WoodScientist
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- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 days ago:
Would it have been better if there was violence, but only one side was violent?
Peace happens when both sides have a motive to achieve peace. You cannot have a peace treaty when only one side is willing to use force.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 days ago:
At the end of the day, the die hard MAGA folks are a quarter of the country. The stuff they’re doing is wildly unpopular. At some point you have to fight for democracy. It is worth dying for. It is worth killing for. If we have to go through a troubles, so be it. Frankly, this probably isn’t going to end until we start seeing a whole lot of dead Evangelical Christians. The Christian nationalists are so used to being able to violently oppress and persecute everyone else. They don’t realize that their own lives and freedoms can be just as easily destroyed.
We already are in a civil war. One portion of the population has declared war on everyone else, hell bent on forcing their evil beliefs on everyone else. They do so in the confidence that they themselves will never face persecution, the loss of their rights, or a threat of violence. White Evangelical Christians are way too fucking comfortable.
Honestly, a troubles might be the best thing to knock some sense into these fuckers. Once the retaliatory killings start and their churches start getting torched, maybe it will finally get through their thick skulls that if you want to live in a democracy, you have to be willing to respect other people’s choices and let them live their own fucking lives.
The troubles ended because both sides felt threatened. No one felt safe. This encouraged everyone to come to the table. Right now one side feels invincible. They believe they can act with complete impunity against the rest of the population. So far, we’re all just holding our punches and trying not to escalate things, but these fuckers just keep pushing. Something will have to give.
Mutual bloody violence is a superior option to one-sided bloody violence, which is the situation we have now.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 2 days ago:
I hope he sent them a forged receipt.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 2 days ago:
I said most people. I’m talking people who retire with levels of wealth achievable through ordinary wage and salary work. People retiring with portfolios in the $1-5 million range. And yes, the vast vast majority of these folks die with more money than they start retirement with.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 3 days ago:
You can get secondary insurance for that. The truth is that the vast majority of retirees who retire intending to live off their investments actually end up dying with more money than they started retirement with.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 3 days ago:
That’s not how sound retirement planning works.
- Comment on We need an alternative to YouTube that's NOT destined to be shut down quickly unlike sites like Blip, Metacafe, VIdMe, Zippcast or Storyfire. And it's NOT PeerTube. 6 days ago:
Why not focus on improving peertube?
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 6 days ago:
Also, you’ve probably heard of a “calling card,” but these were actual physical things. If you dropped by someone’s home or business when they weren’t there, you could leave behind a card saying you were there and wanted to get in touch.
- Comment on Currency 6 days ago:
You know, if you were someone who eats there frequently, Big Mac coin forgery might actually be a profitable endeavor…
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 1 week ago:
Because conservatives ultimately do not believe in anything beyond helping the in ground and hurting the out group. That is it. Everything else is just window dressing.
- Comment on This is really touching. Your eyes will moisten 1 week ago:
Here lies Philip J Fry.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Tell that to every farmer in the US. Do you seriously not know about the DMCA?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Read some Corry Doctorow.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And really, the politicians are fine with that. The goal isn’t the complete elimination of 3D printed ghost guns. The goal is to greatly increase the skill level required to print a 3D printed ghost gun. With relatively modest tools and enough skill, you can machine your own gun from scratch in your garage. Yet the barrier to entry is so high that few who seek guns for evil ends use these methods. A random street drug dealer might find the idea of printing a gun at the push of a button very tempting. But they are unlikely to find the idea of building a machine shop and learning machining appealing or practical. Or in your case, learning all about open source 3D printers and their software. Yours is just the 3D printer equivalent of the home gunsmith. Yes, you and people like you exist. But the politicians aren’t aiming for complete elimination, just vast reduction.
Accessibility matters. It’s why the printing press was such a big deal.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There’s a much simpler and more horrifying solution here, that would actually be technically possible. All 3D printers sold must have a sort of cryptographic lock on them. Only safety-verified prints are allowed to be printed on them. The code running on the printers themselves will still be dirt stupid, but there will be a software lock on the thing preventing uncertified prints from being printed. Every 3D printer sold is locked down tighter than a John Deere tractor.
Every 3D print company would offer a large number of pre-verified prints. (AFAIK many already have libraries of print files.) But you as a user wouldn’t be able to just print anything you wanted. At best, maybe 3rd-party verification services would exist. Model what you want, then pay 20 bucks to some company for a print verification. You send them the file, they screen it for any contraband, and they send you a cryptographic key that lets you print that file and only that file. Long term they would hope AI can do the screening. For now it will be someone’s job to just stare at 3D models all day and to figure out if it’s a gun or not. It would start with screening for guns, but it would inevitably expand to things like intellectual property protections.
They won’t have to change the fundamental deep logic and operation of the printer itself. Just like the fundamental mechanisms inside a tractor haven’t changed. They’ll just make it a felony to sell a 3D printer that isn’t locked down to Hell and back.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s something highly specific that was carefully designed to only activate on currency. They added highly unique dot patterns to currency that scanners could detect. And the printer doesn’t (at least by law) spy on everything you do. The printer will just refuse to copy a dollar bill. The printer doesn’t refuse to operate unless it has an open communications line to the FBI.
If they wanted to do something similar with 3D printers, I would have no objections. Others have pointed out the technical problems with preventing any form of 3D print, but I’ll speak conceptually here. There are 3D printers that print metal. Countries with high-denomination coins might find it useful to bar 3D metal printers from printing those coins. You could assumedly create some sort of 3D version of the dot patterns used on paper currency. Then you pass a law stating that any 3D scanner must refuse to scan an object if it detects those very unique dot patterns on it. Then countries with high-value coins could mint them with these unique dot patterns or other features. If anyone tries to scan a coin to reproduce it, the scanner just refuses or outputs only noise. No need to phone home. No need for mass surveillance. Just a simply refusal that would only be active in this very specific case.
If someone wanted to implement a feature like that into 3D printers, technical problems aside, I would have no objections. That would be directly analogous to the 2d printer example, and it would represent no escalation in spying or restrictions on freedom of use.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Then they’ll make owning an unregistered 3D printer a felony.
- Comment on Grinch 1 week ago:
That’s a 31 year old woman and a 40 year old man. Both indubitably human.
- Comment on Grinch 1 week ago:
You have two species that can understand each other’s languages, live in close proximity, have the same body plan, and are both the rarest form of species - sentient intelligent tool users. The odds that they both evolved simultaneously and independently is vanishingly small. Maybe they’re a homo sapiens/neanderthal situation - two separate but related species. But odds are this is simply a case of racial persecution.
- Comment on Grinch 1 week ago:
The Whos, like all species, have a degree of diversity. Grinches are just a Who ethnic minority. Whoville is a Sundown Town; Grinches aren’t allowed in city limits after nightfall. Why do you think The Grinch lives in a cave? Hell, they don’t even let him have a name. He’s just “The Grinch.” They’re doing the equivalent of calling the one member of a minority group in town “The Black” or “The Jew.”
Whos are terrible people.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Quantity has a quality all its own.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 2 weeks ago:
Have you not seen the literature showing the effects regular LLM use has on people? You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide? That’s like literal Satan, Prince of Darkness, Father of All Lies shit
Is it actually the spawn of a literal personal devil? Of course not. But the damn things act a hell of a lot like the devils of myth and legend. They tempt you in with the promise of easy effortless success and riches. And in the end they take everything from you.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it will literally steal your soul. Using LLMs changes you. It degrades your skills. Its sycophancy harms your ability to interact with actual human beings with opinions of their own. It makes you feel like you are never wrong. And use it enough, and it can literally drive you mad.
LLMs are the closest real thing to a malevolent demon that will steal your soul.
- Comment on Mamdani housing czar called ‘White, middle-class homeowners’ a ‘huge problem' during 2021 podcast appearance 2 weeks ago:
White middle class homeowners are a huge problem, at least in areas where they vote to restrict the supply of new housing. It is deeply immoral to vote to line your own pockets at the expense of the welfare of the next generation.
- Comment on Tender chicken 2 weeks ago:
Who says it has to be evil or cruel? I make a mean dish. It’s about average.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, I would support total broadcast anarchy over our current state of affairs.
Without the FCC, whoever has the loudest transmitter wins. But actually look at the state of over-the-air broadcasts today. The radio stations have all been bought up and monopolized by a handful of companies like iHeartMedia. The broadcast TV stations are also similarly consolidated. Look at all the countless Sinclair stations pumping out endless right wing propaganda.
Frankly, I would prefer complete anarchy over this. Fines are how the FCC enforces its rules. Without any enforcement, broadcast regulation effectively ceases to exist. At that point, anyone can broadcast whatever they want, and the loudest transmitter wins. Now, maybe you don’t have the budget to build a transmitter that can completely overpower a major commercial radio station. But if that station is several miles away, you could set up a pirate radio station that would drown out a larger commercial station in your local area.
This is a case where deregulation absolutely would help the people. The broadcast network we have is so hopelessly corrupt that burning the whole thing down would be a massive improvement. I’ll take total anarchy over media monopolies owned by right-wing billionaires.
- Comment on Zootopia 3 weeks ago:
If you’re looking to get into the scrap metal business, I could sell you the Eiffel Tower.
- Comment on once you start to realize that incels are right as a non-white, you see why Elliot rodger did it. 3 weeks ago:
Look at this dumb fuck, taking decade-old data from okcupid and making sweeping conclusions about the entire human race from a fucking dating website’s blog post.
Pathetic.
- Comment on once you start to realize that incels are right as a non-white, you see why Elliot rodger did it. 3 weeks ago:
You need to like…find Jesus or something. IDK. But religious or not, hate leads only to the pit.
- Comment on Wats the legal test for consumation? 3 weeks ago:
