southsamurai

I asked a lawyer this once. After he was done laughing, the gist was that the limits of anonymity for witnesses is damn near zero. There’s circumstances where a witness might be given some cover if they’re minors, adults just don’t get that. That’s the US though, there are places where secret or anonymous testimony is used.

Now, the conversation did include some hypotheticals. He said there could be some arguments akin to what some vulnerable populations occasionally get, or when a witness is in immediate and provable danger. Anonymous testimony as a last resort is possible, just so rarely given as to be laughable in his opinion.

The big factor in why it wouldn’t work for a vigilante is that even when anonymous testimony is allowed, it’s really only anonymous to the courtroom. The judge would have to know who it was, and likely multiple people involved in the process of trying to get the judge to go along with it.

Even then, a U.S. based prosecutor would be desperate to even consider trying in the first place. Anonymous testimony would be easy to counter, and there would be a ton of ways to counter the attempt in the first place.

What I was told is that it would be career suicide to try and fail. And the chances of success for an adult vigilante are essentially zero when the difficulty of making it happen under very rare circumstances for kids or known adults is already difficult.

There would need to be legislation in place for it to happen in the real world in most countries. I did a quick search on other places, and it’s still rare even in places where secret testimony is less rare than the US. Even those places, the identity is known to the state.

There’s a limit to it though.

Biking is great for cities, unless you’d have to cross most of it to reach work, hospitals, or healthy foods and bring them home. I’ve known people that did it, but I don’t think most of the country could qualify as a paradise, even if we tore down and rebuilt cities from the ground up.

Plus, it doesn’t address the needs of those that can’t bike, or maybe even not walk. The elderly, the disabled, the temporarily sick, and even kids considering the way the world has gotten populated ( bigger numbers mean the percentage of predators also returns bigger numbers of those).

And it really only works in some cities, and would require shifting all of the shipping to retail connections. You can’t get supplies from a train to a warehouse on pedal power realistically, nor from warehouse to citizen available stations like stores.

Unless you’re suggesting a total death of modern civilization. Which is cool, but not at all going to happen. Because without the supply infrastructure that gets materials from suppliers to where the goods need to be, they can’t get there. Even if we went back to horses and carriages for that, we’d still need well built roads that connect things. Doing that leaves biking in the same category it does with cars, so the only improvement is in not having to suck exhaust. Which would be great, just not sure it’s a realistic thing

I happened to catch the comment before you deleted it, and I’m sorry that happened to anyone, and I’m sorry it was someone you obviously care about. Not gonna argue the point under discussion because I don’t want to cause any distress beyond what’s inevitable.

You’ve apparently never had to make it to a hospital before someone dies.

Ai isn’t the problem.

It’s the system it’s being created in, combined with the sheer nastiness of the companies and executives in charge.

It’s a tool. And it’s an inevitable tool if one accepts that software progress be allowed to progress at all. Only way to prevent the kind of ai people are currently mad at would be to outright ban research and experimentation in that field. While that’s a valid choice for a society to make, it comes with its own problems.

It could have been done “ethically”. It wasn’t, and that makes all future profits from the technology tainted until and unless the learning aspect is redone from the ground up.

That being said, it’s kinda like eating soy products. The massive industry behind production of soy products is run by, and feeds profits to, some of the worst humanity has to offer. But it isn’t going anywhere, and we also aren’t staging a revolution to reclaim the means of production, so every soy product not grown by one’s self is tainted by that rot.

You can use whatever industry you want as an example, it doesn’t have to be soy, it’s just that soy brings a lot of benefits in the same way that the technology behind the current wave of ai and generative software does. And, in a similar way, the problems come from implementation and systemic ill rather than the thing itself.

Again, similarly, it’s plain pointless to totally boycott the technology. It’s not going away without a revolution. Screaming at this single symptom of a systemic disease is a waste of energy.

If one decides not to make use of it, that’s fine. But it’s also fine if someone does. I would, however, encourage anyone and everyone to choose human directly generated products whenever possible, because that is an effective way to mitigate some of the problems the implementation has.

Indirectly. It helps keep all the associated muscles in good shape. Kind of like not skipping leg day, or not skipping core day. Doesn’t matter how buff your biceps are if that’s all that’s built.

That being said, you may well already be doing a superb set of wrist and hand exercises, the explanation isn’t directed at what you are or aren’t doing, just talking about the usefulness of grip strength improvement. 9/10, if you’re already doing specific exercises, you’re also likely doing stuff that fills the same role.

Urea!

Nah. Not much can do that. I used to wipe asses, bandage wounds, and otherwise be inundated with bad smells, sounds, and sights for a living. You do that, you either develop a strong stomach, or you find another line of work lol.

But I’ve never had a problem with the sensory input of cooking meat under normal circumstances. Hell, most of the time, meat cooking was an appetite stimulant for me. There have been exceptions, but almost always when the meat was highly processed, or otherwise having something weird going on

Well, the little buggers take a while to spread across a surface. They only move in terms of nanometers per second. Double to triple digits of nanometers per second, but still. They also tend to reproduce at a similar pace wherein even if they didn’t actively move themselves, the pressure from that would eventually cover a surface.

In other words, a few bacteria dropped on the back of hand can possibly end up having a colony on the palm of your hand in a few minutes.

However, since transferring from one surface to another is faster than that, well under a second, everything you touch is also going to have a colony soon after you touch it. Which isn’t necessarily bad since not all bacteria are pathogens to humans. But it very clearly shows why washing one’s hands thoroughly is a damn good idea.

So, even though the process can cause problems for hands, it’s still better than the problems of not washing thoroughly. Washing thoroughly includes both the palms and backs. If you’re washing often enough to cause skin problems, invest in good lotions and accept it as the price of not having pinkeye and diarrhea constantly.

People washing only the palms are going to eventually enjoy the pleasures of gastrointestinal upset and/or infected eyes, or respiratory infections. It might not be all the time, every time, but the chance of going through a year with poor hand washing in a medium to high risk environment without illness approaches zero. You might get lucky and it be nothing more than a cold, or something similarly easy to deal with.

But it might be MRSA.

Me? I’m playing the odds and following best practices.

Yes! And you’ve nailed one of the most common.

Mind you, none of the ones I’ve run into reach the degree of usage y’all does.

But, there’s we’s, we’ns, and us’ns

This is all in my local area, or in areas close enough to have visited frequently.

No idea what yankees use for dialect first person plural, but we’ns down hyuh have it figgered out right nice.

However, if you want the dialect mind fuck of all mind fucks, wait until someone needs to address a large group of mixed sub groups and breaks out “all’a y’all’ns” which is said as a single unit all’a’y’all’ns. All of you all ones. It’s like a black hole of linguistics that sucks you in, and the closer you get, the more spaghettified your brain becomes.

They ain’t nuthin much more sigogglin than suthren talkin, an if’n it’s in the hills (aka mountains), y’all gonna have ta step quick ta keep up. Shit far (fire) and save matches, y’all damn feriners done missed out on some got dayum good talkin!

In “fairness”, all it takes to be an ice agent is two legs, a trigger finger and the ability to goose step with one hand raised. It takes a small amount of actual brain power to do real investigations

Most of the time, sync, because I prefer my scrolling and reading on a tablet, and having dual columns that are easy to parse is more important than most other factors.

Boost is my backup for the same reason, since so far all the otherwise great lemmy first apps don’t do dual column well, when they do it at all.

That being said, check out connect, summit, and thunder. All damn fine apps overall

Man! That’s a can of worms!

Entire books have been written on the subject.

The U.S.and Israel have a tangled history going back most of a century at this point.

The short answer is that there are enough historical, religious, and cultural ties for the two countries to be allies long term. Since the us, and by extension NATO, needed a place of projected power in the region, and there was an opportunity to make that happen, Israel happened.

And, being real, Israel has mostly been a reliable ally since its creation as a country. It’s hard to point to a time when Israel didn’t fulfill its expected role in the relationship.

As such, it’s really no surprise that when both countries have leadership that are absolute fascist pricks, that the governments would go whole hog in supporting each other.

Again, that’s the disgustingly short, over simplified version. I don’t have enough interest to turn it into an essay, nor even a discussion, just wanted to drop my take on the matter in a simple way since I didn’t see anything in other comments to just upvote and support with a subsidiary comment as being super close to the way I would say it.

Damn. I have a hard time pinning that down. Way easier by genre, but even there I wouldn’t come to a permanent conclusion since the process is highly dependent on what I remember.

Most of the time, I end up on Fight Club. It’s my most rewatched movie for sure. It hits the right buttons between tight acting, phenomenal camera work, a structure that works, and a concept that can be challenging when first encountered. I hate that it got turned into a symbol for morons that only look at the surface of it, but that’s people for ya; they’ll take the exact opposite message from something and run with it like a pair of scissors.

That being said, I’ve watched spaceballs damn near as many times, along with young Frankenstein. Most of the Brookes ouvre rank pretty damn high for me, and dominate my comedy folders.

But there’s also Princess Bride that’s such a simple and comfortable movie, and Rocky Horror that thrills, chills, and fulfills me. All of those, I’ve seen so many times I’ve lost count, but reach triple digits (and probably exceed that considering I’ve been known to put any of those on to help me sleep when insomnia is kicking my ass, and some nights I’ll go through multiple via playlist now that digital exists).

Honestly? I’m of the mind that unless someone is altered by external matters, everything we do is in character, just not necessarily things we prefer. By external, I mean something like a drug, heat exhaustion, etc, that changes how our brain and body function, and thus can lead to success/behaviors that we wouldn’t do at all otherwise.

Everyone feels anger and wants to scream a little, even if extremely rarely. That kind of thing, it’s all a matter of how extreme the situation is vs the internal resources available. Stuff like asking for a hug is sorta inverse in vibe, but the same principle.

I get what you’re asking, and I’m not poopooing it, just prefacing my actual response.

For me, my out of character stuff is when I’m social. I don’t like most people, and dislike groups of people even when it’s a group of people I like. So in those rare times when I want to go out among strangers, particularly if I want to go along, that’s such a rare and unusual thing that I think it counts for what you’re asking. But it is still part of my character, just a very tiny part (unlike me getting sick enough of people to do some screaming lol)

I dunno, it’s not perfect, but I tend to enjoy the experience of moonreader, librera, or other really solid apps on android better than the experience on kindles, or the others I’ve tried that aren’t android based.

That’s even on eink options; I have a boox, and a kobo that are eink, with the boox running Android, and kobo whatever they used. I tend to find less hassles on the boox, despite it being their cheapest model.

I don’t think any of them have really perfected the overall form and function, but I find the apps on android give better immersion and less hassle.

Damn, I get the suicidal ideation, but why torture yourself with Jager?

It’s his dick, obviously

Well, I would give you the answer, but since I snapped back as soon as I read the post, I’m now responding what has been 650 years later for me, and I’m too fucking old for this shit a second time. I bypassed getting snapped back this time by just not reading the post and coming straight in to comment.

Now, what will happen if I read the