SilverElfin

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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Laws are laws, and they still exist. Being anti social means acting in ways that affect others in society negatively. That’s what setting off fireworks late at night is. Yes, they need to follow OUR rules because we live in a society. And t
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
There have also been incidents of people being hit by those bullets. It’s just so reckless and dangerous for people to do that. But there’s always someone doing it …
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
My city did not have these issues. Population changes and cultural changes have brought in a large enough number of anti social people that then make things bad for everyone else. It’s not about being in a city, but the fact that a small nu
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
In a lot of states, Indian reservations can also sell them. And they’re basically completely unregulated. It’s illegal to bring them or set them off into other towns but people do it. Hundreds of people. And tens of thousands have to be rep
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
I see way too many trashy people setting off commercial grade illegal fireworks in the middle of crowded cities and neighborhoods. It is incredibly disruptive and damaging. Vets are traumatized. Dogs are traumatized. And sleep deprived pare
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
I’ve also noticed fertility is high among certain immigrant demographic groups. Near me, it’s refugee groups (asylum applicants) where families very typically have 4 or more kids. In a couple decades I can see the demographics being very di
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Why not emphasize the issue of civil rights and make it disqualifying as a single issue for any politician? At least online it feels like people care about chat control a lot but when it comes to voting, the type of dystopian control EU bur
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Seattle Times is left leaning. Just because your pet measure of transit was opposed doesn’t make it otherwise. Calling it conservative is simply unmoored from reality. It’s also a display of what Seattle politics are like and why it has dec
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Governments don’t work for people. Yet they use terms like democracy all the time. The repeated attempts at chat control are so blatantly anti civil rights but also disrespectful of democratic principles. Why do EU citizens tolerate this? A
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Are these arena sites gamed? If China and their companies are pushing so hard that they regularly perform distillation and cross other boundaries, why wouldn’t they also try to influence scores here?
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
China’s constellations are going to orbits that will take hundreds of years to return to earth and could make launching much harder if there is a collision. As far as I know only SpaceX has satellites in low orbits that frequently need prop
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
It’s a public space. No one should be able to just take it over for free. We aren’t being compensated for the pollution of our skies. And also, higher orbits require much longer for debris to fall back and burn up.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Given the state of corruption in politics, I think Anthropic and OpenAI will likely bribe … oh wait I mean “lobby” … for bans on open source. Otherwise their imaginary trillion dollar valuations make no sense.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Did they remove that policy that forces retention of data for fable, even if you use it on AWS or elsewhere
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Is this a bad thing? Illegal immigration is illegal, after all. And while it’s not everyone, many Islamists do have a goal of altering the fabric of other nations, to install a global caliphate. So shouldn’t societies be wary of this ideolo
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Sad. I have mixed feelings about pardon powers but hope it is used here.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
These actions are great but they’re like 20 years too late
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
I agree there are serious concerns and drawbacks with giving appointees discretion. But the reason they did this is likely that agencies otherwise have a way of basically doing their own thing, and not complying with language. One example t
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
It’s no different than the “speech is dangerous” safetyism people who push social media moderation, age verification / identity checks, and so on. Ultimately these views that sacrifice rights for safety are from people that don’t reall
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
This is an insightful way to view the effects of these “system”. People living in constant fear and stress will not only be less productive but less healthy.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
It’s great that people are finally talking about this. It should have been obvious that sun exposure without sunscreen is needed to some extent. If you’re blocking the UV all the time, then how could you possibly be getting the minimum UV e
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Australia - particularly the Albanese administration - is extremely anti democratic. They have no principled understanding of civil rights. Age verification, dystopian social media moderation, etc are all anti free speech and therefore anti
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Corruption is what this looks like. The contracts are probably going to friends of politicians. It’s not hard to build a good website these days.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Yes now that everyone’s equity is tied to overvalued assets, it’s a problem because it can have economy wide effects like in the subprime mortgage crisis.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Personally I don’t mind having Flock cameras or other surveillance to make it easier to stop crime. Right now in many cities there is simply no consequence for various crimes - especially property crimes. But I want these tools to be protec
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
No. While what you’re saying makes sense, that’s not the logic behind the token max mentality. It’s simply lazy ineffective leaders who are bad at their jobs and don’t make rational decisions. They really did think spending more is somehow
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
It’s because the Polestar cars have a lot more electronic surveillance than the Volvo models, which have had only minor tweaks and have mostly not been updated for years.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
Almost all new homes in the last 20 years are terrible. Every builder cuts corners. Inspections often can’t see where those savings were made. And insurance or warranties won’t help for many of them. It’s a huge scam and needs legislation.
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
This happens a lot in mainstream science and journalism. Another famous example is the often misquoted study (from McKinsey?) about DEI improving company results. The authors didn’t claim causality, since the most likely explanation is just
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by SilverElfin 3mo ago
What happens after the service shuts down?

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