We live in hell, people.

Weeks into that inaugural June training, one volunteer, a disabled retired Marine Corps captain, called the local sheriff’s office to report he was battered by Florida National Guard instructors when they forcibly shoved him into a van after he questioned the program and its leadership.

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In a statement, Haas said the State Guard was a “military organization” that will be used not just for emergencies but for “aiding law enforcement with riots and illegal immigration.”

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On the first day of training, Newhouse said he was escorted off the base after lodging several complaints, including that the National Guard’s schedule required training on Sundays, instead of allowing members to use those days for religious services and personal time, as was the original plan.

Edit: Oh my god, it gets worse:

That month, state lawmakers and the governor revealed that they wanted to assign the State Guard $89 million to buy boats, planes and helicopters. They wanted a specialized unit within the guard to have police powers and the ability to carry weapons.

And they wanted to boost the State Guard to 1,500 members. Instead of being activated only during emergencies within Florida, they could be sent to any state to “protect and defend the people of Florida from threats to public safety.”

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DeSantis, a presidential candidate, has sent Florida National Guard members and state law enforcement officers to the Texas border, and has said he is willing to work with like-minded Republican governors and sheriffs to do more state-led efforts at the southern border.

“I think states need to be more aggressive,” DeSantis said in terms of taking action on federal immigration enforcement.

This is incredibly fascist and illegal, right? If DeSantis becomes president, we are going to have a civil war.

It's getting old telling people this, but... the AI that we have right now? Isn't even really AI. It's certainly not anything like in the movies. It's just pattern-recognition algorithms. It doesn't know or understand anything and it has no context. It can't tell the difference between a truth and a lie, and it doesn't know what a finger is. It just paints amalgamations of things it's already seen, or throws together things that seem common to it— with no filter nor sense of "that can't be correct".

I'm not saying there's nothing to be afraid of concerning today's "AI", but it's not comparable to movie/book AI.

Edit: The replies annoy me. It's just the same thing all over again— everything I said seems to have went right over most peoples' heads. If you don't know what today's "AI" is, then please stop assuming about what it is. Your imagination is way more interesting than what we actually have right now. This is why we should have never called what we have now "AI" in the first place— same reason we should never have called things "black holes". You take a misnomer and your imagination goes wild, and none of it is factual.

Excuse me, but as a middle child, I have to absolutely object to that last statement. Middle children have their own unique sibling/personality complexes. :P

Oh wait, I don't exist. Wow, that's a stealthy, mean joke. That cuts, fam.

Most of these clearly have no proper etymology and root/suffix/prefix structure, and therefore are clearly made up.

This community:

Protesting.

The future looks scary to me.

Oh, okay, yeah. That make sense. Gotta love that spineless, landlord-during-COVID-style victim-blaming speak. : /

Okay, but depending on how "female" is said, it is often used in a derogatory way by incels and misogynists.

Imagine living in a world where you can launch a bill to stop the investigation of a high-profile insurrection involving a president who doesn't want to grant a peaceful transfer of power, and you don't just immediately lose status and/or go to prison.

God we are an awful species.

Yee. "Everyone is a bit autistic" and "autism is an infinite spectrum" really piss me off. Like, I have real symptoms. Trichotillomania and auditory meltdowns and hyperfocus are real things I deal with, people.

In the end, if you don't share (some or more) symptoms, you don't share a diagnosis— medical or mental. Autism needs to be understood so autistic people can get support and tools. If that means we need more-specific words than just "autism", then that's just how it is.

But Democrat-aligned groups saw something else in the Republicans’ about-face: disingenuousness.

There are a lot of types of country and a lot of different singers. Radio USA certainly doesn't represent all of it.

It's like saying you have to be a punk or a lower-class African American to enjoy rap. Rap is surprisingly varied, done by basically all nations and ethnicities, and more-often-than-you'd-think political or otherwise intelligent. Linkin Park (and the spin-off project Fort Minor) is my favorite band, for example; and most of their rap is about politics, introspection, dealing with mental illness, or putting down bad relationships— and the latter can be angry, melancholy, resolved-and-hopeful, forgiving, and anything in between. But I digress.

A genre is just a genre, and any genre can be smart, skillful, and all-around good.

Thanks for my new profile pic, Nathan <3

Nah, let's wait until the law passes and people die first, that's a great idea! /s

I first noticed how great that was with this, one of my earliest XKCD experiences:

Bonus: Have some Awkward Zombie. I made that third panel my profile pic for a while.

I came here to say this. Like, they're not wrong.

Imagine being able to just waste $400 mil. While 40% of the people in the same, richest country on Earth are living paycheck to paycheck, trying not to become homeless.

Don't forget your dual-wheel, 4D+ mouse!

Pardon my literal autism, but can you explain the problematic implication for me, friend? I don't understand it ^^

Good. It's not even AI. That word is just used because ignorant people eat it up.