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Comment Re:The Itsukushima girl is an absolute Karen (Score 1) 73

They had set out to descend after sunset, and I don't remember seeing any lights on the path. Even a paved road can be dangerous in pitch black.

This. I've had to descend a mountain as the sun was going down once (got stuck at the top due to weather for some time, and when it let up enough for a safe descent, it was late). It's absolutely not fun, even when there's still some light. Had it been dark, I think I would've taken my chances staying at the top rather than going down.

That said, anyone not a complete idiot checks things like "time of last cable car" a) in person, b) at the day, c) at the location. Because even there is an official website that is well-maintained (and that's already two big if's) things might change at the location due to weather, workers being ill, no tourists that day or whatever.

Also, checking in person means at least one other person knows that you're up there.

Comment Thank Project 2025 (Score 2, Insightful) 197

They've been pushing this narrative that media can't be trusted. This then allows them to shape stories to fit their own right-wing agenda. Witness for the past 5 years all the whining about a "stolen" election. Almost every day for Biden's term that fake story was pushed out, mainly by their stooge Trump, but definitely put out there on other sites and roundly repeated by the dullard MAGA crowd.

Never mind that the Fox tabloid jumped wholeheartedly on this bandwagon and got bitchslapped for almost $800 million for pusing the lie, or that several attorneys were either suspended from pracitce, criminally charged, or disbarred for repeating the lie in court. Nope, the election was stolen and the media is lying because . . . reasons.

Then of course there are the calls of "FAKE!" every time the truth is put out. Such as when repeating the decaying coleslaw words of dear leader Trump. Repeat his own words and you're called out for being "fake news".

What makes this story so hilarious is that the same people who claim to have low to no trust in media are the first ones to go rushing to the same media to see who the new white guy is shotting up a church or school. They want to see if their biased perceptions are true and when the story doesn't match what they think, they claim the story is false because . . . reasons.

Even more hilarious is when people claim they no longer listen to the media but instead get their news from various social media sites. Where do they think the people posting screenshots are getting their information from?

Turmp is right. Smart people don't like him because he caters to the poorly educated (a group he says he loves) who will lap up any bs he or Project 2025 or the late Charlie Kirk spit out. Because instead of looking at reality, they want to believe there is some vast conspiracy by news media to lie to them, to withhold the truth. Except, when the truth is out there, these same people claim it's all lies. They can't have it both ways (they can, but it shows their stupidity). Either you have to accept these people are doing their jobs reporting on corruption, reporting on who's doing what underhanded thing, who's committing genocide, or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose like all the Senators and Representatives who claim the election was stolen, except for their election.

Comment Re:Confirmation (Score 1) 35

Meta has been banning people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust - the official charity established and funded by the UK Government to promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) in the UK.

The only moral thing to do with every Meta entity - Facebook, Instagram, etc. - is to ignore it. Let your account go fallow or better yet, disable.

Mark Zuckerberg is a disgusting fucking Nazi, and all his companies are 100% tainted.

Comment Why bother? (Score 4, Interesting) 78

The FCC said it would consider public comments before deciding whether to reverse the rule

The decision has already been made. They'll probably use fake comments like they did in his first term. Went looking for the quote, but a guy wondered how his dead mother was able to submit a public comment.

This will be no different than RFK, Jr saying in April he'll find a cause for autism by September. And look what happened.

Comment Re: Quit pretending it's about cost (Score 1) 107

Putting one in New York never really made sense to me, because the state of New York had aproximately nothing to do with the shuttle program other than providing a museum at the end and probably contributing some astronauts to the program.

Eyeballs. Compare the number of people who visit New York City to Houston. New York City attracts 60 - 68 million visitors each year. Houston attracts roughly 54 million.

NYC also has more international visitors than Houston so more people from around the world would get to see a shuttle.

Comment Re:Pointless though it may be. (Score 1) 120

The police have to follow a legal process or the city gets sued. While parking citations are technically issued to vehicles and the registered owner is ultimately responsible to clear those citations, moving violations are issued to vehicle operators and the issuance of those citations require specific data that cannot be gathered from an autonomous vehicle.

These are the operational issues that SHOULD HAVE been sorted out prior to the vehicles being allowed to operate in public, but it wasn't until last year when a bill was passed (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1777) that got us a TINY BIT closer to holding a company responsible for the actions of their autonomous vehicles' actions.

CVC 38752
          (a) A “notice of autonomous vehicle noncompliance” means a notice issued by a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, that identifies, at minimum, an alleged violation of this code or an alleged violation of a local traffic ordinance adopted pursuant to this code by an autonomous vehicle while the autonomous technology is engaged, the date, time, and location of the alleged violation, and the license plate number of the vehicle.

          (b) A peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, may issue a notice of autonomous vehicle noncompliance upon observing an alleged violation of this code or an alleged violation of a local traffic ordinance adopted pursuant to this code.

          (c) A manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle shall provide any issued notice of autonomous vehicle noncompliance to the department within 72 hours of issuance, or within a timeframe otherwise determined by the department. The department shall make available a means by which the manufacturer can provide the notice.

          (d) The issuance of a notice of autonomous vehicle noncompliance shall not create a presumption that the autonomous vehicle is unsafe and shall not limit the manufacturer’s ability to contest the nature or occurrence of an alleged violation identified in the notice.

          (e) This section shall not become operative until the department issues regulations addressing notices of autonomous vehicle noncompliance, as required by Section 38750.

Comment Lots of "404 Media" Links, Don't Want Account (Score 2) 224

So, there have been a lot of 404 Media articles showing up on Slashdot as of late and they seem to do very interesting journalism, but I'm not going to create yet another account to read an article. Is there a way for Slashdot to share a bit more of the article so we're not all just trying to form opinions and partake in discussions having only read a summary?

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