Oh? Does Ben Shepeepee espouse similarly heinous views and is now scared his rhetoric will come back to bite him as it did his fellow “Great American Patriot?”

Ah, yes, highway sounds

Or the Whitehouse kept an open line with the hospital and Trump lacks the decency to let the family make the announcement on their own terms.

You can conveniently ask the device around your neck a question.

You then must pull out a different device from your pocket with exactly the same functionality to get the answer thereby saving you 0 time.

This privilege costs over $100.

A 15cm (6 inch) deep hole 30m (100 feet) from the trail or water.

With the rapid rise in accessible media tuned to everyone’s personal preference there’s not really a single artist that is capturing attention across the board, but that doesn’t mean there’s not protest bangers from several artists:

• Dropkick Murphys
• Grandson
• Durry
• Otep

I’m quite fond of my spouse and our pet cat.

Pretty sure his “truth” avatar is a violation of the flag code.

I don’t know if all of these are scandals, but certainly bad behavior:

1. Banned interracial dating until 1999 and kind of held the position that they were right to do so until 2008.
2. Kicked out a lot of people for being gay, but the girls handing out blowies were fine since they repented.
3. Kicked out some dude for watching Glee (to be fair he was a bit of a trouble maker and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back)
4. Smoke bombs in the dorm at 2am
5. Installed Chuck Phelps on their board which helped spark an independent investigation about the school’s response to accusations of sexual assault. The school cancelled the investigation prior to release of the findings but eventually reversed that decision after a lot of pressure. The investigation found that the school would blame victims, accusing them of bitterness and breaking up their families by reporting incidents to the police.

• The reason Chuck Phelps kicked this thing off is because a member of his church, Ernest Willis, raped an underage age girl (I will call her V for victim, but her name is public if you care to find it). V was kicked out of the church’s highschool (not my school, btw) and forced to stand in front of the congregation and publicly apologize for her part in being raped. Despite V’s wishes to see through her pregnancy while living with her grandparents Chuck Phelps worked with V’s parents to send her to a pastor friend of his in Colorado where she was instructed not to tell anyone about the circumstances of her pregnancy. Chuck Phelps then sent out a survey to a number of religious families in an attempt to help V find an adopted home for her child. That’s fine except the survey was sort of a grade on the potential new families religiousness, so V’s child was basically raised in the same manufactured hell that lead to her situation.

6. Girl was repeatedly raped by her pastor grandfather. When he was eventually arrested her pastor father gladly continued the family tradition.
7. Kid converted to Christianity and realizing his abuse of prescription pills was a sin he turned himself in and asked for help. He was expelled immediately for abusing drugs.
8. Kid died of cancer and was heralded as a saint. Another girl was strangled to death by her boyfriend in the back seat of his car. Her tomb was vandalized by his friends after he was arrested. The school never acknowledged her death. Cancer gets you multiple chapel services and a day off to go to funerals and vigils, but murder gets you ignored.

• That same girl had some problems with drugs in the past and had served a stint in juvi for a possession charge, but she had really turned her life around and was an absolute delight to everyone who knew her. She had the best laugh and I’m glad we got to be friends. If there’s a heaven I’m sure she’s smiling playing the same guitar she got in trouble for owning. Also writing this made me miss her more. Fuck that shit. EDIT: Apparently her mother started a push to revisit domestic violence legislation and justice and has been working with a women’s shelter to this day to try and prevent anyone else suffering as her daughter did. Props to her mom and if you find yourself in a dangerous situation please seek help. There are resources for you, many anonymous. And if you’re in a situation to donate or help others, just do it.

9. My cousin got expelled . . . twice . . . for “smoking weed. Like A LOT of weed!”

Then I changed schools.

1. Pedos in the administration
2. Girl got run over while J-Walking and died not too long after
3. Someone’s throat was randomly slit open on the main walkway as part of a gang initiation
4. Group of students were holding a protest which involved stepping on the flag of the United States. A self righteous attention seeker who had been formerly dis-honorably discharged from the military stole their flag and was making statements about how no-one should ever disrespect the flag. In response there was a minor black panthers movement and a student published a manifesto about how all people are children of Africa therefore we are all Africans and black people need to rise up and start killing all white people and that we was going to bring a gun to school on a certain day. He brought a gun that day, but because he had the foresight to broadcast his plans in a very public manifesto the police had their eye on him. He ended up abandoning his bag with a gun once he noticed the police and fled across state lines. He was caught within a week (I think he was turned in by one of his friends).

1. I’ve only seen this used in the opinion rewards app to gauge the efficacy of their layouts
2. It so often shows different results or results in different orders that there’s no way it’s a screengrab of your actual session instead of a facsimile recreated for the express intent of producing the survey
3. They know everything you’ve ever looked at on their platform(s) and the technology to render the layout with that information. They don’t need a screenshot they have the raw data.

I don’t fear poor health of POTUS.

On a “respond to an individual query” level, yeah it’s not that much. But prior to response the data center had to be constructed, the entire web had to be scraped, the models trained, the servers continually ran regardless of load. There’s also way too many “hidden” queries across the web in general from companies trying to summarize every email or product.

All of that adds to the energy costs. This equivocation is meant to make people feel less bad about the energy impact of using AI, when so much of the cost is in building AI.

Furthermore, that’s the median value–the one that falls right in the middle of the quantity of queries. There’s a limit to how much less energy a query to the left of the median can use; there’s a significantly higher runway to the right of the median for excess energy use. This also only accounted for text queries; images and video generation efforts are gonna use a lot more.

There are zero downsides when mentally associating an energy hog with “1 second of use time of the device that is routinely used for minutes at a time.”

https://xkcd.com/1035/

More than, 500 steps a day!? What do you think I am–active?

Can a website operator prove I consented to their terms if I block their consent popup?

If you continue to use their website than that is a you problem. It is no different than actively ignoring the signage at the local kroger saying “no guns allowed”

If I block consent notices how would I possibly know there was a consent notice governing continued use and how would a company know I never actually saw the consent notice to begin with?

I also don’t consent to having billboards all around me or ads literally mailed to me in the post.

Which is a very different mess with very different laws governing it. That said? You would be shocked how easy it is to complain about a billboard ad and get it to go away.

It’s the same mess. A company makes an ad and partners with another company to distribute that ad. That distributor then partners with several vendors to show that ad. In exactly 0 cases was the recipient of the ad asked for consent. In one case the recipient of that ad has an option to not see it–heaven forbid they actually exercise that option.

Can a website operator prove I consented to their terms if I block their consent popup?

What happens if they can’t but continue to provide the website content regardless?

I also don’t consent to having billboards all around me or ads literally mailed to me in the post. I wasn’t even asked in those cases, but for some reason, me not being part of that business agreement doesn’t matter.

Consent doesn’t matter when it comes to advertising, apparently, and if your site delivers content and a side of shit when I ask for content then I’ll just have my robo-butler continue to remove the side of shit before delivering content.

I think you have blatant security holes that threaten your bottom line and your customers.

• I ask a website for content.
• The website gives me content and a side of shit.
• I instruct my intelligent butler to discard the shit and only give me the content I requested.
• I get only the content I requested.

If a website wants to run ads that’s fine, I’ll just remove them. If they want to gate their content behind a paywall that’s fine, I’ll just make a determination about whether or not what they offer is worth it.

Removing ads is not “breaking a website” if anything it’s the exact opposite–restoring a cleaner layout, faster loading, less privacy invasion, and a reduced chance of malware.

“Chomp” is a variant of “champ”, in some regions even having the same pronunciation. They are both valid and acceptable variants for the phrase.

Trump youth