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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in the proper context. For instance, it’s perfectly fine to say, “The foam retarded the fire as designed and saved many lives.”

  If you’re meaning the former disability-related meaning that is now widely considered offensive when applied to a person, why would you possibly want to? There are more appropriate words to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First off: We’re in a shitpost community.

  You should learn the difference between shitpost and shithead. Take care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the only one getting bent out of shape here.

  Ah… so you’re only trolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  derailed the whole conversation

  What conversation? A bunch of people with a hard-on for LLMs got distracted and hijacked the thread for their crusade.

  I know that reading and learning can be difficult, but you should really give it a try, sometime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d much rather see AI “slop” than the stupid fucking bullshit coming from you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah… so you’re ready to go get bent out of shape that someone would dare make (and review) a simple list created by LLM in the guise that you want to see people participate, but when they participate you bail out with “I’m not really interested.”

  Grow up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  write an essay

  It was a simple and well written list that answered the question that was asked. What fucking difference would it have made if I created the bulleted list myself if it said essentially the same thing. Are you pissed off at LLM or that I somehow ‘cheated’ and only spent a minute to produce the list instead of 15? What exactly is your problem with it?

  I’m interested in what you have to say,

  What I had to say is that 9/11 resulted in security theater and our freedoms being infringed upon. There was a request for examples. I provided said list. That it didn’t come just from me somehow irrationally pisses you off. That’s a “you problem”, not a “me problem”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  we can also ask an LLM just like you did

  It’s actually a pretty good starting place that more people should consider. The risk is that many of you are incapable of reading the output and making an educated assessment of whether what was returned is good information or actual slop. Both are possible outcome.

  But this is a forum for humans.

  Which is why I responded in the first place with a quick compilation widely available information and why I reviewed what was returned. You just have a very uninformed and irrational hatred of LLM just like anti-vaxxers have a very uninformed and irrational hatred of vaccines.

  That’s why it’s expected that everyone write their own posts.

  Oh fuck off with that… do I have to write it in cursive on college ruled notebook paper and scan it in and post it, too? Do you say the same thing to people who post wikipedia links? Do you say the same thing to people who post links to studies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the new “measles party” movement.

  That would be you… may you find a good use for that information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I wanted Claude or Jippity’s answer I’d ask them myself.

  You could actually do everyone a favor by doing that. Do you lack the reading and comprehension skills to know if you’re getting something back that is suspect? If you had actually done that, then nobody would have to compile the well known and commonly available information for you.

  Posting unfiltered slop

  Ah, but it wasn’t unfiltered and, in this case, wasn’t slop.

  You’re the new “measles party” movement

  Tell me you don’t understand metaphors without telling me you don’t understand metaphors…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will complain about people who choose to be really fucking stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did read it. Don’t be such a fucking fool…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI response, but it looks pretty solid…

  The post‑9/11 response in the United States did not abolish the Bill of Rights, but it shifted the balance toward government surveillance, secrecy, detention, and border control—often reducing privacy, due-process protections, and freedom from discriminatory scrutiny. Many powers were created or broadened through the USA PATRIOT Act, passed October 26, 2001, and later executive programs and immigration policies. ala

  Privacy and Fourth Amendment protections

  The largest practical loss was a weaker expectation that the government needed individualized, fact-based suspicion before collecting information or monitoring communications.

  • The PATRIOT Act expanded authorities for monitoring telephone and internet communications, accessing stored communications, and obtaining records such as banking and credit information. ala
  • Authorities could seek certain business records—including potentially library, bookstore, financial, medical, and internet-related records—under standards critics argued were below traditional criminal probable cause and with limited meaningful judicial review. aclu
  • “Roving” wiretaps made it easier to follow a person across changing devices or accounts rather than tying surveillance to one named phone line or device. This was designed for counterterrorism but increased the possibility of incidental collection involving people not suspected of wrongdoing.
  • “Sneak-and-peek” search powers allowed delayed notice of some searches: agents could enter, search, and sometimes seize property before telling the target. The principle affected was the normal expectation of prompt notice and the ability to challenge a search quickly. aclu

  A later reform, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, prohibited bulk collection under PATRIOT Act Section 215 and added some transparency and court-review mechanisms—an acknowledgment that earlier authorities had permitted collection at an overly broad scale. judiciary.house

  Due process and detention

  For noncitizens especially, post‑9/11 policy weakened the practical protection against being detained without prompt charges and a meaningful opportunity to contest the detention.

  • The government asserted broad authority to detain certain people designated “enemy combatants,” including arguments for detention without ordinary criminal charges or a conventional criminal trial.
  • Immigration-related changes and counterterrorism policy enabled lengthy detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorism-related activity, sometimes under conditions of secrecy or with restricted access to the normal procedural safeguards available in standard criminal cases. aclu
  • At Guantánamo Bay and in related military-detention practices, detainees faced years of litigation over whether they could challenge their confinement through habeas corpus—the fundamental right to ask a court to review whether the government is lawfully holding someone.

  The important distinction is that these restrictions were most severe for foreign nationals and people accused of links to terrorism. But legal precedents and government claims of executive power also raised broader concerns about how much judicial oversight could be bypassed in a declared national-security emergency.

  Equality, religious freedom, and movement

  Muslim, Arab, South Asian, Sikh, and immigrant communities bore a disproportionate share of the social and governmental consequences.

  • Federal investigations, immigration enforcement, watchlisting, and intelligence collection focused heavily on people from Muslim-majority countries or those perceived to be Muslim.
  • The result was a reduced practical freedom to travel without extra scrutiny, live free of government suspicion based on identity or association, and participate in civic life without fear that ordinary religious, charitable, or political activity could be interpreted as a security concern.
  • Programs that tracked foreign students and expanded scrutiny of immigrants created additional monitoring and administrative burdens on foreign nationals. ebsco
  • Airport security also became much more intrusive for everyone: searches, identity checks, limits on what could be carried aboard, no-fly and watch lists, and more extensive screening became normal conditions of air travel. These measures did not remove the right to travel outright, but made its exercise more conditional and surveilled.

  Speech, association, and secrecy

  Some freedoms were affected indirectly, through the risk or perception of surveillance rather than a direct legal ban.

  • When people believe their calls, emails, web activity, library use, donations, or organizational affiliations can be monitored, they may avoid controversial reading, political advocacy, religious association, or communication. This is often called a chilling effect on speech and association.
  • National Security Letters could compel businesses to provide certain customer information while imposing nondisclosure (“gag”) requirements. Later reform allowed challenges and required review of whether such orders remained necessary. judiciary.house
  • Secrecy around surveillance programs, watch-listing decisions, intelligence-court proceedings, and detention made it harder for affected people and the public to know what government agencies were doing, identify errors, or contest them.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never forget that our government allowed the actual perps leave the country and then claimed someone else did the deed so they could invade another country for oil. Also - gave them an excuse to take away our freedoms through security theater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made with 100% synthetic ingredients⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you call a masturbating bull?

  Beef Strokeinoff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice one, Jesse… you can’t be taken seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if I call the family of Karoline Leavitt?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know… what are you going to call them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love my fellow humans who leave presents like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great metaphor for the internet… it used to be cool. Now it’s full of capitalism and dumb-shits who mess it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into Law – Journalists Can Now Be FINED and JAILED for Uncovering Democrat Fraud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What it does

  Eligible immigration-support service providers, employees, and volunteers can apply through the California Secretary of State for a substitute address rather than using their actual home, work, or school address in relevant public records.

  To qualify, an applicant must be affiliated with a covered immigration-support-services facility and document a relevant threat, harassment, or violence within the preceding year. Covered settings can include nonprofit organizations, legal clinics, law offices, and health facilities serving immigrants. Online doxxing provision

  The law also creates protections against online publication or trafficking of an enrolled participant’s personal information or identifying image—but it requires a high intent threshold. Liability is not based solely on recording someone, criticizing an organization, or causing subjective discomfort.

  The conduct must involve the legally required specific intent to have someone imminently use the information to commit likely violence or make a threat that produces an objectively reasonable fear for personal safety. Remedies may include injunctions or declaratory relief, attorney fees, and damages—up to three times actual damages, with a $4,000 minimum in the reported final-version description. What it does not do

  Based on the enacted bill’s descriptions and reporting:

  • It does not broadly ban public filming.
  • It does not create protection for every immigration-related organization or worker automatically.
  • It does not apply unless an individual enrolls in and is certified by Safe at Home.
  • It does not make ordinary investigative reporting unlawful absent the statute’s required harmful intent.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. debt crosses $40 trillion threshold after doubling under Trump and Biden⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fair that you called me out. Of the ‘recent’ 17.2 trillion increases, Biden gets credit/blame for ~2.5 trillion or ~15%.

  I would stills say that if one looks at what Biden spent it on vs. what Trump is spending it on then Biden can mostly be forgiven his contribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. debt crosses $40 trillion threshold after doubling under Trump and Biden⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking assholes… Trump is 99% responsible for this bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moderator abuse: Request for review and removal of Decoy321@lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was no warning discussion or communication of any kind.

  Lol… I got banned because I down-voted a couple stupid posts in a community that came up in my main feed. Whatever… moved on. You should, too. Quit trying to belong to a community that doesn’t want you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  un-possible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be bigger than reddit will require bringing over all of the worst fuckwits of reddit. Let’s not do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That was always a like, just like the rest of their platform. You’re just becoming aware of the reality, now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It provides incentive to keep your money in the market.

  No it doesn’t. The vast majority of my stock has LTCG treatment. When I sell, I sell that stock because of the preferential tax treatment and let my non-qualified stock bake longer. You either have the wealth to be in the market and can play the game or you don’t and you’re not in the market. I’ve lived both lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LTCG means that I can 15% or 20% (depending on income) on selling stock even if I’m otherwise in a high tax bracket. Why should I get to have a massive tax break just because I already have a lot of income? There’s nothing special about my income from stock vs. my income from employment other than I work a hell of a lot harder for my income from employment than I do my income from stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The other thing to get rid of is long term capital gains taxes and just tax capital gains as regular income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL - interesting language… even the article goes on to call it a cap multiple times even thought he official title is what you listed. Thanks for sharing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re talking about a cap and not a base, but yeah… remove the cap and everything gets better.