USNWoodwork

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 56 minutes ago

This fails to recognize that for a very long time things trended left. I remember talking to someone in the 90s and we went down a list of major issues and the left had essentially won on all of them. Roe vs Wade EPA Gay Marriage Welfare Reform and Child Tax Credits

My hope for the Democratic party is that they go to a single issue for the next National election, and that issue should be Anti-trust/Breaking up monopolies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Looking at the distance, Ukraine would have to push North of Kursk to be able to hit Moscow. If they do that, I'd expect Putin to move to St. Petersburg for safety.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Would probably be helpful to have a passport to demonstrate citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You think there's going to be a Hollywood? Maybe there might be a Tuberwood.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

More belt and road usury?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm picturing the Voyager 1 terminal is an ancient computer from the 1970s hooked up to a large parabolic antenna, and everyone is afraid to upgrade it because they might mess something up. I'm sure that's not the case, but its what lives in my mind.

Since I was thinking about it I looked up some stuff: "So Voyager-1 does not “really” have a computer, in the sense that it does not have an operating system or RAM or a microprocessor. It was built in the 60s before any of this was invented and used CMOS-based microcontroller chips from Texas Instruments. Overall, it has a 16-bit processor and a MASSIVE memory of 70 KILOBYTES. That is smaller memory than a thumbnail of a phone image today, but it was enough to send images through which we discovered Jupiter has rings and much more."

From: https://medium.com/towards-generative-ai/voyager-1-what-computer-system-it-has-that-is-still-running-strong-a269aaea316b

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I recently saw a video of AI designing an engine, and then simulating all the toolpaths to be able to export the G code for a CNC machine. I don't know how much of what I saw is smoke and mirrors, but even if that is a stretch goal it is quite significant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. If I were the person getting arrested at the end, my final instructions to my kids as I'm getting arrested would have been to close and lock the door behind me. I suspect the one kid pushed the videographer back because he was worried the cop would try to destroy the evidence. Set that video to upload somewhere and hide the cellphone.

At a certain point if someone in the house put a gun to that cops head and told him to get out, they would have been in the right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

he’s the symptom incurred by a mental disease that so many people seem to have.

It's basically a new religion, right? If this what fills the vacuum when we let go of the old religions... Is it an improvement? It certainly makes me want to be less critical of your average Christian/Jew/Muslim/Flying Spaghetti Monster worshipper.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I feel like we're getting to the point that this needs to be an election deciding issue. It won't be this upcoming election, but probably the one after where the presidency isn't on the line. We need to ignore republican/democrat talking points and elect based on a will to completely revamp the system. Obama tried but it didn't go far enough. Once its bad enough that people are willing to cross party lines to fix it, then you'll see change, and I (probably too optimistically) think we're almost there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The episode of South park where they walk into this 22nd century insurance building and ask to make a claim. They get sent to the "claims office" and it's like they went back in time to the 1980s with dot matrix printers, rotary dial phones, and fax machines.

Here is the link if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAfy26xs6e0

 

Bow enchant is projecting.

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