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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
How is that germane to this discussion? I already made it clear I didn't think the Venezuelan migrant in the segment should have been deported to a third country under those conditions. This feels like an attempt at a setup instead of
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
Note that the accused TdA member claimed to be a college student in Venezuela. He was not enrolled in any US school. Not saying he deserved to be deported to a third country, just that there's nothing publicly available that substantia
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
This seems like a reach: > Print inevitably precipitates a face-to-face community, giving it the capacity to represent and in turn catalyze real-world movements. I've never gone to a people-who-read-$PERIODICAL party. Ever. Maybe it
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
As far as I can tell, I'm doing that right now with a new higher-end Samsung television. The installer showed me how to make it boot directly to the active HDMI source and skip the Samsung smart hub. The TV has never been online and I
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
Existing LTE is fine. If they wanted to embed modems in the TVs they could do it now. I'm guessing they simply don't have to, simply because a huge number of consumers will dutifully hand over their Wi-Fi passwords.
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
El Salvador is making a case for it, and other countries are paying attention.
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
Uh, no. They stopped because they were being punished for pulling over ethnically disproportionate numbers of drivers. This is likely due to several factors but the end result was making traffic stops a politically sensitive area, so they j
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
That got labeled "mass incarceration" and even Joe Biden (a 'law and order Democrat' to the core) had to walk back support of what he viewed as one of his greatest achievements, championing the 1994 Crime Bill.
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
A large part of the deal is that ALPRs flag on hotlists and cannot be accused of racism. There's no way to argue a vehicle stop is the result of profiling when it's a machine recognizing a plate on a list and issuing an alert. The
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
TIL, thanks!
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
Re: random countries, sometimes with PIA the Panama exit has a crazily low ping time (I'm physically in California). I wonder what leads to it? Hawaii I can understand, there's a cable landing not far from my physical location, bu
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
I am all in favor of broad cannabis legalization, but there there is something to the gateway theory. Most users of harder drugs indicate past use of marijuana. Additionally, marijuana gives many their first taste of doing business with dru
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
If it's smart it won't be what you planned, but it'll almost always be what you like. If you thought the Vader scene at the end of Rogue One was stupid fanservice, it leans one way; if you went "FINALLY! YES!" it le
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
It's not just that: generative AI tools make it so easy to make content that you run into discoverability problems. The pool of available content becomes huge but without a way to market or otherwise differentiate yourself, no one will
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
Now I'm picturing Hasidic robots.
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
They could if there are human pickers. In any event, delivery doesn't always mean the worst of the produce aisle, and while I noted that the incentive of tips might not transfer to robots, keeping repeat customers might be enough incen
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
Yep. Instacart. I work from home and sometimes I don't want to go to the store (or it would be difficult because I'm on Zoom/Teams a lot), but I need vegetables, meat, milk, etc. for cooking. With Instacart & Costco membe
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
I like not going to the store more. Because tips are important to the income of delivery shoppers, I find that I generally get good produce selections. It might be difficult to transition that particular incentive to robots, but the point i
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by aerostable_slug 9mo ago
My problem is the knee-jerk "Google will sell/read our data" that suggesting any of their suite seems to engender. It doesn't really matter what Google says in their contracts, too many executives trust them less than MS
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
I wonder how much piracy really impacts their pricing strategy? I honestly don't know.
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
The issue is that Netflix doesn't control those restrictions, the content creators (well, rights holders) do, and their incentives don't always align.
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
It happened to Joe Biden. He wasn't swapped out until it was clear he would lose the popular election.
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
And the heat from the processor(s) would make for a comfy user experience in the wintertime.
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
The point is that a pilot sitting on quick alert can't go bomb the Russians on their own. Even more importantly, a NATO pilot sitting on quick alert with a borrowed American nuclear bomb cannot bomb the Russians (or their mother-in-law
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
> Sometimes I'm still surprised at how politicians can defend certain positions. Well, the people who opposed it were widely decried as racist. It's pretty easy to push things past the public when the press is complicit and the
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
California's rather controversial Prop 57 (early release from prison) uses the list of violent felonies outlined in § 667.5(c) of the California penal code, which excludes a number of felonies many feel are in fact violent. This is bec
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
In California, rape of an unconscious person is not considered a violent felony for the purposes of 'strikes' as well as early release from prison. A rapist may serve as little as 50% of their sentence due to this fact. It was onl
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
It's insane this is downvoted when it's the truth. Again and again the person is running from something small, but that's not an indictment of the chase, it's proof of how freaking stupid and self-centered the subject is
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
Raping an unconscious person is not on the list of violent felonies. Neither is domestic violence with traumatic injury, assault with a deadly weapon, or felony battery with serious bodily injury. It takes a lot to earn strikes in Californi
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by aerostable_slug 10mo ago
See also: military jet engines. They can't replicate high end engines from Pratt & Whitney or GE even though I'm guessing Chinese intelligence services have a huge amount of relevant information. I don't know why that is.

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