Rhaedas

Rocky and Bullwinkle

The Republican argument is that there is rampant voter fraud and so some type of proof of who you are is needed to allow voting and curtail all that fraud.

The truth is there is very little fraud at the voter level. They want to make voting difficult for certain groups of people who are more likely to not vote for them, and this is one route they take. Other methods are gerrymandering districts to favor their side more, not allowing more times and places for working people to have a chance to vote, and actual physical intimidation by their groupies near voting areas.

So this is just a problem invented in order to solve in ways that will help the right wing. Nothing more.

Now, there is a trend of repeated voting fraud, but it’s not at the voter level, but at manipulation of voting counts through lawsuits, or outright alterations or loss of mass numbers of votes. Guess what party those votes tend to be leaning towards?

I’ve always loved the word “sonder”. Knowing that people have their own lives and thoughts and usually they aren’t centered on you at all is liberating. I wish I had run across this as a kid, to realize that the peer pressure I thought was there giving me anxiety was totally self-inflicted and I could just be myself.

No one said the scam part was that the elixir didn’t work.

It’s not even about too late. He’s the REASON they’re tanking. From his PR disasters to him pushing ideas like the Cybertruck. More attention to Tesla just means more problems. But less problems in government, so I support him leaving.

Yes, after the fact you can’t just dump what you have and get something else unless you can afford to lose the money. I was referring to when some were out looking for an EV, especially back when Tesla was the name everyone was talking about. Now there’s much less of an excuse since other brands offer decent alternatives.

That’s a bit of a reach. We should have stayed in the trees though, but the trees started disappearing and we had to change.

It may vary between models. Mine if you spam the wrong finger it just counts down 30 seconds before you can try again. But restarting does force a pass entry before fingerprint will work again. I guess the caveat is you have to be able to hold down the power and then select a restart.

Lots of attacks on Gen Z here, some points valid about the education that they were given from the older generations (yet it’s their fault somehow). Good thing none of the other generations are being fooled by AI marketing tactics, right?

The debate on consciousness is one we should be having, even if LLMs themselves aren’t really there. If you’re new to the discussion, look up AI safety and the alignment problem. Then realize that while people think it’s about preparing for a true AGI with something akin to consciousness and the dangers that we could face, we have have alignment problems without an artificial intelligence. If we think a machine (or even a person) is doing things because of the same reasons we want them done, and they aren’t but we can’t tell that, that’s an alignment problem. Everything’s fine until they follow their goals and the goals suddenly line up differently than ours. And the dilemma is - there’s not any good solutions.

But back to the topic. All this is not the fault of Gen Z. We built this world the way it is and raised them to be gullible and dependent on technology. Using them as a scapegoat (those dumb kids) is ignoring our own failures.

I saw a Model Y today that was debadged. First time I’ve seen that. Give them a pass? I know most will say no, but certainly there’s people out there who don’t keep up with news and bought a Tesla because it was a choice for an EV and no other reason? I just don’t like throwing people under the EV only because of what product they picked.

Even knowing it’s wrong, I have trouble not reading it the normal way. Maybe it being tied to such a well known meme forces the brain to see it that way.

All companies will eventually try to become monopolies if they get large enough. It’s the nature of capitalism, to do whatever it takes for the bottom line of profit and company growth. That’s why regulations are a good thing, to put limits where a company alone will never do.

Never made? Development took a while but they did release a final version, and apparently the source code is now open-source.

The game itself is good, although the ending was a bit surreal. The gem is the engine and graphics, the “feel”, and that editor. It’s too good, as in no one really used it to the potentials it could have been. There was even a multiplayer mod.

AI certainly can be a tool to combat it. Such things should have been hardcoded within these neural nets to have some type of watermarking way before it became a problem, but now as far as it’s gone and in the open, it’s a bit too late for that remedy.

But when tools are put out to detect what is and isn’t AI, trust will develop in THOSE AI systems, and then they could be manipulated to claim actual real events aren’t true. The real problem is that the humans in all of this from the beginning are losing their ability to critically examine and verify what they’re being shown. I.e., people are gullible, always have been to a point, but are at the height now of believing anything they’re told without question.

Another move to cause a dip to buy in.

Or he’s just stupid.

It’s like Poe’s Law, I can’t tell anymore.

Shouldn’t have to remind them, it’s literally DHS, but hope they shut down that badge’s access.

“Actually anyone who was paying attention in Economics 101 would underst…”

gets punched in the shoulder

“Oh, right…yeah, nobody knew it was this complicated.”

Memes are a direct line to reality. I saw it last night first on Imgur, took a few mins to hit other places.

Have anyone of color in a movie role and people get all worked up on “wokeness”, let’s see what a black pope would do.

*almost 3 days.

They call it 3 to make it work with prophecy.