Why is deporting protesters a worse crime than being complicit in the murder of tens of thousands of civilians?
And remember, we're talking about sins Trump might commit. But more often then not he's just rambling and bluster. People judged Biden based on the crimes he actually committed. He was complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. That's not rhetoric or bluster, those are people he actually had a hand in murdering.
If anything, so far at least, Biden's crimes vastly, vastly outweigh Trump's in regards to Gaza. Trump is threatening, but still hasn't yet, deported protesters. Biden is complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. Trump, admittedly through crooked means, actually managed to get a cease fire passed.
It's possible that in the future Trump's crimes will outstrip Biden's. But Trump promises a lot of things that never actually end up happening. He says he would like to ethnically cleanse Gaza, but until he actually follows through on that, Biden's crime in regards to Gaza are objectively far, far worse than Trump's. Trump has the potential to eventually end up the greater villain. But right now, on January 30 2025, in terms of Gaza, Biden objectively has a far worse record than Trump.
You're judging the two men based on Trump's rhetoric, bluster, and what he might do. The people you're reacting to are judging Biden based on the things he actually did, not the things he promised to do.
You're a short-term voter. The people you're railing against are long-term voters. Short-term thinking is what has got us into this mess.
I do love the reference in the first episode of Andromeda. When the characters meet Sorbo's character for the first time, one of them quips, "he's built like a Greek god!"
My guess is they'll set up the "camp" as just an empty pen with no facilities. They'll set it up right on the edge of the US control zone, and the fence along the border zone will be deliberately poorly made. They'll throw people in this pen with no food or water, with the only way out being onto Cuban territory. Prisoners will have the choice of either dying of thirst or illegally crossing into Cuban territory. The whole facility will just be a way to dump migrants onto Cuban territory.
What kind of racist ass shit is this?
Trump will do a Reichstag fire....literally. As in, he'll try to stage a false-flag attack modeled after the one the Nazis did. Except, he'll screw it up in the most moronic way possible. Instead of setting fire to the US capitol or some other US target, he will have the literal Reichstag - the actual German parliament building - set on fire again.
Watch them word it poorly and accidentally release every active duty service member from their contracts.
Anyone with a conscience is going to be purged anyway. Either that, or they'll be asked to do unforgiveable things. Better to just take the cash and leave with your soul intact.
Maybe this one did have a rail!
Put wheel dollies under the car and wheel it into the cart storage area inside the store.
And it's not like it's easy for a trans woman to get into a woman's prison anyway. The vast majority of trans women were already held in male prisons. This order affects mostly people who have all their legal documents changed, have been on hormones for years, and have had surgery. You're talking about people that if you met them on the street, you would assume they were cis women. Hell, you would suspect they were cis women if you saw them on a nude beach. Before this executive order, you pretty much had to be that far in transition before you would be allowed to serve your time in a women's prison.
Also, hormones for trans people aren't just about psychological well being. If you're post-bottom surgery, your body doesn't produce sex hormones anymore. A post-op trans women needs to take estrogen, not just for her own psychological well being, but for basic metabolic functioning. Being without sex hormones causes all sorts of medical problems, such as rapid early onset osteoporosis.
The BOP is telling trans women, "because of my religion, we're going to melt your bones."
I need a rear-mounted radar sensor and a display to make this work properly. Something that says something like, "current traveling speed: X, current following distance: Y, safe following distance at speed X: Z. Lowering speed to comply with safe following distance."
I want them to know exactly why I am slowing down.
I remember seeing a story awhile back about someone who's built a motor-activated mirror setup. They have a mirror on a motor next to their back window. When they press a button up front, the mirror tilts up.
I really like this solution as you're literally just shining their own light back at them.
Yes, but it will make your book look trashy.
LLMs as tools,
Yes, in the same way that buying a CD from the store, ripping to your hard drive, and returning the CD is a tool.
It's not about hampering proliferation, it's about breaking the hype bubble. Some of the western AI companies have been pitching to have hundreds of billions in federal dollars devoted to investing in new giant AI models and the gigawatts of power needed to run them. They've been pitching a Manhattan Project scale infrastructure build out to facilitate AI, all in the name of national security.
You can only justify that kind of federal intervention if it's clear there's no other way. And this story here shows that the existing AI models aren't operating anywhere near where they could be in terms of efficiency. Before we pour hundreds of billions into giant data center and energy generation, it would behoove us to first extract all the gains we can from increased model efficiency. The big players like OpenAI haven't even been pushing efficiency hard. They've just been vacuuming up ever greater amounts of money to solve the problem the big and stupid way - just build really huge data centers running big inefficient models.
There’s nothing wrong with the fundamentals of the technology, just the applications that Westoids doggedly insist it be used for.
Westoids? Are you the type of guy I feel like I need to take a shower after talking to?