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  • Well, another party that is willing to actually govern is welcome to stand up for itself and replace the GOP.

    Until that happens, we have the GOP, a party that is ran by gaslighting, obstructionism, and projection, who’s real purpose has been laid bare for decades: To take our government, and “reduce it to the size where [they] can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub”. And the Democrats, a party that has its own flaws, but actually wants to enact laws and run the country.

    One of these parties wants to actively destroy our government, and one of them doesn’t.











  • What is even the purpose of this post? If you’re going to be so ignorant of US history, at least don’t act so high and mighty about your implications.

    How do Americans still allow guns to be so easily available?

    The 2nd Amendment, for one. It’s a constitutional amendment that hasn’t changed since the Constitution was written, back in 1787. It’s also the 2nd, and not say, the 20th, so its importance is more significant in the minds of the American public than certain ones we’ve gotten rid of, like the alcohol ban (18th).

    It requires a 2/3rds majority in Congress to change a constitutional amendment, and that sure as fuck ain’t happening with today’s batshit crazy GOP. They can’t even keep their own party together with the right-wing crazies having fights with the extremely-right wing House majority leaders because they have the gall to “compromise”, which is the whole fucking point of Congress.

    Besides, all of this talk of “banning guns” is unproductive. If you want to make change, start with regulations. Canada’s got a shit ton of guns, and nobody’s bitching about them, because they are properly regulated.

    Isn’t it well past the point where incidents involving guns should almost never happen?

    What the fuck does this question even mean? Is what “well past the point”? Why would “incidents involving guns” should almost never happen? Brits have gun bans, and they still have gun incidents.

    Banning a thing doesn’t make it go away. I thought we learned this shit with the War on (some) Drugs. Or, for that manner, Prohibition. (Do you like gangs? Well, you can thank Prohibition for that shit.)


  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.mlToday's AI is unreasonable
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    The article makes several claims and insinuations without backing them up so I find it hard to follow any of the reasoning.

    “Article”. I’m going to call it what it is: a blog post that should have moderated away. If people here are going to post “tech news”, make sure it has actual journalism.

    Postel’s law IMHO is a big mistake - it’s what gave us Internet Explorer and arbitrary unpredictable interpretation of HTML, leading to decades of browser incompatibility problems. But the law is not even applicable here. Unlike the Internet, we want the AI to appear to think for itself rather than being predictable.

    It’s almost like Isaac Asimov wrote a famous book about robotic laws and a bunch of different short stories on how easy it was to circumvent them.