TheFogan

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago

Kind of the conservative way...

Chemical plant explodes: Cut more regulations on safety

Abnormally dry and dangerous: Cut fire department

Repeat teen pregnancies: Less sex education.

Disease kills millions: Less doctors, less vaccines.

Sometimes I feel texas thinks there in a scenerio like the episode of parks and rec, when out of desperation to get out of an emergency scenerio drill, they opted to just fail it on purpose as fast as they could. Bird flu is killing millions. OK our priority is save the birds, instruct everyone to perform CPR on any fallen birds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Well yeah it's still at best a cat and mouse game. Really I suppose the biggest red flag a system could detect is most likely sending out multiple DMs on an account with little other activity.

can't really ballpark but I'm guessing the bot must hit several hundred if not thousands of us in rapid succession on creation (otherwise it would be a lot slower and only a few of us would have seen it).

That being said, auto detecting the links, contact information etc... would be pretty direct as well, as that would require every banned iteration to also remake whatever methods it tries to phish etc.. as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Are we becoming the catholic church or some shit...

Dem's "we ousted a bad democrat for extreme sexual misconduct"

Voters: "Yay, so... we aren't going to use him again right?"

Dem's: "Oh no we're going to shuffle him to go against the most corrupt person we can find to run against, that way he can't lose".

(He can lose).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (9 children)

I'm assuming the issue is the new nicole has already been banned by the time you are responding to it, thus there's nothing new to report.

Far as solutions, only ones I can imagine are I guess to allow instance owners to auto block and ban messages featuring certain words/sentences, and maybe auto delete messages from already banned users, in terms of technical solutions to getting ahead of the whack a mole game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I at least assumed that was understood with just "expectancy", obviously people live longer than expectations, and some die unexpectedly young. Key point is if you were given a mission where you must become a baby, and carry on life until you have 6 kids reach the age of 18. But you could chose what time to be born in (but not pick location, class or race), the lowest difficulty mode of that game would almost certainly be after 1950s... and prior to the 1800s would be viewed as very hard mode.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The massive lowering of the bar of "good enough to stay alive". Life expectancy was consistantly in the 30s up until the 1870s. Simply having kids was life threatening... doing so while malnourished even more so.

Natural selection favors traits that increase the odds of having offspring, as well as those that avoid death before having offspring. Avoiding death is a lot easier than it used to be.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (19 children)

idiocracy intro?

(IE the theory it pushed was in short, smart people do family planning, try to wait for everything to be perfect... and forget to get around to having kids).

Meanwhile on the less intelligent spectrum. Shit I'm pregnant again!!!... Oh and I got the girl in the trailer next door pregnant.

Or for a real world example... look at Lauren Boebert, the 35 year old grandmother in congress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I mean when it came to working from home, he basically said "if he was working from home he'd be golfing". as to why the average american can't be trusted to work from home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Bottom line, winrar isn't the tool to compress video files. In short it's more complex, but zipping, raring etc... those methods are all the ideal way to compress executables, word documents etc... In short, most likely your video files are already compressed as much as they can be without loss of quality. However if you were to attempt to make them smaller, most likely you'd use something like handbrake or some other video codec converter to actually try to shrink them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, that's the order of strategies..

Step 1: Tax cuts for the rich.

Step 2: Declare and win wars with... Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Panema, China, Palestine, Ukrane.

step 3: Attempt to completely eliminate the national debt. by cutting all services and regulations.

I'm sure another dozen steps... but trust me, those of us making under 150k are on the list.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So... more laws to stop things that aren't happening. Guessing the driver is still that old satire article from like 14 years ago claiming that schools were adding litterboxes to school bathrooms to be more furry inclusive.

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

Agreed, though I think my point is badly phrased.

Ideal is getting the most positive results at the lowest cost, and doge is massively killing positive results, and barely reducing the costs.

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