What I would like to know is if tablets like this are being scanned digitally into three dimensions so that they can be reproduced. I feel like everything we find from antiquity needs to be scanned this way. With humans constantly going to war destroying history, I'd hate the idea of losing things like this forever.
UPDATE: And thus a journey down the interwebs rabbit hole begins. I need better internet and PC to check this out more later, but answering my own question, here's the entrance to the rabbit hole should others wish to venture with a few examples:
Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian has a vast collection of 3D scanned artifacts available online, including prehistoric tools and sculptures https://3d.si.edu/.
Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI): This non-profit organization promotes the use of 3D scanning for cultural heritage preservation https://www.culturalheritageimaging.org/.
A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said.
A co-defendant, 24-year-old Chance Brannon, was sentenced last month to nine years in prison. Brannon, of San Juan Capistrano, California, was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time of the bombing.
Another co-defendant, Tibet Ergul, has pleaded guilty to the charges against him. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 30.
Psychologically speaking, perhaps deterrence being a goal of punishment isn't all that effective. I don't know what it would take to persuade a person from such an act, but whatever that is... that's what the prison term needs to be.
I presume these people have radical thinking, so perhaps no amount of prison time, whatever it might, is enough. Especially if they believe they were serving their god in the process. Religion is a powerful driving force. Ugh.
These are the kinds of things that make me less inclined to show compassion to my fellow humans. And I don't like that.
Why can't we have that Gene Roddenberry Star Trek future now? 😭
I had to go back and read your post because my brain automatically assumed you were using the word "aggregator." Sometimes my brain is pretty awesome with its autocorrect ability. Most of the time, the neuro diverse sack of mush just makes things worse. 😁
I'm absolutely lost at how things can get so bad that a person's response is such senseless violence.
It breaks my heart and anyone, especially a youth, can get this lost in the Darkness without someone interceding. Perhaps some have tried. Either way... I hope the youth receives the help they need. If justice needs to be found for something in their past, I hope the authorities can find it and help them. I hope the youth may experience freedom of mind, healing, and goodness.
That's interesting. First time seeing it. I only clicked into the link long enough to highlight a snippet and search for other articles. Never realized it was an aggregator. 😁
“The policy that has never been far from my mind for the past six months is the nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel, which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians,” Major Mann wrote in the post, which noted that he had emailed his comments to co-workers on April 16. “This unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war.”
It's no small thing for him to make this statement publicly. I hope that him doing so does more good than the negative repercussions this will inevitably have for him.
Also, I've not heard of the source so I thought I would share a couple more:
"They" meant whoever the vague authority is when people often use they. I guess the NYPD in this case, but it's often hard to cheer for cops to do the right thing when I read the news these days. You can believe I meant something more, like vigilantes (I'm guessing?), but that isn't okay either. It's against my principles.
(Although I have to admit that I root for Batman in spite of my belief that vigilantism isn't the way. Too many ways for it to go wrong. The State often can't get it right itself and it's them we entrust.)
"Prune" wasn't a great choice of word I suppose. The intent to express a desire for this kind of behavior to be removed from the rest of us. There are a lot of ways to achieve that and I presume you think I meant violently, which is quite the opposite of what I would want. Again, strong principle of nonviolence.
English, and language in general, is a funny thing. I'm still getting the hang of it. I've edited my original comment to reflect my intent with different words.
What happened to Steve was not okay. It can't be tolerated. And I hope the authorities can somehow catch them and get them the help they need while protecting everyone else from this kind of violence. I've heard of these random attacks more often and it's not okay, it's not funny, and it needs to stop.
Violence has been committed and I hope the perpetrator is able to be caught and punished. Violence like this isn't okay.
In a general sense, I hope for more out of humanity's future and hope this kind of behavior is eventually selected out, both naturally and intentionally. (I'm currently reading a book about selection, which is where my mind was at when posting). Humans have come a long way in their thousands upon thousands of years of history. That's especially the case more recently. We have a long way to go though and we can do better now and today.
Catch the perpetrator, punish them (this is a loaded idea though), and–good fortune willing–rehabilitate and nurture something greater in them (which is the very best thing to do). Failing that, separate them from the rest of us so that further harm is mitigated. We don't need that shit. Our penal systems are broken and people don't get the help they always need, but we must continue trying to make things better for all of our sakes.
Yours Truly,
The seeming coward ironically calling for non-violence
P. S. A simple "could you elaborate on what you mean" might have come across better.
Humanity needs some major help. Violence like this is never okay. I hope the authorities are able to figure out who did it, catch them, and get them the help they very much need.
Edit: Clarified with different languages since some of my original word choices carried unintended meaning.
I didn't pick up what you're saying in this particular article.
If so, it seems painfully too little and far too late. More needs to be done and it needs to be done now.
I understand why the relationship between Israel and the US is important. What I don't understand is why the US can't hold them to account at the same time.
It boggles my mind how the government of the United States so easily facilitates atrocities. They can do better. They can be better.
When I hear "Make America Great Again", it seems everyone has lost their minds in terms of what "greatness" truly is.
Makes unfortunate sense. I was also hoping somebody figured out how to liberate it, but I imagined it might be highly tied to the Google app.
ChatGPT 3.5 isn't bad.
Copilot is... undecided.
Gemini I think I like the best in the realm of free AI, but I need to use it in a separate browser (Firefox nightly) and would prefer an app or even a PWA.
Anyway, I felt confident this was the case but people surprise me with how they can manage freeing apps and/or providing separate frontends altogether.
What an effed up story. Absolutely horrific. How can anyone have any sense of patriotism for a government so gross. Veterans should never be treated this way. Hell, look at the plight of so many veterans that are citizens. So many broken lives, tossed to the side and ignored.
This is not an American-only problem either. You can learn a lot about a country when you pay attention to how it treats its soldiers.
What I would like to know is if tablets like this are being scanned digitally into three dimensions so that they can be reproduced. I feel like everything we find from antiquity needs to be scanned this way. With humans constantly going to war destroying history, I'd hate the idea of losing things like this forever.
UPDATE: And thus a journey down the interwebs rabbit hole begins. I need better internet and PC to check this out more later, but answering my own question, here's the entrance to the rabbit hole should others wish to venture with a few examples: