I am not a physicist but it seems reasonable to be skeptical of a physical model of the universe that recently had to invent the unobservable and theoretical concept of "dark radiation" to explain the unobservable and theoretical existence of "dark energy" which was intended to explain the unobservable and theoretical existence of "dark matter"
I get that these all have statistical proofs but we live in an era where statistical models perform lots of life-like illusions and lie to us because that's what we've trained them to do
When the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, it was celebrated as a moral victory for international institutions, despite the US having withdrawn its membership over its war crimes in the Middle East and Africa
Now we're doubling down with the hypocrisy, threatening sanctions because now it's an ally that's doing war crimes
Very nice international law & order you've got there, would be a shame if
FYI you don't need to dump your Windows PC, you just need to avoid buying a new one
"To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU). "
@bigtuffal Yep. I think the biggest risk of these is your employer using them, but with that kind of dependency you're not likely to see one for 5-10 years, if ever
By the way if you're trying to use MSFS to recreate the Darkstar flight from the movie:
You can't really, but if you go into the weight settings and take out the superfluous stuff (the bomb and the pilot) now you can exceed mach 10.0
Which is funny because the whole thing in the movie is pilots are the past and Maverick is like "not yet!" and this MSFS implementation flips the script like "wanna bet"
So it seems like, if you genuinely wanted to avoid sin while committing yourself to a military campaign, you'd probably try really, really hard to avoid doing anything that might resemble or in the aggregate approach genocide, just in case it is actually genocidal, and you'd probably care more about the spirit of your actions than the legal definitions that do or do not apply to them
Which sends the semantic squirming up a level: arguing over "intentions"
Privately, if you're honest with yourself, you know if you're engaging in the exercise of defending the intentions behind your sin, this activity is happening because you are fully aware of the fact of your having sinned
To argue about the relative spiritual criminality is to acknowledge the criminality
If you read "79% of Republicans believe that racism is still a problem in America today" and think that means Americans broadly agree that racism is still a problem: consider that many of those Republicans are convinced there's racism against white people
Reasons being a designer for a university is maddening #3942:
Everyone thinks an "info sheet" is an engaging piece of content that will drive participation in their program
So during orientation the plan is to hand freshmen folders full of "info sheets" so they're "aware" of your programs and the benefits and they can "make an informed decision", and in theory this is supposed to boost program attendance
Do my fellow sales and marketing professionals see what's wrong with this concept?
They're aware only that this is something they should do
Which is what haunts them as they proceed to not do it, because your program is now just one of a hundred "info sheets" they were told would be really valuable on their first day, and in their desperation to figure out what's really important they concluded none of it was important
Most of you went to school here and have worked here a long time, you already know what they're going to do with your "info sheet"
yes, disrespecting the experienced marketer and micromanaging your content to your own demise is not really all that crazy: it's normal levels of crazy
What's over the top is watching shit not work and deciding it should stay that way: that you would like to contribute more broken shit and call it a day