QuantumInc

2896 pts ยท March 2, 2018


It is ironic that Trump likes the word "deal" so much when clearly he wants to rely only on intimidation and never negotiation.

4 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It says "restrict" not "prevent". Certainly better than nothing.

4 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

So the operating system is taking a screenshot of every application every time that application gives you notification. The phone itself needs to be able to see the content so it can display it on your screen, so conceivably it could be recording everything on the screen, and the applications would not be able to stop this. You need not just an app but an operating system that understand the need for security and secrecy.

2 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm not sure how Signal would prevent this besides maybe warning people. No software can take responsibility for what other software does.

2 days ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

It's funny how much of MAGA insanity is just people trying to pretend that Trump himself is reasonable.

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Nanomachines, daughter!"

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's weird. These companies have never tried to hide the fact that LLM AI often "hallucinates" answers (i.e. tells a falsehood), yet so many people have no idea they can be wrong. I also suspect google search AI personalizes answers, so different people are getting different answers, but I would need to borrow the computer from somebody with a very different search history.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

We get it you "ride" your girlfriend a lot!

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Old man starts ranting about something wildly inappropriate to a group of children sounds like a scene straight from a raunchy comedy.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

MAGA's relationship with traditional gender roles is more complicated and less coherent than that. We have seen many women rise to positions of real power while espousing the value of traditional motherhood, and the harms of feminism. Clearly Sarah Palin and MTG are spending more time on their careers than their families, but people still feel like they are supporting traditional families when they vote for them. Generally they care about the message but not reality.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A lot of their logic is based on the idea that some people are just plain evil and should be suffering. The part that worries me is how inconsistent moral judgments can be. Sometimes I call it "Hollywood Morality" because they also assume that the difference will be obvious and intuitive and total like the "good guy" vs "bad guy" distinction in movies.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Immediately tried this, but reverted it. Disabling "smart features" removes the automatic categories. So spam, reddit notifications, emails I actually care about, all get mixed together. Though I can see why sorting emails into categories requires having a computer read each one.

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've heard that event with hardcore MAGATs the war is unpopular, and indeed Trump will soon back down because that is the only group he still listens to. Of course "unpopular" is relative to how they normally react to anything Trump does.

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So a court, which just figures out what is true in an extremely formal way, has decided that the federal government cannot be trusted with the safety of school children.

5 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait, how many darts does he have in that six shooter?

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Iran knows what they are doing. The want to destroy America's influence with other countries. In the past the USA would lead the effort to deal with "rogue states" but not anymore (though that is more so the fault of Trump).

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Watched the first episode with my parents, and my dad said he could only take one episode at a time.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Her getting fired has less to do with how she did the job, and more to do with how Trump contains blame and bad press. She looks dumb trying to excuse the inexcusable, but remember where her orders came from.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are a lot of people who took that oath but mentally replaced "the constitution" with "Donald J Trump" as they said it, that includes Donald J Trump.

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm sure conservative voters would say, "Of course they will just purge the BAD people!" Because they think telling the difference is easy and that Trump has good intention because he tells them what they want to hear.

1 week ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It is issued by the DMV. There a short list of documents you have to show you are who you say you are. Most government agencies and corporations recognize it as ID, at least in all the situations where a driver's license is good enough.

1 week ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

I have a suspicion that some of the decision makers, or people close enough to effectively lobby politicians, do not really care if the USA wins or loses, just that they fight. Y'know the whole military industrial complex thing.

1 week ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

When you are playing minecraft but do not have enough room for the staircase. (A ladder would have been better.)

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

True but I am not sure what else to call it.

1 week ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

We ARE looking at his track record, his track record is bad, so is yours, that is why we have zero faith in anything he does.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait are we taking it by force or getting it through a peace agreement? I bet Trump has said both at one point or another.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think I saw the same clip, or extremely similar saying that the man in the video was surrendering to the drone. Surrendering to a drone might sound strange, but I guess it has become common with bomb carrying drones. Of course you are supposed to feed prisoners of war, so if they surrender to your drones you might use the drones to deliver water/food and hold them in place until you have a chance to send infantry to bring them in properly.

1 week ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It might feel like a life time ago, but remember when DOGE was created to stop fraud among government spending and while they did shut down a lot of programs they never formally accused anyone of fraud. In that case "fraud" was just spending they did not like.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Changing the narrative has worked pretty well for them so far.

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ironically he does sometimes. Overall he lies a lot more, but he has also spoken the truth when establishment politicians would mislead. I remember the controversy when he acknowledged how much the USA needs Saudi Arabia; and the lack of controversy when he talked about the attack on Venezula was about the oil. Conservatives have become very overt in their racism.

2 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0