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I don't disagree with that which is why I'm currently in the "this is red-scare" camp. If Washington (more specifically, the NSA and friends) hadn't been buying our data to peruse via the lax privacy laws we currently have, maybe they'd have a leg to stand on with any of this...

...then they aught to ban every app with user generated content. YouTube might be the biggest propaganda vector we have right now, and the powers that be would not be able to tell which nation is pumping out anti-us videos due to it being so easy to lie about stuff like that.

That's quite a bad response if that's really the reason. If they're worried about propaganda, the best defense against it is education on what is propaganda, and how to spot it, not banning a single vector of it when so many others exist already.

This only supports my theory that this is red-scare nonsense (though please let me know if I misunderstood, I really do want to understand)

Hmm can someone tell me if I'm just in a "republicans are hysteric about it so it must not be that bad" mindset?

It's obviously spyware to some degree, but this really seems more like a case of red-scare. I can't put my finger on exactly why, though. Makes me think I might just be reacting to their reaction.

I guess, what exactly are they afraid that China is going to do with this data? It's a missing puzzle piece that I've heard nothing coherent on besides "China gonna spy on muh datas". Like, sure, maybe if you're a government official, and I don't think bans of tiktok on government devices are stupid, but I think the nationwide ban idea is pretty dumb and baseless. So I guess my actual question is, what are they afraid of happening, exactly?

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Per tradition, if we're at war, Washington, if we're at peace, illuminati.

If for some CIA induced reason it's impossible to tell, fold both sides in until they touch and then you'll have it.

I think you've managed to define an oxymoron of a society.

Society does not exist without consequences. That's what laws/rules/agreements are necessitated on. As in, a society with no consequences is not a society. I'd go so far to say that society is a system of consequences.

Even in a "lawless societies" hierarchies form, and then agreements turn to rules turn to defacto law.

This is like saying "I can never truly be free because gravity binds me to the ground". Like, ok, sure, but you had to define freedom in a non-standard way to get to that conclusion (I'm trying make this make sense, is it landing well?)

Fractions are for inches. any red blooded American would know that a Boeing 747 is about 8 washing machines and a half dollar bill long.

They shot the guy far away from the school, after they identified the car... They did nothing to mitigate the school situation, that was 100% the school worker who did the mitigating by somehow not letting this person in. The mitigation happening in this story does happen, but the cops aren't the ones doing it, and then taking credit for it is weird, is what I'm trying to get at.

Though let me go read it again, it sounds like you and I almost read different articles...

Yeah, no, the cops weren't at the school until well after shots were fired.

In a letter to families, obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ on Monday, the Margolin Hebrew Academy said the suspect tried to enter their school, had a “brief confrontation” with a contract worker and fired two shots from the gun he was carrying, “while retreating from this worker.”

A short time later, Memphis police officers found a vehicle matching the description and stopped the driver. The suspect got out of the truck with a gun in his hand and was shot by an officer, Crowe said.

It's no Uvalde for sure but this is... Just weird behavior on the cop's part, I don't understand it tbh. It's splitting hairs but I still don't like them patting themselves on the back using those words because that's not what happened...

But like my opinion on how mitigation the word should be used, ultimately, this doesn't matter. Good job to the cops, thank goodness the kids are safe, and hopefully one day I'll figure out how to be more chill about shit that doesn't really matter lol

She's beauty, she's grace, she'll steal your surfboard from under your face

I've found the closest thing to a panacea for this is a mixture of willingness to fail and self forgiveness for falling off the horse. Everyday is a new opportunity to get back on it. And if you're not feeling it today, it's generally ok to just wait until tomorrow (this works for me because I have to be very gentle to myself sometimes, idk if this part will work for everyone. You kind of have to [or at least, I have to] address all the other potential issues, like anxiety or depression, before the motivation to do stuff follows).

Idk why I'm posting this on a shitpost, but if it helps even one person, seems like it's worth posting.

That's fair, but then in this context, how does mitigating apply?

Is it because they made it less severe somehow? Or this is just from a pure risk assessment standpoint? As in, they mitigated a potential threat to the public?

Ok, yeah I think that last one makes sense if that's what you're meaning. (I think my issue may be pedantic af but this is what it looks like when I'm intentionally trying to not be a definition stickler lol)

"Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said, “I am proud of the vigilant and quick response of MPD officers who mitigated a potential mass shooting situation today.”"

I feel like the cops are giving themselves too much credit here. Mitigating the potential mass shooting event to me means preventing the shooter from shooting at the school... I mean good on them for catching him quickly though, that is good work and I try to give credit where it's due despite generally not appreciating cops, but mitigating the attack is not what they did there...

At least by my layman definitions. Does mitigate mean something else in cop talk?

I guess they could be saying there was potential of him going somewhere else and doing a mass shooting there, so maybe that's what they mean?

I was about to argue the term mediocre to describe the ice cream, but then I realized, the flavor that I loved was the fact that it either meant school was almost out or it was currently summertime more than anything else

the best flavor is always nostalgia of good times

Tbh still not the worst I've seen

Huh this is the first thing I've read that puts it into a sort of understandable perspective (eternally recovering from my conservative raised childhood, maybe sane people explain it better in general)

Coding is not a panacea.

What makes "learn to code" a reasonable suggestion, especially given this context?

Unless this is just for identifying social norms violations in written communication for the purpose of government to government communication, this seems vastly.... Infeasible, I guess. Because norms change over time, and you're going to have to be updating this model when it's finally noticed that a change has occurred. If anything, it might generate a completely new form of grammar/phrasing expectations due to the feedback from this likely-to-not-change-very-much ruleset... As in, if you thought politically correct phrasing was annoying now, just wait until the ai says you're not doing it well enough.

Idk though, this isn't my specialty area, anyone care to tell me how I'm wrong? What good can this really do?

(I swear I did read the article, it just isn't clicking over the sound of my loud pessimism)

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