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I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say that the Confederate flag was always racist, but the people who rightfully had a problem with it only started to gain the power to say or do anything about it during the Civil Rights Era, or (as you aptly point out) when Black men became armed soldiers in an integrated military.

Perhaps it only “recently” became popularly understood to be racist, but it has always actually been racist.

“I assert that the Confederate flag only changed to meaning ‘racist’ recently. I will not elaborate further.”

Not the headgaskets again!

I was trying to do a “it’s not supposed to leak, that’s probably an STI” joke.

… leaked …

Well, there’s your problem.

Who do you think owns the real estate?

Magnavox Odyssey

He’s using the “exclusive we.”

That’s … really bad.

How is this remotely Google’s responsibility?

That definitely plays a part, but there are other bits, too.

Old sealed beam lamps simply weren’t as bright as halogens or LEDs (or Xenons, for that brief moment in automotive lighting history). Sealed beams didn’t throw out as pure a white light, either, and they were more likely to become badly aimed. Sealed beam reflectors were all the same, no matter what car you put them on; automakers could adjust composite headlights to have whatever beam shape they wanted. All together, you could not see as far when using sealed beams in comparison to newer bulb technologies.

Back in the mid-1980s, when composite headlights were becoming more common on new cars, highway speeds were simply not as fast. Anecdotally, going 75MPH on the highways in and around Chicago was screaming fast in the 80s. Today, 75MPH on those same highways is slow. Modern cars are simply more capable of safely driving at high speeds, and part of that is because modern headlights are designed to throw whiter light farther. Headlights are brighter.

Throw some supermassive trucks and SUVs into the mix, where their OEM positioned headlights are higher off the ground, and many of them have big tires or lift kits making that even worse (and where exactly zero people who lift their vehicles also reaim the headlights) - if you’re in a compact or midsize sedan, well, fuck you.

And if you work from home, make your office machine always have QoS priority.

What ads?

Sounds like typing on a keyboard made of Jujubes.

… sometimes results in weird behaviors because evolution finds a solution you never thought of, or it finds a solution to a different problem to the one you were trying to get it to find a solution to.

Those outcomes seem especially beneficial.

But it takes ages, …

Is this process something that distributed computing could be leveraged for, akin to SETI@home?

Sorry for hitting you at a vulnerable time.

I’m on MBin. Your username is displayed as: walden. I can mouse over that to learn that your full username is @walden@sub.wetshaving.social.

This is the same thing as email domain names and display names. Yes, scammers still exploit that, too, but for the most part, people have gotten used to also looking at the actual full email address, and not just the display name or mailbox name. The same can happen here.

Still, I would much prefer if the default view here showed the full username and not just the display name.

Again, completely pulled from my ass. Take with a boulder of salt.

You’re under arrest. That’s ass-salt.

“We have noticed that this model hallucinates less,” Tworek says. But the problem still persists. “We can’t say we solved hallucinations.”

On one hand, yeah, AI hallucinations.

On the other hand, have you met people?

Bad actors can afford $50 the same as good ones.