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- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 17 hours ago:
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- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 17 hours ago:
And if you are doing it because you’re racist that’s OK, just don’t be too obvious about it.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 17 hours ago:
This is what the US has, for the most part. It makes it extremely difficult for ranked choice or similar to gain a foothold.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 days ago:
A fellow Bread Harrity super fan I see? I’d like to get all up in that beautiful man’s wet spaghetti 🍝
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 days ago:
Life is the highway you boof
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 days ago:
It moreso relates to what’s in hand
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 days ago:
most people
Many people are ok with hearing music out of a phone speaker. Audiophiles don’t necessarily care about how “most people” perceive sound quality.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 days ago:
Flac files contain orders of magnitude more data. As for the listening experience it’s only ever going to be as good as the speakers at the other end. You’ll also need a wired connection to said speakers in order to avoid some compression over Bluetooth. (Unless there’s some newfangled lossless BT protocol that I’m unaware of.)
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 2 days ago:
Well, I’m sold. They’re people just like you and me.
Now that I’m enlightened, I may consider not immediately skull-fucking the first mannequin I see down at the local shops (without their consent).
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 days ago:
Alaska doesn’t like being tethered, it will just buck around and turn the whole Pacific into a churning gyre. The wildness would have to be beaten out of it first. Don’t worry though, that’s being worked on.
- Comment on True Motivation 2 days ago:
I’M ADDICTED TO THE HUSTLE, THAT RISE AND GRIND LIFESTYLE. I EARN $1000 BEFORE I TAKE MY FIRST SHIT IN THE MORNING. (the big bowl of cocaine for breakfast is completely unrelated, I swear)
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 2 days ago:
I’ve never thought about the accumulated trauma of mannequins before. We must raise awareness!
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 2 days ago:
The kids gotta learn someday, why not from a trusted adult?
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 2 days ago:
Everyone gotta sniff that sweet sweet booty juice, right guys?.. Guys?
- Comment on heaven 4 days ago:
Too tall to die, too short to go to heaven
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 4 days ago:
It’s already half way to replacing stack overflow and all the other trusty old forums for coding and tech issues. At some point people will stop using the old platforms and that’s when the well will run dry for LLMs, which will have to start consuming their own content. There’s a looming cliff, and it’s coming up faster than you might think.
- Comment on Very normal very reasonable 1 week ago:
Great video, thanks for the link!
- Comment on The Emmet Bar in Toronto, Ontario introduced coasters made from the scrap metal of cars that were involved in DUIs as a reminder to the effects of impaired and drunk driving 1 week ago:
I miss channel 5
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 week ago:
That tracks
- Comment on mensa 1 week ago:
To be fair, debate classes often involve arguing for positions you’re personally opposed to.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
Must be the giant red circles and mixed fonts
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
I would go further and say they shouldn’t have the ability to block any transaction consumers are making, regardless of legality.
I basically want them classified like utilities (or the Internet), and the money they’re processing should operate like digital networked cash. If I hand you a dollar bill, it doesn’t arbitrarily decide to stop being money if it thinks the transaction might possibly be even tangentially related to crime. That’s how you end up with these corporations becoming so invasive in the first place, with their overbroad policies blocking entire groups/categories from being in the economy.
Don’t think that I’m pro-crime – but only actual crime is crime. A transfer of funds itself is only sometimes a crime. You don’t see the federal reserve trying to foil small-time drug deals in cash, and for good reason – legitimate crimes should be investigated by law enforcement, not “prevented” at the whims of overeager corpos. It’s not the payment processor’s right or responsibility to prevent or they to predict crime, especially once they’ve built such a system as to become indispensable for most of us. If they are allowed to do that they will always do it the easy way – blanket bans with massive collateral damage to non-criminals.
These companies should be disbanded and their systems should be handed over to the public. Hot take, I know, but I’m of the mind that transaction processing (much like air and water) should not be privatized. I’m not a crypto-head either (I’ll use it if it fits the purpose). Crypto brought us part of the way there, but such a system can’t really flourish in furtherance of the public good in the current environment.
- Comment on To win the show Alone, could someone smuggle a GPS locator inside of their anus? 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t that be more of an inside job?
- Comment on To win the show Alone, could someone smuggle a GPS locator inside of their anus? 1 week ago:
For fun and profit
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 1 week ago:
Then scaring it out
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 1 week ago:
The nightcap is cheap and low effort. All you really need are two pieces of scrap fabric to sew together. A knit beanie has to be, well, knit. Now we have machine/robotic knitting, but hand knitting consumes a huge amount of time and energy. The nightcap clearly came about at a time when clothing was straight up made in the home, often from scrounged fabric. Nowadays the higher quality beanie is the obvious choice. It’s snug to your head, can be purchased at many different price points, is manufactured using cheap outsourced labor halfway around the world and can be at your door step 12 hours after a mouse click. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone unironically wear one of those floppy night caps in my life unless it was part of a cheap children’s novelty pajama set or costume.
- Comment on Bubble Trouble 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if AI applications other than just “be a generalist chat bot” would run into the same thing. I’m thinking about pharma, weather prediction, etc. They would still have to “understand” their english-language prompts, but the LLMs can do that just fine today, and could feed systems designed to iteratively solve for problems in those areas. A model feeding into itself or other models doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 weeks ago:
It’s gonna be the year of the Linux phone, I can feel it!