Th4tGuyII

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 41 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly what else could Dr. Fauci do?

This was a show trial, existing not to address the factual errors behind the Covid pandemic, but to trip Dr. Fauci into accidentally taking responsibility for the President's idiotic policy. In his position I think I'd plead the 5th as well.

Besides the Republicans should be the last people criticising him, considering they often refuse to answer even basic factual yes or no questions.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 48 points 4 hours ago

Gotta be ragebait.

I sympathise with having "nightmare tenants" who trash the place, but fuck any Landlord who says you can't work from home because god forbid you use your home that you pay them for because you'd cause a bit more wear and tear than they would like.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 32 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Theoretically that's what the 2A guns are meant to be for...

But doesn't really work out that way when the adversary is your own Government, who has access to very arguably the best armed police force and military in the world, and is more than willing to turn those on you.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I can think of a couple of rules that could prevent a lot of the more blatant cheating:

  • All computer generated coursework must have some form of change tracking enabled, thus the assessor can see the way the essay was written.

  • All computer generated coursework must come with an accompanying oral assessment where the student has to discuss their work and research methodology.

The former would make it difficult to copy directly from ChatGPT, as the lack of any editing would leave an obvious fingerprint

... And passing the latter would require a level of understanding that would be difficult to replicate if you hadn't done the research yourself.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

Why go through all the hassle of getting a warrant when you can instead coerce the person you want to detain into doing something you can label as a criminal act and detain them for that.

So much less red-tape, and you get to stomp on someone's rights in the process. Sounds like an easy win to me /s

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So based on the emails, he was always going to be detained as guilty of something...

And using the duress code to hide his sensitive data from a clearly biased adversary just gave them an easy excuse to do what they were always going to do.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

While I understand for incidental filming, should being in public automatically give people consent to film you specifically? And in ways that are potentially a gross violation of your own personal space?

While I wouldn't necessarily advocate for violence, I'm surprised that you're perfectly okay with, and even justifying, the overriding of your own freedom of expression with someone else's because of the space that you're in.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don't know exactly what the laws on this are in Canada, but where I'm from at least (Europe) that's not entirely the case.

Anywhere with CCTV has to have a legible sign declaring the camera on the premises - and the CCTV camera has to be reasonably obvious. And the scope of what those cameras can be used for is limited by law.

Sure, in most circumstances you'll have no choice but to walk through the range of at least some cameras and be recorded - but at least you have the opportunity to be aware of them and their purported purpose (even if most people won't care to).

And that's true for companies or private individuals looking to film public areas too. They have to have obvious signage nearby the area they're recording, and their equipment has to be visible - to give people the opportunity to avoid the area being filmed.


Which is to say that both of those are different to being unknowingly recorded by a private individual with a discreet/hidden camera for a completely unknown purpose.

And no matter the legality, I'd still morally disagree with you. People should always have the opportunity to decide whether they wish to be recorded or not, and unilaterally deciding to take that away is gross.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 27 points 2 days ago (19 children)

While it is true that nobody should have an expectation of privacy when in public, that doesn't automatically grant you consent to purposely film people in public either.

Filming with these glasses discreetly in public removes that element of choice. People can't consent or avoid something they can't even see happening, like they could if the filming was done with an action cam or with a phone (held normally). Anyone who thinks that violating consent like that is okay is someone I wouldn't want to hang around with.


And sure, maybe most people using these glasses are honest folks that would never film people without consent, or use them for any kind of malfeasance - but to that I'd say, why should everyone else have be at the mercy of your honesty?

That's not a fair deal, and I doubt most of these glassholes would like to be in the reverse situation of being filmed going about their life without their consent.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

C. The moving portal platform breaks the black platform and the whole thing goes through the portal.


Jokes aside, B.

Devoid of any other external forces, in the cube's reference frame there's functionally no difference between it moving towards the portal or the portal moving towards it at a constant acceleration.

Ergo the cube should be pushed out the other side at the same momentum that the system had prior to the collision, and not be simply plopped out as in answer A.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

Absolutely the language any day. Knowing the language is the hardest step

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 25 points 5 days ago

AI tools are some of the most powerful and destructive things humans have ever created. And they are being effectively tested by the public in real time in the real world. When the Manhattan Project was trying to work out the power of their atomic tech, they did not do so by sending everyone the specs each morning and seeing which houses blew up.

Honestly, this. In their desperate attempt to break even, AI companies are throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks, without any due regard as to its effects on society at large...

Which unfortunately have proven time and time again to be horribly corrosive towards human culture.

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