I mean, there’s the entirety of the Multiverse, it’s not like Tony Stark is dead in all of them. That doesn’t really make his sacrifice any less.

Only if they just bring in a random Tony Stark from 231356812 and goes back to the status quo would that be the cas.e

I feel like he would just make stuff up, say insulting things about him, and talk poorly and aggressively about his wife. Kinda like he did to the candidates in 2016 like Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush.

The only thing I can think of is the way in which her Back on Track policy functioned. From my understanding, it was created specifically with non-violent (drug) offenders in mind. This could be something as simple as possession with weed.

The Back on Track program, again from my understanding, would effectively have the convicted person admit to their felony, which would then be expunged in part of the program.

Ah, here it is: https://bja.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh186/files/Publications/BackonTrackFS.pdf

BOT participants are young adults, ages 18–30, who are facing charges for their first felony offense1 for a low-level drug sale. At charging, prosecuting attorneys refer potential participants to BOT.2 Candidates attend a program orientation and participate in an intensive community service program for a 6-week probationary period. Only defendants who complete 6 weeks of community service and decide to participate are eligible for enrollment. They plead guilty to charges and have their formal sentencing deferred and, after enrolling, start a rigorous, 12–18 month program with goals set by an individualized personal responsibility plan (PRP). The PRP mandates concrete achievements in employment, education, parenting, and child support and requires participants to perform up to 220 hours of community service. In addition, enrollees are closely supervised. They meet three times per week with a BOT case manager and appear in BOT reentry court three times per month, at which a superior court judge and prosecutor track their progress in meeting program requirements and completing the PRP.

To graduate from the program, participants must find employment, enroll in school full time, and comply with all the terms of their PRPs. At graduation, the court dismisses the original case, leaving the graduate with a clean record.3 If an individual still enrolled in the program is charged with a new crime or fails to meet BOT requirements, he or she is removed from BOT, and a judge can immediately impose a jail or prison sentence.

So some feel like it was pointed to force non-felons into a felony status. Which is true, if they didn’t complete the program. But, the program also allowed for education in place of prison time. Which I’m sure happened, but I’m not sure if they would be considered in the image above. If anyone is curious, here’s some bullet points on her timeline.

• As San Francisco District Attorney (2004-2011):

•   Refused to seek the death penalty for a man who killed a police officer
  

  • Created "Back on Track," a program allowing first-time drug offenders to get education instead of prison time
    

•   Implemented a policy to only charge for a third strike if the felony was serious or violent
  

• As California Attorney General (2011-2017):

•   Expanded "Back on Track" program statewide
  

•  Introduced police racial bias training
  

•    Made California DOJ the first statewide agency to require body cameras
  

•   Launched OpenJustice, a platform to track police killings
  

• Controversies as Attorney General:

•  Fought to release fewer prisoners despite court orders on overcrowding
  

•   Argued against releasing some prisoners proven innocent by the Innocence Project
  

•    Appealed a judge's decision that deemed California's death penalty unconstitutional
  

•    Defended law enforcement officials accused of misconduct in some cases
  

•   Resisted some efforts to investigate police shootings
  

• As U.S. Senator (2017-present):

•    Consistently supported criminal justice reforms
  

•    Introduced bail reform legislation
  

•   Co-sponsored bill to make lynching a federal crime
  

•   Voted for the First Step Act
  

•    Supported marijuana legalization efforts
  

• For her 2020 presidential campaign:

•    Released a criminal justice reform plan to reduce incarceration and end the death penalty
  

•   Took responsibility for some controversial decisions made by her office as AG
  

And the chain store is $20 for the laces while on Amazon it is $12.99, and Shien and TikTok it’s $8.99 and Alibaba it’s $4.99-2.49…

She was the first one to call for a ceasefire and asking Israel to give aid to Gazans. She may be complicit but to say that she’s done nothing seems inaccurate.

I remembered they had port forwarding on regular plans but I didn’t want to give any wrong info, and couldn’t look it up to confirm at the time.

That’s good to hear, the nice thing about that is their free plans (free 10gb, free 50gb) should be able to utilize that as well which is pretty nice.

I’m on T-Mobile Home Internet which is inherently double natted, no way around it. For most gaming it doesn’t matter, but it’s a pain in the ass for anything related to personal servers, or homebrew projects like Slippi (Smash Bros Melee online). So, with a free plan one could potentially get away with not even having to pay for a monthly fee, there’s a lot of uses for port forwarding that use next to no data

In line with this, when I stream shows/movies and to my friend on Discord (and vice versa) is that illegal?

Windscribe has port forwarding on static VPN’s, which is what I use

For what it’s worth, the right VPN will allow you to port forward

TFW Tencent isn’t considered capitalist

I think Sanders is too old since that’s the issue with Trump and Biden. AOC isn’t 35 yet and young people in politics are heavily discriminated against so I have a feeling she would be hard to get. I’m hoping her for 2028 though, as our landscape has changed and I want younger people in politics so, so desperately.

Believe me, I would love to get Sanders, AOC, Warren, West, that dem Arizona guy even. I think we are just in a situation where we’re too close to have someone else - from my understanding, aren’t there a number of states that currently wouldn’t be able to replace a nominee? If so, wouldn’t that effectively be splitting the democratic vote between states that had the new nominee and states that didn’t?

FWIW - full Gaza supporter here, I do not want their blood on our hands.

I agree with you. This nuance here is that don’t we want a candidate who has a chance of moving towards peace?

Yes, it was a temporary ceasefire, worse so, directed towards Hamas so they wouldn’t fire upon aid given by Israel. Still, calling for Israel to give aid matters.

Trump will not. Biden would not. We are just assuming that Harris will, with little evidence to support it other than that she has been part of Biden’s Cabinet, while her actual actions have been attempting to mitigate more death.

Um. Why does this article say nothing about the fact that she was one of the first politicians to call for a Ceasefire in Gaza? Asking Israel to give aid to the people of Gaza is significant.

Otherwise, this article seems to also just repeat itself saying a whole bunch of nothing. Look, I’m from Oakland, Kamala isn’t ideal in so many ways. But let’s not start calling people genocidal maniacs and ignoring the actions people have made, and judge them for those accordingly.

In the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Harris was initially a strong supporter of Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas – knocking down a suggestion that the Biden administration might condition aid to the country in November, saying “we are not going to create any conditions on the support that we are giving Israel to defend itself.”

But by December, Harris began wading deeper into Middle Eastern diplomacy during a trip to Dubai for a United Nations climate conference where she also met with leaders from the region; she took a more forceful tone with Israel than many other senior administration officials had done at the time – declaring “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed” and saying the administration believes “Israel must do more to protect innocent civilians.”

But yeah I guess we can easily assume she’ll just fully continue the war machine because of her LE-sided history despite how heavily against the death penalty she is to the point where she fought for a cop killer against the death penalty. The stepping stone from death penalty to genocide seems relevant here, I would guess that senseless death is something she doesn’t agree with.

She may not be ideal in a lot of ways, but Kamala has shown that she has personal convictions and has stuck to them in the past. Will that remain true? Who knows. But I do know that her calling for Israel to give aid to Gaza is LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE of Donald Trump telling Israel to “Finish the problem”.

In the future, for articles like this maybe the authors can do a comparison of our candidates to see how they shape up. Because quite frankly, this seems like nothing more than trying to dissuade from a candidate without saying much of anything other than “Biden’s Presidency bad, Kamala will continue it”.

I like TailsOS, which is an amnesiac system that runs entirely in RAM and boots from a USB hard drive. The goal for the operating system is to be a safe operating system for people who are in compromising situations - from international reporters to survivors of domestic abuse, it is a way to highly reduce your ability to be tracked.

The downsides of amnesiac systems are obvious - without enabling the setting for permanent storage, effectively everything you do on the OS is lost every time. And if you do enable persistent memory, well, that’s not exactly entirely safe if you are caught out.

What I like the OS for though is as someone who is not compromised or in a situation where I need these privacies (despite appreciating them), my usage of it makes it safer for others who are using it (since internet is through Tor), and I feel more comfortable using computers in the wild when needed, since I’m not logging in on the public operating system that will be used by everybody else.

Many people give these projects flack or diminish their values as a “daily driver”, but I think often times forget the important aspects of them. They may not be a daily driver for you or I by nature of our needs, but they are certainly important daily drivers for others. In addition to that, supporting a project that helps people in compromised situations and becoming another node to bounce off of (again, Tor, not inherent to the usage of this OS) is a nice additional benefit.

Tl;DR amnesiac operating systems because they’re simple, straightforward, and make you feel more like whitehat hackerman when you’ve done nothing at all.

I’m from Oakland, she’s done a lot of bad stuff for sure. She has also fought against the death penalty for a cop killer though, so it’s only fair to give her credit.

That said, that was in 2004 and she has done few actions like that since then, moreso supporting the prison industrial complex for sure. I do think calling her Hitler at the moment is too far, she was the first to call for an immediate ceasefire, despite having also said her (Biden-Harris admin) would also give support to Israels military, despite possible disagreements.

Calling for a ceasefire is important. She may be complicit in many ways, but she is one of the few that has expressed dismay for what is happening to Palestine.

I grew up in Oakland, as DA she would put people in prison for weed. These same people were in prison after legalization, and their crimes were not black market dealers or anything like that. Just regular dudes who wanted to smoke up.

It’s unfortunate. She has not been particularly great at doing what her constituents wanted.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/923369723/lets-talk-about-kamala-harris

This article does a pretty good job conveying how her policies were inherently conflicts of interest, but in short, The “Back on Track” program for non-violent first time offenders was primarily for people with weed convictions. The idea is that they would admit to the crime, become a felon, have their record expunged.

Now, how exactly does non-violent weed crime exists during a time where California has it legalized? And she took a long time to come around on legalization itself. The answer? It doesn’t, she has gotten the nickname “top cop” as a prosecutor and has law enforcement as her main supporters as she lost support from progressive Democrats for her actions.

Now, I don’t dismiss her entirely, but I’m not entirely trusting of her either. She doesn’t have the history to indicate she would suddenly flip and be super progressive. That said, when she has a conviction, she does stick to it. Early in her career as district attorney she vehemently opposed and fought against the death penalty - to which Diane Feinsteinn criticized and said she wouldn’t have supported her had she known this.

All this to say - she has accomplished a great deal, but it has been because of how many she has thrown under the bus. That makes it difficult to trust that we wouldn’t just be thrown under the bus again.

Edit: Wrote all this before learning Biden dropped out. Wow!

One Hitler is attempting to make progress towards education, establishing renewables, fixing the failures of redlining, further investing in farming, protecting natural reserves, alleviate student debt, bring manufacturing state side, holding companies more accountable, having politicians that actually represent their constituents, having a focus on making medication more available and making fairly significant strides in funding for cancer research.

And well, the other Hitler is attempting to become president for the rest of his life, bury the voices of minority and LGBT voices in the sand and preventing these people from holding cabinet positions, vying for corporate tax write-offs, and campaigning on literal hatred.

But yeah, both sides are the same for us. None of it matters because both would participate in the war machine.

Sorry, the idea that Trump would be better for Gaza is literally insane to me. He has said “finish the problem” in support of Israel, so, in fact, no he would not be better. He would be far, far worse. In literally every aspect imaginable. Side note: Biden has been criticized lately for not being present in cabinet meetings. Trump was literally not present at the same ones during his time in office. We are voting for the Presidential Cabinet, not just the President.

Do we want someone like Betsy DeVoss for Secretary of Education again? Do we really want someone like Scott Pruit for the head of the EPA again? Like come on people, Biden sucks in so many ways but he has a cabinet that at least attempts to be beneficial for people like us. Queer politicians can actually feel safe having a job in the government, and the more of us that exist in politics the more change we can make.

Edit: Wrote all this before learning Biden has dropped out. Wow!

That’s simply not true, there are ways to drastically reduce energy usage while increasing efficiency by offloading the work. A company Mythic AI has worked on an analog processor which sifts through the model. On GPU’s this is the power hungry process, for example a PC with the NVIDIA 3080 will typically run at about 350w under load.

Their claim now that these analog chips use 1/100th of the energy needed for GPU’s. There’s a video from Veritasium that goes over the details. It’s genuinely effective, and that was a few years ago now before whatever potential growth they’ve made with their recent funding. It looks like they actually have products available for inquiry now too.

Doesn’t seem to be at the consumer level yet unless you want to use servers for AI vs. your home computer, but it’s progress. Here’s the thing, I’m not particularly for our current implementation of AI but I don’t think we should be entirely against all of it either. There are clearly plenty of benefits that people see from them, so giving any option possible for companies like Google to severely draw back their energy consumption seems like the reasonable path forward.

The independent drawbacks to LLMs and generative AI don’t mean the technology will stop getting used. It isn’t going anywhere (as in, people will use it) so making it more efficient is the obvious solution to mitigating more waste. Advocate for the prohibition of AI, but it’s honestly more reckless than advocating for making the business’ usage of AI reach a specific energy goal. Forcing these companies to retrofit their servers to run at something ridiculous like 30w per rack is beneficial for them and for us, as they won’t pay as much for energy and we all will have less of it wasted.

Wishful thinking of course, but my point is that energy efficient AI, fortunately or unfortunately, exists and it will continue to. Like we can run “AI” on a raspberry pi 4 which takes what, 9 watts? This technology will get more developed every year, and while I’d be extremely surprised to see a Pi4 on its own running a subjectively useful LLM, I can imagine a setup that uses a Pi and some offloading tech to achieve reasonable results.

I’m personally pretty fine with regular people with computers wanting to use AI in whatever way suits them, as long as they aren’t trying to sell the results. While the energy consumption isn’t ideal, it’s a droplet to the servers these companies take. We should definitely make every effort possible towards increasing the efficiency of this tech, if only because it seems insane to me to pretend like AI will just disappear, or let this huge energy suck exist as we hope it begins to fade.

Tl;Dr offload GPU resources to analog chips, force companies to be more efficient simply because hoping AI is going to disappear is reckless.

Idk, random sticky substance is kinda selling rn

I feel like it’s the perspective that matters? Yes, we go through life seeing “higher resolution” in real life, but recreating this through pixels on a screen is a different medium. Going even further, if we take the next step and look at VR, suddenly we have real life competing with something that was previously unable to be experienced (more than once, at least.). Like, you can get a lightweight experience of what it’s like to fall off of a tall building. We can do it in real life. We can do it in a 2D/3D game. And we can do it in VR. The “real” feelings we get of this happening in reality aren’t quite the same as they are in VR, although it comes close, and likewise aren’t the same in monitor gaming, but again can come close. Our brains are interesting that way. My stomach is able to drop when falling from tall heights in games, despite in real life not actually being falling, or even moving in the slightest.

So I think it comes down to it being the medium and what it’s presented with.