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Not a Christian group - they’re more like the Mormons. They believe their founder is the most recent prophet, that his rewriting of biblical texts based off his interpretation of the King James bible is the only true interpretation, and that only the elect are going to Heaven, and that they get there by saving other people’s souls (essentially, he who makes the most JWs wins). And yes, it is definitely “he” — the women are saved through childbearing. The group commonly goes by the name The Watchtower Society. They’re famous for distributing tracts door to door. If you turn away from being a JW, all others are required to cease having anything to do with you. If you hear their teachings and then tell them you choose to belong to a different faith, you’re considered a heretic and for the most part they will try to avoid you (no more house calls).

And does your hoodie lose some of its functionality?

That’s probably the MAGA line, yes. Despite the scientific papers on the topic.

This got me thinking that it should also be possible to automate on iOS with Shortcuts….

And some people don’t like it because it used to handle SMS on Android, and they removed that feature for security reasons.

Yeah; but does Trump’s base?

Other issues: no more circumcision, even if medically needed, and no more other medical procedures that make the tradeoff of saving a life over surgery.

DeepSeek’s “big change” isn’t the performance of its model though; it’s that it is fully open and operates on a fraction of the resources.

Is alibaba’s model also open weights, open reasoning, free for anyone to run, and runnable (and trainable) on consumer hardware?

It doesn’t have to be that confrontational; if the same person is a repeat offender, listen to what they’re saying over a few weeks, and then start interrupting them to correct them based on previous things they’ve said.

Good way to highlight to them that they’re NOT in a private space.

Even better if you can get a group of people to join you in this.

It’s selection bias. Almost nobody does it, but for those odd people who do, everyone gets to hear them.

Just like the people who speed, weave and pass everyone in traffic; there’s relatively few of them, but they affect everyone, so it feels like more people are doing it than actually are.

All it takes is for one person who normally uses headphones to have their batteries die, forget the headphones, or something else totally explainable, and suddenly they can be affecting hundreds or even thousands of people.

Of course, there are also other people who just regularly talk loudly on their phones and have the speaker cranked to max; I suspect these are people with ear/hearing issues that find headphones uncomfortable and don’t realize how noisy they’re being because they can’t hear it themselves when others do it (because of hearing issues or because they never shut up).

Let me ask you the same thing about swimming in moving water… relative to the water, do you slowly start to levitate?

No; if the referent is the water, to you it is stationary and the ground is moving past it; other than the slight movements at the interfaces, you’ll have the same interaction with the water no matter which way you move.

Likewise, the earth is both spinning AND rotating around the sun with an axial tilt. So if you fly in the direction of the earth’s rotation, you’ll be going faster relative to some fixed point in space, but relative to the earth’s surface, there isn’t a noticeable difference in forces going one way or the other. If there were, you’d already have flown off the surface just by standing up. Refer back to my bucket example for how that works.

Just switch from Mario Kart to Tux racer and you’ll be OK.