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Angry Internet Ghost.
I'd rather be baking. Cloudscale datacenter necromancer, TTRPG nerd, and occasional writer. Likes are not necessarily endorsements.
It never got weird enough for me.
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Per CNN, the Dodgers told them to leave, game's on as usual.
bsky.app/profile/cnn....
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Was going to say, I'm pretty sure I have more published adventures that someone has paid me US dollars for than most of the pundits too. :D
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Yeah, they ignored the wider issue to make one of the stupidest logical assertions that I've ever seen.
In effect, 'it's fine to deny a group medical treatment because it is denied to others' then in the next sentence 'the law contains an exception for every other use case but this group's'.
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Not that it's *actually* denied to those other groups because the law in question specifically 'permits a healthcare provider to administer puberty blockers or hormones to treat a minor’s congenital defect, precocious puberty, disease, or physical injury'.
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Apparently it's cool and good to deny a group needed treatment on the rational basis that it's also denied to other groups for whom said treatment is not needed.
Fucking embarrassing to be American some days.
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This is the most specious fucking reasoning I have ever seen.
"neither of the above classifications turns on sex. Rather, SB1 prohibits healthcare providers from administering puberty blockers or hormones to minors for certain medical uses, regardless of a minor’s sex."
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If they haven't failed to kickstart their heartbreaker D&D replacement at least twice, they are clearly a knowlessman.
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Those takes are extremely rancid. Yikes.
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Bringing back the old SFFN vibes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoQm...
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The knowledge that, unlike the chuds, we'd actually face consequences if we got caught?
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Dad got me a 9x11 truckers' atlas when I got my first car, and that thing got me more places than I ever expected.
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I can't see any other reason the survival of democracy and our institutions is less important to them than maintaining norms and decorum.
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The most charitable response I can come up with is that the average age of their congresspeople (mid 60's) and the fact that many have been in DC for decades means they're completely detached from the normal American experience and unaffected by the breakdown personally.
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One of the hard lessons I learned from years in kitchens, and taught every new cook I ever trained:
The nanosecond your check's late, they're out of business and just haven't admitted it yet. If your check's on but the purveyor is grumbling, your check will be late next.
Time to get a new gig.
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It is exactly like getting cornered by that one guy who wants to tell you how cool his Vampire LARP character is for an hour.
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It's basic math, even. The best turnout in a century for presidential elections has been ~66%.
A full third of voters, are at best apathetic enough to not show up. That's a hell of a better starting point than 'openly hostile to both Dems and the existence of democracy'.
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That is disturbingly readable.
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You're not even joking about that guest list. I thought ERBoH was dead, and here they are doing a live show.
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The rotunda of the Iowa state capitol. Makes him look pretty 40k though. :D
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Ah yes, the 'nefarious interests' insisting you stop anthropomorphizing an overpowered spellchecker fueled by an unprecedented scale of plagiarism and yet still not fit for purpose for the things you insist it can do.
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Hell, I have to give Adobe the smallest shred of credit, they saw the rights issues coming and rolled their own genAI based on images they actually own.
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It has been over 20 years since I had to do JROTC crap and I can still keep cadence better than this. Fucking embarrassing.
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As always and ever, FUCK NAZIS.
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It has everything to do with the situation.
When you're running a con by and for the industry and fandom of science fiction, it is incumbent upon you to understand why you should not use tools which are a threat to the very things you're meant to celebrate.
Read the room.
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Clarkesworld wasn't subtle about the problems it has generated.
www.cnet.com/culture/ai-i...
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There's no excuse for a fandom based around authors and artists, many of whom are involved in the massive lawsuits over intellectual property right violations on the part of OpenAI and other companies in this industry, to not understand why its use would be objectionable.
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It can't evaluate anything at all. Evaluation is entirely outside of its skillset. I harp on this, but it is literally a statistical engine that uses probability built from its training data to predict the next word based on keyword tagging of the training materials.
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Yeah, this whole situation is going very much as expected. I'm not sure what happened, but I'm fairly positive when we find out it's going to be some 'no, obviously you don't do that shit' stuff that only the incredibly naive would even suggest doing.
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Whole lot of people reliant on just-in-time logistics are gonna have a Real Bad Time.
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There are defense mechanisms. They rely on the other two branches of government to check his power, via revoking his emergency declaration, declaring his EOs unconstitutional and unenforceable, or straight up impeaching him for abuse of power.
Only one of these is happening, and not at SCOTUS.
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Yeah, we currently have one conservative party (small c, in the sense of aiming to keep a status quo), and one regressive party.
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That said, the emergency declarations Trump is doing all this stuff under (since it would never get through Congress as law) are subject to cancellation with a joint resolution in Congress that IIRC requires a simple majority.
Could probably get the GOP to spike it to save their own skins.
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A poster so dumb they managed to gaslight themselves.
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I can respect that level of hustle. Good on them!
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The part that rarely seems to get pointed out is that they are so entirely by design in the UK, to let the monied to still be able to threaten those who spoke against them after the ban on duels was enforced.
IIRC Thorley v. Kerry is what finalized it, as it removed the need for actual damages.
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Gotta stay ahead of the cat hair somehow!
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I presently have a Great Horned Owl pair nesting in the park next door, and I really wish they'd be a bit less chatty when I'm trying to go to bed.
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The utter rat bastard who shot up Fort Hood is still in appeals for a well-deserved death sentence he wished to plead guilty to, because it is the central tenet of our philosophy of justice that everyone is entitled to due process before the law.
It's not complicated, just emotionally difficult.
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It's also an open question how much of a mockery of the pardon power he can make before Congress throws him under the bus to save themselves from the public.
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Closer to a decade if we're just talking about Singal. He's been beating the anti-trans drum forever.
juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...
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Oof.
'Shit, this guy knows things, get him out of my queue' is a valid response, though.
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Nah, on the other hand the support person probably doesn't know a damn thing about the device and is just running their script.