This kinda freaked me out: AI models fed their own outputs as training data will quickly start making distorted images that look spookily like human painting made under the progression of mental illness or drugs.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02420-7

Don’t think I ever said that lol

That’s weak as hell. There is no credible evidence that completely refutes an 8x overrepresentation in homicide crime rates and victim rates. Now if you want to make an argument that this is really a division of class and not race, and the numbers only differ along racial lines because black people suffer much more economic hardship, sure i think thats a valid argument. But the numbers are still what they are. Over 12,000 black people died by homicide in the US in 2023 and they weren’t all killed by the Klan and police officers.

It’s a fair point to bring up. An even more basic example is just the concept of female locker rooms and bathrooms, or “lactation rooms” in airports and schools. Those spaces are not created specifically with protecting women in mind, but that is still an important part of why they exist. Here is why I think those examples (and female only traincars) are ok and being able to request the gender of your driver isn’t: there is no harmed party in the above examples. If some women move to a special train car, there will be that much more space in the other train cars for men. As long as the number of female-only train cars is set properly, nobody is harmed or even slightly inconvenienced. On the other hand, if drivers cannot find work because riders are requesting only women that is clearly harmful.

I’m not sure if you are familiar with racial segregation in the United States but ultimately it was struck down by courts on the conclusion that, despite the claims of services for whites and blacks being “separate but equal”, they were in fact discriminatory against black people. Whenever you are segregating or treating genders/races differently, you have to be extremely careful that you are not harming anyone.

Are you suggesting that over 80% of white homicide victims go unreported, or that over 80% of black homicide victims are made up by law enforcement, or that over 80% of black homicide victims are actually victims of white-on-black crime? No combination of those three seems remotely plausible.

My point is that it shows the homicide conviction rates for both black and white people are both roughly what you would expect, based on a) the homicide victimization rates and b) the percentage of crime that is intrarace. Setting aside the biases of the judicial system, if X number of black people were killed by homicide then you can get a pretty good guess of how many black people committed homicides. The fact that this expected number of black homicide victims lines up with the number of black people convicted is a good sign, at the very least, that black people are not being convicted for crimes committed by white people, and therefore the ratio of homicides per capita between black and white people is roughly accurate.

Some of it, I’m sure, but the fact that black homicide victim rates are in line with black conviction rates does point to a higher underlying level of crime. The vast majority (80-90%) of homicides of white and black people are white-on-white and black-on-black.

In the United States, black people are statistically far more violent than for example white people, to use your terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States

The per-capita [homicide] offending rate for African-Americans was roughly eight times higher than that of whites, and their victim rate was similar

Now, there are various socioeconomic factors at work here and most of them point back to historical and present mistreatment (mainly by white people), but setting all that aside- if you just want to get an uber and you are worried about being assaulted by driver, those underlying causes are irrelevant.

Again - I do not think Uber should let you filter by race - that’s clearly wrong. But I think filtering by gender is just as invalid.

For some reason I got my post removed last time I mentioned this, but what if Uber had a feature that let you select the race of your driver because “some riders don’t feel comfortable with black drivers”. That would clearly be wrong right?? It’s the same thing but with gender I don’t know how people were defending this originally.

Ahh thats right up there too.

“Nut milk” remains the grossest phrase in the culinary lexicon

I mean… that’s kinda a sliding scale. You can get coconut milk by just squeezing it out of coconut flesh, I’ve seen it done before. Saying coconuts don’t produce milk is kinda like saying oranges don’t produce juice.

It’s just annoying. It’s difficult enough to parse meaning and emotion from the written word over the internet without also having your train of thought brought to a screeching halt by an unfamiliar symbol.

That’s cool, but I’m sure it broke the relationship between ip addresses. Like it would be hard to tell if 1 IP was 1 higher or lower than another/ in the same /28 subnet, etc

Ok cool, I might give that a try!

The more I learn about Bazzite the cooler it seems, but I’m not in a position to switch away from windows right now. Anyone had experience with running it dual-boot?

“What kind of clothes would you wear if you were, like, actually pretty?”

I mean that’s of the ethenet capable ones… a huge chunk are still serial

Just my perspective as a controls (SCADA engineer):

I work for a large power company. We have close to 100 sites, each with hundreds of IP devices, and have never had a problem with ipv4. Especially when im out in the field I love being able to check IPs, calculate gateways, etc at a glance. Ipv6 is just completely freaking unreadable.

I see the value of outward-facing ipv6 devices (i.e. devices on the internet), considering we are out of ipv4s. But I don’t see why we have to convert private networks to ipv6. Put more bluntly: at least industry, it just isn’t gonna happen for decades (if it ever does). Unless you need more IPs it’s just worse to work with. And there’s a huge amount of inertia- got one singular device that doesn’t talk ipv6 at a given generation site? What are you supposed to do?

Nice try robot scum