Enjoyer of political violence falls victim to political violence. Oh no! /s

If these guys were themselves pacifists who prided themselves on giving every idea a fair hearing, I guess I would have a problem with any assassinations. As it is, there’s just one side trying to unilaterally manifest a certain level of civility. One that unfortunately doesn’t seem to exist.

Edit: I believe this complies with rule 6. Lack of concern about violence isn’t the same thing as advocacy.

They’ve really carved out a niche as being just outside the level of militancy that’s politically correct. Punk is back, I guess.

Yeah, I was thinking, depending on the kind of hotpot that’s not an out-of-order ingredient. Clearly, even in China that’s a weird and challenging local delicacy, though, so these teenagers got uber-fined.

That is the vibe the UK government gives in particular sometimes. There’s been a few issues over the past decade and a bit where they just haven’t given a fuck about privacy, free speech or recourse against the authorities.

It’s mistake to think that way, though, because the nation actually is a democracy now.

So they destroyed a priceless artwork, and are essentially planning to kill graffiti Santa next.

I wonder who’s ordering this, and if they’re aware it will not help the public opinion problem they’re having.

Ah, so like Spain. And Slovenia, apparently.

[Sad Australia noises]

Watermelons are specifically a Gaza thing as well, which is probably part of it.

Amazing level of critical thinking going on at the window when they didn’t double check that, lol.

See, this is why I thought AI drivethroughs would be fine. A certain number of mistakes are already made.

Oh shit, I didn’t even notice that part. Yup, that’s a whopper, and not the kind you eat.

Ear drums are better than microphones

What do you mean about this part? A quality microphone is basically the same thing, although the impedance matching is achieved different ways.

As somebody pointed out, burning fossil fuels in reverse also takes just as much energy as you’d expect. I never said the general idea was actually practical, certainly not right now.

Like, a lot more energy. You’re literally burning fossil fuels in reverse. And the electrolysis part is way more involved, even if it does exist on small scales for, like, space travel applications.

EZ, but yes, totally economically unfeasible any time soon.

Yeah, I guess you’d need some kind of arm or something to put the screen across. And then I guess you’d have to worry about it being damaged. Meanwhile, hiccups aside, an LLM is pretty much a drop-in solution.

With them I’m willing to just put it down to general crazyness.

The damage on the ground was insane, by the way. Hail isn’t unusual here, nor hail damage. Usually it messes up roofing, knocks over crops and dents cars. Maybe smashes windshields if it’s really bad, that’s it. This time it basically ground off the top foot of anything soft. Crops were reduced to just stumps.

Accounts I’ve gotten from the people directly under it make me think it was more wind and quantity than raw size.

I mean, unskilled just means minimal extra training is needed, not that it’s not complicated. Actual non-complicated jobs were automated last century in the West.

I actually don’t know why entering your own order hasn’t taken off more, come to think of it.

It actually crashed, per the article. Presumably because it failed a sanity check.

Ah, an aircraft carrier. That makes more sense.

For whatever reason I forgot about those momentarily. That was weird.