Which is exactly why western AI companies are bankrupting themselves building data centers while China is easily keeping pace with a fraction of the resources. They’re not magic. They just do basic things like make things more efficient.

During this time, the town’s population grew by about 200 people (about 20%); nearly all of the newcomers were men

My favorite quote from that article lol

Does anyone else remember that libertarian run town in I think Maine or something where it became a total disaster because bears were everywhere?

An AI would spend more in compute hacking my bank account then it would get from draining it.

Well you can’t rig it as easily if you fill in the bubble with a pen. Use your brain for a sec, duh. You europeans just don’t GET us. /s

“A MINOR SETBACK ON THE PATH TO THE SINGULARITY!” -

The Name Game by Jessica Lange

Why does everyone drive 10-15 miles above the speed limit?

We don’t. Some of yall do. And then you ride my ass when i don’t.

Why don’t we raise the speed limit if that’s how fast everyone wants to go?

They do. Speed limits are determined by how fast people go on the roads.

Why is traffic enforcement given to very expensive and ineffective police instead of cheaper and more automated traffic cameras?

Because cameras can’t beat people with batons for no reason. Also some areas do have camera enforcement.

Why do we refuse to ever use ANY traffic calming measures? Yes, than you flashing digital sign for telling me I’m going 10 miles above the limit on this incredibly wide and straight and flat road with high curbs and perfect visibility.

Your mad it’s telling you you’re speeding? Then go slower.

If you elect an easily manipulated old fool to office don’t be surprised when we take advantage of that to weaken the American Empire. Xi Jinping is not “buddies” with Trump, but Trump thinking they are buddies can certainly be beneficial to the People’s Republic.

Well according to this article the cops don’t really give a fuck about what is or isn’t legally protected so why should anyone else?

Did YOU read the article? These are the laws in these states that specifically state what the aggravating circumstance is.

Table 1. States Authorizing the Death Penalty for Killing a Child State Child-Victim Aggravating Circumstance

Arizona

The defendant was an adult at the time the offense was committed or was tried as an adult and the murdered person was under fifteen years of age or was seventy years of age or older

Arkansas

The capital murder was committed against a person whom the defendant knew or reasonably should have known was especially vulnerable to the attack because the person was 12 years of age or younger

Connecticut (prior to abolition)

Murder of a person under 16 years of age

Delaware (prior to abolition)

The victim was a child 14 years of age or younger, and the murder was committed by an individual who is at least 4 years older than the victim

Florida

The victim of the capital felony was a person less than 12 years of age

Illinois (prior to abolition)

The murdered individual was under 12 years of age and the death resulted from exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty

Indiana

The victim of the murder was less than 12 years of age

Louisiana

The victim was under the age of 12 years

Nevada

The murder as committed upon a person less than 14 years of age

New Jersey (prior to abolition)

The victim was less than 14 years old

Ohio

The offender in the commission of the offense, purposefully caused the death of another who was under thirteen years of age at the time of the commission of the offense and the defendant committed the offense with prior calculation and design

Oregon

The victim of the intentional homicide was under the age of 14 years old

Pennsylvania

The victim was a child under 12 years of age

South Carolina

The murder of a child 11 years or younger

South Dakota

The offense was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim. Any murder is wantonly vile, horrible, and inhuman if the victim is less than thirteen years of age

Tennessee

The murder was committed against a person less than 12 years of age and then defendant was 18 years of age or older

Texas

The person murders an individual under 10 years of age

Virginia (prior to abolition)

Murder victim was under the age of 14 and the defendant was 21 years of age of older

Wyoming

The defendant knew or reasonably should have known the victim was less than 17 years of age

Took one fucking search on duckduckgo: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/use-of-the-death-penalty-for-killing-a-child-victim

It would have taken you less time than typing that comment.

Ehhh, I kinda have to push back on this a bit here. I’m 100% on board that this lady is a wacko and monster, and that women should be able to abort as many babies as they damn well please, to be clear. It’s just that from these peoples perspective it’s a baby right? I’m pretty sure someone murdering a newborn would be treated more harshly than a typical murderer. So if we are looking at it from the weirdos perspective we have to look at it as a baby murder. Not just a normal murder. Now I might be wrong about the specifics of baby murder. I’m no lawyer. But I thought it relevant to bring up.

I think you are underestimating me, but I’m glad you are against America. I won’t say what I think because that probably wouldn’t be such a good idea for my health. But trust me we’re on the same page.

Why is it a problem? Literally every single major social media platform has an ideological slant. Twitter (X) is the nazi one, reddit is the like omega liberal vote blue no matter who one, facebook is mindless reaction, etc. If lemmy.world was considered the “default” instance I could say the same thing about it being different than my own political beliefs.

I think the problem is that people can’t handle seeing places they aren’t welcome anymore. Marxist-Leninists are allowed to have their own spaces, and do not have to cater to other peoples views. There is ALWAYS going to be a dominant ideology and a set of rules on each instance. You don’t agree with the ones lemmy.ml has. That’s okay.

Algorithmic social media silos people into their little boxes where they only see what they want to see. People are so used to that now that imo they’ve forgotten how to handle being faced with a place/group of people who just fundamentally disagree with them, and are not open to hearing what they have to say. Yet that is just reality. People need to learn to deal the fact those places and those people exist.

same. Honestly if I didn’t live in the US I would probably be less anti-american. Living here is very radicalizing.

My reply makes plenty of sense if you know how to read. I didn’t call .ml liberal. Quite the opposite actually.

哈哈哈哈哈哈美国人。。。；-；

This is really hard to gauge for China specifically, because there’s as you noted no electorally elected officials.

As I noted? Not only did I not say this it’s not true? China has elections…