Cethin

The only way you should trust them, or anyone else, is if they don’t collect your personal data at all. There is absolutely no way I’d trust any website or service with information like what they want. All of these laws are explicitly designed to create a digital profile of every person so they can track what you do. It can’t be done ethically because it isn’t supposed to be done ethically.

Regardless of the age the character is (they’re imaginary, so they don’t have an age) they’re drawn like an adult woman. Looking at a picture of her, she could be supposed to be anywhere from like maybe 14, on the low end, to like late 40s, or maybe even older. However old they need to be for them to draw wrinkles on them. I think you’re fine. For fucks sake, we’re fine with people being attracted to the rabbit in Zootopia, so it’s better than that.

Even an identical prompt to an identical model can return both good and bad results, just depending on RNG.

They should have given him a true hockey experience that he’d never forget.

Well, they’re trying to kill him (Luigi), so that’s a valid interpretation.

The thing about that press release is that it fairly cleverly doesn’t say “no AI.” It says no slop. She’ll push AI, it’ll create slop (as always), but she’ll argue it isn’t slop and is actually great.

That’s not how the filibuster works. It only takes one person to do it. It’s take 60 to vote against it to stop it from being done by that one person. Even Schumer isn’t dumb enough to call the dems to vote against them doing their own thing.

No matter where you buy it, expiration dates are only a general guide, and more of a “date of manufacture” note than anything. We evolved to detect potential food that has gone bad. Trust your senses. Look and smell should be enough to know what’s actually gone bad (which is usually past the “expiration” date). You can use something like this as a better guide for when food will actually go bad, but, again, trust your senses.

Even after they’re convicted, they usually say “convicted rapist” or whatever too. If it’s for the sake of honesty, I appreciate it. Sometimes I’m certain it’s to soften the language for the benefit of the accused though.

And Unreal Engine started on 1995. This argument always shows people’s ignorance of software development. When the first pieces of the engine were built is not why it’s shitty. It’s because they haven’t invested money into it where it matters. (Unreal Engine also has some serious issues. It just looks prettier.)

Laws are much older than 2000 years. To be more specific, at least about double that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu

I haven’t read the bill, but from the description I think you could actually get around this by building your own. They can’t sell a printer that doesn’t have this, and you can disable it, but it doesn’t say here that you can’t build your own that never had the software. In that case, I assume we’ll see kits that are totally not meant to be assembled into printers with all their parts you need, and then unrelated documentation online somewhere on how to assemble it.

I don’t give a shit about their religion. I care about what they believe, and do. Religion can be part of it, but it isn’t necessarily.

The last bit may be. The former, probably not, until a court orders them to hand it over.

Just think about it in the context of a person doing this. If you witness a crime, you don’t have to hand over, for example, video of the crime just because they ask for it. They need to get a court to order you to hand it over. Or, if you commit a crime, you don’t have to provide them with evidence. They have to have a court order you to hand it over.

Again, if they actually cared about law enforcement then they’d obviously hand it over. They don’t though. It’s just not a crime that they aren’t handing it over until they’re ordered to. It proves that they are the enemy, and not legitimate law enforcement, but that isn’t illegal.

Money is fungible, right? Let’s say we have a limited budget. We have to decide how to spend it. In order to fund one thing we must defund another (or increase the budget, aka increase taxes, which isn’t popular).

OK, so let’s say we find there’s ways to decrease crime that are more effective than police. We should want to fund that, correct? We have to find a way to pay for it now. We need to take money from one service to fund this other service. Since it’s doing the same job as police, but with a better effect/cost, we should probably consider defining police to pay for this, right?

It turns out, we do have the data to show these services do exist and are more cost-effective than police. What should we do?

The “abolish police” crowd you’re talking about were never asking for no policing. They were asking for a change in how it’s done. In my opinion, ideally, it would be abolishing the police as it exists today, and implementing community policing in some form. This seems to be a step towards that at least, but one important compenent is that the police should have to be a part of the community being policed. If they’re outsiders, like they frequently are today, they have no stake in the community.

Anyway, obviously we still need some kind of policing. The shit you’re told is a lie though. People wanted the police system we have today gone and replaced with more effective alternatives. Showing that changing how policing works having a positive effect only proves the point.

However, this doesn’t prove anything else. For all we know, from this information, getting rid of police entirely could have a beneficial effect. The data here doesn’t give us any information on that, so even the most extreme “no policing” stance that you’re strawmaning isn’t disproven here. We don’t have information to make an inference. It just makes you look stupid to claim this proves more policing is good. I can show you data where that alone has been bad, but obviously that wouldn’t prove that sometimes more policing can be good, and I wouldn’t make that claim because I’m not an idiot.

This is Lemmy.world, and I’ve heard their administration is pretty strict, so maybe. If this were a more reasonable instance then I’d imagine not. They’re public officials, and the picture of their face would have been presumably been taken in public (or shared publicly). It should be fine to share, and the officer should be proud to be recognized for their work.

OK, I agree they should give any information they have, assuming they’re working in good faith on law enforcement (they aren’t). However, it is not illegal to refuse to assist a criminal investigation. You have to follow court orders, but if the police ask if you saw something you can legally not respond. This is wrong, but it isn’t a crime (yet).

Windows really hasn’t been the “it just works” option for a while. It’s just the option that you’ve gotten used to the bullshit to make it work. For example, the install process for every Linux distro I’ve tried is far simpler than the insane install process for Windows.

Like others have said though, you’re using the wrong distros for your hardware, without some manual work. I’d recommend CachyOS or Garuda Dragonized, as they’re made for gaming. They’re both Arch based, but they include everything you need out-of-the-box, so you really don’t need to put any effort into setting things up, only customizing it after.

One key thing with switching though is recognizing that you aren’t on Windows anymore. If you switch expecting it to be Windows then you’ll hate it. You need to go in with the same attitude you hade when you learned Windows (which you probably don’t remember). It’s something new. You have to accept that you have to learn how to use it.

It’s not just that it acts like a radiator. Feet are also not very sensitive, so if they’re a little cold it won’t bother you. You could obviously get rid of a lot more heat by exposing your torso, but it will feel cold much sooner.