I do aknowledge that’s always going to be the problem when we have the human + AI driver combinations.

Safest hypothetical is 100% AIs that always follow the same rules… next safest is humans that break the rules, but in a context aware situation (IE everyone going 70 in a 55, is safer than 1 car going 55 and all other cars going 70).

Real danger though is if the AI doesn’t make good judgement calls when doing so. IE rather than deciding based on how fast other cars are going, it’s primary determination is whether the user says they are in a hurry, leading it to sometimes be the one car going 55, but if the person is in a hurry it may be the only car going 70 on a road everyone else is going 55.

They love to leave out the comical level of fraud the guy committed, he wasn’t sent to prison for being a rogue lol.

That would be like “John Wayne Gacy was a bit of a clown… but most clowns aren’t forced to serve life sentences”.

yeah fully second this… The evidence for it are vague at best… and to quintuple it up… The dude apparently lives on live stream, just looking at his streaming stats it looks like he’s literally streaming 4-8 hours every single day, with his dog coming up in the background. Someone wants to say he’s abusing that dog because they found one 5 second clip of one event that seems hypothetically questionable, that’s kind of crazy to me. I can’t think of a person who’s interactions with his dog are more regularly visible to the public then him, and one incident of the dog yelping for half a second before laying down comfortably on a dog bed… being used as evidence that he’s a horrific animal abuser, seems like such an extreme stretch.

as even if we gave the critics 100% trust, and even if we somehow conclude that it is in fact a shock collar, and we were to conclude that he used it this time in this situation… clearly he uses it pretty damn sparingly when over half of his waking hours around his dog, are visible for the whole world to watch.

I’ve heard lately he’s almost starting to work as a backhanded weakness to the republicans. Basically reflecting the pattern of the left wing influencers that make hard right turns (Dave Rueben, Jimmy Dore and really looking like the rest of the young turks are working their way to the same pattern).

IE in short, "The (my side), isn’t (my siding) hard enough… you should vote for the oppsite side until they get their shit together, and then spends the next 4 years silent about the opposition while talking about how bad his own side is… before suddenly making an about turn and just flat out supporting the other side.

well do you want something that has an 80% chance of finding it in 2 seconds… or something that has a 99% chance of finding it in 38 hours? (and yeah, duh the obviously rational thing to do would be to try one or 2 layers of the quick methods, say “did this find it or do you want me to look deeper”.

Bottom line it’s a message to your voters. obviously if you don’t play ball they will cut that funding out next cycle… but just imagine in a hypothetical world with voters that actually do bare minimum research. They see you are taking AIPAC money, they use that information to decide whether or not to vote for you.

Of course the reality is the average voter isn’t educated, won’t take the time to look up who is funding their candidate, in which case the only way to publicly announce to your voters that you aren’t beholden to a group, is to publicly reject the money and issue a press release, like this one we are looking at right now.

I mean he spends every day supporting a man who in his own words is “America’s Hitler”. Somehow I don’t feel he changed his mind on that topic… just at the time people didn’t realize that was a compliment from him.

MTG is just legitimately stupid and believes all the crazy stupid shit her party and crazy right wing conspiracy theorists have said. Problem being since she actually believes these things, she can’t turn on a dime like the rest of her party and go from “release the files” to “nothing to see here trust the government”, like the shills did.

and she’s actually anti semetic, so she can’t actually hold the half and half antisemetic viewpoint of “jews control the media and are plotting in a global cabal to wreck the world”, “except for those jews that happen to be in Isreal and are dropping bombs on women and children, and picking fights with every other country near them… those are the only good jews”.

Honestly as a representative in congress. I think stupid is actually less dangerous than intentionally evil like the majority of the republican party (at least for representatives, for voters obviously stupid and duped just sets them up to vote for the actually evil ones)

Wasn’t she a large part of amazon before the divorce though? I mean yes I can look at it and see she’s doing far more good with her money than most billionares. But it doesn’t change the fact that the money came from exploited workers. She participated in exploiting billions, and is actually following through on the pledge to give half of it back.

Agreed, she’s batshit crazy… but I have to say crazy and stupid, is actually an improvement from the normal of morally bankrupt.

This broken clock has just been on fire lately… I still have to say it’s not coincidence.

I think it’s because she actually was stupid. Most republicans are smart opportunists, they don’t believe anything they are saying, but they know what to say to rile up the crazy conspiracy theorists and get the votes, money and power to do what donors want.

MTG is one of the conspiracy theorists created by this rhetoric. she still believes in the democratic weather machines, still believes climate change is a hoax, but she’s saying those things because she actually believes them, not because of a paycheck from Exxon. Which makes her very dangerous when she’s given real evidence of actual conspiracies like, big insurance companies putting money to charge insane amounts of money, or an actual leader of Isreal committing a genocide, or an actual ring of elite pedophiles.

Bottom line the sellouts like Charlie Kirk and Patel etc… that can turn it on and off at will. IE “release the files now!”, oh trump says he doesn’t want them released, my bad “trust the government they know what they are doing”.

She has no off switch… when she spouts a conspiracy nonsense it’s because she believes it… which means they can’t wave a bag of money or tell her “same team stop”.

I was going to say… what wasn’t on my bingo card, is MTG acting… fucking sane, almost consistently at this point.

Healthcare, Epstein files, hell she actually did better on not giving weapons to isreal than AOC…

Was she actually that ignorant and stupid when she started, but because it was ignorance and not corruption… she can actually learn? Or maybe she actually had some kind of mental illness, and she’s secretly getting it treated now that she has government level healthcare?

I know that more likely than not the shoe is going to drop… but it’s like she’s magically changed from Sarah Palin to John McCain.

With MTG’s post saying she’s not suicidal and not going to kill herself and suspect someone if she is killed.

I frankly feel that an actual feasible event that may happen is. If they cannot get someone to flip. A mysterious shooter will take out one of the R’s on the side of releasing the files… he won’t be caught, but he will leave a nice manifesto saying he’s trans and a far left person.

Rustin and King knew that 1960s America wasn’t ready for a gay rights movement, so they kept Rustin in the background.

Though it is worth pointing out MLK’s movement continued to expand to other groups, was more of a pro-socialist push near the end and probably would have kept going, had he not gotten shot.

Somehow the amount of terrifying options here are through the roof. Not sure why but I find Gaza or Iran the least terrifying outcomes…

Can we like, maybe normalize adding descriptions of the product to these announcements? On the blogs of these apps pages that’s one thing, but on selfhosted forums etc… where we are drawing attention to the product of which many aren’t familiar with… a 2 sentence summary of what the product is before going into the long changelog, would make everyone so happy.

Sometimes the decision for yourself, is to know when you need it.

No matter what the conditions, neurotypical, neurodivergent, parent, kid… doesn’t matter. end of the day no one can do everything by themselves.

The person who thinks they can always do everything and continues to throw themselves at it, is messing up just as hard as the one who asks for help every 2 seconds on things he should know.

Being a capable adult, is figuring out what you can and can’t do on your own, and who is the best resource to get help from. Your a college student, your proffesors most likely have office hours, there’s likely a tutor system in place etc… These aren’t special things made for their “special ed” kids, they are resources available for everyone, for a reason. Again that doesn’t mean you have to or even should go to them before you look at what you are doing, you should look at the work, look at it. Find out what’s

Oh i already know this, I’ll knock it out

Hmmm this one is going to take a bit of added research, I think I can figure it out.

and

Oh shit, what language is this task written in?

knock out everything you can do easily, put some work into the others, if somethings hanging you too long, move it into the last pile.

Then go get the help you need. Don’t sell yourself short, don’t think taking advantage of the resources the school specifically has to help students is admitting failure, it’s knowing yourself. Trust me a 40 some year old fogie like myself, damn straight I turn to others when I need help. But most importantly I have the respect of the people I turn to, specifically because I do the due dilligence of eliminating all the newbie issues before bringing the problem up the ladder.

where I gotta disagree with you on their framing.

For starters, it’s talking evolution. A specific biological process about inherited genes.

“How did this happen? Evolution does not make moral judgments. Evolution does not necessarily reward that which is good or beautiful. It simply rewards those who reproduce the most.”

Next point is, it’s showing IQ scores. Fans of IQ scores, generally also believe in the studies that imply they are innate, heritable traits.

Sorry but am I completely missing something, is there one part in this intro that even once implies intelligence as, cultural, education, or really says anything other than “smart people have smart kids, if they have them”, “dumb people have dumb kids”.

Again I hold to the gist, it’s a comedy, not meant to be perfectly clear scientific thesis, but the speach from the narrator, is almost always that. even with the ending of “they gave birth to three children, the 3 smartest kids in the world”. “his vice president Frido took 8 wives and had 32 kids, the dumbest kids to ever walk the earth”.

The core concept of it, effectively it is eugenics, IQ etc…

The real part of it is, it’s not eugenics, it’s education that’s hitting the spiral. Poorly educated people, keep getting convinced to make education less accessible and worse, leading to more poorly educated people, that vote harder on it, ad infinium.

Bottom line, religion and power structures have found education as their target to limit, and have been for decades.

I do agree the opening of idiocracy really presented some extreme “eugenics” vibes to it. Which also is kind of weird because the end of if basically presented the opposite. Where not sure in his mediocre knowledge starts pushing for education improvements, improving the culture etc… Not sure’s conclusion at the end was basically that everyone is ignorant not dumb, and society could gradually be fixed by actually trying.

I don’t know for certain if it’s autism… but my son went through a very similar trend to you on that. In short he flunked out of a semester of community college, he basically stopped doing his work 2 weeks in. just let everything slide, flunked out, wrecked his financial aid etc… Looked me in the eye every day when I asked him if he was keeping up with everything, and he eventually came clean to me in finals week when he realized it was all impossible to catch up.

He’s never been officially diagnosed with autism, but him and I both have some strong factors that match it. For us basically we needed to get family therapy, did it remotely, gave him a session or 2 with the therapist. then some with myself and his stepmom. Honestly in the end what it takes is doing the actual honest thing, it starts with confessing, explaining how you faked the results, and show them how to get over it. IE the obvious ways it can be done is to give them direct access to the portal, or instead of screenshots go full on with say teamviewer, anydesk, screensharing in discord or microsoft teams etc… something that gives them real time so you can scroll and show them that the grade simulator etc… is not currently running etc…

I don’t know how much your lying is taking you, but you certainly know there’s the rope, of how far you can lie before you hit the point of what you can’t hide things any longer. IE when you can’t sign up for the next class because you failed the previous. Again I can’t speak for you, but with my son, he said he was always lying to himself, telling himself he was just putting it off and he’ll catch everything up before the end of the semester, until he hit finals week, couldn’t catch everything up. Knew that was an impossible goal.

I feel while the lying gave him a short term relief, that nagging in the back of his head, the panic of what happens when it all catches up to him etc… was weighing on him heavily in the meantime. You sound like you have supportive parents, they don’t sound like they are narcisists or controlling monsters, they actually are trying to help. Maybe you actually do need help?