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There are regions on the planet that will likely fare better than others, though.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
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Why do you think they're all so into AI and robots?
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https://www.wkms.org/energy/2025-07-25/billionaire-peter-thi... > A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-own
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2mo ago
> If much of the population is too poor to buy anything, too sick to consume much etc - who is left to buy anything at all? No one. That's the idea. A low-population paradise. Venice without its pesky people to mess with Bezos'
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Trump’s deals also are of indefinite terms. Ask the Saudis - their big nuclear deal fell apart within a day as Trump added new conditions out of thin air.
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That's already common practice in police (and military) training. (For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcVQ_k6d9J0 ) It's a little different when it's your buddies testing them out versus torturing a
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> Touching face, chest, groin, etc is forbidden. Sure, just like beating a suspect is.
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They're more for post-detainment torture. They'll keep shooting Black Bloc folks in the face from afar with 40mm tear gas canisters as they do currently. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/
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> I want the police to have a lot of options available to them, to avoid the “everything looks like a nail” problem. That was the idea behind tasers - that they'd reduce use of guns. In reality, they now get used in scenarios where
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They're torture devices. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ice-shock-glove... > In 2022, Assistant Chief Adam Glueck, of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, purch
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There are other big differences in the other direction, though. The Stasi couldn't have dreamed of the manpower efficiency of modern surveillance.
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> Not mentioning Grok 4.6 here is a crime. Not yet. Don't give the guy ideas.
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Maybe it's assumed you're capable of Googling?
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https://www.riaclu.org/news/flock-safety-image-led-to-false-... https://reason.com/2026/08/13/flock-cameras-and-license-plat... https://katv.com/news/local/sher
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50 known cases. edit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/19/we-foun... > At least 69 police officials have been accused, charged with or convicted of misusing Flock’s system or other
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1tu67kn/influx_...
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There’s been a spate of Reddit AI bots using all lower case in hopes of evading detection. It’s still incredibly obvious.
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> “We came up with some very astounding numbers,” Wellinghoff said. “If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” Yikes.
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A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul [Using AI]
(nytimes.com)
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I provided some important context in my post. The man once had a shrine in his house dedicated to a mass murderer of Palestinian civilians at prayer, including a twelve year old.
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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-revi... > Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24
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> They keep recruiting. Yes, that’s the obvious result the rest of the world has pointed out for decades, and why this style of war is self-defeating. Orphans make good recruits.
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> Estimated total force is of 15,000-20,000 armed combatants. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-has-added-up... > But official U.S. figures show that prior to Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas had anywhere b
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https://apnews.com/article/ben-gvir-israel-gaza-hamas-netany... > “It’s no secret, I disagree with the prime minister,” he said. “I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 e
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> Is this net bad behaviour that was added due to Flock, or was it a bad actor who happened to use Flock? Every tool we give to cops gets widely abused. Which is precisely why we should be slow to provide them with new ones.
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You think suspending the Constitution, the world's highest incarceration rate, and making deals with organized crime to get votes are good to emulate?
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-bukele-depo... > Bukele’s government had previously negotiated with MS-13 and other violent gangs it publicly claimed to be cracking down on, El Faro found.
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> You have no right to privacy entering my neighborhood. You own the whole thing, huh?
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> Why is it OK for everyone to carry a surveillance device (smart phone) everywhere they go, but installing a camera on a public roadway is not OK? I don't live-stream my phone's camera to people with guns empowered to shoot pe
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