the end goal of the Dem party should be a complete overhaul and something like a parliamentary system.

On the one hand, absolutely yes. Trump has solid control of one of the political parties, but in general, is a very unpopular politician. Yet our political systems have become so dysfunctional that we run a serious risk of him destroying the rule of law and creating an authoritarian presidency. There’s no authoritarian-proof political system, but we can do a lot better than this.

On the other hand, I think any reform that sufficiently addressed our current problems would be the end of the Democratic party as well. Getting a political party to sacrifice itself for the greater good is a tough sell. Not impossible, but I think it would look more like a popular takeover of the Democratic party to be used as a disposable vehicle. The Democratic leadership and their donor class will absolutely be opposed.

The tea party and Trump have shown that seizing a party from its current leadership is not impossible.

Didn’t read the paper, but the description suggests that the models which were tested were specifically created with a very limited set of training data. I can understand the argument that this might allow researchers to evaluate one property in a simplified environment, namely logic generalization. But it could also be argued that general logic is an emergent property, and limiting the LLM in this way prevents it from reaching that complexity threshold.

I’m not sure if the intent of including the two transformations in the training data was an attempt to provide the LLM with at least one opportunity to generalize between known phenomena before asking it to further generalize.

I think its an any city with a strong identity thing. I’ve seen it in Austin, TX and Denver, CO.

Anyway, I think the advice to volunteer when you move to a new place is good advice all the same. Communities need volunteers, and newcomers need connections.

If these schools don’t start working together, they’re going to get picked off one by one.

Folks, I think being a citizen of a colonialist ethno-state may be bad for one’s moral character.

I keep trying to eat meat but it just won’t cooperate!

Yeah it’s not that districted voting requires FPTP, but I think the point was that it has an effect that’s similar.

Even if you had RCV in each district so that the elected candidate was generally more preferred by the people in that district, you could still end up with an aggregated outcome where no members from a given party win any districts, yet still had some small portion of voters in each district. In that way the unlucky party gets no representation despite having a non-zero voter base.

So while I wouldn’t use the phrase “inherently bad” to describe district elections, I think the arguments in favor of districtless, proportional voting are stronger.

This issue is actually pretty weird. Racial gerrymandering is a violation of the voting rights act, hence illegal. Partisan gerrymandering is completely legal.

In practice this seems to mean that it is harder to gerrymander in states where racial voting patterns align with party, e.g. whites vote Republican, blacks vote Democrat. In states where party lines do not predominantly fall on racial lines, you can hack up the districts to favor your party as much as you like.

Tit-for-tat is actually a good game theory strategy which encourages cooperation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

I am willing to deal with a cheesy lisp if you play a good game of Terraforming Mars or Gaia Project.

Calling deleting metadata image processing is a bit of a stretch. And you can disingenuously clean images either client- or server-side, that’s true, but if we’re getting serious here about data privacy, one could independently validate, build, and sign an executable for users to run locally. I don’t know of any similar technique to guarantee what’s running server-side.

Which of these 23 links backs up the claim that “people only respond to violence,” or, paraphrasing, non-violent resistance is ineffective?

I tried to skim a couple, but the synopsis on one was simply a recounting of black power tactics from the 70s, and another was a wiki page about the radical flank effect, which actually referenced the book I linked to support the claim that having a violent radical flank appeared to have no positive effect. Other references sometimes found a positive effect, but I can’t really compare the merits of the sources.

Honestly, having a pile of obscure links to whip out in favor of political violence is, at a minimum, odd.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156837/

This is the work that’s often being referenced when talking about non-violent vs violent resistance, and the 3.5% participation claim.

I don’t see any references for your claims either.

I’ve seen these topics about this is valid or that is valid, and I don’t think I quite get it. Like I can tell you if a JSON file is valid, but what would I even check to see if a person is valid? Do people go around calling each other invalid? Does anyone have an example of an invalid person? I’m missing something.

You won’t do anything about anything. Speak for yourself.

The payments can become a legal liability for the processors. I believe there are federal laws that have penalties for anyone who facilitates transactions for certain prohibited goods or services. It’s the same reason cannabis shops have such a hard time getting payment and banking services.

The payment processors have very little incentive to take risks here. As others have noted, there isn’t much competition pressure.

EDIT: I went to find a source, and found the cannabis analogy isn’t right. Seems that Visa and MasterCard really are the primary censors of the porn industry. This archived FT article went in depth. https://archive.ph/zXKuD

WHAT ARE THE MEASURES?

I too was 16 once.

I’ve never heard the claim that germ theory was a Native American contribution. The wiki page on its development doesn’t mention Native Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

Whatever happened to that lawsuit trying to block arbitrary executive tariffs? The law that Trump is using to threaten all these tariffs has a set of causes listed, something like emergency economic events, price shocks, crashes, etc. I’m sure prosecution of the president’s friends is not on the list.

Here it is https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-blocks-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-2025-05-28/

But that was a month ago.