Kyrgizion @ Kyrgizion @lemmy.world

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They certainly have the cyberpsycho part down.

Nine bullets removed and leg amputated? Holy shit, they pretty much mag-dumped the guy. I hate it that modern cops seem to have gotten their training from CS.

As you correctly surmised, most poisons wouldn't act nearly as fast, although there are exceptions. In reality, people would just get very sick for a very long time and perhaps not recover. It would've been difficult to even correctly identify poison over illness or food-borne pathogens. I'm willing to bet a lot of people who died of natural causes had their deaths attributed to poison because of their position and lack of medical knowledge as well.

Then again, some poisons and their effects were well-known to contemporary physicians or their forebears, so depending on the precise effects they could possibly deduce what happened in some cases.

Considering my current tastes in media, i doubt it'd do much. Although I've always had a soft spot for animals, even the animated kind.

I don't know how but somehow I managed to avoid this one as a kid. I rented tons of videos and this one was square in the middle of them, but something about it made me avoid it like the plague. And this was long before internet, nor did any of my peers see it and tell me about it. Knowing how frail my mind was at that age, that was undoubtedly a good thing.

Only dirty immigrants and illegals work those jobs, so no harm no foul! /s

If this raises prices of Netflix, Gamepass, ... I will immediately cancel them rather than pay the hike.

Been out of the house for 20 years, things have never changed.

160K isn't gonna cut that though. He'll need several hundred K more if he realistically wants to actually have any gains at all.

You know they'll disqualify anyone who might even hint at knowledge of jury nullification from the jury pool. They'll be selected on their ability to convict solely.

Called it weeks ago. He'll be long dead before then though. Almost certainly due to a prison shank. Mmw.

It would be a powerful message to other would-be whistleblowers. "It might take a decade but if you oppose us, you will eventually pay the ultimate price".

Would it be in poor taste to suggest the bus driver who caused the crash was possibly paid or otherwise coerced to do so? Accidents happen, to anyone, but still...

Clear your cache. That supposedly works.

This is why "living in interesting times" is a curse. Give me the boring decades where nothing happens.

Transanal-transvaginal fistulae. That was a bad day to have eyes, or the ability to read. Ah well.

I let Copilot write emails to annoying customers for me now. Company pays for the license, might as well use it.

That's what they count on. They only have to get it through once. We have to fight and win every time, as the UK recently found out. Vigilance has to be key, no matter how hard they make it. But I concede it's tiring as all hell.

I'm just glad I got my parents trained enough to immediately contact me for anything that seems "off". The result is that they panic needlessly almost daily, but I still prefer that over getting the dreaded "they emptied all our accounts" call.

Around 2015 someone (most likely Cambridge Analytica) found out that to drive engagement, all you need is outrage. Ever since, it has influenced online discourse and politics worldwide. It's been a downright paradigm shift: suddenly the objective truth doesn't matter anymore. Reality is malleable. Once you realize this you see it everywhere: engagement bait, usually in the form of outrage porn. That's the first step. The second one is echo chambers and polarization.

Someone simply figured out how human brains worked and hijacked the system behind it. That's it, that's the whole deal. The world's best psychologists aren't employed by medical companies or in academia; they've been hired by venture capitalists to find every possible flaw in the human psyche, in order to identify and then weaponize those, ad infinitum. This is not a battle than can be won by fact-checking and calling for decorum.

We've been at war for our very attention and insight for almost a decade, we're losing badly and no one even understands, let alone has a constructive way to fight back.