I’m 37 and now back in college to finish up my degree. It’s honestly depressing how badly AI usage has affected many of my classmates. I talk a lot with my professors as I’m close in age to many of them and from what I keep hearing over and over is that any online or homework assignments would have you believe that 95% of students have a perfect grasp of the materials. but as soon as they’re in an environment without an internet connection everything falls apart.

I see it in person in my recitations, my physics class might be the worst. Kids get up to the board to to work a simple linear motion word problem and struggle to even make a list of all the variables. Yesterday I watched my professor try for 5+ min to get 2 different students to simply write the units next to the numbers they filed into an equation, they just could not understand what he was asking of them. Our first exam had over half of the class score below 40%.

I realize not all of this is attributable to AI use, but the amount of times I’ve heard students say “just ask chatgpt” is absurd. Several times I’ve overheard one of these exchanges and the replying students says something along the lines of they don’t like to use AI or trust AI answers and then they get dogpiled by their peers in return. It’s a serious problem, and one I don’t have any easy answers to.

You’re right, it would be alit funnier if it weren’t so depressing. I’m so tired of having our society run by the dumbest and most hateful people.😒

The video itself is fairly hilarious considering he posted it himself. I honestly thought it was an ai video made to make him look bad/troll him at first. From him stumbling over the blocks, to the babg like squeaks and grunts he makes while doing it, he comes off as soft as a wet dog turd.

There are a ton of different payloads that can be run on these, for everything from simple keylogging, to root access, to network backdoors. I’ve only recently gotten into pentesting but with something like this there’s no real limit to the damage that could be done with only a few seconds of physical access.

You can now buy one for yourself online. https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable

I really hope so, KDE isn’t perfect, but gnome is just so…weird…

My school requires 2in1 laptops with stylus support (and windows😖) for all engineering students. I picked up a lenovo think book 2in1 to meet the requirements and have been dualbooting manjaro on a seperate ssd as it has 2 m2 ports. I use manjaro because im used arch which I run on my gaming PC. My work laptop has had manjaro using kde plasma for a while now and I generally really like it.

When I loaded up the lenovo with manjaro/KDE it worked great as a standard laptop but whenever I tried to use the stylus or touch screen things started falling apart. Tracking was OK with the stylus but I couldn’t get pressure or tilt sensing to work and the on screen keyboard was pretty terrible. I also couldn’t get it to work properly with a few programs I need specifically for school. I spent about a week trying to get it all sorted but I was never able to get a configuration that worked consitintly and smoothly. After a fair bit of forum surfing the consensus I was able to glean was that KDE was behind the curve on touch/stylus support but gnome was supposedly better suited to it.

I’ve now been running GNOME for a couple weeks and the touch/stylus support does work much better but there are still a few hiccups. I had to install a different on screen keyboard, the one gnome comes with worked fine except for the backspace key refused to function which turns out to be a pretty big problem. My biggest complaints though are with how gnome functions in comparison to kde. The file explorer, console, text editors, menu customizations, and layouts are a lot more frustrating and clunky feeling to me. I’ve swapped most of the original stuff with KDE version wherever I could make them work. Overall its not too bad now, just different I guess. Personally I wont be using GNOME in the future if I can avoid it. Hopefully KDE comes up with functional touch/stylus support so I can switch back.

I’ve been forced to use gnome on my school laptop as I need tablet support and kde dropped the ball on that front. I hate it so much, but at least it works.

Try watching the chief creative officer of tpusa Benny Johnson at tpusa’s recent conference and tell me that our fears are unfounded. Start at the 2min mark. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1FeqYqICcE&pp=ygUYYmVubnkgam9obnNvbiBraWNrIGRvb3Jz

I’m with you 100% on this. I wish I could turn it off and do something more important. But the way things currently are idk whether I’m gonna have basic rights one day to the next.

There’s a huge difference between someone putting a webcam on their house for personal security and an AI driven face tracking camera that purposefully records every person that wanders into its field of vision being setup in a public park and on every street corner in the country.

I just bought a new laptop for school as we are required to use windows. So thanks so much for this.

To add to that, the whole short barrel rifle/shotgun thing is a mistake anyways. When they were first hammering out the national firearms act in the 1930s they were going to outlaw handguns entirely. To cover their bases they wanted to ensure that no one would simply cut down a rifle or shotgun to make a “pistol” they put in a section outlawing those too. After a lot of lobbying from the gun industry they ditched the legislation on handguns, but more or less forgot to remove the parts about SBRs and SBSs.

Pistols also have maneuverability on their side. Moving around a house is more difficult with something as long as a shotgun, which is fine if like you said you post up at the stairs or a choke point. But I have kids, if someone comes in my house, getting to them and ensuring they’re safe is my priority. Pistols also give you more rounds and easier reloads. It all depends on individual preference and situation. You’re right pistols take more practice to use effectively, but they’re way more versatile.

I didn’t think it was your take, I was just adding to it. But yea, people do as they do lol.

Yea, the whole “sound of a pump action” is really the last thing you want in an SD situation. Its always better to have surprise on your side.

Modifications generally don’t make a gun more dangerous, they’re generally about making them easier to operate for the user. Different grips to fit bigger or smaller hands, flashlights so you can see what your shooting in a dark house, different sights for different situations or eye conditions etc. I for one have astigmatism so many standard sights don’t work for me and I’m also very tall so a longer butt stock enables me to be more accurate and stable.

I’m a leftist and life long gun owner, I go to the range every other weekend and enjoy it greatly as a hobby. I shoot competively in both long range and pistol competitions. I also think we are in dire need of much strickter gun control here in the US. I would say a full 80% of gun owners should not be allowed to have them due to a lack of training and understanding of firearms and their use.

If you’re thinking about buying a gun I would suggest first going to a range and taking a basic firearms class. I would suggest finding one of the corporate owned chains simply because your less likely to run into the wrong (far right wing) type of gun enthusiast. RangeUSA is a good option. But really any range will have classes available for first time gun owners, usually for under $100. They also offer rentals once you’ve familiarized yourself with safe operation and handling. For home self defence purposes I always reccomend a mid or fullsize 9mm handgun. They have relatively little recoil, are plentiful, cheap, and easy to handle.

If passed, this would effectively ban trans healthcare. It would cut funding to any hospital or medical facility that provides gender affirming care. That means only private practices would be able to offer gender affirming care, and most of them would probably have to stop providing it. If they continued to, they would be ineligible to receive payment from medicare or medicaid for any other patients they see, not just the trans ones. The administration is talking about labeling all trans people as terrorists, why would you think they wouldn’t ban trans healthcare with a smile on their shitty faces?

200 yards is anything but masterful, with even a low-end scope its an easy shot if you’ve spent more than a day or two practicing at a range. The armys qualifying target is a human silhouette set at 300 yards and they are using open iron sights with no magnification or aid whatsoever.