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Every person and organization should police themselves.

Secondly, both major US parties serve the CEO class;

Every time someone says or implies that “both parties are the same” a hungry child gets called a parasite and kicked out of a free and/or reduced price school lunch program.

Forget 50%, the US Navy built five rigid airships.

ZR-1 through ZR-5.

The only one that wasn’t destroyed by a crash that also killed most if not all of its crew was ZR-3 and its history is filled with so many near-disasters that it was pure chance that the rigid airships program didn’t have a 100% loss rate.

You think it is inappropriate to live in a fire prone area.

Your arbitrary line of appropriateness is wrong.

My arbitrary line of appropriateness is right.

It is inappropriate to live anywhere where there is a fire, earthquake, blizzard, sink hole, volcano, heat wave, tornado, and hurricane risk but also where there is not ample local (as in constrained to a single independent self-governing body) water, energy, and food resources.

Only those parts are truly less risky parts.

People can offer, graciously or not, you something for free.

They can then change their mind.

You are not entitled to it, you never had any “right” to it, and no force real or imagined in the universe will make that so.

I believe that payment in “exposure” is exploitative bullshit and many of my favorite video makers rely on revenue from YouTube as a not-insignificant portion of their income, so I pay.

No.

Every time someone says or implies "bOtH sIdEs" a hungry child gets kicked out of a free and reduced school lunch program and called a parasite.

Yes.

We can talk about what kinds of ads are appropriate but the right to use YouTube without paying either in money or time spent watching ads has never, will never, and does not currently exist.

If you do this, most of the goods will be used by people who are not poor,

Why does it seem as though some people believe there is an infinite supply of rich people?

Income disparity is so great that the cost of parking is irrelevant to the mythical army of rich people waiting off to the side for parking prices to come down.

I'm not even in the 99%, I'm in the 97% and I don't give a fuck about parking. I'm driving downtown to buy a $600 Barbour jacket from Orvis. I don't care about $20 for parking and I'm not coming downtown more often if parking is $0.

Most people would never say that we should make bread free. Or that we should make milk free.

If you are poor milk and bread should 100% be free.

Support for SNAP (food stamps) routinely and consistently polls at >70%.

People who assert what you just did are in the extreme minority.

I didn't even have to read the article to know that these are the bible humping jesus freaks out in west Texas from Amarillo down to San Angelo.

In addition to their freedumb risking the lives of others, getting measles is one of the worst things that can happen to a child. Those kids are going to get sick, more often, more easily, and more severely for the rest of their lives.

There are two types of Trump supporters.

One type thinks that the data being disappeared is "trans DEI libtard lies".

The other type believes that the federal government should collect no data because it is stealing a Job Creator's god-given right to act as a middleman in all aspects of human culture and charge money for access to that data (because that's, somehow, more efficient).

The only thing they care about is next quarter's share price.

The wouldn't kill and eat your grandmother if it was legal to make a little money, but 100% without exception they would look the other way and profess innocence if SOMEONE ELSE killed and ate your grandmother and it made them money.

edit: and they would character assassinate and/or sue you for criticizing them in a large enough forum.

There are no "artificial rules", just humans acting according to normal human behavior.

There are uncountably many examples of humans, presumably normal, existing outside of the rules set by free market capitalism and not collapsing into a black hole.

One such example is the Indigenous peoples of Australia, who lived for tens of thousands more years than the concept of free market capitalism has existed, without even the concept of money or property beyond what one carried on their person.

I have to assume that they are "normal" humans.

Even today many aboriginals struggle with "tHe NaTuRaL LaWz of tEh MaRkEt JuSt LiKe GrAvItY BrAh TrUsT Me BrAHHHHH" because they've only been exposed to them for less than 0.3% of their culture's total existence.

There are examples, today, right now, this very minute, in (extremely northern) Europe of presumably normal humans who look at the rules you consider to be "natural" with shock and horror.

A cult has convinced you that their ideology is natural law. You can both participate in this system and realize that it is all bullshit and not be a hypocrite.

Your memory is faulty.

Let's take a trip back to 1992.

In 1992, unless you were rich you had a $2,000 386SX-33 sourced from parts out of the back of Computer Shopper magazine.

Here is a 386SX-33 running Windows 3.1 (1992) launching WordPerfect for Windows 5.2 (1992) a perfect representation of what a normal, typical, average person in 1992 would have as a PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYjrX2P4iY4

WordPerfect takes 45 seconds just to start. You dropped $350 on an ATI Wonder that has hardware acceleration of Windows 3.1 video calls just to get smooth window moving and resizing.

What about a 486? Lol you didn't have a 486, those were for CAD workstations and servers. You had a 386.

Three years later, lusting after Windows 95 and frustrated with slow performance, you shell out ANOTHER $2,000 on a Pentium 75 with 8MB of ram and a 528MB hard drive.

Sure, with the lower FSB that means you're less than half the performance of a Pentium 133 despite having 56% the clock, but you're a regular person with regular person money.

Windows 95 takes over a minute to boot, Space Cadet Pinball takes 15 seconds to launch, and you buy City Streets for Windows which takes 3-5 seconds to redraw its viewport every single time you reposition the map.

From the day you could first afford a PC you chased upgrades: more ram, a hard drive with a higher rotational speed and bigger cache, holy crap they can do 3d in hardware now, can I afford a 256kB COAST module?

Then one day, in about 2011-2012 that all stops. Sandy Bridge. SSDs. Now you only upgrade every 4-6 years: when performance doubles or windows stops supporting your CPU or you drop your laptop and break it.

You cannot simply "ignore" market forces

Market forces aren't real. They are artificial arbitrary rules agreed upon by a majority of participants in a financial system.

They are not natural laws like Newton's law of universal gravitation and the fact that even one person thinks they are is the greatest scam ever pulled on humanity.

Humanity will never be free until it rids itself of economists and MBAs.

That and the Tokyo train network slime mold experiments have always irrationally angered me.

They haven't found the most efficient paths, for humans in the real world, at all. They've found short-ISH paths that are efficient for a slime mold attempting to conserve energy.

Just look at the god damned photo!

What the hell is wrong with people?

Do they honestly believe that building an interstate highway along the actual, literal, spine of the Rocky Mountains, practically from peak-to-peak along the most mountainous and difficult terrain in North America, is "efficient"?

Slime molds are not intelligent.

Slime molds cannot make decisions.

Slime molds do not hold any insight into the human condition, especially when it comes to engineering.

Slime molds are simple biological machines who have been selected over billions, yes billions, of years to grow in the most sustainable way possible.

And don't get me started on the Tokyo railway one. Only the highest of the most stoned biology students could look at that picture and say, "this resembles what humans built". It's like looking at a cartoon rendering of a stereotypical Saguaro cactus and saying, "this looks like a man holding his arms up just put a cowboy hat on him and call him Tex".

Whenever I come across a "density Density DENSITY" story I do some looking at the background of the individuals running/promoting the effort.

I'll go to the "our team" and "about us" page of the org, look at who runs it and then google them and find the interview they did five years ago in their palatial suburban estate, sitting jauntily atop a stool next to the island in their 500 square foot kitchen.

They are all hyper-rich arrogant dickheads who want the masses stacked on top of each other in habicubes where they have to listen to couples fighting, smell the stench of their neighbor's disgusting cooking, and feel constant compression from crowding shoulder to shoulder up against each other as they march from their in-office job to their tiny, cramped, habicube.

My only question is why the rich dickheads who run media outlets and non-profits obsessed with turning everyone into the renter of a high-density nightmare hovel doesn't take their own medicine?

Why are they giving interviews to Dwell or A+U about how everyone should live in a dense city from inside their gated 30,000 square foot fortress of solitude?

There's a reason that the first thing anyone, anywhere, does when they get some money is buy an SUV or (in Europe and Japan) a station wagon and move out to an American-style suburb.

Once you get out of your "hip young urban professional" or "broke-ass" phase you realize the only thing that matters is sitting by yourself in a lawn chair on your wasteful suburban Bermuda grass lawn watching the sprinkler move back and forth in peace and fucking quiet.

You think the whole world is about meta comments?

Sentiment in the media, all media, including social media, turns into dead bodies if the rhetoric is allowed to get extreme enough.

It's been this way since the invention of public speaking.

Las Vegas is an insignificant mote of dust compared to Macau when it comes to Casinos and gambling.

Jonathan Head

South East Asia correspondent

Reporting from Shwe Kokko, Myanmar

Before the article even started.

As a minority (Asian) I feel the opposite of oppressed.

That's because strong acceptable use polices based on the "E" in "DEI" meant that organizations ranging in size from Meta to Hacker News deleted comments when they turned into "kill the dirty ch**ks" during COVID.

It is now acceptable on Meta to post comments calling trans people mentally ill sexual predators.

Why do you think that, given a crisis requiring a boogeyman-du-jour, it will not one day very soon be acceptable to call for the deaths of the "dirty bat-fucking ch**ks"?

It's already acceptable to use the n-word on twitter.

I'm an upper-middle class property-owning married straight white male with children. Also dogs. And a veteran. And a small business owner.

>>I<<< am safe.

Everyone else is up for scapegoating, all it takes is for the current trans boogeyman to lose its effectiveness.

IRC is terrible the same way it was terrible when I used it 30 years ago.

It's Y2K brah if you can't paste an image into chat, your chat is garbage.

Chat is more than text, unless you go to meet your friend for coffee and you chat by typing out words on a typewriter and handing sheets of paper back and forth between each other.

And that's like one of the ten thousand problems with IRC.

"But it's lightweig..." so few people care about how lightweight it is that the statement "nobody cares how lightweight it is" is only off the mark by a millimeter or two.

Two more problems are: the ratio of dickheads-to-humans and security flaws so bad that any organization releasing a spec that bad today would be pilloried as either incompetent or actually literally malicious every day, by everyone, all of the time, on hacker news.

ps: the limit for IRC is 512 characters. If you try to paste an strace into an IRC chat if your client and server are good it will be broken up into multiple messages, if they are bad the message will be discarded, and regardless of if your message makes it from your client to everyone else, you will probably be autobanned for flooding.

Beside i don't know what you do with chicken corpse in city, you aren't going to put it in recycling can.

You do with it the same thing you do with a turkey carcass after thanksgiving: throw it in the trash.

"City folk" throw away meat trimmings, spoiled meat, or other meat products in volumes greater than a single chicken carcass every day.

Put it in a bag, put that bag in an another bag, and throw it away. It isn't magic or esoteric wisdom.

Everyone saying that US and Chinese companies both do this therefore it's the same probably think that a lumberjack and a serial killer who both happen to be standing in front of them wielding an axe are threats of equal merit.

Thinking that the new administration will just openly refuse to pay people's salaries as part of a formal deal?

The chief executive of the new administration is literally and actually widely known for doing that exact thing repeatedly, for decades and decades, up to and including screwing local municipalities who entered into binding legal agreements with him to incur expenses to be repaid in full as part of his campaign.

This is not bias or propaganda it is fact.

There are ~250 $1 million+ lottery winners in the US every year.

There are ~750 billionaires in total.

The average American has a better chance of becoming a billionaire through hard work and prudent investments if, at age 18, they decide to live in a cardboard box underneath a bridge and steal metals from construction sites to sell for cash to be used to purchase lottery tickets.

They can then win the multi-million-dollar prize and invest that wisely to reach billionaire status.

Easy! Why doesn't everyone do it?

I don't have a dog in this race because I haven't used Windows as my primary OS since the Windows 8 days, but my main "makin money" computer, a threadripper 3970X workstation is not officially supported by Windows 11.

Five years after I got it there are very few consumer machines that are as powerful, or can address as much memory.

I know I can make it work through tricks and overrides but that's not good enough for consumers. Not hobbyists, regular people.

You can export all health and fitness data with no trouble using the Health app.

1. Open the health app

2. Tap on your face in the upper right

3. Scroll down to the bottom and tap "export all data" or whatever it says.

Bam: every workout and every health measurement in an XML file.

Whoever told you apple locks down health and fitness data was either mistaken or lying to you.

edit: here is a more technical explanation https://www.ryanpraski.com/apple-health-data-how-to-export-a...

What's special about AI?

VC firms have brainwashed people into thinking LLMs are "I" when really, they are XOR'ing GIGO machines.

Because executives, everywhere it seems, are gullible enough to be tricked into believing that A(sigh)I isn't a colossal waste of money and electricity, they are throwing it at every problem, everywhere.

This means that a fucking stupid framework of frameworks designed to turn electricity into heat via compute is being inserted into every single aspect of commerce, banking, law enforcement, warfare, business decision making, and yes, hiring.

The difference between scraping a resume for keyworks and having an LLM evaluate it is that you can look at the list of keywords and understand what it is happening.

A list of keywords is comprehensible and reproducible. You can subpoena a list of keywords. You can modify and control a list of keywords. You can legislate the requirement or forbidding of keyword criteria.

An LLM is just a tunnel of sewage that pours shit out the other end, a black box, a mystery.

But A(sigh)I excels at letting people be lazy and generating an endless stream of dreck designed to addict the gullible so it is going to take over the world.

At least the EU is trying to slow it.

It's funnier if you don't explain the joke.

On the street.

Go to Google Maps, zoom in on New York City, then drop a Streetview pin randomly anywhere in the city.

Chances are very, VERY, good that just by panning, not moving, you'll find a trash bag dumped on the sidewalk.