Valorant is free to play.

The cry of the aging incel who cant get laid.

Not a woman, a man pretending to be a woman. Identifying as female has as much biological reality as identifying as a dog and pretending it does is just a childish agic thinking delusion of which most sane adults want no part.

Covid is an odd virus. It was lethal to a fraction of a percent of the population, nasty to a couple of percent and no worse than a cold or even symptomless to everyone else. I dont personaly know anyone affected by it so if I lived in some idiocy bubble like these people I could well assume it was a hoax.

I will not tell you how, but your assumptions are wrong about me.

Yes that too, but lets leave the idiots out of news and decisions.

And I have it on good authority that you can legally print all kinds of conspiracy theories in a newspaper's opinion section if in fine print you explicitly state that you're just expressing an opinion.

Yeah, censorship is bad. But what is worse is humans like garbage, especially uneducated ones that can't tell the difference. There use to be news, with editors that would filter out the nonsense, and really only people that cared would read the news, you had to buy a paper or view a news site. Now we have social media companies that purvey garbage on purpose because it lines their pockets with ad revenue. So yeah you can get censorship, but a better thing would be to turn off the money spigot to companies and say you can't promote garbage, how you do that is up for discussion. But we have a problem on our hands that is equal to censorship, there are vast portions of the population that believe and purvey lies and garbage (we all know what they are, I'm not going to wax political) and that is a big problem that needs solving.

Enough said

So a russian satellite sees the sun glinting off high altitude clouds over the US near a known missile silo and signals a missile launch alert. The duty officer says bullshit...no one starts ww3 with a single missile...must be a false alarm...and declines to push the big red button and start ww3 himself.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

The unilateral disarmers spin this story as a reason to unilaterally disarm. The guys who totally don't have all their eggs in the defense stocks basket spin this as a reason to build more and better launch warning satellites.

I spin this the way Heinlein spun it in Starship Troopers: if you build and deploy a widget on the battlefield, you damn well better train your people how to use it properly or all you've done is fielded a magic rock.

Right-damn-now, is ToddlerAI.

A four-year old little fuckshit who isn't mature in any way. Easily persuaded and often delusional. Can be triggered by bending over Madagascar to abuse nonsensically in an asinine-flavored sentence with little more than an educator testing integrity.

Which is nonsense. There is nothing new under the sun. People have been kicking off interactions to complex to fully imagine all possible outcomes for as long as we have had laws, and the law has had approaches to assigning responsibility anyway.

Say you are back country camping in a national park. You absolutely can be held responsible if your campfire gets out of control and you start a forest fire, and you are found to have acted 'carelessly'. Even if you had a back country permit, and even if the park rules allow campfires.

We are not in uncharted territory here as how to apply standards like negligence. We may very well have gaps in our current law where various hacking and electronic abuse laws don't cover a negligent mens rea, but that could be easily fixed. It just takes little amendment to change a 'knowingly' to 'negligently' and its fixed. What we lack is a public will to hold these people accountable for anything. This is I think why they are so desperate to go public even while their actual financials SUCK...They want to cerement themselves as TBTF entities.

A couple of things about the issue.

Firstly, it's usually explained using insult and hyperbole. That's not a way to get others on your side. There's an old saying "it's not enough to be correct, you also have to be effective". It's usually used on... wait for it... nerds, who are typically very smart but cannot communicate well, and who fall back on insults when they cannot communicate well.

Secondly, for some reason no one wants to debate the issue. The mantra is "the science is settled", which isn't really how science works, but there are STILL gaping logical holes in the entire edifice that no one wants to clear up. Such as: other than rising global temperatures, the theory hasn't made testable predictions of any consequence that have actually come true. For example, in 2005 after Katrina, someone noted that "due to climate change, hurricanes will become stronger and more frequent", and then we had about a decade of no major hurricanes.

Thirdly, and this is the one that really bothers me: even if the science is settled, even if the conclusions are correct, climate change does not indicate what should be done. I've reviewed probably two or three dozen experiments aiming to mitigate the effects over the years, they ALL had the best of intentions, and they've ALL failed, sometimes spectacularly, and always adding more CO2 to the atmosphere than if we had done nothing.

In the meantime, since 2000 when Al Gore brought the issue into the public eye, I've seen the rise of solar panel farms, windmills are everywhere in the midwest, and we've gone from about 2% renewable (year 2000, mostly hydropower, and discounting wood) to about 30% today (also discounting wood). New technology is taken up at an exponential rate, so expect those numbers to rise faster in the near future.

Several technologies have been developed that we're right on the edge of deploying (carbon capture by electrolysis, fusion energy generation, robotic labor (various companies)) or in the middle of deploying (EVs, various companies) that should help enormously.

And finally, the issue has become political. The premier maker of EVs, the one who made EVs that people want to buy, is vilified by the political side that wants you to believe in climate change. A sect of that side wants to replace capitalism with communism, even though the resource utilization of that model is one third to one half of what we have today, and would slow down the innovation and advancement that might help us solve the issue.

But if you're not on board, you're a science denier.

It took 40 years to convince everyone that smoking was bad for us, now we have to endure the people who think they're right and have to insult us because we don't believe them.

Stop badgering us about it, it's not about science it's about economics, and it won't be a problem in a decade or two.

(Note for the observant: This post is rife with observable trends and verifiable facts, so expect the other side to downvote it into oblivion, because that's the way to convince people.)

You don't get it.

Autonomous AI agents are the perfect no-responsibility card. The AI companies? They trained a general-purpose model and never gave it any explicit instructions to do hacking. The AI services? They are just middlemen and have no control over what people tell the agents to do. The people prompting the agents? Unless you're straighforward dumb, you didn't tell it to do hacking, you just told it something innocent like "find me all data on Mars for my school project" and the agent decided that probably NASA is hiding something so let's hack them to get it.

Since there's no human anywhere executing anything that's a crime - voila, in addition to the victimless crime we now have the perpetratorless crime.

Level of reading comprehension: Baizuo.