I would argue they are perfectly placed, not misplaced.

My counter argument is that injury and death caused by reckless driving is not solved by the police. And worse, the prison crisis is doing great harm to our society, mostly to people of color.

I was countering what that person said, and you think it’s misplaced? I think what you mean is it’s not convenient to you. Seems to be a trend.

But how would you tie a steak in a knot? You’re going to have to be a lot more specific

I’m not working signaling because I never hear anyone say this: The police should be fully abolished, the prisons should be emptied, and the judicial system should be forced to find a way to solve societal problems without them. This is because they are a for-profit, corrupt, wildly inhumane and ineffective system that has resulted in generations of Americans losing their lives behind bars for harmless crimes.

You keep bringing up reckless driving, but the majority people in jail aren’t there for vehicle offenses. They’re mostly kids who got caught with marijuana. Do you really want a wildly racist institution, which takes away people’s freedom for profit to continue to operate just because you’re inconvenienced by other people driving?

Stop being selfish. The problem affects more than just you.

I keep saying single-payer healthcare is better than what we have now and get attacked for it. “I’m fine - you’re fine - my kids are fine! Stop saying you want everything for free!” Just because we are ok doesn’t mean everyone else is, you selfish prick.

How many of those 40,000 hit and runs with 8000 deaths were prevented by police officers?

Your strategy doesn’t work.

If police and prisons made us safer, we’d be the safest country on the planet. We’re not. Police hurt people after a crime has been committed, not before. Your strategy does. not. work.

It’s throwing a steak on the ground and running

…right?

Not until you’re on cam begging SilverDaddy66 to lift your tail up and gape you

You’re safe. Go enjoy your weekend

I mean isn’t everything kind of allergic to silver bullets

Nobody asked but I had to share this

It’s important to me that everyone understands the joke, even if that understanding robs them of the joy of it. “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. It kills it”.

But it’s important because I suffered a lot of being left out as a kid. Others found how good it felt to be exclusive, and shoulder me out of things, or refuse to explain things, or whatever it was that made me the outcast. I could tell from their faces that they love the way it felt when they did that to me. But it hurt me a lot.

I don’t want there to be any exclusivity anymore. Nobody deserves that pain. I want everyone to understand the joke, even if that prevents them from ever laughing at it.

We as a society must have a solution which is not the police solving every fucking inconvenience. They are literally killing us in our own homes. Please do the difficult mental work of figuring out a better solution than “call the cops”. I know it’s convenient but our overreliance on it has resulted in one the greatest incarceration crisis of our lifetime. I know you’re angry but please start thinking of other ways to solve problems.

The thought experiment suggests that over a long enough period of time, every possible combination of letters would be typed out on a keyboard, including Hamlet.

They are not arguing about randomness, as it is inherent to the thought experiment. Randomness is necessary for the experiment to occur.

They are arguing that the universe would be dead before the time criteria is met. It is a bitter and sarcastic conclusion to the thought experiment, and is supposed to be funny.

In conversation, it would be delivered like this:

“You know, over a long enough period of time, monkeys smashing typewriters randomly would eventually produce Hamlet”

“The universe isn’t going to last that long.”

Apartments! Rent slaves!! Real estate ARRGHHGHGFHJ is literally a horrible feudal lord forcing people to spend their entire lives working and dies comfortably in his bed smiling surrounded by his family at 95 after a life of unprecedented luxury suffering no consequences for his immortal behavior ever

this is interesting as fuck

“I’m really interested in algorithmic enforcement …” Ada Ada Ada told me in an interview. “It seemed like the nipple rule is one of the simplest ways … because it’s set up as a very binary idea—female nipples no, male nipples, yes. But then it prompts a lot of questions: what is male nipple? What is a female nipple?”

She’s using her own journey as a trans person to document how AI tools like those used by Instagram identify potentially obscene material.

they’re so nice, so surely everybody else is too

This right here.

I think many poor people do not realize how deliberately cruel the rich are being. They cannot imagine someone looking at a whiteboard planning debilitating poverty and misery for millions of people. They think that the situation is unfortunate and unavoidable somehow, and not deliberately made.

For someone whose major gripe is whining you sure seem to do a lot of it.

I take offense to it because you’re suggesting that the problem is us, and not the system which resulted in empty communities

That’s more info than I’ve been able to find anywhere on Lemmy lol thank you very much

That’s like saying I don’t need to clean my room if I can just shove everything into the closet

I don’t know if the comparison is inaccurate.

You make money from advertising to your users (“ddg situation” notwithstanding), are beholden to your investors (private status notwithstanding) and need to see more users to increase revenue. The person above you is saying that this model is what will drive you to eventually be as bad as Google. Do you understand?

What if you want to use the computer for something other than Google searching?

Cool but where do I get a Luce figurine Amazon is sold out