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[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

At least with social media, you can choose what content to engage with or scroll past. A lot of TV news is fear mongering non-news entertainment. I don't care that someone got arrested after a high speed chase. I don't care about someone's dog charity. What your local Sinclair is peddling, let alone Fox, is just about getting you to come back over and over for the ads, and it's a continuous feed of trash someone else is deciding to put in your face and dub important.

Feeds also often let you mark content as "not interested" to better personalize for what you consider relevant and newsworthy. So, it's not necessarily a one-way street there either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

And who's going to make these arrests?

Make arrests by police that don't identify themselves or their badge number ineligible for jail time, and their statements should be ineligible in court. Police don't want detainees getting off free and wasting their time? Guess the body cam needs to be on when you declare their arrest and your badge number.

Tie state and municipal police department bonuses, benefits, and overtime pay to adherence to identification policy. Department has credible reports of violations and fails to properly investigate, discipline, or fire the offending officers? Sorry, your department is ineligible for their usual handouts this quarter. Your department is doing a good job policing themselves in good faith? Looks like someone's getting all that leftover bonus money.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won't fetch a great price and on one acre I doubt you'll have extra of anything. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.

If you're not squeamish and can get enough extra space with an enclosure, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He said he'd gradually been transitioning away for some time now. But I'd like Nexus to be more forthcoming about the current owner who has apparently been increasingly active.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Uh...you can't spend points to level skills in Oblivion. You pick attributes on level up, which affect your stat pools, but are separate from skills.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nobody is forcing athletes competing in this event to seek medical approval and prescription for the use of performance enhancing drugs by physicians with no moral qualms doing so. Witold is not any athlete's personal physician, and is not qualified to speak about medical concerns. He is a former sprinter turned politician. WADA's role is to serve sporting events by preventing performance enhancing drug usage that those events consider unfair during competition.

If someone is choosing to take a performance enhancing medication in this "Enhanced Games" event and is harmed by it, that's between them (or their estate 😂) and their doctor, and whatever malpractice suit is brought about to a court of law.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Summarization is one of the things LLMs are pretty good at. Same for the other thing where Wikipedia talked about auto-generating the "simple article" variants that are normally managed by hand to dumb down content.

But if they're pushing these tools, they need to be pushed as handy tools for editors to consider leveraging, not forced behavior for end users.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 6 days ago (5 children)

If nonviolence gets you want you want, you don't resort to violence in the first place. Did the author account for this and consider whether resistance categorized as violent began as nonviolent?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Since you plan to have shrimp, you may wish for them to reproduce. If so, look for carpeting plants or dense floating plants with many nooks and crannies for the juvenile shrimp to hide and graze in so they're not eaten by the larger fish before they reach maturity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Tropical fish diets in the wild typically include tiny invertebrates, worms, and algae. I like to start new tanks by adding some leaf litter from my yard. The aquarium light should be in enough to encourage some algae growth, and rotifers, copepods, daphnia, etc will quickly hatch from omnipresent microscopic eggs on those leaves. Adding a tiny bit of yeast powder (like for bread) will cause these organisms to quickly multiply, and after a couple weeks, they're everywhere. They keep the water super clear by eating excess algae and biofilms, helping keep sensitive shrimp healthy, and they serve as a constant food and activity source for fish assuming the tank isn't overstocked and has hiding spaces for the microfauna to safely reproduce. Many microfauna species are large enough to observe with the naked eye, so you'll know when they're thriving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Seems like you're focused on the top end of the ecosystem. How about plant life, microflora, and microfauna? I've had good success building up layer by layer for self-sustaining no-filter setups.

 

I had a thought the other day in relation to how impossible it is for a large country to make everyone happy with broad policies. There are big differences in opinions, values, economics, and cultures across a population. What one city, county, province, etc prefers for policy seems to be universally be overridden by "higher level" governance levels going to the top if they so choose. Are there any countries where lower level, more specific jurisdictions get to set policy overrides instead of vice versa? Like, a place where nationwide laws are defaults, but smaller hierarchies can pass laws to supercede the higher defaults?

 

Playing complex strategy games for many years, one of the things that irks me the most is that hard AI levels often just give the dumb AI cheats to simulate it being smarter. To me, it's not very satisfying to go against cheating AI. Are any games today leveraging neural networks to supplant or augment hand-written decision tree based AI? Are any under development? I know AI can be resource intensive, but it seems that at least turn based games could employ it.

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