airbreather

@airbreather@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Combining the suggestions from 1 and 3 is where things fall apart for me. If the statute does not specify what objective standards must be met in order for someone to be eligible to vote, then the ruling party gets to decide on their own.

  Maybe the next updates to the standardized test just “accidentally” favor the ruling party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some questions to challenge your proposal:

  1. What test, specifically, do we implement to tell whether or not someone “know[s] the most basic of facts”?
  2. How do we make sure that this test is kept up-to-date as information changes?
  3. Who administers this test?
  4. When is the test administered?

  No matter how I try to answer these questions in a way that’s consistent with reality, all my ideas dead-end at outcomes that suck and only get worse over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels like there ought to be a term… it’s kind of a mix between “vicious circle”, “feedback loop”, and “echo chamber”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate that that happens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  James, while John had had “had”, had had “had had”. “Had had” had had a greater effect on the teacher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"But I prefer The Creature if it's all the same to you."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  xkcd.com/1589

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain why the US bail system is not insane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 8th amendment has a clause that disallows “excessive bail”. In Stack v. Boyle, the Supreme Court found this to mean “that a defendant’s bail cannot be set higher than an amount that is reasonably likely to ensure the defendant’s presence at the trial.” So it follows that IN THEORY, bail is SUPPOSED to be set at an amount that is consistent with the defendant’s financial resources (including, it would also follow, increasing the amount for more wealthy people to ensure that it has the same proportionate effect on the defendant’s decision-making process).

  Of course, that rule is just a bunch of meaningless words if nobody enforces it… and guess what, the main way to enforce this is by bringing a suit against the government alleging that they violated the rule. So IN PRACTICE (speculation warning here, I’m just some guy), I would imagine that they just set bail schedules at a level where anyone who can afford to pay won’t be able to wik an “excessive bail” lawsuit, and anyone who can’t afford to pay it will also probably not be able to afford the cost of that lawsuit.

  And something tells me that we aren’t likely to see a wealthy person suing the government for not setting bail high enough for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I out of touch?.. No it's the children who are...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How could this happen to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Healthcare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could of course say this as well. It’s clearer with additional punctuation like “I could, of course, […]”, but I don’t think the comma-free version is technically incorrect (anymore, if it ever was).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An informative martial arts infographic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New Zealand was not Kung Fu fighting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLM (Mistral) randomly started speaking spanish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their main site – not generated by the LLM – has buttons for “Try le Chat” and “Build on la Platforme” even though I’ve got the British flag selected for language.

  That’s because “le Chat” and “la Plateforme” are their language-neutral brand names.

  Sort of like how “GM” is still the name of the car company in like France even though it stands for “General Motors” which is an English term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with sleeper ships⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Attempts to prevent this phenomenon involve using what is called the “wait calculation” to predict how long to wait to launch an interstellar journey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Visual storytelling at its finest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember the exact number but it’s between 1000 and 900.

  Is it 911?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  you cant say it doesnt do exactly what you want.

  As someone (a different guy than whom you’re replying to) who has primarily used Linux-based systems in personal settings for about 15 years or so, I can and will say that.

  For the most part, Linux-based systems tend to do exactly what you tell them to do. Whether or not this is exactly what you want, however, is a slightly different point.