Wirrvogel @ Wirrvogel @feddit.de

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What the hell are you doing?

"I am Shuper Man hicks noshing can hurt me!"

The 49-year-old man is accused of “being under the influence of alcohol or drugs to the degree he was a danger to himself or others,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Wyoming said Thursday.

At least he did not shove someone else into the hot water.

Can they please restrict the sale of Viagra (and similar drugs) next? If God wanted men to have erections and climaxes and be able to have children, He would clearly make it happen. Viagra is against God's will. /s

I guess Drew Findling was the person who made Trump cancel an event where he wanted to spout out more lies about the Georgia election and then told Trump "we can not put these lies onto a 100 page long paper and read in court either" even when you promise we will and so he had to go.

This is very good, because it means Findling was an actual lawyer who could have successfully defended Trump (or at least kept him of digging himself deeper and deeper) and now Trump is forced to go with someone who either doesen't care on being a reasonable lawyer or isn't one.

Just a reminder how everything the GOP tried against the election outcome in Georgia went so far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election_from_Georgia

"Rather than presenting their evidence and witnesses to a court and to cross-examination under oath, the Trump campaign wisely decided the smartest course was to dismiss their frivolous cases," Raffensperger said.

Trumps problem is, all the people who "wisely" made the decision to not go forward in this direction and to hold him back are now gone.

These are ge many countries without an "r", Sir!

I know it is a legal term. It was meant to help protect peoples privacy, but got perverted to now mean that privacy only exists at home. That is sad and not understanding that it is sad, is even more sad.

I have an expectation of existing and having privacy because not everywhere is a camera. If you don't have that expectation anymore, then that's sad.

There is a huge difference between letting an AI check EVERY car ALL THE TIME, or police doing random checks on random roads. One is a privacy violation for some to find some people texting and driving and some people wearing no seatbelt, which then leads to more awareness of everyone about these issues. The other is treating all your citizens as potential "criminals" driving without seatbelt and texting and driving and therefore making it normal to violate everyones privacy.

A government that starts to treat all citizens like potential criminals all the time and put them on camera on every street and in their car and on public transport, in school and at work... is not a government that is on your side and wants to protect you, that's a prison guard.

Longtermism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism

Humanity should do everything now to achieve the greatest possible happiness in a very distant future. Climate change, fascism, war, displacement and hunger - from the point of view of longtermism, none of this is important. What is important, for example: humanity should prevent the emergence of a machine superintelligence, a power that could destroy everything. And: Humanity should learn to colonise other planets, because the Earth will not last forever. (translated from a Netzpolitik.org article)

This means "small" problems AI causes today do not count, spending money to get billionairs to space is progress. Caring for a doomed planet and keeping it from burning to a crisp isn't as isn't paying decent wages so people can afford children. They can focus on a far future and are bullet proof against criticism for not helping to solve current issues, because they are all in for humanity in 3000 years from now, living in space and we should thank them for that. Yeah. Take their money away, please.

It is not just Elon Musk it is also Sam Altman (OpenAI) or Guillermo Söhnlein (co-founder of the firm behind the doomed Titan submersible) - now leading a project to create a floating colony of 1,000 people on Venus - just weeks after the disaster which killed five people.

Nick Bostrom:

In 2002, he published an essay on "existential risks" and wrote: "At present, in some places, there seems to be a negative correlation between intellectual performance and fertility. Bostrom fantasises about making people mentally and physically "healthier" through genetic manipulation. Obviously, the philosopher is describing a misanthropic view of the world in which people are judged on the basis of physical or mental characteristics. Bostrom also argues that genes play a central role in determining such characteristics. This view, known as "eugenics", was used by the Nazis to justify genocide.

These people are a threat to human kind and whatever they do is not meant to help today. They use their money to do everything BUT to change our society and planet for the better, they have already written us off.

Anything which hurts the Russian economy is a good thing.

There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

and 300.000 drivers privacy got violated by a single offender. Someone should gve the AI a fine. Oh wait "privacy" is not a word in the English language anymore, it is just gibberish with no meaning.

I find it important to make clear it was a hate crime, but Lauri Carleton was NOT killed “over a rainbow flag outside her clothing store”.

No one gets killed because of a rainbow flag. You get killed because an asshole who wants to rather die than adapt to the world changing wants to spread fear with his last action and needs desperately to find a “reason”. Let’s not pretend he had a reason any other than being a coward.

My heart goes out to her family, friends and the community impacted.

Since Alpha and Omega = Beginning and End, I always think an alpha male is a beginner at the art of being a male human and we should help them to become better at it.

Successful social movements requires

people who are willing to make the effort to understand what's going on. Rural people can do that. If they don't want to, nothing you can say or do will change that. They can simply ask "what do you mean?

You cannot simultaneously think that you have to break down politics so that a five-year-old can understand it AND take people seriously as adults and why would anyone want to listen to you if you treat them like children?

American politics is on a downward spiral as each party tries to shorten and simplify the message to the point where there is no message except "vote (for) me, everyone else (is) bad".

I was able to use a dictionary and Google (I did not go to college or university), are you saying rural people can't?

Rural people: Take us seriously!

Also rural people: Explain it to us like we are five!

I find it important to make clear it was a hate crime, but Lauri Carleton was NOT killed "over a rainbow flag outside her clothing store".

No one gets killed because of a rainbow flag. You get killed because an asshole who wants to rather die than adapt to the world changing wants to spread fear with his last action and needs desperately to find a "reason". Let's not pretend he had a reason any other than being a coward.

My heart goes out to her family, friends and the community impacted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI (English subtitles available, 2 funny minutes worth your time)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election_from_Georgia

What on earth could his lawyers be putting in court filings? Just copy paste these again?

From the Wikipedia page:

"Rather than presenting their evidence and witnesses to a court and to cross-examination under oath, the Trump campaign wisely decided the smartest course was to dismiss their frivolous cases,"

:D

An office I can walk to. I might even prefer that to a home office, because I find it hard to get away from work when it is always looking at me at home, even in my spare time.

An office where I have a say in how it is furnished and how it looks, together with my colleagues of course. Natural light, being able to sit or stand at my desk. "Please do not disturb" signs that people respect when I want to concentrate on my work. A place that is built to reduce noise, and that allows me to have it as cold or warm, light or dark, as I need it to be that day.

A place where I can eat and drink when I need to, and a place where I can lie down for a moment when it helps me recover from a difficult task.

Basically, make my workplace a place to live, because work is life, not a separate thing, and you go home to start living.

War Games (watched it not long ago)

Joshua/WOPR: Greetings, Professor Falken.

Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.

Joshua/WOPR: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

Atlantis got flooded and look how famous it is today.