Sconrad122

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[–] Sconrad122 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dang, you're right, I was wrong. It calls for NWS to be commercialized, which could technically be interpreted as either sell off the assets to weather.com or as lay off all the employees and pay weather.com 10x their salary in contracts to get the same product. It calls for NOAA to be downsized alongside NWS' commercialization. It calls for FEMA to pay much less out to states and eliminate its preparedness grants and insurance programs. All that in mind, it kind of seems tailor made to specifically fuck over Florida and other hurricane/flooding prone states, but it doesn't call for eliminating the agencies. My bad, thanks for the correction!

[–] Sconrad122 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why I was surprised to see pictures of an actual dick in that article and not just statues

[–] Sconrad122 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Okay, but they literally said they would eliminate them in Project 2025. It's being awful generous to claim they only want to do the lite version of eliminate. Boil the frog is over, MAGA is masks off crazy. They probably won't be able to do it, because odds are good that the House at least will be blue in 2025 thanks to some of the more egregious gerrymanders getting fixed, but that doesn't mean they don't openly want to do it. These people are not smooth operators stealing brand awareness, they are chimpanzees flinging shit at the wall

[–] Sconrad122 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And natural gas was supposed to be an transition energy source to get America off coal so that we could transition to renewable energy. History has not been kind to the "if we can just implement this greenwashed fossil fuel process, it'll really allow us to unlock green energy potential down the road" promise

[–] Sconrad122 13 points 1 week ago

He's not running for reelection, the Rs are getting that Senate seat this year

[–] Sconrad122 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, but 23% of LGBTQ voters aren't voting for Harris, which is significantly less than a third (33%). Still higher than it should be, granted, but I am pretty sure that is what the original reply comment was pointing out.

[–] Sconrad122 9 points 2 weeks ago

From memory and a couple quick Google searches

  • January 6th, including both the violence at the national Capitol and related, often violent protests outside verious state capitols
  • Death threats to election count and poll workers
  • Republican legislator invites armed men into the Oregon State Capitol during a protest
  • Armed protestors rally around the tallying center in Detroit while the count was ongoing
  • Brawl with counterprotestors at the "million Maga march"
  • Violent "Stop the steal" protests in Sacramento

I wouldn't say there was just a little violence after the 2020 loss

[–] Sconrad122 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Italy is 60% of the size of Spain and has a similar ratio of arable land (27.1 vs 27.9% per Wikipedia, Spain is also quite mountainous). Doesn't really invalidate the point in your comment, but I expected a bigger difference when comparing "immense spaces and flat fields"to a mostly mountainous fraction of the territory

[–] Sconrad122 2 points 3 weeks ago

The city already settled to pay about $3 per resident for the cops' bad behavior and to put cops in a training on political violence. If some of the cops in question live outside of the city (not uncommon), they probably won't pay a dime and the only impact they will feel is sitting through a training session that they will probably not take seriously

[–] Sconrad122 12 points 1 month ago

short distances in solar radii

I think astrophycisists and I may have a difference of opinion on the meaning of the adjective short

[–] Sconrad122 6 points 1 month ago

That's not right wing. Do not allow right wingers to hide in the shadow of your reasonable political views by assuming their identity. Call yourself a market capitalist, a liberal, or even a Reagan-era Republican if you believe that is what your views align to and are speaking in an American context, but don't let yourselves be used to rehabilitate the image of the right wing. They will only take that as a permission structure to hold more and more heinous views while pointing at you and others like you and saying "see, we are reasonable people with serious political positions that deserve a voice at the table. They don't represent you, so why give them leverage to claim that they do?

[–] Sconrad122 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you assuming that AI in this case is some form of generative AI? I would not ask chatgpt if a mushroom is poisonous. But I would consider using a convolutional neural net based plant identification software. At that point you are depending on the quality of the training data set for the CNN and the rigor put into validating the trained model, which is at least somewhat comparable to depending on a plant identification book to be sufficiently accurate/thorough, vs depending on the accuracy of a story that genAI makes up based on reddit threads, which is a much less advisable venture

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