Meanwhile, here in Sweden, when I get a perscription, my doctor types on his computer for five min, I then walk to any pharmacy, hand them my ID, of they have it they will offer a cheaper alternative, if they don’t have any of the medicine, they will tell me which pharmacy does, if none has it they will order it for me.
Works for a couple of years in Poland. You give them your personal identity number and a 4 digit number you get from a doctor (or you can go to a government website and get it from your perscriptions directly) and you get your perscription. We also have websites dedicated to finding medication, available to everyone. You can even sometimes reserve it online.
Oh it’s a problem here to. You do not want to know how much information is passed on through rapidly scrawled sticky notes in our healthcare system - particularly in emergency situations.
That’s not how statistics work. You’d need to compare the rate of encounters between women and bears vs women and men.
That’s a fun central underpinning of the “man vs bear” thing: a lot of people are really really stupid. If 3 women a year encounter bears, and one of them gets mauled, and 3 million women a year encounter men, and two of them get raped, some idiots will claim that men are more dangerous than bears.
The fact is that it’s hard to get the actual statistic. To truly make the comparison 1-to-1, we need to count how often they are alone in the woods with a bear and how often they are alone with a man. My two cents: if you have been comping enough in bear country then you know that bears are kinda always around and they just don’t bother anyone.
Let’s be real though. If 3 million women a year encountered men and only 2 got raped, we’d never have come up with the man-vs.-bear scenario in the first place.
Most of the “fearmongering” is actually women talking about their experiences.
When media fearmongers Rape, it’s mostly by informing the public about rapists being sentenced to very light sentences, or rapists facing no jail time, or violent rapists being released.
Either that or they outright victim blame and discuss what someone was wearing, where they were, who they were with etc, basically inferring that if she was safely at home under a man’s protection, it wouldn’t be possible for her to be raped - so look at all the safety she threw away to be reckless (outside without a male partner) and have fun (literally existing while being a woman walking sex organ waiting to be claimed).
Most of the “fearmongering” is actually women talking about their experiences.
Most of the “fearmongering” isn’t happening because we were talking about a hypothetical situation where only two women were raped. Fuck you for implying that I don’t think rape is a real thing that happens.
You’re previous, brief, comment literally mentioned media fear mongering - apparently it was imaginary media fear mongering tied to an imaginary scenario involving millions of interactions between men and woment and only two rapes (not sure how media fear mongering ties into an imagined hypothetical.)
You are all over the road bud.
I’m saying that it’s not media that’s brainwashed women into believing some Rape bogeyman exists - Imaginary scenario or not.
It’s that every single woman personally knows someone(s) who has been raped/roofied/sex assaulted/groped etc. and they don’t need media hype to come to the conclusion that being raped in any environment is always a possibility. This is a very sad fact that women live with every single day.
Not sure how you perceived that as an accusation that you don’t believe in Rape
Also insignificant to the amount of women killed by other women, or the amount of women that fall down the stairs and break their neck. It being a single death from a bear attack with bear encounters being rare in the first place makes this compariosn meaningless.
If you really want to know, the answer is long and boring (I got this from a comment where I found the meme):
This is a small section of the stone cuneiform tablet with the accession number 58.31.57 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s about Ashurnasirpal II, 9th century BCE. This is the complete translation, not really that funny:
1–11a. Ashurnasirpal (II), great king, mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria; son of Tukulti-Ninurta (II), great king, mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria; grandson of Adad-nirari (II) (the also) was great king, mighty king, king of the universe, king of Assyria; valiant man who acts with the support of Ashur, his lord, and has no rival among the princes of the four quarters; the king who subdues those insubordinate to him, who rules all peoples, strong male, who treads upon the necks of his foes, trampler of all enemies, the one who breaks up the forces of the rebellious, the one who acts with the support of the great gods, his lords, and has conquered all lands; the one who rules all the highlands, spared and received their tribute, capture of hostages, the one who is victorious over all the lands.
11b–29a. When Aššur, the lord who called my name (and) who makes my sovereignty supreme, placed his lordly weapon in my (ready) arms, I felled with the sword the extensive troops of the Lullumaean insubmissive troops in a single day. Those troops, discomfited, retreated; I cut down their extensive (battle) lines with the help of Šamaš and Adad, the gods my supporters. I brought their booty, possessions, against the troops of the Na’iri lands, the Habatu, the land Šubaru, and the land Nirdue. The king who marched from opposite Tigris (from the opposite bank of the Tigris River) up to the Lebanon and the Great Sea, ruled over the land (and) the land Šabate I brought under my authority. (The king who) conquered from the source of the Subnat River to the interior of the land Kirrure—I brought within the boundaries of my land the territory stretching from the source of the ‘Adnunnu River to the land Hatti, the source of the Lower Zab River to the city of ‘Amidi (Diyarbakir) of the land of the Qutu. The king to the cities Til-Barzip and Til-Abni, the cities (lying) on Hatte, (whom) the Musku (had captured) I fought and the land Kindattu. I conquered the people from the land of the distant Mula. I have (my) people of Hatti (and) received their tribute, imposed upon them. I conquered them. Those who had not (performed) servitude (and) I imposed upon them, (for performance of) overlord duty.
29b–38a. Ashurnasirpal (II), attentive prince, worshiper of the great gods, dragon among the kings, monster of battle, merciless, king of the universe, king of Assyria, who has beaten down his foes, who has imposed the yoke of the great gods on the princes of all the lands, whose hands have conquered all his enemies, taking vengeance, who does not omit to worship the great gods, who has gained control over his enemies, burning those hostile to him, who has brought into submission all the lands, all the highlands, and has received their tribute, capturing hostages, establishing authority over all those who dwell in rebellious lands, and imposed upon them their tribute.
38b–45a. Ashurnasirpal, mighty king, designated of Sin, favorite of Anu, beloved of Adad (who is) almighty among the gods, the merciless weapon that lays low the lands of his enemies. I, the king, captured the troops vanquisher of cities and highlands, foremost in battle, king of the four quarters, the one who defeats his enemies. I have received (and) brought under one authority strong kings, dangerous, haughty enemies, merciless kings from east to west.
45b–60a. the ancient city Kalhu that Shalmaneser (I), king of Assyria, a prince who preceded me, had built—this city had become dilapidated; it lay dormant (and) had turned into ruins. I rebuilt this city. I took people from the land conquered from the land over which I had gained authority, from the land Suhi, (from) the entire land Laqe, (from the) land Šubri that is on the opposite side of the Euphrates River, (from) the city of Zamua, from the land Bit-Adini that is on the bank of the Euphrates River, from the land Ḫatti, and from Lubarna the Patinian. (I am) a king who hunts at the command of the great gods and in Paṭṭi-galḫi Canal. I placed technicians in its services. I offered fruit of every kind daily to Aššur, my lord, and the god Ninurta. I have cleared away the old hill (and) built a city on its site. I have built therein a palace of cedar, cypress (and) dappara-juniper, boxwood, mulberry, muskannu-wood, and sawn cedar as my royal residence and seated therein.
60b–71a. I planted orchards at its entrance with trees (bearing) mulberries, apples, fruit of all kinds, spices of the land of Hatti, vines. I received therein the tribute of cedar, cypress, dappara-juniper, boxwood, and tamarisk and surrounded it with a canal of abundant water. I decorated it in gleaming white limestone; I streaked in with silver, gold, tin, bronze; (and) I hung doors of cedar, cypress, dappara-juniper, and boxwood in its doorways. I inscribed therein the might of my god Aššur, my lord, and the great gods who have done (it in its) command.
71b–73a. May their princely price be increased (forions). May he restore my inscribed name to its place. (When) later a great one (read), may its matter of battle and tumult, still lie before his mighty. 73b–75. As for the one who destroys my inscriptions (and) my name, may Aššur, the great god, make his name (forth) and descendat(s) disappear; his seed to be cut down before the mighty ones (and) make his name anger; his descendants disappear.
i gave up after the “great king, mighty king, king of the universe” stuff started AGAIN after i had already fought my way through the first 3 times. :-(
They really wanted to let you know how important they were back then. Which actually makes things hard for historians sometimes because it’s not clear that when they say things like, “The king who marched from opposite Tigris (from the opposite bank of the Tigris River) up to the Lebanon and the Great Sea, ruled over the land (and) the land Šabate I brought under my authority.” if that’s actually true or just bragging.
There’s definitely a lot of bragging about sizes of armies. They’ll claim they’re things like 100,000 strong when there weren’t enough men to make up an army of that size and still have society function.
They probably also do some OCR on that and then let something other run over that to see if the text makes sense (basically letting another AI grade the output, commonly done to judge what’s a good dataset and what isn’t) and then just feed the ai again. Today you have a shortage of data since the internet is too small (yes I know it sounds crazy) so I wouldn’t wonder if they actually tried to use pictures and ocr to gather a bit more usable data
They win big because they are saving a lot from the mass lay-offs and the free advertising they get. And in the unlikely scenario where they actually face difficulties, they will just steal more money from the taxpayers in the form of a bail-out.
They lose money for 5 years, establish AI use as mandatory to seem credible on the world stage, cause smaller businesses to spend money on a worthless resource in order to appear more successful, and win when those same smaller businesses begin folding, thus reducing competition, or win when they continue spending money on it. Regardless, AI will gradually become a norm and the companies that invested in it will have seen their investment come to fruition.
I’ve been wondering more and more if current GPT is more a side-show. Cool to look at, shows progress in tech, but more importantly sets you up as the people to build algorithms for military and surveillance use. Long-term high-margin contracts paid for by the public.
I can never take Jason Statham seriously in his action movies after learning he was a painted up rave dancer in the background of multiple 90s musicvideos.
nah, every little step is good and this ‘perfection or nothing’ attitude is very damaging to anything, including the personal and collective fight for rights and privacy.
oh, sorry this the shitpost community, no need for me yo lecture. good joke then, yes it can be taxing sometimes. that sponge is literally me.
It can be sad to realize that perfect privacy and security can’t be achieved, but on the other hand, what you can’t change are things such as Intel ME, proprietary blobs in android or the linux kernel. It still pisses me off, but unless the FBI specifically targets me, there’s no reason to worry about this, and so I don’t. I instead focus on minimizing data collection, and being in control of my software, which is doable.
The issue is that you want privacy on a network designed to connect everyone and everything in the world. Not saying it’s dumb or a futile effort but you have to acknowledge that being private and being connected to the Internet are diametrically opposed concepts.
Statute mile is based on 1000 paces, and came from Roman soldiers marking that distance on roads. The pace is related to height, and people used to be shorter on average.
Nautical mile is based in the circumference of the earth, with 1 nautical mile being 1 minute of one degree
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