SparroHawc

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Oh hey, yet another article perpetuating the narrative that Luigi is guilty. Must be a day of the week that ends in 'y'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is why stoy said the First Past the Post system needs to be dropped.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I'm honestly not sure that Trump's death would have been the best thing for the world.

Hear me out.

If Trump were assassinated, he would have become a martyr - and it would have been easy to paint the Left as the culprits, thus obliterating any chance of winning the upcoming election, and more. But it wouldn't have been Trump who won the presidency - it would have been someone more capable and more subtle.

Trump is laying such waste to the government that he's quickly turning people against him - and his vanity and incompetence are undermining his own party's efforts to secure their power. As long as we survive the current attacks on democracy - which is, admittedly, a big if - then he may have utterly destroyed the power base for the GOP for a long time to come. A destruction that wouldn't have happened if someone with their sanity intact had landed the office.

We're going to suffer in the meantime, but at least we have a chance to turn it around - a chance that may not have happened if Trump had eaten that bullet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure your ass would care, depending on the kind of bread. A firm crusty bread would probably do some damage. Kinda like how too much fentanyl does damage. Physically.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The thing missing from most of these bullet points is that extracting energy from rotation reduces the speed of the rotating object.

Even black holes are affected by the gravity of objects near them, same as anything else - which means that the black hole will slow down if you slingshot an object around it.

That's why it's called energy extraction rather than energy creation.

So sure, you could make a black hole bomb... but making the black hole in the first place would take as much - if not more - energy than you'll get out of it. And usually you're going to do enough damage just throwing a black hole through your target.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (16 children)

There's been a blatant push by media to forward the idea that Luigi did it. All they have to do is ... not report evidence to the contrary. What there IS, however, is a lack of evidence that he did it, if you take into consideration the fact that NYPD - who have a history of faking evidence - probably used a gun and fake manifesto to pin the crime on him. Innocent until proven guilty has gone out the window; even news outlets aren't bothering to hedge their language with 'alleged' any more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

LLMs are AI as much as the enemies in a game are AI. It's not General AI though, which companies really seem to want people to believe it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Because it's beneficial for the software company's reputation. People are more likely to buy the software when they know that it's not going to get a permanently unpatched zero-day the moment the next version comes out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The problem is that we see that sort of argument all the time on the internet, which gives us a skewed view of Republicans. The right wing is loud, even leaving out the shills trying to stir the pot.

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

Not even close to all software. There was a broad mix of stuff that used 2-digit years that would have had problems with it, stuff that used 2-digit years where it wouldn't really impact anything, and stuff that used 4-digit years and so wasn't a problem.

However, if it drove any sort of critical infrastructure, it had to be audited just in case it fit in the first category.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My dude, just because the Catholic Church won't stop being the Catholic Church doesn't make a progressive pope a bad idea.

 

but I gotta follow the rule anyways, so here's a pointless text post.

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