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MajinBlayze ,

Gratz

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Because it’s made of people

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Who says it’s unauthorized? I set the pressure

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Before killing yourself, it’s your responsibility to kill your children

MajinBlayze , (edited )

This video, and the book it’s based on, unironically started my transition from neoliberal to democratic socialist.

Which I think is funny, because I don’t think the authors, Bruce Bueno De Mesquita and Alistair Smith, are particularly leftist.

MajinBlayze ,

That’s right.

While the video is a good summary of the framing of the book (the selectorate theory of politics), I still recommend reading the book if you find the topic interesting. They go into a bunch of case studies on how you can apply the framing in wildly different circumstances, and make a very compelling case for how increasing the numbers of participants in a system improves the outcomes for everyone involved.

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Something that i think is important to understand about this, and while Grey does mention it, its brief and towards the end, is that this framework isn’t unique to governments. These patterns show up in human organization at basically every level.

So I’m going to push back on the idea that

this is horrible and this system should be abolished

Depending on what “this system” means to you.

I think it’s much more useful to understand the incentives at play and build systems that minimize the damage consolidated power can do, and limit the ability for power to accumulate. That is… very much easier said than done, but I think it’s needed effort.

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Pretty sure it’s a hip bone X-ray of someone without a spine

MajinBlayze ,

I bought a framework recently. Its not perfect, but I’ve been quite happy with it.

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The keyboard is fine, nothing to write home about. The top plate is in 6 separate bits (on the 16 in anyway) and they’ve got a bit of play, it feels a bit awkward to me, but the trade offs are worth it to me.

Software/firmware has been surprisingly well thought out, including a very clear picture if you try to boot without all the pieces installed.

I’ve had one weird issue with the uefi boot, but that was due to using an old install media, I think.

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My only real complaint is that “have an ai do it” isn’t a great suggestion though; an ai wil have the same bias as whoever developed it.

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Fair enough

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Probably simply that they are done with it (mono specifically, and possibly .net framework in the long run)

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Reality has a left leaning bias

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so the “stupid fucking robot” is correct?

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This is functionally spending money on the climate crisis, on the side of the crisis.

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Jiders

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But if they just let everyone vote, they wouldn’t hold power anymore.

Won’t somebody please think of the politicians?

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Fun fact, this sign wasn’t in Kansas

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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

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Just going to preface this by saying that I absolutely do support vote by mail, it’s objectively a good thing

However, there’s a problem that should be considered in that it can create opportunities for coerced voting either within a household, or by requiring someone to send a photo of their form.

The former being more of a problem than the later

MajinBlayze , (edited )

does that mean we shouldn’t have phones or that tracking apps should be restricted?

It is not my intent to equate “x has problem y” with “x should not exist” very good systems can and do get abused and misused.

There’s a reason I started my comment with

Mail-in voting is objectively a good thing

All I’m saying is that maybe there should be a way for people to go back and override their votes (which admittedly could probably also be abused in some situations), or better yet, just better social safety nets to help people get out of those situations. I’m not suggesting I have all of the answers, just acknowledging that the person at the top of the thread raises a valid, if possibly overstated, concern.

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Can’t have salads because they could be used for voter coercion?

MajinBlayze ,

From the article you linked

As of 2022, California mails every registered voter a ballot before the elections, but there is still the option to vote in-person

MajinBlayze ,

You’re correct, I should have been more thorough.

Here’s one of the sources cited by that Wikipedia article:

Mostly-Mail Elections (aka Vote-by-Mail, All-Mail or Vote-at-Home Elections) What Are Mostly-Mail Elections? In mostly-mail elections, all registered voters are sent a ballot through the mail. The voter marks the ballot, puts it in a secrecy sleeve or envelope if required, places it in a separate mailing envelope, signs an affidavit on the exterior of the mailing envelope or otherwise provides verification of their identify and then returns the ballot via mail or by dropping it off at an approved return location.

Ballots are mailed out well ahead of Election Day, and thus voters have an “election period,” not just a single day, to vote. Mostly-mail elections can be thought of as absentee voting for everyone. This system is also referred to as “vote-by-mail” or all-mail ballot elections. While “mostly-mail elections” means that every registered voter receives a ballot by mail, this does not preclude in-person voting opportunities on or before Election Day. For example, even though all registered voters in Colorado are mailed a ballot, voters can choose instead to cast a ballot at an in-person vote center during the early voting period or on Election Day.

According to this, “All mail elections” are not different from “mostly mail” elections, and doesn’t preclude the use of in person voting.

Also

systems should make doing the wrong thing impossible

Please no, imo that’s an incredibly fucked line of reasoning

MajinBlayze ,

Yeah, ok, that sucks. Oregon should still try to make actual polling locations available for people who need (or want) it.

I still don’t think that that’s a reason to abandon vote by mail altogether. The accessibility of it reduces the impact of other voting problems we have in the us overall.

I’m still going to push back hard on the idea that the system has to be 100% perfect. So long as humans are involved, that simply isn’t possible.

There are always going to be tradeoffs.

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Seems desperate; can’t wait

For these voters, Tim Walz is a reminder of their dad - before they were lost to partisan division (www.independent.co.uk)

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz embodies everything liberal women see in their own fathers – except for their political views. For some, it makes them hopeful but also very sad....

MajinBlayze ,

TIL 60+8=78

MajinBlayze , (edited )

You can check the community modlog

Nevermind, seems that’s what you did.

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MajinBlayze , 

<span style="color:#323232;">*char // I heard it from a friend
</span><span style="color:#323232;">**char //who heard it from a friend
</span><span style="color:#323232;">***char // who heard it from another
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"You were messing around"
</span>
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Free time

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Capitalism

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It’s actually reasonably short. I’m not seeing anything that doesn’t appear directly related to derpfakes

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It’s when autocorrect makes you look stupid

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Consider my jimmies rustled

MajinBlayze , (edited )

That’s why it gives you a panel of 9 images. It would have a high confidence on some images, and a low confidence on others. When you pick the correct images and don’t pick incorrect ones it uses the ones it’s confident about as “validation” while taking the feedback on low confidence images to update the training data.

What this does mean in practice is that only ones actually being “graded” are the ones bots can solve anyway.

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Because it’s supposed to be something else

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That could be.

It could also be that Trump’s proposed policies will help make sure Elon continues to enjoy his obscene levels of wealth.

Who could say.

MajinBlayze , (edited )

Does this work well on Linux? Looks like it’s dotnet based

Also, the readme says it requires windows

MajinBlayze , (edited )

The interface “running” is one thing, but does it know to run games in wine/proton? Does it know to grab the Linux versions of games if available? Mono doesn’t make that automatic.

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Yes really, yes

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Not with that attitude

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Denial of Israel as in saying it doesn’t exist, or that it shouldn’t?

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Pretending the state of Israel isn’t a form of regional power doesn’t make it go away.

Don’t get me wrong, Israel has shown time and again that it does not deserve that power and must be dismantled. But that doesn’t sound like what the law is talking about.

Maybe I’m being overly pedantic about the language in use

MajinBlayze ,

Let’s not pretend that there isn’t an active effort to undermine the meaning of Nazi. I’ve seen many more claims of Nazi being overused than I have of anyone actually accusing someone of being a Nazi, in good faith or otherwise

MajinBlayze ,

Is every scenario on that site a case of break failure? As a presumably electric vehicle it should be able to use regenerative breaking to stop or slow, or even rub against the guardrails in the side in each instance I saw

There’s also no accounting for probabilities, or the plethora of bad decisions required to put the car going what must be highway speeds down a city stroad with a sudden, undetectable complete break system failure.

This “test” is pure, unadulterated propaganda.

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