I thought the second one was weak, the third one was ok though
The new one is just the first one redone… The parallels were so forced though so hard the message was drowned out
The writing is great, it’s where they meet Hollywood that the films start to flag. I mean, even from the premise - the machines using us as batteries is stupid, the original idea of them using us as processors is way better
Taken right after the handshake
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, I hope.
And that is not a joke, that is the legal name of the best cardinal for the job
I follow laws mainly because of my own sense of morality - I don’t kill, I steal only when I feel I need to, and I don’t commit fraud because these things are obviously generally wrong.
I follow stupid laws (such as needing insurance, paying income taxes, or not speeding) out of fear of punishment. These are issues I’ll basically never have, because I’m good at driving and don’t make enough to affect state level operations
I think you replied to the wrong comment, but I agree
Granted, if they could actually make this work, they could probably do the robotaxi thing or even get into logistics. That would make it easily worth it to build dispatch centers basically everywhere
That is, if they could make it work
Nah, there’s not that many. There’s large swaths of the US where you have to drive across multiple states to get to one, in part for legal restrictions on dealerships
Not really… Think networking, not gameplay
The easiest to get past all the NAT (or weirder networking) is to just have everyone connect to a server and pass the data through the right connection. It’s quick and dirty, but you can do your routing on the application layer
I’m not sure that’s what they are doing, but it makes sense based on the details I’ve seen
That’s really easy. Never let go of the joy of learning, and take pride in admitting your mistakes.
It’s that simple. When you’re told there’s another way, your first reaction should be curiosity
Yep… It also puts pressure on Bukele - I mean, remember his comments to the media
“I can’t smuggle someone into the US, and I’m not willing to let them walk around my country, so I guess there’s nothing to be done”
The man didn’t say he wouldn’t return them, he made it very clear the ball is in the US’s court and he hasn’t been asked to give him back. He said it was impossible to see the victim, and yet when a US senator still showed up they arranged all this
America is the customer buying a service here…a customer known for having a huge crew of assassins with lots of experience overthrowing South American countries
Did he?
I’m completely serious, I have legitimate doubts about if Luigi is the adjuster. Everything about the arrest and (apparently illegally) collected evidence is extremely skechy.
After almost a week, the guy who escaped NYC cleanly (while leaving a backpack full of monopoly money in central park and signed bullet casings at the scene) is carrying around a signed confession and the murder weapon at McDonald’s?
There’s literally no other evidence than what they allegedly found on his person. The guy doesn’t look that much like the person/people in the videos, the way they found him (an old man reporting to a cashier that a person with only their eyes visible looked like the shooter from the security cams) is sketchy as hell, and the evidence is straight up out of a police wet dream about the perfect arrest
This guy deserves a trial, like everyone does. The state apparently has no case against him at this point too
So why does every conversation start with assuming he did it?
We’re running on the beta version of democracy, we don’t have that feature
I don’t have much love for 4chan (I do like the curated green texts here, 5 minutes on the actual site was enough to never go back) but it makes me sad that a website is measured by profitability
I think in thoughts. It boggled my mind to learn this isn’t how everyone thinks
Like, I don’t have a running narrative in my head - words bubble up, but it’s just like muttering, just occasional words. I only try to put them into sentences when I’m talking or imagining talking - like everything I write.
I don’t read like this, which is part of why I’ll terrible with names - if I read a book, I don’t know how to say or spell a character’s name until I try
If I had to describe it, it’s like memories. If you think elephant, you might see an elephant, you might hear the word elephant - but on some level you also probably think about things related to the concept. Like memories of seeing an elephant, elephant facts, other African animals
That bundled concept is elephant to me - the word is how you say it, I can get the impression of looking at an elephant, I can hear their cry - but at the center of this web of details is an elephant
I build my thoughts by chaining these concepts together, and where they fit together is the main thread of the train of thought - I can then move my focus across this thread and the hanging threads to solve problems
Things just click together or they don’t
If you tell me you feel like an elephant (and I have no idea what that could mean) I’d take the two concepts and try to draw threads between them. I cycle through concepts that feel in between them - elephant in the room, large/imposing, unforgiving, powerful - these loosely fit from elephant to your mental state. And from the other side, ugly, isolated/seen as an outsider/problem, or maybe you mean you literally feel like an elephant in a human body
Threads link between them or they don’t, maybe I’m missing an intermediate concept I haven’t yet associated with either and I have no idea what you mean
And that’s how I think. If I had to link it to a sense, it’s like proprioception - I’m moving through my thoughts and linking together connections, but it’s my my own mind I’m moving through and around me
But ultimately, it’s not words - there are concepts I don’t know how to label, although words help me identify concepts
This authority is recognized in an obscure provision of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which govern proceedings in federal trial courts. Rule 4.1 specifies how certain types of “process” — the legal term for orders that command someone to appear in court — are to be served on the party to which they are directed. The rule begins in section (a) by instructing that, as a general matter, process “must be served by a United States marshal or deputy marshal or by a person specially appointed for that purpose.”
They can do this, there’s a strong legal argument for it that goes far beyond just this… And where we are now that’s enough she could act
It wouldn’t make that person a marshall, they’d be a deputy. They’re limited in the scope of what they can do, I’m not sure if they could be paid or how, it might break a whole bunch of norms - but it can be done
Yes, the Marshalls are. But hey could find Marshalls who take their oath seriously, or they could deputize whoever they like to enforce the court’s ruling
No, that’s noncompliance - and by completely misrepresenting the supreme court’s order, they’re playing chicken
The judiciary moves slowly. They have powers they’re hesitant to use - they can order Marshalls to act and see who they obey, or they could deputize a bunch of retired special forces to enforce their decisions outside of the executive branch’s control
It’s not over… Not just yet, anyways. But it’s very, very close - if the judiciary backs down, it’s over. If the administration holds their ground until there’s an armed skirmish, it’s going to get very messy. If both sides keep up this back and forth without forcing a standoff, it could drag on for a while
But it’s not over yet, it’s just not looking good
So far? Yeah, I think so - I’ve heard of many people taking the deal and haven’t heard anything about people not getting the money
I think they’re basically just keeping them on the payroll. Is it legal? Will it continue until September? Who knows
Yes. Because all my life, we’ve been frogs in a steadily warming pot, and the heat has been cranked up to max
People are angry. People are protesting, doing vandalism with a prison sentence longer then murder, people are raging at their futures being cut off
Everything creates a reaction. The worse is gets, the faster it gets worse, the larger the reaction.
The best future is the one where people get so angry we stop. That’s all it takes to kill the game - if enough people, even for a short time, stop playing - it all stops
The world is robust. Humans are robust. If we stopped killing both, everything could recover shockingly fast
Things will get worse, things are very bad already, but it’s not over. I feel lighter every time the stock market drops, because it’s imaginary but the hurt is real.
The more and faster the hurt, the more people will wake the fuck up and stop this
Oh, there’s a cohesive plan behind it all right, but before you give them too much credit it’s from the 1930’s. The new part of the plan seems to be to basically do the 1930’s again so they reuse the playbook
Judging by how the people in power seem to like badly implementing ideas from cautionary sci-fi books, here’s my guess:
They’re probably using a point system. If you have an immigration hearing, a million points. If they find your name on a visa (not even necessarily you), that’s 20 points. If they find your name on an arrest record, that’s 10 points. If they find your name on any immigration court records, that’s 10 points
Then they sort the list, send ICE after people with the highest scores, and are slowly emailing their way down the list to anyone with like 50 points or more