Comment Re:Crime details (Score 1) 64
Have you ever considered that pointing out that "x is bad" does not in any way imply "y is good".
Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 2) 27
Because Youtube is about half AI slop these days.
If "3x more" means proportional, then TT must be about 150% slop.
Probably a pretty good estimate...
Comment Re:Crime details (Score 1) 64
If only he had lived in the US, he could have appealed to the Supreme Court!
Or "donate" to an appropriate "charity".
Comment Re:Does this mean Sam Altman's going to prison? (Score 2) 64
What tripe. Heart surgeons? Structural engineers? You sound like a cliche machine. Please, find me an example of this fantasy. Spend the tokens, bitch.
When I registered for college, during the orientation they said that pre-meds are the group most frequently caught cheating.
Money is a big motivator. And not always for the good.
Submission + - About that DC terror plot
An anonymous reader writes: How come this disappeared from the news so fast? When I search for updates on the story all I can find is repeats of the week-old stories of five arrests, and some mentions that their trial may be held outside DC.
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
Comment Color me skeptical. (Score 1) 1
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Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 1) 27
Alas, pretty soon you won't even be able to find real porn.
Comment cue Juvenal (attributed) (Score 1) 85
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Perhaps appropriately, the original context had to do with someone trying to control his wife.
Comment Re:For those who don't get it... (Score 1) 28
Are you going to make Welsh the national language?
No!!! Even the Celts were interlopers.
And probably not the first.
Comment Re:A mirror into the future of the West. (Score 4, Insightful) 28
And this is somehow better "In the East"?
No, it's just that we naively didn't expect it from "the West".
Comment "fake" (Score 3, Insightful) 34
is the new "normal".
Comment Re:Child harm? (Score 1) 106
ISTM that the perps are most often social conservatives, such as leaders of regressive religions.
If that's the case, I shudder to think what it was like in the Middle Ages. Or in certain countries today.
Comment Re:Hmmm, so far.... (Score 2) 47
"No money exchanged hands in the making of this contract."
Comment Re:The Rubber Hits The Road NOW. (Score 0) 289
But, will capital flight strike California like so many have claimed.
Fleeing with hoarded money isn't likely to hurt the state.
Comment Re:Actual California Voter here. (Score 1) 289
IIRC, moderately high wages are taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.
