The Amish are a non-violent cult. They have a lot of good values but they also have many toxic traditions. The difference is that they control people through psychological methods rather than with force.

They may be a non-violent group, but that doesn’t excuse their behavior or mean that they are a model that all gun owners should strive for. Disgruntled members are more likely to abruptly leave altogether and carry lifelong trauma.

Amish = Cult
Isolation from mainstream society.
Strict rules and regulations controlling all aspects of everyday life.
Limited access to education
Unwavering devotion.
Shunning and excommunication practices.
Patriarchal leadership guided by god instead of charismatic leader

I think they were saying the opposite. The gun obsessed military types you see in public may be bigots. SG characters may look similar bat are various races and not bigots.

Check out dry herb vaping, the safest way to “smoke” weed without combustion. Still not perfect but way better in every way.

Yeah, the last time I went to a chiropractor for back pain, they also “corrected” my neck which in the past felt good but this time it just immediately pulled a muscle in my neck and left me in pain and barely able to turn my head for weeks.

It’s better now, but I’ll never go back to a chiropractor again because of the risk of making things worse for essentially no benefit.

Good, the more that people are exposed to the high interest rates, the more pressure that will put on home prices to lower, right?

Also, maybe there is a backlog of homes that people have been holding on to, waiting for prices and interest rates to fall before they move. If they finally cave and move anyways, hopefully that results in more turnover.

I see your point and it stands. Certainly anyone can lead a country down the wrong path and we don’t know their true motives.

My point was mainly that the power structure is seemingly reversed, so the incentives don’t make as much sense.

In most cases, Jews who chose to collaborate with Nazis did so to guarantee their personal survival, which distinguished them from most other ethnic groups who collaborated with Nazi Germany. It’s not exactly a fair comparison.

I second your experience. Additionally, if you disrupt their echo chamber too much, they’ll delete your comments and ban you. This has happened repeatedly when trying to have civil discussions like this one. They justify it as preventing misinformation so I have yet to see a fair debate on there.

Ironically, Russians think they are fighting Nazis in Ukraine.

This reminds me, Think Geek used to be my go-to for holiday shopping. I haven’t been there in years.

Whether it’s a surprise or not, users don’t have a choice of what platform is most popular or effective at getting work. Many applications for gigs ask for links to your social media, it’s the default portfolio that many clients look for.

All that artists can do is diversify to other platforms which have the same issues, and make a personal website which will probably get almost no traffic.

The board of random people who cycle out every year? Some of them working for competing AI companies? Yeah they definitely aren’t the brains of this operation.

Sam has been there since the beginning and had the vision, but he made some mistakes along the way that allowed this power grab to happen.

No matter what OpenAI does, Microsoft will own their IP and future development on it, so OpenAI has already lost.

Here is a comment I copied from Hacker News:

If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT.

Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn’t actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits.

So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/

The stick she tells you not to worry about.

The exorbitant price is the whole point of luxury stores like Dior. People who shop there would stop if everything became reasonably priced. Do you really expect people of their status to live like the rest of us?!

That’s only because everyone was voting against Trump. This is the fault of our voting system. It is why we need rank choice voting, so we can vote for the people we like instead of against the people we dislike.

I suspect that there’s a lot more people than we think who would rather not vote for either Trump or Biden, but they don’t want to throw their vote away.

This is why we need rank choice voting. It would eliminate any risk of people voting for a third party while also voting for the lesser of two evils put forth by the D & R’s.

The only reason I can see why rank choice voting is not already everywhere is because they know it would strip power away from the top.

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I think that is more like an advanced auto pilot which can also steer missiles to their target but only if fired by the human. The OP article says they’re banning AI from making the decision to fire the weapon.

I’m not positive but this looks like Lake Mead near Las Vegas. The water level is dropping so quickly that the boat ramp is only paved up to a point and then it is a temporary dirt and gravel path they’ve made down to the water because the water level drops so quickly they constantly have to reposition the boat ramp, mobile-docks, signs, etc.