2022 LC Thread—New Year, New Thread

I mean I wouldn’t jump into that foam pit but if the foam pit is just that small layer of cubes on concrete it was just a matter of time before someone hurt themselves.

Here’s the video of the girl who dislocated her knee.
https://twitter.com/loch_vaness/status/1579297322038865920

‘It’s Like a War Out There.’ Iran’s Women Haven’t Been This Angry in a Generation. Opinion | ‘It’s Like a War Out There.’ Iran’s Women Haven’t Been This Angry in a Generation. - The New York Times

On Monday, the 18th day of Iran’s intense protests against oppressive clerical rule and its numerous failures, schoolgirls with backpacks and black Converse sneakers joined the revolt. They marched down a street in a suburb of Tehran, the capital, waving their school uniform veils in the air. They jeered a male education official off school grounds in the same suburb, chanting the Persian word for lacking honor: “Bisharaf! Bisharaf!” They blocked traffic in the southern city of Shiraz, waving their head scarves in circles. They tore up images of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, hurled the fragments in the air and shrieked with passion, “Death to the dictator!”

The fury and desperation in their chants, and the confident arrival of Iran’s insurgent girls into the dangerous public sphere of protest is exceptional and extraordinary. They are fighting pre-emptively against a future where their bodies will continue to be controlled by the Islamic Republic. Whatever the fate of Iran’s protest movement, now entering its third week, the authorities’ feminist opposition now includes schoolchildren.

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She’s a Twitch streamer now, eh?

TFW when you gambled your company’s future on the proposition that you didn’t need billions of VMTs to train your AI and you could get by with LIDAR instead…

EDIT: “AI needs a fundamentally new architecture to generalizably recognize pigeons. Only the unique power of the HUMAN BRAIN can recognize birds in pictures!” Were all the sources for this story thawed-out caveman data scientists or something?

John Cleese has signed up to become a presenter on the rightwing television channel GB News, while also complaining that “cancel culture” is keeping people such as himself off TV screens.

The Monty Python star, who will present shows on GB News from next year, said: “There’s a massive amount of important information that gets censored, both in TV and in the press. In my new show, I’ll be talking about a lot of it. You should be prepared to be shocked.”

He also said Monty Python would not get commissioned by the BBC today “because it’s six white people, five of whom went to Oxbridge”.

GB News is being investigated by the media regulator Ofcom over whether claims about the impact of Covid vaccines breached the broadcasting code.

He went on the BBC In the prime national morning radio slot to fawning coverage to insist that he can’t get onto the the BBC because it’s a woke cancel factory. I’m sure he’ll do several other appearances to plug his new TV show where he is being well paid to say anything he wants but will mostly be saying that you’re not allowed to say anything any more. And you thought python was absurdist comedy.

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Cleese was an old man when I was a kid, maybe it’s time to hang em up.

Are you trying to cancel him!!! If you offer a negative opinion of an old white man you are a woke cancellation warrior. So shut the fuck up and stop trying to shut people up.

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Didn’t read the article, but is the cliffs that De Leon actually was worse than Feinstein after all? Say what you want about Feinstein, but she’s no racist. She forgets all races equally.

The biggest problem with self-driving cars is that it works optimally when all the cars on the road are self-driving and communicating with each other.

Phase in self-driving cars by initially only allowing use of the self-driving function on highways and replace HOV lanes with self-driving lanes where cars are allowed to go much faster so long as control is handed over to some sort of government controller.

That’s socialism!

I don’t know about worse, but he’s definitely a disappointment. On the secret recording he said a fellow council member, who is white, used his son, who is black, like a fashion accessory.

Prior to him coming to LA the only thing I really knew about him was that he challenged Feinstein, which was a big positive obviously. But he got involved with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which despite the name really sucks and is a big leader in the world of NIMBYism.

I’m definitely curious who released the recording, I don’t think there were a ton of people in the room.

How about we just ban cars.

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Cleese is using the BBC to promote his new show on GB News.

Guy must still be paying off his divorces. I had no idea the channel existed even when I lived in the UK.

I just got an invoice from Bill Wal-mart himself!

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He’s a close friend of Tim Apple.

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Pretty clear I won’t see true driverless cars in my lifetime.

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1578894443822080000?t=xlbrIGZmffArhMSWU_TDNg&s=19

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