We know a bunch of ways to kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, we usually want to avoid killing the non-cancerous ones, which is considerably harder to do.

I wager we could get New Hampshire, Vermont, or Texas to challenge the uniform time act as a violation of the 9th amendment just for the fun of it.

I wouldn’t put it past California, either.

Most laptops or other portable computers are not repairable. Heck, even desktops these days are highly integrated with often just three chips and maybe a graphics card inserted into a motherboard.

If you really want reduced telemetry, switch to Linux NOW and only use systems that F/OSS folk approve of.

If you don’t need a PC for gaming, consider something like a raspberry pi.

LLMs are only about as useful in law practice as a uber-caffinated non-lawyer. The things simply don’t know the law, and any argument it may create should be checked with the same thoroughness that a lawyer would give that of a associate who was revealed to have had super early-onset dementia.

If you’re in the situation of going to court and are thinking of trusting the advice you get from a LLM, dont. You’d be better off appearing “pro se” with advice from the sovereign citizen movement.

(I mean, so long as you don’t try that admiralty court / all-caps pseudo-corp bullshit. The law is written in a keyword-less syntax with a case-insensitive parser. )

It was the message for when the phone service was disconnected. While this often happens after the person dies, it could have also meant they were away for an extended time. (Such as "I’m going to stay with my daughter for a few weeks after the birth of my grandchild.)

Absent other explanations, though, death is a probable explanation.for a grandmother’s phone being disconnected.

(Note that “poor with no money” is also possible, since phones cost money.)

Because, unlike oil, humans are a renewable resource.

Like, oil, however, too many of us is unsustainable.

AI will likely be similar to Asimov’s robot series, but just a bit grittier.

• Useful almost-human thing we don’t know if it’s a person or not
• Ubiquitous and relatively harmless
• Winds up killing millions if we put it in charge.

Better. That actually supports the assertion that Russia does engage in left-targeted disinformation (in Canada, on Twitter.)

It also supports the original point you dismissed as “wrong” – of the 90 “most influential” accounts, only 9 were subjectively identified as “Canadian far left”.

Maybe you should spend more time reading the actual articles, and not just their headlines?

True enough. But even a tyrannical government at least has a presumable intent of working for the betterment of its country. (Albeit through wrongheaded and small-minded means )

A.foreijgn power, especially a historical adversary and bad actor, is instead presumably working to harm or diminish us.

You presented it as proof that Russia is supporting misinformation on the left. To be that, it has to both include all three parts of the claim – that there is disinformation on the left, that Russia is covertly supporting disinformation, and that some of the disinformation on the left was supported by Russia.

If your wife sleeps around, and I engage in casual sex, it does not necessarily follow that I slept with your wife.

A common suspicion in America is that Vladimir Putin believes that Trump as POTUS is good for Russia, and that Putin interferes with US politics with a specific goal of helping Trump.

If you have some reporting that directly links Russia to left-wing disinformation I’d love to read it. But the BBC article I read after following your link didn’t have any such link.

Your article doesn’t seem to mention Russia once.

Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it’s essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.

The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.

25 is the age that some dude studying brains stopped looking, since it gets really hard to find study participants who are 7 years past freshmen in a university who’s longest tract is a 4 year undergraduate followed by a 3 year graduate.

Tech folk seem to not realize that “this image could have been faked!” has been a problem since the very first photographs.

Every step in evidence collection literally served to put someone’s name on it, so those people can go before a jury and say “yeah, that’s the stick i used to get the video from their security system”

They’re rarely called,.AFAIK, mostly because “that video must be faked” needs some corroborating evidence to be plausible. And for that matter, so does “this video shows him robbing my store!”

Follow up thought after dinner: AGP is also auto-misandry and a strong example of toxic masculinity.

For those not familiar with the term, it’s the idea that all trans men are only trans men because they think themselves sexually appealing as women. Which is fairly strongly disproven by “cis women feel that way, too”, but also exposes a wretched opinion about cis men.

We’re SUPPOSED to think that we’re sexually attractive. If we want to get laid that means we need to find someone who finds us attractive, and that’s damn hard when we can’t even think of ourselves as sexy.

“Unsettled science” is putting it far to charitably. From the second paragraph of that wikipedia article:

Scientific criticisms commonly made against Blanchard’s research include that the typology is unfalsifiable because Blanchard and other supporters regularly dismiss or ignore data that challenges the theory

You could keep reading that Wikipedia article down to its sections on “Transfeminist critique”, “Transgender men”, and “Societal impact.” I also recommend reading what Julia Serano wrote on the topic. (Which I find it to be a strong case that AGP is just bad science.) https://juliaserano.medium.com/making-sense-of-autogynephilia-debates-73d9051e88d3

Or, to be brief: AGP is transphobic because it reduces transgenderism to a sexual fetish. There are non-transgender cross-dressers and transgender men and women who are asexual or demisexual, not to mention thousands of definitely-transgender children who haven’t had a sexual thought in their lives.

Kindergartners are definitely old enough to understand “no touching without permission” and “no touching in the underwear zone period.”

When my kids were.tiny, we decided our bodily autonomy rule would be phrased as “the only times you’re allowed to touch someone else are in an emergency and with their permission.”

FWIW. I certainly grew up in an era where some adults didn’t even grasp "no means no "

Godwin himself pointed out that his law doesnt apply when discussing actual fascists.

By “association rights” I infer that you mean the right of free association.

If so, can you be a little bit more specific as to whose “association rights”, specifically, are a more important issue than the right of trans folk to get healthcare, be free from discrimination, and be able to play sports without being harassed?

My inclination is that the most important targets to defend against facist oppression are the ones being targeted, which does suggest one plausible answer, but I really do want to know what you meant in your post.

Please tell.me that you have better sources in the UK than I, and that their recent transphobic swing didn’t make trans care harder to get and keep.

There is a bunch of normalized transphobia in America. That certain views are shared by elected politicians doesn’t make them not transphobic.

“Trans allies aren’t even bothering to debate this white guy, they’re just calling him names” isn’t proof of anything more than the frustration of said allies. It’s essentially the same thing as “Trump derangement syndrome”.

If we want to argue that someone is or isn’t transphobic, it would be a better use of everyone’s time to focus on what they actually said and what justifications their critics give for applying that label.