Look, buddy… Your reasonabilitiness is getting in the way of my pissedoffedness. Meet me back here in two weeks so one of us can say “See? I told you so!”
Four colleges simply met with their protestors, came to an agreement to not invest in companies supporting the war, and publicly call for peaceful resolution.
It’s a tough thing. The Israelis and friends are using money and influence to get laws passed in the US and have protests shut down. Which fits really neatly into ancient (literally) anti semite ideas. And it’s really hard to talk about without someone just strawmanning you as a racist.
Meh, evangelical Christians are also very pro-Israel, and give tons of money to pro-Israel groups. Some of the more hawkish strategists are pro-Isreal for military and geopolitical reasons.
this guy should get everything coming to him. FSD/autopilot is not good enough to take your hands off the wheel and not pay attention to the fuck’s going on around you.
that said. Tesla absolutely should get a massive wrongful death lawsuit and get fucked by the courts.
Everyone from the driver to whoever certified the car as road worthy to Elon Musk should be held responsible. In reality I would be surprised if anyone except the driver will even see the inside of the court.
They still sell it as "Autopilot and Full Self Driving". Sure, they claim "Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment", but that's buried in the marketing text that no one reads. It really should be called "Enhanced Lane Assist with Auto-Follow Cruise Control", but that doesn't sell as many cars.
Edit: Warning...Lemmy or Kbin, I'm not sure which, is current buggy and showing my link as a video connected to RedGifs. Clicking the link actually brings you to the Tesla website. Don't open the video...
When I tried it out, after your hands are off the wheel for several seconds, the screen flashes blue then autopilot disengages and the car comes to a stop. Not excusing what it can and can’t do, but you can’t really drive hands free without intentionally working around very obvious restrictions. The driver can’t claim ignorance
No matter how they’re marketed and used, self-driving systems will make people less engaged (that’s the entire point, people don’t use it out of arm fatigue, they use it because it’s mentally relaxing!) and therefore more distracted.
“The driver should keep their full attention on the road and be prepared to take over at any point” is an impossible standard and a lame-ass loophole that shouldn’t even be allowed to be cited in a court of law. Fully engaged drivers do not ask an “autopilot” to steer for them.
naw. I think the worst part is when, in tests because that’s the only places they can turn it on in most states, it’ll slow down for an object in the road, and then decide to floor it.
You can turn it on anywhere in the U.S. I’m not sure if it’s geolocked elsewhere. You might be confusing it with GM, Ford, Mercedes, and other systems which only work on certain stretches of certain roads.
FSD/autopilot is not good enough to take your hands off the wheel and not pay attention to the fuck’s going on around you.
What? There’s a video on Tesla’s website right now that says the driver is at the wheel only for legal reasons. There is no other purpose to have a driver.
Yeah. how many times did they say ‘Cybertruck is coming out this year’, only for it to not? I suspect they got it into production by mashing parts together because of consumer protection things coming into effect. they’re full of shit. and the “legal reasons” are so as to make the driver responsible and not them.
and you’re not even supposed to have a cellphone in use while driving in WA, that’s an automatic ticket… though the police have you catch you doing it first.
Same deal almost everywhere… but firsthand experience is that a significant portion of all drivers have their phone out.
Would love to see some proportional crash rates of autopilot use vs not autopilot use too. People focus on things like crash totals or death totals. 17 deaths is a tragedy to be sure.
That being said when the US has over 40,000 auto deaths per year… and this article is telling me only 17 deaths are in any way involved with Autopilot since 2019… I really wonder why this is somehow more outrageous than the ~240,913 other vehicle deaths in the US since 2019. Given that Tesla is about 5% of all autos in the US, I would expect tesla deaths to be about 12,000 deaths in that period, or 5%.
Are so few people using autopilot? Shouldn’t the autopilot death toll be something closer to the 2000 deaths per year one would expect statistically from Tesla Drivers?
Is autopilot much safer than human drivers? Is it more dangerous?
Is Autopilot + Attentive safer than just attentive?
Is the 40k deaths per year not something that should be considered simply because people stop thinking of so many deaths as a tragedy and just think of it as a statistic?
Is the outrage and focus on car self driving just an extension of human phobia of technology and articles allow for people to have anecdotal confirmation bias?
I wish there was some sort of safe harbor for publishing the details - whatever liability they deserve should not be affected by being honest and transparent. It would be very useful to know what the car detected or didn’t and what mode it was in, but I’m sure their lawyers will keep any details to a minimum for liability
The anti gay part is the whole point. They're not protecting kids, they're protecting Christian control over kids (pay attention to who's actually doing all the child sex abuse)
I’m confused. Wouldn’t heterosexuality be sexual conduct too? And also block information about heterosexuality of the same nature to kids? How is this specially anti gay
The only way this could be considered anti gay if we’re inferring the people in control choose what to block and are homophobic and biased enough to only block homosexual content. That’ll fucking explode if it happened.
Also, porn is fucking unstoppable there will be plenty of all kinds of porn for all to see. No worries
Yes, but if you only enforce the rules for “dirty homosexuals”, it effectively is an anti-gay bill. Conservatives have proven time and time again that they’re happy to selectively apply the rule of law in any way that suits them.
TL;DR: IANAL, however, the document this bill references to define what content is harmful to children directly, verbatim defines sexual conduct as including “homosexuality” broadly
Okay so this bill is SB394 (linked above obviously) and it opens with the following
Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website in any calendar month, or that knowingly hosts such website (…)
It carries on to later define “harmful to minors” in section h-3 as the following:
(3) “Harmful to minors” means the same as defined in K.S.A. 21-6402, and amendments thereto.
If we go look at K.S.A. 21-6402 we can find that it is regarding “Promotion to minors of material harmful to minors” and goes on to declare in section d-2 that “harmful to minors” refers to several things including sexual conduct (I’m omitting this full quote for brevity, you can find it in the linked document).
Now if we look a little further down, we can see that Kansas currently defines sexual content as defined in section d-8:
(8) “sexual conduct” means acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse or physical contact with a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals or pubic area or buttocks or with a human female’s breast; and (…)
Considering all this, i think extremely reasonable to believe that this could outlaw LGBTQ+ content from being displayed openly online within Kansas
Whoops, Yes it was a little past 1am when I wrote that I must’ve gotten them mixed up which switching back and forth between the documents. I’ll double check and correct that in a moment.
I’m sincerely glad you actually read it all, the world can be a little fucked right now.
This bill is unconstitutional, but we’ll have to wait and see if the insurrection-appointed SCOTUS will do their job or if this is like a gifted RV sort of ruling.
And corporations, because of the money. These aspects impact choice of research directions and results so much that I feel like rectifying them would be enough to start a new scientific revolution.
This isn’t something new. This is how society has functioned throughout history. Democracy is an ideal, but no country is truly democratic. Show me a country where the parliament or whatever legislative and executive bodies they have is truly made up of common people voted by their peers, and not part of the upper class.
I don’t think Switzerland meets the definition given by @space but there is the element of direct democracy, where any citizen can create a petition and if they get enough signatures it will go to a referendum, although ultimately it is up to the politicians to implement the results of the referenda.
Bro we got a lot of career politicians that have had their families intrinsically tied to our political sphere for ages. Also we have an insane revolving door of people being in politics and doing “lobbying” depending on the way the wind blows. There was also a bigger article with the actual stats on how often this has happened but I can’t find it. Anyway …
Ireland has a political elite, like most other countries. However, many of our politicians are ordinary people too… There are teachers, doctors, farmers etc mixed among the lawyers. Due to proportionak representative democracy, there are also one issue candidates who her elected for campaigning on things like special needs or other issues.
When K moved to Australia, I was quite surprised to find that nearly every politician was a lawyer by trade.
It was considered progressive at the time, passed by a Democratic legislature in fact.
This law was meant to stop men from divorcing pregnant women as a way to avoid child support. By forcing men to wait until after birth, courts could set up child support during the divorce proceedings.
You know, from that perspective I can understand the point of it, but there should have been guard rails built in for women to escape abusive relationships. That was an extreme oversight.
How else will their stock price go up amidst all this controversy lol.
Accountability should be held at the top. If they can benefit from cost cutting that can potentially kill people through negligence, they need to face criminal consequences for doing so.
Unfortunately credits are totally fake. “So you have land with vegitation you already plan to conserve or farm? Let me help you make money on that and pretend we are saving it.”
The people who are pushing for these laws, organizing these harassment groups, calling in bomb threats, and pushing their hatred and violence into politics - they’re the same people who were doing this to gay kids.
There seems to be little doubt that Defendants, or at least some members of RAM, engaged in criminal violence. But they cannot be selected for prosecution because of their repugnant speech and beliefs over those who committed the same violence with the goal of disrupting political events
That’s actually part of the judge’s decision. “These people are guilty, but since you didn’t prosecute those other people, too bad.”
“I don’t believe it’s warranted that Mr. Rundo spend one minute more in custody, so I’m going to release him forthwith,” Carney said. “I feel very comfortable in the decision I’ve made.”
Of course he feels comfortable with that. He’s one of the white supremacists.
Rundo was accused not just of organizing the violent confrontations, but also of attacking protesters and police officers. After Rundo was ordered by police to stop attacking a “defenseless person” during the Berkeley protest, he allegedly punched an officer twice in the head, according to an arrest warrant.
I’d be willing to bet that the majority of this judge’s supporters have Thin Blue Line bumper stickers and still support this decision.
I’m certain other judges will be stoked to see people cite this in future cases. “You can’t punish me because other people did similar things and aren’t part of this trial. Here’s an earlier case where the court has decided that way.”
I’ve brought this up before but I’ll say it again: I have never met a member of a group of violent and organized far left extremists, or anyone who identifies as Antifa, to the point that I have trouble believing they exist. I’ve met some far left wackos, but none claiming to be organized or in cahoots with other far left wackos, and most of their violence was in speech only.
But I’ve met way too many far right knuckleheads who’d be all too happy to shoot someone.
Similarly, the only time you would hear someone described as ‘woke’ just a few years ago is if one black person talked about another black person about being aware of racial injustice.
And then there was “social justice warrior,” which, like antifa, is not actually a thing. But if it was, the #1 candidate would be their hero Jesus.
And you clearly don’t remember 2016. There were quite a few people parading around and correcting people’s speech, which kinda led to this whole woke and anti woke stuff.
Ah yes. It was the people asking that maybe people should be more consciencous and to not be openly terrible who are to blame for it all…
Not the entitled asshats who puffed up their chests and screamed “You can’t tell me what to do!” when someone told them "You’re being kinda hurtful could you please stop? "
Here’s the thing when your life sucks because people are being regularly being awful. Not mentioning anything and being quiet and meek and accepting of other people basically being a regular impingment on your ability to flourish or be comfortable doesn’t change your circumstances. They are just gunna keep being awful and draining your batteries. Also those people flipped the fuck out over “hey maybe the way women are depicted in videogames is kind of male centric and kind of shit if you aren’t a guy” and in response went on a terror campaign to literally ruin the lives of those who decided to mention that maybe they were dreaming of a better situation. That little over-reaction was not proportionate in scope.
Fighting for empathy is a hard business. The “anti-woke” can never truly win as what they seek to suppress will always be there. They must always exert force because that dissatisfaction and misery that underlies the asks won’t go away… it can be silenced, rendered mute by fear and consequences of retaliation and stifled for another generation but the cost is that the boot must always be forced down because it’s never quite able to eliminate that final resistance of people coming into existance who realize they aren’t who society is built for and who have no option but to suffer. The people beneath the boot might be weakened temporarily as the fight ebbs and flows but the harder the boot comes down the deeper the dispair the more desperate the resistance.
Just the implications that people are unhappy does not sit well with the anti-woke crowd. They resent the idea that people’s unhappiness is directly caused by them which rubs uncomfortably against their idea of the world as an ultimately fair place. Hence why they always argue that people are lying and exaggerating their discomfort. That the facts are wrong, that the people they are causing pain to deserve it somehow. It’s all just lame dodges around the central issue. They are causing discomfort. They can choose to double down and cause more, ignore it or rationalize it or choose to believe that they as the truest form of being knows what’s best for the people experiencing it- indeed better than the people who live that experience … But they cannot end it.
The notion that what they are being asked to do won’t individually impact them very much is something that they scoff at and then just ignore spaces where these adaptations have been successful. The landscape of gaming became a little more equitable after gamergate because some developers basically just realized that yeah, maybe they were undercutting women and changing formulas a little does kind of expand their market? Gamergate threw their tantrum but most of them barely registered that gaming still continued to service their needs while expanding it’s service to others but because they were on to throwing a tantrum about something else they never really registered that what changed was… fine actually?
Antifa is a movement without centralized control. There are no chapters, website, or membership. That is core to the movement, so questioning why no one can provide that information is really silly.
I also have never met a member of Antifa, but there is enough evidence of their actions to make me certain the movement exists. Some people believe it exists, but as a false-flag movement, but I think that’s just conspiratorial thinking.
Using, “I’ve never seen one,” as evidence is the kind of BS Jan6 insurrections use to say the election was stolen.
So it’s a movement with no leaders, no chapters, no website, no membership… do they get together and organize? If so, how do they know when and where to go?
When fascists announce they’re going to march you just show up to oppose them. And in that opposition to facism you are antifa. And when you go home you aren’t anymore. You’re just someone who has opposed fascists until the jackasses try again.
What do I know, I only have a history of direct action as an anarchist.
Antifa is a set of tactics and actions done specifically in opposition to fascist organizing. That lady who died at Charlottesville died being antifa.
There have been people who engaged in antifa before the modern fascism problem. The need is rising. Some will claim that label and when they do it’s their right as long as they do what it says on the tin. It’s a lot like food not bombs in that way. You aren’t FNB because you gave away free vegan food, but you don’t have to get permission to use that label if you’re giving away free vegan food and there’s no organization or hierarchy. It’s just a thing you can do and a label you can claim in the doing.
The problem is that it’s been demonized and used as a label for those not claiming it. But head on down to your local punk scene and there’s probably someone with an antifa patch who may very well have punched a Nazi
Again, you are suggesting that there are these positions: Fascism and anti-fascism. This also implies a third, neutral, position.
There is fascism, and there is everyone else. Everyone but fascists are ‘antifa.’ It’s a meaningless word which is just used to demonize people and you are, I assume unwittingly, being used to make fascism sound less extreme by making opposing it sound more extreme.
There is passive anti fascism and active anti fascism. That’s the point here. Most people are passively anti fascist. At different points different people will be driven towards becoming actively anti fascist. For me it was the echoes of Charlottesville and the kkk marching near my home.
Fascism is the most extreme anti human stance. Active anti fascism is noble rather than extreme. It is noble like feeding the hungry. Everyone should be able to agree that it is the right thing to do, and we should be proud of all who do it, but it can be difficult and inconvenient or any number of other things can get in the way rather than it being “too extreme”. And in fact plenty of non radical people do celebrate acts of anti fascist action in our modern era. That gif of Richard Spencer being punched is something most folks lack the courage to do but can acknowledge that it’s right and good.
The hit on antifa is a specific disinformation campaign by right wing media. It’s akin to their attacks on blm. Trying to portray loose resistance to fascist organizing as the left wing equivalent to the proud boys instead of just normal people opposing fascists and deciding to make that opposition material.
Stewart sneaks in to steal a fragment of it before the HBO attack drones catch him. Hence only on mondays, cause he expends the energy before tuesday and cant get more until the next sunday
It was either that or run for office and Stewart would apparently rather die than accept the biggest landslide victory of our time.
It’s actually terrifying how amazing he’d be as an ideal president, he’s a man who knows how to put forward a best face for an executive team specialized in different areas of preference and expertise, and he knows how to spot good talent too, that’s literally the two most important things a president needs to be good at, everything else is set dressing as long as you know how to spot folks for your team that know their shit, and know how to translate that shit to a lay-audience.
Obama got astonishingly little done, but the guy knew how to make a big deal out of what he did get done, he rode Obamacare and killing Bin Laden like he’d been retiring bulls and broncos his whole damn life! Which he kinda had to because 2010 happened.
I’d agree but. Stewart had a much harder job multiple days of the week imo. Oliver gets a week to really write gold. So Stewart still goated imo. Or his writing team was lol
The Mongolia Empire had way more land than this in its prime. In the late 1200, Mongolian Empire spans from Siberia to southeast Asia, and all the way to east Europe.
It is just Russia didn’t exists back then. 1471 is near the downfall of the Mongolian Empire and it is still huge.
Did Mongolia also not burn/sack Moscow several times for failure to pay taxes. Aka like Trump said he would be fine with Russia doing to NATO countries?
I loved going to my grandfather’s house as a kid. It wasn’t mine, but it felt like it belonged to all of us. He built it with his own hands. I put my little handprints in the basement. My aunt inherited it when he died. I can go there today and look in the closet where I wrote all of my relative’s phone numbers on the wall for emergencies when I was 5 years old. Every one of his grandkids can go to that house and see their life everywhere. They can feel connected to their family and their memories.
My aunt’s kids have grown up there now, her daughter graduates this year. She’ll be able to have that same experience.
If I ever have grandkids, they’ll have to drive by the shit apartments that I’m stuck in and feel nothing.
Millennials existed in a world where they seen ownership, experienced ownership. Our movies belonged to us. Our games belonged to us. Everything is a service or something we can’t afford.
I love my Steam Deck, but nothing on it belongs to me. That is the world I live in from the top to the bottom.
If I want to remove the ugly 1970s wood paneling and paint my living space to match me as a person, nope. Gotta ask my fucking owner and he’ll say no. He could sell it tomorrow or die, and if they tell me to get lost, I gotta get lost.
I took over payments on my childhood home when I was 21. The roof hadn’t been repaired in my lifetime. When I was a kid I put a tarp over my desk to keep the rain from destroying my computer. When I was 23 I fell through the floor in the bathroom.
If I had known just how hard it would be to obtain a place of my own, I wouldn’t have let that place go. I would have lived in it until it collapsed. If I could go back in time I’d tell younger me to suck whatever dick I had to suck to keep it, right there in that terrible poverty stricken hellhole of an Appalachian neighborhood.
My mom bought that place for 40k. 5 bedrooms. A huge house. We were poor so we couldn’t keep with repairs, but it was ours.
I don’t know. Bums me the fuck out. I’d love to have a home for my children.
e. also the artist created the image in 2008. Right after the world economy died and has been on QE and ‘rescue operations’ by various central banks since. :/
There’s 19 of us. 3 of them have passed away so that brings it down to 16. And for fun, we all have 29 children between us, I have the most biological children at 5, 2 adopted making my total 7. Most of them stopped at 2, but one of my cousins has 3. They all think I’m insane, and they’re not wrong. :p
Damn. We’re a bunch.
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Why would anyone downvote this? Seriously. It isn’t controversial. Are you mad that I adopted kids? Mad that I’ve been married twice and the second one wanted kids? What?
I appreciate that. I’m not raising 7 kids right now though haha. I wouldn’t know where to put that many :p. My son is 26. He’s been smart enough to put off having children and he’s building toward owning a home. He’s buying small worn down places, repairing them, selling them, and then working his way up.
I have so many kids because the first girl who ever lived with me moved in when I was 14. Way before I could even make a responsible decision.
Except that kids probably aren’t the reason for them to not be able to afford home. It sounds reasonable to first establish one’s life and then think about kids, but it might be a bit late for that by that time
I was very very young when my first kid was born. I was 16. The second and third I adopted. I actually raised a few of my son’s friends as well when they were teenagers.
That’s part of the reason I couldn’t afford a home. I had three extra kids living with me at one point because their home life was so bad. Their parents didn’t help, most of them couldn’t.
I came of age right in the middle of the opioid crisis in Appalachia.
Things are great, for real. I get frustrated like anyone else when things seem so out of reach, but I’m happy to be alive and experience the most peace I ever have.
Half of my kids are grown. My son is 26. Trust me, living in rentals is better than the life he would have had. His mother once bragged to me that she consumed more crack in one month than most people could afford in a year.
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