I'd say "used to" in the sense that... there aren't many newspapers left... I remember there being.. maybe 10 different publishers.. NYT, LAT, The Tribune, The Union, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, (and maybe Barons if you were in a more affluent area) and then a handful of purely "local" (city/suburb) smaller papers.

How many now? 3 or 4?

That's it? And the common thinking in the USA that we can do whatever benefits us?

Weird.. We have all sorts of laws that make it criminal to do things that fuck over the citizens of whatever country you call home. Odd that we'd do that.. And that most of those laws have the.. support of the vast majority of our citizens. One small example: One of us goes over there and fucks one of your underage citizens, and after that person is done doing whatever amount of time in one of your prisons, that y'all have specified, and has been deported back here.. They're gonna do a fuck-ton more time.. Travelling abroad to engage in that activity is a serious federal crime. I'd guess that law probably has about.. 99% support..

Or is this about you fucks and your quaint little idea that there's something, somehow, immoral at the current round of geopolitics? 10,000 years of human societies, warfare, politics, and suddenly, in the last... 60 years or so, it's now unacceptable? Because a bunch of dead fucks said it was? Hey, at least he's going after fucking dictators.. primarily..

I hope you aren't' one of those hypocritical Europeans.. Actually I do.. I can have some real fun with that..

Try it, genius. Try exporting some GPU's to China. I dare you.. Try it..

You're Exhibit A for why nobody should listen to you fucking idiots.

Window-Licker.. Yeah.. there's an offensive word... Someone who licks a window.. And yet, somehow, you've done the mental gymnastics to come up with a way to be offended by it, on behalf of other people.

Someone called an Autistic person a spaz or a window-licker and to you, that simply wasn't acceptable.......

Unless you're an Autistic person or you have Down's Syndrome, sit down and shut the fuck up. Your opinion on the matter carries ZERO weight.

You aren't a member of that marginalized group. So why the fuck are you speaking for them? is it because you think they're helpless and can't speak for themselves? Is that why you elected yourself to be the Defender of the Window-Lickers and the Retards? That's a pretty severe superiority complex you got.. and it appears to be coupled with some rather strong prejudices that are fairly evident....

You know they come in degrees, right? Right, asshole? Plenty of people with Down's Syndrome out there who can operate at a reasonably high-level.. Some of 'em are even competent enough to legally wed (enter into contracts). I.e. they can tell us what they want to be called... THEY can tell us what offends them...

You egotistical, self-righteous, bitch... Where the fuck do you get off?

It's offensive to you.. It's not offensive to me. I don't care what you think of me for that... But that's why we don't fuck with speech, retard.

By the way, assclown, we haven't used that word, in common speech, to describe a person with Down's Syndrome in about three decades. And it's been 16 years since the word was removed from all official government use.

The word, itself, is a legitimate word. It has a definition and history. It means exactly what it means. "To slow or to delay" and was a perfectly goddamn good word to apply to people with Down's Syndrome, at the time. Their development was restricted, delayed, slowed-down.

But every time some asshole starts using a word in a "bad way", you fucktards take it upon yourselves to attempt to force the entirety of society to start using another word.. Which, inevitably, start's being used the same fucking way the previous word was used.

It's never-ending with you overly-sensitive retards.

Mentally Retarded -> Mentally Handicapped -> Mentally Disabled -> Mentally challenged -> Developmentally Disabled -> TO WHAT??

For fuck's sake, you idiots decided that Handicapped was "bad". Fuck the lot of you..

There are plenty of software packages that will restrict what your kids can access. And not a single effing site on the internet, that isn't based in the US, will have to follow this stupid goddamn law.

There are no minors in my household. I don't need or want your bullshit code added to my OS.

How many minors can setup a computer without their parents knowing? How about any fucking kid with $100? It's called a laptop, you clown. Used ones are super cheap on Ebay... Last one I bought was $150. And, No.. It isn't hard to install Linux anymore. No more difficult than Windows for most people.. Works pretty much the same too..

What a crock of shit. Nice fucking straw-man, loser. You think you're being clever? So anyone who opposes this shit is a closet pedo? That what you're trying to pull, bitch?

And?

What's the solution? Neuter the LLM's so they can't help with creative writing assignments?

It's a fucking LLM. It's not an intelligence. It didn't "choose" to do any of that shit. It can only respond to input.

You can't fix everything. And not everything has a blame. This guy was fucking mental.. End of Story. If you want to find failure, look at the system.

You can't tell an LLM to not "make shit up".. Because it'll become useless overnight. Half of 'em are being used to CREATE. And not everything they're creating falls into the category of "Non-fiction".

I don't know how often this is occurring. Not the first instance I've read about. Won't be the last. But unless we've got some statistically significant amount of people losing it, then DO NOTHING. Of course, I have no doubt that some asshole in my state government (CA) is already working on drafting a bill....

10 morons, offing themselves, over the course of even a single year, is not a reason to do a SINGLE GODDAMN THING. There's 350,000,000 people in this country. You don't draft legislation and impose the compliance tax on an entire industry unless there is a real problem. This is not a real problem.

That is my understanding as well. Nuke info is just about the only thing he cannot unilaterally declassify.. But that's one thing out of a an awful lot.. So.. what? 99.99% of stuff?

Key Aspects of Presidential Declassification Authority
Broad Power: As the ultimate classification authority, the president can unilaterally declassify most national security information.
Methods: While a formal process exists (involving written memos, agency consultation, and re-marking), a president can direct the declassification of documents through an executive order or direct, clearly communicated action.

Biden took his home when he was the VP. The VP has zero power to declassify documents. He's not the assistant President. The President could, should he choose, strip the VP of his security clearances or exclude him from everything. A perfect example is Truman. FDR kept that fucker in the dark about EVERYTHING. Truman didn't know about the Manhattan Project, only had two meetings with FDR for his entire 82-day Vice-Presidency (FDR died 83 days after his fourth election), and was excluded from the map room where the US war plan was being developed. The VP has only two jobs.. Wait for the President to die and cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate (which Vance did a few days ago). The VP used to preside over the Senate (a constitutional duty) but that stopped being a thing back in the 1950's.

Trump took his documents home while he was President. There's no crime there.. He is the highest authority (any sitting President is) on classification. He can un-classify a document by verbal decree. A VP can't change the classification on a fucking Fortune Cookie (yes, this applies to Vance - and I'd say the same thing if he got caught with classified documents at his home after he leaves office)

The point is, the difference was their jobs at the time.

I have several individuals that target me. I have extreme opposing political views and can be pretty caustic. I totally get it when those are downvoted.. But the rest is just them being petty.

No.. Most of them aren't scientists. If they're piloting a US military aircraft, you can bet your ass they have a degree, though. While the US military, in general, doesn't usually require that your degree matches the field you operate in, there are far more people who want to be a "fighter pilot" than they have slots for. i.e. they get to be quite choosy.. The USAF (for example) gives heavy consideration to applicants with degrees in STEM fields and even higher consideration to those folks with aeronautical related degrees. Most pilots are actually highly-educated individuals. I don't know what movies you're watching that have given rise to your delusion that pilots are ignorant about the physics and theory behind the planes they operate, at the limits of human endurance. Even if the person coming in doesn't have a great grasp of "science details" on shit like sonic booms and the shock waves created as a jet approaches Mach 1.0, you can bet your ass that student pilot is taught all of that before they are given command of a $100 million fighter jet.

USAF fighter pilot training takes roughly 2.5 to 4 years total after commissioning, including Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT, ~1 year), Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF, ~3 months), and the specific fighter aircraft's Basic Course (B-Course, ~9 months)

I'm actually stunned that you would even suggest such a thing... You know how I know? I was there. I enlisted as a technician in the USAF during the first Gulf War. Officers weren't stupid. Some were assholes. Some were inexperienced. Not one was uneducated. I think, even all the way back then, anybody with 2 stars or more had a doctorate degree. If you wanted a colonel's eagle, you better get yourself a master's degree...

#1. For the love of God, go read up on the CONCORDE. After that, do a quick search on Boom Supersonic's "Overture". For F's sake..... The Concorde is no longer a thing because of cost. Not because they couldn't figure out how to move a 100+ people faster than the speed of sound, without turning them into meat-paste, you goober.

Yes. That's why it's impossible to accelerate past light speed. Because you couldn't see the stars or light would stretch backwards.. Or maybe a shock-wave would build up and damage your spacey-ship. Has nothing to do with E=MC2. (You know, Einstein's energy / mass equivalency equation.) Quantum mechanics in no way suggests that matter cannot equal or exceed light-speed because kinetic energy is real energy. The more kinetic energy an object possesses, the more that energy contributes to its inertia (resistance to changes in velocity). But hey, I was just an enlisted idiot who liked to read books on physics when there wasn't anything compelling on TV..

As a lowly, non-degreed, formerly enlisted idiot, I understand enough to know you to say this: Ah, the irony

No, no. I'm not suggesting we obtain the salt by Desalinization. But my state has a lot of Desalinization plants ALREADY in operation for drinking water purposes. Rather than dumping all that salt back into the ocean.....That's where I was going with that..

My state can use THAT SALT rather than importing it from some state that mines it...

Oh, screw you and your outrage. Don't like the joke? Fine.. Everybody has different tastes in humor, but you don't get to decide what others find funny, assclown. Plenty of us like dark humor. I bet you're the kind of cunt that goes to comedy shows and say the same shit to comedians on stage.