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Re:Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @10:47PM (#44968580)
RottenTomatoes has been rotten for over a decade. IMDB user ratings are much more useful, but still far from perfect.
You're not making any sense. Someone paid for a house, they fully expect to pay a lot less than renters do. That's the point of buying a house.
If they crossed the border illegally, yes, they broke the law. You don't need a judge to determine that.

Just like you don't need a judge to determine if someone drives without a driver's license.

> against law abiding immigrants

That's a lie. They broke the law when they entered the country illegally. Then some of them committed more crimes.

Re:Major oil companies face first 'climate death' lawsuit on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:02PM (#44314026)
Nobody stopped anyone from making EVs or not using oil products.

We use oil because it's cheap and versatile, not because evil oil companies are forcing us.

There's no replacement for oil at the moment. Sure, you can manufacture some plastics of CO2, but they are so expensive, even you don't use them.

Re:A Breakthrough in Consciousness on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:09PM (#44312928)
Religious nonsense.
Re:Major oil companies face first 'climate death' lawsuit on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:06PM (#44312901)
That's like suing knife manufacturers because some people stab other people.

We have no realistic short-term plan to switch away from oil. Everyone can't just switch to EVs. Most products have plastics or oil derivatives in them.

It will take a long time.

Re:Obama's awkward call for a broad-scale Trump resistance on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:04PM (#44312886)
So insurrection?
Re:Working on databases from prison on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:21AM (#44310693)
Things got so bad, that you had to move, as a result of all the policies that you support. Consider that your policies are not good, and your defense of them doesn't look like defense at all.

And some of your reasons make no sense. COVID/fentanyl didn't just hit Portland.

> stopped even bothering arresting people

Oh, look, the direct consequence of your actions and your policies. You declare that ALL cops are bad, and then complain when they stop doing what they do. And your DA releases nearly all arrested people without a charge because "compassion", so cops have no reason to arrest anyone.

Again, consider that your policies and ideas are horrible.

> any backdoor must necessarily be on the client side

True, but it might be a part of an update that only hits a white-list of users, so you won't find the actual code that steals your private keys if you're on that list.

You're confusing immigrants and illegal immigrants, like most democrat propagandists.

Illegal immigrants from South America is basically their average population plus cartels.

If you compare, let's say, murder rates to USA's, it's 4x higher in Mexico, 5x in Honduras.

So bringing people unvetted from these countries is guaranteed to increase your murder rates.

If you want to lower crime rates, you should bring in more Asian people, as they have lower crime rates than even the white US population.

Re:Working on databases from prison on Monday June 16, 2025 @05:48PM (#44293714)
Decriminalization in Portugal and in Oregon ended up in disasters. Resulted in more drug addicts, more violent crime, more crazy behaviors, more people laying or crawling in the streets.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-hard-drug-decrimina...

Do you personally pay every time you quote copyrighted books or song lyrics?
How so? All the models they've tested are obsolete, multiple generations behind high-end versions.

(Though even these obsolete models did better than the best humans and domain experts).

I think they can explode even when not charging.
I have so many big batteries in the house, it's scary. I've been thinking of building a fireproof enclosure for them from rockwool or ceramic fiber.

Our big batteries, other than the EV in the garage, are from the e-foil, they are like 40lbs, lots of energy.

Re:Seedance 1.0 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:00PM (#44259999)
Decent 1080p quality. Not bluray level, but getting close. Definitely ahead of every other video generator.

Video production just got a lot cheaper and requires very few skills. This is basically destroying the creative video production industry (ads, product videography, youtube content of all kinds) and probably VFX industry as well.

We almost never charge our EV to 100%, to not degrade the battery faster.
Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:08PM (#44253458)
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @08:57PM (#44253417)
1) you're defending riots with all your might, you're trying to rebrand them as "protests" every opportunity you get.

2) You're always vague about the tactics. Specifically what is so horrible that Trump is doing that Obama has not done, when it comes to deportations / ICE raids? Be specific. And define "maximum force", while you're at it. The question is about deportations, not riots.

I also recommend you watch some news from the Obama era about ICE raids before answering that question, because I will call your bs out.

That's not a definition. Depending on the definition, it may be possible to measure it.
First define consciousness such that the definition differentiates you from a computer with a webcam.
Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:44PM (#44252145)
> Yeah, we all know how violent lefties are

Order of magnitude more violent than the right-wingers. I've seen hundreds of videos. Even outside of your organized riots it's endless assaults, spitting, damaging property, stealing property, death threats.

> Sure, but the police escalated it because that's all they know what to do.

No, police arrived AFTER you started burning cars, smashing and looting stores, etc. They didn't cause any of it. Your side is fully responsible.

> The worst thing to do for a protest is send in the police.

But the best thing is to send them to stop a riot.

> During the BLM protests there was footage out the wazoo of people literally sitting there or just walking and then having rubber bullets shot at them

Again, they were a part of a riot. If you don't want to be associated with a riot, either stop the "small minority" of people rioting or move far away from them. It's that simple.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:39PM (#44252101)
> You had said a single car on fire was enough to shut down a protest.

That's another lie. I never said that.

It's enough to shut down a riot, because that's what it is.

> all it would take to manipulate you would be for a cop or agitator to set a car on fire and broadcast the picture blaming protestors

No, if you don't want to be perceived as a part of a riot, you stop the people who set cars on fire, you citizen arrest them, you give them to authorities, you testify against them in court. According to you, they are a tiny minority, you should easily subdue them.

But we both know you never will. None of that is happening. You're just marching next to people who burn cars, so you become a part of the riot.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:35PM (#44252058)
Again, you can't even utter the words and blame the violent people on your side directly, all you can do is empty platitudes. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic. Get back to your riots.
Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @01:24PM (#44249797)
I have zero problem with protests. You can protest literally anything, that you don't like Trump's haircut, or that Santa didn't bring you good presents last winter.

As soon as your protest interferes with other people, like blocking a road, it's no longer a protest, it's a riot.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @12:43PM (#44249387)
Again, you didn't address what I said. You didn't even denounce their violence, let alone tried to stop these bad actors from your side. Just "peacefully protesting" right next to them. So it's on you. You're a part of the violent riot.

All you have to do for all of this to stop is stop rioting. But we both know you won't.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:53AM (#44248293)
What the hell are you talking about? Obama deported 3 million. Trump didn't deport even 10% of that.

The only reason you're rioting is because you don't like Trump. It's pure political violence, a.k.a. terrorism.

You're not protesting, you're rioting.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:50AM (#44248252)
If the protestors stop and denounce the violent ones among themselves, I would agree with you.

But we never see it. We only see people like you who support the violence and gaslight about how small it is.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:48AM (#44248218)
No, I don't accept "some violence".

And if you disagree, we can play it out. I will slap you in the face, till you agree with me. And if you stop me before, you're a fascist.

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