99% of these problems would be solved if copyright lasted a reasonable amount of time. IMO copyright should last for 50 years from the date of publication or the life of the original creator, whichever is longer. That way the author has control over their work during their own lifetime, and like an author’s husband won’t just be screwed if his wife published a blockbuster book and then dies soon after, but we don’t have Disney milking shit from the 1920s for a hundred years. It’s absurd to me that I have to pay Amazon $4 to watch Citizen Kane, a movie that came out before my grandparents were born, and that’s the only legal way to watch it. Literally nobody who was involved in making that movie is still alive to benefit from it, it’s only people making money from doing literally nothing.

Idk I know I was pretty excited for Netflix’s early original content because the proposition was like “HBO, but on the internet and you can watch it any time” and they were doing big budget stuff. Things only went south when they didn’t keep up the HBO level quality and ruined their reputation to the point where I see “Netflix original” and immediately think “garbage TV”

Yeah he’s certainly the most famous modern defense lawyer. He got a guy who very obviously murdered someone off through his skills as a lawyer so that sticks in people’s minds. For the young people in this thread, he was OJ Simpson’s lawyer.

Same dude. Like signal word “Fuck” for the spiciest of chemicals that really probably shouldn’t exist in the first place that are desperately trying not to exist

Oxidizers aren’t typically flammable themselves and only react with fuels.

Holy shit fours on blue AND yellow, AND it’s an oxidizer? My guess is some kind of halogenation agent, likely fluorine based. The lack of flammability with those stats makes me think it’s an inorganic compound, probably some wretched fluorine abomination.

I live in Trump country. A lot of these people are living in an alternate reality where trans people and immigrants are lurking behind every corner to take their kids and women and the economy is in shambles but in a way that only impacts white middle class Americans.

Bible stories are the same way, we’ve just heard them a million times so they don’t seem weird

“Hey Jesus what toppings do you want for pizza?”

“Plain with cheese”

Later the disciples are eating pizza with Jesus

"“Hey Jesus why did you say you like cheese pizza when you normally order pepperoni?”

“You dumb fucks how dare you not understand my hidden meaning, I am the true pizza and you are the pepperoni, the grease is my blood”

“Oh of course, sorry boss”

A lot of “local” news stations do this because they’re almost all owned by two companies- Sinclair and Nexstar. If you add “-Sinclair -Nexstar” to your search it may filter the duplicates out.

Nah it’s got all the classic AI tells. Look at Hank’s right hand with a weird psuedo-finger sticking out between his index finger and thumb, and Dale’s hands- one has 4 fingers and the other isn’t attached to an arm.

Reminder that basically impossible ≠ impossible. The Beirut explosion was a big bunch of ANFO going off.

Mining engineers calculate how the walls and paths need to be sloped, shored up, and shaped to prevent collapse. This channel on YouTube has a lot of good content about stuff like this, but this video is about hole collapses and how they’re prevented. Reminds me of the old engineering adage- “anyone can build a bridge, but it takes an engineer to just barely build a bridge.” Same goes for anything we do. You can do a lot by over-building and just accepting inefficiencies, but in a case like this you want to excavate as much of the ground as possible so you want the slopes to be as steep as possible. Anyone can dig a stable hole that’s like a pyramid where the slopes are very shallow, but engineers find exactly how steep you can safely get away with.

Yeah but who decides what sensitive content is? Is this going to make the entire platform look like shitty tik tok videos where everyone says “f*ck” and “unalive” like some insane dystopian world

I hadn’t learned about repayment periods or anything I just said he had to pay me back double, I didn’t think about interest rates or anything but yeah I definitely was a loan shark.

Lmao at that last part my neighbors voted for all of this and are apparently incapable of seeing any kind of problem with anything the administration does so I feel like I’d have ac tough time getting them on board with a food co-op thing

Chemical

I make an intentional point not to say please and thank you to these things, voice assistants like Alexa, and other computers that want to talk to me. Do the people who insist on thanking these things also say you’re welcome to the self checkout machine at Walmart when it says “thank you for shopping at Walmart?” It’s absurd.

If I understand correctly this is essentially how condensed models like Deepseek work and how they’re able to attain similar performance on much cheaper hardware. If all still goes through the LLM but LLM is a lot lighter because it has this sort of thing built in. That’s all a vast oversimplification.

I fantasized about forming a tenant’s union when I was still renting but the people I talked to about it were completely unfamiliar with the concept and thought it was stupid so I gave up. Now the company I used to rent from has bought up pretty much all the apartment complexes in the area and people who rent from them are complaining about immoral and illegal stuff they’re doing but won’t consider actually doing anything about it. Anti union sentiment is deep in America and I don’t have any hope for the American public to do anything to help themselves.

As someone who lives in the US what the fuck am I supposed to do now? Just shop at bougie grocery stores and pray that those brands are still following some kind of standards? I don’t want to leave my home but I am worried it’s just going to keep getting worse and worse and I am too disabled to fight in a civil war if it comes to that.