My emphasis was more on Newsom not ordering them to stand down. They’re under his command until a legal order from the POTUS supercedes his command.

Cars aren’t disruptive and dangerous are they?

Conservatives jump on anything and weaponize the tiniest bullshit. You can’t just cede a battleground because “oh well they might get their panties in a bunch”

Machine learning based pattern matching is indeed very useful and profitable when applied correctly. Identify (with confidence levels) features in data that would otherwise take an extremely well trained person. And even then it’s just for the cursory search that takes the longest before presenting the highest confidence candidate results to a person for evaluation. Think: scanning medical data for indicators of cancer, reading live data from machines to predict failure, etc.

And what we call “AI” right now is just a much much more user friendly version of pattern matching - the primary feature of LLMs is that they natively interact with plain language prompts.

Protests have to be disruptive to be heard. If they weren’t disruptive, people would ignore them.

Only places that have those foggers have produce bags.

Protestors used a ton of laser pointers in Chile a few years back. It was effective but the crowds using them were often hit back violently by the police.

Waah someone else was inconvenienced and now im personally mad at people on the internet

forget which sub you’re in?

You complain about one day of bikes being disorganized jerks in one place but you fail to reflect on how the automobile has utterly dominated the structure of all cities and urban areas. I think one is far more disruptive than the other and you’re focusing on the wrong.

OK that was a bit much. I thought you were saying you went and licked your fingers each time you opened the bag just before squeezing the store tomatoes to find the right one.

I know a large part of his doge dogs are independently rich. They were selected based on being lucky enough to be given daddy’s ceo job first, then dumb enough to listen to him next. You know the type.

The produce is all wet. Just touch the thing youre going to buy to get your fingers wet - not lick it you foul fuck

I switched from developing apps for sale to developing apps for use by internal customers. The dynamic shift was huge. I was always promoting fixes that would make our app more useful (and reducing technical debt) for our customers and I would get told no. Why? Because those fixes would often reduce income from services and maintenance.

Fuck that. The second I switched to producing for internal customers I was able to implement those changes and cut out huge amounts of shit that was left in place purely to cause external customers to purchase service contracts.

Customers DO know what’s right. VP of Sales DOES know what makes them money. The two things are often polar opposites.

I’m all for bike activism and fuck cars.

proceeds to selectively ignore their activism and promote car centric infrastructure and viewpoints

Trying to pin this on just one group of people won’t ever achieve anything. The whole point is to raise awareness and possibly have some fun while doing it. That woman who brazenly ignored the cops and recorded it on her phone while driving? Totally oblivious asshole who missed the entire point.

The entire name “critical mass” is based on the thinking that if there are enough cyclists on the road at once, then drivers wouldnt dare to drive through them. They organize with the city (a date and path are set and publicized) to force their bike traffic through town with the ultimate goal of trying to improve safety for cyclists.

Interestingly enough, your entire argument can be wrapped up with a bow that neatly provides justification for their protest. That is some special kind of woosh.

The buybacks are always bankrupted by guys showing up with 3d printed guns. What SHOULD be done is if it is 3d printed, they offer them the cost of the filament by weight and tell them the buyback is for people who aren’t trying to intentionally be pieces of shit and waste the money.

Legally I believe the National Guard must be mobilized for a legal reason and until Trump has identified an actual cause, he cannot mobilize them himself. So Newson should just order them to stand down.

Newson hasn’t done that though.

What about when the sex is … wrong?

Getting some Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson vibes

I sat in the aisle seat and I have no luggage in the overhead compartment so I am getting my place in line in front of the people who have to go back six rows to get their luggage because they’re too cheap to check their shit.