Yeah, I get why it happens. Declaring a unilateral truce isn’t a winning strategy, either. That’s why I said society as a whole has a problem; if one side instigates, the other has to respond. I don’t really have a solution.

The low-T manbaby in charge of the Department of War. Totally on brand.

Broken clock…

Compassionately suspending judgment is not something we do well as a society. Battle lines are quickly drawn, sides chosen, and war begins before the jury is even seated.

Agreed!

It’s imperative to be honest about these crimes and to believe victims when they come forward.

That is also not without its problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_rape_hoax?wprov=sfla1

The Duke case resulted from a journalist who thought doing an investigation would be the same as disbelieving a victim, and editors who agreed. Now rape-apologists have a bloody shirt to wave around.

I’m for provisionally believing people, but also not rushing to judgement in each and every case. We can do both.

US Rebrands as “Land of the Free to Die From Lack of Medical Care” in Europe.

Nidal Hasan was a psychiatrist working with US soldiers. Guess where he got the idea?

Imagine thinking a government is so fundamentally violent and unjust that you’re motivated to kill 13 people at random in protest.

Then you’re in jail and wondering if you did the right thing, tortured by doubt.

Then they announce your live-streamed firing squad execution and you’re like, “yeah…”

(And this in the fantasy scenario where Hassan was only tortured by doubt.)

Less extreme in terms of shape but not taste, is the Spanish arándano, meaning blueberry OR cranberry.

It’s OK because Spanish makes up for it by having European and American names for all variety of critter.

Yes. I sometimes make negative comments as a way of laughing at myself. Basing your self worth on any skill is a trap a lot of people fall into, are sometimes pushed into.

And here I thought I’d had a rich life of insulting inanimate objects.

Now I feel empty.

If it’s hosted on AWS with a centrally accessible backend, it’s not siloed.

The idea is that you can have access, but there’s a BARRIER to access for very little gain–the messages of a few hundred users at most.

And if you want to be a dick about it, you can even rate limit to avoid quick and easy data scraping.

You’ve never stubbed your toe on a rock then.

That’s crazy. Why don’t they just cut regulations instead? That is the true path to utopia. /s

The problem is that utility lights for snowmobiles and ATVs that are illegal for road use are sold at the top of the rack for car headlights, and they use the same connection/plugs.

If the USG is serious, it’ll mandate different connectors or something, which won’t fully solve the problem but at least add more friction for consumers to reconsider.

Observes art from an arm’s length.

Nope, I’m still a piece of shit.

Humiliation seems a popular one.

These automatically generated descriptions sometimes contained deep insights into users’ lives. The study cites examples such as “What are the early-stage symptoms of Parkinson’s disease?” or “My salary is $85,000. How much can my mortgage be in New York City?”

As a single, attractive woman with a very successful business living in Taiwain but without a working webcam, this is very valuable information indeed!

Without reason? Is this a bad translation? Because LLMs always give you a reason to insult them.