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Thanks! I had not seen that one yet.

Stewart didn't defend Chapelle, Stewart opposed censorship and penalties with one reason being Stewart being called antisemitic for criticizing how Israel treats Palestinians. Note this is from 2022 and I'm pretty sure Stewart still thinks Israel's actions are terrible.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/jon-stewart-defends-dave-chappelle-controversial-snl-monologue

During his appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Stewart pushed back on the belief that Chappelle “normalized antisemitism” with his 15-minute commentary that involved Kanye West’s and Kyrie Irving’s recent scandals. “I don’t know if you’ve been on comment sections on most news articles, but it’s pretty fucking normal. As you know, it’s incredibly normal,” Stewart began. “But the one thing I will say is, I don’t believe that censorship and penalties are the way to end antisemitism or to not gain understanding. I don’t believe in that, and I think it’s the wrong way for us to approach it.”

Stewart, who was present at the Los Angeles comedy event where Chappelle was attacked onstage after his set in May, agreed with the comic that “it shouldn’t be this hard to talk about things,” adding, “I’m called antisemitic because I’m against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. I’m called other things from other people based on other opinions that I have…Whether it be comedy or discussion or anything else, if we don’t have the wherewithal to meet each other with what’s reality, then how do we move forward?… If we all just shut it down, then we retreat to our little corners of misinformation and it metastasizes. And the whole point of all this is to not let it metastasize and to get it out in the air and talk about it.”

They are defragging the urinals!

Recursion!

I was hoping you would realize how illogical your take on scheduling was, but clearly that isn't going to happen.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-atones-for-his-own-shitty-anti-trans-jokes

He is self aware and takes responsibility, which I think is the best thing we can expect from just about anyone.

A penalty that has a significant impact on the poor while being the cost of having fun for the rich is just saying the behavior is only acceptable if you can afford it.

Do you know how much roads cost? We should just tear up 2/3 of roads to reduce maintenance costs just like with removing 2/3 of public transit since roads are too expensive. Roads aren't even profitable!

Big shoes!

"Too much money" is subjective. A train running every 10 minutes means it is convenient for everyone because if they are a couple minutes late they can catch the next one while every half hour means missing one is extremely inconvenient. Shared costs make convenience affordable for everyone.

Possession of under a gram of heroin, for example, is only subject to a ticket and a maximum fine of $100.

Fines like this are just taxes for the poor.

Even in '93 they used gene editing to stop reproduction (which failed) and the combination with DNA of modern animals to fill in the gaps as an excuse for them not being perfect copies of real dinosaurs.

You know socks come in different sizes, right?

Copyright doesn't care if the writer is unaware of the source material because intent doesn't matter.

I'm sorry, are you saying that selling a book that has the same characters as a recently released book doing the same things but with wording differences is somehow fair use? Like a book called Harry Potter and the Something Rock with the exact same plot points but worded slightly different is fair use?

Do you even understand what copyright is?

Selling an AI model (or usage of that model) that allows for producing works that are clearly based upon those copyrighted works and would be considered copyright infringement if a person did the same thing is not fair use.

If a person creating the same thing as generative AI would be infringing, then it isn't magically not infringing because it is on the internet or done by a program. Basically, AI needs to follow the same rules and restrictions as a person would. That does mean that the AI also needs to be trained to not create copyright infringing works if the use of the AI is being sold.

As a downloadable model that anyone can use at no cost? Sure, whatever is fine. Then it is on the person who uses it and tries to infringe. But if someone pays a company to use their AI to create infringing work, that is on the company and they are just as at fault as if they sold T shirts that infringed on copyright.

A Greataxe does d12 slashing damage.

That is relevant when the person doesn't know. Someone being executed will know that getting loopy means they are dying, and trigger a distress response.

CO2 isn't necessary to let your body know it is suffocating when you already know you are suffocating.

Finding out in court has a different response than being strapped down to a table while they start the process.

The whole thing is just a big torture process and we should stop doing it.

A drug cocktail, the electric chair, lethal injection, and any form of execution is going to cause distress. Distress is worse than just being scared because distress actually causes the body to feel as if it is being harmed whether it is or isn't. The longer the process takes, the worse the distress.

The electric chair is probably the worst because you get the distress and ridiculous levels of pain. Same with the gas chamber. Lethal injection, if done right, reduces the pain but still has the distress. But they fuck that up so it ends up being both as well.

This new thing will be fucked up like lethal injection because the people doing the executions are incompetent. But even if they did it perfectly the person knows they will be dying and it isn't significantly different from suffocation because they will still have the same distress.