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PrincessLeiasCat

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PrincessLeiasCat ,

This is a hard one. I think we can all agree that the people who need it should have it and the people who don’t…don’t…especially if their easy access to the drug pretty much guarantees a shortage of the drug for those who do need it.

I need it. And when there was a shortage just as we were forced to return to the office after Covid wfh, it was a nightmare. I don’t know for sure that this company was handing out prescriptions to whoever would pay or if they were mostly legitimate, but I imagine that it’s somewhere in between the two. And I do know that we will never be able to have a rational discussion about it between health professionals and the DEA/FDA, etc.

So, a lot of people who need it won’t get it either due to shortages or due to not being able to access a prescription for whatever reason.

Some people will continue to access it who don’t need it, but on a level that guarantees sporadic shortages for others.

No one wins other than those profiting either by selling prescriptions or by selling the drugs themselves at a much higher price than they paid for it using said prescriptions.

Rinse, wash, repeat.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I’ll allow it.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Misleading headline. NASA accidentally broadcast a simulated ISS distress message.

Two very different things.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I guess considering I used to work in Mission Control and participate in these simulations, the language used here is something I notice probably more than others.

The simulation itself was broadcast. The astronauts and the sim team were in Houston. The alarm originated from a computer on the ground in Houston. The comm loops that were heard were from a sim on the ground in Houston. This headline would make more sense if NASA was troubleshooting alarms on ISS and configured things such that those messages would be on a private channel but messed up and the public heard them. In this context the fact that it was a sim is important.

PrincessLeiasCat , (edited )

Nope, 2 completely separate things. The only thing that was messed up in this case were the comm loops that were broadcast and maybe some of the simulated messages that are sometimes shown on one of the big screens in the room (that the sim was in, there are a few FCR’s (Flight Control Rooms)) - but I’m not sure if they showed anything visually from the sim. When you go to log on to an activity in MCC, you log on to the sim if you’re the one doing the sim. It’s a whole separate thing to log into the actual flight even though all of the computers are still in MCC to make the environment more realistic.

Edit: I completely misread this, lol, but no. The crew would close hatches if they needed to - there have been plenty of false smoke/fire alarms on ISS to wake them up while they were sleeping to troubleshoot. (One Shuttle flight in particular, I can’t remember which one, but it was docked, was particularly annoying wrt the ISS false detector alarms during sleep) and they were woken up and had to perform that emergency procedure. There is a lot that can be commanded from the ground, so it’s not “automated” in the way that you’re thinking. The ground has to send a command before anything happens. But closing hatches and such is done manually by the crew.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I hope the devs can tweak a few minor things here and there while leaving the most useful functions alone, change the name, slap a new logo on it and be back in business.

But I know nothing about how the censorship and the add-ons to circumvent it work and odds are it won’t be that easy.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Thank you for letting me know that :)

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Sometimes we have to for work. That or Edge :(

Reminder: The DMV uses photos for facial recognition

This is half a decade old news, but I only found this out myself after it accidentally came up in conversation at the DMV. The worker would not have informed me if it hadn't come into conversation. Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition, and nobody has talked about it for years. This is...

PrincessLeiasCat ,

9/11 enabled so much of this to be fast-tracked. Thanks, Patriot Act.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Thanks for the rec, I have not read it. It sounds like something I would enjoy, so I’ll check it out!

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Wouldn’t the difference here wrt Tom/Woody be that Tom had already played the role before so there is some expectation that a similar voice would be used for future versions of Woody if Tom wasn’t available?

Serious question, I never thought about the point you made so now I’m curious.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

We’ve learned nothing from the 2021 winter storm that killed over 200 people.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Some, but there are a lot of people here who recognize the hypocrisy and trash policies put into place in the state by politicians who do not wish to govern, only consolidate power.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

They do, but Texas is one of the most difficult states to register to vote. Voter suppression is real and by design.

This explains it well: Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

and Analysis: It's harder to vote in Texas than in any other state

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Thank you for the clarification.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

According to Kennedy, Meta is colluding with the Biden administration to sway the 2024 presidential election by suppressing Kennedy's documentary and making it harder to support Kennedy's candidacy. This allegedly has caused "substantial donation losses," while also violating the free speech rights of Kennedy, his supporters, and his film's production company, AV24.

In this case, Meta and the Biden administration are claimed to be co-conspirators colluding to block citizens from promoting their favorite presidential candidate.

We can very much dislike both while also agreeing that this is fucking stupid. While we continue to very much dislike both, one is clearly in the wrong on this issue and pointing out the sheer stupidity of Kennedy’s actions is not “siding” with Zuckerberg.

I don’t care what his profession is/was - he’s wrong and it would be disingenuous to give him a pass because he did a thing at some point in his life that I agreed with.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

The first quote is formally wrong (because Meta is a privileged entity which is a platform when it's convenient and a private something not subject to free speech when that is convenient), but in fact almost certainly true. Even obvious.

I have no idea if it is or isn’t, but they’re both still terrible people.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I don’t think it’s productive to spend time regurgitating what’s already been said numerous times regarding his antivax beliefs and other conspiracy theories.

If you don’t think those are bad, then you do you, but I’m not going to debate it here. Have a good night.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Though OnlyFans currently bans the use of AI, there are plenty of startups like Daniel’s that are developing the technology to replace flesh-and-blood chatters altogether. (Some claim they’re already routing around OnlyFans’ prohibition by having a lone human press Send on thousands of AI-generated messages.)

The most surreal moment came as I noticed the faint sounds of my daughter and her puppy watching Bluey together down the hall, right as a subscriber was waxing poetic about how much he wanted to eat a macaron from between my ass cheeks; the juxtaposition made me question the entire course of my life.

AI chatbots will never be able to give us this kind of self reflection.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Ars reported in February that Blue Origin, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, is the leading candidate to buy United Launch Alliance.

I’m so sick of billionaires and their space shit.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I swear I invented this when I was 10…glad the tech has finally caught up.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Somewhat unrelated but that happened to me once on an escalator as a kid - I had very long hair when I was a young girl, and I went to the mall with my mom. I was on a department store escalator and suddenly felt my hair being pulled towards one of the sides/handrails. My mom noticed pretty quick, thankfully, and was able to yank it out before anything happened besides me being terrified as fuck.

That was decades ago and I still remember it vividly. Thanks for the PTSD flashback, lol

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I was mostly joking, but multidirectional treadmill - at least for being able to keep the holodeck to one room and not have to worry about bumping into walls. VR wasn’t a thing yet so I had no idea how any other parts of it would work, but like I said - I was a kid. I’m glad there are “real” big brains working in it, though lol

PrincessLeiasCat ,

The enshittification of enshittification.

Yes, I know that is not the correct use of this word given the context, but I think it gets the point across regarding what has happened to tech overall.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Did we go from landing on Mars to taxis? That was quick.

Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

PrincessLeiasCat ,

This is a fantastic quote btw

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I honestly never knew this, thanks for letting me know!

PrincessLeiasCat ,

The creator of the company, Alexander Belogubov, has also posted screenshots of other bot-controlled accounts responding all over Reddit. Begolubov has another startup called “Stealth Marketing” that also seeks to manipulate the platform by promising to “turn Reddit into a steady stream of customers for your startup.” Belogubov did not respond to requests for comment.

What an absolute piece of shit. Just a general trash person to even think of this concept.

Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...

PrincessLeiasCat ,

SAME! I’m so glad someone else said this. I feel like I just repeat it to myself internally every time I notice it.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Highly recommend the book ‘Flying Blind’ by Peter Robison on Boeing and the decline of its safety culture after the merger with McDonnell Douglas. That’s when the “business” types who ran the former company into the ground took over both and we see the same results here.

Before the merger, the engineers were in charge and safety was taken seriously. Now, it’s more about stock, etc.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Not as many as those still using Twitter.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

How is this not already a thing?!?!

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I’m so sick of this term unless you’re actually going to the Moon in the 60’s or curing cancer or solving climate change whenever. This is not those things.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Thank you for taking the time to point this out.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

When you order your ugly truck tent from Wish

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Just like the truck itself

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Is that the guy who called Trump personally after the 2nd 737 Max crash crying to not allow the FAA to ground the plane?

Meanwhile the rest of the world was like “fuck that shit” so basically for a few hours the Max could only fly in US airspace and finally Trump got the memo & told Boeing guy “sorry fam”.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Fucking finally. Thank you.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I like KSR, Doctorow, and this premise, so I’ll check it out. Thanks!

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Thank you for pointing this out!

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Sounds like capitalism is working as intended and Space Karen has a problem when it’s not in his favor.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Of fucking course he is. Can’t make China sad when there are cars that must be sold and money to be pocketed.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

I’m shitty at housework but thankfully my parents never thought of disowning me…that I know of.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Not necessarily. Some of us are ADHD and we do things like put regular dish detergent in the dishwasher instead of the proper one and make a huge mess, or we load and wash normally but forget we ever did that so the clean dishes just sit in there long enough until they probably need to be rewashed.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Something something leopards and faces.

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

These folks are backing it up, from a post on Bluesky by Aram Zucker-Scharff (@chronotope.aramzs.xyz):

Interesting fact about Vice's content: a full site archive, including saving outbound links, was performed by the volunteer Archive Team last year & it took ~6 months to capture all the Vice content across all the languages they publish in. They've published a lot! They're updating the archives now.

https://opencollective.com/archiveteam

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Same. The anxiety kicks in and everything you ever knew leaves your brain in the span of half a second and doesn’t come back until the other person is free and clear of your presence.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

So you’re saying they’re unexpected?

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