“I don’t pay em to fuck, I pay em to leave”

https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17/iss1/18/

The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year. It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings. The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures.

Do you condemn KHHAAMAS?

Not as good, tbh. The straw is a necessary component to maximize the bubbles.

The topic does not matter.

The assertion at hand does not matter.

Whether anyone believes the assertion does not matter.

The only thing that matters is: Are you playing offense or defense?

Cuz attacking looks like winning. And explaining looks like losing.

https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA

They did.

I choose option 3

FWIW, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is doing better and better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

Seems like we're going to be stuck in the uncanny valley of telepresence. The more fidelity we add, the more we're able to pick up on microexpressions, subtle eye movements, and breathing, which helps trigger oxytocin and promote trust. But also, the more fidelity we add, the more attack surface we open up for malicious actors to exploit.

People leaving pro-AI comments in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world lmao

Trying not to get scooped by Chromatic, I guess?

Seems like a pointless waste of time for a first-party effort, when they could be… Idk, implementing the audio manipulation APIs that Discord relies on, or something.

But I don’t necessarily see direct harm from it either. Just useless.

Fingernail Spiderhole

It still blows me away that he managed to take over the term “fake news”.

It was introduced as a way to explain how social media was leading gullible people into MAGA, but he turned it into a term for persecution of MAGA by conventional media.

It was actually an incredible move. I can’t think of anything he’s spun that well since 2016.

Questioned religion from a very young age. Went hard into the "New Atheism" movement as a teen. Figured physicalism was a necessary consequence of atheism.

In March, I binged several episodes of Walden Pod.

Now I'm open to the idea of a soul and an afterlife. (Not convinced, but open.)

I'm still an atheist, just not a physicalist. It seems childish to me now, in the same way that religion seemed childish all along.

She had a brown-sounding name, dual citizenship, and attended a protest. “Unamerican” on three counts.

It was outside of my marriage too.

Looks more like an egg to me

Manchurian gold?

Risk compensation

Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to perceived levels of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected.[2] Although usually small in comparison to the fundamental benefits of safety interventions, it may result in a lower net benefit than expected or even higher risks.[3][n 1]