Bad people shouldn't be in positions of power. Why aren't we protected from this? We're being abused and no one is stopping it. I want to send a message somehow.
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I would argue they are perfectly placed, not misplaced.
My counter argument is that injury and death caused by reckless driving is not solved by the police. And worse, the prison crisis is doing great harm to our society, mostly to people of color.
I was countering what that person said, and you think it's misplaced? I think what you mean is it's not convenient to you. Seems to be a trend.
I keep saying single-payer healthcare is better than what we have now and get attacked for it. "I'm fine - you're fine - my kids are fine! Stop saying you want everything for free!" Just because we are ok doesn't mean everyone else is, you selfish prick.
How many of those 40,000 hit and runs with 8000 deaths were prevented by police officers?
Your strategy doesn't work.
If police and prisons made us safer, we'd be the safest country on the planet. We're not. Police hurt people after a crime has been committed, not before. Your strategy does. not. work.
Nobody asked but I had to share this
It's important to me that everyone understands the joke, even if that understanding robs them of the joy of it. "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. It kills it".
But it's important because I suffered a lot of being left out as a kid. Others found how good it felt to be exclusive, and shoulder me out of things, or refuse to explain things, or whatever it was that made me the outcast. I could tell from their faces that they love the way it felt when they did that to me. But it hurt me a lot.
I don't want there to be any exclusivity anymore. Nobody deserves that pain. I want everyone to understand the joke, even if that prevents them from ever laughing at it.
We as a society must have a solution which is not the police solving every fucking inconvenience. They are literally killing us in our own homes. Please do the difficult mental work of figuring out a better solution than "call the cops". I know it's convenient but our overreliance on it has resulted in one the greatest incarceration crisis of our lifetime. I know you're angry but please start thinking of other ways to solve problems.
The thought experiment suggests that over a long enough period of time, every possible combination of letters would be typed out on a keyboard, including Hamlet.
They are not arguing about randomness, as it is inherent to the thought experiment. Randomness is necessary for the experiment to occur.
They are arguing that the universe would be dead before the time criteria is met. It is a bitter and sarcastic conclusion to the thought experiment, and is supposed to be funny.
In conversation, it would be delivered like this:
"You know, over a long enough period of time, monkeys smashing typewriters randomly would eventually produce Hamlet"
"The universe isn't going to last that long."
that thing looks like a pip boy. i don't want to carry any of the others you tested into battle
this is interesting as fuck
“I'm really interested in algorithmic enforcement ...” Ada Ada Ada told me in an interview. “It seemed like the nipple rule is one of the simplest ways ... because it's set up as a very binary idea—female nipples no, male nipples, yes. But then it prompts a lot of questions: what is male nipple? What is a female nipple?”
She's using her own journey as a trans person to document how AI tools like those used by Instagram identify potentially obscene material.
they’re so nice, so surely everybody else is too
This right here.
I think many poor people do not realize how deliberately cruel the rich are being. They cannot imagine someone looking at a whiteboard planning debilitating poverty and misery for millions of people. They think that the situation is unfortunate and unavoidable somehow, and not deliberately made.
I don't need to have a replacement ready. It's enough for me to say that the current system does not work.