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nova_ad_vitum ,

youtu.be/XKukzCe_P8I?si=07Hv-z8CsMPUb7rN

nova_ad_vitum ,

Literally can now also mean figuratively so there’s no way to know.

nova_ad_vitum ,

James Cameron must be really surprised to learn he’s a part of this.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Reminds me of Rocky from Project Hail Mary (sort of, they didn’t live under ocean but under an extremely hostile-to-us atmosphere).

nova_ad_vitum ,

His initial reaction was hilariously understandable - a huge WTF? But then being a rational being with super human computational ability he started to realize that it fits all the observations.

nova_ad_vitum ,

“Russia” as a whole wouldn’t want that. But there’s only one guy in charge of everything.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Trump will offer Netanyahu the full services of the 6th fleet within days of taking office.

nova_ad_vitum ,

You said all that without saying anything remotely relevant to this situation. You should go into politics.

nova_ad_vitum ,

I mean they’re not pure cheese but they definitely contain real cheese. As fun as it was watching Nile Blue mess around, the recipe to make fancy versions of American cheese with fancy cheese (that is practical to do at home) has been known for a long time.

nova_ad_vitum ,

For the time being the compute required to simulate me is more expensive than tracking the real me.

nova_ad_vitum ,

He broke federal gun laws. It’s pretty clear cut that he deserves the same punishment as anyone else.

You should tell republicans that because they’re absolutely not interested in Hunter getting “the same punishment as anyone else”.

nova_ad_vitum ,

If Putin knew what Kessler syndrome is, he still wouldn’t care.

'A lot of money': Trump owes $87K in interest per day until he pays the fine in his civil fraud case (abcnews.go.com)

Former President Donald Trump owes an additional $87,502 in post-judgment interest every day until he pays the $354 million fine ordered by Judge Arthur Engoron in his civil fraud case, according to ABC News’ calculations based on the judge’s lengthy ruling in the case....

nova_ad_vitum ,
  • The NYC AG decided to sue anyways because it’s technically not allowed to misrepresent your income on a bank form

By “technically” you mean legally. In accordance with the law.

The judge decides on an excessive amount of fines simply because they hate him and want to ruin his campaign

Prove it. And then send that proof to Trump, in sure whatever ambulance chaser is representing him now would interested to have that proof .

nova_ad_vitum ,

So no proof the judge acted out of malice? Just more bullshit you made up? I’ll try to contain my surprise.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Why didn’t Trump just not break the law? Why is that too much to ask?

nova_ad_vitum ,

Yeah nothing you said there made any sense and Trump will offer to have the 6th fleet glass Gaza on his 3rd day in office, but you said it with absolute conviction so you must be right .

nova_ad_vitum ,

Yeah but I’m dumb as shit so my time is worthless.

nova_ad_vitum , (edited )

The American conception of freedom of speech is all about personal rights, with no thought to personal responsibility. The reason freedom of speech is important is precisely because it’s consequential. The idea of using free speech (a precious right) responsibly, if it ever existed, is gone now .

nova_ad_vitum ,

AI made these memes require essentially zero effort for skill to make.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Lawyers can’t knowingly present lies or falsehoods in court. Due to that single constraint, these idiots can’t present anything because all they have are falsehoods and they know it.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says ‘US credibility is at stake’ when asked about Trump’s NATO comments (www.cnn.com)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown said Monday that “US credibility is at stake” in the wake of comments from former President Donald Trump that he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO partners that don’t meet spending guidelines on defense....

nova_ad_vitum , (edited )

What exactly do you think “credibility” is? It doesn’t mean everyone in that country agrees with the leader in power - that literally doesn’t matter.

Trumps erratic behaviour has torched a lot of US credibility in international relations, because it shows that whatever the US might say and do during a sane administration, they’re never more than 4 years away from potentially torching everything just for shits and giggles and descending into conducting international relations based on toddler tantrums. Trump’s torching of the Iran deal burned all the moderates in that country and now the the US has no credibility to negotiate another one (even if that were possible in the current situation) because all parties know the next guy might just reverse it out if spite. This is true even if you think the Iran deal was bad.

nova_ad_vitum ,

If he had just done “Accio Car” he could have avoided the trouble .

nova_ad_vitum ,

His decade+ of silence ended years ago. Now he has a sugar daddy and he does what he’s told.

Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds - Reuters (news.yahoo.com)

OTTAWA (Reuters) - About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....

nova_ad_vitum ,

It seems Lemmy needs it’s own r/iamverysmart.

nova_ad_vitum , (edited )

Here’s the theory: a justice system can never be perfect, especially when implemented on a large scale. There will always be legal outcomes that are fundamentally unjust. Efforts should be made to minimize such outcomes , but they will never be eliminated.

Presidential pardons are essentially a way to override the entire justice system in specific cases. With the understanding that even if all actors had good intent and we’re acting rationally the system would still result in unjust convictions, the power to recognize such injustice and summarily fix it is granted to the highest office in the land essentially with no oversight.

In a healthy democratic environment, it’s still an imperfect idea, but it sort of works. When the president wouldn’t dare use it to pardon his cronies or pardon obviously guilty people who did horrible things without remorse, then it mostly works. When the backlash for misusing the pardon power is being democratically crushed, then and only then it makes some sense.

I’m not saying it’s a perfect idea. Whether the presidential pardon power should exist is debatable at the best of times, and I could come up with counter arguments to everything I said above.

The real problem is this isn’t a healthy democratic environment. There’s a cult of personality around one man. He used pardon power to pardon his cronies, and a slew of utter dirtbags, and nobody who voted for him cares . He lost zero votes for that. The problem with pardons is just one of the avenues of rot caused by that phenomenon.

nova_ad_vitum ,

the doctor attempted to puke that baby out

Well that’s… quite the visual.

Trump is not immune from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case, US appeals court says (apnews.com)

The ruling is significant not only for its stark repudiation of Trump’s novel immunity claims but also because it breathes life back into a landmark prosecution that had been effectively frozen for weeks as the court considered the appeal....

nova_ad_vitum ,

Yeah they’re corrupt assholes but their decisions aren’t consistent with wanton destruction of the rule of law. So far.

Perhaps but in this case the relevant fact is that they’re corrupt assholes who have lifetime appointments that the GOP will defend at all costs and so they don’t need Trump for anything and aren’t beholden to him in any way.

nova_ad_vitum ,

It seems your anger is at about 8/10 but I won’t accept that you’re right until you dial it out 10. Can you crank up your impotent, ignorant rage a bit more and then comment? You can do it, I believe in you.

nova_ad_vitum ,

It really is a shame that “retarded” became a word of disparagement and slang for those who are stupid. A word which is widely regarded as insulting more than anything else.

“Moron” was literally something doctors used to describe certain patients once too. Any clinical term used to describe someone of low intelligence (putting aside the difficulties in making that determination in any universal sense) will inevitably be used as a pejorative/insult. It can’t be stopped.

nova_ad_vitum ,

The semantic treadmill can’t be stopped.

nova_ad_vitum ,

This hasn’t really been real-world tested against hardened targets like an American carrier battle group either. Against manned aircraft the group’s many layers of defenses are well known and extremely hard. Has it ever been attacked by 1000 cheap drones at once that fly no more than 20ft above sea level? What about multiple waves of them? Aegis destroyers firing missiles that cost $300k a piece are great against MiGs that cost a few million each. Against a drone that costs $500-1000…idk. CIWS systems can down a few drones but they’ll run out of ammo against large waves.

I don’t think a swarm like that could carry enough ordnance to actually sink a carrier even if they made it that far in. But there’s a large difference between sinking it and doing nothing. Even temporarily suspending flight operations is a huge accomplishment if you can get it done for $100k.

I’m sure the Pentagon has run simulations on this but the way the world is going I think we’re going to witness a real world test relatively soon.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Has anyone identified the “killer app” yet?

I still don’t see it. I watched a lot of review vids just because it was interesting but I don’t see a single thing that the Vision Pro can do that can’t be done better with other devices.

The tech and computation required for those avatar things is amazing . It might get much better soon. But even if it does, will it be better than simple FaceTime type video conferences?

It’s not clear to me how apple even imagines people using the thing.

nova_ad_vitum ,

VR has been around in modern form for more than a decade and the only truly novel and useful application is some types of gameplay.

There are a few other legitimate applications. Architects can offer people a 1st person view of a designed building. There are already companies that let people do VR walkthrough of homes they’re considering buying rather than in person open houses (I think this started in the pandemic).

These things have value but they’re niche applications that can be done with any VR headset.

nova_ad_vitum ,

As a non-surgeon I think doing a heart transplant with it bypass shouldn’t be that hard if you’re fast enough. I mean you can cut arteries quickly with bolt cutters right?

nova_ad_vitum ,

The Vision Pro is the best example of video passthrough and hand/eye tracking that has ever been produced, but they’re also insufficient for it to be a seamless experience.

This isn’t really the problem, I think. MKBHD touched on this but this system doesn’t seem to have a killer app. There’s a bunch of stuff you can do with it, but which of those things can be done better than just using a computer?

Gaming is the big one but apple doesn’t care about that so what else is there? It would be good for virtual walkthroughs of a home you’re considering buying. Or at an architects office to show off the experience of a new building. But…cheaper VR headsets can already do all of that.

So what actually task can this do better than anything else?

nova_ad_vitum ,

In this case they’ll have to avoid war with Egypt who is really really unhappy about their plans to dam the Nile.

nova_ad_vitum ,

There are probably many people in Japan with this skillset given that they’re only now getting off disks for certain government processes.

nova_ad_vitum ,

It’s not.

nova_ad_vitum ,

“Star Trek Syphilis” it is then .

nova_ad_vitum ,

This is just a less gross version of “DAE store their piss in jars so they can commemorate their unitary secretions”?

nova_ad_vitum ,

I mostly agree but I mean it’s not like they were trying to destroy art or suggesting that all art should be destroyed. There’s plenty of unprotected art in the Louvre. In the same room as the Mona Lisa There’s a huge painting on the opposite wall that’s arguably more interesting than whatever view of the Mona Lisa you can get from 6 ft back and they didn’t go after it. They’re trying to get attention, like most protests.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Is this particular method the least cruel/painful? I think that’s likely.

This method can be the “least cruel”. The coverage on this story kind of sucks. Apparently they didn’t allow for a way for CO2 to escape this he felt the sensation of suffocating as it happened. Had they done that or just flooded the whole room with nitrogen then it would be the “least cruel” method of execution.

I put “least cruel” in quotes because on this issue we tend to mash cruelty in with messiness even though they have nothing to do with each other. Shotgun to the upper brain stem (or something like it ) is probably the truly least cruel method. No time for suffering, consciousness just ends.

We could also just not do capital punishment but that’s not happening so here we are.

nova_ad_vitum ,

That’s my guess.

How do your guesses usually pan out? What’s your track record?

nova_ad_vitum ,

Probably that they generally don’t care about getting a story right or corroborating sources. I agree that in this case that doesn’t matter for getting the high level facts across.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Is there any advantage to those over square (Robertson)? I still see 4 contact points when applying torque. So about on par with square and inferior to 6-lobed torx.

Families of hostages storm Knesset meeting after Netanyahu rejects Hamas offer (www.theguardian.com)

Family members of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip have stormed a parliamentary meeting in Jerusalem to demand that Israel’s government does more to return their loved ones, as fighting in Khan Younis reached unprecedented levels....

nova_ad_vitum ,

Why are you acting like you wouldn’t immediately pivot and begin justifying it if Isreal did carpet bomb Gaza?

nova_ad_vitum ,

I don’t know but if you get a law degree then spend 3 months reading their extremely long and intentionally complicated user agreement I’m sure you’ll find out that they have the right to keep it installed whether they currently choose to or not.

nova_ad_vitum , (edited )

And it’s not like shooting the eye of Sauron with a sniper rifle would kill him.

I agree, but I still think someone should have tried. Even if it didn’t kill him there’s a giant gulf between not killing him and doing nothing.

This applies more to Voldemort than to the eye of Sauron tbh. Ofc he has horcruxes blah blah blah but if they just got an SAS sniper to shoot a 50 cal sniper round at him from a mile out - again, I’m not saying it would kill him but… would it have done nothing? All I’m saying is there’s a thing called due diligence and they should have at least tried.

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