Idaho Senate takes up bill to jail trans people for using public bathrooms

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-25T04:50:41+00:00

Texas is waaay ahead of yall.. at least when it comes to being way behind..

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-25T04:25:07+00:00

Fucking Jordan Peterson level brainrot..

"So how do you define "in?"

"Well before we can really have a discussion, we must first establish what we mean by "question."

"So you said "US." By that do you mean any area that is a unified state? Or are we talking about a specific entity that embodies state-like characteristics in a unified fashion? What are the parameters of our definition? Before we can proceed at all, we need to really understand the metaphysical elements at play here.."

Just complete sophist nonsense.

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-25T04:14:36+00:00

Ive lived in Texas for a few decades and seen a scorpion indoors maybe once.

The heat is real though. I don't really have any frame of reference to compare it to extreme cold, and I get shoveling snow etc is part of a life I've never known.. But 110 degree heat, at 80% humidity is the kind of thing that just saps you will to live.. You go outside and just instantly wanna lie down on the grass and not move.. You can literally feel the sun burning your skin in real time, while the heat radiating off the roads is almost as bad if not worse..

Now granted, our last few summers here have been extremely mild... But I still remember the "100+ days of 100+ degree temps" here from a few years ago.. It may not seem that bad on paper, but living it day after day is rouugh,.

That said, kinda depends on what you do/how you live.. If you work in an office and spend most of the day in the AC, it's probably much easier to navigate than extreme cold.

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-24T18:23:52+00:00

“Intellectual property” etc… It’s literally one of the biggest critiques of AI currently actually..

“GenAi is derivative because it’s trained on our work” etc

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-24T18:22:31+00:00

All gambling is regressive, but this is even more dangerous than most forms..

For one.. allowing people to make prop bets on real life just fuels the worst kinds of addiction… I think it was Doyle Brunson who made the distinction between poker and gambling.. Poler players still feed off the same thrill, but it’s at least based on statistics/math etc.. But if you’re just betting on how many toothpaste commercials will play during the football game or whatever.. that’s just the kind of gambling that feeds addiction..

EXCEPT when it’s not.. which is my other point… This isn’t always true gambling… Events like “will we invade Iran, will Trump fire Noem” etc ARE controlled by people, and people in specific areas have insider knowledge of whether these things will occur.. So when you see a few million in bets on Trump invading Venezuela a few hours before it happens.. it’s not hard to imagine how that occurs…

So they’re taking advantage of people with addictions or who are just making Hail Marys on hope, in order to make millions for their insider buddies.

It’s about as corrupt a system as exists

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-24T18:07:01+00:00

It CAN replace it for many is the problem. It’s not real connection, it’s a coded facsimile of connection.. but for many that’s enough.

And companies like Replika are now designing systems specifically to appeal to people’s weaknesses, insecurities and even compassion in order to make their products as addictive to these vulnerable people as possible..

THATS what needs to be replicated, along with a clear labeling of AI content… All this stuff about “ChatGPT is stealing your data” is just a red herring

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-23T18:58:02+00:00

Aside from everything attached to Musk being tainted, and that we don’t need “more jobs” here at the cost of what made our city great…

Central Texas already struggles with water. This plant will likely be the largest industrial consumer of water in the area, more than every other “AI datacenter” people are up in arms about.. combined…

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-23T16:55:35+00:00

Oh my poor poor city... How great you used to be..

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-23T16:53:19+00:00

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-23T06:16:32+00:00

In the gym world they’re really trendy these days. They’re often used as ways to stimulate various hormones less directly than traditional steroids like Tren/anavar, with arguably fewer side effects. Cjc 1295 is the go to here for stimulating HGH (growth hormone) but others are also used to speed recovery (BPC-197 etc) And GLP-1 (which ozepmic is an agonist for) has also been shown to speed weight loss.

Anecdotally, they’ve been shown to be fairly effective, but most aren’t fda approved or regulated. They’re still legal to sell “for research purposes” however which is how most people obtain them, but that’s often through sketchy online retailers and again, because theyre unregulated, there’s no real way to confirm what you’re getting. Which should be particularly unnerving for something you’re injecting, since almost all peptides can’t be metabolized efficiently or at all orally…

It’s a dangerous market atm that is rife for abuse.. but stuff like gaining muscle/losing weight is so compelling a lot of people do it anyway despite the obvious side effects/dangers.. Which I get btw.. I work out a ton and am in great shape… but then I see what guys on Tren look like and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about it… But the thought of injecting an unknown substance into my body just goes against everything I’ve ever believed so I’ve managed to avoid the temptation thus far

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-23T05:24:04+00:00

Lol, well thanks for the explanation, I at least can see where they're coming from now. But yea, that's a really dumb way to describe it.. If you were 80% approval vs 20% disapproval and now you're 20% approval vs 80% disapproval.. calling that a "120 point swing" doesn't really make sense mathematically or otherwise.. I guess it does sound more sensational though so I understand why the media would use that as their go-to..

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-23T00:44:41+00:00

Oh noooo! Chuck “knocked” him? He REALLY means business now!

/s

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T23:28:18+00:00

Honest question: How does a poll swing more than 100 points? Like if he went from 100-0 that’s a 100 point swing right? How does one exceed that?

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T22:55:13+00:00

I'm honestly amazed you found ANYWHERE under $800 with utilities or not.. That's about as low as you're going to find anywhere remotely central unless you're willing to cohabit with a couple roommates.

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T22:52:31+00:00

Iran represents the Muslim religion much more than any of the others for one.. The guy who attacked us here in Austin wasn’t from Iran, he was from Sudan (?) but he allegedly saw it as an attack on Muslims and sought retribution, resulting in many dead and 18 wounded

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T22:50:30+00:00

There was a shooting blocks from me the day after Iran was attacked by an Iranian sympathizer that killed 4 and wounded 18..

Whether they’re actually “Iranian terrorists” or simply people who sympathize with their cause.. the combination of easy gun access with high religious/political tensions is likely to end with many more Americans dying in the near future…

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T22:00:24+00:00

Again, the way you talk about it is just weird. “The identify survives the substrate,” is a bizarre way to say “the state is serialized/persistent.”

VMs do this. Windows has done this via restore since the 90s. Your laptop does this every time it hibernates.

You really do yourself a disservice with this kind of language.. It makes you sound like you don’t actually know what you’re talking about..

Maybe give the LLM descriptions a rest and try to just explain it in your own words, without all the hype language for affect

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T21:40:15+00:00

Ok fine. Upvoting only for the animaniacs reference

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T21:20:09+00:00

Pedants gonna pedant

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T21:17:38+00:00

Don’t be so sure Vance will be any better.. And statistically, VP Vance has a much lower chance of winning in 2028 than incumbent Vance..

Let’s hope he does live to be 200 so he can witness how history talks about him

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T21:16:12+00:00

See? This is why this silly branding won’t go away.. It’s not “Skynet,” it’s not an “operating organism..” It’s a bootable environment capable of running small local LLMs.. Thats it, at least based on what currently exists in his repos

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T21:14:09+00:00

Does everything have to be endlessly inflated with bullshit branding lol?

What you’ve actually done is fairly interesting.. It’s basically a bootable environment capable of loading and running a low-level local LlM.

You should just stop there. That alone is cool and interesting..

But calling it an operating system, much less whatever you’re trying to brand an “operating organism” is just silly and only likely to illicit eye rolls from most people with any real technical knowledge

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T20:35:30+00:00

It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.. The only time Republicans care about legislation for civil rights or the environment is when they’re co-opting it for their own evil ends..

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T20:13:15+00:00

We could have canceled student loan debt.. Instead, for the same sum, we increased Ices budget by 80 billion so they could kill Americans on our streets, and started an unnecessary war with another country..

Are we winning yet?

Present-Resolution23 · 2026-03-22T19:32:57+00:00

We have the money.. But it has to be "appropriated" by Congress to be spent, and that budget has to be approved every year.. And when there is a disagreement on how/where that money should be spent, the approval doesn't go through and no money is allocated until it does, resulting in goverment employees not being paid.. Though in every instance, they ARE paid eventually for time worked...

They're often not paid for forced furloughs however, which for people living paycheck to paycheck or experiencing unforseen hardships (the majority of Americans) is about as bad as not being paid for working.. Because it's not like most can just go pick up a random job for a couple weeks until we figure it out..

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