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dang i sure how there wasn't a change of clothes in that backpack
i agree. blame and punishment don't help people learn or overcome obstacles external to themselves, and so they're also self-defeating from management and pedagogical points of view. if the goal is to motivate specific behaviors or ability to complete a particular task, simply blaming and punishing someone will fail to find underlying problems that could be resolved in a way that improves the situation.
it's a consequence of strongly stratified hierarchies, partly because sometimes the underlying problem is the hierarchical structure needing to be reorganized.
exactly but we call it "broken window theory" to jazz it up a bit
it's even worse than that! they're treating crimes like they're forces of nature or fucking dice rolls to begin with and completely ignore the role police play in defining and creating crime and the construction of criminality!
i mean garbage in, garbage out, and the whole edifice is built upon a giant pile of racist garbage and these assholes will happily congratulate themselves about how good at math they are
exactly. it's amazing to me that these nerds can talk themselves into creating an ouroboros like this because they don't actually bother to understand how any of this shit works, but i guess whatever justifies their salary...
this is from a couple years ago. everyone is here thinking this is like minority report but it's not about individual behavior, this is just about using predictive models to self-justify racist policing patterns:
Fears of “The Thought Police” are probably running through your head right now, but Chattopadhyay is keen to stress that the focus isn’t on individuals, “We do not focus on predicting individual behavior, and do not suggest that anyone be charged with a crime that they didn’t commit, or be incarcerated for that. Our model learns from, and then predicts, event patterns in the urban space, for example, predicting that within a two block radius around the intersection of 67th Street and SW Avenue, there is a high risk of a homicide a week from now. It does not indicate who is going to be the victim or the perpetrator,” she says.
when they get money from the cia they're called "al qaeda" and when they get money from the pentagon they're called "isis"
this article has a better explanation
https://interestingengineering.com/military/submarine-detection-at-light-speed-china
ELF signals, with wavelengths longer than 100 meters (328 feet), typically require large distances between antenna units. Traditionally, generating low-frequency signals needed massive antennas, like the ELF facility in central China, which has antennas over 100 km (62 miles) long.
In contrast, Li’s team has reduced the length of the emitting array to just about 100 meters (328 feet), making it possible to easily install these antennas on Chinese naval ships. The high-frequency, high-power electromagnetic waves emitted by these antennas converge in the sky to create a virtual radio-emitting source. As one source dissipates, another is instantly generated, ensuring a continuous flow of low-frequency signals.
as @D61@hexbear.net pointed out, the virtual source is what's moving at near the speed of light. the virtual source is the sky. the actual source is on a ship. it sounds like they're generating an interference pattern and reflecting that off the atmosphere to produce extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves capable of penetrating the water column. it's the group velocity of the wave packet that's moving at close to the speed of light, or something like that.
not you
rania beat you out by 16 seconds and even snuck in the edit before you posted
you could set up an rss feed with some of the main sources and commentary