speaking of cleaning up images

remember the story about the NSA handing out webcam covers?

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3070400/nsa-branded-webcam-covers-are-see-through

found the NSA cover thread, fucking glorious. NSA handed out webcam covers, and they're transparent enough that you can run contrasting algorithms and get actionable images out of it https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1091449476613468160

@CasualSailor sooo. is this a case of "niiicee!" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYt0WbDjJ4E

but, I've been told that whamen can do no wrong

and that anyone who are worried about exposing their back to them by doing stuff like mentoring just need to stop being rapists!

When I met one they just said they looked forward to seeing what I could do with my talents

I'm always amazed at how unimaginative people are when they torture someone. I mean, a standard steel drill, right into the heel. But noo, "rip off his nails, muhahahaha"

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7669191/CtNrpsuWgAAFz9S.jpg

well, gays aren't stuck with the asymmetries though. It's not as if the cops coming in on a domestic abuse situation will always arrest one instead of the other

marriage makes sense as a child-focused arrangement

nah, I'm waiting for the mass suicides once twitter echo chambers come to their end state: full blown cultism

That'll be a show

seriously, SJW social media sites are like cults, only that the cult leader is the decentralized but unified doctrine of intersectionality and victimhood, and the whole system is self-policing. Do a wrongthink and you are attacked, and either have to bend the knee and prostrate yourself to the group for a long time, or you're excommunicated by threat of violence

For reals, if you know people who are heavy on the SJW social media, be fucking afraid of them, because next election, they're gonna go apeshit and start killing if things don't start turning around soon

Covington could have been a turning point to de-escalate the madness

@CasualSailor where's that from?

lucky me, I live in Norway, so I can just watch the world go to shit

but you all seem cool, so wanna spread my warning. Seriously, start comparing the social media bubbles to cults. It's scary af

I think it varies between 20 to 40%, except cars, which is crazy high

25% is the common one

15% for food, 12% for hotels

Norway is worse on cars, but we have low taxes on electric cars to encourage people to buy those instead

so, Norway has the most teslas per capita in the world

Anyway, I like to call Norway social capitalist

yeah, but it has gotten ruined by bernie not having the galls to actually explain it to the US properly

I feel that social capitalism is better, because we want capitalism to produce as much as it can, but where there are externalities we need the government

I think Castro is a likely outcome, not a disaster, but not good

Anyway, I've come to realize that a lot of the reason Norway has done so well, except for the oil ofc, is that we've been damn good in designing systems that work. A pragmatic attitude and putting workable solutions above ideology

well, you can't count the chinese deaths under mao, that's like comparing protoss to zerg

/edge :p

they block "guns" among other things

which makes it fun to look up MGS4 among other things

it's more like 100-200 million that are reasonable to blame on communism

half a billion is stretching it to the same degree that those who claim that capitalism is killing millions are stretching it

don't include the www.

Life is a fatal disease!

nah, if you have sex with a feminist, you just end it by saying "it was my priviledge"

then she curls up into a victim-ball and rolls out

WE MEET AGAIN MINI TIM!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

I should get to bed

it's 6 am here

f'in ISP messed up my net, can't play anything online....

Anyways, take care fellow russian bots

I don't trust anyone, except count dankula's second dog

anyway, gn

@stedly germany has an insane trade surplus. They're doing fine economically (socially however...)

UBI's biggest problem is that the market will just adjust rates to accomodate the new money. So long as real estate is expensive (which it will always be as long as populations increase), all extra money will be swallowed up by the housing market

Well, unless you believe in a soul, there's no barrier that exists to implement "pain" for an AI

pain is the firing of neurons and the release of certain hormones. It's essentially a "this was bad, don't let the bad thing continue" instruction.

I think the better questions is whether AIs can ever develop feelings

pain is a subset of feeling

if you manage feelings in an AI, pain is managed as well

if you believe that there's more to humans than chemicals and electricity, you believe in a soul

hover cars is 100% retarded

you have to achieve a state of perfect gravitational compensation in order for it not to drain energy like a mofo

it's physics @Witan

@Witan energy is expended whenever a force is applied over a distance. If you have to compensate for gravity, every nanometer the car moves before the hovering mechanism compensates will drain energy. Cars work because they let the ground do that job for them

@Witan go back to school, I just explained it to you

@Witan are you trying to troll? because you're essentially as wrong as the people who believe in flat earth

the thing that pisses me off about the "you can't reduce humans to biochemistry" is that the reduction does not invalidate moral philosophy such as holding the individual as sacred

okay, invest your money in those companies and call me when you're rich.... oh wait, those things will get banned the moment people hear how fucking loud they are, and that they can only travel short distances and are nothing more than expensive toys

@Witan the amount of effort you're putting into this is kinda amazing, if only you used that to actually read up on stuff instead

well, look up the condition nicknamed "butterfly children"

and tell me that if your kid was born with that, would you want it to grow up in perpetual pain, or just end it as soon as possible?

there are extremely rare cases where post-birth "abortion" has moral justification. They're fucking rare, but they exist

@Witan go back to Epstein's island!

@The Ghost of Monarchies ahem, I work for the NS.... yes FBI... yes...

the father should have to consent in order to be forced to pay child support, should be allowed to demand a DNA test, and if paying, have the right to see the kids

@Ranko you need to brush up on biology, sperm cells aren't capable of becoming life no matter what, egg cells actually can become full blown life in some animals

@Redneo oh yeah, that one was fucked up

wasn't it his teacher?

@Ranko I am autism man! Ruiner of jokes!

@Witan that article has some nice facts: "The most well-known case was of a Kansas boy who, at age 13, impregnated his 17-year-old baby-sitter. Under Kansas law, a child under the age of 15 is legally unable to consent to sex. The Kansas Supreme Court in 1993 ruled that he was liable for child support."

Maybe he should have learned that feminism is on his side, and he shouldn't listen to the evil MRAs!!!!

just too bad the MRAs are almost as busy tearing each other apart as they are fighting this bullshit

I was a quite high up patreon of the honey badgers a while, and then I realized they were just inverse feminists and told them to go fuck themselves.

@Redneo I told them that them telling a guy that he's stuck in a relationship with a feminist because she might lie about him in the future, rather than just telling him to walk away from the relationship, is just what the feminists tell women in abusive relationships themselves

@Ranko I just googled "most premature birth" and got one that was 128 days premature

@Ranko so, about 4 months early

@Redneo I would disagree, the west has the quantum superstate women

women are "empowered" and "victim" at the same time

So, while the women in the west will work, etc, they also want all the benefits that were normally bundled with strong gender norms

@Redneo but they are

I really fucking hate the feminist talking points about "gender"

because if you actually look at it logically, gender is the mental construct that the brain AUTOMATICALLY PROCUDES FROM EXPERIENCE by correlating biological sex to behaviour

e.g. all the most aggressive people I know are men, therefore aggression is a male trait

add up all statistical inferences about sex and behaviour correlations, and you have gender

@ʇooNʇooN I'm waiting in excitement what Mixed's objection to my reasoning is

@ʇooNʇooN ah yes, that argument, that talking about gender is a default loss because it separates sex and behaviour artificially

I can respect that

I'm more interested in taking back the term and just telling feminists to fuck off with it

there's not a divorce problem, there's a culture problem causing people to not understand how to live with one another without wanting to kill each other

ofc, forcing people to stay in marriages might give a slight push towards fixing that culture, but I think the complete demolition of codependence thanks to feminism has to be fixed first.

that shit is so antithetical to human behaviour that they almost have to be cults

polygyny makes sense, accomplished male that has superiour genes that can spread to multiple females. The opposite is impossible

yep, but if 2/3 of the male population is either enslaved or died in war, then having polygyny works