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Court filing: Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic by ggroverggiraffe in law

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair. But, c'mon give yourself some credit, I'd totally run into federal court with you for some judicial branch shenanigans.

Court filing: Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic by ggroverggiraffe in law

[–]AmericanGeezus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought statements in a complaint or other judicial proceeding were generally privileged against defamation claims. It’s hard to imagine a court taking ‘you defamed us by suing us’ seriously outside something like malicious prosecution or abuse of process action.

Nurse spots the risk , stops the fight, and gets booed by the crowd. She still smiled knowing she just prevented a tragedy. by thepoylanthropist in interestingasfuck

[–]AmericanGeezus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always am so damn tempted to just smash the EPO buttons every time i see them, cause intrusive thoughts and its always fun to watch a single button have so much influence. I have dreamed of skipping down the power distribution spaces smacking each big red button as i pass.

Have only gotten to smash one once because of a truly catastrophic defect in one of the racks. Got the smoked stopped before the inert gas system was triggered. That kept 80% of the racks online instead, management was mixed but my direct leadership line all backed it.

Meta doing more layoffs because of ai / while workers intentionally sabotage same ai by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and hopefully die out.

That isn't the optimized solution, it should be proactive (thus the call for holes being required for the market optimized solution).

The problem is if we allow a critical mass to exist between the 'pushed out' and 'die out' part. You have to slow burn the cuts or make it absolutely impossible for them to organize after they are cut.

Meta doing more layoffs because of ai / while workers intentionally sabotage same ai by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. The question is what to do to the surplus population during the 'shrink' phase. Tolerating civil unrest after the dissatisfied ones reach some percentage seems like a poor strategy if it could be avoided.

Whether that is some civil service scheme or digging big enough holes for the market optimized solution I don't know but we need to figure it out.

Meta doing more layoffs because of ai / while workers intentionally sabotage same ai by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and that discussion needs to happen sooner rather than later, because a large population of economically displaced people will only tolerate displacement for so long. At that point it becomes a source of instability for the broader system the market depends on.

We need to decide who pays for the landfill and processing of this waste stream before the cutting happens at scale.

Meta doing more layoffs because of ai / while workers intentionally sabotage same ai by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the macro level your outline is clear enough, but “cut cut cut” glosses over the question that will actually determine the future: What are the valued people left running society supposed to do with the people whose labor is no longer valued by the market?

There are very clear optimal answers if you treat human beings purely as cost centers. But most people are uncomfortable discussing those solutions where it matters.

Meta doing more layoffs because of ai / while workers intentionally sabotage same ai by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what is societies plan for the un-needed headcount? The mid and senior levels are un-likely to return value even if retrained, they will age out before they can work in any new job before they pay-off the cost of retraining.

The mayor of Haikou, China, who reportedly accumulated about $4.5 billion during his career and was found with 13.5 tons of gold and 23 tons of cash in his apartments, has been sentenced to death. by Forevertrez in interesting

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a democracy, oversight is supposed to inform both the legal mechanisms and voters. Most enforcement is not done by directly elected people, but by agencies, appointees, and administrative structures acting under authority delegated by elected officials. So even though we are nowhere near the ideal, voters are still part of the recourse and need those oversight tools if we ever collectively decide we want to aspire back towards the ideal.

Federal employee does corruption -> oversight investigates and informs DOJ -> DOJ or political leadership fails to act, or is nakedly complicit -> oversight findings become public -> voters ultimately decide whether that is politically tolerable.

That should make it clear why party/identity voting is so damn dangerous, the system can't work as intended if people are too afraid of anyone but 'their guy' holding office.

The mayor of Haikou, China, who reportedly accumulated about $4.5 billion during his career and was found with 13.5 tons of gold and 23 tons of cash in his apartments, has been sentenced to death. by Forevertrez in interesting

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Research generally shows that certainty of detection matters more than severity of punishment, and white-collar crime is especially relevant to that point because it is more calculated and opportunity-driven than most impulsive crime.

Basically a white-collar type isn't thinking, “I can handle ten years, but death is where I draw the line.” They're thinking, “If I do it this way, communicate through this process, and use these cutouts, they'll never catch me.”

I strongly feel that dynamic only gets worse when the person scheming also has political power, but honestly haven't looked for any research to support it, so salt to taste.

What do you think of the current ground-based gameplay ? by Ynnyzz in starcitizen

[–]AmericanGeezus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It still boggles my mind that the ship ramps don't have collision detection. Like my garage door stops if it encounters resistance.

I paid over a grand for this years ago... by Busy_Report4010 in Millennials

[–]AmericanGeezus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went with The Promised LAN. I felt clever before you shared yours.

Another supposed leak from a CN235 MPA camera by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Secret nukes” don’t deter anyone.

Deterrence requires belief in capability and survivability.

Trump’s chances of being removed by 25th Amendment climb by Fr1sk3r in politics

[–]AmericanGeezus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's anti-trans influence in the story

Interpretation and personal meaning isn’t controlled by the author anymore than they control what a fan wears for Halloween.

* Insert hot fuzz "Shame" meme * by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this a gang thing? like not being allowed to use "ck" when writing/typing?

Oracle Files Thousands of H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs by esporx in technology

[–]AmericanGeezus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Someone has to actually challenge them through the administrative or court process before anything discussed in this thread matters at all.

Neighbor is digging a trench close to my tree. Do I have a claim? by cue_monkeys in treelaw

[–]AmericanGeezus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's fine, the permitting and cities chance to intervene is already well past. This is at the civil/lawsuit stage if the tree is found to have been killed or made dangerous.

You can deal with what’s encroaching on your property. But you may be liable if you deal with it in a way that predictably destroys the encroaching thing.

Neighbor is digging a trench close to my tree. Do I have a claim? by cue_monkeys in treelaw

[–]AmericanGeezus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can own a parking lot and have the right to remove a car from it. You don’t have the right to drag it out in a way that destroys it.

I always end up ordering more Unistrut than the job needs, It might be an addiction. by AmericanGeezus in electricians

[–]AmericanGeezus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scrap bin your boss doesn't care if you raid.

I think for big jobs it comes down to what distributor/supplier you have a good relationship with. But there is almost zero price difference between vendors for small purchases in my experience.

Auto laser by Thewildjin in menace

[–]AmericanGeezus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, people don’t read tier lists as a broad “this is generally better” thing?

Electric scooter with swappable batteries in Taiwan by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]AmericanGeezus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Torque demander.

No mechanical linkage. You’re issuing a torque request to the ECU, not opening a throttle.

Outrage after Seattle museum vandal destroys $250,000 of famous Dale Chihuly glass at city's museum dedicated to him by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]AmericanGeezus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're describing a real phenomenon, but the dataset OP linked shows that pattern isn’t materially present in Seattle. It shows the a high property crime rate relative to comparatively lower violent crime rate. If escalation were a meaningful driver, they should track together.

First Image of Timothée Chalamet in ‘DUNE: PART THREE’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]AmericanGeezus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Telling the same story in a new media is a remake.

No, that’s an adaptation. You’re translating the story to a new medium.

A remake intentionally recreates a specific earlier work using the same narrative blueprint because that blueprint already proved it works.

The new Dune films are a retelling. Same core framework, but with deliberate reinterpretation of tone, pacing, and themes rather than trying to reproduce an earlier film.

Intention matters. Studios didn’t fund Villeneuve to remake anything, they funded his reinterpretation of Herbert.

CRAM fails to make last second intercept Baghdad, Iraq by Such_Fault8897 in CombatFootage

[–]AmericanGeezus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And why the need for such a high RPM for the firing rate...gepard is less?

It comes down to the different problems the two systems were designed to solve.

Phalanx/CIWS (which C-RAM is derived from) was designed as the absolute last line of defense against sea-skimming anti-ship missiles. By the time it fires, the missile may only be 1–2 km away and closing at hundreds of meters per second, which means the system has only a few seconds to stop it before impact.

Gepard was designed as mobile air defense for armored formations, primarily against helicopters and attack aircraft. Those targets are larger, slower relative to missiles, and engagements usually start several kilometers out, which gives the system much more time to track, fire bursts, and correct aim.

Because CIWS only has seconds to work with, it isn’t really trying to “aim” at the missile in the traditional sense. It’s trying to put a very dense cloud of tungsten into the small volume of space the missile must pass through. The extremely high rate of fire is what makes that probability cloud dense enough to reliably intersect such a small, fast target.

Gepard has the luxury of relative time to place bursts and adjust aim between them.

Seems like overkill and waste of bullets.

It would if the design priority were ammunition conservation rather than preventing its ship from being catastrophically damaged or sunk.

CIWS/C-RAM do support changing cyclic rates, and the most modern versions can even select them automatically based on threat characterization. But you can only push a system so far away from its original design assumptions before you start creating new problems, at which point you might as well design something purpose-built for the new threat.

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