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  Mexican naval ship strikes the Brooklyn Bridge
Posted by: c172 - 7 hours ago - Forum: World News, Politics and Current Events - Replies (1)

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/brooklyn/mexi...e/6268755/

Two dead as it stands right now. Horrible video.

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  Political Watch
Posted by: Dānu - Yesterday, 04:24 PM - Forum: World News, Politics and Current Events - Replies (3)

Quote:If plaintiffs want an immediate universal remedy, Sauer contends, they should file a class action instead of individual cases. But many cases are ineligible for class certification under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including all cases brought by states. Nor is there a clear mechanism for speedy emergency relief on behalf of such a class—the very relief that plaintiffs argue is essential.

Proving that point, Sauer admitted that the government might oppose class certification in this very case. He even claimed that the government did not have to follow the rulings of the federal courts of appeals. The only way to stop a Trump-administration policy once and for all—even one that has lost a dozen times in the lower courts—is a final decision on the merits by the U.S. Supreme Court.

As Justice Elena Kagan pointed out, such a rule would allow the government to win by losing. After all, the government could lose case after case in the lower courts—as it has so far in the birthright-citizenship litigation—never seek Supreme Court review, and continue to apply its policies throughout the country. Such a rule would allow all of Trump’s executive orders to go into effect in perpetuity, no matter how flagrantly unconstitutional, save only for those individuals with the capacity to file a lawsuit.

The Question the Trump Administration Couldn’t Answer About Birthright Citizenship

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  The Case for AI
Posted by: Phaedrus - 05-16-2025, 11:21 PM - Forum: Off-topic - Replies (10)

Some artists are against the use of AI. Yet, artists have always used other people.

Michelangelo did not personally sculpt all his statues. He had other people sculpt what he conceptualized.

Even modern authors don't write all their books. They have ghost writers.

An artist using AI as a form of efficiency is no different.

Personally, I'm going to always write my own novels. But I can understand why an artist would want to use AI.

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  I've decided to devote my life to building/promoting CFA
Posted by: Dexta - 05-16-2025, 06:32 PM - Forum: Atheism & Theism - Replies (13)

CFA = Crusading Faithful Atheism.

Here's the website, where the founding text can be read (just 11 pages) https://www.cfatheism.com/

Religion is the source of most of the problems in this world, I think, and CFA is an alternative. A very therapeutic one, at that. 

So that's it. I wrote it and I'm putting my remaining days towards its advancement.

A mission...finally, a mission I'm all in on.  Thumbs Up

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  Hey --
Posted by: Thumpalumpacus - 05-16-2025, 04:56 AM - Forum: Forum Comments and Suggestions - Replies (35)

-- the forum is hanging up when I click "like" on a post. I click the like button, I get the doowhirly-whirl "wait until I'm fine with your human input" but it doesn't clear.

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Information FaceAge - AI Estimation of Your Age
Posted by: SYZ - 05-15-2025, 12:35 PM - Forum: Off-topic - Replies (8)

"FaceAge.ai is a cutting-edge AI tool designed to estimate
your facial age accurately. Discover your facial age and
explore how young you look with our advanced technology!"

Because humans age at different rates, a person’s physical
appearance may yield insights into their biological age and
physiological health more reliably than their chronological age.

FaceAge, a deep learning system to estimate biological age
from face photographs. FaceAge was trained on data from
58,851 healthy individuals.  The results demonstrate that deep
learning can provide a means to estimate biological age from
easily obtainable face photographs.

[Image: Screenshot-2025-05-15-at-22-30-26-Face-A...arvard.png]

You can try it out here:

         https://faceage.ai/

Your image needs to be a full facial, close up, front-on capture
with no extraneous background features, and can be cropped
slightly at the margins of your face.

My chronological age was ridiculously out of range, so I'd put very
little confidence in its accuracy.  Despite it having been developed
by scientists and clinicians, I reckon it's nothing more than a fun toy.

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  Why is the term "body dysmorphia" never applied to contented obese people?
Posted by: Dexta - 05-13-2025, 08:53 PM - Forum: Philosophy and Ethics - Replies (26)

You're obese, but don't see it as being a problem. Body dysmorphia...no?  Deadpan Coffee Drinker

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Information Australian Atheism Increasing & Christianity Decreasing Rapidly
Posted by: SYZ - 05-12-2025, 02:54 PM - Forum: Atheism & Theism - No Replies

Atheists in Australia now outnumber each of the
Catholic and Protestant religions according to the
2021 federal census.

These data represents the number of self-described
irreligious, state by state, as a percentage of its population.  
Irreligious includes "atheist", "no religion", and "unaffiliated".

Australian Capital Territory: 44.2
New South Wales: 33.2

Victoria: 39.3
Tasmania: 50.0

South Australia: 45.8
Northern Territory: 38.5

Western Australia: 42.9
Queensland: 41.2

By comparison, the Roman Catholics number only
19.6% of Australia's population, with the Anglican
numbers a mere 9.8% of the population.

It's pleasing to see that religion is dying a slow but
inevitable death here in Australia—as it should of course.  
I won't be seeing it in my lifetime, but I'd like to think
that the majority of the Australian population will have
abandoned religious practices in total within three or
four generations, or maybe by 2100.

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  Grocery routine
Posted by: Phaedrus - 05-11-2025, 10:19 PM - Forum: Eats and Treats - Replies (7)

We now have groceries delivered to our front door, because stepping into the store is so five years ago.

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  My thoughts on dating
Posted by: Kevin_Logan - 05-11-2025, 02:58 AM - Forum: Off-topic - Replies (44)

I will never date anyone that wears band shirts or listens to real-life singers. Only lyricless music, Vocaloids, UTAU, other synthesizers and AI are acceptable. The only, actual humans singing in the house should be me or her. Fuck concerts. Fuck giving them money. Fuck their fanbase.

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