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They have only read one of the amendments all the way through and part of another one and the rest is too boring to read.

EMP shielding. Nuclear explosions release an absolutely insane amount of electromagnetic energy and it fries electronics. This is actually where the first EMP was observed - a high altitude nuclear test fried a bunch of electronics. The idea is that it needs to be able to keep flying even if a nuclear blast goes off even quite some distance away. There's obviously no way to actually nuke proof a plane, it would get vaporized or knocked out of the sky if it were close to the epicenter.

The main concern for me is how that would even work. LLMs struggle to come up with anything truly novel, and are mostly copying from their training set. What happens when 99% of the training corpus for a programming language is AI code or at least partially AI code? Without human data to start with how do LLMs continue to get better? This is kind of an issue with everything LLMs do but especially programming.

I think so. I am legitimately worried about what happens in 10 years with everyone relying on llms to code when nobody seems to be planning for how things will work when LLM coding is nearly universal

How is gaming on linux? I really don't want to "upgrade" to windows 11 but I also barely have any time to game in the first place let alone fool around with settings and drivers for several hours every time I install a new game or update and existing one.

Could also be AI generated.

There's probably some fine print in the ToS that says they can do this. It may or may not be legal but that makes it a lengthier court battle to try to prove.

I have tried this out because I got a bit obsessed with learning how to make every coffee drink during the pandemic. The way I did it was a double shot of espresso, a decently sized pat of good quality unsalted butter, and a little bit of hot water. The reasoning was that the butter would accentuate the naturally occurring oils of the espresso and lead to a richer crema on the resulting americano which was true. I thought it was actually pretty good that way, but I also love coffee in any form. It also wasn't something I'd go out of my way to drink again. I also imagine this would do some bad things to your intestines if you drank this every day. If you want a delicious buttery coffee, a good quality whole fat milk is a much better option. As for health claims, I think it's kind of insane that anyone says drinking literal butter could possibly be good for you, and even more insane that people believe it. It feels like an over-reaction to anti-fat propaganda from the sugar lobby where we went from "Maybe eating some fat in your diet isn't a bad thing" to "YOU MUST EAT AS MUCH FAT AND OIL AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE."

It was super easy too right? i want to say it was a simple batch file. I remember I had a .rar file full of pornography that I disguised as a shitty cat meme. I even tested out uploading it to some image hosting website to see if it would strip that data out and nope I was able to download a copy and open it with winrar no issues. I wonder of somewhere there is a shitty cat meme floating around the Internet with a bunch of porn hidden inside it.

Idk what you're on about, this very article makes fun of said satanic panic in the opening paragraph.

How much are these fuckers spending on increased security for themselves rather than addressing why half the country cheered when one of them was murdered in the street?

I wouldn't say that. It's a tool like anything else. You don't say a hammer is useless because it's really bad at driving screws no matter how much your terrible coworker keeps insisting that she just hits the screws in with the hammer and it's fine. I learned programming very quickly with ChatGPT and I use LLMs all the time for help with programming. They're also good for proofreading, learning new languages, and a few other things. The hype is exaggerated but these things are quite useful when used correctly.

Highlander 2 is unsalvageable. That movie sucked so bad it wasn't even fun to watch with friends to make fun of it

1. Accept the things you can't change, and improve the things you can change. I disagree with the classical stoics on their emphasis on individual action and think that these principles can and should be applied on a societal level.
2. Mind your own business. If someone is doing something that doesn't have any real impact on your life or the lives of people you care about, ignore it. If someone is gay or trans that doesn't impact you at all. If someone has weird religious beliefs, let them believe them as long as they're not hurting anyone.
3. The supernatural should be ignored for society level decisions because it cannot be proven and hasn't been demonstrated. If someone wants to go to a psychic or astrologer for personal decisions I disagree with that but that's on them.
4. Everyone has a god they worship. It may not be Jesus or Allah, but it may be money, a sport team, or maybe a musical band. Ritual and community are things that make us feel good. Coming together with a group of people for a common cause to enjoy something together is built into our psychology. The problem of replacing religion with bands and sports teams is that it comes with the fun parts of religion without the discussion of morality or urging to do good that religion can bring. You don't see Kansas City Chiefs fans giving 10% of their income to the poor, for example. My ideal world would have secular temples to Reason where people come together to sing and discuss philosophy and work together for a common good. This one is weirder than the others and I won't be mad if anyone thinks this is absurd. I just think that we have rejected religion without having a satisfactory replacement for the good things it provides.

Tbh this is just Boomers being online. One of my favorite pastimes in 2014-2015 was going on Yahoo! News articles and seeing how long it took to find someone blaming Obama for the headline in the comments section. Note that I said how long not if. I never actually found an article that didn't have at least one comment blaming Obama. I thought I'd found one that people couldn't possibly blame on Obama when I found an article about a super Moon or something similar and I was legitimately surprised to see that there was a comment about how the super Moon was demonic and Obama was using it for dark rituals.

All of my family members have Samsung phones and every single one of them has been complaining about the update. Normal people, tech people, it doesn't matter. They all hate it. It's actually kind of insane. The only reason I have been spared so far is that my phone is too old to get the new OneUI update. I can't imagine any of them will buy a Samsung next time they buy a phone if the UI stays like this. People who buy Android phones are people who like Android phones. You're not going to lure iPhone users to Android by being more like an iPhone because they're just going to buy the real deal instead. It's just stupid. Just the battery icon discussed in the OP was the source of a lot of complaints because it is extremely hard to read especially for older people.

I see you're skipping windows 7→8 which is fair because most people did

Some modern religious philosophies (most notably Chaos Magick) essentially believe that thoughts, symbols, ideas, and cultural concepts gain power through their spread and repetition. Within this framework, Shrek may as well be a god because he's the center of a popular media franchise and the basis of many popular memes. By saying "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" it becomes real in a sense. That's kind of where I think that would be coming from. I've seen people make similar arguments about batman and mickey mouse being their personal gods.

I say no because vampire myths developed in a time and place where only a tiny minority of people were even allowed to own property and almost everyone lived on land they didn't own, and in those stories the vampires are invited by the resident, not the owner.

Here are some related questions that inform the answer to this one

1. Can a vampire cross a country's border without approval from that country's government? This relates to how a vampire's inability to cross thresholds relates to governments and concepts of control, occupation, and ownership as they relate to this rule. My gut instinct says yes, a border doesn't count as a boundary in this case because a vampire can only not enter your house but can go on your yard. Disregarding that, I would lean towards no a vampire would need permission, especially at a defined boundary like a border crossing checkpoint. I don't think it would necessarily have to be from the government, though, based on concepts I will explore later
2. Can a vampire enter your home if you're a tenant and give them permission? I say yes, because during the time period when vampire myths developed barely anyone actually owned their own homes or the land they lived on, and said myths don't state that the vampire must receive permission from the local lord to enter the homes of his serfs. This establishes that residence is sufficient and ownership isn't required.
3. If you are at a friend's house for a party and a vampire shows up and you say "come on in!" Does that count as an invitation? I would say yes, but there is some argument to be had here. The answer to this question determines if residency is not only sufficient, but required. If you say yes, then, it seems that merely occupying a space is what gives one authority to invite a vampire in, not residence or ownership. If you say no, then it seems that residence or control over a space is more important.
4. If you give a worker a garage door code and tell him he can use that while you're not home and he turns out to be a vampire, can he enter your home? I would say yes, because you explicitly gave him permission. If you say no, then it seems that the relationship of the threshold is what's important. Someone on one side has to be inviting the vampire to cross, and the invitation can't be given if both parties are on the same side. I say yes, because I feel that the criteria are as follows - A person must have control over a space in some sense (but not necessarily legal authority over it) and they must explicitly give permission to the vampire to enter. The explicit permission requirement is because a vampire theoretically wouldn't be able to break into your house by smashing a window.

Now as all of this pertains to a warrant - I think that yes, a vampire with a warrant would be able to enter a home with a warrant because the issuing authority has the ability to control access to your home via warrants and you have implicitly delegated that authority to them via the social contract, and the warrant is explicit permission to enter your home.