Under the law, the word “reasonable” is not the loophole that it looks like at first blush.

Reasonable suspicion requires some degree of concrete evidence, it just means it doesn’t have to be a smoking gun. For example, reasonable suspicion of stealing would be something like a person being in possession of an inexplicably large number of unopened electronics when there has just been a burglary of an electronics store nearby. They dont have to have you on camera recognizably stealing to arrest you in that circumstance.

Being black and in the vicinity of the robbed electronics store would not be something that “reasonable suspicion” covers under the law. This ruling is no different. It basically says that ICE cant just stop random brown people on the street, or conduct raids on random workplaces. They have to be looking for specific individuals for arguable reasons

They have an export market, its the handful of douchebags in Australia that want compensator trucks instead of a ute

*so long as the perpetrator is of an appropriate skin tone or works for a government agency

Did your car just call me a k***?!

FIFA knows a thing or two about shmoozing a corrupt government official

The penalty for referencing cases that dont exist in a court filing should be disbarment

Thats like your doctor using AI to make up treatments that dont exist

Why does the British postal logo look like it was designed by Hasbro for a children’s playset?

Especially considering that foreign pharmaceutical companies wont be paying it?? How do people still not understand that the only people this affects are you and I when we go to buy products?

Well thats just not true, I mean LLMs really are not extremely complicated. At the end of the day it’s just algorithmic sorting of information

So in practice any given flavor of LLM is basically like a librarian. Your librarian can be a well adjusted human or an antisemitic nutjob, but so long as they sort information and can point it out to you technically they are doing their job equally as well. The real problem doesnt begin until youve trained the librarian to recommend Mein Kampf when people ask for information about the water cycle or whatever

Lying aside, this is setting up a really weird question regarding sovereignty. It represents just another way that modern conceptions of sovereignty are becoming less and less territorially bound.

Another example, which also sheds light on why this is such a strange claim from El Salvador, would be the enforcement of laws in border zones. Under older conceptions of sovereignty US agents can enforce US law on US soil, and the same was true for its neighbors. However, more recently the law changed such that we have bilateral agreements with our neighbors that allow their agents to enforce our law on our soil, and vice versa, within 100 miles of the border. From the classic conception of sovereignty this makes no sense, other than that the nation’s law is still territorially bound.

The case here with El Salvador is even more interesting. El Salvador is saying these men are locked up under US law in CECOT, and that they are the responsibility of the US. Which means that now the law of the US is not territorially bound, and is being implemented in El Salvador over these men. It’s hard to convey to someone that hasn’t studied sovereignty academically just how absolutely bonkers that is.

For a similar but contrasting situation, think of immigration. If a country wants to remove migrants it doesnt tell the country they came from to come in and get them. Removal is a legal process carried out by the state, under its law, as an exercise of sovereign control over its specific territory. Asking agents of the other country’s government, who have no legal jurisdiction to do anything, to come and get migrants would make no sense.

El Salvador here is basically ceding their sovereign control over these specific people despite the fact that they are obviously in El Salvador, and therefore are subject to Salvadoran sovereignty. This isnt something that any country has ever done, except with regards to very specific people like ambassadors, or very specific spaces like embassies or military bases

Im not making excuses, Im saying there are nuances to the use of, and therefore proper testing of, the device.

I used to make my own coils back in the day when there were juice bar shops. If you build a robust enough coil then the coil will well outlast the life of the cotton you put in it. Therefore theoretically the coil will not be heating up or being heated enough times to where the coil releasing metal particulate is a concern. If you build a flimsy coil and heat it up too high, or use it for too long past a reasonable lifetime, or run it dry, then youre going to be inhaling metal particulate as it breaks from the coil.

Therefore, if while testing these disposable devices they are just running the thing hot and fast as a matter of testing, then the results will show significantly more metal in the vapor than would have ever been there under normal use. And most places testing vapes dont care if their methods make it look worse than it actually is, because, just like with smoking, they get way more attention in pointing out how bad it is for you (in comparison to more middling perspectives that paint it as safer than smoking)

The most dangerous thing in the world of vaping rn IMO are weed cartridges and disposables. The “coil” in those is just the thinest piece of kanthal you can imagine. What makes it dangerous is that people have popularized taking “blinkers”, or running the device out to its 10 second safety limit point. They think its a safety for weed inhalation, but its quite the opposite. Its a safety to prevent that tiny wire from blowing itself out. More blinkers = more kanthal particulate that youre inhaling instead of weed. The device will keep going so long as two nubs of that wire can still make contact somehow, even if youve already blown out some of the wire

Anecdotal, but as someone who has used vapes and smoked cigarettes since well before Juuls and the modern disposable market existed, I feel infinitely healthier vaping even modern disposables than I ever did smoking cigarettes.

If I were to guess at whether I was verifiably healthier now using only dispos, versus back when I smoked half a pack or more per day, my guess would be that I am far healthier now than I ever was then

Im open to being proven wrong, and obviously the best thing would be not to smoke at all, but as far as harm reduction goes Im still of the opinion that smoking cigarettes must be far worse. At least assuming you dont smoke well past the safe point of running out of liquid and just inhale straight coil. A lot of these reviews seem dubious to me in that they probably run the device differently than it is actually used by a vaper. Running past safe points of juice, running hotter than your lungs would ever be comfortable with etc. Just like how studies of cigs would have a pseudo-human device chain smoke without accounting for the ability of the lungs to clean themselves up over time. Or just time in general. How is a robot smoking 1000x straight the same as a human having 1000 darts over multiple months? That kind of thing

I once had a very similar experience at GWB in Houston, except it wasnt even 4am. I was just highly confused when the lady started yelling at me to take off my belt.

As I was complying, apparently the right thing to say was not “Im sorry, they didnt make me take my belt off at XYZ airport earlier”, because Im fairly certain that response almost earned me a trip to the special area and an all-expenses-paid cavity check. To say she was unpleased would be a massive understatement

Its honestly a great analogy for the way that humans have a tendency to do the same thing. Most people are fairly incapable of setting aside what they already think is true when they go to assess new information. This is basically no different than an LLM being pushed to ignore nuance in order to maintain a predisposed alignment that it has been instructed to justify in spite of evidence to the contrary.

If anything hes designed a model with built-in problems specifically to cater to human beings with the same design problems

If theres one thing we all know desk jockeys appreciate its the opportunity to do manual labor

Mr. Japannibal Lector

North eastern Louisiana is no more likely to see a hurricane than southern Arkansas or mid-Mississippi

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Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power. Projects in Europe and Asia are lightyears ahead of us here, where we dont even have a reactor capable of producing a stable reaction. Meanwhile in Korea I think they have managed to achieve a stable reaction for over 10 minutes already. Who knows where China is at, although they likely have the largest facility working on it.

Weve already lost the race thanks to our obsession with yesterday’s energy methods

Its a little bit late to be chickening out here, as Texan farms report they have lost 100% of their workforces already, and Californian farms (where most of our food is grown) have reported losing over 75% of their workforce. You cant just undo the fear that has already been struck into people, no one has faith they wont change their minds again in 2 weeks…