Language is, in addition to being a basis for communication, a set of tools for thought. Each word can enable the contemplation of whole concepts. Try to explain or think about time without using the word time, for example. The AI we have is a map of our langauge, of some of the tools we use for thought. This map is being sold as the territory. Ai is being sold as thought.

At a minimum, privacy requires understanding, feeling, and veracity. AI can provide none of these things, being absent of thought as it is, and as such has no place in this space.

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All the other stuff trump has done hasn’t exactly backfired badly enough for anything of consequence to happen. I highly doubt that this will be “The One That Does It”

Next on the list for a ban. They came for my neighbors ID, and I said nothing, then they came for my neighbors VPN, and an I did nothing, and now they are coming for me on I2P, and there is no one left to speak for me…

Please see “Accusation in a Mirror” on Wikipedia

That’s only because it’s a trap.

TRANSLATION: Optimus is programmed to kill poor people…

It only took like what, 7 hearts and the blood of untold numbers of innocents…bout friggen time

Trump Treasury Sec. Bessent says he’s felt ‘pain’ from China because he’s a ‘scumbag landlord’.

Fixed it. Who’s this Pain lady from China, and why is she lowering herself to the level of associating with this guy? Jobs just that hard to come by, I reckon.

It’s a cult of personality, and Vance has all the charisma and personality of a couch.

No doubt about that. A hollow or soft point deposits more energy and creates a much larger temporary cavity, but a FMJ can certainly do plenty of damage. The FMJ would be much more likely to be intact, and not fragment, so “clean” is certainly a relative term in this context. Any gunshot wound is gonna be a mess, regardless of caliber or bullet type, some moreso than others.

.30-06 round weighing 180 grains leaves a 24" barrel at about 2,700 feet per second, which gives it a kinetic energy of around 2,900 ft-lbf. With this much energy, that round, if full metal jacketed, will reliably penatrate 20+ inches of ballistic gelatin, a common substitute for animal muscle tissue, and if that round is a hollow point it will reliably penatrate 16+ inches of ballistic gelatin. My neck is about 7 inches thick as an average size person. Unless a person has a cervical spine made of titanium and Kevlar, and/or are just about 4 times as dense as your average Joe, an impact by a typical hollow point .30-06 round with that speed and energy in the human neck region would most often decapitate, or nearly so, and a full metal jacketed round would easily pass clean through. In contrast, the handguns carried by many police officers, the Glock .40 S&W, firing a 180 grain round out of a 4" barrel scoots along at about 1,000 feet per second, having a muzzle energy of about 400 ft-lbf, this being the defacto gold standard for killing human beings. .30-06 is quite literally a round made for war, and is typically used to hunt large game, as it has a tendency to completely and thoroughly rapidly disassemble smaller game into unusable sized chunks.

Nothing is impossible, but not all things are likely.

Many states have already sent the same data. Mine was very proud to announce it. That ship has already sailed.

“A” and yes.