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qantravon ,

Because the judge isn’t bending over backwards to accommodate Trump’s every whim. That’s literally it. If he was, he’d be the best, most honest and fair judge our country has ever seen.

qantravon ,

It means if there was an actual politically motivated prosecution, that wouldn’t stop someone from winning. ie. If Trump had managed to make some fake charge against Biden stick in 2020, if the people still wanted Biden to be president, he could be.

qantravon ,

Starfleet Academy series is also in production.

qantravon ,

I was born and raised in Texas, and as much as I’ve grown tired of their shit, this is a vastly different situation to the last couple of power incidents they’ve had.

This was essentially a freak storm that came out of nowhere with something like a couple of hours of notice, spawned multiple tornadoes that took out a bunch of infrastructure, including at least one high-voltage transmission tower, and cut a path over a thousand miles, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.

There are no regulations they’re circumventing by being in their own power grid that could have avoided this, and even being interconnected wouldn’t help much when the transmission lines have been ripped apart.

qantravon ,

I mean, if it convinces people to actually do something about the climate? Yeah, let’s crow about it.

A lot of the remaining resistance to fighting against climate change is made based on a “it’s too expensive” or “companies would lose too much profit” argument. If we can tell them they’d lose more if they don’t help? They might do something.

qantravon ,

Referring to people as unhoused is actually a way to help people see them as people and not an “other”. Some see “homeless” as a bit dehumanizing.

qantravon ,

A lot of people, especially those on the far right, have painted anyone critical of the Israeli government 's actions in Gaza as anti-semites. This is clearly absurd if you take a second to think about it. Making note that Jewish people and Israelis are also critical of these actions is pointing out the absurdity of the statements of the far right.

qantravon ,

And that price goes right into their pockets.

Menthol cigarette ban delayed due to "immense" feedback, Biden administration says - CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)

The Biden administration said Friday it would again delay a decision on a regulation aiming to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes, citing the “historic attention” and “immense amount of feedback” on the controversial proposal by the Food and Drug Administration....

qantravon ,

I like “partake,” personally.

qantravon ,

Not likely. Your stomach acid probably destroys what’s left of the virus before it enters the bloodstream, meaning there’s nothing for your immune system to train against. There’s a reason we don’t drink vaccines.

qantravon ,

I didn’t actually realize that, but I would still argue they’re not very common for a reason.

The Guardian US: Trump cancels North Carolina rally due to storm in first public address since New York trial (www.theguardian.com)

Trump follows with postings about how the beautiful mother nature whom he’s always respected has joined the witch trial by continuing to keep him from speaking. But at least he could catch up on some rest.

qantravon ,

Are you saying that God is canceling Trump now? When did He become so woke!? (/s)

qantravon ,

The amount of electoral votes per state is adjusted based on its population, but they all get a minimum of 3. So, if enough people left, it would have some effect on the state’s voting power, but once you get to a certain threshold, the weight of each person’s vote actually starts to go up.

qantravon ,

denying Nazi crimes.

Jfc, when did she start doing that?

qantravon ,

That’s just preparing you for the real world of job applications, where they ask for your resume and then ask you to fill out all of the information that is contained in your resume.

qantravon ,

Most people don’t realize that your address actually has a huge impact on insurance. Moving less than an hour’s drive for me caused a change of nearly $100/month.

qantravon ,

If a person cannot hold an office, they are typically also disqualified from running for said office, for exactly that reason. What would you do if an ineligible person won the election? That would be utter chaos.

qantravon ,

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the GOP still tries to run Trump even after he’s dead.

qantravon ,

I fully agree. In this vein, I also think that Romulans and Vulcans should prefer green-tinted lipstick rather than red. In a few episodes in DS9 they actually did this, but most of the time they just default to red and it really doesn’t feel right.

qantravon ,

You seem to be forgetting that wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and nuclear power exist.

Not to mention that, even with coal generating the energy for the cars, EVs still have lower lifetime emissions than any ICE car.

qantravon ,

Diesel engines have nothing to do with what we were talking about.

And even if you want to call it a “band-aid”, that’s still better than letting the wound continue to bleed. It slows us down and gives us a chance to course correct, rather than barrelling ahead over the cliff at full speed.

qantravon ,

Nobody here is saying it’s a cure all. It’s a step in the right direction. It’s better than doing nothing and continuing on the course we’ve been on. Do you think an “all or nothing” approach has any chance of working?

qantravon ,

Oh no, who are we going to blame our refusal to lower emissions on now?

/s

qantravon ,

I was calling out the (mostly conservatives) who repeatedly say that we shouldn’t make any effort to reduce emissions because “China is worse”.

Near-Future file type concept "Digital Memory" (lemmy.world)

This is an idea I’ve been toying with for a bit. There is a ton of media that includes unimportant information that doesn’t need to be stored pixel perfect. Storing large portions of the image data as text will save substantial amounts of storage, and as the reality of on-device image generation becoming commonplace sets in...

qantravon ,

I’m sorry, but no. Not only does that invoke a ton of extraneous processing on both ends (when saving and when recalling the image), but the rest of the image is still important, too! Can you imagine taking a photo at a family gathering, and then coming back later to see randomly generated people in the background? A photograph isn’t just about the “subject”, it’s often about a moment in time.

qantravon ,

The pitch is that everything surrounding the subject is extra, and so it doesn’t matter if it’s the same every time. It’s literally throwing that information away in favor of a simplified description. It’s extremely processor-intensive data compression.

qantravon ,

You misunderstand. You take a picture of, say your dad at a family reunion, and in the background the rest of your family is just milling around. That’s not the subject, and so the AI model saves it as “people doing stuff” or whatever. When you load that photograph, the people in the background will be generated, and they won’t be your family.

This is all beside the fact that the AI may decide your subject is different from what you think it is.

This is just an extremely unreliable form of data compression, and extremely unnecessary. Phones and cameras can currently save hundreds or thousands of photographs locally, and cloud storage can save millions for free, and even more for extremely cheap. You’re solving a non-existent problem by shoehorning AI image generation in where it’s not needed.

qantravon ,

Their ToS did say that updates would only apply to the current major version and newer of Unity when the updated ToS was released, but they removed that clause without telling anyone about a year ago and are claiming their changes are retroactive, so that can’t even be trusted. At this point, I can’t see any game dev beginning work on a new Unity project ever again without some kind of ironclad guarantee that this would never happen again. My prediction is we’ll see maybe 1 or 2 years of games released on Unity, just from the ones that were already too far into development to start over on something else, and then Unity is done for good.

qantravon , (edited )

Saint’s Row

Black Desert: Traveler Edition

Generation Zero

qantravon ,

Ah, thank you! I think I’ve fixed it.

qantravon ,

This is much more than just hate, though. He’s saying nonsensical things, making random logical jumps, and more. He can be a bigot and have dementia, they aren’t mutually exclusive.

qantravon ,

You’re making a distinction they don’t care about, namely consent. They don’t care about consent.

"You can do anything — the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything — as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent.

“If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation, then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.”

-Rush Limbaugh, 2016

qantravon ,

Is there any particular reason it needs to be subtle? It’s ok for art to have a political stance.

qantravon ,

Yeah, it’s just all the other issues that will cause trouble…

qantravon ,

Actually, I think they were in one of those places, given this post:

www.instagram.com/p/Cupdh9eAWf-/?igshid=Y2IzZGU1M…

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