Yeah you’re right, my bad.

Ok I’ll just come out and say this, I think it would be easy for a certain corrupt individual to create a false flag drone attack from a “foreign adversary” in order to boost patriotic morale and gain the support necessary to drag a certain country into a war he has repeatedly and very publicly announced he does not want to be involved in despite all evidence to the contrary.

Especially given that corrupt individual has dismantled several safety measures and regulations and eliminated positions of individuals who are trained to keep something like this from happening.

If you look at the amount of damage done by the Beeper attacks a few years ago, you really don’t need a gigantic war drone to cause a catastrophe in certain conditions.

I know it sounds paranoid AF, but I find it especially odd that same individual is trying to shut down the only agency that would thoroughly investigate an industrial chemical explosion if one were to occur. https://grist.org/energy/trump-quietly-shutters-the-only-federal-agency-that-investigates-industrial-chemical-explosions/

Yeah that’s why it would be like a Trojan horse, if it allegedly came in from a shipment from another country.

Exactly, it’s a modern day trojan horse. It seems to be fairly easy to then potentially pin the attack on just about anyone using shell companies for shipment. Especially with the deregulation and removal of so many safety and security positions over the last several months.

I was reading a little about the beeper attacks the and I think even now there is still some uncertainty about which company actually worked with the Mossad to manufacture the batteries that contained the explosive.

The only reason I even bring that up, is that there were so many steps involving so many different groups of legitimate manufacturing companies as well as shell companies to ship the beepers. Some of the beepers were even taken apart and inspected before being distributed as a security measure, but they had used such a small amount of explosive fuel within the batteries, that it was completely missed.

I mean, if only anyone could see the obvious bullshit we’re headed into.

There’s a lot of money to be made during times of war.

Unfortunately the people that are pushing us in that direction are some very short sighted individuals that genuinely believe that once their actions have driven humans to the brink of extinction, they’ll still be perfectly content in an underground bunker with shitty AI robots that break a month or so in, and all the stockpiled vacuum sealed resources they can hoard. Or alternatively, dying while attempting to colonize mars.

That’s who humanity will be relying to continue our legacy. The kind of person that thinks they are chosen elite, and there is nothing they cannot achieve. All bc they climbed mount Everest once while paying a team of Sherpas to risk their own lives and do everything for them.

You know the sheriff in Florida literally threatened to kill people?

So now I come to you, with open arms

Idk why I’m asking this, but I’m genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?

Those are owned by Native Americans… Not white billionaires

I’m not surprised by more of this sovereign state nonsense, I’m just disgusted that they’re proposing building it on a reservation.

Well then, I guess it must have been some other Pudutr0n. You’re off the hook, for now…

Yeah I posted here a few days ago about trying to find a good alternative. I’m very sad to see lemme.ee go

Sorry if this is a dumb question, still figuring things our.

How else would you use the platform without joining an instance? Just have a private server?

I’m not 100% sure about actually preventing states from creating laws, but given what’s happening in my city rn I would imagine, if this passes, it gives federal agencies and private companies the ability to legally ignore any city and state regulations that might be passed.

My city used to have a complete ban on facial recognition and predictive policing tech after they were caught secretly working with Palantir. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance.

Police in my city got caught violating the very weak ordinance that regulates how facial recognition is supposed to be used.

Since WaPo exposed them, they’ve allegedly paused using the tech. However, the tech is provided by a private company, and the city can’t enforce their regulations on the state police and ICE agents that are still using the tech with zero oversight.

Given how we know states like TX have already signed up to have their national guard invade other states in order to enforce Trump’s immigration policy, this could provide legal protection for the Texas national guard to come into a state like California and use it however they deem necessary.

They could start out by saying it’s necessary to enforce immigration (which would be fucked up enough). Very quickly it becomes necessary to protect ICE agents from protestors, and they begin using facial recognition to track protestors and anyone loosely associated with protestors.

There’s no way for the city or state laws to do anything about this bc the Texas National Guard have essentially been given blanket protection by a federal law to use AI to enforce federal immigration policy. Essentially, instead of the national guard being sent to southern states to enforce civil rights like what happened in the 1960s, the national guard from a red state would be sent into a blue state to enforce a dystopian cyber-surveillance nightmare created by the federal government.

Keep in mind this is just one possibility. Even without all that happening, the best case scenario of allowing a ban on state regulations, is you’re providing legal protection for private corporations to collect data however they want and do whatever they want with it once it’s collected.

Par for the course though. Orwell called it.

Federal intervention in states to enforce civil rights= unjust burden on states

Federal intervention in states to enforce immigration policy= send in the national guard to “liberate LA”

State regulations on AI= patchwork regulations won’t benefit corporations the country

Federal regulations on AI= these regulations are underpinned by the values we believe are important. Surely we’ve already proven over and over again you can trust us to do what’s right for corporations the country.

Never forget, corporations are people.

Exactly, they created this nightmare dystopia, sunk all their money into AI and if we don’t allow them to just invade our privacy like it’s their personal kingdom, and we exist to feed their data centers, they’re fucked.

The entire economy is fucked, but that’s 100% on them.

They wanted to just dive in head first, cut a bunch of jobs and replace everyone with AI. Who in their right mind would think that we should allow these people fewer regulations now, so they can make more money via exploitation of humans?

Exactly!

Oh regulations would cut into your profits? Boo fucking hoo

Lemmygrad.ml seems kinda obvious, but I have a completely naive question about lemmy.ml. Is it essentially the same? Why is it a controversial instance.

Based on just the sidebar description it sounds like a cool instance: A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

But I also see a lot of people saying they have it blocked

Do you have any chest, arm or back pain? Do you have a pulse oximeter?

Can you go to a minor ER? If you hadn’t said your heartbeat was off, I would say not necessarily a big concern at this point, but this also sounds similar to what happened to a friend of mine with an aortic dissection.

She thought it was food poisoning at first, finally went to a minor med, they refused to treat her bc her and sent her to the ER ASAP. She ended up in the hospital for several weeks.

More scientists and data, but research quality in China has been very poor for quite some time, hence a lot of questions and concerns regarding methods, data collection, and number of retracted articles.

The entire idea of the “China virus” and the Trump/Republicans lab leak/attack on NIH funding to EcoHealth, and their collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology, hinged on pointing out the lack of lab safety standards in China that wouldn’t have allowed the research to occur here.

On the flip side, now that Trump is in power, OSTP is focused on removing regulations to science and tech bc they argue they are slowing us down in the AI race against China.

Kinda seems like a load of BS especially considering AI data in China is very poor likely bc of the lack of regulations

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/9/china-wrestles-with-quantity-over-quality-in-generative-ai-patents