ANarcoSnowPlow

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If there's no due process it doesn't really matter.

Cop can just say "this passport looks fake, I'm throwing it in the trash, off to prison camp for you"

And that's that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You should be very aware of the sources for any food that is typically inspected also.

Meats can be easily contaminated in uninspected processing plants.

Fruits and vegetables can be fertilized with human feces that is contaminated with things like e coli. This is particularly insidious when you consider how often these items are consumed raw.

Working with co-op farm organizations in your area that have a good reputation can help mitigate this.

Lastly, you can grow as much of your own food as possible, this can be a pretty low effort endeavor with things like kratky method hydroponics. Community gardens are great.

If you have some dirt you can grow some food.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The way I've always thought about it is that the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an extrovert gains energy from social interaction and an introvert expends energy in social interactions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Collector of links to content in other places.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't hate people so much as I prefer trees and animals to people.

I enjoy my chosen people, but even then, I don't have unlimited tolerance for social interaction. I still require quiet and people free space.

I'm the kind of person who enjoys living within 10 miles or so of a big enough sized town that we have robust services and amenities, but small enough that 10 miles feels sufficiently isolated that it's possible for me to spend a day seeing only flora and fauna.

I'm aware that I'm extremely inefficient in that way, but being human is rarely about efficiency.

I assume this applies to owls as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

They don't actually exhibit these characteristics. They simulate them by stringing the proper words together in sequence. There is no understanding or deeper capability and analysis. There's no actual intelligence.

As a translation utility it's quite powerful, but anything outside of that extremely narrow space is only "shaped" like a real response, there's no underlying rationale other than statistical analysis of word frequency.

This doesn't magically change with a large enough scale applied, it only takes on conversational meta-patterns. This fools non-experts in specific categories into trusting the "analysis" it provides, even though it is incapable of providing coherent analysis.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

I've said it before, I'll say it again: "cuddles are praxis"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Us army had a branded video game in the early 00s. Never could get it to work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I'm the opposite, I only exist when someone is reading my comments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I'm still polishing my textbook rewrite!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It is nearly impossible to get them all into a room together with any frequency.

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