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What are Some Good, Recent, and Available Dumb Cars?

I have a 2010 Toyota Corolla. She's been my trusty steed for the last 14 years and is in good working order. I recognize she won't last forever, and if, god forbid (mostly for her) I get in an accident, I will need to get a new car. So what dumb cars do you drive, and what would you replace them with?

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Plenty of new cars don’t have an obnoxious infotainment screen as well.

maybe list them for OP instead of hinting at their existence.

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i appreciate the sentiment but pasting Marx's face over Omniman's is maybe sending some mixed messages

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I cannot conceive of a task where a humanoid robot would be better suited than just a robot built for the task without trying to mimic a human form.

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Yeah but the article says the only thing these ones are gonna do is deliver parts which is probably overkill for the likely expense for the kind of sophistication necessary to imitate even a fraction of a human worker’s versatility. To say nothing about the difficulty involved in adapting them to various tasks without reprogramming or training.

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wouldnt it make more sense to do a trial that tests their supposed advantages over purpose built robots rather than one which decidedly does not

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Sometimes it helps to have someone get dramatically offended on your behalf.

Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say ( www.reuters.com )

NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday....

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gambling repeatedly with other people’s money

so... a stock broker?

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From famous CCP propaganda outlet, the Wall Street Journal:

Gallagher is well-liked by Democrats and his GOP colleagues and respected as an expert on the issue. His efforts appeared to stall in 2023, but were revived in part by the fallout from the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, according to people close to TikTok and people close to lawmakers. TikTok’s users quickly inundated the platform with videos about the attack and Israel’s war on Gaza. Some lawmakers said TikTok appeared to favor pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel content, and renewed calls to ban the app in the U.S.

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do you believe, for even a single moment, that all the US-based companies selling our data are not selling it in China?

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maybe he could have proposed this when there was actually any chance of it passing, instead of waiting to deploy it as election fodder. who am I kidding, there was never any chance of it passing.

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The two most recently elected democrat presidents were both put in office on the backs of record voter turnout. One of them even had a congressional majority.

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the biggest overhaul being an extremely watered down republican bill that no republicans voted for.

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i don't think they would have voted for any bill proposed by a black president, so why start with their garbage bill as a basis to negotiate (with themselves) from?

if nothing can be legislatively accomplished without handing the president a supermajority then why should I have any concern about the possibility of another republican president? why is it that republicans seem to have no issue achieving their policy goals without one?

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they got their wall, though, and it wasn't based on some democrat written border bill, though the dems have been more than happy to keep building it for them and even give them more concessions on border policy. they killed roe v. wade and didn't need congressional approval for that, either. the ACA certainly helped plently of people, the private insurance industry among them. other countries manage to have universal healthcare without all this bullshit so why is it apparently impossible to do that here?

if you'd like an example of the kind of power the president can wield without support of congress, look no further than Biden's unflinching support and aid for Israel in the face of the genocide in Gaza. or his circumvention of environmental protections to pave the way for trump's wall.

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the history of Israel and Palestine did not begin on Oct 7. regardless of what you think of Hamas nothing they've done could possibly justify the response from Israel. Biden criticizing Bibi is worthless without any action to back it up, especially when the aid and weapons keep flowing regardless.

as for the NHS, apparently its fine that the ACA is flawed because it helps millions of people, but the NHS doesn't also get similar deference for doing the same? and for the timeframe: Nancy Pelosi's original campaign platform included advocacy for universal healthcare, how much more time do they need?

do democrat presidents not also get to appoint judges? are republicans the only party who can obstruct appointments?

if they didn't get their wall, then what is this about?

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Wow that’s horrible. Where was this, exactly, and is it a regular occurrence?

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ea1b06c9-1275-4faa-8af2-50580eb40477.png

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Yes precisely. It's very important that I never witness such depravity.

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ok but how does it make you feel about war

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Yes he’s going to send more aid to Israel, so they can kill more journalists (and their families).

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Image generation models are also classification models.

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Even if it were 100% they would still find some way to play the victim.

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Bibi taking the hasbara into his own hands

Kamala Harris Will Visit Abortion Clinic, in Historic First ( www.nytimes.com )

The appearance at a health center will be the latest leg in a nationwide tour by Ms. Harris, who has emerged as the most outspoken defender of abortion rights in the administration. While White House officials say they have largely reached the limits of their power to protect abortion rights, the issue has emerged as a linchpin...

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then pretended it was some ridiculous nth-dimensional chess move when the republicans told them to fuck off because they'd rather their guy get credit for it.

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Looks like you fooled a few people with this one, OP. (Just like their bosses)

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How fucking absurd is it that the kind of aid that gets allowed in is dictated by the people making that aid a necessity

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Oh yeah I fully understand Israel is a nazi state, no question. I'm not surprised at all that it's going on. Just thinking about how the US would react if Putin tried to dictate what aid was allowed to enter Ukraine, for example. The contrast is striking.

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M Night Shyamalan did a documentary on this I think

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I’m making a joke about The Happening, friend. It’s a movie where plants make people kill themselves. Sorry to disappoint

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lol this guy has never shared a toothbrush with friends

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It's just proof that light behaves as a wave, because it generates an interference pattern like the first picture. The second picture is how it would theoretically behave if it was (only) a particle, which it isn't. The proof that light acts like a particle comes from a second experiment proposed by Einstein dealing with the photoelectric effect.

This article is meant for kids but it explains things pretty plainly. The duality is unexplained, but the experiment is well understood.

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Yeah, if you alter the experiment to try and prove duality then of course you can do that because light is both. The classic double slit experiment, as commonly understood and illustrated above, just proves the wave part though. You’re not going to see just two lines from shining a flashlight through a couple holes.

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Eyes are a measuring device and using them here would not result in two lines. Using a different measuring device produces a different result. Nothing I’ve said is counter to anything you’ve said. The image is a joke, not a real experiment.

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i dont think anyone is ignoring that. the meme is talking about how it was built, not how it's currently maintained. it definitely didn't start off spending that much. all that spending is a consequence of it's popularity, not the reason for it.

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that's the spirit

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Thinking one guy deserves that much salary for the work of millions of volunteers over decades is what’s hilarious. Do you think those giant pleas that they post when they need money would be as convincing if they listed his salary?

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That would make more sense if Wikipedia was a profit generating enterprise that needed to satisfy shareholders. It’s run like a charity through donations, though.

Fifteen other people sit on the board of trustees that oversees wikimedia. The only person on that board who gets paid is Jimmy.

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so it's essentially a perverse incentive at work.

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their other priorities were arguing back and forth for months watering down a republican-written healthcare reform bill for the supposed benefit of republicans who still didn't vote for it.

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Is eye-gouging a desirable trait for a burger?

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We've already collected DNA samples from people around the world to map the genome, it's how we even know what genes may cause disorders in the first place. This did not require us to create some genetically 'pure' hypothetical gene sequence for the ideal human. What you're suggesting is still eugenics and still bad for all the same reasons.

There may be such a thing as an "average" human genome though I doubt such an amalgamation would be able to produce a viable or even desirable organism. There is absolutely no such thing as a "clean" human genome, and attempting to create one would be a damning demonstration of a deep misunderstanding of both evolution and biology in general.

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https://scitechdaily.com/global-genomes-scientists-rewrite-the-story-of-human-genetics/

The key thing about this project is that they aren't trying to piece together some sort of ideal set of genes into a "flawless" set to present as a key to identify deviations from that set.

In contrast, the human pangenome reference contains nearly full genomic data from 47 people, representing different populations globally. This accounts for 94 human genomes, since each person carries two copies, one from each parent.

I'm unclear if they even exercised any discrimination in the selection of these individuals, or if they're just a random sampling from their respective populations. The intent of the project seems to be pretty much a continuation of the original human genome project and an attempt to more completely document genes and their various expressions.

To be clear, I'm not ideologically opposed to genetic manipulation or even some degree of genetic engineering. I'm against establishing or enshrining a particular set of genes as any kind of baseline or default, that is where eugenics lies.

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None of those really sound all that far removed from the classic "loan forgiveness for pell grant recipients who operate a small business for three years in a disadvantaged community".

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If only any of these convenient roadblocks and excuses could have stopped him from repeatedly funding and supporting genocide.

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Not when you use delegated authority to bypass congress.

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Where do you think it falls short in the definition of genocide: "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group."?

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The criteria for genocide is not "kill a percentage of a population larger than the percentage that died in the US Civil War". There's no minimum requirement for per-capita death. It's about intent and action. They are trying to kill or displace everyone in Gaza. How good they are at it isn't relevant, it is still genocide.

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a) Organizations and Conferences

  1. Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
  2. Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic” comments.
  3. When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible—never less than five.
  4. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
  5. Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
  6. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
  7. Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
  8. Be worried about the propriety of any decision—raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.-
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