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by slg 8mo ago
This post exists in that Poe's law purgatory of it being impossible for someone without the proper context to know whether this is sarcastically mocking OpenClaw or an attempt at defending OpenClaw against some of the bad press it has
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by slg 8mo ago
I refuse to believe that you are actually engaging with the issues being discussed if you're claiming that needing a license to have children is "objectively more freedom in times of war than any real life society." Your stub
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>We see the asteroid fired at Earth. No, we don't. The bugs have no technology. How could they send an asteroid from light-years away with enough speed and accuracy to hit Earth on any reasonable timeframe? It's not even a go
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by slg 8mo ago
>Lacking evidence to the contrary we have to assume it works like every other movie. Failing to provide this evidence when it would have been easy to do so is bad film-making. Which brings us full circle back to my first reply to you, th
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by slg 8mo ago
>I'm well aware what Paul Verhoeven intended, but he failed at conveying that intention on the screen. Poe's law suggests that what you're asking for is impossible, there will always be people unable to read sarcasm or par
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That confuses me because you seemingly aren't disagreeing with anything in the "unreliable in-universe material". The primary difference I see between those segments and the rest of the movie is simply tone.
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by slg 8mo ago
Why do you think those segments were included in the movie if it wasn't to get us to question the reliability of the narrative they're presenting?
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>There's no frame story to support this. There definitely is. No one on screen looks into camera and says this directly, but the whole recurring "Would you like to know more?" bit is supposed to tip the viewer off that wh
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by slg 8mo ago
This is all intentional. The film is emulating the type of film that would be produced by this fascist regime, of course it isn't going to include proof of the fascists being wrong. But we also don't see any evidence in support
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by slg 8mo ago
It's hard to not become disillusioned with our industry when most of it is just the manifesting of that Torment Nexus tweet. It's like no one in the tech world actually understands any piece of fiction that they have ever consume
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Some people have this weird view of history in which everything is judged by the end state. They believe we can’t compare a situation to something like Nazi Germany if it is not identical to the final stages of that fascist regime. The pro
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>who do you think ICE is going to look for? They should do some actually police work. This kind of "Papers, please" approach to immigration enforcement is dystopian. If you genuinely feel that illegal immigration is a problem
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The first lady originally came to the US on a tourist visa before getting work as a model and eventually applying for a green card several years later. Musk came to the US on a student visa for a program that he never actually enrolled in.
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by slg 8mo ago
>Trying to play "guess if the shadowy government agency is doing the right thing this week" is a losing game. Which is why the best strategy is to bring things out of the shadows and have the government operate in the open whet
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by slg 8mo ago
Fair enough, but my main response to that is that people need to support independent journalism. It's entirely possible I'm paying some fraud(s), but as someone who certainly spends more than the average person on online journali
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>There just can’t be a way to discriminate on the spectrum from “we use AI to tidy up the spelling and grammar” to “we just asked ChatGPT to write a story on x” Why though? Did the AI play the role of an editor or did it play the role o
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>What changed is the number of people who decided they were ok with dismantling institutions. That grew by about 7 million, who voted for the opponent in 2020 but stayed home in 2024. How do you know this? How can you say the deciding f
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by slg 8mo ago
Maybe in the philosophical sense in that this is what their vote wrought, but there is absolutely no way to conclude that people wanted their institutions dismantled. The number of Americans who voted for Donald Trump was nearly identical
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I'd be surprised if there was a single American who had the CIA Factbook as the deciding factor in determining their vote. It being shutdown is more evidence of how broken the American political system is rather than an indication of
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>The entire premiss for this? To stop individuals from manufacturing firearms and firearm components WHICH IS A LAWFUL ACTIVITY! Everything is a lawful activity until they make a law outlawing it. You're arguing against the idea of
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by slg 9mo ago
I'll point out that I didn't mention the law in my first comment. I don't know the history of how this technology came to be so ubiquitous, so I didn't speak to it. However, from the perspective of a consumer, it doesn&
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by slg 9mo ago
>Other people have already pointed out the differences between implementing a check for a specific banned print and a vague categorical ban. If you have seen that other people have pointed it out, you have already seen my response, but I
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The proposed legislation is suggesting nothing of the sort. If a manufacturer wants to handle this by sending everything through their own server (something some manufacturers have tried absent any regulation), that is a choice that they&#
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by slg 9mo ago
The proposed legislation is about the sale and distribution of 3d printers. You could build your own 3d printer legally without the detector software.
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>regardless of if you are attempting to print a $50 bill or not. Maybe the way this applies to everything should be an indication that it's unrelated to the point I made about blocking the printing of certain things.
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>Furthermore, the whole “ghost guns” thing is entirely overblown and misunderstood by people who have never seen or used a 3D printer except in the movies, where Hollywood has latched onto the idea that they are designed primarily for ma
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Good news, as the article notes, the proposed regulation creates a working group to determine of it is feasible and won't require any further regulation if it is found nonfeasible. If you're right and this does prove to be "
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by slg 9mo ago
I think it's interesting to note that not only is there precedent for this type of "blocking technology that prevents the printing of certain things"[1], but it's also inconsequential and uncontroversial enough that most
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Their viability is what I called physics-defying. Without some drastic changes to our current level of technology, the added costs of putting something in space along with the complexities of powering, cooling, and maintaining it once it&#
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by slg 9mo ago
SolarCity and Tesla made more surface level sense just being in the same general vicinity since they're both fundamentally green energy companies. That made it easy to spin questions about the financials with some CEO-speak about syne

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