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7 days agoand they have also moved me to be more open minded about some things I thought I would never agree with.
Such as? I’m curious.
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That must be unbearable.
Obviously. That’s clearly two women who didn’t choose the bear.
You can’t consent to a religion if leaving it causes you to be shunned by your family and community.
Then almost no one consents to their religion worldwide at all, barring a relative handful who leave the dominant faith in their community and are essentially disconnected solo practitioners of whatever, because joining or marrying into a different religious community is essentially just choosing a different group with the power to shun you for leaving their faith in turn.
That doesn’t say anything about Marines in particular as opposed to any other branch of active duty military, which is the bit I was replying to.
Oh, of course. That’s a given. But the original comment implied that the feds are only fucking with blue states and immigrants are fine in places like Georgia.
The idea is to target blue areas so they can put on a show of “doing something” about immigration while their base continues to see around the same number of brown people who don’t speak English very well and so continues to believe that the “invasion” is ongoing and stronger action needs to be taken.
I’ll say this though - since Trump started doing heavy ICE enforcement I’ve noticed a lot fewer truck drivers who need a translation app to handle basic English. Makes me wonder if ICE has got them afraid of having to deal with DOT.
Marines have seen their spouses and other relatives deported in recent months. Trump was an idiot to deploy them like so, as opposed just about any other branch of the active-duty military.
I take it Marines are especially likely to have family or spouses that are here illegally, for some reason?
I think the Bible fails on the role-playing game front and I don’t remember any voodoo, but otherwise yeah?
She was religious and this is from the early 80s. It’s not even in the top ten most batshit things she said or wrote. From an early 80s Christian conservative standpoint homosexuality is basically just a more narrow category or sex perversion. She was also one of the big voices in the Satanic Panic in general and considered a subject matter expert, including writing things like interrogation guides for law enforcement.
Here’s a couple of examples of her lunacy:
THE WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE AND HOW OF TEEN SATANISM WHO 1. Adolescents from all walks of life. 2. Many from middle to upper middle class families 3. Intelligent Over or Under Achievers Creative/Curious Some are Rebellious Some have low self esteem and are loners Some children have been abused (physically or sexually) WHEN does this occur? It appears the ages most vulnerable are 11-17 WHERE? 1. Public places such as rock concerts, game clubs in communities or at school. 2. Private parties at a friend’s home. HOW? 1. Through Black Heavy Metal Music 2. Through fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons (R) 3. Obsession with movies, videos, which have occult themes 4. Collecting and reading/researching occult books 5. Involvement with “Satanic Cults”, through recruitment 6. Some are born into families who pratice “satanic cult rituals” TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES APPLY HERE “Law of Attraction” and the “Law of Invitation” WHAT can be expected? 1. Obsession with occult entertainment 2. Minor to major behavior disorders 3. Committing crimes and status offenses such as: A. Running away B. Graverobbing (such as bones) C. Breaking and entering to steal religious artifacts or sometimes stealing small items to prove loyalty to the group D. Defacing public or private property using “Satanic Graffetti” or related Graffetti E. Threatening to kill (self or others, self mutilation is very common) F. Aggression directed towards family, teachers and authority figures G. Contempt for organized religion H. Supremist attitudes I. Kidnapping or assistance in kidnapping J. Murder K. Suicide pacts among members of the group WHAT can we do? 1. Document all information relating to occult involvement (even if it does not appear relevant at the time) 2. Keep an open mind 3. Stay objective 4. Never assume that an individual is acting along until all other information surrounding the case and individual has been fully investigated. 5. If individual is involved in “satanic activity,” he/she will deny a great deal to protect other members of the group as well as the “satanic philosophy”. 6. Have a team approach, work with a therapist, a clergymen and other helping professionals. 7. Educate the community so that potential tragedies might be avoided.
Don’t forget the woman whose son committed suicide so she created an anti-D&D group called Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons. Her group described D&D as “a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings.”
Don’t forget Tom Hanks first leading role in the movie Mazes and Monsters, originally titled Dungeons & Dragons, but forced to change it when TSR sued them.
Half of the ways people were getting around guardrails in the early chatgpt models was berating the AI into doing what they wanted
I thought the process of getting around guardrails was an increasingly complicated series of ways of getting it to pretend to be someone else that doesn’t have guardrails and then answering as though it’s that character.
Qrpff says hello. Or, rather, decrypts DVD movies in 472 bytes of code, 531 if you want the fast version that can do it in real time. The Wikipedia article on it includes the full source code of both.
01·1 month agoWhat people want when they say “AI is making art accessible” is they want high quality professional art for dirt cheap.
…and what their opposition means when they oppose it is “this line of work was supposed to be totally immune to automation, and I’m mad that it turns out not to be.”
So yeah … that’s the story of how my supposedly healthy friend gave himself diabetes by drinking a metric fuckton of OJ.
Worth noting that drinking all that OJ also essentially means his blood sugar could not be properly measured by some of the testing methods used, because high levels of vitamin C interfere. I wear a CGM and it warns me every time I put on a new sensor not to consume more than 500mg of vitamin C per day if I want it to work, which is much less than a gallon of OJ. Same applies to most common glucometers. Unless they checked his blood sugar using a lab test that didn’t involve a redox reaction, it’s good odds that his blood sugar was not actually whatever it tested as. They likely had to make him swear off the OJ for a day or so and then rerun it to get a real number.
For reference, type I, was at 421 when diagnosed back in the 90s, blood sugar has never been higher than that though I did have one serious hypoglycemic incident where it managed to get low enough that it wasn’t measurable, after they started a glucose IV I came to when it got up to about 35. Closest I’ve ever been to dying.
I have about 2 hours of lost time from that incident, during which I drove a total of about 20 miles between at least two trips. No coherent memory of that period, just a few flashes - I remember the steering wheel in my hands and the pressure of the pedal against my foot, I remember the Sheriff’s Department logo sideways, I remember someone in medium blue, like a work uniform or maybe scrubs or something similar said something to me and I said something back (I don’t remember what either of us said) and then it was two hours after my last coherent memories and I’m in the back of an ambulance with a glucose IV in one arm, an EMT on that side pricking my finger to check my blood sugar and it coming up 35, and EMT on the other side squeezing a tube of glucose paste into my mouth that tasted like a tin can in all the worst ways. The EMT noticed me looking at him and started asking general awareness questions, seemed a bit worried that my answer to where I was was “in the back of a parked ambulance, but I’m not sure where the ambulance is.” Car was totaled, thankfully no one was hurt. I think whatever part of me was still capable of decision making was trying to get help, since I wrecked very close to a hospital ER that would require me to drive out of my usual way to get to.
2·2 months agoI mean, they will pay them. And then charge more for product to cover the additional cost. It’s a lot easier to tolerate that in the short term if you’re bigger.
I find it amusing they though they’d be safe from the increased tariffs under a de minimis limit. That’s a thing that could have happened, but that tends to benefit small purchasers over large ones which is the opposite of GOP thinking and is also no something Trump et al had ever mentioned, so I don’t know why they would expect it?
For anyone that doesn’t know, de minimis is a tariff exception for small purchases, basically that it’s not worth the administrative cost of levying the tariff for fiddling small change, so if it’s a small enough shipment they won’t bother.
workers,…not white Americans!
None of them include workers in that list, because most of them are white Americans, but are also workers. The whole point is “I want them to hurt people who are not like me, not people who are me!”
Shit even my in laws say they are centrist, they don’t hold a single view that’s centrist. They vote down ticket republican their whole lives. This is a thing republicans do.
I voted a mixed ticket until 2016. Then straight blue until 2024, and only one exception in 2024 and she was was a city seat that I knew and could knock on her door and yell at in person if she did something I didn’t like.
Or to pick more immediately pertinent examples, RFK is a an idiot, but he supports banning some food additives that are already banned elsewhere for good reasons, Trump is an idiot, but he wants to end daylight savings time. Both are good ideas, despite support from terrible people and being supported by those terrible people doesn’t make them suddenly terrible ideas.
That’s what they said. You get given a choice between “drag things farther to the right” and “do nothing”, with a system designed to always collapse into two functional parties, knowing you’re too terrified of “drag things farther to the right” to meaningfully challenge “do nothing.”
It’s like a political ratchet.
Basically the same thing happened twenty years later with Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who made a discovery that’s essential to figuring distances in space. She noticed something while working as a computer at Harvard College Observatory that eventually became known as Leavitt’s Law. Her Nobel nomination was halted because she passed away and the award is not given posthumously. Hubble’s work heavily relied on hers.