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Captainant

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  1. You DO realize the Southern Strategy was an explicit effort to conflate economic and social issues, so that they could attack social issues like integration using economic terms? That muddying of the waters is a very successful republican strategy
  2. None of the cases are about actual justice or following the law. This is yet another instance of turning shields into swords.
  3. The trade agreement is a reciprocal 15% tariff, which is considerably higher than what was in place prior to the current tariff regime. Not sure why a significantly and artificially higher COGS is going to trigger a rise, aside from LGU economics
  4. The subplot there is the tech bro oligarch hitching their wagon to crypto without realizing they're aligning their economic incentives with putin
  5. it still cracks me up that imma made the thread titled "Immamac is a fascist" - nobody had called him that, but he made that the discussion with his moderation decision
  6. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/venezuelan-makeup-artist-returns-home-describes-torture-during-el-salvador-2025-07-23/ CAPACHO, Venezuela, July 23 (Reuters) - A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death." Andry Hernandez, 32, and the other detainees returned to Venezuela on Friday as part of a prisoner exchange, after spending four months in El Salvador's CECOT prison, where they and the Venezuelan government allege they were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food. "Many of our fellows have wounds from the nightsticks; they have fractured ribs, fractured fingers and toes, marks from the handcuffs, others have marks on their chests, on their face ... from the projectiles," Hernandez told journalists at his home in Capacho, near the Colombian border. U.S. President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport the men, who his government accuses of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang, without normal immigration procedures. The deportations sparked a legal battle led by civil rights groups. Families and lawyers of many of the men have denied they have gang ties. Hernandez, detained at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration, had an active asylum case when he was deported to CECOT. His case was widely covered in the media. Advocates in the U.S. have voiced concerns that Hernandez, who is gay, faces risks in Venezuela due to LGBTQ persecution. The U.S. alleged Tren de Aragua membership based on his tattoos: crowns on his wrists that read "mom" and "dad."
  7. maybe deciding to allow giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit was a bad call
  8. Geeee WHERE OH WHERE have I seen attempts to paint Zelensky as corrupt?
  9. Doesn't south that different from Vidor, TX tbh. Arkansas at least has the decency to be honest about their hate
  10. "homes priced $100-250k" is describing basically the entire US residential housing market for the not "high end of the market". Those still rose 5%. And I'd bet the houses in the tranche above that rose in price too, since I just sold a house in that range for almost 15% more than I bought it 5 years ago The foreign and domestic buyers buying purely as an investment vehicle are the far greater issue driving home price inflation. They bought an asset and goddamn it they're entitled to a fucking profit so home prices MUST go up
  11. The episode that would follow that boondoggle would be an all-timer lololol
  12. TBH you seem to be the only person actively cheering on people getting arrested/deported specifically at a school. ICE has come for minors at little league practice, and deported minors and separated them from their parents in the process. That's just as bad, IMO. Your posts seem to think its not a big deal because it doesn't meet your arbitrary criteria. You are again reverting back to ignoring the facts of reality in favor of beating a point that nobody but you is emphasizing.
  13. You're latching onto this like a dog with a bone and refusing to address what's happening. Seemingly in bad faith. A father had his window smashed out and dragged out of his car while driving his daughter to school - I guess that doesn't count either then? Is your problem that rhetoric is too aggressive or something? Because if THAT is your problem, then boy howdy, wow.
  14. BattleTech! My new LGS has a good group running the Battle of Tukayyid as part of a big ass Clan Invasion campaign. I'm pretty familiar with the breadth of the rules from playing for decades with my dad and buddies, so I think it'll be a good acid test for something that's actually useful. My M4 MBP should have enough juice to run it all locally - at least that's the theory I'm testing You can spend a BUNCH of time trying to find the right rule for this specific instance, and it would be nice to have a citation machine that can point out the specific rules that tell me what modifiers I get, or if there REALLY is a rule for ripping your opponents mech arm off and beating them with it
  15. If you can lingustically frame it such that you have it acting as a "GM" for a tabletop game, or frame it as a fantasy setting that removes the real world context, the models guardrails get fuzzy extremely fast. If you're asking those questions only to the hosted chat application, you're going to have a different experience from directly querying the LLM that underlies the chat apps of OpenAI, DeepSeek, Ollama, et al. The hosted chat applications basically all have a postprocessing layer to check for the case you're describing, but the models that large enterprises host don't. That lack of built-in guardrails for the technology is a big part of why businesses that are chasing """AI""" workloads are deferring to foundational model providers rather than assume that liability themselves. Granted, the infamous $1 car sale happend on openAI's chatGPT application, but that was prior to many of the guardrails that now exist as standard
  16. when you start to use a metric as a goal or target, it ceases to be a useful metric precisely because it starts to be manipulated Again - chatGPT is NOT a large langue model. It's an application build on top of an LLM. If you are running an LLM yourself, you can give it whatever direction you want and override any sort of moral framework that the authors tried to instill into it. In this case, chatGPT has those guardrails hardcoded into its prompts and also sitting between the LLM response and the user, in case someone "jailbreaks" the model.
  17. This is a garbage in::garbage out problem. The LLM's have that tendency because it existed in the training data used to build its probabilistic model of natural language interactions. It feels like it's just scaling up the existing problem with outsourced technical solutions. Yeah, you might get something that works, but it's extremely narrow to just that context. If you try to get it to build something general for multiple problems, you find yourself spending as much time as just developing it yourself. Except you're spending a shitton more in resources to get the same result
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  19. it seems like Twitter/X and Insta have been having some serious embedding issues lately, and have been adopting dark patterns like redirect loops to make it harder to leave their site
  20. I've gotta steal an excellently cited post that lays out the timeline with contemporaneous news or court filings cited for each timeline event: February 16, 2017: Alex Acosta nominated Secretary of Labor. July 2, 2019: Jeffrey Epstein indicted. July 12, 2019: Alex Acosta resigns. August 10, 2019: Epstein dies by suicide. June 20, 2020: Trump fires Geoffrey Berman from SDNY who indicted Epstein June 29, 2020: Ghislaine Maxwell indicted. March 29, 2021: Maxwell's Superseding indictment. November 16, 2021: Maxwell Jury selection begins. December 29, 2021: Maxwell convicted on 5 of 6 counts. February 28, 2023: Maxwell appeals. September 17, 2024: Second Circuit rejects appeal. January 15, 2025: Maxwell delays SCOTUS appeal until Trump is inaugurated March 2025: Pam Bondi conducts emergency review of Epstein and Maxwell documents. April 10, 2025: Maxwell files cert petition at SCOTUS May 7, 2025: Trump's Solicitor General John Sauer delays SCOTUS response. June 6, 2025: Trump's Solicitor General John Sauer delays SCOTUS response again July 7, 2025: Pam Bondi claims there’s no there there. July 8, 2025: Trump loses it over questions about Epstein. July 12, 2025: Trump attempts to claim Epstein is a Democratic plot. July 14, 2025: DOJ defends Maxwell prosecution at SCOTUS July 15, 2025: WSJ interviews Trump about Epstein Birthday Book July 16, 2025: Pam Bondi fires Maurene Comey (Maxwell's prosecutor), on Trump’s personal authority. July 17, 2025: Trump yells at supporters who won’t move on from Epstein. July 18, 2025: Trumps defense lawyer Todd Blanche files to unseal Maxwells grand jury materials July 22, 2025: Mike Johnson shuts US House until September to avoid Epstein vote
  21. Wow, Congress just shut down until September to avoid voting on the record on releasing the Epstein files. Totally nothing there though, let's get on to the important business like making the commanders redskins again
  22. it's incredibly frustrating that they're slashing NASA's budget but allocating money for boondoggles like this that do NOTHING to further their science mission
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