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Depends on your definition of “damn near everywhere” I guess.

Well I suppose that’s fair. It would be nice to have an understanding of that ambiguity extended towards my own comments, but sure. For example here:

I think it’s pretty silly to hear someone say something is everywhere and assume that someone meant that the entire US is covered by only this exact type of road.

Which isn’t even what I’m doing.

I think there are some real issues with the assumptions here - you’re trying to claim that these kinds of development are common, something I’ve already said I agree with. But population density has never come into this until you brought it up, and that urban areas contain the majority of the population hasn’t been contested either. Your own initial claim was narrow in scope (though I would still very much argue they’re misinformed), but they were made in support of an absurd claim and that’s primarily what’s being discussed.

Incidentally while the prior claim was never “most people live within ten miles of a development or developed road like this” this is a claim you could absolutely support by just going to the collected data and doing the analysis yourself (ideally before the trump admin takes it all down…) using (I recommend) QGIS (another GIS modeling tool will work too, just never ever arc. Fuck arc, and especially fuck that sexist POS Jack Dangermond). This isn’t hard, it’s on the level of a freshman GIS assignment, and I wholeheartedly encourage you to learn about it because GIS is extremely cool and important! (Helpfully there are plenty of people that have already done analysis on questions extremely similar to or identical to this which you can use as examples).

I will also very happily help you with this if you would like to DM me, I have a GIS course coming up and this will make an excellent introductory assignment so it would be very useful to run through it before developing it into actual coursework.

(Side note: If 80% of the population lives within an urban area, why does only 25% of the population live within 1/2km of a high-density road? It’s not a gotcha I promise, it’s just that the difference in definitional scope between the wikipedia page and your first claim about 25% of the population is really stark and it’s a great example of why you can’t simply conflate two datasets and draw conclusions from the results - there does need to be some effort expended on ensuring that the data does indeed say what you mean it to say)

Mate the argument isn’t that the entire US looks like this.

But it’s damn near everywhere in the US and it’s ugly as sin.

That is exactly the argument that was made. Population density has never come into this. Also the basis that nearly everyone lives within 5-10 miles of a scene like that is a (simplistically, because we’re talking about structures on a line) 10-20 mile stretch without that kind of development (so definitionally not the whole US) and a claim you have nothing on which to base it except that 1/4 of people in the country live in the big cities - which is not news.

So you took a tour of freeways, and conclude that’s what the whole US looks like? I don’t think anyone’s arguing there aren’t a huge number of places like the above, but those places make up a minuscule percentage of the whole US. It’d be like driving the Autobahn and concluding the whole of Europe looks like that.

There is no hell - if we want them to ever face some kind of punishment for their actions, we’re gonna have to do it ourselves…

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Duplicity! Scoundrel!

They do appear to be regular bootlicking enthusiasts, not actual collaborators. There’s a fair amount of scrutiny on them.

IDK about the admins, but community mods in the lemmyverse can ban other users for whatever reason they want and that happens all the time (“serial downvoting” is the most common excuse I’ve seen, the pro-AI communities do it all the time to shore up the walls of their echo chambers…). At the admin level, .world notoriously rarely bans at the instance level, whereas .ml … does tend to do that, yeah.

To top it off: The evil feds have set up a twisted profit incentive. These AI companies will be “compensated based on a share of averted expenditures.” In other words, they’ll get a cut. The more claims the companies deny, the more money they get.

just sickening.

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jjgod is the only one I remember, jjcoin and jjfly might have been ones too? Man I played the -heck- out of that game as a kid…

It’s a meme sure, but it’s a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn’t entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.

How do you suppose that glass was made, Watson?

Lies and deception - one on the right was clearly made in a mold and never had a proper skin in the first place.

More black bars than New Orleans…

And only if the fetus ain’t miscegenated…

I’m sorry, I’m not sure what your point is - yes it was a broadly impractical thing to do, that’s not in dispute.

I’m not entirely sure on the difference here, valve is selling them directly and by all the reporting we’ve seen, there aren’t going to be hardware restrictions on any of the models.

That’s a tradition with gaming systems, see the Navy’s playstation supercomputer!

In a broad sense sure, and that’s a great reason to use a VPN (especially if you listen to VPN ads on youtube)!

It really isn’t a good reason in this example, though. At least, not as an explanation for setting your location to be outside of the US. Use of a VPN is identifiable (unless you set it up yourself, which isn’t anonymous) so it will make no difference where you’re located if the authoritarian government you’re supporting gets replaced with an even more authoritarian one that decides to prosecute people being mean to them online, and it can only serve to incriminate you if the data ever gets leaked (like what happened here).

Generally this is true, but within the scope of this hypothetical it doesn’t really change that this fundementally doesn’t make sense.

No the troll kingdom has been at war with the lizard cabal for centuries, I’m very careful to never confuse the two groups.

Seriously though I don’t think you’re trolling, I just think this question is kinda dumb. While there are reasons to use a VPN yes, you have yet to present a reason for why a huge number of legit US-based maga-influencer VPN users would want to set their location to something other than the US instead of just using a US node, which would be both faster and less suspicious.

It’s just silly to think they’d be doing that, there legitimately isn’t a reason to pay money to do a less convincing job (unless this is a false flag)