I wonder if you could deploy mannequins on wheels to bait out shots from one of these

The Gaza issue seems to have been pretty big

https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

Are you familiar with the concept of social murder? Because we have an awful lot of that in the US but it gets kindly ignored because it’s just a result of the system functioning the way it does.

I guess if they just disappeared Renee and Alex and kept them in a box where they slowly died over the course of months, it would be preferable. As long as there was paperwork filled out and it had a big official red stamp, and Congress passed a law saying it was ok to arrest them for illegally observing federal agents, it’s fine! This way, nobody would be directly pulling the trigger, and their deaths would be the result of systemic failures that nobody could have seen coming.

I accidentally a word 🥴

I do have a problem with deportations because they are historically illiterate (migratory work was a regular thing for centuries), financially illiterate (how much fucking money are we spending on all this again?), and inhumane (vast majority of these people weren’t causing problems, + look at how any of these camps are run). This is including when Hope and Change was doing it. The concept of an illegal person is the Private Prison Industry’s wet dream. Don’t fall for it.

The law has failed people here, so I think discussing the matters in terms of legality is also a failure. I’m glad you were able to get your wife over here without drawing the ire of the authorities, but damn if this doesn’t echo the “fuck you got mine” rhetoric on so many issues in this country including housing, education, and healthcare. You politely disagree with the rules yet can’t help but tut-tut those who don’t follow them, whether it be out of principle or necessity.

Bad rules are meant to be abolished; immoral laws are meant to be civilly disobeyed.

Is that better??? Once someone is in custody it’s directly the responsibility of the state to ensure their well-being. To allow people to die in the camps from bad conditions is just as inexcusable as killing people in the streets. One is just a little more out of sight than the other.

I don’t think it’s a secret, just say you think people who have committed no crimes should be held in a cage for weeks to months before shipping them out to someplace they were trying to get away from

The entire point was to do what without killing civilians?

Because libs vote in lib primaries?

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It’s possible to do less granular simulation of far away stuff as an LOD type thing. An object four times hotter than the surface of the sun should probably have an effect on the world around it. The tricky parts are how you determine where that threshold is, what those objects are, and what the low resolution world simulation should be doing in response

Oops spent all my spoons planning and obsessing over details that don’t matter

American cheese is real cheese with two extra agents added

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGNAxN5Z-o

We are all Virginia on this blessed day

By that logic every cell in your body has touched a cell (that has touched a cell)^n that has touched ass

Ironically I think these would give me sensory issues

I think it’s grime from well over a decade of cooking oil splattering to the side, only occasionally getting wiped down as it collected dust and became discolored

Don’t just state—regurgitate!

I’m not against automation of jobs either. I’m against automation of jobs under capitalism, especially when said automation is controlled by the capitalists and jobs are still required to live, and there aren’t suitable replacements waiting to be filled that pay enough. Capital will let us starve to drive up quarterly profits an extra 0.1% before it concedes that the economy is supposed to serve the people and not the other way around.

My concern is that these tools are powerful enough that, through the miasma of low-effort propaganda they can create, the most powerful models will be used by the powers that be to retain their chokehold. Infinite cheap digital labor if you own a nuclear power plant isn’t going to empower the working class under the current organization of things. It’s going to be used to further entrench what already exists. Blanket deployments of AI to scour everything on the Internet which presents a threat to capital and send goons to deal with the people producing it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a blunt force tool with false-positives if it gets the intended target in the process. That’s the American way after all! What’s the solution? A home-brewed miasma of pro-communist propaganda, hosted on guerilla mesh networks connected over TOR?

How do we win this fight? If we are obsolete in the process of making the money go round, and there’s enough domestic military boots in the form of Police (and police drones) to deal with us stepping out of line, we can simply be ignored. Like I don’t think it’s impossible to achieve, but I think as time goes on, the more power-serving automation exists, the smaller that windows of opportunity shrinks until it’s effectively gone.

I do think video streaming is a problem. I would honestly be ok returning to a world where 480p or even 360p streams are the norm because these bandwidths are insane. Unfortunately YouTube by default won’t even let you do that! They’d rather incur the extra cost to try and upsell audio-only on music and podcasts as a premium feature. Offline downloads are another great way to save bandwidth for repeat watches/listens but that is not available either in lieu of monetizing always-online, on-demand streaming services. Perhaps if bandwidth and electricity become much more scarce in the imperial core this will change, but I do not know if/when that would be the case.

Back on water use, there’s a pretty valid case by Hank Green I saw about AI where, in terms of water usage, it’s a little silly to go after it when even its predictions on water use in the medium term are a fraction of what the US corn farming requires right now. It’s subsidized, has been for decades, and it’s been shoehorned into everything just to keep corn farmers having jobs farming corn. One of the biggest uses of the stuff is literally just to feed cattle to produce one of the least thermodynamically-efficient foods possible (let alone the ethical issues of meat consumption).