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Comment Re:Not just there (Score 5, Informative) 140

There are multiple sites in the ocean off Southern California including dumped munitions, low level radioactive waste, sulfuric acid, and toxic petrochemicals chemicals.

There is a Superfund site at he former location of the Montrose Chemical Corporation in Torrance where much of the DDT related waste was illegally dumped off Palos Verdes.

The full extent of the problem is still unknown. “The more we look, the more we find, and every new bit of information seems to be scarier than the last... This has shown just how egregious and harmful the dumping has been off our nation’s coasts, and that we have no idea how big of an issue and how big of a problem this is nationally."

Comment Re:Kimmel Doesn't Want to give Republicans a Platf (Score 1) 279

Kimmel would love giving equal air time to a Green Party candidate. He'd make it entertaining and enlightening. Great television. He'd take his show down to Texas to accommodate Paxton for an interview, but it might be hard to pry Paxton out from whatever rock he's hiding under.

As far as allowing Democratic Socialists airtime, the FCC doesn't consider them to be any different than any other Democrats so it's a no go.

Trump has already called Democrats "godless communists", so that is the official party line. FCC clearly thinks that commies have no free speech rights at all, so no Talarico over the airwaves for you.

Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2) 279

Where's my $2000 from DOGE savings? Does no one remember the last time? How fucking brain dead do you have to be to not remember?

Also his offer is completely illegal and no one seems to be talking about that little detail.

Trump and the Republicans think that voters are whores and will sell their rights for an empty promise. I'm afraid they might be right.

Comment Re:Google caves to petty dictators (Score 1) 93

This just in! The TV Show South Park is rebranding to South America.

It makes perfect sense because they're under the umbrella of the Trump controlled state media organization Skydance/Paramount and they're following the lead of Google and Apple in groveling to the current regime. Trey and Matt are Patriotic Americans who obviously support the flag and all it stands for and would never produce anything that would challenge our Orange Cheeto Fearless Leader.

Comment The building is almost as big as Lucas's ego (Score 1) 40

When Lucas started funding the USC film school one of his conditions was that they get rid of all their film projection equipment. The art history department kept theirs, so if someone wanted to show a physical flat strip of media with square hole sprockets they had to go to another part of campus.

That's an object example of how bloated his ego is. He consciously eliminated the physical media history of motion pictures because he thought digital was superior.

Comment Re:adverse training for students (Score 1) 33

"For an assignment testing students' ability to make evidence-based arguments, they participate in a simulated school board meeting about banning books. It involves debating chatbots designed by Zeleny with names like the Confrontational Parent."

This a VERY thinly veiled parallel to a hotly divided political issue that teachers/unions [and chatbot trained bias] tend be on one side of and the majority of the public, parents, and truth on the opposite of. Given that adults of the highest levels of performance in our society, be it professional achievement, economic achievement, political achievement, IQ, and education disagree on the matter it sounds like what the teacher is likely testing is alignment with her own ideology and not evidence-based arguments.

I saw the same thing in many of my own courses, examples and material used in classes [especially logic classes like critical thinking] that taught and test concepts through distilled 'analogs' to popular political issues with an attempt to appear neutral and present both sides while actually presenting a weakened strawman of one side the argument and consistently that strawman was on the same side. Cleverly these were not the topics for essays where students spent effort on time and research and independent thought but the class examples that most would never look at additional material on... simply walk away believing they formed a valid independent judgement at the pinnacle of their own education.

Comment Re:AI is mandatory, vaccines are optional (Score 1) 131

This is a general problem with mass market capitalism not limited to the medical sector. Walk into any large supermarket and it's stuffed with ultra-processed food that is not good for anybody. Relatively young adults are increasingly getting diseases of the old and bad diet is a big cause.

The reason that vaccines are real science is that outcomes can be reliably predicted. For prescription medicine the cost effectiveness and possible negative results are closely monitored and very well understood. That's science.

For AI no one can predict the cost./benefit, or even the actual cost. The social and environmental impact is deliberately being ignored. How big is the impact on infrastructure? Everyone knows the cost of water and power is being passed on to the general population while it is equally clear the the monetary benefits are primarily going to a select group of insiders and economic elites.

I'm very familiar with right wing tactics on Slashdot and you fit the bill. It's the pretend rational objection of casting doubt on established norms with a dash of conspiracy theory thrown in to spice things up.

You are a stealth anti-vax propagandist who pretends to be a rational voice. You may or may not use vaccines yourself since your side is ripe with hypocrisy. Do you think anyone in the high level Trump camp in vaccine free? (Maybe RFK Jr, but he has diagnosed holes in his brain due to parasitic worms.)

I look forward to your explosive diarrhea during the upcoming toilet paper shortage and likely hospital admission due to the consumption of tainted mystery meat from an undisclosed foreign location.

Comment Re:Seriously, what do you guys think of this? (Score 1) 233

I very much look forward to your explosive diarrhea, with additional hospitalization caused by tainted mystery meat from undisclosed foreign locations.

And I still haven't received my $2000 refund from DOGE government savings. Please send me a cashiers check for that amount and I'll pay you back without interest when the money arrives in the mail. Assuming that there is any public mail service left.

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