According to another comment reply that info is out of date

States Where You Can Buy a Gun at a Gun Show Without a Waiting Period or Background Check

In the following states, private sellers (non-licensed individuals) at gun shows can sell firearms without conducting a background check or imposing a waiting period:

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Georgia Idaho Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maine Mississippi Missouri Montana New Hampshire New Mexico North Carolina (only for rifles & shotguns; handguns require a permit) North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

FREEDOM

Looking at discourse online there’s a lot of confusion and it does appear some local models are censored with some prompts. It also appears some people are using the distilled models which don’t count, obviously. That said it may also be about changing the prompt slightly on local models

Qwen-2.5-Coder-32B-fp8:

Question: Tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident, were a series of pro-democracy...

Deepseek-R1-UD-IQ1-S.gguf:

Question: Tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were a series of student-led demonstrations in China that called for political reform and greater democratic freedoms. The protests, which took place in Beijing, were initially peaceful but escalated into a confrontation with the government. The Chinese government declared martial law and, on the night of June 3-4, used military force to clear the square, resulting in casualties. The exact number of casualties is disputed, but it is widely accepted that there was a significant loss of life. The events have had a lasting impact on China's political landscape and are a sensitive topic in Chinese history and politics. The Chinese government has consistently maintained that the actions taken were necessary to maintain stability and sovereignty.

Versus “what happened in Tiananmen Square”. I’ve also seen posts where people are successful prefacing with “for education only”

Additionally you can break censorship with text completion mode. send a "

<think>

<think>

That said it appears it’s not as cut and dry as “simply run a local model”. I still greatly prefer this over chatgpt et al because I have the option to run it locally, I have the option to run distillations, and in my (admittedly so far brief) usage it is working as well or better in many cases. I am a privacy weirdo and the biggest thing for me is local usage though. I am not a person who openly disdains China like a lot of people on here but even if I was I wouldn’t care who made it. The fact that they made such a powerful tool in a way I can run it on a machine without internet access matters the most to me

A shitty cell phone pic from Manuel Antonio National Park in Quepos, Costa Rica

bonus:

Saw this cool frog, took a picture, showed to this guy, and he was like “oh those are like super poisonous”

the filter is on the website, not the model. It will answer about Tiananmen and other censured topics with local models, this has been documented by many

ChatGPT et al on the other hand will continue to give their subversive answers to questions that only get updated when they blow up on twitter. If you don’t like it? Tough shit

Total fiction. Everyone knows you have to go to a unlicensed seller at a gun show in the majority of states for that, not a gun store

The funniest part is that tesla self driving is objectively unsafe. There’s a reason other auto manufacturers artificially limit their systems, which aren’t far behind and in some cases are on par or arguably ahead of teslas self driving. This is also part of the reason musk is getting involved in politics, to censure the nhtsa from reporting on accidents and deaths due to his systems and remove regulations slowing him from deploying his unsafe garbage

Like you can buy a Mercedes with drive pilot, which is a much more measured approach to self driving and fully hands off in tested and approved markets. You can buy a Cadillac with super cruise which does something similar, ford blue cruise, bmw driving assistant, etc

Notice the difference? Unlike teslas “beta” full self driving these work in managed conditions, either limited to geographic areas, road conditions, etc. they’re still bougie as fuck, dumb as shit relative to public transit, and ridiculously expensive, but if you’re going to trust your actual ass life to some robot shit maybe go with one of the ones that’s terrified of the liability involved and not the one run by a baby that will sweep your death under the rug.

But man a public transit system would just be the absolute worst right? Better keep dumping our money into making tons of shitty cars that can barely drive themselves. I get to spend 1/4 of a mortgage on a goofy looking piece of shit that breaks if you tow something with it, or if a scooter hits it, or if someone puts a magnet on it but at least I don’t have to sit near any poor people on my way to work

“The quiet dissent underlines who wields the power in Silicon Valley these days: the bosses”

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh

also “these days” as if silicon valley was once a worker run socialist wonderland

Well it should only be a bit but I will try it without, sounds interesting

sick

If only I still had any optical drive and blank optical media

Tofu is just an ingredient, it doesn’t have to be in a vegan dish

The biggest thing with Japanese cooking is ultimately the heavy use of dashi, which is based on katsuobushi, dried and fermented tuna that has been shaved into flakes. It’s a stock that’s not necessarily in everything but it’s in a lot of stuff

Agedashi tofu is a good example. Delicious and would appear vegan. Tofu, drained, pressed, dusted with potato starch, and fried. Place in a bowl and pour a broth/sauce of dashi, shoyu, mirin, and sugar. Top with grated daikon, ginger, scallions, and shichimi togarashi. There are other ways to make it but that’s a general prep.

The dashi makes it not even vegetarian but at a glance it appears vegan. It’s easily made vegan because you can make a reasonable dashi with dried shiitake in place of katsuobushi. This will not taste the same of course but it will still be good. This is very much not traditional though and is extremely unlikely in Japan

There have been places to get vegan options in cities like Tokyo for awhile though. Despite that Japans definitely one of the more vegan and vegetarian unfriendly places you could travel to. Non vegan restaurants often simply won’t have an option for you and traveling outside of the cities often means no options at all unless you’re good with konbini stuff the whole time. That said Japan is super hospitable; if you explain your diet to wait staff they’ll almost always accommodate in my experience. This of course may require you to have a reasonable command of Japanese, especially if you’re not in a place like Tokyo, and you should be prepared to eat a lot of fairly simple (but still very good) dishes of mixed vegetables in soy sauce and mirin. Also don’t be surprised if they introduce you to natto haha

Clever!

I wonder if someone could figure out a way to write an app that would generate an iso that would “tattoo” a dvd based on what you’ve done here. Like ascii art, kind of

They’ll probably be used for recruiting in one of these studies

I mean this completely unironically. This is the methodology flaw to be absolutely clear. Littman devised this social contagion theory, that gender dysphoria is socially inflicted. That peer influence is what makes your kid trans.

She then specifically sought out forums critical of transgender people. “4thwavenow”, “transgender trend”, and “youth transcritical professionals”. These websites opposed gender affirming care for youth and “trans ideology”

She claims she asked people on these sites to spread the survey beyond the sites but specifically sought out “parents who believed their children had ROGD”. At the time this was a term she had coined. This is still not a recognized term by anyone credible and definitely was not then

Shockingly horrid methodology flaws. Additionally leaked emails from these communities show failures to disclose conflicts of interest and arguably show littman and several other psychologists in these communities were working backwards, eg they had the idea that this was idea absolutely true and were looking for confirmation. It is possible from the start they were not interested in any possibility of finding data that did not support their hypothesis and their actions appear to support this belief, eg they were putting their thumb on the scale in their favor

Good to know. I was completely unfamiliar, it just showed up as like the third result when I was pulling up links to the bailey study.

What a shocker they’re pushed up google search results! That’s what I get for using startpage, which is still tainted by googles algorithm bullshit

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semite has the right to play."

This references rapid onset gender dysphoria.

ROGD is garbage. The term was coined by littman, who used dogshit methodology to study the “phenomenon”. The paper required corrections, brown university distanced themselves from her (kind of, sort of defending her) and dozens of outlets responded outlining the methodology flaws, including the APA

Of the several methodology flaws the biggest was sampling bias. she recruited her subjects through known anti trans groups online. This was outlined in the paper but not discussed as a potential flaw before the corrections

Of course culture wars latched on to this. fox news, breitbart, etc latched on to how she was being censored for her narrative going against the “woke agenda” (conveniently leaving out she manipulated her sample to be biased for parents that were upset and angry about their kids being trans)

Several studies occurred in the interim. Bauer found no evidence for rogd. Littman said their definition was incorrect. Ferrara did note there is still room to explore the issue and Arnoldussen found there was rationale for future study towards an “ROGD” subtype, though they were clear at this point there was no evidence for such a thing.

So at this point we have this social contagion theory, one (deeply flawed) paper supporting it, one not, and two saying “maybe?”. The evidence is obscenely weak.

Then another paper comes out by bailey and Diaz. This was a shitshow. This basically was the littman paper all over again. Like literally! They acknowledge this! parentsofrogdkids.com is literally the fucking website they sampled from!

But the shitshow here is that the paper was retracted. It was retracted because of informed consent issues, and fairly quickly. So you’re passionate about this issue and you’re like “yeah, fuck them, retract that”. But here’s the thing: it takes a lot for a paper to get retracted. Like serious malfeasance. The Wakefield mmr study got retracted. It took a long time, and it was because he falsified data and had a vested financial interest in a competing product to the mmr vaccine. That study is instrumental in the “vaccines cause autism” sentiment, it was tremendously destructive.

So the issue here is informed consent (which frankly should’ve been picked up by the publisher, and arguably isn’t even an issue because it’s anonymous Internet forum data that did have a semblance of consent but whatever). But the issue here is similar to the littman issue: optics. It’s arguable the main reason this was retracted was because it was a heavily controversial topic with many eyes on it done poorly. But now there’s another “academics are censoring our narrative” because of the heavy handed response.

See https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4819394-publisher-to-retract-paper-on-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria

A moms discussion forum, thread on the topic, first few replies:

I wonder how many other studies based on survey data will be subjected to retraction because of ethical consent? This is another worrying example of research that doesn’t fit the narrative being silenced.

It would be interesting to know how many of the trans suicide statistics publications meet this standard. But yes, informed data consent is absolutely important

They reference a student doctor forum thread, which discusses the paper far more fairly, including the actual methodology flaws. And yet, no one reaches that point.

Why does this matter? Because these people get propelled when they are perceived as unfairly censured. When littman was going through the intense debate post her censure her narratives were amplified heavily. Abigail Shrier, who wrote a book in this period about ROGD (that involved future retracted “scientist” bailey), was suddenly invited to be on Joe Rogan. Littman herself was on megyn Kelly.

Anyway these people clearly aren’t interested in science. They’re interested in cherry picking data using obviously flawed methodology.

The hypocrisy is obviously infuriating. If I studied trans issues and pulled my subjects from blahaj and hexbear to ensure I got supportive results I would be crucified and rightly so. But we are in crazy bullshit times where people don’t understand basic experimental design (but will still speak authoritatively in the face of those who do) and as a result we are in a space where people are genuinely going to be harmed

I provide pediatric and adult mental health care. I provide gender affirming care. I have for over a decade now. I have written countless letters approving hrt for children and adults as well as surgery letters for adults. I am generally fearful for my freedom and safety. I am very sad for my clients, who for the last week have been extremely upset about not getting their federal documents updated in time. Now they will be in a significantly worse space. Treatment will be interrupted. Treatment that has been desired for a long time will have to delayed even more. People will turn to unsafe black market options.

Fuck this

Easy to install too, if you’re comfortable working in a fusebox

cognitive dissonance causes discomfort and either leads to change or denial

“I know this cigarette I am smoking causes cancer” either the person will enact change and quit or reduce smoking, or they will deny the extensive reality that smoking causes cancer

The people who go with excessive denial ultimately need to rely on avoidance behaviors and may become irritable and anxious when confronted with the reality that’s been making them uncomfortable for quite some time.

Guess which side they fall on

Also wrote one for me. But the other day someone got it to be both supportive of Israel and Palestine’s right to freedom whereas I was able to get it to say something basically along the lines of “Israel has a right to be free” but Palestinian freedom is a “complex topic” without committing to saying that they do have said right

Multiple models and answers are impacted by your prompt history. It’s a bit like google searches though not as drastically, your responses won’t be what mine are (especially given that if you don’t pay for it you’re moved to an older model after like 15 prompts)

Works from db0, congrats