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I see three possible reasons:

  • He's dead

  • El Salvador and the US don't want anyone to speak about what's going on in the prison

  • Trump wants to use this as a test. If he can get away with this, he can get away with sending most anyone.

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A Rare Issue With the Swastidumpster

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Smh y'all will do anything to disparage Teslers.

The driver does something stupid, such as getting the car wet, and the car sometimes shuts itself down instead of catching fire.

No other car even tries to stop itself after getting wet! Can't you see how much better they are?! Have you even said thank you once? In this conversation?

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If this wasn't posted by the White House account, I'd definitely believe it was posted by someone against the deportations.

It's an innocent looking woman bawling her eyes out while being arrested. Why would they think this would help their anti-immigration cause?

I mean, I actually know why. Because that's what the conservatives want. They know innocent people are being arrested and denied due process. It's not that they don't care - they actively want it.

Go look at /r/conservative on Reddit. These people are cheering Rubio on after he announced that visaholders are being deported due to something they said or protested with no evidence being offered. And I'm not joking or exaggerating.

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Donald Trump tries to kill birthright citizenship with executive order

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It's not a guarantee, though, but it should be. If you serve for, say, 5 years and have not been dishonorably discharged, you should be automatically eligible for citizenship.

As of now, serving only exempts you from the continuous residence and physical presence requirements. You still need to be a permanent resident, know English, understand the US government and history, and demonstrate "good moral character" for at least a year out of the military.

Permanent residency shouldn't be mandated for soldiers. They're choosing to serve for the US - isn't that enough? The English and US government/history requirement should be waived under the assumption that they understand all of those well enough after training and serving in the military. Good moral character really is just that you haven't committed any serious crime which is fine.

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TIL No Kings Protests were the 3rd Largest in US History

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  1. George Floyd (Police Brutality)
  2. Earth Day 1970 (Environmental Protection)
  3. No Kings (Trump)
  4. Hands Across America (Poverty)
  5. Women's March 2017 (Feminism)
  6. Hands Off (Trump)
  7. March for Our Lives (Gun Violence)
  8. Women's March 2018 (Feminism)
  9. #RickyRenuncia (Puerto Rico, Resignation of Ricardo Rosselló)
  10. Great American Boycott (Immigrant Rights)

Only #9 actually accomplished what they wanted.

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Why aren't you creating more workers??

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation...

Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilised society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which their fruitful marriages produce.

The liberal reward of labour, by enabling them to provide better for their children, and consequently to bring up a greater number, naturally tends to widen and extend those limits. It deserves to be remarked, too, that it necessarily does this as nearly as possible in the proportion which the demand for labour requires. If this demand is continually increasing, the reward of labour must necessarily encourage in such a manner the marriage and multiplication of labourers, as may enable them to supply that continually increasing demand by a continually increasing population.

  • Adam Smith, the father of capitalism

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Focus camp

Whiteknife: Do you remember that movie we did with Johnny Morton? You were the Sheriff, and I was some generic Indian?

Howard: Hey come on, don't say that. Tallhand Mudlake could talk to horses. You played him with grace and dignity. It was a great role for you!

W: Morton played a rancher who owned half of Missouri. And what happens when the cattle ranchers have more power than the Sheriff?

H: The whole town burns down.

W: The whole town burns down. Right. Vault-Tec is a trillion-dollar company that owns half of everything, and after ten years of war the US Government is broker than a joke. The cattle ranchers are in charge, Coop. Unless the People do something about it.

H: I guess everything's a conspiracy, right? Come on man, you sound like you're in a cult.

W: And you're sitting here defending a system that's ready to set the world on fire, Cooper. Maybe you're the one in the cult.

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Drain the swamp?

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Completely agree.

These are some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. And they bent their knee for Trump, some more willingly than others.

It's clearly a warning for the rest: fall in line now or face the consequences.

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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

It's been clear that the best use of AI in a professional environment is as an assistant.

I don't want something doing my job for me. I just want it to help me find something or to point out possible issues.

Of course, AI isn't there yet. It doesn't like reading through multiple large files. It doesn't "learn" from you and what you're doing, only what it's "learned" before. It can't pick up on your patterns over time. It doesn't remember what your various responsibilities are. If I work in a file today, it's not going to remember in a month when I work on it again.

And it might never get there. We've been rapidly approaching the limits of AI with two major problems. First, scaling is becoming exponential. Doubling the training data and computing resources won't produce a model that's twice as good. Second, overtraining is now a concern. We're discovering that models can produce worse results if they receive too much training data.

And, obviously, it's terrible for the environment and a waste of resources and electricity.

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This is definitely AI but similar ovens used to be built and, I'm sure, still are.

However, there are still plenty of issues.

Open flame plus a flammable painting. And the painting is right over the oven where it will get covered in grease. And that's a gas range with no hood.

There's a reason ovens usually open from the top these days. It's safer and allows you to peak without opening the entire oven or leaning at an odd angle. Locking handles are also no longer used because little kids can climb in and accidentally get stuck.

The multiple drawers sounds like a good idea but it just means that you can't cook large dishes. Usually you'd only see styles like this in restaurant kitchens because they will know how large of an oven they need and can benefit from having multiple sizes for different dishes.