drowsspa

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by drowsspa 1y ago
Why does it matter?
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Yeah, it opened up the door for us not owning not even our phones anymore, and soon even the browser itself.
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by drowsspa 1y ago
I'm of course talking about the purpose of the department, not about the skills of an individual fireman.
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by drowsspa 1y ago
The skills for putting out fires is very different from those for investigating fire-related crimes. It's literally a subarea of forensic science...
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by drowsspa 1y ago
I don't know how it is in Europe but down here in Brazil they're lesser gods in all but name. I see no functional difference between their cults and the ancient pagan cults. They're not gonna admit it because being monotheist
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Yeah, for all intents and purposes that's the spec for emails now
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Why do you think you have the moral high ground here?
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by drowsspa 1y ago
I mean, ads work same way those obnoxious Mr Beast faces in thumbnails work: I never click on any video like that, but they obviously work for attracting a general public. It's even kind of funny how aggressively the algorithm tries to
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Yeah, for simple nearly mathematical functions it's quite clear how to do it. I find it hard to extend this to more business-focused inputs
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Yeah, the basis for the modern authoritarianism is "the president alone represents the will of the people". As if Congress and Senate weren't elected as well. As if the public workers didn't have their work created and r
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by drowsspa 1y ago
With "simple reversion of responsibility" do you mean your twisted logic of "everyone should think first and foremost about my profits"?
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by drowsspa 1y ago
In Brazil as well. I think a good side effect, or perhaps the main intended one, is that governments aren't allowed to supress voters and have to make sure everyone has easy access to the voting booths. Every election there are mandato
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Musk is allowed to test in production with 1 ton metal machines racing at 100 km/h without it entailing legal responsibility. Amazing the influence that a few million believers on social media can buy you these days
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by drowsspa 1y ago
I find it amazing that a king can just say that a drug works and then it becomes the absolute truth forever
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Yeah, it's like those famous posts comparing monads to burritos or something
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Yeah, I find it specially frustrating to do it with a slow reader. Like, in 2 seconds I can scan the page and see that what I need isn't there, and the other person is there taking like 1 minute to read everything... Or the opposite, t
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by drowsspa 1y ago
My turning point was the Thai cave rescue.
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by drowsspa 1y ago
Does Tesla accept liability for any accidents while FSD is enabled?
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Economically and diplomatically? No, it doesn't.
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by drowsspa 2y ago
I mean, most of international law and deals are basically pinky promises. But grown-ups are supposed to keep those pinky promises
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Yeah... I would have thought that fear of Russia was way more ingrained into the American psyche. It's amazing how much they're basically bowing down to Putin
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Yeah, rationality is a bug of our brain, not a feature. Our brain just grew so much that now we can even use it to evaluate maths and logical expressions. But it's not its primary mode of operation.
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by drowsspa 2y ago
I don't have the internal monologue most people seem to have: with proper sentences, an accent, and so on. I mostly think by navigating a knowledge graph of sorts. Having to stop to translate this graph into sentences always feels kin
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by drowsspa 2y ago
If we were designed then it was a very sloppy designer. We can easily think of a myriad of ways it could have been done better. And quite mischievous to just leave all this evidence of evolution. I think that the gnostics with the idea of a
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Quantum leaps are what we already have: tiny and oscillating all over the place
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Not really, based on the little I know from legislation. When it comes to public administration, the principle of "you can do whatever the law doesn't forbid you to do" is reversed: it can only do whatever the law says it can
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Should have made it clear that I'm not American and I'm just finding it wild from afar. I guess it's a testament to American democratic cultural history that no coup has occurred in American history when the president has suc
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Like I said, sounds wild that yes, the American Constitution does establish the president as basically a king over the Executive branch. Copying what I typed elsewhere, I guess it's a testament to American d
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by drowsspa 2y ago
Yeah, that's my point. Not even the president should have unrestricted access to that data. He's not a king or the head of a corporation. And government workers aren't his subjects or employees. In most places, at least hones
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by drowsspa 2y ago
I find it wild that apparently there is no law onto which government workers can cling to refuse these requests. Is it all just based on conventions, goodwill and culture?

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