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rchive , 6 months ago to memes in They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are

That is a completely legitimate concern. It’s important to note that even if prisons are publicly run, there’s still a bunch of private actors in the prison system in the form of the people who work in it. Prison worker unions and police unions lobby for more laws already to protect their jobs. Private prisons might make that aspect worse, but it’s not like it’s perfect now.

rchive , 6 months ago to news in Teen girls are being victimized by deepfake nudes. One family is pushing for more protections

I’m obviously not advocating or defending any particular behavior.

Legally speaking, why is what age they are today relevant rather than the age they are depicted as in the picture? Like, imagine we have a picture 20 years from now of someone at age 37. It’s legally fine until it’s revealed it was generated in 2023 when the person in question was 17? If the exact same picture was generated a year later it’s fine again?

rchive , 6 months ago to news in Teen girls are being victimized by deepfake nudes. One family is pushing for more protections

If you make a picture today of someone based on how they looked 10 years ago, we say it’s depicting that person as the age they were 10 years ago. How is what age they are today relevant?

rchive , 6 months ago to news in Teen girls are being victimized by deepfake nudes. One family is pushing for more protections

If you make a picture today of someone based on how they looked 10 years ago, we say it’s depicting that person as the age they were 10 years ago. How is what age they are today relevant?

rchive , 6 months ago to memes in They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are

Neither is obviously more efficient than the other overall, it depends on the structure and the incentives. People worry about private prisons for example. If you make it so the government sends people to prisons and you pay the prison a fixed rate per prisoner, of course you’re gonna get skimping on services by the prisons. If you instead give the prisoner a voucher for a prison and make them pick where they go and prisons get money per voucher they get from prisoners, you’re gonna get competition on quality so you’ll get high quality prisons. Opposite outcomes with just a change to incentives.

rchive , 6 months ago to memes in They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are

In this case it’s the definition of efficiency. Efficiency = (resources used up) compared to (resources taken in). How else would you even calculate it?

rchive , 6 months ago to news in You can’t even pay people to have more kids

Literally nothing I said justifies that assumption.

rchive , 6 months ago to news in You can’t even pay people to have more kids

Nothing I said suggested beating or anything physical at all.

rchive , 6 months ago to news in You can’t even pay people to have more kids

No one mentioned hitting or physical discipline of any kind.

rchive , 6 months ago to technology in Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

They should make batteries that swap out completely so you can load a fully charged one in in a few seconds and let your old one charge while you’re off driving somewhere else. Or you just exchange the battery permanently like with some propane tanks.

rchive , 6 months ago to news in You can’t even pay people to have more kids

It varies by region or state. Some places you can discipline pretty easily, others your ex will use your any discipline at all as a reason to take your kids away.

rchive , 6 months ago to news in You can’t even pay people to have more kids

People just want fewer kids now, or they want them later. It’s not the money, it’s that kids are a drag.

rchive , 7 months ago to lemmyshitpost in My whole night is booked now

Omg, the Evermore one was so bad because it was so good but actually 4 hours long. I lost one whole day of free time to that video. Lol

rchive , 7 months ago to aboringdystopia in Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time.

Please see my comment here.

rchive , 7 months ago to aboringdystopia in Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time.

Maybe I can illustrate better. Imagine your boss goes to pay you your paycheck and gives you and your coworkers 75% of what you’re supposed to be paid instead of 100%. You say, “Hey, where’s my other 25%” and they respond, “I don’t have any more, we ran out of money to pay you. We had to adjust to stay sustainable. You’ll only get 75% until our finances change.” Would you say, “well, since there’s still savings maybe, and there’s gonna be a bunch of new money the next time you go to pay out, just not enough, you technically didn’t run out. That’s technically something else?” I don’t know, maybe you would. I’d call that running out, though.