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  • This is the attitude we should all be having right now. Do not let them gaslight you.

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    • ✔️ Ultranationalism
    • ✔️ Authoritarian
    • ✔️ Militarism
    • ✔️ Suppression of opposition
    • ✔️ Division of us vs them rhetoric
    • ✔️ Desire of strict social and economic control
    • ✔️ Fervent desire for anti liberalism and anti communism

    I for fuck sake Stephen Miller is THE go-to example of modern fascism. Like you literally could define the term based on a multitude of what he has said and done. I mean he was found to be a contributor to VDARE way back. And that's the old school Internet white supremacy website from back in AltaVista days. Like literally nobody questions that, that website was absolute garbage.

    Dude is a fucking fascist and white supremacist. He can play coy all day, but dude is fucking toxic as fuck. Dude is THE poster child for politically active American fascist. It's so stupid that this is even a question. Dude literally stands for everything we fought against in World War II. Him pretending to be too stupid to know better is just his shitty acting skills. I'm he even worked to connect Breitbart with AmRen which is THE GOTO magazine for white supremacist and has had discussions with Jared Taylor the founder for AmRen.

    And all of this came to light back in 2019. Dude has regular conversations with American groups that are very clearly labelled white supremacist and fascist groups, that they themselves label themselves as such. He keeps saying "oh well it's all in the name of Free Speech and equal rights." But when's the last time dude sat down with the NAACP?

    I Jesus fucking Christ, dude is a fascist, he's just too chickenshit to label himself publicly as such. But there's no guess to this. This why every fucking year Democrats pass a resolution calling on him to resign. He's literally a fucking card carrying White Supremacist and Fascist. All the evidence to support this was like six fucking years ago.

  • Clarence Thomas gives bonkers reason for SCOTUS to tear up settled laws

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  • arguing that decided cases are not “the gospel,”

    This is correct, but not in the sense that he provides. Society changes, what was okay before may not be okay now. Weighing precedent and modern society is a careful process. Tossing off precedent should have justification for why it's being shrug and there needs to a preponderance that this is indeed the shift of society.

    Walking in and saying, "well we should just outright critical" is absolutely not the way to do it. Overturning previous case law should happen, but that shouldn't be the fucking default. And when you do overturn previous case law, you really need to bring a fuck ton of support, not, "meh we changed our mind." Being a contrarian for sake of rocking the boat isn't how our highest court should operate.

  • Unbelievable. Our bed for a three day river tour in Borneo to see the orangatans.

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  • Might want to get a mosquito net.

  • Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?

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  • A representation of a binuclear compound of element 10^(56) with an average bond length of 100 quintillion angstroms.

    Okay that was funny.

  • Trump tells world leaders their countries are 'going to hell' in combative UN speech

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  • Well I mean I recently heard one of their FoxNews "experts" saying Hitler was in heaven. So... Really it's a matter of what company you want to keep.

  • Trump Supporters Are Lying About Biden ‘Censorship’ To Justify Brendan Carr’s Unconstitutional Kimmel Threats

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  • When they bring up Murthy v. Missouri it's always good to remind them what the Supreme Court said.

    To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek. Because no plaintiff has carried that burden, none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction.

  • Fox News "expert" says Hitler went to heaven

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  • Karlyn Borysenko. That's the "expert" being talked about here.

    I think crazy undersells her.

    fascism might actually be our only option to actually defeat the left

    Now, my political stance aside, I think anyone who is in this mindset is someone who is having issues understanding how a Democracy works. Or Republic or whatever she is feeling like calling it today. She's really famous for getting hung up on incredibly small details about words and what they mean. So meaningful debate with her is nonexistent.

    She's definitely one of those all bark but if there was an actual outbreak of violence in this nation, be the first one on an airplane out of the country. So, to me at least, her opinion is vanishingly insignificant. Especially in the domain of how to approach any far end political group. Because, anyone who feels violence will solve something is someone who has no real solution.

    Also she gets super hung up on education and she should stop trying to be Governor or whatever aspirations she has, and go get on a school board or something. Being a talking head on Fox isn't any kind of distinction, they have random people yapping all day on there.

    But her saying "Hitler went to heaven", that tracks. It's just that the color of the sky in her head is that special. Also, if there was a heaven and Hitler's in it. I'll be more than happy to take the opposite (which that's the point of their argument that the opposite doesn't exist, again special colors of the sky there). But her perspective of Hitler is mostly fueled with incredibly poor understanding of World War II. But there's no point is discussing that matter with her because, you'd have a better chance convincing a wall that it's a window.

    Again, it's a lot to do with the whole "what do words actually mean?!" kind of argument with her. It tiring trying to ask her what the fucking weather is at the moment while you are both standing outside. She's THAT kind of person to debate with. But it's whatever, takes all kinds to make the world go round. I wouldn't invest a hay penny in anything she has to say, but everyone is free to do whatever they want.

  • Autism has been announced!

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  • The whole acetaminophen is bad thing isn't a new one. It's part of a crack pot theory of oxidative stress and autism. The only problem is that oxidative stress is one of those very broad terms. The air you breathe can cause oxidative stress because of various types of pollution. Eating bacon can cause oxidative stress. Particular fertilizers used to grow a wide variety of plants can cause oxidative stress. Literally not getting enough sleep can cause oxidative stress.

    It's a really broad terms for random free radicals of oxygen in the body, which strip electrons, etc, etc, etc... It's also what brings about antioxidants. Chemicals that take the oxidative "blow" for your cells. And this is all sound science, but everyone experiences oxidative stress and not everyone is autistic, contrary to what apparently RFK believes by trying to pander this bullshit.

    Also, just right out the gate. The whole thing doesn't make sense for how it's supposed to work when we have fraternal twins who one is autistic and the other isn't. Which gets into the whole "likely a genetic thing" seeing how identical twins where one is autistic, the other usually is as well. And the difference in rates between fraternal twins and identical twins suggests a strong genetic link rather than environmental. But that doesn't rule out environment.

    But the thing is what RFK is pandering isn't new. There's been a ton of studies that associate oxidative stress to autism. But as the saying goes, association isn't causation.

    Also at the other end is their recommendation of folinic acid. Which, I can't, it's just Vitamin B bullshit stuff. The various B Complex is important in development for a child. This is why folic acid is given out to pregnant mothers. But there's no evidence to support that any formulation of Vitamin B prevents, slows, reverses, or cures autism. I just don't understand that segment of medicine where they've gone deep end with Vitamin B. It's important, don't get me wrong, but eating quintuple dosing of it isn't "curing" cancer so much as causing irreversible liver damage and possibly sending you into a seizure.

    It's whatever. Any form of legitimacy in the HHS disappeared with RFK. I think people are going to look at this as "oh yeah confirms my life long held bias" or "RFK is nut job." But as for moving the needle, this isn't going to move anything. Most doctors will not care that HHS made this announcement and will continue to act as if it didn't exist. Because there's a mountain of evidence that this is just crackpot theory shit.

  • Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

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  • European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft's plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.

    Windows 10 has already had 10 years of support. ESU extends this one extra year. If you have hardware that cannot meet Windows 11's requirements, there are other OSes available that will happily run on that hardware. Which is what brings us to the real issue.

    Microsoft's near monopoly on consumer grade PCs and Apple's vendor lock in. This is the core issue.

    Companies can do this because there are no regulations to stop them. We call on European Commissioner Jessika Roswall to introduce EU Ecodesign requirements for laptops, guaranteeing at least 15 years of software updates. No more devices designed to break or become obsolete before their time

    Ten years is a very long time for support. If you need support past that length, you need a different OS. Apple does good to keep Macs made in the last five to seven years still able to run their newest OS. They are some of the worse offenders on this. But even with a different OS, there's still a limit to how far you can take hardware. You could put the best optimized software on really old hardware and that won't change that the underlying CPU is old.

    The older hardware gets the harder it is to keep supporting it. Case in point, there reason you can't get TLS 1.2 that pretty much every site now requires onto Windows 95 era machine is the underlying hardware cannot keep up with the required computational needs to support that encryption. And if you happened to install Windows 95 onto modern hardware, the number of changes to the OS to get access to the underlying hardware is pretty much an upgrade to Windows 7.

    Ten year old machines are doing alright for the time being, but we have to move on. TLS 1.3 is here, has been here since 2018. The stricter requirements for security, require more advanced hardware.

    And I just mention TLS as a single example of what we're talking about here. Modern hardware advances and attackers and users get those at the same time. While software security schemes do ensure security long after the hardware has become dated, there's a point where it won't matter anymore what software you toss onto the machine. It's just so out dated it doesn't matter, no software is securing it. Now that's usually a lot longer than ten years, but it's not much longer.

    You can take a very lightweight Linux distro and pop it onto a Pentium 3 machine. It will technically run. But you are lacking SSE2 and even if you recompiled to remove SSE2 optimizations and strictly held to 586 ISA, you're not going to enjoy the performance on the machine. For even the most simple tasks like unpacking a 7-zip. You will fare very unwell to some attacker who has a modern Threadripper machine.

    I love old machines but the rest of the world is moving forward. Yes, software could technically cover for more than ten years, but not much more. But it's silly to think that a Athlon 64 (2003), the oldest CPU you can technically get working on Windows 10 because of the NX bit requirement, would be able to keep pace on today's multi megabyte sized website. Hell even the X2 models that were the first to be "dual core" would have issues with how modern web browsers handle things because Athlon 64 X2's model for multiple processors is vastly different than how modern CPUs do it. It wouldn't take anything for someone to feed it a website that would bring the system to it's knees.

    The thing is 15 years a very long time in the world of technology that's ever evolving. Software can only go so far. 15 years is absolutely you need a different OS if that's your requirement territory. But when you start hitting 20 years, your going to see breakage no matter what software you throw at it. It might be very slight at the 20 year mark. but each year after that it's going to become more pronounced.

  • Trump Sues The New York Times for Articles Questioning His Success

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  • Doubtful that the claims will prevail. However, the filing court in Orlando is one of the courts he has out there that are packed Trump judges. Out of the 12 that sit the bench, 6 are Trump appointments. That said, even with those six in his pocket, it won't be enough to push through the claim in appeals, if it even gets that far. The Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is the same court that struck down plenty of Florida's Online laws as violating the first amendment.

    Even though they are mostly Trump appointments, the court even with them, has had a strong lean to tell the Government when it comes to speech to fuck off. Which also Cartwright which told University of Central Florida their anti-harassment policy went overboard and violated the first amendment.

    Do they've demonstrated that there's very little that rises outside of protected speech. Be it a Floridian law banning children online or students yelling slurs. It's definitely a double edge sword, but I can't see this court siding with Trump on this. Defamation for this court has to directly turn into absolute loss, so Trump would have the onus to bring receipts on how it harmed him, which I highly doubt.

    But all of this is a great reason why the US Government needs to implement Federal anti-SLAPP protections.

  • Trump backs off as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages Korea

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  • Hyundai already announced a two to three month delay on this plant after this whole thing. They aren't walking away, but this isn't an event they are forgetting.

    It won't matter what President comes after this one, this whole thing is going to influence investment from South Korea for some time.

  • Two Weeks Ago, Nick Fuentes Bragged about Charlie Kirk’s Dead Ideology and the Groyper Infiltration of Turning Point USA

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  • Yeah, seeing dude, and the memes he was putting on casings. I think this is very much a Fuentes boy. The second I heard the Hell Diver's code on a bullet casing I was like, "Ah man it was one of those fucking 4chan rejects that killed him."

  • Tyler Robinson, the prime suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, comes from a proud MAGA family, according to his grandmother - The Daily Beast

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  • Make sense why when Trump was asked today, "How you holding up?" He was like, "Have you seen my new ballroom to the White House?"

    They giving Charlie Kirk the fucking Herman Cain treatment. Going to forget him like his name was Phil Valentine. Going to hang his family out to dry like a former mayor of New York City.

    And then you had that fucking Governor of Utah saying:

    For 33 hours I was praying that if this had to happen here, it wouldn't be one of us.

    Just FUCKING HELL. No chill, all racism. Damn. They going to have to forget about Charlie Kirk like they did all those people who died from COVID, like all those farmers who going bankrupt because of trade wars, like all those people who are like "He ain't hurting the right people."

    I ain't in the camp celebrating Kirk's death. But the way Republicans are jumping ship from Charlie's death is fucking hilarious. So now that we all know the mother fucker ain't getting any deader, how about them fucking Epstein Files? How about all them Republican fuckers who voted to protect a pedo mother fucker?

  • Supreme Court will hear Trump tariffs case on fast track

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  • Oh absolutely, it's going to be a slam dunk W for Trump because the Supreme Court is just going to ignore everything Article I of the Constitution says.

  • NBC News: Supreme Court agrees to consider whether most of Trump's tariffs are legal

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  • Oh yeah, they're going to side with him. "Only the President would know when an emergency happens." Not the more obvious, "Congress cannot make a law that hands off Article I powers at the President's whim."

    There's literally zero spine left in the Supreme Court. Easy W for Trump here since the Supreme Court cares more about RVs than actually upholding the Constitution.

  • The White House is exploring how to keep Trump's tariffs if the Supreme Court strikes them down

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  • I don't know Donny, maybe try getting them written into law like a normal President would try to do.

    The whole emergency powers thing has got to get cut off. The ability for ANY President to declare an emergency and then just take away very clearly delegated to Congress powers has to end. It was dumb when these things were invented during the Cold War, they still remain dumb to this day.

  • US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says

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  • Drug trafficking is a crime. It is not the commission of war. The fucking President just committed an unquestionable war crime and went on TV and bragged about it.

    Oh look I'm only two away form BINGO.

  • President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.

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  • The Internet was convinced otherwise.

    No we weren't. I've learned that there is no such thing as good news anymore.

  • Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots — because they don’t work

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  • The issues with a ton of these use cases is direct tying to avoid middleware, which is absolutely NOT something one should be doing with AI. At best AI should be used as a speech to text processor that has the optional ability to provide a formatted output, like say JSON. Past that, you are doomed to deal with issues that AI will not handle correctly.

    That's the key issue, once you have to have some logic layer in between, the cost of these things starts flying northward and the savings you'll get from replacing around 8,000 minimum wage workers is nowhere near what you though you would be saving. So these companies believe that they'll just bake in the logic into the system prompt. Which, LOL, gets you $15,000 priced combos.

    The Taco Bell one is actually about as well as it should handle for a lazy deployment. The issue is that Taco Bell isn't ready for everyone in the world to be bypassing their AI system and the AI system doesn't have any good fall backs. There's just a thin layer that says when something goes outside of parameters to trigger a human being, that's striking too cautious a balance.

    AI isn't a replacement for humans, it's no where near that ability at the moment. But if you think about say an IVR system, as long as you are keeping parameters incredibly narrow, you can fit AI somewhere in there. But that rarely justifies the cost, especially if you've already got a well developed IVR that you're still dealing with.

    That's the biggest thing, there's a lot of promise in these things. But we're not there. We are not anywhere close to these things replacing 100% humans taking orders. If you're a place that's not yet built out an IVR, the AI agent might be something to look into, IF you have programmers on your team that can do the heavy lifting for the logic layers. In short, treat these things like a Small Language Model plus serialization, that's about as far as they are good at the moment. Trying to toss logic into these things is just going to induce pain and failure along the way. And if that doesn't save you enough money to justify the super high cost per credit, then don't do AI. There's a very small application for AI in public facing things at the moment.

    The only thing I've seen AI at the moment be really good at is RF signal processing. It wouldn't surprise me if down the road we saw some sort of model embedded for boosting Wi-Fi signal processing. But this kind of application with Taco Bell et al. No. At least not right now. Or not enough to justify it to most companies at this time.

  • Most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, federal court rules

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  • This ruling is stayed pending an appeal to the SCOTUS until October 14th. Just in case anyone was wondering.