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ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•Federal judge orders ICE to halt immigration raids in Southern California30·4 days agoUnder the law, the word “reasonable” is not the loophole that it looks like at first blush.
Reasonable suspicion requires some degree of concrete evidence, it just means it doesn’t have to be a smoking gun. For example, reasonable suspicion of stealing would be something like a person being in possession of an inexplicably large number of unopened electronics when there has just been a burglary of an electronics store nearby. They dont have to have you on camera recognizably stealing to arrest you in that circumstance.
Being black and in the vicinity of the robbed electronics store would not be something that “reasonable suspicion” covers under the law. This ruling is no different. It basically says that ICE cant just stop random brown people on the street, or conduct raids on random workplaces. They have to be looking for specific individuals for arguable reasons
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters18·5 days agoAnd for Missourians who dont know, we call trashy rural dipshits hoosiers because the original trashy rural dipshits in MO came from Indiana.
Sorry again Indiana. Although modern Indiana is much better now after offloading your trashy dipshits on us back in the day
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Del Monte Foods Goes Into Bankruptcy: A Trump Tariff Casualty62·5 days agoCalling the death of Del Monte foods a tariff casualty while attaching graphic evidence that Americans just dont want canned fruits and vegetables anymore is pretty stupid.
People are now more health conscious on average than American consumers have ever been. Most consumers are wise enough now to realize that if they want greenbeans or whatever its best to buy fresh beans and cook them. The canned alternative has so much salt in it that it might as well be a corned beef hash.
Like seriously, if you put as much table salt onto fresh cooked beans as comes in the average can you wouldnt even find them edible anymore. That is the death of Del Monte. Not tariffs. Tariffs were just the death knell of what consumer behavior already started decades ago. No one wants to eat 30% of their DV of sodium in a serving of beans
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters54·5 days agoA state that is captured by the voting power of land over individuals. Missouri state government is completely beholden to the hoosiers in the boonies because there are more rural counties even though there are far less rural people. And then secondarily the rural people are propped up by dumbass McBee-wannabe suburbanites that vote conservative and wear cowboy boots recreationally.
Governor HeeHaw 2.0 is one such dumbass suburbanite who went to Chaminade in St. Louis, grew up rich, and now cosplays as the hoosier’s champion
Missouri at large is far more purple than the state government allows it to appear. It was purple for a long time and its still purple today, but a purple state that gives more voting power to land than people ultimately ends up red. Just look at our federal electoral system, its the same thing
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturersEnglish18·6 days agoThey have an export market, its the handful of douchebags in Australia that want compensator trucks instead of a ute
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protestEnglish191·6 days ago*so long as the perpetrator is of an appropriate skin tone or works for a government agency
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Elon Musk saysEnglish12·6 days agoDid your car just call me a k***?!
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•FIFA opens office in Trump Tower, deepening ties with US president72·7 days agoFIFA knows a thing or two about shmoozing a corrupt government official
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•CEO of My Pillow Mike Lindell's lawyers fined for using AI for court documents111·7 days agoThe penalty for referencing cases that dont exist in a court filing should be disbarment
Thats like your doctor using AI to make up treatments that dont exist
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto World News@lemmy.world•At least 13 died by suicide and hundreds wrongly convicted over UK's Post Office scandalEnglish141·7 days agoWhy does the British postal logo look like it was designed by Hasbro for a children’s playset?
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•Trump threatens 200pc tariffs on medicine10·7 days agoEspecially considering that foreign pharmaceutical companies wont be paying it?? How do people still not understand that the only people this affects are you and I when we go to buy products?
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed)English51·7 days agoWell thats just not true, I mean LLMs really are not extremely complicated. At the end of the day it’s just algorithmic sorting of information
So in practice any given flavor of LLM is basically like a librarian. Your librarian can be a well adjusted human or an antisemitic nutjob, but so long as they sort information and can point it out to you technically they are doing their job equally as well. The real problem doesnt begin until youve trained the librarian to recommend Mein Kampf when people ask for information about the water cycle or whatever
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•Trump admin 'exposed as liars' after El Salvador makes major admission to United Nations671·7 days agoLying aside, this is setting up a really weird question regarding sovereignty. It represents just another way that modern conceptions of sovereignty are becoming less and less territorially bound.
Another example, which also sheds light on why this is such a strange claim from El Salvador, would be the enforcement of laws in border zones. Under older conceptions of sovereignty US agents can enforce US law on US soil, and the same was true for its neighbors. However, more recently the law changed such that we have bilateral agreements with our neighbors that allow their agents to enforce our law on our soil, and vice versa, within 100 miles of the border. From the classic conception of sovereignty this makes no sense, other than that the nation’s law is still territorially bound.
The case here with El Salvador is even more interesting. El Salvador is saying these men are locked up under US law in CECOT, and that they are the responsibility of the US. Which means that now the law of the US is not territorially bound, and is being implemented in El Salvador over these men. It’s hard to convey to someone that hasn’t studied sovereignty academically just how absolutely bonkers that is.
For a similar but contrasting situation, think of immigration. If a country wants to remove migrants it doesnt tell the country they came from to come in and get them. Removal is a legal process carried out by the state, under its law, as an exercise of sovereign control over its specific territory. Asking agents of the other country’s government, who have no legal jurisdiction to do anything, to come and get migrants would make no sense.
El Salvador here is basically ceding their sovereign control over these specific people despite the fact that they are obviously in El Salvador, and therefore are subject to Salvadoran sovereignty. This isnt something that any country has ever done, except with regards to very specific people like ambassadors, or very specific spaces like embassies or military bases
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds102·8 days agoIm not making excuses, Im saying there are nuances to the use of, and therefore proper testing of, the device.
I used to make my own coils back in the day when there were juice bar shops. If you build a robust enough coil then the coil will well outlast the life of the cotton you put in it. Therefore theoretically the coil will not be heating up or being heated enough times to where the coil releasing metal particulate is a concern. If you build a flimsy coil and heat it up too high, or use it for too long past a reasonable lifetime, or run it dry, then youre going to be inhaling metal particulate as it breaks from the coil.
Therefore, if while testing these disposable devices they are just running the thing hot and fast as a matter of testing, then the results will show significantly more metal in the vapor than would have ever been there under normal use. And most places testing vapes dont care if their methods make it look worse than it actually is, because, just like with smoking, they get way more attention in pointing out how bad it is for you (in comparison to more middling perspectives that paint it as safer than smoking)
The most dangerous thing in the world of vaping rn IMO are weed cartridges and disposables. The “coil” in those is just the thinest piece of kanthal you can imagine. What makes it dangerous is that people have popularized taking “blinkers”, or running the device out to its 10 second safety limit point. They think its a safety for weed inhalation, but its quite the opposite. Its a safety to prevent that tiny wire from blowing itself out. More blinkers = more kanthal particulate that youre inhaling instead of weed. The device will keep going so long as two nubs of that wire can still make contact somehow, even if youve already blown out some of the wire
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds212·8 days agoAnecdotal, but as someone who has used vapes and smoked cigarettes since well before Juuls and the modern disposable market existed, I feel infinitely healthier vaping even modern disposables than I ever did smoking cigarettes.
If I were to guess at whether I was verifiably healthier now using only dispos, versus back when I smoked half a pack or more per day, my guess would be that I am far healthier now than I ever was then
Im open to being proven wrong, and obviously the best thing would be not to smoke at all, but as far as harm reduction goes Im still of the opinion that smoking cigarettes must be far worse. At least assuming you dont smoke well past the safe point of running out of liquid and just inhale straight coil. A lot of these reviews seem dubious to me in that they probably run the device differently than it is actually used by a vaper. Running past safe points of juice, running hotter than your lungs would ever be comfortable with etc. Just like how studies of cigs would have a pseudo-human device chain smoke without accounting for the ability of the lungs to clean themselves up over time. Or just time in general. How is a robot smoking 1000x straight the same as a human having 1000 darts over multiple months? That kind of thing
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, seems to get right-wing updateEnglish13·8 days agoIts honestly a great analogy for the way that humans have a tendency to do the same thing. Most people are fairly incapable of setting aside what they already think is true when they go to assess new information. This is basically no different than an LLM being pushed to ignore nuance in order to maintain a predisposed alignment that it has been instructed to justify in spite of evidence to the contrary.
If anything hes designed a model with built-in problems specifically to cater to human beings with the same design problems
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto News@lemmy.world•Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer’ help with grocery deliveries as Prime Day frenzy approaches18·8 days agoIf theres one thing we all know desk jockeys appreciate its the opportunity to do manual labor
ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump calls Japanese leader 'Mr. Japan'English7·8 days agoMr. Japannibal Lector
If it was a bit under three consecutive minutes, it would be tough. If they had two removed periods of nearly 1:30 that is more than enough time for like 20 people to move without seeing it on camera. And when the cell is closed I assume we cant see anything inside the cell? Since it was supposed to have its own camera on the inside anyways
Most indoor cameras cover narrow enough spaces that a person could enter or exit it in like 1 second walking at an average pace