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EpeeGnome

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  • New York City police investigating after officers were hit with snowballs during a snowball fight

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  • "New York City police investigating lake after officers got wet after walking into it."

  • Palantir Technology salty about Swiss Magazine 'Republik' uncovering their failed attempts establishing surveillance technology contracts (you can donate to their defense fund)

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  • As much as I hate these assholes coopting Tolkien's works, it is a really apt name for this company. In the story, the Palantir were wonderous tools for communication until they were corrupted and taken over by literal evil, turned into tools of surveillance and control.

    I dislike that the article refers to Thiel as a Libertarian without putting quote marks around it. While he is firmly opposed to governments regulating businesses, he makes and sells the tools to help governments exercise more authority over private citizens. I know the term has also been largely coopted by fascists, but it still annoys me.

  • POV Rule

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  • I mean, we don't know for sure if that particular dish is a regular dish or a transformed sapient one. There was a lot of background animate object staff beyond the main supporting characters.

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    Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

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  • Some of the services supposedly built on AI have turned out to be exactly that. The AIs themselves aren't though. They're dumb in a way that is very distinct from the way we humans are dumb.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    EpeeGnome @feddit.online

    I don't know why you're laughing. That's what we should be talking about.

  • Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say

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  • A TV doctor snake oil marketer turned MAGA official.

  • Which high school friend took a path you didn't expect?

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  • Not high school, but close. We hung out in the same group of friends freshman year at the local technical college. He was a very free spirited guy, with all sorts of wild tattoos and piercings, like a few others in the group. He even got some sort of genital piercing that I declined to see when he was showing it off after he got it. He was also fairly antiestablishment, an atheist who I think leaned politicaly towards anarchism.

    Unlike the rest of the group though, he was way into drugs. There were a few who dabbled in marijuana and probably one dedicated stoner, but nothing like this. This guy was snorting lines of cocaine off the bathroom sink between classes, and always finding new pills try. Aside from that he was a very personable guy who had interesting perspectives to include in our conversations about anything and everything. Even when he wasn't all there, at worst he was still decent company, so everyone just let it go. We'd all expressed our concerns at one point, and there wasn't any point in continuing to bring it up. We were a very diverse group and most of us had some things we tolerated but didn't agree with in each other.

    For Christmas that year I bought a cheap little gift for each person in the group. Most were silly, but I got him a pill organizer. He excitedly began to brainstorm organizational ideas on how to use it, going on about uppers and downers and more terminology I can't recall. I told him something along the lines of knowing he wasn't going to stop experimenting, but I hoped it would help him stay safe. He hugged me and said it was one of the most thoughtful gifts he'd ever gotten.

    At the end of the school year we largely all ended up going different ways and I lost track of him. Many years later, I heard from a friend I had kept in touch with that they had run into him. I'd feared he'd end up in jail or dead, but he was doing well, if in an unexpected way. Still had kept the crazy piercings, but was otherwise a button down, white collar guy. He had a wife and kids, lived in a suburban home, and worked as a manager at some office business. He was even a deacon at his church. He was healthy, happy, and proud to be many years clean of drugs. I'm glad he kept enough of the rebel spirit to keep the piercings, and I'm more glad he was off the drugs.

  • He lid

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  • Sure, of course he lid, but I try to look for the deeper wisdom that can be harder to see.

  • see, no one

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  • jaybone: Stop misusing this meme format!

    greenknight23: You know what? I'm gonna start misusing it even harder.

  • He lid

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  • "S bren s beve"

    Such words of wisdom.

  • Hi.

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  • I suspect there's a substantial overlap between people who would fall for this even with a delay and people who would send a "hi" and wait for a response.

  • They're trying to take our guns!

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  • He wouldn't know how to load it even if was was functional.

  • Cruz reportedly says Trump yelled and cursed over warning of midterm election ‘bloodbath’

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  • Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath

    Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn't happen often.

    fuck you, Ted

    And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?

  • The slumbering pyramid

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  • Dunno. I only said that because I couldn't think of any other major modern pyramids and it was an excuse to reference Hot Fuzz. Now that I think about it, there's one on the Louvre in Paris as well, so I was wrong anyway. Pyramids plural was correct.

  • The slumbering pyramid

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  • I visited it when I passed through. I wouldn't visit the city just to see it, but I've got to say it's definitely worth the stop if anyone is in the area and hasn't seen it before. I'm not into hunting and fishing, so I can't speak to the quality or value of the gear for sale. I can, however, say that seeing fishing boats for sale, floating at the dock in a pond, inside a store beside regular retail-style merchandise racks, all beneath the distant pyramidal ceiling is a unique experience. The glass elevator ride to the top and the view of the city was worth the ticket price, at least once. Would recommend.

    Edit: Admittedly they sell various other outdoor gear as well that I would have been qualified to have an opinion on, but I was a bit distracted and not actually browsing the inventory.

  • The slumbering pyramid

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  • Just the one pyramid, actually.

  • Forbidden fruit

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  • Yeah, I don't really want my downfall brought about, but if were to happen, the lack of bras would be a nice silver lining. I don't really have an opinion on the fruit eating.

  • ELI5 How is this legal? Doesn't the constitution give us the right to tell them piss off?

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  • Problem with that idea is that they don't actually care about any of the technicalities one way or the other, they just tossed out a somewhat plausible sounding "justification" to have something to point to. Their idiots will believe the justification regardless, and everyone else's time can be wasted arguing about it.

  • sending my worst wishes

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  • Maybe he was impressed at the part where the agent got away with it. If I was a murderous psychopath that would seem like a really appealing job perk.

  • Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft chase

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  • My completely uninformed speculation on the thief's motive: He was spying on the defence site, but he learned spycraft only from watching James Bond movies. Not realizing he could have just walked away after being confronted, he stole a car to flee the scene. Throughout the chase, he was certain that stealing just one more car would throw the police off his trail and he could make a clean getaway.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    EpeeGnome @feddit.online

    Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance.