nicetriangle

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[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Your comment assumes everyone agrees ChatGPT or other LMMs/etc are a net benefit to society.

I’m on the fence about it myself.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nuclear power and weapons have scientific overlap, news at 11

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Easy to be pessimistic about fusion but there’s been a lot of positive news lately so, fingers crossed! Would be a game changer.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah this is the sort of problem solving we'll really need moving forward

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 51 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Ram trucks drive like fucking assholes so I believe this. Damn near any time you see one of those lifted Dodge trucks on the highway you can assume they’ll behave like a jerk if given the opportunity.

And as far as Teslas go, I really do not think people should have cars that accelerate that fast. People are dumb as shit and Tesla’s slowest model has a 0-60 of under 6 seconds and a lot of their cars are sub 4 seconds. That’s super car territory.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

JDownloader is also awesome. Should be in everyone’s toolkit.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If it’s via browser I would look into the Firefox plugin VideoDiwnloadHelper. I’m able to rip most browser streamed videos with it no problem.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They have 3 house seats in Colorado and one of them is one of the dumbest, most toxic fucking people in congress and she (Boebert) won her seat with 50.06% of the vote.

Literally .07% of people not showing up in her election would have been a victory for her opponent. It was a 546 vote difference. That is razor thin.

Then for the other two republican house seats, one of them won with 60.9% of the vote and another won with 56% of the vote.

So your argument doesn't really hold up here. Two of those seats are arguably in jeopardy. Maybe even the third. The Republicans have the house by only 8 seats right now. Every single seat counts for a lot. Even if the democrats didn't take the house, a smaller margin prevents fucksticks like the freedom caucus from being so obstructive of bipartisan legislation.

And all of this ignores stuff like state, county, and school district level positions.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

3 out of 8 of their house members are republicans, famously including Lauren Boebert. Obviously not a ton but margins in both chambers have been razor thin lately so every bit counts.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Those people just won't turn out at all

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 48 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It hurts republican downballot candidates tho. There's gonna be a number of Trump voters who won't show up if he's not on the ballot and they would have been straight ticket republican votes.

Also this sets a big precedent.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

It is incredibly cheap and easy to artificially bump a post to the top of a decent sized subreddit. I’ve seen it done before and the cost per impression/click puts most advertising to shame. And this was being done unsophisticatedly by some dude and a cheap bot. Now imagine what major corporations can do with all the resources to burn.

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