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  1. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    Drug addicts don’t want to live where there aren’t drugs. A large number of mentally unwell people are too disruptive to be allowed in the existing voluntary shelters and have been banned from them.

    Drug addicts don’t want to live where there aren’t drugs. A large number of mentally unwell people are too disruptive to be allowed in the existing voluntary shelters and have been banned from them.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    It's because there are people who refuse voluntary care, but are still dangerous.

    It's because there are people who refuse voluntary care, but are still dangerous.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    If they were voluntarily entering treatment, this wouldn't even be a concern. The problem is people who aren't voluntarily entering treatment.

    Anyone with genuine mental needs can go to a proper hospital or therapist.

    If they were voluntarily entering treatment, this wouldn't even be a concern. The problem is people who aren't voluntarily entering treatment.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    I’m a bit hesitant that it’s being run by Republicans and it seems to be casting a bit of a wide net, but I do in principle agree with the policy of greatly expanding involuntary care. In British...

    I’m a bit hesitant that it’s being run by Republicans and it seems to be casting a bit of a wide net, but I do in principle agree with the policy of greatly expanding involuntary care.

    In British Columbia we are building out a much smaller scale system, with a couple hundred total beds and tighter requirements. Perhaps I have greater trust in our fairly progressive government, but I am pretty supportive of what we are doing. Our streets are currently overrun with people who are dangerous to themselves and others. I have to deal with them on a daily basis. Involuntary care is the only option, because they are refusing voluntary care and prison is inappropriate for their needs.

    6 votes

  5. Comment on Utah to open detention camp/involuntary treatment center for homeless people (gifted link) in ~society

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    But that’s not who this is targeting is it? These are people who are not choosing voluntary care. You can’t just hand wave that away. This is California data, but...

    mental health issues that could be treated voluntarily

    But that’s not who this is targeting is it? These are people who are not choosing voluntary care.

    Aside from addiction

    You can’t just hand wave that away. This is California data, but

    https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/02/429486/how-common-illegal-drug-use-among-people-who-are-homeless

    Only around 37% reported regular drug use in the prior six months. And 25% had never used drugs at any point in their lifetime. About 65% of people experiencing homelessness reported using illicit drugs regularly, or at least three times a week, at some point in their life.

    37% is a very high number, and one can assume the rate including alcohol would be much higher.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Project N - a fork Daggerfall Unity seeking to add all of Tamriel in to the Daggerfall engine in ~games

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    How is this even explorable in a world without vehicles like planes or trains?

    Edit: for scale the vanilla Daggerfall map is roughly equivalent in size to Great Britain

    How is this even explorable in a world without vehicles like planes or trains?

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Charlie Kirk's murder reveals a cultural sickness (Just Asking Questions podcast episode) in ~society

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    Sorry, what do you mean?

    Sorry, what do you mean?

  8. Comment on Charlie Kirk's murder reveals a cultural sickness (Just Asking Questions podcast episode) in ~society

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    It's perhaps easier to understand when you contextualize it from Liz Wolfe's perspective, which is a person who would: rather homeschool her children rather than allow them to go to a school that...

    It's perhaps easier to understand when you contextualize it from Liz Wolfe's perspective, which is a person who would:

    • rather homeschool her children rather than allow them to go to a school that provides LGBTQ materials in the classroom source
    • says banning trans kids from the bathrooms of their gender is "what most New York parents want—especially the parents of young girls" source
    • platforms anti-trans activists like Jesse Singhal source

    I wouldn't say she is at the same level of anti-trans hysteria that Kirk was, but she's fairly sympathetic to his side.

    11 votes

  9. Comment on A Nazi tattoo exposes US Democrats’ greatest weakness in ~society

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    She would have been pilloried by a vocal segment of the base if she said any of that out loud.

    Kamala didn't support trans girls in women's sports. She didn't support transitioning without parental consent, but she rarely actually said those things.

    She would have been pilloried by a vocal segment of the base if she said any of that out loud.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Charlie Kirk's murder reveals a cultural sickness (Just Asking Questions podcast episode) in ~society

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    A bit understated. Kirk vehemently hated transgender people, publicly and clearly. https://www.advocate.com/politics/charlie-kirk-anti-lgbtq-quotes#rebelltitem5

    enraged by Kirk's supposed "hatred."

    A bit understated. Kirk vehemently hated transgender people, publicly and clearly.

    https://www.advocate.com/politics/charlie-kirk-anti-lgbtq-quotes#rebelltitem5

    Charlie Kirk declares that "the transgender thing happening in America" is "a throbbing middle finger to God" and then proceeds to deadname Lia Thomas and tell her "you're an abomination to God" while the congregation applauds.

    44 votes

  11. Comment on Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification” in ~science

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    This is the actual paper. For a much quicker overview (and where I originally found this) check this article: Dinosaur 'mummies' preserved so well that artists can recreate their appearance in...

    This is the actual paper. For a much quicker overview (and where I originally found this) check this article:

    Dinosaur 'mummies' preserved so well that artists can recreate their appearance in great detail

    The big highlights for me were

    • this clay template fossil process in general, that preserves so much soft tissue detail across >65mya
    • Edmontosaurus was a bipedal hooved land dwelling dinosaur (also walked on four legs)
    • excellent surface detail, which I’m hoping results in even more accurate 3d models coming to documentaries in the future

    Very cool:

    A tall, fleshy crest stretched from its neck down to its back, fading into a neat row of interlocking spikes along the tail. The skin bore intricate polygonal scales, some barely a few millimeters wide.

    …

    By contrast, end-Cretaceous E. annectens preserves the oldest hoof renderings for any tetrapod, the first record of hooves in a reptile, the first instance of a hooved tetrapod capable of bipedal locomotion, and the first hooved tetrapod with disparate fore and hindfoot posture (unguligrade versus subunguligrade, respectively).

    4 votes

  13. Comment on First shape found that can’t pass through itself in ~science

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    Just some fun geometry, and also an example of a computer assisted proof that required dividing a case into 18 million sub cases and checking them individually, ala the four colour theorem.

    Just some fun geometry, and also an example of a computer assisted proof that required dividing a case into 18 million sub cases and checking them individually, ala the four colour theorem.

    10 votes

  15. Comment on Anthropic aims to nearly triple annualized revenue in 2026, sources say in ~tech

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    Most recent month (or quarter), not highest.

    Most recent month (or quarter), not highest.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Is there a service that a regular joe can use to provide subs or dubbing for a movie? in ~movies

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    You can use whisperx instead to get as low as phoneme level timings. I'm currently doing this to generate karaoke style highlighting of subs.

    You can use whisperx instead to get as low as phoneme level timings. I'm currently doing this to generate karaoke style highlighting of subs.

  17. Comment on Anyone else go to a No Kings rally today? in ~society

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    Nothing so far today has been more amusing than the international branding of No Tyrants instead of No Kings....

    Nothing so far today has been more amusing than the international branding of No Tyrants instead of No Kings.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-protesters-join-global-no-tyrants-rallies/

    I guess it still hits a little better than “Some Kings” or “No Kings Except Ones Who Are Essentially Ceremonial Without Executive Authority” or “No Kings Except His Majesty Ruma X Of Thailand May He Reign Forever Don’t Imprison Me Please”.

    20 votes

  18. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 13 in ~society

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    Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence … …

    Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence

    George Santos’s lawyer said the disgraced former congressman was freed from a New Jersey prison around 10 p.m. on Friday. He served less than three months on his fraud conviction.

    …

    “He lied like hell,” Mr. Trump said at the time. “And I didn’t know him, but he was 100 percent for Trump.”

    …

    “This is far worse than what George Santos did, and at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!” Mr. Trump wrote.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on AI being used to locate human solutions to Erdos problems in ~science

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    An interesting use of AI. There are many "Erdos problems" (problems that Erdos thought were interesting but didn't have time to solve) out there, and sometimes they get solved by someone who...

    An interesting use of AI. There are many "Erdos problems" (problems that Erdos thought were interesting but didn't have time to solve) out there, and sometimes they get solved by someone who either doesn't know they are an Erdos problem, or perhaps they just didn't publicize that fact -- now AI agents sifting through papers are surfacing these so the authors can get credit.

    3 votes