Chozo

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 3 minutes ago

I sometimes get bouts of insomnia. Usually when it happens, I'm just awake for about 30 hours or so. That'll happen once or twice a month for me, and I'm pretty sure is just stress-related.

The longest I've gone was 75 hours when I was in my early 20s, which was due to a really bad allergic reaction to cedar pollen which kept me from breathing while laying my head down in any position, so I couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard I tried. I was also running a pretty high fever while this happened. I probably drifted into microsleeps while sitting up a few times during that, but it was absolutely miserable.

I started having really bizarre auditory hallucinations after about the 40-hour mark. I'd hear a crowd of people laughing from behind the walls. Not like a malicious laugh, but like there was a stand-up routine happening in the next room over. Nobody else was home, no TVs were on, and it was like 3am so I knew what I was hearing wasn't real, but convincing myself of that didn't make the laughter stop.

I think I slept for about 13 hours straight after that.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 10 hours ago

Sounds like Nancy needs to get Maced.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 39 points 10 hours ago

Pepe was previously coopted by far-right groups. The usage has died down since the creator of the original comic began suing people, but there are still people who put Pepe in Trump hats and shit.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Because this is the average user.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 16 hours ago

Oh yeah, because the first one did so well.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 30 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I'll be honest, I doubt it will. At least, not in the mainstream.

Alternatives to Salesforce already exist, and there's a reason why they're not more commonplace: most companies that use Salesforce or similar CRM platforms do so because somebody else maintains it (which is why Salesforce/Zendesk/etc are more expensive than a lot of their counterparts that don't offer such services). If they have a problem with the tools, they're paying for somebody at Salesforce to fix it for them. They don't have to pay somebody in their own company to manage the servers or learn the software, they just let Salesforce manage that.

That level of support very likely wouldn't be the case with Twenty, and companies would be expected to pay somebody internally to learn and maintain their instance of the software. There's also liability issues; if your company's customer data gets breached somehow, it's Salesforce's responsibility and not yours, so you have to take on those sorts of burdens, as well. All of this starts to get very pricey (and very risky) if a company isn't already structured in a way to handle those sorts of tasks, which is why I doubt there'll be any big shift.

I'd love to be wrong, though.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 19 hours ago

If so, there's nothing preventing him from doing that.

Deportations have to be negotiated with the receiving nation, regardless of whether we have a declared emergency or not. You can't just send somebody back without approval (otherwise you're facilitating an invasion), so each individual case has to be processed by both the US's immigration departments as well as whichever country you're trying to deport that person to. It doesn't happen often, but there are situations where a receiving country could outright refuse a deportee, or may be otherwise unable to receive them (perhaps the person isn't a recognized citizen of that country, either).

Deportation isn't as swift of a process as a lot of people think. Many deportees spend weeks or months in detainment before they're ever released. The system would be immediately backlogged if they were to move at rates Trump is suggesting.

There's also the issue of sending civilians into active warzones. Many immigrants are refugees, escaping from countries that are at war. Take Haiti for instance: They're in the process of being taken over by gangs, and their government is in shambles trying to combat them. Their president was assassinated a few years ago, and kidnappings of civilians are on the rise. Civilians are not safe in Haiti right now, and sending people into an active conflict like that could be seen as a crime against humanity.

There will be deportations. Hundreds, maybe thousands. But definitely not millions.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Trump's picks are really starting to sound like the setup to a 4-year long Aristocrats joke.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 22 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

They have no plan. We know this because it's already mathematically impossible to do what they're wanting to do. There literally aren't enough places to detain all the immigrants they want to deport, nor are there enough ICE employees to even process them. You can't just snatch people up and stuff 'em on an airplane and be done with it, there's a whole process involved that our system does not have the capacity to even begin to support.

Don't get me wrong, they're 100% going to do some deportations, and they'll make sure that it's national news when they do it. They'll make sure that FOX tells you about their criminal histories, and they'll make sure CNN tells you about their children locked in cages hundreds of miles away from their parents.

It's not about actually deporting immigrants. It's about making the immigrants that are already here feel unsafe. It's about making them feel insecure, worrying about whether they'll be eating dinner tomorrow at home, or behind bars. It's about making everybody live in fear; citizens are to fear their criminal neighbors, and immigrants are to fear the neighbors that would rat them out to ICE. Everything Trump and his team do are about making people turn against each other. And it works.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Headline should end at "news".

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

People are allowed to dream.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 38 points 1 day ago (6 children)

How is "make sure she has a backup plan" anything at all like what you said?

 

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😇👋A MONTH OF NO GODS🧳⛩️

There is a quaint belief that in the 10th month the gods of Japan congregate for a great gathering to discuss matchmaking at Izumo-taisha (出雲大社) in Shimane Prefecture.

Only hard-of-hearing Ebisu and the Sun Goddess miss this annual pilgrimage.

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In the tenth month of the traditional lunar calendar, a festival is held to welcome all the gods to Izumo Grand Shrine. It is believed that the gods convene at Izumo Shrine in October to discuss the coming year's marriages, deaths, and births. For this reason, people around the Izumo area call October kamiarizuki ("the month with gods"), but the rest of Japan calls October Kannazuki ("the month without gods").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-taisha

@camelliakyoto is a great account to follow on Mastodon for historical Japanese culture.

 

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Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.It originated in a 2010 post at discussion board LessWrong, a technical forum focused on analytical rational enquiry. The thought experiment's name derives from the poster of the article (Roko) and the basilisk, a mythical creature capable of destroying enemies with its stare.

While the theory was initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky reported users who panicked upon reading the theory, due to its stipulation that knowing about the theory and its basilisk made one vulnerable to the basilisk itself. This led to discussion of the basilisk on the site being banned for five years. However, these reports were later dismissed as being exaggerations or inconsequential, and the theory itself was dismissed as nonsense, including by Yudkowsky himself. Even after the post's discreditation, it is still used as an example of principles such as Bayesian probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a simplified, derivative version of Pascal's wager.

Found out about this after stumbling upon this Kyle Hill video on the subject. It reminds me a little bit of "The Game".

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