Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? - John Adams

The US government is built around trying to put off dealing with the impossibility of a “democracy” swarming with slaves and incredibly rich aristocrats, so it needs unelected people whose job is to say no when people try to vote against the aristocrats. There might be liberals who don’t like the racial profiling, but that’s the price they pay to have a secretive council of lords who make it illegal for you to vote to make landlords illegal.

Hydro Quebec invented BYD’s battery technology, the only reason they licensed it to BYD in the first place is nobody else was going to do anything with it.

Yes but not because of generated videos. Cop just shoots you and the nearest bystander says “grok what happened” and their camera glasses say “What an intelligent question!!! It looks like someone was just nonviolently apprehended for a serious crime!!! You’re so pretty!!!” Then they ask grok if they can cross the street now and get hit by a truck.

People can be banned from airlines but they get banned for the same reasons they do in the US, like getting drunk on the plane and punching someone. Or like how the US bans people who owe child support from getting a passport, judges in China are allowed to ban people with unpaid child support or big enough unpaid fines from state owned airlines until they pay.

He was drone striking in Yemen and Pakistan, he wasn’t replacing soldiers killing people, drone strikes were a way to kill extra people in places where he couldn’t send soldiers.

https://vincmazet.github.io/bip/filtering/fourier.html

There are ways to encode images that make it easier to isolate differences in cropping and resolution and rotation. Like how if you wanted to search for color filtered images you could just throw out the color and compare them in black and white.

What happened here is Del Monte was sold in a leveraged buyout to the son of Ferdinand Marcos’s money launderer. When the dictatorship collapsed the guy who was in charge of the shell companies and Swiss bank accounts and keeping track of the shrink wrapped pallets of $100s buried in the jungle just kept it all, and became a private equity fund. (typical private equity origin story)

He bought Del Monte with debt and then transferred all the debt to Del Monte once he owned it, then his creditors who are in on it resold the debt to retail investors and pension funds as AAA recession-proof revenue from a 100 year old canned food company, and now he has Del Monte declare bankruptcy to fuck them.

It’s not illegal to piss outside in California. It’s illegal to create a nuisance to public health like leaving a puddle of piss on a paved playground, and it’s illegal to piss “lewdly” which doesn’t just mean sexual it includes when you did it right in front of the security camera trying to offend the liberal teachers who won’t let you in the building and show them how above the law you are.

He’s liberal and a piece of shit and hates Zohran. The “satire” is he did a racist sexual harassment tweet about Zohran’s wife which he’s very proud of because it got him a lot of angry engagement so he’s trying to call back to it to get more attention.

If you actually read the thing it’s fine. It just requires phone manufacturers include a parental control function that is CAPABLE of those limits built in without charging extra for it. The parents still have to turn it on and can exempt apps from it or not set it up at all.

The most “authoritarian” part is online services with recommendations are “encouraged” (not actually required) to set up separate age algorithms. Algo for 3 year olds they recommend to be mostly audio and not ADHD video, algo for 8 year olds educational only, 12 year olds “positive” entertainment, 16 year olds “age appropriate”. And they want app store recommendations to not advertise lootbox games at kids.

In the Firefox Portableapps folder you have to copy other/source/firefoxportable.ini into the top level folder with firefoxportable.exe, and then edit it to allowmultipleinstances=true.

https://defense360.csis.org/bad-idea-conflating-chinese-military-modernization-goals-with-a-timeline-for-compelling-taiwan/