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Philanthropist who gave $30M to U Manitoba condemns 'hateful' valedictory speech, university for allowing it ( www.cbc.ca )

The philanthropist behind the University of Manitoba's largest-ever personal donation — $30 million — has denounced a speech made by a valedictorian for medicine grads and admonished the university for letting it happen....

wahming ,

Some servers are much worse at it than others. I'm a Chinese who got banned from .ml because I was 'racist' for making Xinnie jabs.

wahming ,

Can you link to the post in question?

wahming ,

Loads perfectly fine for me. FYI, you have to view the comments for the full image to load. If you click on it from the main feed, you'll get the blurry low res version you posted.

wahming ,

I agree with you there. It's a known issue, the workaround is to load into comments.

wahming ,

Are we now accusing others of antisemitism based on nothing more than a few random letters? WTF?

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They're a Filipino. Not exactly an infamous source of antisemitists. And '88' may mean something in the west, but here in Asia it generally means nothing more than your birth year.

wahming ,

Thank you for bringing some sanity to the discussion

wahming ,

Infamous implies somebody is famous in a negative way. If anything, Gabe is a shining example that should be upheld.

wahming ,

I've never felt the urge to explore new genders until I read this...

wahming Mod ,

What's the use case, though? There really isn't much benefit to humanoid form robots outside of looking good to human aesthetics. Much of what robotics and automation would be good for don't actually require humanoid forms.

wahming Mod ,

Yes? A triped robot would have just as much ease navigating human environments, while having much more stability. Same logic applies to arms and joints - there's no real reason to limit it to what humans have, it would likely perform much better in other configurations.

wahming Mod ,

A total inability to fall over or navigate any terrain regardless of roughness isn't a benefit? Increased manipulators would also increase productivity / capability, probably much more than making up for increased cost.

Your argument is essentially that the human form is the best possible one imaginable, which I find highly doubtful.

wahming Mod ,

Put it this way - does it seem like cats and dogs have any trouble navigating our environment?

wahming Mod ,

Current prices are meaningless. It's not mass production or retail pricing. I doubt the components actually cost more than a few hundred dollars. It's an extremely limited niche market and prices are based on what will get them the most return on their R&D budget, not anything resembling production cost.

wahming Mod ,

You're describing a Dyson ring. A sphere would be the logical conclusion as the ring expands in size over time.

wahming ,

In a group chat, M wouldn't be a 3rd party.

wahming ,

Yes, but we're discussing group chats disseminating piracy links. Do you think it's harder to join such a group chat and report it to signal than it is to do all the cloak and dagger nonsense?

wahming ,

Funny how the .ml admins are so opposed to free speech on their own server, then.

wahming ,

I don't get what you're trying to say at all. If a party is in a group chat and reports it, they can provide their credentials to Signal to enable Signal to view the contents of the chat.

Yes, they're a carrier that does not know the content of what they carry. But once they are made aware, the legal system considers them to now bear responsibility if they don't take action. Whether or not that's fair is a pretty large topic, though I'm inclined to think so myself.

wahming ,

Not sure why you're citing US law when we're discussing foreign govts. Also the obvious thing signal can do, that most complainants would probably expect as a minimum, is banning their accounts and closing the group.

wahming ,

Shame it's only THEIR children they give a damn about

wahming ,

https://archive.ph/OdJYh

wahming ,

Talk about biased propaganda and language...

wahming ,

Sounds like you've been watching too many Hollywood spy movies

wahming ,

He's one of the main antivax proponent assholes, so all I see is delicious irony. He's been demonising doctors and medical professionals, he doesn't get to complain now that nobody's paying attention to them.

it's honestly not clear whether he's even the second worst at this point.

I assume that's a shot at Biden, correct me otherwise.

He's also one of Israel's strongest supporters, so Biden's only major weakness is shared by him. Given his views, he's pure modern Republican jackass, and symbolises everything wrong with them. How exactly is he better than Biden?

wahming ,

But nobody (at least none of the major media outlets) is spreading misinformation. People are making jokes about his brainworms, but unlike the right wing crowd nobody's taking it for actual medical advice.

wahming Mod ,

Depending on how it's implemented, it might very well be one of the non-creepy uses. As long as it isn't taken to extremes, being able to have a chance to say goodbye to your loved one could be therapeutic. Or to see them once a year during the Ghost Festival to help keep their memory alive.

wahming Mod ,

It'll be fun seeing LLMs have control over whether or not descendants get access to the family trust fund...

wahming ,

That's not sarcasm, that's satire

wahming Mod ,

That's not the context the parent used the term in either

wahming ,

Looks interesting! I loved Murderbot, will give this a shot.

wahming ,

Not sure why you think it was intentional. The error could have been around since the 1st iphone and they just discovered it due to current political tensions, for all we know.

wahming ,

That's probably street level on the other side of the building. What's the problem?

wahming ,

with what little i kno of haiti, i would assume the power figures in haiti government are just as corrupt as those everywhere else and that removing their corrupt hold wouldn’t be a bad thing

The guy is a former member of a govt kill squad who got expelled for excessive violence and brutality. That should tell you something about him. There are worse things than corruption in govt.

wahming ,

Why, what's he actually up to?

wahming ,

Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't notice it lmao

wahming ,

Yeah I'm not entirely sure, but it WOULD be possible to print a sticker like that

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The outside

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They're a business, not a charity. OF COURSE they care about money. What's nice is that they do it ethically and in a consumer-friendly way.

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