and taught to think critically about what it tells them. It isn’t going to go away. And who kmows, they might learn to apply that same critical thinking to what the talking heads on the internet tell them. But even if not, it would be worth it. - Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 5 days ago:
How about this. I think it is pretty well known that pilots and astronauts are trained on simulations where some of the information they get from “tools” or gauges is wrong. On the surface it is just simulating failures. But the larger purpose is to improve critical thinking. They are trained to take each peice of information into context and if it doesn’t fit, question it. Sound familiar?
AI spits out lots of information with every response. Much of it will be accurate. But sometimes there will be a faulty basis in it that causes one or more parts of the information to be wrong. But the wrongness almost always follows a pattern. In context the information is usually obviously wrong. And if you learn to spot the faulty basis, you can even sus out which information is still good. Or you can just tell it where it went wrong and it often will come back with the correct answer.
Talking to people isn’t all that different. There is a whole sub for confidently wrong on reddit. But spotting when a person is wrong is often harder because the depth of thier faulty basis can be soo much deeper than an AIs. And, they are people, so you pften can’t politely question the accuracy of what they are saying. Or they are just a podcast… I think you get where I am going.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
I will say I don’t know what Russia specifically has in thier arsenal beyond the general “tactical nukes”. But artillery shell or missle… it makes little difference. Tactical nukes are relatively new, so aren’t much of an age concern as the bigger older stuff. Functionality concerns, only they really know. And I agree, which is why I said they are holding back. But if the situation changes, they may not need to hold back.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
The tactical ones are a grey area. They can be small enough not to end the world. They can also have far less long term effects than the larger and older ones. In short, you could nuke a military base as apposed to a city. They can be delivered as an artilery shell. So if Russia used one. I doubt the world would immediately luanch thier strategic arsenal in response.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 1 week ago:
You hit on why I don’t use them. But some people don’t care about that for a variety of reasons. Doesn’t make them less than.
Anyone who tries to use AI and not apply critical thinking fails at thier task because AI is just wrong often. So they either stop using it, or they apply critical thinking to figure out when the results are usable. But we don’t have to agree on that.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 1 week ago:
I couldn’t even finish the article. The mental gymnastics it would take to write it could only come from someone who never learned how to use AI. If anything, the article is a testament to how our children and everyone should be taught how to use AI effectively.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 1 week ago:
That sounds like a form of prejudice. I mean even Siri and Alexa? I don’t use them for different reaons… but a lot of people use them as voice activated controls for lights, music, and such. I can’t see how they are different from the clapper. As for the llms… they don’t do any critical thinking, so noone is offloading thier critical thinking to them. If anything, using them requires more critical thinking because everyone who has ever used them knows how often they are flat out wrong.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Apparently neither did the US founding fathers… checks and balances my ass.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Well, Russia is sort of holding back. They have tactical nukes, not sure how many of those nato has without the US. And going ballistic doesn’t end well for anyone. But Russia need the land of major nato members. They will pick on non-nato countries mostly, and more often they will do it by cutting off trade routes and such. Maybe they use thier now seasoned military to pick off some minor nato members, just to distract Nato from everything else. With the US pulling back from the international stage, Russia and Chine can divvy up a lot of the world.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 week ago:
Well I guess you you are anti-data. I really just wanted to hear opinions.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 week ago:
My take? I legit asked a question to get other people answers. Somehow you wrote up that whole thing about an opinion I didn’t give, and didn’t even answer the question.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
So then how does poly sci determine the will of the people when an election is rigged?
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
But what percent do you think would say it was right because it was trump?
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
I dunno. I don’t think vance would feel a need to keep doung what trump was doing. Vance would want to run in 2028, so he would probably try to take the “healer” side. He can’t carry trumps base anyway.
That said, sounds like your answer is that if it benefitted you, you would be fine with it, and if it didn’t, you wouldn’t.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
I got mine so it would be easier to transport weapons to a range. I got the weapons in case trump starts a civil war or something.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
And Iam thankful that in my life this is true. But not everyone is so lucky.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
I do wonder, what % of anti-trump people would be okay witha foreign power using a military raid to arrest him while killing secret service personnel to do it. It’s a nonzero number for sure… but how high. Somone should totally do a poll.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
So poly sci says that all russians love putin? And kim jung un (or whatever his name is) is the most popular leader in the world?
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
True, but this time he is clearly in decline, so republicans have far less to gain by keeping him, and plenty to gain by tossing him. He has been working to undermine plenty in his own party be “primarying” them. I think the majority of republicans in congress want him gone, but are just afraid to be the one that steps forward unless they all do…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
True, but this time he is clearly in decline, so republicans have far less to gain by keeping him, and plenty to gain by tossing him. He has been working to undermine plenty in his own party be “primarying” them. I think the majority of republicans in congress want him gone, but are just afraid to be the one that steps forward unless they all do…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Midterm elections followed by impeachment.
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 2 weeks ago:
So the source here is google. YSK is for things you actually know.
- Comment on The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily 2 weeks ago:
In fairness, workers are very often the most expensive part of a business. Ya’know because they want a living wage… terrible people…
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
You really have to split it up. Teachers and nurses have always been paid pretty poorly. They were traditionally female only professions, and expected only to work until married or what not. Or they were nuns, and didn’t get paid directly. Doctors of course, being traditionally male only got paid a lot better. But I agree that for most of human history, professional athletes were just rich peoples kids. They weren’t even getting paid most likely. It would be interesting to try and figure out who the first true professional athlete was. Someone who wasn’t born into money, and actually got paid a living wage.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 4 weeks ago:
The old fashion way. Inherit it. Our the really really old fashion way. Fraud.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 4 weeks ago:
For the most part, the owner class does have a job. They have to buy and sell the things they own. They have to maintain relationships so they can get a better deal. And they gave to use thier influence to increase the value of what they own. It’s all fake work of course. It doesn’t increase the productive output overall. But it is a job. And pretty much full time at that.
The real answer is to be the kid of one of these people. Then you can make your money the old fashion way, inherit it.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 4 weeks ago:
The gov owns a piece of intel now. If that isn’t enough, consider that they now have a competitive advantage in that government agencies are less likely to go after them for abusing customer trust and such. Intel will need to exploit that to get ahead. Also, there is constant talk of breaking up the company into parts and such. Not much stability there.