Miner Wars 2081 has similarities. Same people who made Space Engineers.

There’s a difference between allow by default and deny by default. One of them is necessary for a healthy society while acknowledging that you need to keep certain groups away from you. The other is culty.

Followed up quickly with a diatribe on how you’re the one who isn’t thinking it through.

Eth doesn’t take much power like that anymore if that’s what you’re thinking. Other crypto does, of course.

They’re not going to leverage this to destroy all copyright. They’re going to carve out exceptions for their own purposes.

As for applications that help the working class, it only stays that way as long as the models aren’t rising to a certain level of intelligence and consciousness. Once they do, I’d have to consider them fellow exploited workers.

Brand names in the US are Swerve and Truvía. I don’t think it gets added to much in junk food factories, but it is available in packets for tea and such.

Trump dismantled US soft power. A lot of it happened in his first term, Biden built back some of it around the invasion of Ukraine, but Trump II has destroyed it further.

Which is great if you ignore everything else.

Could be AI slop, but probably just compression artifacts.

any member can call bullshit on the Chair

Yes, definitely making excuses.

This is a very common hypocrisy among first gen US immigrants. I’m a good Irish, not like those dirty ones coming over now; we should keep them out.

See also: Ayn Rand

I’m guessing Roberts Rules stuff.

As a quick and dirty thing, you can call a voice vote of ayes and nays. If it’s not particularly close, it’ll be obvious what the outcome is, the Chair will call the result, and everyone moves on. However, any member can call bullshit on the Chair, and then it goes to a more formal process.

So without watching the whole damn video, it’s probably that the voice vote went one way, the Chair said it was the other, got called on it, and the roll call vote went against him.

They ate their Wheaties this morning. Tomorrow, back to Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

I once saw Obama having a covfefe.

You know you’re in the right communities when Hulk Hogan dies and everyone says “fuck that guy”.

That whole war was a setup to take land from Mexico. We do not need to remember it with fondness any better than Vietnam or Iraq.

They could. It would toss nitroglycerin onto the fracturing maga base, but they could. Almost anything they do will backfire.

Obviously, we don’t really care about Bill Clinton, but I would like to bring up someone a lot of us will care about, and should still treat the same way.

Marvin Minsky was a pioneer in the AI field. He also had ties to Epstein. Now, you may not care about Minsky or AI (though I’ll point out that the research field and what capitalism is doing with that research are very different things). But you might care about Richard Stallman, and he comes into this, too:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761718975/free-software-pioneer-quits-mit-over-his-comments-on-epstein-sex-trafficking-cas

The controversy swirling around him now stems from a series of emails from a CSAIL group email list–made public by Selam Jie Gano–in which Stallman said that a 17-year-old girl who allegedly was instructed by Epstein to have sex with AI pioneer Marvin Minsky likely seemed “entirely willing” to engage in the illegal act. He also argued it is unfair to call such an incident “sexual assault”.

Stallman dropped out as president of the Free Software Foundation because of this.

Minsky himself died in 2016, but as far as I’m concerned, Stallman got exactly what he deserved. There’s no evidence he was directly involved as far as I’m aware, but those are not acceptable comments to make, and he shows some deep misunderstandings of consent here.

You’re doing the FSM’s work.

Yes, that explains very neatly why authoritarians want to get rid of it.

Sometimes, there are downsides to being on an instance that disables downvotes.