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Schadrach

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  • Seeing a lot of this lately...

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  • The problem is that even a Constitutional Convention gives more power to land than people.

    Specifically in the case of a Constitutional Convention 2/3 of states have to agree to have one and 3/4 of states have to agree to any changes.

    You'd have an easier time convincing the federal government to condense a few states - we don't really need TWO Dakotas, and Montoming seems like a good idea. Maybe also split California into a few pieces. The whole "land over people" thing is only really a problem because a couple of states blow the curve - House apportionment is done in a fashion that mathematically minimizes the average difference in people/representative between states while having a fixed number of representatives, but California blows the curve by being so utterly massive compared to any other state and there just not being enough representatives to go around. So all but a few states are pretty close in terms of people/representative, a couple are sitting at the 1 representative minimum while being tiny, and California blows the curve on the other side.

    Either increase the House size, merge some of the smallest states, split California up or all of the above - and all of those can be done without passing an amendment.

    Of course, then Texas will invoke the clause in the Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States and split itself into five states, each of which gets its own Senators and whatever number of Representatives the math would work out to.

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  • No, parties and primaries (which are just parties borrowing election infrastructure to choose who they support) aren't in the Constitution at all. But first past the post voting always trends towards two party systems as a stable equilibrium.

  • Seeing a lot of this lately...

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  • Even the founding fathers anticipated a lot of reforms and for the whole thing to become obsolete quite soon

    ...which is why they built a mechanism into it to make alterations. But the people upset about things like the electoral college don't have the support necessary to use that mechanism.

  • What would you do if you got all ATLA bending powers, with the caveat that every time someone saw you using them, you would lose the power until they looked away again. They can still use other senses

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  • They don't need to die - you could just blind them essentially the same way.

  • Minimum !

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  • H1B skilled worker visas. You have to prove that you tried to hire locally and couldn't find anyone qualified. The whole point is that the qualifications are impossible, so you are either under qualified or lying. Since no qualified candidate exists, you can bring someone over from overseas and hold the risk of being deported if you fire them over their heads - and you suddenly get less thorough about checking qualifications for your immigrant candidates.

  • Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months

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  • Islet cells are the insulin secreting cells in the pancreas. This literally sounds like the general idea is that if you don't have sufficient insulin production to cover the load your body is under, solving it by engineering new islet cells from your own tissues (so as to avoid rejection) and then implanting them.

    Basically, if your pancreas isn't strong enough to do the job, then just add more pancreas until it is.

  • Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months

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  • Important to know. Reading on how it works on the article, I wonder if it could be used for type 1, likely in combination with some kind of drug therapy to prevent the body from just killing the new islet cells.

  • CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

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  • They could probably mostly or entirely fix it, but to do so they'd have to better curate search results. Because what it does is summarize the top search results for the query.

    The problem they can't fix is consistently getting useful high quality search results to the top without getting misinfo, disinfo, irrelevant info, trolling, answers to similar but not identical questions or memes as high or higher.

  • Lemmy today

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  • True. But that just falls back on the "not yet" part of things. They're likely sitting on a massively valuable pile of user data and when they get greedy enough it's going to be ugly.

  • Lemmy today

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  • They see everything because they have to for some of the services they offer which gives them a huge potential to do terrible things that they have not actually pursued yet to date, hence the "so far" in my comment.

  • It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.

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  • Gaelic is worse about this. I've joked before that the best way to figure out Gaelic pronunciation is to look at the word and figure out the least likely pronunciation that still technically fits the letters, then try to chew on your tongue while saying that.

  • It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.

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  • That has a lot to do with it being a Germanic language that borrows a huge amount of words from a Romance language (specifically French). So sometimes the rules resemble German, sometimes the rules resemble French, and the rest of the time is all about how it branched in a different direction than German did.

  • It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.

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  • English is a Germanic language, with a lot of it's vocabulary imported from a Romance language (French). Hilarity ensues.

  • Lemmy today

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  • They target anyone a critical mass of their users think might be entertaining to target, and yeah that sometimes includes each other.

    Better to give them a wide berth and try not to draw the attention of the snarling horde with too much time on it's hands.

  • Lemmy today

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  • Specifically, it started out to track, dox, and harass Chris-Chan (originally just for being a weirdo though they eventually came out as trans and made news in 2021 for being arrested for incest). The nearly two decade old (since 2007) ongoing campaign against them means they are probably the single most documented human being in history.

    They don't often target women just for being women, but much like with trans people and furries they also hate a hate-on for crowdfunded youtube personalities and fat acceptance and all of those groups do have their share of women (especially the last one - fat acceptance is primarily about women). They even target fundamentalist Christians and Quiverfull families sometimes (which tend to be very Conservative).

    Also, there's no "was" - they still exist are are operating.

  • Lemmy today

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  • What’s the problem with CloudFlare?

    So far, not much other than being "too" content neutral for a lot of people. They have potential to be immensely horrible whenever they decide to engage in enshittification to maximize profits.

  • CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

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  • And really, the Google one in search has a primary goal of summarizing high ranking search results into a natural language statement that sounds like it knows what it's talking about. So if you have a search where high ranking results are wrong/memes...

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  • I mean in this case it's probably more accurately web search results being fed into an LLM and asked to summarize said results. Which if web search results were consistently good and helpful might be a useful feature instead of the thing you skip past and look for links to something useful.

  • David Copperfield faces allegations of sexual misconduct from 16 women, including minors

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  • The first name.that came.to my mind for someone like that was Hugo Schwyzer (I'm probably spelling that wrong) - he was very much a very outspoken feminist who made a point of drawing attention to how feminist he was at every opportunity. He was also a women's studies professor.

    Honestly, some of his writing gave me the vibe of what it would sound like if you were a recovering addict and chose feminism as the higher power in your 12 step program.

    Eventually it comes out that he nearly decided to murder-suicide an ex, and that he was a women's studies professor because it gave him access to an ever rotating stable of young, impressionable women to hook up with.

    When he admitted to all that the wording again reminded me of 12 step program talk, like he was taking steps 5-7 publicly online because online feminism was the God he believed in for the program. It...didn't get the response I think he hoped for. Less absolution and more ostracism and banishment.

  • no wait he has a point

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  • You mean with a magic potion of dirty water that should not by any mechanism cause an abortion that doubled as a paternity test because God would only cause the abortion if she cheated.

    Realistically this probably mostly served to cow men into accepting that their wife's child is theirs regardless of any suspicions because God said so. There's a reason being Jewish is matrilineal.