Encouraging Looting of Our Nation by Moronic and Unethical State Kleptocracy

The researchers sought to assess the death toll from Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024, estimating 64,260 deaths due to traumatic injury during this period

The estimate of 64,000 only accounts for people killed directly by weapons or bombing, similar to the count of ~40,000 that the Gaza Health Ministry was maintaining before they lost the ability to maintain the count.

The estimate of 186,000 from the other study accounts for indirect deaths from destruction of medical facilities, lack of clean water, lack of food, etc., which is a much more important number, but is not receiving as much attention for obvious reasons.

Americans when ~20k people are murdered each year (most of which don’t take place on public transit): “The subway is unsafe because there’s too much crime.”

Americans when ~40k people die in car accidents each year: “This is literally the pinnacle of freedom! I feel so safe inside my personal tank!”

If I had a nickel for every prominent Republican who did something cartoonishly evil relating to pet dogs, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

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I’m pretty sure some of the newer ChatGPT-like products (the consumer-facing interface, not the raw LLM) do in fact do this. They try to detect certain types of inputs (i.e. math problems or requesting the current weather) and convert it to an API request to some other service and return the result instead of a LLM output. Frankly it comes across to me as an attempt to make the “AI” seem smarter than it really is by covering up its weaknesses.

Getting revenge after his mother wasted all of their savings on the Trump NFTs.

Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.

And he says he “wouldn’t even think about” buying again from luxury brands like “Burberry or Louis Vuitton”.

You live in the country that probably manufactured them in the first place. You can buy a knock-off which is just as good for a fraction of the cost.

Extremely critical support to the engineers who made US warships touchscreen-controlled.

how many players are using an adblocker enough to make an impact?

Given the context in which Modrinth was created, it’s likely that their userbase is significantly more likely than average to use adblockers.

“Today is a good day for [the] EPP. We won the European elections, my friends. We are the strongest party, we are the anchor of stability … Together with others we will build a bastion against the extremes from the left and from the right. We will stop them!”

Staking out its ground in the culture war over the EU’s identity, the EPP opened its EU election manifesto with its commitment to Europe’s “Judeo-Christian roots.”

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German physician and politician

Saying that you’re “building a bastion against the extreme right” and then immediately following up with a Christofascist dogwhistle, very cool.

The “higher taxes but lower overall costs” talking point kind of annoys me, because basically every other highly developed nation (and a number of developing nations) provides better healthcare than the US with lower government expenditure. There’s no need to raise taxes specifically for the purpose of transitioning to universal healthcare other than US healthcare companies charging grossly extortionate prices, which the government can make them stop doing, and it’d help public understanding of the situation if this was brought up more.

Oh god, they named it “XGPT”. This has got to be the fastest I’ve seen marketers devalue the meaning of a word.

MSNBC columnist and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance called Trump’s scrutinizing of Haley’s citizenship “an offensive question that’s contrary to American values.

“The Founding Fathers imposed a restriction, but it’s hard to believe that it was meant to burden a second generation of American citizens born on American soil like Nikki Haley,” Vance added. "But nonetheless, the question of the term ‘natural born citizen’ has not been fully fleshed out in the courts, and it may be that Trump is relegating us to more meaningless discourse in this area just like he did with the birther lies about Obama.”

Love how when a racist and xenophobic law is invoked to make racist and xenophobic political attacks, their response is not to point out that such a law should not exist in an actual democracy, but to argue that the Founding Fathers only intended to be xenophobic towards first-generation immigrants and not second-generation immigrants. I’m pretty sure that if the Founding Fathers heard about this they’d be more offended to learn that women and non-white people were allowed to run for office in the first place.

There are enough problems with how the education system treats people as is; why are judges allowed to assign children homework explicitly as a punishment? Firing one cop isn’t enough, every single person involved in making that decision should have lost their jobs.

Milei opposes abortion rights, and has publicly affirmed a staunch anti-abortion stance, saying that abortion violates the non-aggression principle; he sees it as a property conflict or issue of ownership, and drew comparisons between abortion and theft.

Milei spoke in favor of a legal organ trade, seeing as a way to reduce waiting lists for organ transplants, and said that there could be market mechanisms to encourage organ donors. He said: “If women can have control over their bodies, why not everybody else?” In a June 2022 interview, when asked about his stance on the sale of children, Milei initially said that “it depends”.

To put it in perspective, even $300 a year would only be like 3-5% of the amortized cost of owning a truck.

Isn’t it his business plan to artificially amplify political messages and racial hatred for $8 a month?