CoderKat

But it's the choice between pushing someone who isn't your opponent and maybe getting elected vs pushing "popular progressive agenda" and not getting elected. This is the district that elected Boebert twice. They don't want progressive. It's only through the sheer awfulness that Boebert is that there's even a chance.

Is he using heavy equipment without the appropriate safety gear? You're a loose cannon, Otter!

It's difficult, but not impossible. The GOP counts on making it just difficult enough to add a barrier that will discourage the least interested voters (and particularly in locations where their voter base isn't located). We still can combat those barriers. Eg, if your state has passed voter ID laws, spread the word well ahead of time and help people get ID. If your state has shitty placement of polling stations, help arrange transportation. Make sure people know about legal protections afforded to them for taking time off work to vote.

And above all, simply encourage voting and dispel misconceptions about "mY vOTe dOeSn'T MattER". Most people who don't vote are eligible, have means to do so, and aren't working the full stretch of polling station hours. They don't vote because they simply don't care or are discouraged.

Hey, it's been a while. Everything okay, OP?

I bet Gwyneth Paltrow secretly uses the bones of her victims to create more rocks to put up your vagina.

I've used Bitwarden heavily in various browsers and Android. It's really great and very effective at filling in passwords. Every now and then there's a site that does something weird to make it autofill a bit wonky, but I can only recall seeing that happen with registration forms (sometimes the enter + confirm your password fields seem to confuse it). It's near perfect at sign in forms that I've used.

I swear every single JRPG has some kind of precursor race. It's to the point where I'd be interested in seeing alternative ways to keep things fascinating. I actually do love the mystery that "mysterious vanished" precursor races bring, but surely they're not the only way to give that feeling?

As usual, the US's approach to the war on drugs can be summed up in one word: yiiiiiiiikes.

Congress is incapable of doing anything positive where drugs are concerned. Heck, "positive" for the US with drugs is usually along the lines of "we're now crushing fewer orphans than last year!" Drugs are such a minor crime that it's crazy to make companies snitch for that.

AI powered tooling is amazing. I already use it regularly for my work (I'm a programmer). It's primarily in the form of intelligent auto complete (lookup GitHub copilot for an example). But AI can also do stuff like catch some bugs, automatically address code review comments, etc. I look forward to seeing it being able to generate larger blocks accurately (in particular, I'd love it to automate test generation -- it currently can only handle very basic cases).

I'm sure other industries can benefit similarly. Eg,

• Video game level design could take in some assets you made in the theme of what you want and then generate slight variations. We've already had procedural generation of stuff like plants for ages (you can generate countless slightly different tree models, for example). This is just the next step into more complicated structures. For example, suppose you're making a huge office space, like in Control. Many desks and whiteboards in that game suffer from asset reuse. AI could help give slight variations to make the setting feel more natural.
• Graphics designers I'm sure already benefit from "magic eraser" functionality. It used to be time consuming to remove something from an image. Now it's easy. I'm sure the next step is generally easier image editing, like moving objects in an image (Google demoed something like that at I/O).
• Countless scientific uses, especially for chemistry and biology, because AI can be really great at constraint solving. We're already seeing this. Specialized AI is better than doctors at diagnosing certain tumors, for example.

But you can still DDoS with federation. I'm not sure how we'd avoid breaking the idea that anyone can make a server and start federating immediately. Federation naturally is an automated task, so can't get past this protection.

I think in part, they don't want to accept any culpability for what's happening. Even if they're not in charge of the large corporations driving climate change, they've supported their actions for so long that they feel like any attack on "the way we've always done it" is an attack on them personally. So they're very eager to find anything else to blame it on because it frees them from feeling any guilt.

And the other big part is plain old drinking the kool aid. They've been exposed to propaganda against climate change for a very long time. It's extremely normalized, especially in certain locations (like the one this weather man was in).

I think even then, they'd recognize fast that it's just fake text. For maximum impact, get an LLM to generate a long winded but realistic sounding response. It'll probably be obvious eventually that it was an LLM because their writing style is so distinct, but it takes much longer to recognize.