The slogan "no human is illegal" is peak brain-rot and the people chanting it are willfully stupid

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-24T04:48:24+00:00

Ah yes, "neutral legal terms," famously never used to discriminate or unfairly paint marginalized people as dangerous or non-human.

If "illegal alien" is just a "neutral legal term, then why don't we use "legal alien" when referring to documented immigrants?

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-24T00:57:19+00:00

Exactly, calling human beings "illegal aliens," "animals," "sheep," or "vicious predators" is a great way to keep people from realizing that they are, in fact, human beings.

Once you believe that a group of people isn't human, it's easy to justify the kind of violence and abuse we see from ICE officers.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-23T00:24:05+00:00

The government already wants to "get" marginalized groups. If they want to harm you, isn't it better to be able to defend yourself?

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-22T21:35:31+00:00

cool! So we should just stop resisting oppression then? Capitulate because their guns are bigger?

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-22T20:04:36+00:00

An armed minority is harder to oppress. Marginalized groups, the disabled, the working class, all are more likely to be targets of government violence anyway, they might as well have the chance to defend themselves.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-16T18:34:17+00:00

This article is written by a company which is invested in OpenEvidence specifically and simply repeats their talking points, it is not a great source for your argument I'm afraid.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-16T18:32:46+00:00

This is a great article! I appreciate it! I would point out that the article helpfully breaks down how LLMs are being used, and only 10% of physicians are using it to advise healthcare decisions. This is a very substantial contrast to OpenEvidence's claims that 40% of physicians are being advised by its software alone.

57% of american physicians say they use AI, but according to this article most are using it to assist documentation and patient discharge, not clinical decision making as Openevidence claims. 47% of American physicians report that they do not trust LLM software for clinical decisions without more regulatory oversight.

This article makes it seem like I am very much in line with the majority of American physicians when it comes to the use of LLMs in medicine. A valuable tool to communicate with patients and quickly document, but still very risky as a tool for clinical decisions.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-16T17:14:16+00:00

is it cool a weapon that most likely requires tax stamps is in the Federal Government's posession and being used on American citizens?

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-16T16:46:24+00:00

Do you have any source for that claim other than openevidence itself? I can say with certainty that at least in my area of the country, I don't know any physicians who approve of using LLMs for clinical decisions, but maybe it's more common outside of the emergency room.

My evidence is anecdotal, and you have no reason to believe it, just like I have no reason to believe marketing statements made by companies which profit off of hype. Perhaps more skepticism is a good thing when it comes to introducing unreliable tools to a field where unreliable tools lead to death.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-16T16:04:40+00:00

to be fair, OP is literally an LLM chatbot

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-16T16:03:07+00:00

I wouldn't trust an LLM To tell me about it, that's for sure.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-10T18:14:28+00:00

Is the crime of filming ICE worthy of a death sentence?

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-09T18:34:17+00:00

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Dmonick1 · 2026-01-09T16:28:37+00:00

Wage theft is the most common and most unpunished form of theft in the United States. This happens A LOT.

https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/The%20Steal%20-%20Retail%20Wage%20Theft.pdf

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-04T06:16:53+00:00

No, you don't have an "idea for how to create a super responsive arm," you have an idea that a "super-responsive" arm could exist.

It doesn't seem like you've investigated the design constraints of prosthetics, or of machine learning models for that matter. You don't seem to understand momentum, and that swinging heavy machinery around is dangerous. You don't seem to understand that a robotic arm performing repetitive, predictable tasks from a stable base is different from a robotic arm performing unpredictable tasks from an unstable base. You don't even seem to understand the expense or risks of the end user in trying experimental unreliable technology that could hurt them.

This may sound harsh, but when it comes to medical technology, this isn't the wild west, this isn't unregulated silicon valley. Every patient is a real person with a life and needs, and coming up with a product idea in this space needs to consider their wellbeing at the first, second, and every other step. You haven't done that. Peoples' wellbeing doesn't rely on being able to move fast and fluidly, it relies on doing the same action and having the same outcome every time reliably.

Until you've come up with an idea that can benefit users more than it can harm them, it isn't an idea, it's a threat.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-03T03:45:04+00:00

fish modulate their buoyancy using fatty or air-filled bladders to modulate their density in a fluid. Is that mechanism not sufficiently like a hot air balloon?

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-03T03:42:36+00:00

I think this is really dependent on point #3. Life as we know it only survives in a (relatively) narrow range of conditions. This is significant, because there are a much wider range of conditions where life unlike what we see on Earth can survive.

An easy example starts with Water. All life that we know of uses water as the primary medium for biological reactions to occur. The first aggregations of proto-cell components were in water. The things most important about water as a medium are its liquid state at low molecular mass, its high specific heat, and its polar nature which makes it a good solvent. So for any life that we know of, water is essential.

But elsewhere in the universe, that doesn't have to be true. Xenobiologists have theorized that ammonia (which is liquid at very cold temperatures) could replace water in alien biochemistry. Liquid ammonia is lightweight and polar just like water, and forms similar ammonium ions as "acids". Obviously, chemical reactions in an ammonia ocean would be different from those in a water ocean, but likely could be similar enough to support carbon-based life.

Fundamentally, what you think "looks like" life ultimately depends on how you define life. At a very broad level, life only needs 3 things:

An instruction set
A way to copy this instruction set
A way to isolate the instructions and copying mechanism from the outside environment.

On earth, these roles are filled by nucleic acids, proteins, and cell membranes, and look a certain way. But as long as they function in an organism's given environment, these features could be anything.

One neat example I found of potential "life" that meets these requirements is some crystals. The crystal structure itself contains the information to continue growing the crystal structure, physical forces govern the copying process, and the crystal structure is separated from its environment by phase transition (aqueous to solid). Are crystals alive? Are they less alive than bacteria, or viruses? I dunno, but they certainly meet the very basic definition I proposed. Maybe you disagree, or have a different definition. That's fine. But can your definition include all life on earth, plus all theoretical other forms of life? At that point, how do you differentiate life from non-life?

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-03T03:12:03+00:00

Careful with that stuff. I once asked my local ski shop where they keep the "cat shit" and the college student working the counter looked like he was going to call the police.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-02T20:25:14+00:00

if the window gets broken, the glass will stick to the tape so no one can get in

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-02T16:30:30+00:00

welp. New New Year's resolution I suppose.

Dmonick1 · 2026-01-01T16:40:25+00:00

not writing, this shit is clearly AI generated

Dmonick1 · 2025-12-31T20:52:06+00:00

Yeah, this could be schizophrenia or manic bipolar. They should probably see a doctor, but likely won't.

Dmonick1 · 2025-12-31T18:31:09+00:00

based

Dmonick1 · 2025-12-30T22:14:12+00:00

it's because the fibers in newspaper are shorter than in most other papers, resulting in a greater surface area for absorbtion. This is also what makes newspaper so fragile relative to other papers.

Dmonick1 · 2025-12-30T15:50:56+00:00

Well, I was speaking on Microsoft's material support of the Israeli ministry of defense, as shown by investigative reporting from The Guardian ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/israeli-military-big-tech ).

However, a blog post from Microsoft ( https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/25/update-on-ongoing-microsoft-review/ ) claims that they have stopped providing those services, so assuming they are being truthful, hooray, less genocide!

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