npr black maternity crisis I would put this just on Memphis. It’s an issue effect black ppl across the US. For various reasons, but mainly the staff being overworked and dismissive. Nothing intentional to point
Some of them literally did that right at the start of the pandemic before everything got shut down for quarantine because "it might scare the patients."
The hospital I get my care from here in Los Angeles still requires masks, and the security guard will make you put one on before you can enter the lobby. 👍
This case is very similar to that of James Dresnok - a low-level soldier who had disciplinary and/or life issues sees North Korean as a way to avoid any consequences or punishments for their actions.
It’s likely that his life will play out the same way. He’ll be interrogated by North Korea (but he won’t know much as a footsoldier), then used in propaganda efforts, and work as an actor or English teacher. He’ll be treated better than the average North Korean, which means he’ll get a mediocre but passable life.
Cash bail does not work. My dad has a friend who got caught for raping kids. His bail was $2 million. The parents paid the 10% up front. The guy was put u set house arrest. He always needed to be watched. No kids anywhere near him. During the sentencing of the trial this child rapist ran off out of the country.
The options are not cash bail or nothing. If someone is considered a flight risk or a danger to society, they can be held until trial. Sounds like the judge made the wrong choice in this case.
Yeah, it’s totally normal for prosecutors to wait over two years to bring forgery charges and just let the suspects go about freely doing as they please that whole time, it’s not like anyone in recent history has been forcibly detained by a police officer and been suffocated to death by that officer’s knee being placed on their neck for an extended period of time after they tried to submit some dodgy paperwork or anything /s
For better or for worse, the judicial process in this country moves very slowly. The higher the stakes, the slower it moves. This is quite certainly a high-stakes case.
Right, and when he opens his mouth it's often completely false. Like when he claimed he was going to be arrested by the end of day and NY police said no such thing was happening.
So again, why are we believing him as a primary source?
I don’t see what saying that to me is going to accomplish…
If anything, it does the opposite by making this post more visible, which drives more clicks to the website, and makes the website write more about what trump says
So if you really want to do something about it, don’t reply.
Sorry, but whether we like it or not, the guy is still the leading GOP candidate for President and de-facto leader of the party. What he says could influence the nation’s future. So yeah, it is newsworthy.
Because prosecutors and judges are too scared of him to throw the gag order at him he’s earned a dozen times over with all the threats he’s made and violence that’s happened around him and more reliable sources are refusing to make any comments or give an off the record confirmation or denial, so he’s the only source of information we have about this. It’s an extremely frustrating situation.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway and use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters to say that he’s being ‘silenced by the Biden administration’ and fuel the very fires that lead to things like Jan 6th.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway
Imagine if we handled bank robberies this way, “Oh, they’re just gonna keep trying to take the money, you should just give it to them”
use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters
He’s already been issuing that call since before he was indicted. The obvious answer is to throw him in a jail cell and limit his communications to just his attorneys. We do this to suspected criminals every day and it’s absolutely warranted here.
Also, he should draw a charge for intimidating witnesses for all of this.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I guess we just have to hope that evidence isn’t the dead body of some poor person Trump convinces one of his idiot followers to kill, huh?
I didn’t say I agreed with the no gag order tactics. Just speculating why. I agree with you wholeheartedly on the dangers of letting him sling his angry mob at people.
i think what the previous dude said is, people wouldn’t not have resorted to use scrapping if there was a good api. one of the major reason people/organisations choose scrapping is because it’s better than paying insane amounts of money for insane(ly low)amount of api calls.
There was a good API before Elon essentially shut it down. But that is irrelevant.
The reason mass data scraping like OpenAI does would not rely on an API is because they are getting data from the entire Internet (and other sources that aren’t online). They want raw data and they want as much and as varied as possible. It’s much easier, cheaper and practical to build tools that scrape websites generically than to integrate with thousands of completely independent and different APIs.
It’s the same reason that Reddit complaining about “AI taking all of our data” is bullshit. “AI” is just a convenient excuse and the most recent tech buzzword.
They are largely mad because of how effective the AI is. If data was being used just to improve Swype for texting people would care less. I care more about artists’ complaints about getting replaced than big tech companies complaining that content they didn’t create is being used to create things.
Also I decided to read openAI’s GPT2 paper and they were pretty clear about their created dataset:
“Instead, we created a new web scrape which emphasizes document quality. To do this we only scraped web pages which have been curated/filtered by humans. Manually filtering a full web scrape would be exceptionally expensive so as a starting point, we scraped all outbound links from Reddit, a social media platform, which received at least 3 karma. This can be thought of as a heuristic indicator for whether other users found the link interesting, educational, or just funny.
The resulting dataset, WebText, contains the text subset of these 45 million links.”
That’s a nice sized dataset from real people that’s already somewhat filtered by quality. They were totally scraping Reddit very specifically and now that people see it’s effective, anyone else who wants to make their own chatgpt or wants to improve their models will do the same.
scraping the outbound links is very different than all of the user comments, which would put more load on Reddit’s servers and also be easier to claim “belongs” to Reddit (it doesn’t but they argue otherwise)
this shows that OpenAI was not using, let alone abusing, Reddit’s API as claimed
I'm not terribly surprised, given as they print bible verses on their packaging. Sad to see another relatively decent Christian business go down the alt-right rabbit hole, but their burgers aren't good enough for me to risk the plague because they can't follow basic safety guidelines.
It's messed up. Imagine the memo said, that in-n-out bans hairnets, gloves and washing hands unless the offender has a medical note.
I don't argue for mandating it, as it is very hot in the kitchen, and mask would make it even worse experience, but pandemic or not this makes sense when working on food, it makes it more sanitary, and if employees wants to wear masks all power to them, they should not be penalized.
Man, don’t you just love thoughtcrimes? They don’t even need to wait for you to actually do anything - they can just guess you intend to do something and jail you.
“No reasonable person would dress scantily” they say in a place that gets over 110f in the shade. “No reasonable person would carry condoms” they say when we have XDR Gonorrhea, HIV, and Hep C. “It was a known prostitution area” they say, assuming Google Maps publishes known prostitution areas so we can all know where to avoid. “It’s manifesting an intent…” but an intent is not a crime - there’s no injured party with a thought - what damages/punishment could possibly be awarded/inflicted to make a party whole?
It’s fucking farcical how lawyers will defend laws like this, yet also claim to follow logic and reasoning.
I mean, prostitution CAN be a victimless crime, it is not always the case though. Sex trafficking is a thing after all.
Aside from that, jailing the “prostitute” is somewhat brainless though because you have no idea what the circumstances are to begin with. The logic totally falls flat on itself.
Prostitution is not human trafficking. Human traffickers force their victims into numerous occupations, but somehow prostitution is the only one where the job itself is illegal, and the only one where the trafficking victim is treated like a criminal.
I didn’t say human trafficking! Human trafficking like you said is a very wide range of work which can go so far as to include illegal organ trade. I’m referring specifically to “pimping” so to speak.
Insurance companies are about the purest form of capitalism around. If they aren’t making money, they aren’t going to participate. This is going to be a problem for California, Florida, Louisiana, and places in the Mountain West.
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