unkz's recent activity
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Comment on Megathread - Elon Musk and US politics in ~society
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
unkz Boy, 13, arrested at hospital for 'impersonating a doctor' after turning up wearing scrubs and fake IDPolice have now confirmed officers attended the hospital and a child was initially arrested, but later dealt with by means of 'words of advice'. No further action will be taken.
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Comment on How did racist mass texts bypass some anti-spam guardrails after the US election? in ~tech
unkz I guess I basically consider commercial text messaging outside of package delivery notifications to be roughly on par with smallpox or dysentery in terms of social value. I’m unsure what valuable...I guess I basically consider commercial text messaging outside of package delivery notifications to be roughly on par with smallpox or dysentery in terms of social value. I’m unsure what valuable ideas are being transmitted in this form, or what value could conceivably be lost.
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Comment on I just turned 29 last month, what are some things I should be thinking about before my 30s? in ~talk
unkz You may not have a biological clock, but your current or future partner likely does. I'd consider strongly whether parenting is part of your plan, and how old you want to be when your kid...You may not have a biological clock, but your current or future partner likely does. I'd consider strongly whether parenting is part of your plan, and how old you want to be when your kid graduates high school. I started younger than you and I'll be done with kids when I'm in my early 50s. A friend of mine waited until he was my age so he'll be in his mid-60s when his current kid graduates high school, and his wife is pushing to have another baby.
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Comment on How would you moderate this scenario? in ~tech
unkz I'm not really approaching it from a legal perspective, but more like -- is this what they signed up for? If someone runs for office, I feel like they know what they are getting into right from...I'm not really approaching it from a legal perspective, but more like -- is this what they signed up for? If someone runs for office, I feel like they know what they are getting into right from the day they start campaigning for alderman or city dog catcher. If someone is getting into making video games... the inevitability of receiving death threats, casual or not, is not on a reasonable person's radar.
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Comment on How would you moderate this scenario? in ~tech
unkz Well, how comfortable would you be with a commenter advocating for your murder? I’m on the fence when it comes to public figures like politicians, but does a video game developer really even count...Well, how comfortable would you be with a commenter advocating for your murder?
I’m on the fence when it comes to public figures like politicians, but does a video game developer really even count as a “public figure”? They’re just some person.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump directs Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay in ~society
unkz Setting aside any moral arguments about political violence, this wouldn't solve the underlying issue. Trump has a very good approval rating (49% approve). 52% of Americans now say the country is...Setting aside any moral arguments about political violence, this wouldn't solve the underlying issue. Trump has a very good approval rating (49% approve). 52% of Americans now say the country is going in the right direction.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump directs Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay in ~society
unkz I thought this was very illuminating about where the kids are at. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/23/gen-z-republican-polling/ There is a significant shift away from the democrats....I thought this was very illuminating about where the kids are at.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/23/gen-z-republican-polling/
There is a significant shift away from the democrats. That’s accompanied by a small shift to the republicans (especially among white kids) but an even greater shift towards identifying as independent.
What’s really interesting is the question about being liberal or conservative. The number of teens who identify as liberal has plummeted. They are in the same range as the silent generation.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump directs Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay in ~society
unkz Guantanamo is not exactly a legal black hole anymore, as a result of this lawsuit, but what’s interesting is that it was only a 5-4 decision. With the court’s disinterest in precedent and a...Guantanamo is not exactly a legal black hole anymore, as a result of this lawsuit, but what’s interesting is that it was only a 5-4 decision. With the court’s disinterest in precedent and a supermajority of conservatives, we may well see Guantanamo returned to its former status of being beyond the reach of the courts.
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Comment on US President Donald Trump directs Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay in ~society
unkz This is some pretty wild stuff. Modern day concentration camps being set up outside the rule of law. Clearly these 30,000 people are not going to have any meaningful access to lawyers or civilian...This is some pretty wild stuff. Modern day concentration camps being set up outside the rule of law. Clearly these 30,000 people are not going to have any meaningful access to lawyers or civilian courts. From the sound of it, it's being set up for indefinite detention too.
"Most people don’t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back," he added.
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US President Donald Trump directs Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay
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Comment on 1,156 questions censored by DeepSeek in ~tech
unkz Yes, decensoring models like they have done is pretty easy. There are a lot of already built programs to do just that for llama etc.Yes, decensoring models like they have done is pretty easy. There are a lot of already built programs to do just that for llama etc.
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Comment on Secretary of State Marco Rubio orders halt to almost all US foreign aid in ~society
unkz Biden officials seem to agree that it’s silly. https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-biden-allotted-50m-for-gaza-condoms-ex-official-denies-feverish-dream/amp/Biden officials seem to agree that it’s silly.
Andrew Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under former US president Joe Biden, called the claim “outlandish.”
“It’s possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,” he told The Times of Israel.
The US Agency for International Development’s spending on injectable contraceptives, contraceptive implants, IUDs, male condoms, oral contraceptives, Standard Days Method and female condoms amounted to $60 million in the fiscal year of 2023, and that was across the globe — not just Gaza.
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Comment on Should leftists in the US be armed? in ~society
unkz That’s a very different question, isn’t it? And also one where gun ownership is not going to help.That’s a very different question, isn’t it? And also one where gun ownership is not going to help.
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Comment on Do you think stressful games are kind of bad for your health? in ~games
unkz You may be interested in this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson_lawYou may be interested in this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson_law
The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between arousal and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908. The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases. The process is often illustrated graphically as a bell-shaped curve which increases and then decreases with higher levels of arousal.
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Comment on Should leftists in the US be armed? in ~society
unkz Do you have a source for this? As far as I can tell, this is an unsubstantiated rumour. It’s what I would call fact-adjacent, in that it is related to an actual policy, of suspending passport...Notice how people with nontraditional gender markers on their passports are starting to have them confiscated.
Do you have a source for this? As far as I can tell, this is an unsubstantiated rumour. It’s what I would call fact-adjacent, in that it is related to an actual policy, of suspending passport applications, but not itself an actual fact.
Trump and crew are pushing to deport the legals by changing the meaning of legal.
This is the kind of rhetoric I’m talking about. If you are an American citizen, the US military is not going to kill you, and it isn’t going to deport you either.
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Comment on Should leftists in the US be armed? in ~society
unkz I realize that things are stressful for people living in America, but the level of rhetoric is frankly unreasonable. Some good points have been made about how guns are not going to do anything...I realize that things are stressful for people living in America, but the level of rhetoric is frankly unreasonable. Some good points have been made about how
- guns are not going to do anything against the US military
- owning guns is more likely to result in successful suicide
- having guns in the household is a terrible source of accidental deaths
but the most important fact here is that the US military are not actually going to come into your home to kill you. The US military is made up of regular American citizens, who have no desire to kill Americans, and would actively resist orders to do so even if those orders were coming from Trump himself.
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Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life
unkz I’d say it has been more or less continuous improvement. More money, more control, more fulfilment. Wife, kids, pets and property are all great. The only downside is the slow but seemingly...I’d say it has been more or less continuous improvement. More money, more control, more fulfilment. Wife, kids, pets and property are all great.
The only downside is the slow but seemingly unavoidable physical degradation.
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Comment on What is China’s DeepSeek and why is it freaking out the AI world? in ~tech
unkz Hardly. The next step is just going to be taking their methods and scaling it up to a supercluster.Hardly. The next step is just going to be taking their methods and scaling it up to a supercluster.
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Comment on The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up in ~tech
unkz One of the more entertaining deep dives into hardware emulation that I've read.One of the more entertaining deep dives into hardware emulation that I've read.
Such weasel words.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/21/politics/trump-temporary-security-clearances
Yeah, they have security clearances, but they shouldn’t have them. They are not vetted.