scratchee

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[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago

Yeah, only men can consent to strangulation because men are adults who can make their own choices, and we must protect the ladies since this is the mid 20th century and equality doesn’t extend to the bedroom don’t you know.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was in Greek times, it’s been thousands of years. These days he’s the embodiment of the mid life crisis.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

people improbably survive plane crashes all the time. It’s not likely in a crash like this, but there was 241 opportunities for it to happen, 1 seemingly got lucky.

People survive falling out of planes or getting struck by lightning sometimes too. Shit happens in both directions.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yup. Johnson and Truss were “worse” leaders, but that just means they were ineffective leaders. Cameron was disastrously effective and will be remembered for the devastating effect he had on the nation, fundamentally Johnson and Truss were his fault.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

On the one hand, the ship was one of the most fun parts for me, but on the other, I do wonder if it was a mistake because it makes the game so much more frustrating for anyone who hasn’t been trained on kerbal space program or some other Newtonian space control game to get the hang of it.

It’s like riding a bike, if you know how to do it you have trouble even imaging why it’s hard, but nobody can do it at first, and it takes ages to get the new instincts to actually enjoy it.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

Are you sure? I don’t think the Nomai would stand for scientific inaccuracy…

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This clearly doesn’t follow the “fight” scenario though, it’s specifically about searching for evidence for an illegal abortion planned by the pregnant woman herself in secret eg via drugs.

I suppose it’s possible they left out the crucial detail that the document starts with “for the love of god do not follow these instructions unless you already have extraordinary evidence”, but I’m willing to give the reporters some small trust that they’d mention something so important, and I can’t see any justification for this document to exist without such a clearly defined limitation.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

Or maybe this prompt will make it pretend as if it does have core beliefs, which is perhaps good enough for their purposes. Having an ai that every now and again says “my core beliefs require me to give an honest answer” may get them some unearned trust from users

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

That might be a reasonable take in some places, but much of the world distinguishes illegal prostitution from entirely legal sharing of explicit material for money. If painting was declared illegal but the technical definition of the law required canvas to be involved, then it wouldn’t take long for someone to invent a separate term for “painting without using canvas” just so we could discuss the not-illegal art without constantly having to clarify every other sentence that we aren’t talking about the illegal art.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Well in that case I will stop trying to tell you the effects of military service, my ruminating can’t compete with actual knowledge

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Throw a bunch of barely adults with guns into a country where they trust nobody, get bombed by plain clothes enemies, and can barely communicate with the civilians… and you’ll always get war crimes I think.

Respectable military isn’t quite an oxymoron, but it’s close once you give them so few chances to stay grounded.

 
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