it_wasnt_arson

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[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 7 minutes ago

They deliberately fired the "let's try not to commit war crimes" intelligence division because minimizing collateral damage is woke.

Do you think the title would've mentioned an "All-American" tank if it had been a 60 year old M48, or do you see the bias at play?

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

Neat! Genuinely cool to see more models of governance than the default BDFL/cool kids' club online.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Will community moderation policy be determined by sortition?

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

Snorting launch. Snorting hack. Snorting go. The possibilities are endless.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It depends, would you consider Sam Altman part of the LGBTQ+ community?

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

Israel's entire edge in the tech sector is in lax regulation and a steady supply of experienced, amoral ex-military software engineers. Western entrepeneurs who would otherwise have had trouble finding willing professionals and maintaining legal cover for their adware, data mining, or cyberweapons startup in a home country more concerned with ethics and international relations flocked to Israel over the last couple decades and singlehandedly propped up the local economy.

In return, the US, for instance, gets to wash its hands of the whole affair and say they're not the ones selling spyware to the Saudis and other western-friendly authoritarian regimes, it's all out of their control, while American venture capital reaps the rewards of investments in Israeli companies.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

It doesn't have to be a full on quest marker HUD overlay, just being able to glance at a mirror of your phone's map display in your peripheral vision without taking it out of your pocket would be great.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

From what I understand, biological systems regulated by sex hormones require one or the other to work at all. For example, you get one pattern of post-puberty bone growth with estrogen, a different pattern with testosterone, and no bone growth at all if you have neither. These systems also have some counterbalancing factor, like your bones constantly being slowly dissolved to keep calcium in your bloodstream, so if you have no gonads and no supplementary hormones, you essentially speedrun osteoporosis over the course of a few years.

I'm not too clear on other effects, but a lot of things are downstream of "your bones slowly melt," and lots of other parts of your body rely on sex hormones to regulate them and will have long-term issues without them.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 0 points 3 months ago

I just think we have different definitions of what accountability looks like. Have a good day.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm glad you can get excited at the prospect of a handful of cabinet members getting fined a fraction of the millions they enriched themselves by and getting handed 12-month sentences to be commuted while the people they imprisoned for political gain spend years in concentration camps. Where are the presidents on this list, by the way?

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 3 months ago

How obsessed can people get with one inconsequential guy for being cringe on the internet?

 
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