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listen I’ve been around the block with the maths once or twice and you do not need to complicate this with all our exuberant mutations— those “other geometries” are a celebration of that same power of reasoning that may be captured in a simpler context by the solidity of 2+2=4
Also I’m in a bad mood so don’t start with me today.
I agree. But you might be surprised how many people are unaware that things like greenland are even happening due to badly captured media—
Though the trust in that media is at least very low.
I can see how the rationalization works— the whole house of cards, of lies.
But one of the things that I love is actually knowing what happened. For better for worse, I just want to know. So, everything I love cannot survive by rationalizing.
I know what I saw. I know what happened.
Have you had enough?
In 1984 Winston Smith is taken to reeducation. He says that maybe “the party” can make you pretend you agree with them but in your heart you know some things are true: 2+2=4 for example.
The party man asserts that he has the power to erase even that.
After all, if not? you die. Everything you love will die.
Just start rationalizing it all— really who speaks to a police officer like that? And don’t we all remember how the election was stolen?
how so?
I think it is important that in the past grok did not generate such content, but Mr.Musk decided and implemented changes to make this kind of content possible. Implicitly this is an attempt to either challenge the law, or based on a deep belief that the law should not apply to him.
Which reminds me of the Epstein files, and all of those child marraige cults.
Every time we fail to hold the powerful accountable they increase the abuse.
Just ONE more chance! Please! 
Pleeeeeease
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Delete grok
Could US law cover the *distribution* of such material?
Right now we have a popular “top ten” phone app with this garbage. Worse than if it were broadcast on public airwaves or put up on a poster in the public square.
This is a worst case scenario from bad internet debates about porn, gore and obscenity laws come to life.
And I feel like the worst creeps I’ve ever known are whispering “actually it’s called eubuphila” as if that were a serious argument.
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The law needs to catch up on privacy rights. Especially in the US.
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Is this true for “fictional” CSAM ? Or are there some loopholes?
I hate arguing about these definitions. We all know a photo of your kid playing at the beach is fine— a drawing of the same is fine— but I expect these people to try to hide behind such technicalities and distinctions.
Never mind that we are talking about NOT your kid. And you never asked for it.
How do you pronounce these two words so you can tell them apart?
Myrmicinae (The subfamily of ants featuring the leafcutter ants, harvester ants and many others)
Myrmeciinae (The subfamily of ants featuring the Australian bull ants)
Annoyingly they aren’t closely related, but they both contain charismatic stinging ants— among the formicoid ants stings are less common than among the waspy poneroids.
(Are they just phasing out clade names that end in “oid” in general??
It had a smoke machine!? This is so charming!
It's not like I've ever followed a carpenter ant for two hours while she gave me a tour of the forest, my mom's house, the basement, the riverbank... and never hinted at where the nest was once.
Who would follow an ant for that long. Especially after you suspected she was snickering at you.
Though I should also note that carpenter ants and some other ants that are often house pests will NOT do this. They will lead you away from their nest on a wild goose chase. You can only use them to find the nest if they don't detect that there is a large vertebrate around. This means not making vibrations and not letting them get a whiff of your CO2 breath.
Carpenter ants will take you anywhere BUT their nest, as if they have a behavior to make tracking ineffective.
It might have been bull ants. They have been in a few good vision studies.
I suspect that even ants with poor vision have a map of the area around their nest. You can startle an ant who is foraging (wandering) and she will turn and make an ant-line* for home.
*it's like a "bee line" but with more wiggles. And really ants and bees are related. Why do we have the phrase "bee line" anyway?
I'm a little obsessed with this large eye'd ant: Santschiella
There is very little information on how she might live. She doesn't have long legs, but still has big eyes like other hunting ants.
What could it mean?
Attached: 1 image For on the other side of the Atlantic ocean there is another ant. She also has huge eyes. But, her legs and antennae are shorter and more stout. She isn't closely related to Gigantiops, but really we know very little about this ant. There are no photos of living specimens. There are only three papers. This ant has only been collected a few times in human history. It may well be extinct. Santschiella kohli of Congo and Zaire. One of the only known specimens is the the basement of the AMNH 2/
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It varies by species a great deal. Some of the ants that hunt alone have vision that can rival bees (though probably not as good as bees)
Gigantiops destructor, most Myrmecia, Harpegnathos... but, then you have many army ants who are blind. Their eyes are reduced to simple light detectors if present at all. They hunt in groups by touch.
Myrmecia (common name "bull ants") will track a person walking by their nest, turning as you pass.
I wonder what ants were used in that study?
If you can get a macro photo we can narrow it down... although, the way these ants live tends to be somewhat similar.
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