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is supposed to rule this morning on ’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
The decision will determine whether & how special counsel ’s case against Trump can proceed — although it’s unlikely a trial would happen before Day. But the ruling could also set an important for how to prosecute presidents for their actions in office.

wrosecrans ,
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@Nonilex Honestly, I wasn't expecting to see her pop off that bluntly. I dunno how useful it is, but I'm glad there's not some idea that "collegiality" within the court still matters more than speaking plainly about attacking democracy.

futurebird , to random
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I sincerely have no idea what he's saying here. Police have a kind of immunity. The Church insulates priests from consequences which is also functions as a kind of immunity. These things are widely recognized to be a problem. They are "justified" by the stature and supposed level of responsibility required to do these jobs. The justification is thin and our efforts to dissolve immunity are righteous.

So, why bring them up?

Trump: But it's a little bit like the police. So you have a rogue cop. You know what a rogue cop is? Very seldom. But you have bad people. You have people. No matter where, no matter what. In the church, you have some people that aren't so good, right? But you have a rogue cop or a bad apple or whatever. And what they do is they make it so that you catch so that it can't happen and therefore everyone else is allowed to commit crimes, murders like at levels that we've never seen before. No, we're going to have to do this immunity for the president. If you have a president that doesn't have immunity, he's never going to be free to do anything because the opposing party will always indict him as soon as he leaves the White House. And you can't let that happen. You can't. Then you can't let that happen. You can't you take away all of the power of the presidency. It'll be a different country.
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    @futurebird that's why all cults love thought terminating cliches. It's a very standard pattern for organizing an in group against the out group.

    You are special because you have special knowledge that allows you to exclude this person and defend yourself from their words, and you should feel good about succeeding at that.

    futurebird , to random
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    When there is an incumbent a debate is an opportunity for the country to "get to know" the challenger. When both candidates are former presidents, neither of whom have been out of the news even for a moment... what is the point?

    Will we learn anything new?

    I'm seeing a lot of panic and "This is bad for Biden" flickering by, and I'd agree ... if he wasn't someone we already knew.

    Never-forget the implicit desire media has for a horse race.

    I'll be curious to see the ratings.

    wrosecrans ,
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    @futurebird @LinuxAndYarn A statistic I ran across recently is that is most groups, people will accept whoever talks the most as the leader. Talking the most is a stronger indicator than even gender.

    Trump has learned he gets great reactions from groups of stupid people by just flooding the zone so he seems to be in control of it. People are still surprised that it works.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    For those of you who write fiction, how do you feel about working on a story on a notebook or a laptop in a busy public place like an airport, stadium or lively park?

    (I have a friend who wrote the entire first draft of her screenplay on a phone— madness! but it worked!)

    wrosecrans ,
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    @futurebird I totally did the stereotype thing and worked on my screenplay at coffee shops. It's kind of nice to have a place to go, and a place to leave when you've gotten through enough for that day.

    I have tinnitus so being in complete silence is way more annoying for me now than it used to be, even though I really don't like being in a crowd.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/

    wrosecrans ,
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    @futurebird So far everybody I've seen claiming "AI consistently gives me accurate information" has actually been saying "I asked AI something I don't know about, and I found the responses plausible but of course I didn't do a lot of boring research to verify any of it because that would have negated the convenience of asking AI."

    So at this point "The Terminator" seems like an optimistic view of humanity's fate with AI.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    That's a solid perk.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    wrosecrans ,
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    @lowqualityfacts Back in the 50's, French customs inspectors were allowed to skim any bulk goods for "quality control" as a job perk, so they just got in the habit of grabbing stuff even if they didn't really know what it was.

    So shipping early computer programs to Europe on punched cards was super unreliable because the customs inspector would randomly grab a couple of cards to take home at the end of the day.

    futurebird , to random
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    I wonder what would happen if one ran a LLM on data representing analog TV or radio signals for a type of video or music... then generated an analog signal and played it on a TV?

    Would it make any difference in the texture, look sound of the resulting output?

    wrosecrans ,
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    @futurebird My hunch is that anything like a current LLM would be terrible at "learning" analogue TV broadcast from raw sampled waveforms. The blanking interval between frames is something like a Megasample apart, and it would need many frames to notice the patterns. Adjacent pixels mostly don't tell you much, unlike adjacent words which are easy to see patterns with.

    futurebird , to random
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    I wonder who the first person was who figured out they could send a message home to their family... when they were on a long journey by taking some of the pigeons they raised with them and letting them go?

    I bet the first message was just the bird itself. "When I get to the mountains I will release Lisa, when I reach the amber fields I will release Ahmed."

    But then they learned to give the birds little parcels to carry.

    Maybe the birds were raised for meat, or as pets... or both.

    wrosecrans ,
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    @futurebird I'd guess it started with trying to bring some birds to market as meat that got away, and finding them at home at the end of the day.

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    Question: What essential oils can I use to prevent my children from catching measles? Answer: Ben Waggoner, I'm a parent Don't use essential oils. Use large amounts of fermented Swedish herring (surstrémming) smeared liberally all over their bodies—several cans each day. That should keep all other human beings far enough away from them that they’re not likely to catch measles. Photo of Surstémming. If you actually want your kids to be safe from measles while also being able to interact with other human beings, however. . . vaccinate them.
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    wrosecrans ,
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    @futurebird @RustyBertrand Rejecting clean water is definitely not new: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/4/16846048/raw-water-trend-silicon-valley

    Dirty water just got branded as "raw water" and woo woo nuts treated it as pure because it was untainted by all the gross industrial filtration technology.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Very cool of Amazon to put unnecessary ads in their shows just so they can charge us more money to get rid of the ads that don't need to be there in the first place.

    It's the digital equivalent of the Coca-Cola Company putting rocks into cans of soda and then introducing "New and improved Rock-Free Coke, only one dollar more than the rock-filled original!".

    wrosecrans ,
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    @lowqualityfacts There was a time when Coca Cola actually proposed stocking coke vending machines with blank spots, so there was a random chance you'd have to pay twice to get a beverage.

    Bafflingly, that's not a joke. It was genuinely proposed as a way to increase average selling price when vending machines coin slots could only take one nickel.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Uh oh, I guess I should change mine.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    wrosecrans ,
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    @lowqualityfacts This is because people start with just "yumyumpancakes" and give up with changing their password every 90 days by incrementing a number at the end after an average of just over 17 years.

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