[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 days ago

The funny thing is that $15 million dollars is not a lot of money for some people. There are a hundred billionaires living in New York City and if $15 million could "buy an election" then at least a few of them would be doing it all the time. They don't do that because it doesn't work.

Bowman lost because he was genuinely unpopular in his own district. Being a leftist celebrity didn't help him much since most of the people he was popular with weren't actually eligible to vote for him.

TLDR version: not actually 11 commandments, just an extra line break in the shall-not-covet commandment.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

When I bought my Windows 11 laptop a month ago, I was able to set up a local account after turning on airplane mode. (I had entered my wifi password in an earlier step since I thought it was just for installing updates.)

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 156 points 2 months ago

I wish Biden would make the following announcement:

It has come to my attention that Mr. Trump's lawyers are currently attempting to convince the Supreme Court that it would be legal for me, the President of the United States, to have Mr. Trump killed. I imagine that this is a source of concern for Mr. Trump and so I want to reassure him and the American public that I believe doing so would, in fact, be a crime.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 156 points 2 months ago

So today I drove five hours to see the eclipse, had a tire blow out, didn't see the eclipse because of thick clouds, and got stuck in traffic for hours on the way back. (I'm still not home.) But at least I haven't been shot by maniac, yet.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 171 points 5 months ago

How to say you're vulnerable to code injection without saying you're vulnerable to code injection.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 149 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

no way to respond

But isn't it obvious?

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 340 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A better title would be "Supercomputer that could conceivably simulate entire human brain, based on a rough estimate of what it would take to do that if we had any idea how to do that, will switch on in 2024".

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 198 points 6 months ago

So drinking a real-world cow's milk is ok, but drinking a Zootopia cow's milk would not be ok because... the Zootopia cow is presumably a full member of society who earns a living by consensually being milked?

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