NomDePlume:Adopted after shearing off a finger w/a torsion induced kick from the 3rd arm of a tractor.
Observe:All
Comment:Little
Do:That which one chooses
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@ministertr48881@Mrgunsngear There's shitty CO's (occasionally getting fragged at an opportune moment) & then there's doctrine. Modern Western doctrine tends to value life more so than some where meat grinders & repetitious attacks are far more the norm. Agree on sniper aspect, also drone strikes potential.
@ministertr48881@Mrgunsngear Yes, but then again, I would hazard to bet you are the type of person that'd be unlikely to find yourself in a 'attack or be shot' situation in the first place....
@GodsChosen69@ministertr48881@Mrgunsngear Absolutely, but that was not done in respect to the situation we were addressing - “Attack or be shot”.
There are & always will be a % that refuses orders be it passively or violently, regardless of the scenarios, the % that obeys is far greater than the % that doesn’t.
@ministertr48881@Mrgunsngear While I wish all the poor bastards faced with that situation luck, even in the trenches in WWI where low ranking soldiers far outnumbered the NCO’s & O’s, historically, those told to ‘charge’ do so & occurrences of attacking those giving the commands are far and few between.
@ministertr48881@Mrgunsngear Oldest military ‘strategy': lives are cheap; eventually that spot will be depleted of active threats, sure it costs a few lives, but the objective of passing that bottleneck will be achieved.
Also, you’d be surprised at what a person will do when told to move forward or be shot!
@BotAccount137@WSJ Great Orwell ref! It should also be noted she donated $11.5M on a $225M ticket gross, that's not even including merchandise sold at the shows!
It's almost as if she donated a pittance of those millions and wrote it off; probably was the exact amount to bring 'taxes owed' to 0!
Once upon a when, Google started all its code with their moto "Don't be evil"....it was their moto, their very corporate code, now it's nothing but a joke and in code afterthought.
On May 4th, a Swedish privacy lawyer caught Google Chrome silently installing a 4 GB AI model on every desktop computer it could reach.
If you delete the file, Chrome treats the deletion as a temporary error and downloads it again at the next opportunity.
The file is called weights.bin. It lives in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel inside the Chrome user profile directory. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model.
Hundreds of millions of devices now carry it. Two thirds of every desktop browser in the world is Chrome. Alexander Hanff, the Swedish privacy lawyer, installed a clean copy of Chrome on a fresh Mac, ran a script that visited a hundred webpages with no human input, and watched the system logs as Chrome silently wrote 4 GB to his disk.
Chrome 147 ships with an "AI Mode" pill rendered in the address bar. A reasonable user, knowing Chrome just installed an on-device AI model, would assume that visible AI Mode feature uses the model sitting on their hard drive. Local query. Local processing. Local privacy. Every part of that assumption is wrong.
The visible AI feature ships your queries to Google's servers. The 4 GB file on your hard drive does nothing visible. It powers obscure features buried in right-click menus that almost no Chrome user has ever clicked. The invisible binary sits on your disk and waits for the version that does.
Chrome is the most-installed surveillance product of all time. Two billion users. Every URL you visit, every search you type, every form you fill out, every site you stay on, every site you leave. The advertising model that pays for Chrome requires every one of those signals.
Chrome holds 64% of the global desktop browser market. Two-thirds of every reader of this sentence is reading it through software that just took 4 GB of their hard drive without asking.
Until last year, Chrome's surveillance ended at what you typed into the address bar and what your activity log showed. The model can now read the page you have open, the text you have selected, the draft you are writing inside a Gmail tab before you have decided whether to send it.
Google's "Help me write" feature requires that capability by definition. Help me write means read what I am writing. Locally. In real time. Pre-send.
It's time to switch browsers. The cartel cannot watch the screen it is not running on.
@HeatheryDoune Geez caught some of my typos; juggling 2 kittens while taking a break (litter box cleaning - 3 of 'em!) does nothing for proper grammar or continuity; obviously, the line was supposed to read "a mouth instead of an eye".
Doh!
@HeatheryDoune It's another mouth!
Think of the "Twilight Zone" episode "Will the real Martian please stand up" but with a beard instead of a hat & a mouth instead of a hat.
That's what I hide under my goatee, technically it's my 3rd mouth as I've a small mouth under my soul patch...
;-P
@HeatheryDoune SforV was myecond concert: crowd/stage barrier broke preconcert, I was on the floor 10-12ft from the barrier, all of a sudden the entire floor crowd was @ a 130 to 150 degree angle.
Just short of a Cincinnati Who concert but everything worked out & the concert was INCREDIBLE!
@HeatheryDoune So, after scrolling through your comments in reverse chronological order, I have to ask - young Rob or Old Rob & how do you handle his 'latter day beard'...?
Damn... Now I have to start a Church:
"The Latter Day Beards" honoring the prophet Rob Halford
;-P
@HeatheryDoune Someday, I'd love to have a conversation: How you see the UK, US, the World in toto & various related issues. You seem to have both a direct yet reasoned take on issues, which seem to mirror my pensive & speculatively ponderous, albeit hopeful, observations on the world.
@HeatheryDoune If we're honest, it's truly hard to tell how much was foreign influence/issues & how much was the CIA's doing.
If we're ever going to address this or any issue, we must be brave & strong enough to address the root causes & not just co-agents, symptoms & various contributors.
Been busy trying to save the feline world, took in an old battered & tattered Tom W/scar tissue thick as a Bic lighter on each side of his cheeks from fighting. Came in w/ his two kits, you'd never believe how a grizzled cat that spent his life fighting dotes over those babies..
@Rainmaker1973 There is no 'one size fits all'.
We've many rescues & their human interaction & attitudes varies. When the cornucopia of chow runs low/out they're all alike: "Human, where's the food?!?" Loving us nonstop until I go 'hunting' & bring back a freshly killed 30lb bag of Meow Mix!
@deg3n@elonmusk@JohnStossel Note the "Typically"
As you chose not to list data sources, one has no way to check parameters
If this is indeed @grok findings it's quite simple to share the actual report
Repeating data from organizations already called in question doesn't address the main issue: Bad data
@deg3n@elonmusk@johnStossel: Data is flawed, incomplete & manipulated to present a certain result.
@deg3n: Takes same data & treats it as gospel.
Also FBI/CDC typically publishes "firearm death" #'s which includes suicide, accident, defensive & law enforcement, further muddying the issue.