RedFrank24

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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The absolute minimum that should be done should be to split ICE up into the original agencies that were merged into it in 2002. Originally, the border policing and customs, and the immigration enforcement were two separate agencies. Customs was controlled by the Treasury, immigration was controlled by the Justice Department.

Basically, undo everything that was done in response to 9/11 and dissolve the Department of Homeland Security.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

The copy of the web browser is mine, the data I've downloaded is mine, I can do what I want with it.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'm referring more to floor space and somewhere to put that stuff. An iPad is multi-functional, so in a one-bedroom apartment where space is at a premium, it's better than the full hi-fi setup.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Buttons are an reminder of the luxury of space we used to have.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but now you look like you have really short arms.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I mean... The fight between Deadpool and Wolverine was basically just a giant sex scene.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

If Deadpool wasn't shitting on canon, it wouldn't be Deadpool.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Sure if you want to broaden the definition to "anything that has ever been animated in Japan ever" then sure they've been doing anime for decades, but the stuff we would colloquially call 'anime' generally kicked off after the war, inspired by American culture. The signature 'anime' style is directly inspired by Disney cartoons, and it wasn't even called anime until the 60s.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (6 children)

and yet... if it's a company that's a bit slack on security, the right command in the right place by someone with 2 monitors can kill the company dead.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I mean... It was essentially the occupation that did it. The Americans effectively colonised Japan after the war, wiping away the previous culture and going "No, you believe THIS now. You get to keep the Emperor because I'm feeling nice, but if there's a part of your culture I don't like, I'm getting rid of it whether you like it or not".

...Turns out there was quite a lot of Japanese culture at the time that needed wiping out, and the Americans were very effective at doing it.

It's kinda interesting how two different approaches to conquering ex-authoritarian states concluded. In Germany, it was all about collective guilt and confronting the German people about the holocaust. In Japan? Not so much. They kinda just swept all those atrocities under the rug with a "That was the old me! This is the new me, right? I did what you wanted Mr America! I'm on your side now!". Maybe it was the fact that Japan was conquered wholesale by the US and could be put together as a more cohesive front against the Communist Chinese, whereas Germany was split into two and needed to be kept in line to avoid any grumblings about being Communist?

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's funny though because I know Copilot can google things and talk about them.

Like, a news story can appear that day, and you go "Did you hear about the guy that did X and Y?" and Copilot will google it and be like "Oh yeah you're referring to the news story that came out today about the guy that did X and Y. It was reported in Newspaper that Z was also involved" and then send you a link to the article.

So like... GPT5 should be able to supplement its knowledge with basic searching, it just doesn't.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well it's not like there's much else.

Lemmy is dominated by exactly three topics and nothing else.

 

I was under the impression that the Numenoreans were very much imperialists towards the end, as in they'd raid Middle Earth for all its riches and there was nothing they could do about it.

When Numenor sank beneath the waves and the Faithful came to Middle Earth, how did they reconcile with the existing inhabitants? "Oh yeah we're Numenorean but we're totally not like those bad ones. Btw we're setting up a kingdom here and here and there's nothing you can do about it".

There couldn't have been that many Faithful on those ships. How did they manage to acquire so much land with so little opposition?

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