hoshikarakitaridia
@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
- Comment on My mom an old school nurse will stop at traffic accidents and try to help if no one is around, my new school sister nurse won't. Saying everyone is sue happy thesedays. Who is right? 2 days ago:
I also think there’s a non-zero chance to get into trouble but there’s also a non-zero chance to get hit by lightning soooo…
- Comment on No use denying it when they have a witness 3 days ago:
Canadian special forces are scary af
- Comment on Why have surgery when you can just wear this 6 days ago:
Shibari ass nose
- Comment on The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it 6 days ago:
You make a great point. In court cases human memory is notoriously unreliable (any lawyer will probably tell you this) and usually lead attorneys on cases rely on evidence like logs, communication, photos, videos, etc. to make their case.
And I am guilty of thinking highly of my memory as well, I really ought to be more critical of my memory.
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 1 week ago:
If you can’t find anything else maybe those wooden tooth picks?
- Comment on Yeah, fuck these two. 1 week ago:
Now I see it.
Thanks.
- Comment on Yeah, fuck these two. 1 week ago:
Wait why? Haven’t heard anything bad about them other than generic music.
- Comment on Mayor says he heard gun shots as he saw a black man running. He jumped in his pickup, chased him down and pointed a shotgun at his chest. Cops came and said it was fireworks behind the library 2 weeks ago:
Not great that Fetterman never apologized, but it does look like even the “black man running” (Christopher Miyares) is endorsing Fetterman. In fact the article I found mentions his district is majority black and he is polling at 61% still so a majority of black voters seem to still accept him.
Apparently this incident was also propped up big time by the “Republican Jewish Coalition’s political action committee” during an election. So there’s truckloads of bias floating around.
Not saying this video is wrong and I actually didn’t know about this incident but it seems this whole incident was him genuinely making a bad mistake.Though he most certainly should apologize.
- Comment on Guess The Game (#018) 2 weeks ago:
I thought maybe crazy machines but it looks like a rollercoaster game.
- Comment on People after discovering that you don't automatically get a good job after graduating from college: 2 weeks ago:
Literally wrote more than 100 applications and only one in-person meeting. I am more qualified than the average person in my field with more than 10 years of experience already.
Ngl I hate posts like this because it feels like talking to me as if I’m a big dumb dumb. But I did the calculations and the only thing I can conclude is a combination of bad luck and an extremely hostile job market. I had friends literally shocked I didn’t find a job. It’s awful and it strips away my confidence that took me a decade to finally build up.
- Comment on Characters 2 weeks ago:
Literally blind. I will assume my d6 damage
- Comment on Characters 2 weeks ago:
Nat 1 all the way
- Comment on Anyone else skeptical of this news story? Before people say "you can drown in an inch of water!" yeah, if you're unconscious, but this story's really pushing believability. 3 weeks ago:
Is this a genuine question or a rhetorical one?
- Comment on What is with alot of movie or tv torrents being in Russian all of a sudden? 3 weeks ago:
Takedowns are the bane of piracy. Russian domain owners don’t get as much legal pressure by the state to act on takedown notices, therefore Russian domains bring a little bit of resistance.
Sidenote, .su used to belong to the ussr but it was never really released and it’s assignment is in a geopolitical limbo, so that domain is even more shady. It’s an interesting story.
P.s. If I got any of this wrong please correct me.
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 3 weeks ago:
The little “ow” in the bottom right got me.
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 3 weeks ago:
I thought this was a Trump parody.
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 3 weeks ago:
Why do eyes exist on such a relaxing Tuesday?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Well the gameplay is very different, and maybe people like the way star wars feels when applied to XCOM type strategy games?
People are not looking at the performance in isolation when rating games.
- Comment on Canadian checkmate 3 weeks ago:
True
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Wait they shut that down? The fuck?
- Comment on This is the future both the right and left want 4 weeks ago:
Nice to hear reasonable decisions in betwixt the Trump presidency.
- Comment on Why didn't Luigi ManGioni go to trial? Why not get a better deal knowing the prosecution would have to pony up some serious plea bargain? 5 weeks ago:
Because afaik they charged him with false id, and the evidence looks really bad against him so it was sensible to not go through trial, take such a long time and then be convicted.
And on the murder charges his case is also not great. He wrote a manifesto, we saw camera footage of the shooting and him driving away, there’s apparently evidence that he booked himself into a hotel in that city for exactly that time range, plus because of the public nature and the politicization of the care the state would likely pour a gigantic amount of money into his prosecution and there’s nothing he can do about that.
And also just because doing a plea probably genuinely makes his sentence less severe. But that’s a tactical decision and the exact mechanics will be known, because that’s something he only discusses with his lawyers, which is a good thing.
- Comment on Google joins the party 1 month ago:
Am I the only one who thinks about 50% of these are played up for PR? Like sure, the first few might have been real, especially the one where they hit huggingface, because huggingface actually had to respond and stuff, but I’d be willing to say this is a “fable” situation, where danger is played up for dramatic effect, making them appear more impressive and adding to the mystique.
Like sure, AIs are dangerous, but not really in those ways. More in the ways of information and trust, our democratic process, copyright and ownership of ideas, social engineering, impersonation etc… They do find exploits a good bit but it’s hard for me understand how multiple companies accidentally had broken sandboxes and then in the span of 1-2months we have more than 4 reports of the same thing happening in the same way to multiple companies. These odds are worthy of distrust.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
These screenshots are art.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 1 month ago:
It is not a stupid question.
AI is a statistical model. It emulates how we speak and therefore mimics how we think. But there are essential differences currently.
The size of AI-models is way less than that of our brains (comparing nodes to brain cells) by several orders of magnitude. AI models do simulate associative thinking and pattern thinking really well in some ways, but not very well in others. While an AI can have different sections of brain that can go back and forth (Mixture of Experts), they usually only pass raw numbers through the model one way. Our brain afaik is unidirectional with its electrical signals.
I’m saying this because an AI and a brain have fundamental differences we won’t be able to eliminate as of now. Which means a traditional consciousness as we know from humans or animals in some cases is hard to presume.
That said, a lot of experts recently raised alarms because what is classified as a person, when does thinking start and stop, all of these ethical boundaries need more strict definitions law-wise, because we are definitely fishing at the boundaries.
I know Lemmy doesn’t like AI and will highlight these fundamental differences, but the ethical questions raised are indeed part of a growing corpus of science currently.
- Comment on Is there ever going to be the equivalent of the Reichstag fire for Trump? Or have we already passed the false flag event? 1 month ago:
Well January 6 was most definitely a chaotic attempt at a Beer Hall Putsch equivalent.
Looking at false flags specifically, he is talking about past “stolen” elections and is also using election security as pretext to change voting infrastructure with some justification. Although the changes are both legal and illegal at times.
It seems like he managed to repurpose ICE and homeland security into his personal police and spy agency, very akin to the gestapo / SS. He is using immigrants as a scapegoat, no matter their legal status.
I guess it’s harder to find a false flag specifically equivalent to the Reichstag fire, but he is using false flags at almost the same level constantly for different things. So technically no, but practically he’s got one foot on the line. We’ll have to see where he takes this during the elections coming up.
- Comment on Law, legitimacy, and the world's resistance 1 month ago:
I’m just gonna ignore the rambling and talk about the photo, because it’s legendary.
This is Young Thug with his Attorney Brian Steele.
Young Thug was prosecuted for RICO charges. Basically they said he was the boss of a criminal gang who did all sorts of things.
Well it looked like this prosecution merely existed because the state’s attorney got elected for being hard on crime, and wanted to get someone famous in jail to make headlines.
Criminal defenses are hard, because it is well known that the judge is always more willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to the prosecution, less so to the defense. However the judge in this case did some genuinely illegal things. He first made the decision that the key witness was credible. A man, who admitted himself to lying to the police just because he was scared of them, and then made fundamentally conflicting statements in court. The judge also gave the production carte blanche multiple times in order to tack on new charges in the middle of proceedings which rarely ever happens in other courts and especially not multiple times. And then finally, he held a meeting with the key witness ex-parte, meaning he, the witness and the prosecution were there, but not Brian Steel, and not Young Thug, and therefore his side was not heard. Ex-parte is rare and it basically only happens at temporary restraining orders or other things that need to be dealt with fast. But this wasn’t that.
Anyway, Brian Steel became aware of this illegal meeting and he talked about it in court. However, he was cut off by the judge repeatedly, then only asked how he learned about this meeting and never heard regarding this procedural and constitutional violation.
Ultimately the judge threw Brian Steel in jail for this. And then said one of the most badass things, to the effect of “Can I be jailed together with my Client, so we can prepare his defense?”.
However this didn’t last long. The legal community was outraged that a lawyer was jailed again (last time this happened was 10-20y ago, it’s frowned upon), and about 10 lawyers showed up representing Brian Steel on a motion to disqualify the judge and ultimately got rid of him when he was forcefully removed by another local court judge.
A new judge was assigned, Brian Steel was released in exchange for community service instead and eventually Young Thug would plea no-contest open to the court, meaning he told the new judge he doesn’t wanna fight the charges anymore and is ready for the judge to make a verdict on the spot. This netted him a fairly mild verdict, perfectly in line with the evidence, and he was only to sit 5-10 more years in prison and a bunch of charges were thrown out.
To me, that first judge and prosecution are representing the incredible injustice happening regularly in some jurisdictions, the new judge represents the slow but creeping change for a more fair world, Young Thug was wrongly prosecuted (if you look at the evidence you will understand how weak this case was from the beginning), Brian Steel is an absolute hero who is ready to sacrifice his freedom for his beliefs.
You can find videos online of this case if you’re interested, just search for “Young Thug trial”. I find these cases extremely interesting for highlighting the amount of prosecutorial overreach, corruption, etc. inherent in the judicial branch, and it helps understand what this actually looks like on a practical level.
- Comment on Australia 2 months ago:
Now it’s Belgium
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m gonna be the donkey with the obligatory “please talk to an expert”.
Joke aside, you might wanna consult with a psycho/speech therapist. The other symptoms you are described might not be related but they could be and you always wanna tackle the problem, not the symptom.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Depends how strict you mean. A friend of mine got a stickman on his index finger and a trampoline on his thumb so he can pull them together and apart to make the stickman bounce on it.
It’s funny, but it’s also extremely meaningless. Technically the meaning could be fun but I don’t think there is a real one.
So no. I personally prefer tattoos on myself to have meaning, but I also heard usually the more tattoos you have the less important meaning becomes and lots of times people do it because it looks cool. Especially broad patterns and things like sleeves lean more into a design than into meaningful motifs, so that’s a whole category of tattoos that doesn’t necessarily have a meaning. And that’s only a small part of tattoos.