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- Comment on Why have an adversarial legal system? 9 hours ago:
Conceivably, you could run trials by having a judge (or panel of judges) bring forth the evidence they thought was important.
This is what cops are supposed to do.
They’re supposed to investigate a crime and narrow down from “everyone” to “the person who did it”.
Once they have enough they bring it to the prosecutor who decides if it would win in court.
Then the state presents that evidence to a judge, and the defendant gets to defend themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
It’s a weird troll, just block them
- Comment on Gabby Petito’s parents speak out about controversial use of AI to recreate her voice 19 hours ago:
Although Gabby Petito’s parents gave permission for her voice to be recreated in the American Murder: Gabby Petito series currently streaming on Netflix, her mother tells The Independent that a fake version of her daughter’s voice was “weird.”
She agreed to it for $ and now regrets it.
I’d have sympathy if they didn’t give permission, but if your the type of person to cash on in your daughters murder after the media circus has died down, I got zero.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 2 days ago:
The cause of Sophie’s APD diagnosis is unknown, but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.
So fucking stupid…
Kid grew up on a quiet farm in the countryside, then she moved to London and probably 100+ student plus lectures.
It’s not that noise cancelling headphones prevented her from developing normally, she developed in an environment like what we evolved to handle.
Then she got thrown into a cacophony of sound that is one of the planets largest/busiest cities…
And they act like she is the problem and not noise pollution?
www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00642-5
Noise pollution is fucking a lot of us up, and people who grew up with it are used to it, but that doesn’t stop the negative consequences of it. Someone that never had to deal with it is obviously going to have what looks like a sudden onset of a condition, but the person is fine.
The environment is the problem.
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 4 days ago:
Yeah, tornado can start, wreck shit up, and disappear in less than five minutes.
Especially back before cell phones there wasn’t another way besides loud ass sirens everywhere.
- Comment on Anyone know where this is from? 6 days ago:
shop.a24films.com/products/dream-theater-zine
Never was big on the “zine” name and it’s weird they’re bringing it back…
But it’s basically just a short format online version of a magazine that they’re printing out like a magazine?
A24 does weird shit, it’s a production company that buys up a bunch of weird indie movies and releases them. Like 90% bangers
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 1 week ago:
To clarify this is about someone identifying a vulnerability and getting $10k from Google for it
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 1 week ago:
Dude literally has bipolar disorder and doesn’t take his medication
I said:
Because the people around him always say “yes”.
Meaning the reason he doesn’t take his pills is people telling him he’s a genius.
I hope that finally made sense, but when you need as much help to understand things as you do, you shouldn’t act like that when people try to help you understand
You think you’re being cool and edgy, but the truth is people who can help you just give up on you.
Online it’s easy, if I block you its like you never existed.
Watch…
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 1 week ago:
Dude literally has bipolar disorder and doesn’t take his medication
Because the people around him always say “yes”.
They’re like an improv group, no matter what Kanye says, they call him a genius. Because if you do t, you’re out of his orbit.
Not taking his medication is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. But it 100% exacerbates the problem.
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 1 week ago:
someone well known as him he deserves special treatment
Kanye wouldn’t be this crazy if he wasn’t famous, so it’s not really special treatment.
The constant positive reinforcement no matter what just makes them go crazier.
Like, “pushing the envelope” isn’t sustainable, eventually you get to the point where you’re only paying attention to topping yourself, it’s not “is this better?” anymore its just “is this crazier?”
It apparently doesn’t take long till you’re throwing swastikas on everything just to get people to notice.
Most people grow out of that shit. But Kanye got paid insane amounts of money to act like that, he’s going to keep doing until it stops working.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Dev Believes Unreal Is Ill-Suited For Open World Games, And Is Slowing Down Work On Witcher 4 1 week ago:
They really buried that this is an 11 month old quote…
But yeah, I was guilty of expecting a groachical experience like Seluna’s without realizing the trade off was an N64 level of being stuck on rails.
5ish years from now it could be different.
But it’s not about making the best games, it’s about making the most money.
If you have a propitiatory engine, your hiring base is limited. And studios don’t want long-term employees, so they want generic engines with a readily available labor pool.
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why? 1 week ago:
Some people just never experienced early AIM chatbots…
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why? 1 week ago:
these aren’t AI. They’re just spam bots
Same, same.
But different…
But still same.l
- Comment on CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears 2 weeks ago:
Same offer that expires tonight, they were just told they’re not excluded.
Apparently 40k are taking it, but spread out between now and then those don’t match normal retirement numbers.
So it’s a safe bet the ones taking it were already planning on retiring before then, and not everyone who’s retiring trusts it.
Most agencies can’t even say when someone would be released from work duties if they accept.
- Comment on Freed Israeli hostages ask to return to IDF service 2 weeks ago:
Propaganda doesn’t mean “completely false”.
Like, they could have received huge bonuses from the IDF to “rejoin” with a cushy desk job.
But reported as their desire to place themselves in danger to defend Israel, which could sway public opinion when Israelis are mostly over it and will vote Bibi out of office the second he stops postponing elections due to his genocide.
Even if it’s true, I got a cousin who’s convoy got blown up in the ME as a US Marine. And he was the only survivor.
For over a decade the only thing he’s wanted is vengeance, to go back overseas and get “them” back.
That might be what’s happening here, but it would be a terrible fucking decision for him to go back over there. So he was medically discharged instead.
- Comment on Freed Israeli hostages ask to return to IDF service 2 weeks ago:
To be clear:
Although the JC includes diverse voices, internal resignations in 2024, including high-profile writers like David Baddiel and Jonathan Freedland, followed the publication of articles that were later determined to be fabricated. These articles, authored by freelance journalist Elon Perry, included claims about Israeli operations in Gaza that lacked credible sourcing and were subsequently retracted by the publication. The controversy led to the resignation of prominent columnists Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, and David Aaronovitch, who cited concerns over the newspaper’s editorial standards and the decision to publish unverified information.
mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jewish-chronicle-jc-bi…
This is a known propaganda source and no one should believe anything coming from in regards to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
Propaganda is dystopian as fuck tho, so I guess I’m eaving the article up.
- Comment on Wanted to give Spider-man 2 a try (released in October 2023 on PS5), but seems like the port is a mess 2 weeks ago:
Not just because of bugs either, pretty sure that shit is like $60 on steam.
- Comment on Wanted to give Spider-man 2 a try (released in October 2023 on PS5), but seems like the port is a mess 2 weeks ago:
When a console exclusive ports to PC, it resets the clock…
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 2 weeks ago:
So I should listen to the authors…
“It probably comes as a result, to some degree, of a period of globalization and deregulation, of neoliberalism in the 1990s and even earlier developments that have changed party systems—in a lot of countries—in the post-war period,” she says.
Just not the parts you disagree with?
I’m just confused here, because me and the author is saying the same thing…
I’m just blunt, and they’re seemingly hesitant to say what their study concluded with.
And you’re saying it’s not neoliberalism, and to listen to the authors…
Who blame neoliberalism?
It’s not mathing
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 2 weeks ago:
Neoliberalism hasn’t been a uniquely American epidemic, in large parts to their foreign policy shoving it down 3rd world countries throats.
But regardless of country:
will blame corporations and economic leaders
Who else do you think we should blame for economic inequality?
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 2 weeks ago:
These leaders do so by finding different targets to blame for the inequality. Left-wing, populist backsliders, for example, will blame corporations and economic leaders. Right-wing, ethno-nationalist backsliders might nurture grievances by blaming outsiders or immigrants.
The difference is one of those groups is using facts and logic to correctly identify the problem…
Like, I couldn’t get over the cognitive dissonance of the author that those two were equally bad.
Who the fuck else should we blame beside corporations and economic leaders for economic inequality?
You want me to go yell at the tooth fairy that poor kids get less under their pillow?
Ideally they would have gotten into campaign finance deregulation allowing the wealthy to buy both parties…
“It probably comes as a result, to some degree, of a period of globalization and deregulation, of neoliberalism in the 1990s and even earlier developments that have changed party systems—in a lot of countries—in the post-war period,” she says.
But I guess that’s close enough. It’s like they knew the answer but were too scared to say it
- Comment on Our brains remembers at random cringe and awful things we did in the past to prevent us of doing them again. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah…
But that’s not a shower thought, it’s something we’ve known for a very long time.
It’s like saying the sky is blue due to wavelength scattering, it’s true, but regardless of where you are when you realized/learned it, it’s not a shower thought.
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 2 weeks ago:
You can have an argument with me about it, or you could read the article…
Personally, I think the chances of you believing the article is a lot higher than you believing me rewording the article
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 2 weeks ago:
How are these public?
They’re copies of old records that are owned by private companie
Like, that’s the entire point of the article and the lawsuit…
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 2 weeks ago:
Booking the family into hotels and RV parks became the only option for Doe, which were often either unaffordable or too small for everyone to fit, the complaint states.
I dunno about all that…
It’s a legit question about how the expungement of records works tho. Back in the day no one kept records on hand, now if a record exists and part of it is expunged…
Those records still exist out there somewhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Workers aren’t what’s most important anymore.
Consumers/investors are
So stop buying shit you don’t need, stop buying the same stocks Pelosi does to try and make money.
If you want to hurt the corporations destroying our country, stop giving them money, don’t stop taking what little they pay.
- Comment on Rumor: Marvel Is Making Another Avengers Game 3 weeks ago:
It’s insane to me Disney hasn’t bought up game studios.
They had one till 2016, but they closed it instead of buying up talent.
Just not having to pay for licensing fees is huge, it’s not like Disney to not want the whole pie instead of just a slice.
- Comment on Cross-platform Nexus Mods App v0.7.2 improves the UI, adds Bannerlord Software Extender support 3 weeks ago:
So “cross platform” as in Linux and windows…
Technically correct but for a second I thought they meant Xbox or Sony had taken down their walled gardens.
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 4 weeks ago:
Does it?
I always liked the idea that Starfleet is the “relief valve” for humanity. It takes the people desperate for adventure, who wouldn’t be complacent even in a post scarcity world, and fling them as far away from Earth as humanely possible so they don’t change the government.
Which, even if Earth is a Utopia, it shows that on a deep institutional level the one world government has no issues with manipulating their citizens and makes me question how much of Earth is really a post scarcity Utopia in the first place.
As many shows Trek has, they just don’t really touch on what life is like back on Earth except rich officers come from giant farms/plantations that still have a bunch of field hands… Which doesn’t really jive with the story we’re told.
Id love to see something about what Earth is really like for people.
Like, what the Expanse did where they go back to Earth and I think everyone had “enough” but that included a large group of homeless drug addicts that lived in squalor somehow.
- Comment on Nvidia are pretty sure the RTX 50 series GPUs won’t melt like the RTX 4090 did 4 weeks ago:
The issue is if they’re not plugged in all the way…
At least one manufacturer set it up so if the power cord isnt fully seated, an error light comes on and the GPU doesn’t work.
And I have zero idea why Nvidia didn’t do it themselves so it’s on all cards.