What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?

What if power consumption is not so much limited by the software’s appetite, but rather by the hardware’s capabilities?

What type of response do you hope to elicit by discounting everyone’s experience but your own and insulting the intelligence of those who engage with you?

Degeneratively so

Numbers are illegal!

The data behind that conclusion is compelling to those who understand both statistics and technology. Most of the US Congress has repeatedly shown that they have neither the capacity nor the inclination to understand either.

Peril Partnership?

Wrong

…the Voyager 1 team would like a word.

Funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living experiencing grief in the wake of a loss.

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In a court of law, yes, presumed innocence is the neutral state. In the court of public opinion, though, presuming innocence flips an “out-group = enemy” switch in their heads. Everything you say from that point is heard through their lizard brain telling them that you are a threat.

We do not have the luxury of holding the people currently in power to the rules. We don’t have the luxury of ignoring the crazy person in the room, either. We have to engage on their terms, else they flip the table and walk away still in power, still on the war path.

They do, however, have the capacity for rational thought. The calmer you can keep them, the sooner their rationality will tell them that human rights apply to everyone or none at all.

These cultists are trying to ride the 80 year old wave created by the atom bomb.

Stop making this about anybody’s character. This is about due process and what passes as evidence.

Republicans control the narrative here and have already painted him as a gang member. No amount of opposition to this point from the Democrats will convince Republicans otherwise.

When Democrats try to counter by pointing to Garcia’s positive character traits, they are preaching to the choir. Whether you believe his a “gang banger” or a “family man” is irrelevant because the Republicans have the stage.

We need to demand evidence of all claims made by those in power… we need to do this relentlessly towards both sides. Do not accept any statement without evidence, and refuse to move on to a different point until the requirement for evidence has been satisfied.

When they say, “Garcia is an MS-13 terrorist,” we need to say, “What do you offer as proof?” and keep asking until they provide said proof, concede defeat, or resort to force towards their questioners. Like it or not, we need to do the same for Democrat’s claims that he is a “family man”. You will not win a propaganda war against the party that controls all branches of government.

Repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Yes, but ask a question often enough, it becomes unavoidable.

The Mad King was obsessed with it. He loved to watch people burn, the way their skin blackened and blistered and melted off their bones. He burned lords he didn’t like. He burned Hands who disobeyed him. He burned anyone who was against him. Before long, half the country was against him. Aerys saw traitors everywhere. So he had his pyromancer place caches of wildfire all over the city.

All those times the kids at school called me butt-face… look who’s complimenting me now. Ha, suckers.

Oh you’re tired? You’re enabling fascism and you’re fucking tired? You’re endorsing human trafficking and all you are is tired? You’re profiting off of the complete dismantling of our fucking country and the best reaction you can muster is walking out of a meeting beacause you’re TIRED???

Go suck a fucking barrel.

XOR cleartext once with a key you get ciphertext. XOR the ciphertext with the same key you get the original cleartext. At its core this is the way the old DES cipher works.

A bit of useful trivia: If you XOR any number with itself, you get all zeros. You can see this in practice when an assembly programmer XOR’s a register with itself to clear it out.

They don’t even need propaganda right now.

He wants hair trigger retaliation. His strategy consists of sucker punches, which is why he has to obfuscate his plans. When we deliberate, he loses ground.