SwingingTheLamp

"War is peace." — MAGA right about now

Very true, but even without reading the article, I know which political party is the impetus behind this idea. And, for them, the cruelty is the point. They've never cared about crime victims, but rather enacting their unhinged punishment rituals to affirm in their minds that there are worse people in the world than themselves.

Well, why would somebody not want to get better? Would somebody decide that of their own free will for no reason at all?

Who set those rules? Is there standards body that promulgates them? I remember that social media emerged as a term to describe media on which the users provided the content, rather than traditional gatekeepers like newspapers and TV networks. Wikipedia agrees, using special jargon, distinguishing between monologic and dialogic media models.

Reddit is quintessential social media.

Seriously, though, what do CEOs actually do? How can one person (totally hypothetically) be the CEO of a car company and a rocket company at the same time, but spend all his time doing drugs, gaming, and destroying democratic institutions? What value does that add to the company? Or, say Walmart fired its CEO and didn't replace him? How long would it take customers to notice, and what would they notice, versus firing store employees with an equivalent amount of compensation?

Sir Terry Pratchett tweeted his own meeting with Death.

I don't think that that was the claim. We have car terrorism now, and since the 1980's according to the Wikipedia list of incidents, and bollards can help protect potential victims. It's not a new technology, they knew about them in 1931, so what's our excuse for not installing them?

If it's free will, why would somebody not do it if it would make their life better? All of the reasons that I can think of are either in-born traits (e.g. anxiety, ego, getting more pleasure out of drugs than other people), or external influences.

Anyway, LLMs can learn from past mistakes, too.

I find it easy to switch back and forth between the two color combinations: If I assume that the scene is in full sun, then the dress looks blue and black. If I assume that it's in the shade, but with a brightly-lit background, then it looks white and gold.

It feels like 5 years ago, but it was only back in January that a man used a truck to kill 14 people in a ramming attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. The city had been warned, and knew of the need to have bollards installed, but cheaped out on temporary bollards, which were apparently malfunctioning at the time of the attack. There had been a vehicle-ramming attack at the Christmas market in Magdeburg in December, and an attack in Munich following in February.

I'd say that the title is right on. Car terrorism is a thing.

It that's true, and we're afraid Iran might use them, then it seems like a bad idea to attack it.

You mean we're not going to get a literal dome over the whole United States?! Like the literal dome made of ferrous metal over Israel?