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This is just asking for a new law declaring dying in prison punishable by life in prison.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Can you maybe provide some links to examples? I haven't seen any of this.

KoboldCoterie ,
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You can hear it directly from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Any time I see something like this, I can only assume that the only thing the author knows about liberal ideology is gender politics, and that they think that that's the entire portfolio, and yet somehow feels strongly enough about gender-related issues that they still spend their time being vocally opposed to it. It's really kind of baffling.

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Unless I missed something major here, I don't think the Israeli contestant was personally involved in genocide, and certainly as not involved in genocide on the set of the show, whereas the Dutch contestant was allegedly involved in backstage on-set misconduct, so that seems completely reasonable?

KoboldCoterie ,
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It has no bearing that the contestant personally didn’t do anything. They banned Russia from participating for the actions of a state.

Sure, and drawing comparisons between those two events is completely fair, but I don't really see where the parallels lie between that event and what is happening to Klein.

KoboldCoterie ,
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I'd like to submit a recommendation for making your own, instead!

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Probably unpopular opinion, but I think these types of protests are actually pretty effective. They make news headlines every time, and people talk about them, and they aren't hurting anyone... I just feel like they could be more efficient at delivering their message. It seems like "They're trying to destroy things!" shocks people more than "We're destroying the entire world while we ignore climate change!", and drawing attention to that, and how none of these works of art or historical relics really matter in the face of what's coming if we don't change course, would draw a more apt parallel between what they're doing and the message they're trying to convey.

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I don't know exactly when 196 became an unofficial furry hotspot, but I'm here for it.

KoboldCoterie ,
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The percentage of furries that are queer is definitely higher than the total population average; I wonder if the percentage of queer folk who are furries is also similarly higher.

KoboldCoterie ,
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And here I thought there was some cultural context I was missing, like French people only getting haircuts once a year.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Documentaries often include recreations of events, such as historical events that weren't filmed. It's usually noted as being a recreation or re-enactment. If AI-created images are used instead and are noted as being such, I don't really see the problem, assuming the images are curated to depict the scene accurately.

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While that could be a worthy topic of discussion, these scenarios can be immediately addressed using a DMCA counter-notice. BPC’s creator can simply file one with GitLab and in less than two weeks’ time, the platform would have to restore it, if whoever sent the original notice didn’t sue the developer in the United States.

Who is the author of this piece suggesting pays for that potential lawsuit? Like, it's great to say "Oh, they can totally fight this, and they're probably in the right to do so", but companies weaponizing the legal system is basically trivial for them to do, and unless they're offering to help foot that bill, they're putting all the risk on the developer which isn't really fair.

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Being from the US, I initially read the acronym as 'Child Protective Services', which put an entirely different spin on the story.

For anyone else who makes this error, it's 'Crown Prosecution Service', a rough equivalent (from what I can tell) to the US district attorney's office.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Or bf! ...or just f, really...

KoboldCoterie ,
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I concur! Heck, I'd even settle for a small lizard friend. I'm not picky.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Haha, yes!

KoboldCoterie ,
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Sounds like a change of employer is in order.

KoboldCoterie ,
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In many states, being forced back to the office after working from home for a long period allows you to collect unemployment if you quit on those grounds. Check your state's requirements. IIRC it has to be demonstrable to be a significant burden but it can count as constructive dismissal.

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KoboldCoterie ,
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Ohh u didnt report someone ur also guilty cant see any problems with this.

That's... not what this is about, though?

“However, plaintiffs contend the defendants’ platforms are more than just message boards,” the court document says. “They allege they are sophisticated products designed to be addictive to young users and they specifically directed Gendron to further platforms or postings that indoctrinated him with ‘white replacement theory’,” the decision read.

This isn't about mandated reporting, it's about funneling impressionable people towards extremist content.

KoboldCoterie ,
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If we remove that it become: funnelling a market towards the further consumption of your product. I.e. marketing

And if a company's marketing campaign is found to be indirectly responsible for a kid shooting up a grocery store, I'm sure we'll be seeing a repeat of this with that company being the one with a court case being brought against them, what even is this argument?

KoboldCoterie ,
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Did you even read the article we're discussing, or are you just reading the comments and getting mad?

  1. No decision has been made. This is simply a judge denying the companies' motion to have this thrown out before going to trial.
  2. This is very much different than "the gun market" being indirectly responsible. This is the equivalent of "the gun market" constantly sending a person pamphlets, calling them, emailing them, whatever else, with propaganda until they ultimately decided to act on it. If that was happening, I think we'd be having the same conversation about that, and whether they should be held accountable.
  3. Whether they're actually responsible or not (or whether any group is) can be determined in court following all the usual methods. A company getting to say "That's ridiculous, we're above scrutiny" is dangerous, and that's effectively what they were trying to do (which was denied by this judge.)
KoboldCoterie ,
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The problem is that people are so used to the notion that everything is “free” that many are convinced that online services should always be free and balk at the idea of paying for anything.

A huge part of that is that most people don't consider privacy concerns to be a cost. All they factor into their evaluation is whether it costs them actual money.

KoboldCoterie ,
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There were arrows? If only there was something in the image to indicate where they are, I might not have missed them.

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Brute force protection

@memes

KoboldCoterie ,
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My current favorite "memorizable" method (obviously a random hash from a PW manager is still better) is to take a sentence of moderate complexity that includes the name of the service you're signing up for in it, and use the first letter of each word as your password.

For example, "When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is go to pawb.social."

Password would be "WIwuitm,tftIdigtps."

Easy to remember, immune to dictionary attacks, and you get a (mostly) unique password for each service, so stolen passwords can only access that one thing.

Edit: To be clear, the value is that you can use the same sentence everywhere, switching out the name of the service to generate semi-unique passwords for each service. Obviously someone analyzing your passwords would be able to figure out the pattern, but that's basically never what actually happens; it's more likely someone gets 1 password and tries your email address + that PW in a variety of services, which this is strong against.

KoboldCoterie ,
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It's surprisingly easy to memorize. The sentence basically acts as a mnemonic device to remember the password, and it's a lot easier to memorize a sentence that makes sense to you than to memorize something like "Tr0ub4d0r&8".

KoboldCoterie ,
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True Neutral, I see.

KoboldCoterie ,
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However, a not stupid thing for people to get upset about is what CVS did a couple years ago. Basically, they pledged to donate $10M to a charity, then collected donations from customers, and put those donations towards that pre-existing pledge.

To illustrate why this is shitty (in the event that someone misses the point):

CVS pledged to donate $10M. Effectively from that point, they were giving the charity $10M regardless of what else happened. At that moment, CVS was spending $10M and the charity was gaining $10M. CVS then asked for donations from customers, stating that the donations would be going towards that charity.

If they collected (for example) $1M in donations, they would cover the remaining $9M, so the charity gets their $10M, so what's the problem?

The problem is that the customers weren't donating to the charity; they were donating to CVS. In the end, the charity didn't get any more money than they would have without those customers' donations; CVS paid less, instead.

KoboldCoterie ,
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I imagine it would be quite fun for a while, but that the novelty would wear thin about the time you woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom for the first time.

Filling a basement den with them, though... lounging in a sea of balls while watching TV or something... I am not seeing the downside.

KoboldCoterie ,
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This checks out. The only reason a good guy with a gun isn't able to stop a bad guy with a gun is because the good guy doesn't have enough guns. Need to loosen gun regulations to stop gun violence.

KoboldCoterie ,
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I wonder if this could also be applied to games owned in whole or part by Tencent...

KoboldCoterie ,
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But it also refers to “a staggering 73 million daily active users”, which I wouldn’t really say is a staggering number in $current_year when other social networks have orders of magnitude more.

Well, there's definitely no social network with "orders of magnitude more"... Even if that's only 2 orders of magnitude, that's almost the entire population of the world.

So this made me curious and best I can find there seem to be only a few social media platforms that even have 1 order of magnitude more:

DAU is a pretty rare statistic to find reported on, so it's hard to say if there are others.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Okay so I'm just going to open myself up to ridicule here; my understanding of comparing numbers using orders of magnitude might be wrong, and if it is, I would like to know that. So on that note, I don't think that's how OOM comparisons work, and I'd be very interested to be corrected if I'm wrong.

You could accurately say that 2.1B has 2 more orders of magnitude than 73M does (7 vs. 9), but I believe when you're directly comparing two numbers and saying that one is "x orders of magnitude larger than y", that doesn't work. You wouldn't say that 10 is an order of magnitude larger than 9... that would be very misleading; 90 is an order of magnitude larger than 9. In fact, that claim would be off by... approximately an order of magnitude.

1 order of magnitude larger than 73M is 730M; 2 orders of magnitude larger is 7.3B, as you note, but... wouldn't you look upward to say a number is in the same order of magnitude, not lower? So since 2.1B is approximately 29x larger than 73M, it would be 1 OOM larger (and only becomes 2 OOM larger at 100x)?

To look at it another way:

73M x 10^1 is a lot closer to the correct value than 73M x 10^2, so even if the correct method is to round to the nearest OOM, it wouldn't beecome 2 OOM larger until 73M x 50, or 3.650B.

Again, it's quite possible that my understanding is incorrect because... this doesn't come up in every day conversation much, so if I'm wrong, please correct me!

KoboldCoterie ,
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Wouldn't things like torrenting records and "movie piracy websites" used fall under fifth amendment protections? They're being asked to provide a record of the piracy they've committed.

KoboldCoterie ,
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You know, this is actually a hot take and I could get behind iT.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Really dependent on which mythology's dragon you become. That aside, being a dragon in modern day would probably be very hazardous. Better hope you're a small enough dragon to not cause much property damage while figuring out your new body, and to stay mostly undetected, because otherwise you're likely to end up dead, or in captivity somewhere in fairly short order.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Maybe they're all secretly traps. You can't change back from being a dragon; if you choose flight, you just start floating upwards and can't come down; you're not immune to your own poison breath; courage just makes you incredibly over-confident in your own abilities...

KoboldCoterie ,
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It's pronounced 'concussy' and I'll die on this hill.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Jesus, it'd be easier to list the parts you don't have to remove.

KoboldCoterie ,
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I cancelled Prime late last year, and haven't really missed it, either.

Leaving Prime also meant the end of free Amazon Prime Video (you can still rent or buy many movies without it), but I’ve been able to bear it.

While I had Prime, I think there was 1, maybe 2 instances where I wanted to watch something and it was actually included with Prime. Every other time, Amazon Video had the movie, but they wanted an additional fee to watch it, so this was absolutely no loss.

One thing to note: Every time I check out on Amazon, now, they offer me a reduced price 1-week "trial" of Prime, to get the expedited shipping, for like... $5 or so? If you cancel yours, and also see this offer: You can take the offer, submit your order (and get the free 2 day shipping), then once you get the shipping confirmation, go in and cancel the Prime subscription. Since you've had it for only a few hours, Amazon actually refunds the price you paid. In effect, you get the shipping benefits for free. We'll see if they close this loophole, but for now, it works.

KoboldCoterie ,
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From what I've seen, the difference is that they either ship it same day, or wait a few days to ship it. It still arrives in the same amount of time from when it ships until I receive it, they just take their time (maybe artificially) in getting it out the door.

KoboldCoterie ,
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Elon should be first in line to demonstrate how safe and side effect free this technology is!

How to get a private car

Hello internet users. Someone in my family is looking to buy a car and wanted some recommendations for a private one. They are looking to buy new, and need Android Auto and CarPlay. I know all new cars suck for privacy by default, but I was hoping someone here could offer some insight as to which cars can be made better and what...

KoboldCoterie ,
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See, you could have just said "Oh, silly me! Thanks!", and nobody would have thought less of you, but now, everyone thinks you're a prick.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

KoboldCoterie ,
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For anyone not aware:

When we blew in Nintendo cartridges, we weren't cleaning dust off of them that was causing the problem; we were spitting in them just enough for worn down connectors to work a little longer. Not intentionally, obviously, but that was the end result, and why it worked.

KoboldCoterie ,
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It also has a neat kind of crowd-sourced verification attached to it.

If someone asks a question, and someone else gives an incorrect answer, chances are good that someone will see that and correct them. If, on the other hand, everyone goes and looks up the answer, some people might get an incorrect answer and have no one to correct it, further disseminating false information.

Obviously this isn't perfect, and requires that the information is fact-based in the first place, but it's interesting to think about any time you see someone correct someone else on the internet.

KoboldCoterie ,
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In that context, "Semi" means half as in once every half sexual, or twice per sexual. See: Semi-annually, for an actual example of this.

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I think the majority of Americans don't really see a dilemma there.

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