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rational_lib

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  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • The rain test was far more concerning because it's much more realistic of a scenario. Both a normal person and the lidar would've seen the kid and stopped, but the cameras and image processing just isn't good enough to make out a person in the rain. That's bad. The test portrays it as a person in the middle of a straight road, but I don't see why the same thing wouldn't happen at a crosswalk or other place where pedestrians are often in the path of a vehicle. If an autonomous system cannot make out pedestrians in the rain reliably, that alone should be enough to prevent these vehicles from being legal.

  • I went to a GOP congressman's town hall. The rage over DOGE is a force to be reckoned with.

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  • Most Americans have little clue what's going on in government. They just know they're angry about things and blame whoever they perceive as being in charge.

  • Can we agree we need to get these meek fuckers out of leadership

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  • He's very dependent on donations from the banking industry, it's all there on OpenSecrets. Both NY senators voted to end cloture because that's where wall street is. Gillibrand seems to be avoiding criticism for some reason but it's the same exact story for her. Wall street was already suffering from the Trump tariff decline and couldn't take any more from a shutdown.

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  • No, it's better. Because they people who are doing it don't suck.

  • Elon reportedly orders government to stop feeding the bomb-sniffing dogs

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  • No more DEI! (Dogs Eating & Ingesting)

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  • Maybe it should. Why let Russia be the only country that gets to weigh in on foreign elections?

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  • Interfere themselves. The US media landscape is dominated by right wingers, backed by Russia. Canada could help the other side.

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  • So

    1. this comment adds zero value to the discussion because you're not even being specific about what your insults are referring to, it's just insults with zero context
    2. I'm pretty sure you misread what I said, but I'm not sure because ^
    3. Yes, I do believe this and I think it's a pretty obvious thing to believe at this point.
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  • To be honest, Canada partly has itself to blame. They let Russia interfere in US elections for a decade at this point but didn't lift a finger to interfere for the other side that respects them. That attitude needs to end.

    Edit: People seem to be misreading this? I'm saying Canada should interfere in US elections. Everyone who hates democracy is already doing it and Canada/Europe is letting them win.

  • YSK You can find a Tesla protest near you at teslatakedown.com

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  • There's a million things you could do with that. The musk of kleptocracy? I dunno.

    Or you could do a bunch of other Elon refences - Don't buy from klepto-guy, gimme a Model FU, Elon owes a horse by now, etc.

  • Full list of Democrats who voted to advance Trump-backed GOP funding bill

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  • It's interesting that no one in the media talks about how Fetterman was one of the most progressive politicians, then he had a stroke and started taking the maga side on a lot of things.

    It tracks with a lot of other anecdotal evidence (e.g. Tila Tequila becoming a nazi after an aneurysm, some lady in a recent Channel 5 video said she became pro-Trump following a head injury in a car accident, a couple of people in my personal life, RFK Jr. obviously). I'm not saying all magas are brain damaged - there's many different reasons I'm sure. But someone's gotta at least start asking the question. There is at least this study which ties brain damage to religious fundamentalism, which isn't exactly politics but it's pretty darn close.

  • ‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert

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  • "What, just because my party and I shit on this city 24/7 and just robbed you of your jobs and your children of a decent public education, you boo me? I thought this was America!"

  • Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages

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  • 'People Will Not Forget': Fury as Schumer Caves to Trump-Musk Destruction

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  • It's bullshit to cover up for the fact that his corporate donors like Blackstone can't handle any more stock market pain.

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  • If this happens the government MUST be overthrown. If your tax dollars are being used to fund the unjustifiable murder of innocent people, you're just as guilty as the ones doing the shooting. It would be better that we lose millions in a nuclear civil war than become the new Nazis.

  • Can we agree we need to get these meek fuckers out of leadership

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  • I've often been a defender of Democrats being realistic, but Schumer is on some bullshit here.

    It’s unclear what, if anything, Schumer got in return for his decision to allow the House bill to proceed

    Says it all right there. The Republican bill was just a list of laughably insane things they knew Democrats would oppose so they could blame the shutdown on them. It actually cuts funding of DC's local budget forcing them to fire teachers and even cops. Again, nothing to do with the federal government. It just grabs power from a local government and says that they can't use their own local tax revenues to educate kids and fight crime. It's complete rabid insanity that has no point other than to bully a blue city. And Schumer's like "Sure, ok. whatever."

  • Testimony reveals doors would not open on Cybertruck that caught fire in Piedmont, killing three

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  • But when he attempted to pull Tsukahara from that same window, Riordan testified, "I grabbed her arm to try and pull her towards me, but she retreated because of the fire."

    Remember that the right wing media rushed to blame this on speeding and intoxication without mentioning that they were still alive and able to move when the vehicle was on fire. They were cooked alive inside, foreseeably and preventably, and that was covered up in a way that maximized the shame the victims' families felt. Deplorable.

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    Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it?

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  • Because to me personally this kinda feels like America is still stuck in those slavery/segregation times

    Yes. American culture is very much based on social hierarchies, and slavery created a very easy, color-coded social hierarchy. So it's hard to get rid of because a lot of people are invested in it - whether they admit it or not.

    Americans (except for the most liberal) tend to look at race as a biological reality and regard anyone saying race isn't science as woke extremism. Generally when science conflicts with common/traditional sense in America, common sense wins. The only reason quantum physics isn't banned from schools yet is because probably only about 10% of Americans know the first thing about quantum physics.

    Americans also regard a wide variety of racial discrimination - such as in dating (including who you allow your kids to date), or where you live, or where you send your kids to school, as "not racist". This is considered not racist because the goal isn't to harm racial minorities, but rather you're just doing it to protect your place in the social hierarchy. The race-based social hierarchy. And if this harms minorities, well it's not like it's your fault right?

    And if you dare try to suggest that the above is racist, people will get very angry at you and do things like elect Trump.

    So yeah, racism is still very prevalent in the US.

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  • Elon's blaming DDOS. You know I heard that the people who bulit Twitter did a great job figuring out how to handle those. Gosh, I wonder what ever happened them?