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Australis13

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  • Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

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  • Yeah, he raises a good point.

    The question then becomes: how do we make the people who feel excluded (and hence want to burn everything down) feel included?

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    Side-Effect of Trump Flip-Flopping on Tariffs

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  • Thanks for this. Nice to see someone following the money back to actual companies.

  • DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

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  • Yeah, it took a bit of getting used to when I started following politics and everyone was referring to "liberals" as left-leaning! The Liberal/National Party (LNP or Coalition) is more libertarian than liberal.

    Labor (the ALP) is centrist. The biggest left-leaning party are the Greens. There are a host of smaller parties and independents that usually get a handful of seats too.

  • 'Defiant screw you': Expert stunned as Trump admin 'thumbs its nose' at Supreme Court

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  • This expert hasn't been paying attention if that headline is a true reflection of their views (I suspect it's just exaggerated for effect, though). The Trump Administration has been consistently pushing the limits with ignoring/disobeying the courts to see what they can get away with.

  • DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

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  • The LNP has appeared to back down from MAGA-esque policies, but I don't believe they are being honest with their "change of heart". Their established behviour and lack of support for workers' rights, etc., almost guarantees that if they were to get into power, they'd eventually go back to their original policies of ending WFH, gutting the federal government, etc.

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    The Declaration of Independence has been violated.

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  • This happened a while ago. The US has technically been in a constitutional crisis for months, as Trump was not actually eligible to run for president. There's been multiple violations since then, too.

  • aight... i'm out..

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  • The irony is that, according to the article, it already does. What is changing is that the LLM will be able to use more of that data:

    OpenAI is rolling out a new update to ChatGPT's memory that allows the bot to access the contents of all of your previous chats. The idea is that by pulling from your past conversations, ChatGPT will be able to offer more relevant results to your questions, queries, and overall discussions.

    ChatGPT's memory feature is a little over a year old at this point, but its function has been much more limited than the update OpenAI is rolling out today... Previously, the bot stored those data points in a bank of "saved memories." You could access this memory bank at any time and see what the bot had stored based on your conversations.... However, it wasn't perfect, and couldn't naturally pull from past conversations, as a feature like "memory" might imply.

  • DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

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  • True. Here in Australia the rapid progression of the Trump administration has definitely resulted in some last-minute policy changes by our major conservative party. I don't believe they will honour their new campaign promises for a moment if they get into power, based on their previous behaviour, but it has been nice to see a bit of a reality check.

  • DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

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  • I take your point - that the rapid progression might shock some people into action - but also keep in mind that Hitler took control of Germany rather quickly too and we all know how that ended.

  • DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

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  • Yeah, I thought we'd at least get to June before they tried this.

  • Video Artifacts in S5E15 at 16:31

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  • I guess one thing to remember is that if you were watching it when it was originally broadcast or even on DVD in the 2000s, the overscan feature of TVs would have hidden any issues at the edge of the frame.

    Modern media centres and TVs now allow you to disable that (and often do since modern shows and films are made without overscan in mind), so the artefacts and edge distortions that are common in 70s/80s/90s shows are now visible.

  • DOGE cuts watchdogs investigating self-driving Teslas: Report

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  • They've really given up on being subtle about anything, haven't they? This is a clear conflict of interest and yet I doubt anyone is going to stop Musk.

  • Fund managers worry Trump might be “insane”

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  • Unfortunately Trump isn't alone in that regard - quite a lot of people reach adulthood lacking critical thinking and the ability to actually discern what is or isn't a reliable and useful source of information. Add to that the propaganda machine of media empires like Murdoch's and it's no wonder people buy Trump's inane ramblings.

  • Video Artifacts in S5E15 at 16:31

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  • I only have the PAL DVD set to refer to (so I think the scene in "By Inferno's Light" you're referring to occurs around 15:50) and I cannot see this artefact.

    Looks like it might have been added by whatever re-encoding was done between the NTSC DVDs and your copy.

  • Fund managers worry Trump might be “insane”

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  • They're only worried about this now?! These are supposed to be observant people who manage large sums of money... How can they be that oblivious to Trump's modus operandi?! Even in his first term there was obvious evidence that he never matured beyond childhood and had a tenuous grip on reality.

  • Tell us about your soul cat

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  • Are you sure he's actually dumb if he's easy to train? One of our cats definitely cries when she really wants to play, but it's because she wants me to go to her rather than her walking down to the other end of the house where I am!

  • Tell us about your soul cat

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  • Tell us about your soul cat

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  • House cancels rest of votes for week after GOP floor rebellion

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  • I'm not sure if this is Johnson acting immature and throwing a tantrum because the GOP couldn't get their way, or if he's buying time to make sure they can get the nine Republicans into line before trying again.