Why don’t the king’s guards attack the king?
The police know their job is to enforce the law, but they also know who gets a free pass… or at least who gets a lot more leeway than other people. At a minimum it changes “shoot first and ask questions later” into “ask questions then maybe shoot”.
It’s not up to the police to debate the veracity of a report
Why not?
and they respond with “sounds fake, not coming”.
Why wouldn’t they just respond with “we’ll have to verify this”.
It’s not that they’re idiots, though many cops are. It’s that they don’t get punished for falling for a SWATting attempt.
If you could lose your career if you fell for it, they’d try a lot harder not to fall for it. But, instead, they never face punishment for being overly aggressive, and might face punishment for not being aggressive enough in the case of a real emergency.
If they’ve been told that there are several dead in the street, and they get there, and there’s nobody dead in the street, it’s time to not go in going pow pow pow.
Eugenics was related to racism, but it wasn’t the same thing as racism.
The intellectual ability / disability axis of eugenics was completely different from its skin colour axis.
I’ve never heard anything about it having a racial component.
Languages change. Moron, idiot and imbecile used to be medical terms. Gay used to simply mean happy and excited. A fag used to be a term for a cigarette.
I really doubt it would have appeared in a mainstream children’s book if it were seen as at all offensive.
Words like “bugger” and “damn” used to be extremely offensive curses. Now they’re often used as very mild expressions of annoyance to avoid using the serious ones.
Brave to post AI slop in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world
No. The US GDP is $32 trillion, China is at $20 trillion. Germany is $5.5 trillion, Japan is $4.5 trillion.
The US is roughly 25% of the world’s GDP on its own. China is approaching 20%. China is growing, the US is shrinking. But, the US is still huge. The Strait of Hormuz is 20% of the world’s oil supply. We’ve seen recently what happens to the world’s economy when 20% of something goes away. If the US economy tanks, the world’s economy suffers greatly.
You’re absolutely right, I shouldn’t have chosen to explode on the launcher.
Here is a three part plan to ensure that that never happens again:
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It’s good that they’re attacking them on the software side, but they should also go after them on the legal side.
More than just a bit. The US is far too big a part of the world’s economy that it can crash without also causing major misery just about everywhere else.
It’s going to be very hard to make all humans extinct. People are smart and resilient.
On the other hand, it’s very easy to come up with a future where humanity survives but life is incredibly miserable.
You’re imagining a change to the power structure of the world without having to fight and die for it. It has never worked like that.
The 8 hour day was the result of strikes that involved the strikers getting beaten and killed by the police.
The “GPUs” used in these AI datacentres can’t even do graphics anymore. They’re now sloppy approximate matrix math machines.
“Rich People’s Yacht Money”
Wednesday’s strong reports on Rich People’s Yacht Money were welcome news for the Federal Reserve, whose job it is to keep the U.S. job market healthy and inflation low. The Fed’s job has become more difficult because of the jump in oil prices, which is pushing upward on already high inflation.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average just crossed 50,000 points for the first time, but that doesn’t mean Rich People’s Yacht Money is healthy
No, no, trust me, it’s a mind control ray!
See, if advertising didn’t work, that would mean that companies like Google and Meta have their stock price based mostly on hype. And, that can’t be true, because, as we all know, the market is always fully rational. Now, excuse me while I go check out how much my NFTs have gone up in value since I last checked in 2021.
Or “Their product must be massively overpriced to pay for all this advertising”
If you don’t have someone authorized by the state to enforce laws, you’re still going to get people enforcing “laws”, it’s just going to be vigilantes, people with grudges, etc. Just look how frequently you see incidents of road rage. Cops basically exist to prevent people from taking revenge into their own hands.
Take all those incidents of people calling the cops on black men having a picnic or taking their dogs for a walk. If there were no cops, do you think these white “Karens” would just leave the black men alone? Or do you think they’d get together and lynch them?
I think the US needs to scale its policing way back. It needs mental health specialists to respond to certain kinds of calls. The person who responds to a report of a stolen bike probably shouldn’t have a gun. But, at some point you are going to need people who will use physical force to enforce the law. Those people should be heavily supervised by a truly independent body. But, they still need to exist in some form.