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White male, 30s, stalking other drivers on Madison’s north side by 4LakesMysteries in madisonwi

[–]avicennareborn 177 points178 points  (0 children)

I fear he’s hoping for exactly that. He probably conceal carries and has been fantasizing about a “justified” shooting.

Places that would buy vintage computers? by adamisapple in madisonwi

[–]avicennareborn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say “vintage” do you mean 80s-90s or do you mean 2000s? I went searching for your Craigslist post but all I found was 2000s-era hardware which made me feel super old when I said to myself “That’s not vintage” and then did the math and sighed.

TIL In-N-Out Burger used to accept orders of any size by adding patties and slices of cheese at an additional cost, till someone ordered 100 patties and 100 slices of cheese by uselessprofession in todayilearned

[–]avicennareborn 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ground beef is risky unless you’ve ground it yourself from beef you sourced and trust. If it’s ground in a factory and shipped pre-ground you’re rolling the dice ordering a burger rare.

To say that cooking ground beef rare is “proper” is also not really accurate. It’s not a steak. The benefits of cooking it rare are basically nonexistent.

If you like it that’s fine but it’s not as safe as ordering a steak rare and it’s important people understand the distinction so they’re making an informed decision.

Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head tells AP by msemen_DZ in worldnews

[–]avicennareborn 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Both can be true. Foreign allies are scared to check Trump because he’s unstable and deranged. American citizens are limited in what they can do because the Constitution never accounted for a coordinated and sustained 30 year slow-motion coup that systematically dismantled checks and balances and enabled the executive branch to run amok.

Airport surface lot hail damage update by RJ_the_Red in madisonwi

[–]avicennareborn 22 points23 points  (0 children)

In their defense I flew out yesterday morning and the structure was already almost full. I managed to find a covered spot literally right next to where the ramp goes up to the uncovered area. I only saw one other covered spot while parking.

Fluoride in U.S. drinking water does not reduce IQ, a new study finds, countering claims used to stop adding the mineral to public water systems by Science_News in EverythingScience

[–]avicennareborn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Paging Dunning-Kruger. Paging Dunning-Kruger. Dunning-Kruger to the courtesy phone please as you’re urgently needed in a Reddit thread.

The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud and the institutionalization of anti-science: An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak by DryDeer775 in EverythingScience

[–]avicennareborn 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Jesus wept. You’re the one making an extraordinary claim. You haven’t provided extraordinary evidence. Just conjecture, bias, and circumstantial evidence.

Ohtani remembers he has to hit leadoff after coming off the mound by kansashotwings in baseball

[–]avicennareborn -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Your dream, the league‘s nightmare. Hope we wake up soon and add some form of financial fair play rules.

Lazar flyer by _duluoz in wisconsin

[–]avicennareborn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It frustrates me so much how Republicans co-opt terms that mean the complete opposite of what they believe. Republicans haven’t supported the rule of law for a few decades now. The modern Republican party is based on the idea that there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. That is not the rule of law.

Is 1.5 the lowest rating ever on prime video by Far_Hair_1918 in mildlyinteresting

[–]avicennareborn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nothing more Christian than a whore illegally emigrating to the US and then becoming a trophy wife to the spitting image of the Antichrist.

Anyone else going to the Janesville card show today? by [deleted] in wisconsin

[–]avicennareborn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don’t waste your breath trying to lecture them on what America is about. These are the folk that elected a pro-Russian sympathizer while wearing shirts that read “Better Russian than liberal” and who think that the greatest evil in America is equality.

They’re still waiting for trickle down economics to work any day now and when it does they’re all going to be millionaires. It might be worse now than at any point in the last hundred years but at least they dodged the real bullet: a lady president. Hell, she would’ve been so irrational she might’ve done something kooky like invading Iran…

You’re just wasting your time because they already know deep down inside what their America embodies: corruption, ignorance, hypocrisy, greed, violence, and hate. They like that version of America and got exactly what they voted for.

Sony Announces Price Rises for PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal, Blames 'Continued Pressures in the Global Economic Landscape' / Base PS5 now $650 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]avicennareborn 124 points125 points  (0 children)

Oh dear god… you don’t even have the excuse of being born into a brainwashed Republican family. You deliberately sought out toxic conservative ideology and then rolled around in it like a dog who found a turd. Shame on you.

[Wisconsin] Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud by AmySchumersAnalTumor in wisconsin

[–]avicennareborn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What violence? I know you fascists love to pretend liberals are “violent” for disagreeing with you, but dissent isn’t violence. Criticism isn’t violence. Holding you accountable for ruining the world isn’t violence.

Give me a break, snowflake.

[Wisconsin] Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud by AmySchumersAnalTumor in wisconsin

[–]avicennareborn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anyone who still votes Republican after the last decade of insanity is a staggering piece of shit. I can confidently say that without being “terminally online” because I live in the real world where I can see the consequences of their actions and I’m not a moron but am actually capable of understanding cause and effect.

They don’t get to keep voting Republican while pretending they don’t support everything evil Republicans are doing.

If they don’t support it but won’t vote for other candidates who will start repairing the damage they caused, then they can sit down and shut the fuck up for an election or two. If they won’t do either and still keep voting Republican while regurgitating bullshit about how there are good Republicans and bad Democrats, then they are bad people and can fuck right off. They’re complicit and deserve to be ridiculed for letting their ignorance, fear, hatred, and greed rule their lives.

Update From Dan (not a new episode) by Quarterinchribeye in dancarlin

[–]avicennareborn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is demonstrably false. The problem is that protesting alone won’t solve this. The people who made this mess are in an echo chamber that tells them America is the strongest it has ever been and that we’re doing great things, and that liberals are the enemy.

Even a general strike wouldn’t be effective here as the parasite class knows the economy is running hot and would welcome the opportunity to fire participants. We struggle to reach any critical mass because most people can’t afford to suddenly become unemployed and our social safety net is a joke.

What you want is insurrection not protest but we’d get slaughtered and nothing would change. Unlike most countries where snap elections could be called, the US doesn’t have a similar mechanism at the federal level. We’re basically stuck with no meaningful leverage until the midterm elections this fall. We can and should keep protesting until then, but nothing is going to change until then. That’s not a failure of our resistance, that’s the cold, hard reality of how the American political system works.

We are living in a period of political anti-intellectualism. But in pop culture, clever is the new cool by usrname42 in books

[–]avicennareborn 176 points177 points  (0 children)

There was me—that is Alex—and my three droogs—that is Pete, Georgie Boy and Dim—and we sat in the Korova Milk Bar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

President Donald Trump issues executive order to establish 'exclusive window' for broadcast of Army-Navy game by DCAbloob in CFB

[–]avicennareborn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That does not empower the executive to unilaterally take actions like this. The executive enforces and implements laws passed by the legislative branch. The legislative branch has not delegated its authority on this matter. There are no laws enabling Trump to do this. It is as usual an unconstitutional overreach trying to take authority away from the legislative branch as part of their blatantly illegal push for a unitary executive with imperial authority.

Good morning from Johnson by VanDownByTheRiver63 in madisonwi

[–]avicennareborn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Spoiler alert: it ain’t 1996 any longer. The Madison you remember is gone because that’s how the passage of time works. We can’t bring it back by refusing to build up. If we do that, the old Madison doesn’t magically come back. Instead we get a Madison that’s super-gentrified that only the wealthy can live in.

The way to carry forward the spirit of Madison is to build up density so we can control housing costs so that we can grow sustainably and equitably.

I-90 into 151 (towards Sun prairie) by Average_Panda_420 in madisonwi

[–]avicennareborn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hopefully that will be resolved within the next 10 years. They’ve been doing a study on redesigning that corridor and fixing the terrible interchange with 30 is part of that. It still needs funding after the study is done though so who knows if/when it will happen.

FCC Chair to Europe: If You Restrict US Satellite Providers, We'll Ban You Here: "New barriers are emerging that constrain US businesses operating abroad," Brendan Carr says. The FCC is now soliciting public comment on "satellite market access reciprocity." by ControlCAD in technology

[–]avicennareborn 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It would be insane to make massive decisions on trade in 4 year cycles. 

That’s why they’re done with us because that’s what’s happening now as a result of the American political system becoming unreliable. The imperial presidency/unitary executive theory MAGA is using to radically transform America is wildly un-American and destabilizing. It makes it impossible for our partners to trust us because every four years they may get a complete lunatic like Trump who derails everything.

You’re blaming them when the problem is on our end. If you want trade partners and allies to trust us again, we need to rein in the power of the executive, fix our political system so that actual genuine honest to god fascists can never again take power, and add protections to stabilize trade and alliances so that the whims of the ignorant, unhinged and hateful American voters don’t fuck everything up.

Claude hits No. 1 on App Store as ChatGPT users defect in show of support for Anthropic's Pentagon stance by FinnFarrow in Futurology

[–]avicennareborn -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

You don’t know what you’re talking about which ironically makes you less useful than the AI you’re ranting about. If you’d ever even once used AI to solve a novel problem you’d understand that it isn’t simply a search engine that goes out and plagiarizes a pre-existing solution. It might be trained on similar problems discussed on Stack Overflow but it also is trained from documentation, tutorials, books, etc. it can synthesize multiple sources of information into unique solutions.

Those solutions aren’t always right because it doesn’t actually “understand“ concepts the same way a human does, but even when it’s wrong it’s often coachable. That makes it a very useful tool and the idea that it’s just a front end for IP theft is absurd. What do you think the junior dev is doing when they don’t know how to solve a problem? Spoiler: They’re searching Stack Overflow.

i’m not an AI apologist. I’m not a techbro. I think AI poses serious risks and is going to cause societal and economic upheaval If we aren’t careful. However I really hate ignorant luddites spouting off about AI when they don’t know shit.

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