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Sooooo what happens if luigi mangione is tried but a jury refuses to convict? All it takes is ONE person who had a family member focked over by the insurance companies to hang a jury. Do they keep trying him till they get a verdict or does he walk. If he walked would trump order the justice department to file charges?

I do not. It takes 12 to convict. It takes 1 to hang a jury. I think it would be harder to get 12 people to agree to convict than for 1 person to hold out.

I think you underestimate the amount of people that have had family or friends focked over by the insurance companies.

Are you saying that this is not an outcome that is possible? A large amount of people out there seem to support him.

I do not believe you anymore. No one can be this dumb. It has to be an act.

Google has made an eyebrow-raising claim, saying that its new quantum chip may be tapping into parallel universes to achieve its results. The search giant recently unveiled a new quantum computer chip, dubbed Willow, which — on a specific benchmark, at least — the company says can outperform any supercomputer in the world. "Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing," Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in a blog post announcing the chip. "It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years." "This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe," he argued. "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch." Deutsch is a physicist who laid out his multiverse hypothesis in a 1997 book called "The Fabric of Reality," in which he suggested that quantum computers' calculations take place across multiple universes at the same time. Put another way, Google is suggesting that its chip is so fast that its computations may have taken place across parallel universes — a bombastic statement that unsurprisingly drew plenty of skepticism online. For one, the calculation Willow was tasked to solve wasn't really anything useful to anybody. "The particular calculation in question is to produce a random distribution," German physicist and science communicator Sabine Hossenfelder tweeted in response to Google's announcement. "The result of this calculation has no practical use." "They use this particular problem because it has been formally proven (with some technical caveats) that the calculation is difficult to do on a conventional computer (because it uses a lot of entanglement)," she added. "That also allows them to say things like 'this would have taken a septillion years on a conventional computer' etc." Willow is a 100-qubit, or quantum-bit, chip. Unlike conventional computers, which use zeroes and ones for a binary system, quantum computers rely on qubits, which can be on, off, or — counterintuitively — both thanks to quantum entanglement, the mysterious phenomenon that allows particles to influence each other's states even when separated by distance. "It's exactly the same calculation that they did in 2019 on a circa 50 qubit chip," Hossenfelder wrote. At the time, Google made a similarly bombastic claim, arguing that it had achieved "quantum supremacy," or "the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t, regardless of whether those tasks are useful," as John Preskill, who first coined the term in 2012, wrote in a 2019 Quanta Magazine column. That last part appears to be particularly relevant, given Google's latest claim. "So while the announcement is super impressive from a scientific point of view and all, the consequences for everyday life are zero," Hossenfelder argued. "Estimates say that we will need about 1 million qubits for practically useful applications and we're still about 1 million qubits away from that." The physicist also suggested that such wild claims may eventually "evaporate because some other group finds a clever way to do it on a conventional computer after all." Google's claim of quantum supremacy drew immediate criticism in 2019, sparking a years-long feud between the company and quantum computing rival IBM. At the time, IBM researchers charged that Google had exaggerated its claims. In a 2023 follow-up blog post, IBM researchers argued that the problem Google's quantum computer was instructed to solve in 2019 could be "performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity." "This is in fact a conservative, worst-case estimate, and we expect that with additional refinements the classical cost of the simulation can be further reduced," the researchers wrote at the time. In short, there's still a good reason to believe that Google's latest claim that Willow could be operating in the multiverse will be debunked. Apart from Deutsch's interpretation, researchers have also suggested that quantum particles are instead in a state of all positions before measurement, a theory known as the Copenhagen interpretation. Where all of this leaves Google's breakthrough and its significance remains debatable. But the company is already looking far ahead, promising to continue to scale up Willow to a point where it may actually become useful. "This is the most convincing prototype for a scalable logical qubit built to date," Neven wrote in the announcement. "It’s a strong sign that useful, very large quantum computers can indeed be built."

The bullshittt media covering for a the ceo of a crappy company by limiting things people can say in HIS OP ED. Like a bunch of bitchess. This is why people do not trust the media anymore The New York Times turned off the comment section on the UnitedHealth CEO's op-ed after it became flooded with negative replies accusing the executive of empty promises. Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, mourned the loss of UnitedHeathCare CEO Brian Thompson in an editorial piece published by the New York Times Friday, while also offering sympathy to those frustrated with the healthcare system. But while Witty said that he was "willing to partner with anyone" to find ways to provide high-quality care at a lower cost, hundreds of readers mocked him, saying he offered no real solutions to the problem. "I have read this twice, and in essence it says nothing. What is he proposing to change or improve?" one person commented. "Tone-deaf corporate speak design to try and quell the anger of the masses; nice try," another person wrote under the op-ed. "This is the quintessential CEO statement: not a single actual idea or recommendation, and it gets released by corporate media anyways," another person said in the comments. "What a disingenuous piece," one person commented. Some users even shared their own stories, saying they had been denied claims that left them with large bills they were unable to pay. "Denying an elderly woman (my mom) gap health insurance because she has a preexisting condition - arthritis," another person commented. "That's corporate greed." "When I had UHC and my then husband needed spinal surgery UHC deemed most of it medically unnecessary and socked us with a $300k bill as our share," one user commented, adding that it took them two years to get the bill reduced. The Times turned off the comments hours after the publication of the op-ed, however the old comments are still available to read. Thompson's murder sparked a surge in social media users critiquing and discussing health insurance companies. Similar to the NYT's comment section, dozens shared stories of times where they were allegedly turned away by insurance companies. Others have joined a fanbase for Luigi Mangione, the alleged suspect in Thompson's murder, creating GoFundMes for his legal defense and boosting support for him online. Mangione has been charged with second-degree murder.

I can agree with this. She made the WNBA interesting to watch. I literally cannot remember anyone who did that before.

I came here to say George Lopez. He is one of the least funny humans ever and every few years he gets a new TV show as the token Latino. They are always terrible.

I have no issues with the gays. The only issue I have with the trannies is that they want the world to bend to them because they are special. The gays just go about their business.

Jokes and deflections. You can tell you do not have a child in school now.

The last election cycle severely damaged the mainstream medias credibility. They got stuck in an echo chamber of hate for Trump and convinced not only themselves but everyone else that Harris was going to win. I am not sure they have the power to really do anything at this point.

Teachers are a child's guide for 8 hours a day. To think they would not have a large influence on kids is stupid and part of the problem. Douches like you try to downplay the problem by making it sound like this is not happening and that the parents are over reacting.

I have a normal kid thank focking god. I would be furious if some teacher at school convinced him he was a girl and then tried to keep it from me.

Ok so a parent that was not told about their kid CAN bring a suit?

I am absolutely shocked to be honest. I really through there would be a genocide of the Alawites. In the back of my mind I still think that is a possibility. The Assads and a small minority ruled for decades with ruthless power. I can imagine there are going to be a lot of Sunnis that want blood.

I am not sure they could handle the culture shock though to be honest.

I would love it but they would likely have to become our 51st through 56th. That is far too big to be one state.

Had the majority of capitol protestors been black no one would have been arrested. They would have just chalked it up to the summer of rage, let them burn and loot then moved on.

We are in 2024. With all the tech we have how can that possibly be?

Was he a paid Italian professional hitman? No. They are going to be more bloody and way more professional. Was he a WILLING hitman? Absolutely, and he has likely done it before in different settings. The fact that leaving his cell phone and backpack has resulted in nothing makes me believe he is a foreign national. Otherwise they would be blasting his name everywhere

Oh he used a silencer for sure. If you look at it you can see the silencer in the pic.

Can we at least admit this was a hitman? His gun jammed and he did not panic at all. Had a silencer. When it was all done he again did not panic. He did not run. A regular every day person is not going to have that in them. They are going to speed everything up. Once he gets to the park he dumps his backpack. They still have NO ID for him even though they HAVE to have his fingerprints by now. Also. If someone killed a president or a famous person they would likely be turned in pretty quick by the public. With how little sympathy the public has for the healthcare industry even if someone sees him they may not turn him in. Have we considered that the CEO may have killed a hitman's dog and stole his car in a violent home invasion after his wife died? Just curious.

I mean. I know there are a lot of theories out there but this seems to be pretty far out.

Ok but if he were going to kill himself why not do it at the scene once he knows the guy is dead for sure.