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  • Nuclear Power is Perfectly Safe

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  • When things go really wrong they go really really wrong, but that doesn't change the statistical risk. Radiation is viscerally scary because you can't see it, but you're way more likely to get hit by a bus or die in a cloud of anhydrous ammonia or something similarly nasty.

    Plus things have only gone really wrong once, and that's Chernobyl. Fukushima Daiichi got hit by an earthquake, and then a tsunami, and lost auxiliary power. The plant's containment held. Estimates for cancer rates were something like 100 additional cases globally. Nobody got acute radiation poisoning, nobody got sick. The panic killed more people than the disaster. Which is kind of a microcosm of our broader relationship to nuclear power: the fear of what could go wrong caused us to stick with technologies that we know kill people. The Keystone coal power plant kills more people than the Fukushima disaster did, and that's for normal operation of the plant after they installed scrubbers

    anyway if you're still reading I love your work keep it up

  • Nuclear Power is Perfectly Safe

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  • Meh, it's cartoon logic. I mean maybe the joke would have been improved for you and I if it was a Union Carbide plant but let's be real the Bhopal disaster doesn't get nearly as much attention as it deserves because nobody knows what the fuck methyl isocyanate is.

  • Gretchen Whitmer endorses Haley Stevens for Michigan Senate primary

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  • of course she does

  • Uncle Bob becoming even worse:

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  • If it's stupid but it works it's still stupid and you're lucky

  • Oh I get it

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  • Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

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  • What extra 5000

  • Bane Mask

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  • If youre not using a custom instruction that brute forces different ways to try to get the other model not to fuck uo youre doing it wrong. If that doesn't work, add another llm into the pipe

    Edit what is a token and why is my boss sending me angry emails

  • An angry martini

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  • "I'll fucking kill you! You traitor! You disloyal bitch! When I get out of this abominable binding you're deader than your mom, your mom who's burning in hell! I hate you! You're actually already dead to me!"

    as soon as the cone comes off:

    "You're a dick. don't touch me. what's for dinner"

    I make light but what a poor kitty that looks so stressful

  • Lesbians like me joined forces with conservatives. Now they're turning on us.

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  • I'm shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

  • What is the BRAT diet? Wrong answers only.

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    • beer
    • red bull
    • aspirin
    • tacos

  • Eyeballs

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  • I hate it when this happens!

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • Hahahahahaha FUCK YOU ORACLE!

    sorry, needed to get that out of my system

  • Is it me or does Lemmy have a propaganda problem?

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  • I don't do deep packet inspection on Lemmy traffic, nor am I a behavioral analyst. I simply think it stands to reason that if there are organizations who are capable of running influence campaigns that Lemmy would be a natural target. Any online forum is potentially at risk of targeted disinformation campaigns. I don't apply this logic on an individual basis, because witch hunts are just as counterproductive as being overly credulous. But I have a pretty simple razor that if someone is trying to incite me to violence, meet offline, or divulge personally identifying information I should block them whether or not they're some kind of operative.

  • Is it me or does Lemmy have a propaganda problem?

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  • I think there's a motive. If I were the FBI I wouldn't be too concerned about actual violent outcomes, so long as they were lone wolf attacks or the product of tiny cells of radicals. It's like a controlled burn in a forest. You get the fire out of the way before it reaches a critical mass. "Voting doesn't work, burn down a government building" is a real hard sell to someone with a stable job, but the people it does sell to might one day be the types of people to organize and lead a meaningful opposition. So you flush them out early and fast. Some people might die, but Director Patel told me to catch leftists, not to prevent violence. As an added bonus, each violent act turns liberals more and more against what they perceive as an inherently violent ideology. "These are terrible times, and maybe if it prevents another bombing mass surveillance is acceptable even if I don't like it," they might think. You don't have to go back too far to see that mindset in action. In the aftermath of 9/11 Americans saw an unprecedented erosion of their civil liberties. Terror is good for an autocratic regime.

    That being said, I will grant that there's no evidence of this. But then again there wasn't evidence of COINTELPRO until the FBI field office in Media PA got broken into by a group of concerned citizens. Not that I'm condoning B&E. I also don't think it would be productive to point fingers even if there were evidence the FBI was doing COINTELPRO 2. "So and so is a fed" is actually one of the tactics used in COINTELPRO to sow discord in infiltrated groups. Just, maybe we should keep in mind that we're bound to see some discourse here that is trying to get us to play a useful idiot.

  • Is it me or does Lemmy have a propaganda problem?

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  • The difference between me and a conspiracy theorist is that I can point at past evidence. COINTELPRO is a historical fact, and part of that program involved infiltrating dissident groups and acting as agents provocateur. The Church committee found that the FBI engaged in "covert action designed to disrupt and discredit the activities of groups and individuals deemed a threat to the social order." The committee also found that the tactics employed by the FBI "would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity."

    I am not saying the FBI is definitely here now. What I am saying is it would be naïve to assume that they would not be willing to run an influence operation on public forums where people skeptical of the US government gather, and it would be foolish to assume that nobody else is carrying out similar operations for their own respective interests, state-level or otherwise.

  • Is it me or does Lemmy have a propaganda problem?

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  • Mastodon isn't American either and they still seized a Koliktiva server. Jurisdiction nothing. They can't arrest you, that doesn't mean they don't have an interest in influencing you. And they're one group of many who has an interest in running influence operations. Fuck dude, it could be Russia, it could be Mossad, it could be GISS. The barrier to entry is so low these days.

  • Is it me or does Lemmy have a propaganda problem?

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  • Lemmy is big enough to be a psyop target and has been for a while. This place is rife with feds and bots of every persuasion and they will try to influence you from every angle. As Lemmy grows it will only get worse. It's easy to brush off pushback for criticizing nation states but also be aware that the FBI in particular has a history of trying to push people towards violent radicalism and in person meetups. Do not trust anyone online. Especially if they agree with you politically.

  • TIL the word "fnord," from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gives characters subconscious feelings of unease and confusion, thus preventing rational thought, every time the word appears

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  • why is everyone commenting on a blank post

  • Behold the future of programming

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  • I think that falls under "back to the drawing board." Functionally there's little difference between talking to a model and taking a call. If management is pushing them to dictate and it's causing a problem they should put them in cubes.