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WoodScientist

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  • Brutal arrest of Black student in Florida shows benefits of recording police from new vantage point

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  • The traditional penalty for treason is death by hanging, at best. This is treason against the most fundamental values of what our nation is supposed to stand for. If you do this kind of thing, you have committed an unforgivable offense against everything this nation is supposed to stand for. If you're a police officer that flagrantly violates someone's rights, you should hang for it. If you're a police officer that plants evidence on someone, you should hang for it. If you're a police officer that shoots an innocent person, you should hang for it.

    I have zero problem with holding police officers to a much higher standard that regular citizens. They want to go around calling themselves "officer?" Fine. I have no problem holding them to a brutal system of military justice. Make them earn their titles for a change.

  • On Exceptions

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  • And even if they do succeed in producing something useful. If you become dependent on a megacorp's AI to do your job, why shouldn't they charge you half your salary for the privilege?

  • On Exceptions

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  • (as a reverse dictionary, for example)

    Thanks for putting a name on that! That's actually one of the few useful purposes I've found for LLMs. Sometimes you know or deduce that some thing, device, or technique must exist. The knowledge of this thing is out there, but you simply don't know the term to search for. IMO, this is actually one of the killer features of LLMs. It works well because whatever the LLM is outputting is simply and instantly verifiable. You can describe the characteristics of something to the LLM and ask it what thing has those characteristics. Then once you have a possible name, you then look that name up in a reliable source and confirm it. Sometimes the biggest hurdle to figuring something out is just learning the name of a thing. And I've found LLMs very useful as a reverse dictionary. Thanks for putting a name on it!

  • On Exceptions

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  • Rational discussion on my Lemmy? No way.

    Here. Let me make you feel more at home. Obviously all the AI data centers should be nationalized and the owners of OpenAI sent to gulags. The data centers will be requisitioned by a new state central planning committee for purposes of economic management. /s

  • The Coca-Cola boycott may have caused this ad

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  • What else, should he wear Lederhosen?

    Yes, yes he should! :D

    Honestly, that kind of ad campaign would be so ham-fisted it would be hilarious to watch.

  • ‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds

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  • Harris could have promised to kiss Bezos’s feet and anyone remotely antifa should have still voted for her.

    You're beyond saving. You are why Kamala lost the election. Please emigrate to Russia so you can vote for the lesser of two evils there and not pollute our electorate further.

  • ‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds

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  • Forget charging ICE agents with terrorism. We need to rendition ICE agents to the countries of their victims. The US justice system cannot be trusted to hold ICE agents accountable for their crimes against humanity. SCOTUS is corrupt and not a legitimate court. So let's send ICE agents to where they will be held accountable. All those ICE agents that sent innocent Venezuelan citizens to a torture camp in El Salvador? They should all be rounded up and sent to Venezuela to face justice for their crimes against Venezuelan citizens.

  • Brutal arrest of Black student in Florida shows benefits of recording police from new vantage point

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  • This kind of police brutality needs to be a capital offense. We need to start hanging these pigs. Abusing your authority to this level is a crime on the level of treason. You absolutely deserve to die if you do this to another human being.

  • Democracy needs you!

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  • And yet, Brian Robert Thompson will never kill again.

  • Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets

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  • Wtf did facebook marketplace just suggest to me?

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  • You mean in how magnificent they are?

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  • Have centrists stopped using the deaths of tens of thousands of children for cheap political points at every opportunity?

  • Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off

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  • From Meriam-Webster's entry on the word

    Did the definition of n----r change?

    There is a widespread belief that the original meaning of n----r, as defined in dictionaries, was "an ignorant person," and a related belief that current dictionary definitions describing its use as a hateful, racist epithet are a recent change. We do not know the source of those beliefs, but they are not accurate. The word was first included in a Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1864, at which time it was defined as a synonym of Negro, with a note indicating that it was used "in derision or depreciation." There has never been a definition like "an ignorant person" for this word in any subsequent dictionary published by this company. Nor do we know of such a definition in any earlier dictionary.

    There's been an attempt among white racists over the years to try and redeem the hard-r N-word. They'll say that it originally meant just an ignorant or foolish person in general, not only black people specifically. But this is a historical fiction. It's always been used as a slur against black people. It was originally a complete synonym for "negro." If you asked Yarvin, and he didn't just admit outright to being a flaming racist, he would likely justify it by making a claim like this. He would claim that he's saying these billionaires are just corrupt and foolish. He would say that it's OK to use the word, as he's not referring to black people, just ignorant and lazy people in general. He would say he's using the non-racist definition of the n-word. But again, this is a historical fiction.

    Sometimes racists will cite words like "niggardly", meaning cheap or stingy, as an example of how the n-word could be used in ways not applying just to black people. Niggardly is a word that sounds like the n-word but actually does have a non-racist history. They'll try to link niggardly to the hard-r n-word. But what they ignore is that the word niggardly has a completely different etymological root. Niggardly shares roots with words like niggling, tracing back to the 13th century nig, meaning simply a stingy person. The n-word however, as Meriam-Webster notes, derives directly from the Spanish negro.. Racists will connect the n-word to words like niggardly, niggling, etc., citing their real history as non-racist words, and say that the n-word can also be used non-offensively because of this. But there is no common etymological root between the hard-r n-word and similar sounding words that do actually have a non-racist history.

    Of course, it's all ultimately a moot point. In polite society today, most people understandably avoid using any word that remotely sounds like the n-word. See controversies around the word niggardly. And really, there's little reason to use words like niggardly, even if one could argue that they're technically not racist. They just sound way too similar, and there's plenty of other perfectly valid words to use in their place. And ultimately, someone could just as easily be hurt or offended by words that sound similar to the n-word even if they're technically not directly related. The words are best avoided, as they just end up hurting people for no good reason, even if some etymologist might argue they're not directly related.

  • Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off

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  • Obviously he means naggers.

  • So true

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  • So true

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  • Really? I never would have thought Captain Planet would take up that much space on a hard drive. Are you storing fucking Captain Planet as a 4k video? It was a cartoon from the early 90s. I think 480p would be more than enough! Sure there were 114 episodes, but they weren't that long. How much space can the complete Captain Planet really take up?

  • Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content

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  • We should demand mastercard shut down all payments to everyone, as their very business model clearly falls afoul of the laws of the People's Republic of North Korea.

  • Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

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  • The problem for OpenAI and their ilk is that the actual legitimate uses of LLMs are so few and niche that they cannot hope to pay for the immense cost of developing and running these systems. Like, cool. Sure I can use copilot to generate derivative meme images, but what's that actually worth to me monetarily? I'm not going to subscribe to a monthly service just to access a tool for shit posting.

  • Kamala Harris says she doesn’t plan to return to ‘broken’ system of US politics

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  • Notably absent from the DNC chair's comments are two big things Mamdani didn't do, which centrist Democrats are doing in spades. Namely, throwing both Palestinians and trans folks under the bus. Mamdani showed that you don't win power by betraying vulnerable minority groups. The DNC has to still learn that lesson.