Those are basically nuclear batteries, in the disposable reaction sense. It’s not fission, fission requires huge amounts of water. Fundamentally, even if you used another coolant and another way of turning the power to electricity, you need massive heat dissipation (which is very difficult in space)
Nuclear batteries are basically decay powered, they give a small amount of power for a really long time. Totally different technology
I mean, not doing mass surveillance altogether sounds like a great idea… I’m not sure that’s directly possible right now though
My point is that it’s not just a worse version of mass surveillance, it’s orders of magnitude worse. It absolves everyone from any actual responsibility, and in doing so absolutely guarantees these systems will be abused by police
Old America
I’m not saying I trust the police. I’m saying if it’s outright unconstitutional to access without the courts, the IT department is going to put checks in the system
It’s like how you can’t trust HR to protect you personally, but you can rely on them to protect the organization
If the cops were in control, they’d be violating the fourth amendment when they do that without going to the courts
Where as if it’s a private service the police department pays for, it’s a legal gray area
First, you have to decide who you want to be and what you want out of life. You can have anything, but not everything, if you pursue it without stopping
Don’t take on debt.
Don’t get into a relationship with a manipulator.
Be honest in your dealings. Don’t take advantage of people or profit off suffering
Follow that, and you have 10 years to figure out everything else. 20’s are for learning, 30’s are for earning… Just try stuff. Pursue whatever you like, make connections with people, and you’ll build a foundation that will put you far ahead later on
And if you do want to try doing a software start up, I am looking for someone to partner with who can make sales. I’m planning to go after professionals like lawyers and start by making them websites to make the connection, and taking whatever work flows from that. Hit me up if you’re interested
What do you mean? The presidency has enormous power at this point, and when it comes to enforcing regulation the power is actually granted by Congress
All the president has to do is convince these few companies that they’re actually in danger of operations being shut down, even temporarily. They will respond a lawsuit to block this if they think that would be the easier path, but there’s any number of ways to bring them in line. They’d lose an enormous amount of money for every day they’re shut down… If they believe cleaning up their operations is going to be the cheaper path, they’ll make changes unbelievably fast
The presidency also has enormous soft power… If the president calls a company out publicly for food safety, the share price will drop, grocers will switch suppliers if they can, and it’ll affect sales
It all hinges on reputation though… It might take following through on a threat to bring the rest in line, but once they see food safety as the cost of doing business with no cheaper option, they’ll absolutely fall in line
You’ve just internalized the problem and called it normal. You shouldn’t need to be different around different people. That’s exhausting and most people don’t do that. That’s the neurodivergent coping mechanism.
No, literally every human being does do this, whether they’re aware of it or not. We are very social species that is extremely sensitive to the group we’re in and the social context. From the most neurotypical normie to entirely nonverbal autistic people, we all have different sides
Do you think people are masking when you bring a dog or a baby into a room and they act differently? Is it masking to act professionally at work? Do you think you really act the same with your friends and grandparents?
You keep dancing around the core of this - the discomfort from modulating your behavior in ways you don’t want to is what masking is. That’s the part that’s exhausting
I haven’t internalized a defense mechanism, I got rid of the discomfort. I’ve decided I’m often comfortable with silence (even if others aren’t) and made peace with the fact people will misunderstand me often and stopped letting that drive my interactions
I also code switch hard and mirror people’s speech patterns… But that’s not a defense mechanism, that’s just how I prefer to interact with the world. I like that I can fit in pretty much anywhere I want to be, it’s easy and natural for me
That’s what it means to stop masking. You don’t change as a person, you learn to express yourself in a way that isn’t exhausting
We just renamed a second body of water because Canada refused to stop speaking French
This is the dumbest timeline
We’re walking tubes of bacteria. If the bacteria switch to alternate energy sources that have weird byproducts, not much you can do about that
Well of course they outperform them if they’re specialized to a purpose… Theres a like 3B model that plays Minecraft and generally kicks the ass of all the more general llms
And in general, the big models are primarily better at remembering instructions and context… An 8B model can hold a basic conversation or perform simple tasks on a similar level to a frontier model
Really, really depends on what they’re specialized to do though
I agree with all that, and it is certainly both a distraction and class warfare, no doubt
My only point of contention is that it’s not a step in a process of class warfare, it is a tool of class warfare
But after you clarified I think that might just be a matter of phrasing
Also, while the system is set up against us, there’s reason for hope. Progressives are coming out of the woodwork and snatching up elections, especially locally. Things could change for the better
But even aside from that - I don’t mean self interest is going to magically win the day. What I mean is that personal suffering causes unrest
You can form a coalition of hatred short term, we’ve seen that people will even hang onto that while the leapords are actively eating their face
The hatred might not go away, but the unity goes out the window the second people can’t get their favorite brand of Oreo (or lose their livelihoods)
You could possibly alter it with effort, but not as easily as a mask.
That’s my point. A mask and a face are the same in nature. We all act differently around different people, everyone has different sides to themselves that are all real
Every mask and face you have is a part of you. It’s not fake, it’s a layer of communication. If you don’t feel comfortable in it, it feels like a mask. That’s entirely what makes it a mask
You have to examine it and figure out where it doesn’t fit right, and then wear it until the changes become ingrained behavior
The final step is to accept you’re not wearing a mask anymore
Not a bad choice, but he does get detached from everything
Q seems to be having a lot more fun, and he has a community (which does cause him problems, but mostly self inflicted)
With what money? We can’t even sell treasury notes at this point
We’ve had too big to fail, this is going to be too big to bail out
At least it’ll give us plenty to tear down as we start our healing process as a country
It’s going to be so sweet when talerico wins anyways. It needs to happen
What if we didn’t have districts? What if every state did one big ranked choice election where the seats are all allocated together?
It’s not perfect, but it is clean and naturally representative
People just don’t understand heaven. It’s not infinite time, it’s eternity - without time
The way I see it, heaven would be a nice home, a place of reunions and rest. But what is the point of being unchanging?
Also, what does it mean to bask in God’s light? How can that equally happen in a place outside of time, but also is possible on Earth?
I think the whole concept has been completely warped from what Jesus actually said
Christianity went to some weird places when Constantine merged it with the Roman religion. The common interpretation makes no sense
It’s not about the court’s enforcement, it’s about responsibility
Every organization out there preserves itself. It’s why we have legal and HR departments. They don’t exist to protect their people, they exist to protect the organization
If a police department was caught wildly misusing unconstitutional searches, every case they tried in that period is opened to that exposure. That’s not just a huge embarrassment, it’s a massive amount of work that will tie up the local justice system for a significant period
That’s the kind of damage that can kill a police department wholesale, or at least cleanly sweep away all the leadership
The organization will protect itself against this kind of thing, not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because organizations must preserve themselves or fade away. They’ll put in checks that will leave an audit trail and/or require a document ID to use such a system, because that’s what it takes to protect the organization. They’ll offload the responsibility onto the officers, and enforce the rules (even if just a slap on the wrist). That’s simply how organizations act, descriptively
I’m not saying that police in charge would be better, so much as this situation is so much worse. No one has responsibility here. The private company is not limited by the Constitution, and the police are just using a subscription to a commercial service
No one has to take responsibility if this turns into an issue. It’s the same as consulting companies and AI rejections - the primary purpose is to make it so when someone creates manmade horrors beyond comprehension, no one is responsible