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  • ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves

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  • That's the attitude. I'm still here because I do dumb things wisely

    Also if you do decide to play around video it. We have far too much AI slop and far too little surprise content

  • ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves

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  • Absolutely, and I largely understand this because I experimented, don't forget the battery

    The gloves, and any taser, should have some kind of cutoff. But if they didn't and you dropped something like a perfect sheet of graphene between the contacts?

    Something will melt in the circuit, if it's not in the conductor it's going to be in the battery

  • ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves

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  • I mean, I can just tell you

    If you put a conductor between the prongs, it'll complete the circuit. Better than air does, by a lot. Circuit complete. Simple as that

    Where does the heat go? That's the question you should be asking. Thermodynamics aren't a suggestion

    Do you understand what I mean? You should definitely ask follow up questions if you're still unsure about how your little experiment would go

  • Farmers association demands Congress investigate Trump beef deal ‘betrayal’

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  • It's like you didn't even read my words

  • Now Optimus Prime? You gotta be kidding me

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  • How about couchfucker and Peter Tiel...I don't want to waste this on freebies

  • ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves

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  • Nothing would happen... The circuit is between the pads on the gloves, you'd have to complete the circuit going through the brown shirt to do anything unexpected... Which is entirely unfeasible in any real world situation

    If your clothing is conductive, it's just going to mostly flow through your clothing. Depending on thermal properties and how much current these gloves put out, it might heat up the clothing enough to cause burns

  • Farmers association demands Congress investigate Trump beef deal ‘betrayal’

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  • This is the way.

    I had steak for the first time in like two years yesterday, it was incredible. It was a whole event, a good time all around

    Then I picked up some produce and now I just started soaking some beans to cook for the week

    A hardliner position is pretty much the least effective method imaginable to win people over. I'm convinced it's enemy action

    You don't need to make people vegetarian, you shouldn't even put a vegan label on things. You just have to normalize not eating meat every meal

  • Farmers association demands Congress investigate Trump beef deal ‘betrayal’

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  • Democrats aren't going to to shit

    Progressives will, even if they have a D next to their name. We need to take the party infrastructure by force

  • Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race

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  • No, I'm building connections in the community so that when hard times come, we can come together

    There's no saving our country, but life is going to go on when the day arrives that no one comes to fix the bridges that fall. We will still be here

  • Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race

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  • A year ago would have been the time to spring into action... Or better yet during COVID

    At this point? We'll probably still win the midterms, hopefully have a wave of fresh progressives who will soften the landing, but our government has been shredded. Our economy is going to pop in the next two years (could be tomorrow), and our debt is untenable anyways

    There's rough times ahead before things will get better

  • Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race

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  • They're rigging them, but they've been doing that for my entire lifetime. For decades Republicans wouldn't have been able to win a majority or presidency in a fair election, but our opposition party refuses to move or step down. They're captured by Capital interests too.

    What exactly would you have us do? Our empire is at the last phase of it's life cycle... It's collapsing.

    There's no saving it. We're way past the tipping point... If we want democracy we will have to rebuild it, and we're in for a period of suffering before that can manifest

    Until then, the best we can do is try to hold things together and keep people alive.

    And hopefully avoid a last ditch major war... That's a common final nail in the coffin

  • US: Chinese hackers broke into NASA, DOE, DOJ, NIH, HHS, Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Senate; DOJ and FBI seize 2 platforms used by China to target USA critical infrastructure

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  • A ton of our cyber security was opened up when DOGE tore through government departments to steal their data and give it to private companies

  • Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more

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  • It's been like 2.5 years for me. There's been a few annoyances and games that didn't work, but I've never actually gone back

    I should probably just reclaim the drive at this point

  • States can regulate prediction markets as gambling, federal appeals court rules

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  • Well that took way too long

  • Do many others also feel life is another chore?

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  • Everyone needs a driving force. It's what smooths out the little problems and keeps you going

    It sounds like you lack hope in the future. I think that's pretty understandable right now, it's in short supply

    People also sometimes to say to believe in god. I am not against that but I do not get god. How can I get anything anyway that is outside my own comprehension. Outside the laws of the universe, my brain cant visualize it. And I do not think the man in a sky god can be real.

    If you want to develop spiritually, start looking inside yourself. Learn to meditate, learn to focus on your body and study your mind as it works. And most of all, look for contentment in the present. Connect to the world around you, and the universe inside you

    If you don't find God, at least you can find yourself

    And as for hope in the future... Things are going to get worse for humanity in general. Then they'll start to get better.

    This too will pass... Things are going to change, they are already beginning to change. You can be a part of that change if you're inclined

    For now, find things you want to do, and savor them as much as you can. It doesn't have to have meaning. You don't have to justify it to anyone.

    If you want to stare at clouds, stare at clouds. If you want to make music, make music. Whatever keeps you going, find a way to make it happen

  • [Mimi] Two Guards Riddle. [11]

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  • Saying you may ask one question can be interpreted many ways

    It could be permission, a command, or just a prediction

    The truth teller could be giving a command, the rules of the interaction. The liar could be predicting you'll ask more than one question and lying about it

  • Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as He Spirals Over Canada Feud

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  • At this point I think it's all a distraction from his health

  • One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives

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  • not really. you don't want to keep frames without movement, faces or license plates. then you can throw away most frames from a 60 FPS recording. 2 frames per second is better than nothing for running a portable surveillance station. then you can encode them in some efficient format with acceptable compression, and it's not that much anymore. massive 5G rollout was explicitly happening for IoT devices, to be able to handle the load.

    Let's do some order of magnitude math... Let's say each car on average "sees" 100 things a day (which is very conservative since there's multiple cameras and with basic object recognition you're going to have a lot of false duplicates). Let's say each picture is cropped to a megabyte with compression, which would be pretty low res to grab identifying information from

    You can't do much in the way of video compression, because this isn't a video - we're cropping pictures, too much will change frame to frame

    So 100MB a day per car, that's nothing... For one car. How many cars are doing this? 10 million? 50 million?

    (Oh, and btw 5G is basically just 4G or 3G outside of Metro areas in the US)

    debatable. google picasa had pretty good on-device facial recognition more than a decade ago, on average desktop computer hardware. ente.io runs something similar in their smartphone app today, fully locally. detects faces very well even in memes. tech that can go into a smartphone can go into any smart car too, and likely does.

    It detects faces well, that's easy enough, and it can generally label the people because you only have so many in the pool of subjects. If you want to identify people in a population? You're not doing that on a phone. Even the best systems have a big problem with false matches

    that's a wrong question. the correct question is what percent of the time is a car outside of the garage. lots of cars are parked on the street all the time while not driving.

    Parking lots are not usually good vantage points... That's where most cars live

    And as for disparate data points... Unless ever auto company is using the same system, it's going to take non negligible amounts of work to integrate different systems. Palantir is probably going after the lower hanging and more juicy fruit, like Ring doorbells and commercial security systems. Or, you know, phones

    That's what it comes down to. All this for what? I'm not saying they wouldn't do it, or it couldn't be done, I'm saying there's better options that they are already using for surveillance

    If they were to do it, you'd pick Tesla - they have the cameras and sell monitoring as a feature. They're reasonably widespread, so you'll get almost the same coverage as if all automakers were on board - remember, this is about tracking people and vehicles, if we're recording them we're in a whole different ballpark

    Or, you know, set up 100k cameras at key intersections and get a more comprehensive system with a lot less moving pieces

  • America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First…

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  • Haha I actually was curious how it came to be after your comment, but didn't get around to looking it up myself. Neat