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  • You know, I don't disagree with your ultimate point. But if you look through this comment chain you should recognize that the way you chose to make it is:

    1. Needlessly antagonistic, and (therefore)
    2. Not very effective

    If you wanted to convince anyone or provoke interesting discussion I think you failed.

    In the future, you should just make your argument/statement instead of asking "clever" bad faith questions.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • He may have PTSD and he may have had 1,000 hours of firearms training, but if you empty your magazine the way he did, under the circumstances he did, you're incompetent to be a police officer. Period.

    And even he apparently recognizes that since he resigned (though whether he'll just go get hired the next town over is probably a decent bet).

  • SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community
  • It's a race to the bottom.

    Yes, you can decline to opt in, but the guy next to you (or the guy next to him) will opt in and sell his AI voice package for less than it costs to employ a real person. And unlike a real person, the AI voice package can work 24/7 on 10,000 productions at the same time.

    If anyone can opt in, then no one can really opt out.

    Is this a good thing? For the bottom line of the people making the games, sure. And maybe 3% of that savings will trickle down to the consumer.

    But it's pretty bad for the voice actors.

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    Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed
  • Most conspiracy theories are bullshit, no doubt. But not all of them are, and it's pretty hard to judge which might be true by the claims alone, because by nature they are pretty fantastical.

    In 1974 before the Church Committee revealed it, you'd have dismissed anyone telling you about MKUltra and I wouldn't blame you.

    But it really did happen.

    Did Epstein kill himself? Probably? But the circumstances are definitely eyebrow raising...

  • Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93
  • What you're saying is a nice thought, but it's a game theory failure.

    In a perfect world, yes, America would not have elected a narcissistic maniac. But in the real world, we did. And Ginsberg, who knew she was in poor health (had cancer like a bazillion times) opted to take a chance.

    Maybe she just calculated poorly, or maybe this was a magnificent act of putting principle above pragmatism. Either way, Roe v. Wade was still overturned and so much for RGBs legacy. The smart move for an 80 year old woman with colon cancer is to find an offramp that lets her preserve her legacy.

    I get it if you disagree, but I don't think it's hard to understand why people blame her at least in part for this mess.

  • Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at 93
  • Ironically what you wanted was her to politicize her position. She was above that

    That's great for her and all, but it was a choice that had the disastrous outcome of allowing Trump to replace her with Barrett. Ginsberg doesn't have to live with that, but we all do. Thanks RBG.

  • 505 of 700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign.
  • The board has given no real reasoning for why they fired him. Until they do, there's no reason anyone should consider this anything other than an internal power struggle that resulted in a coup.

    And Sam didn't have a job anymore. Why shouldn't he go work for Microsoft? He was pushed out of OpenAI, is he contractually bound to never do something different?

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