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Yep, and it’s always done as a civil case so that the cops only have to demonstrate that it’s slightly more likely than not in order to keep the stuff. The costs of defending your property are high enough that it is usually not worth it unless the thing is irreplaceable.

Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.

Any term for something that is likely to be a target of scorn or mockery has this problem unless it’s so bloodless, detached and clinical that it is effectively only usable as medical jargon and barely has any meaning outside that context. George Carlin once did a bit on this.

Related is how therapy language seems to increasingly be seeping into literally everything.

The cause of the cultural behavior usually has a purpose though.

Yeah, but not necessarily one that is still relevant or even ever actually worked towards whatever goal there originally was. Cultural inertia is like that.

So it probably at some point had a purpose, but that purpose (whatever it was) might or might not apply any more or even be total nonsense.

Except it’s almost certainly technically possible. Like I can guarantee you that human level intelligence is possible in a volume of less than 2L of hardware and running on just a few W of power. The idea that human level intelligence cannot be exceeded without needing to match those space, power, or materials restrictions is kind of absurd.

We’re not deleting the old copies. You’ll always be able to go and rewatch the original versions of these works.

…yet. Remember, you’ll own nothing and be happy with it. Or else.

I still find it amusing that the first time Amazon stripped people of a book they had purchased and remotely instructed all Kindle devices to delete already downloaded copies was a version of 1984. Couldn’t have been more fitting if they tried.

Obligatory Tim Minchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

Covering parking lots has the benefit of also protecting parked vehicles from sunlight and weather, meaning your car isn’t blazing hot when you return to it and you can unload any purchases in peace.

Why would installing panels over a parking lot be many times more expensive than installing them in any other open, flat area? Is it having to bury the power lines?

Yeah, but then you’ve got the weirdos who don’t feel that way unless it’s a white character being cast differently and the other weirdos who think it’s only acceptable when it’s a white character being cast differently.

All of that is fair, except for one thing: you absolutely can see phenotype. It being observable characteristics is literally part of the definition. The pheno- prefix has a Greek root meaning to show or display, same origin as in phenomenon. A phenotype is thus categorizing something based on how it appears.

It’s easy to see someone holding up a camera or cell phone making it obvious they are recording.

Really? I routinely keep my phone in my breast pocket whenever I wear a shirt with one, and enough of it sticks out for the camera to see above the top of the pocket. I’d look no different recording or not, let alone it being obvious if I’m doing it. It’d be shaky body-cam style footage, but that’s not the point.

She was suggesting women should be codified to have more rights. He wrote back something like, “As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.”

Now I’m curious what rights she felt they should be codified to have.

People doing drugs? They should be allowed to. Banning them doesn’t work; the government should just properly regulate them. Like how the EU is dealing with cigarettes. And in that case people would be less inclined to hide drug use.

Yeah, but a business doesn’t want someone to OD in their public bathroom - it’s bad for business.

pedophile supporters.

G.O.P. - Guardians of Pedophiles

It’s always about trans women and almost never about trans men (not that this is the main problem).

This part is because it usually roots from TERFs and from the TERF perspective it’s only trans women that are a problem. To be exact, they believe that you cannot change your birth sex and that sex is what’s important, not how you present or even identify. They also believe that men are sort of fundamentally evil. They’re only worried about “men pretending to be women” as they call them (aka trans women) because trans women might enter women’s spaces and the purpose of women’s spaces is to protect women from men, and in their minds the only reasons a “man” might “pretend to be a woman” and be in a women’s space is to prey on women whose guard is down because there aren’t supposed to be men present.

Essentially if you were born with the curse of the penis, you are fundamentally evil and the only reason you could possibly want to use the ladies’ room is because you are a dangerous pervert looking to prey on unsuspecting women in a vulnerable position. The idea that someone might genuinely identify differently than their birth genitals might suggest and not out of some malicious intent is literally outside of their philosophy.

It’ll be interesting to see how this aligns with the Full Faith and Credit clause for someone who updates their birth certificate from another state that allows for that then uses the bathroom that aligns with said certificate.

Only if the bill mentions birth certificate as the source for one’s “biological sex” and not something about genotype or phenotype at birth (both of which have different issues).

I guess the right response to this is to get the absolute manliest-looking trans men to Idaho to use the public ladies’ room in places frequented by lots of the most fragile GOP-types. Monkey’s paw that shitstain of a bill.

He was downplaying gun violence using a racist dogwhistle whilst standing under a giant ‘prove me wrong’ banner when he was shot with a bullet that had ‘owo what’s this’ written on it fired by a lily white Mormon cop’s kid.

Yeah, it doesn’t get much more ironic than that. Don’t forget that he’d previously (though not that day) said that the price of the 2nd amendment was that sometimes people were going to be shot and killed, but that that bargain was rational and prudent. I always wonder in the very last moments he was conscious if he thought about that, and if he still thought it was a rational and prudent bargain now that he was holding the check?

a jezebel article.

I have been totally unwilling to give Jezebel an ounce of attention since the article with several of their staff joking and laughing about hitting their boyfriends. One of them because he though he might have cancer. Their absence in my life these many years has managed to effect me not at all.

I have no clue who he was and why some people are upset. For the rest of the world he was like me, nobody, so cut the crap and stop explaining who was this nobody.

Being serious just in case.

He was a right wing talking head running an org called Turning Point USA that are basically nationalist christians and had risen to a degree of prominence within that niche by challenging people (mostly young women) to “debates” in which he basically steamrolled over people who really were not in any way prepared to challenge what was said. Anyone he didn’t steamroll just…wouldn’t be included in the footage he’d distribute.

To be less serious about it, he was best known for chronically publicly masturdebating to defenseless college girls. And for having a wife that seemed weirdly close to JD Vance immediately after Kirk died. There’s a part of me that expects JD to divorce his wife for the widow prior to making his next big political move, since his current wife is not exactly…blonde and white enough for a significant part of the white nationalist christian audience Vance is usually playing to.

Frankly, I have no issue with polyamorous people, but I honestly can’t understand how they get it to work.

Some people are just built different. I don’t understand how they get it to work either, but if it works for them, good for them. I don’t have to not think you’re weird to accept that you exist.

I was talking about being compatible, not performant. Proton is very often more performant, but WoW64 is seamless and extremely compatible. If we were to pick say 2000 windows 32-bit apps, selected at random released over the last, say, 25 years do you think WoW64 or the combination of Proton/WINE will correctly execute the largest number of them without requiring tinkering? How many if we limit the tinkering to something really basic, like picking the windows version it was made for off a list?

That’s what I’m getting at that I’ve been downvoted for - this “hybrid” console will almost certainly have better compatibility than Proton/WINE for regular windows software (let alone XBox software) and that’s going to be it’s draw. For stuff that’s also compatible with Proton you’ll likely get better performance out of Proton, but effective and seamless compatibility layers are a strength of MS - most regular users don’t even realize that when you run a 32-bit windows app in x64 windows that there’s a compatibility layer involved at all.

Sure, but is the full human brain the minimum set necessary?

Sentience/sapience is probably an emergent property of a set of neurons needing to coordinate, plan, predict the future and oneself in relation to it.

I suspect that AI is capable of sentience with sufficient complexity and training, but it’s not there yet. I also suspect we’ll be well past the point where it is there before we realize it is, but not until we make some kind of fundamental change in how we do it - we know human level intelligence is possible in the volume and power consumption of, well, a brain so we’re orders of magnitude off of efficiency limits.