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SomeBoolshit··on The FBI has formed a national database to track swatting incidents
How many legitimate calls did the "street savvy" cop ignore?

The issue isn't with responding, it's that cops love shooting and are poorly trained.

SomeBoolshit··on Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
His tweets are as trustworthy as Trump's.
SomeBoolshit··on Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009)
I don't think I've ever had an intense meeting but the last thing any of them does is ruin my day.

My usual response is to not even remember what was discussed minutes after it's over.

But I also think most of the meetings I take part in are useless.

SomeBoolshit··on 33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task
So when these models start learning from more and more AI generated content, can we assume they'll get worse again and eventually make themselves useless?
SomeBoolshit··on Microsoft is bringing GPT-4 to US Government agencies
The tedious parts are automated.
SomeBoolshit··on Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?
I've been having this problem on desktop browsers running in incognito mode for a while.

It'll randomly pretend I'm not logged in.

Refreshing works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.

SomeBoolshit··on Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig
Welcome to Germany.
SomeBoolshit··on Reddit will begin charging for access to its API
As an avid redditor I can say it's already like that and they will teach it nothing of value unless they limit it to a very low number of subreddits, which will still barely teach it anything of value unless the goal is teaching it current generation humor and shitposting habits, which would be very valuable to anyone wanting to boost engagement and try to sway a fairly left leaning generation of people toward whatever they're selling.

Which is today's right-wing billionaires and their pet politicians.

SomeBoolshit··on Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
That sounds a lot like that delicious regulatory capture that giant companies like very much.
SomeBoolshit··on Lofi air traffic control – LAX
Very reminiscent of the soma FM station where they have music over an SF police scanner.
SomeBoolshit··on Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again
Hey, that's a disclosure.
SomeBoolshit··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
That's exactly my point.
SomeBoolshit··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
Only if you're a natural person.
SomeBoolshit··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
> The criminal penalty for willingly violating that "shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000

Oh, so it's just a fee.

SomeBoolshit··on Alibaba to split into six separate groups
Tell him to read the article.
SomeBoolshit··on The Coffeeshop Fallacy (2011)
If wages had risen appropriately then people wouldn't have trouble paying the kinds of prices necessary to keep small places like the ones you're talking about running.
SomeBoolshit··on Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
I'm not resisting, I think.
SomeBoolshit··on Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
It's a Snapchat filter for videos.
SomeBoolshit··on Berlin Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn is decorated with radioactive glazed tiles
What are you referring to?
SomeBoolshit··on How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart
But finding and better understanding its value to society is precisely what the funding is needed for.
SomeBoolshit··on Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums
If popular athletes making lots of money is "even more troubling" to you, your priorities are messed up.
SomeBoolshit··on Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet
I'm gonna wait until we're sure about the effect on every living organism on earth.
SomeBoolshit··on Twitter to ban unlabelled parody accounts
Labeled parody accounts are already being banned.
SomeBoolshit··on Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined
Why didn't you rate the seller on their profile page? Doing it on the product page makes as little sense as removing stars for bad packaging on there.
SomeBoolshit··on Iranian man who didn't wash for half a century dies at 94
You're talking about a car and you have no idea what happened to it.
SomeBoolshit··on Hans Niemann Suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura
This depends on the exact circumstances of how your career was ended.
SomeBoolshit··on Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
But then why is inflight wifi a thing?
SomeBoolshit··on So You Want to Compete with Steam (2018)
Steam was the first store implementing the 2 hour limit.

And for GOG not to have a limit on playtime makes sense, since (unless you use Galaxy), they have no way of knowing how much you've played a game.

SomeBoolshit··on BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE
Same experience in university. I had no prior programming experience and the professor insisting on the use of BlueJ caused me to repeat that course because I did not get the concept of object oriented programming at all.

The following year I got a different prof who used Eclipse and things started making sense.

SomeBoolshit··on Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
So it's really just IRC mode?
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