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  • He's the biggest baby in history. Someone else getting anything makes him angry, so he steals it. He's the ultimate child who blows out someone else's birthday candles.

    His cult worships a petulant child and it's all projection.

  • They may or may not be used here. You could use LLMs to parse the content of sites being visited by web clients on your network. Then, ask the LLM whether the content includes certain topics or is work related. Based on the results of that, you add/remove the site from a blacklist.

    Is this better than just string matching? I would say likely so, though more stochastic in the results. It would let the LLM provide summaries/context of the pages, and not by just confined to specific strings in a list. It might be better ramble to handle context and complexity of the desired outcomes.

    For example, there was a paleontology conference at a hotel once that was stuck behind a firewall blacklisting all sites with the string 'bone' in them. Completely ridiculous. The string 'bone' has different meanings based upon context, which simple string matching cannot provide, but an LLM might be better and identifying and acting accordingly.

  • America is owned and operated by rich people. They couldn't make money running passenger trains so once we were ordered to invest in car-only infrastructure the trains were mostly disbanded and shut down. There's a ghost of a system left with just a few corridors that could be considered bare minimum service in a developed nation.

    How many kilometers of high speed rail does the US have? Zero. We have some that gets close, but not really.

    My mid-sized city has two trains per day, one each direction, and they both leave between 1am and 2am. In Germany you would have 30+ trains per day in a city this size, likely a notable S-Bahn network, and also some trams and/or U-Bahns in the city to compliment busses. I've got busses in town, but they operated about every 30-45 minutes each, with evening service being every 60 minutes. Here's the fun part: our busses are the most used public transit system for a mid-sized city in the US right now and it's still pathetic when compared to even basic services in Europe.

    DB needs to keep getting investment. Germany must get to a dedicated passenger rail network to separate out the freight trains. DB should also be re-nationalized and operated as a national service, not a for profit system that will inevitably fail as a commercial venture, leading to yet more terrible service. Here's hoping the latest German Parliament follows through on investment money that they pushed through at the start of the year! Also, keep the Deutschland Karte! That's such a great resource for everyone.

  • She lost her green card as a youth for stealing something under $200. She then kept going to immigration court and was told "you're fine" by the authorities for 25 years.

    The US immigration system has been a tragedy for many decades. It doesn't work well, efficiently,not clearly. It's basically designed to allow in people who fit certain profiles, but any weirdness in your situation puts you in indefinite limbo and at the whims of various officials. It makes an underclass of grey zone residents. This was generally fine, but openly set up conditions for a racist regime to start snatching people out of their homes. People who played by the rules for decades.

    The US immigration system today: When Kafka meets Hitler.

  • One of the various conservative thoughts is to make large swathes of US territory governed by corporations and billionaires. Basically, non-state zones subject to rules set by non-state systems.

    Surprise! They're trying to make feudal / monarchy systems. Welcome to bring peasants again, fellow peasants.

    The underlying foundation of conservative thoughts was, and is, to uphold a hierarchy that supports a monarchy. It has been from day 1. The American Revolution was a war against conservatism.

  • My state doesn't have party registrations. It'd just be cheaper to wall us all off and leave us alone in our miserable place, just to be sure.

    Of course, you can't wall the side to Canada, but we'll promise to not go there while we are isolated from the rest of the US.

  • I had one of the 10" eeePC machines for years. That thing was a tank. It did everything I needed it to, especially weird networking configurations. The battery also lasted over 6 hours. I mostly ran Crunchbang #! Linux on it.

    I don't think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.

  • The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.

    The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it's not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.

  • I'm already on the road ahead of you.

    Spent 30 years campaigning, calling, sign waving, writing letters, donating to candidates, causes, and groups. Even ran for office a couple of times. Every year it gets worse and I've got kids. They don't need to live in a dystopian place so we're on the road. Headed to a developed nation. Greener pastures,.but it's worth a try.

  • Very few of the pots in my city are city owned. They're all private. They refuse to build anything else since using it as a parking lot has very low taxes so the profits are good, plus the land value goes up so just waiting makes them millions.

    Tax them like crazy or all you get is downtown Houston in the 1980s.

  • Every city should be repurposing every above ground parking lot.

    Housing, open plazas, parks, transit systems, 5+1 housing everywhere.

    If you want a parking lot in a city it should be below ground and taxed out the ying-yang.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml

    New York Declares War on Traffic (A Congestion Pricing Story)

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml

    The cost of maintaining roads is astronomical

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml

    Your neighborly services have arrived

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml

    Paris votes on SUVs: voters back proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml

    How Commute Culture Made American Cities Lifeless -- Yet There's Hope

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml

    Hoboken, NJ reduces annual traffic deaths to zero