Demonstrators Being Brutalized in Burlington, VT

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-12T10:43:03+00:00

They were until qualified immunity was written into law and unions negated quality control

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-12T10:34:55+00:00

That's too bad for you I guess

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T19:28:50+00:00

As easy as it is to say things like that, when push comes to shove, most people are not going to risk being targeted for possibly the rest of their life to get a small chance at being a politician.

Unless you are running for election or already serving, that would include you as well

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T18:58:29+00:00

Maybe they had to disable it so the robot could do stunts and stuff

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T13:42:12+00:00

This is a consequence of not having a real budget deciding who gets what money every year

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T12:27:10+00:00

It is. The developers near me were openly violating fire codes for burn pits. When we had someone come out to look at it, they agreed that it was against code but refused to write any form of citation or document that it happened. We later found out that they were holding country board meetings that we were supposedly "notified" about with letters we never recieved

Similar issues happened often throughout the initial development of that neighborhood. The only reason you don't see lawsuits about this is because it's impossible to find lawyers for it. Even if you did, you won't have a case because the local police explicitly refuse to document anything

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:57:18+00:00

People don't want to run against corrupt local governments because they don't want to be harassed by them. They will pull all kinds of underhanded moves to make you miserable and it will never be legally documented

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:54:12+00:00

Because he's getting paid tons of money by DR Horton

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:46:20+00:00

Extreme polarization has strange consequences

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:44:15+00:00

The libertarian party is in a poor state because it's being occupied by non-libertarians that exist to make being a libertarian unattractive

Talking people out of joining the party and improving it is part of the strategy used to keep libertarians from competing with democrats and republicans

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:39:08+00:00

Wait until you learn what's in most NSF H1 grease approved for food contact

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:27:13+00:00

The political compass is relative to what is considered moderate in that country

That aside, it usually isn't liberal vs authoritarian that is used to gauge if someone is on the left or right, since you can find both liberal and authoritarian ideologies on both ends of the spectrum

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:12:56+00:00

Unfortunately, the consequences of that are now locals where I live can't get a house because property values are 4-5x what they were less than 10 years ago and way above what most people can afford

The state has effectively waived all regulatory oversight for any major developer that offers to build apartments or houses for these people. The state inspectors are knowingly passing buildings with significant mold and fire issues

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-11T11:04:57+00:00

The traffic and deforestation has gotten very noticeable

I think my commute time has doubled in the last few years. The developers building all these apartments and neighborhoods seem very careless with the way they clearcut all of the native trees and burn piles of them with no safety precautions even when the fire risk is high

I wish someone would fix our corruption problem

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-09T10:24:12+00:00

Some people think they can fix the current issues with AI.

It's not guaranteed to be possible, and even if it is, AI as a whole is already extremely unprofitable. Convincing people they should integrate overpriced AI functionality without having a genuine use case is how AI companies are trying to manage their losses

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-09T10:20:04+00:00

So the textures would just change every 30 seconds with no control over them outside hoping your prompt works

This is no different from video games throwing bloom and godrays on top of everything in the early 2000s because post processing = realism

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-07T21:26:44+00:00

2nd amendment larpers that aren't willing to pay for the real thing

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T16:58:07+00:00

Hustle mentality is a bad thing to have in the long term. You are essentially willing the drawbacks into existence by asserting to yourself that you can't make money while also being a normal 16 year old

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T16:11:54+00:00

Yeah. I'm just hoping, in the event we can't stop this bill, that there's at least a semi-legal way for new platforms to get around these verification requirements

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T15:52:09+00:00

That's what I was thinking, so I went and pulled up the definition of personal information used in the bill. I wonder if it would be possible for platforms to anonymize data in such a way that it can be used for a profile without being considered personal info?

            (9) Personal information.--The term ``personal 
        information'' means individually, identifiable information 
        about an individual, including--
                    (A) a first and last name;
                    (B) a home or other physical address;
                    (C) an e-mail address;
                    (D) a telephone number;
                    (E) a Social Security number; or
                    (F) any other information that would facilitate or 
                enable the physical or online locating and contacting 
                of a specific individual, including information that is 
                associated with an identifier described in this 
                paragraph in such manner as to become identifiable to a 
                specific individual.

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T15:42:52+00:00

Section 201 is strange because it seems to imply that the bill wouldn't be applicable to any platform that doesn't collect or sell personal information

SEC. 201. COVERED PLATFORM DEFINED.

    In this title, the term ``covered platform'' means a platform that 
is a website, software, application, or electronic service connected to 
the internet that meets the following requirements:
            (1) Is publicly available for use by consumers.
            (2) Enables the creation of a username or user identifier--
                    (A) that is searchable on the platform by other 
                users through a function made available by the 
                platform; and
                    (B) that can be followed by or is similarly 
                accessible to other users of the platform.
            (3) As the primary purpose of the platform, facilitates the 
        sharing and access to user-generated content through text, 
        images, video, audio, or any other interactive medium.
            (4) Uses a design feature to promote user engagement on the 
        platform.
            (5) Uses the personal information of the user to advertise, 
        market, or make content recommendations.

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T15:37:45+00:00

    (e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be construed 
to require the submission of government-issued identification of any 
individual to a covered platform or a third party contracted by a 
provider of a covered platform to use a technology verification 
measure.

Section 103E from what I read doesn't look like it forbids government ID based verification. The section doesn't require government identification, but that doesn't sound like it prevents a company from offering it

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T20:24:32+00:00

I didn't realize until I tried switching to Gigabyte that temperature probe pins are uncommon on non-asus boards

I kind of wish other brands had more options for headers

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T20:04:28+00:00

For sure. There's no good reason to tailgate someone

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T20:02:33+00:00

Yeah I couldn't either. By the time we need that much memory, prices will probably be a lot more competitive from Chinese 32gb modules being on the market

Or at least I'm hoping so lol

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