I think climate collapse will happen before 2063. But, if I can get to a plastic bag, some tubing, and a decent sized nitrogen or helium tank I won’t have to worry about it.

But, imma enjoy the global Internet as long as it lasts, first.

The USGS still claims, as it did in 2009, that earthquakes are unpredictable. At best they’ve been able to communicate when/where seismic events happen slightly faster than they propagate through the earth.

There’s a couple on mastodon, so you might be able to ping one of them from a comment.

I don’t remember how to compose a reply than pings a user from Connect on my phone, tho. So, I can’t provide an example.

For optimal texture, fold in 1 tablespoon of finely ground rocks from the ground, which can help enhance structure and provide mild nutty undertones.

Oh, you are just pretending to be an LLM / genAI then.

congress can ignore copyright for debate and argument

Analysis and review are fair uses available to everyone.

military guys claim the govt has complete fair use which I doubt

The military does have fairly broad ability to violate, or even nationalize (and then classify), copyright and patents. Technically they have to justify that with a national security claim, but those are rarely reviewed or rejected. I doubt any of the U.S. armed forces pays for a public performance fee when barracks movie night exceeds 10 individuals, even if the movie is Disney.

Policing the speech of other people = authoritarianism, yes.

Copyright is a government-granted (and enforced) monopoly. Under anarchy, no one would benefit from copyright protection, at least not the same way we have it now.

People could voluntarily police their own speech to stay in an association… but I don’t know how/if that would scale.

Works created by the U.S. government do not benefit from copyright protection.

I don’t believe either the government in general or congress in specific have the blanket ability to ignore copyrights held by others.

You see, I’m a “no code” developer. /s

I’m a programmer, and I’ve heard many programmers advocate for using “AI”. I surround myself with those that reject it (primarily for ethical reasons), but the ones at my last job seemed to like it.

Anyway, the whole industry has actually been built on vibes for at least a generation. C is bad. JS is worse. We have better languages that had better tooling and better semantics since before either of those were invented, but they were ignored in order to build an edifice to Capital on sand. Since then, the actual computer scientists (that study that branch of mathematics) have made much better languages and done studies to provide evidence they are easier to learn and produce a lower fault rate. That has been consistently ignored.

Adopting “AI” is just another step before the whole industry collapses, and we restart on better foundations and salvage what is absolutely necessary.

I don’t know what the next foundation actually is, or how stable it can even be when it’s built on this von Neumann trash instead of a proper Harvard Architecture. /s (I hope the foundation is related to GRTT or QTT.)

Fiddlesticks. “marblegargler” is perfectly cromulent. ;)

Is that a dictionary for witches? Or did you misspell wiktionary?

• Nestle, Part 1: Bad for your Food
• Nestle, Part 2: Bad for your Water
• Nestle, Part 3: Bad for your Shelter

Whatever can be destroyed by the truth should be destroyed by the truth. (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/13/destroy/)

Our good girl has only caught one squirrel, but she never loses them due to speed or even maneuvering, it’s because they cross the fence or climb a tree where she can’t follow.

She has “caught” a few baby rabbits, that were still trying to hide instead of evade. I’ll bet you are right about her being unable to keep up with an mature rabbit.

No, that’s like telling the city government they can’t have cops arrest people for a law that hasn’t passed council.

That’s almost literally the opposite of what the judges actually said.

They specifically called out “the use of unfair and deceptive practices”, but ruled the FTC has to follow it’s own procedures and, in this case, did not.

Once the FTC follows it’s own processes and procedures, it can institute the same policy.

Practice. It get to Chestnut’s level, it has to be intentional.

3 popeyes sandwiches used the be a common order for me, but I try to eat less these days. Most of my practice was not with purpose of getting better, but I enjoyed the feeling of fullness even as a child and still love a buffet.

Well, maybe I’ll try again in the future but I don’t currently own a Samsung.

I guess the answer to at least one of those is no. Last time I tried a battery replacement, I broke the screen either during assembly or disassembly. I build my own desktop PCs, and have fixed laptop monitors and drives, but every time I attempt hardware repair on something phone-ish, I make it worse (even going back to when I owned an OpenMoko).

Justice can be achieved without racism.

Actually, it can’t. Since racism caused the injustice, identifying the victims and restoring their losses is impossible without using it.

The pendulum swing (post-dampening) is the only practical way to get to justice.

This is especially true since we can’t know we’ve achieved societal justice without some measurement delay.