The protagonist thought that “baby shoes” would be “babies, as shoes.” It’s either very morbid or weirdly cute.

It’s like assuming “girl scout cookies” have “girl scouts” as an ingredient.

Best part is that they just went bankrupt after buying it in 2022 for 375 million dollars.

Again, it’s their point that they dont need to change the law, just that the law should just be applied better.

Thats what the court will decide.

It was a nazi rally organized by nazis where they literally marched down the street in columns at night with flaming torches shouting “blood and soil” and “the jews will not replace us,” both Nazi slogans. One of the nazis rammed his car into a crowd a anti racist protests at high speed, killling 1 and injuring dozens.

This is the rally he replied to with “there are fine people on both sides.” He then hedged and said he didn’t support nazis, seconds after supporting nazis.

It’s almost like the man could have flat out condemned nazis with no intentional ambiguity, but nah.

TL:DW? ACAB

Slightly longer : corpos make money, they dont give a fuck about laws. Cops dont give a fuck about anything.

Longer still : she was stalked/had her face photoshopped onto actual child porn. Gave detailed info about the child porn, including who did it/where they were/etc. Cops did literaly nothing.

Alana Pierce, a games journalist/streamer/writer/etc has a specific responses to this exact question, based on personal experience. Her video on the topic is worth watching.

The IAs point is that they should not have to do that, partly because of first sale doctrine. They bought each ebook, and only lend out that copy, the exact same as libraries do now.

1 bought copy, 1 lend. That’s a fair and simple system that mimics hundreds of years of physical book lending.

Their other point is that the societal good of allowing anyone in the world to educate themselves for free far, far outweigh the value of monetary gain for publishers. Since copyright is intended to help society, their interpretation is the better application of it.

Idk man. Tasha seems like she could lean in to it.

I think data has seen some things.

I think we should still be mad at foreign adversary nations colluding with one of our politcal parties and a not at all impartial “whistleblower” to turn the tide of a presidential election.

The emails themselves were barely relevant at all politically. Out of some 30k of them, 3 were found to be inappropriately controlled. Thats hardly an earth shattering discovery.

The spectacle that Assange, the GOP and Russia manufactured was the issue. It was a coordinated and targeted attack on our democracy, and he deserves to be derided for his outsized part in it.

Those bombshells didn’t end the war.

His leak during the 2016 election changed the course of American history, and was directly coordinated with Russia. That was far more impactful.

Nuanced? That sounds like your HR/Management is just bad at their jobs. Why post an advert for a job that you won’t fill because it’s the wrong job, then actually interview people? That’s a huge waste of everyone’s time.

The first step when a role is open is to have the team review and update the job for the necessary skillset. Not doing that is a buisness process failure.

They arent dead, but they are in the millions of users, not hundreds of millions.

That is enough to sustain a social media platform, but none of them fully have the network effect going for them yet.

With federation, hopefully they won’t need it. That can be the network effect once interoperability is really here. Then everyone can still communicate, but not be beholden to any one service/owner/etc.

Planet crafter is supposed to have solid multiplayer if you like satisfactory style build/resource games.

Why talk about the structure of our government? Education, general interest, activism?

Why are you wasting time talking about wasting time if it’s just wasting time?

Im just messing around man. This does sound like a good case for a basic LLM.

Good point. A really complicated switch statement then.

That wouldn’t even need AI. Thats just a fancy switch statement with a pleasant voice.

I’m talking about our broken government system, not what’s helpful. The fact that a constitutional convention is impossible is exactly the problem. Its why many parts of our democracy are broken, and will likely ultimately be the downfall of our nation.

Thr founders called the Constitution a living document, with Jefferson specifically talking about how it must change to as American changes. To do that, they put in a wildly difficult mechanism that is nearly impossible to actually invoke, and added lifetime arbiter roles that can opt to unwind any law not written in pen and ink on that same paper.

Those are critical fuckups if you intend to have a living document and a shapeable democracy.

Our election cycle cant be curtailed or shifted because our constitution can’t realistically be amended to match the saner policies in other countries. When our constitution is so antiqued that that “money is speech” becomes the law of the land, there is a core problem with the founding document itself.

How it that not related to our election cycle?

The process to amend the constitution. It’s all but impossible given modern politics, and that’s largely been true for 50 years and counting.