it almost seems like someone in the Madison County, NC sheriff’s office is just sitting on their ass keeping serious tabs on a short list of people living in other places.

Probably exes and/or children as Flock abusers keep getting in trouble for.

Idk about that specific one but people have turned other Nokia models into cyberdecks. Might be worth checking out.

We learned about censorship efforts in the UK, EU, Australia and Canada, bud. None of us had a conniption over it.

We will still have centralized/defederated platforms that won’t comply, mesh networks and protocols like i2p but I can absolutely understand wanting out.

Erika Kirk, that you?

Also nimbyism blocks a shit ton of new development.

Are you seriously suggesting companies live and die by the free market?? Those poor failing companies need taxpayer bailouts.

The norm for tech companies was to continue to burn cash after IPO for years and years to capture market share and worry about monetization later.

You have to spend a multiple of a smart TV and buy a commercial TV (as in the type of TVs businesses use for display) to ensure a dumb tv if you can’t lobotomize it yourself.

Thiel in addition to being pro-surveillance state is also transhumanism. He was interested in Clavicular of the looksmaxxing community for similar reasons.

something that would lead to huge swelling of the hands and feet might be good for increasing how much water they can push against.

HGH does that.

I just tested it. It stores a cookie when you disable duck.ai and Search Assist but no cookie corresponds to them being enabled. Perhaps you might have cleared cookies?

Not that Elon “nailed” anybody, his kids are all from IVF allegedly, which is even more embarrassing than just having multiple kids from different women.

And they’re only ever sons too (going by gender assigned by birth).

It is so frustrating how terrible their search is. It cannot be that hard to add boolean operators.

I don’t think Americans quite appreciate how few guns one encounters when you are practically anywhere else in the world.

How often you see guns varies wildly in the US too.

Popular modern peaceful movements led by people such as Martin Luther King in the US and Ghandi in colonial India were parallel backed by violent groups such as the Black Panthers in the US and a bunch of small and very active violent groups in India.

Keep in mind with King (I’m not so studied up on Gandhi), optics played a big role. You had squeaky clean pillars of the community and schoolchildren being attacked by police dogs, hoses, and baton wielding police for daring to ask for equality. The US actually had decent journalism back then so they looked horrible on the world stage as the US was positioning itself as the leader of a free world. America’s arm was twisted into giving black people nominal rights with token representation while surreptitiously undermining both.

I’m not so sure the threat of armed black people made the government acquiesce. The state loves nothing more than a pretext for violence.

Chinese models are really good. How you use them depends on what your goals are. If you want something on par with Claude or ChatGPT, you need to go to Deepseek or Qwen’s website. You can also find these models on openrouter. If you want a local/small model, then get ollama and find a model in the repository. You could also get anythingllm or LM Studio and get models from within the app. There’s also huggingface.

Since you asked about safety, deepseek on the official website does collect info and there was a time some of that info was leaked but you can get around that using something like openrouter. Note similar things happened to ChatGPT and Meta AI. There is also the potential for bias (there was a time people were spamming their Deepseek Tiananmen Square responses – personally, it just would not process my query) but Grok has that same issue.