TIRM
1hr ago
San Francisco is a haven for criminals. Cops won't even bother showing up for car break ins. Fill out that web form and watch nothing happen.
TIRM
16hr ago
Teachers caught doing this are prosecuted. South Park nice jokes aside, this is taken seriously by courts and law enforcement.
TIRM
1d ago
According to baby care classes I took: they think it is largely accidental suffocation. Like falling asleep holding your baby and then shifting your weight so the baby's face ends up pressed against you. They lack the strength to reposition themselves.
TIRM
1d ago
Yeah some people here have a deranged understanding of the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The 'neighbor' is a member of the hated outgroup, and not respected members of the ingroup.
Jesus says "love your neighbor", this works fine in his time because "your neighbor" is literally your neighbor and it's probably societally adaptive
I would argue the opposite. Samaritans were reviled by ancient Jews. The Parable of the Good Samaritan was a subversive understanding of who is good and who is bad. A Jewsh priest and a Levite are upstanding respected members of their community. Then in the parable a hated Samaritan is named as the neighbor. The guy talking to Jesus won't even say the term 'Samaritan'; he instead in a roundabout way admits Jesus's point by saying he who showed mercy.
I am very much not ideologically aligned with the Catholic Church, but they may well be following a common understanding of Jesus's message. Consequences be damned as you correctly point out.
TIRM
2d ago
What’s your explanation for why it takes California a month to count votes
Mail in voting rules. "Mail-in ballots are valid as long as they are posted by election day and arrive to county election offices by 9 June" And a state law that allowed counties a month to count votes. So they took all month. Google says a recent law changed that to 13 days.
The boring literal answer is they choose this. They could chose not to, as 42 states don't allow this manner of post-marked mail in voting arriving long after election day.
TIRM
2d ago
I have no reason to think the Google maps team is in LA or that the LA Democratic machine has a hold over them. I think this sounds extremely unlikely.
TIRM
2d ago
no formal structure to any of it as far as standards and expectations go (and by that I’m not talking about selfish standards, I’m talking mature young adult standards that people used to have beaten into them)
My early 2000s history teacher had some point about how our generation no longer had a clear script to follow regarding relationships. And how that made dating and relationship forming harder for us. But he was optimistic that new norms would develop and future youths would find this easier.
Too bad he was wrong on that point.
TIRM
2d ago
This guy is the founding author of the project, and has been its primary maintainer for 30 years.
The vibe is that older retirement aged or approaching retirement aged people excessively love AI and are somehow blind to its faults.
It is a reversal of tech adoption in which the old are hyped and the young are hesitant.
And then he worked as a mercenary to kill more people and described his group as being for killing. He's not a subtle man.
TIRM
3d ago
California is shamefully slow at counting ballots. They are always this way. There doesn't seem to be a correlation between higher taxes, more state workers and actual state capacity.
My problem with them is all the ballot harvesting.
TIRM
3d ago
There's some amount of chest compression that will kill a person. As they beg minute by minute saying they can not breathe.
I'm imagining a Roman looking up at a criminal on a cross and saying "if you can talk, you can breathe" as the criminal very slowly asphyxiates.
TIRM
3d ago
My opinion is a good one and I easily hold it. I also want cops to give medical attention to stab victims. I never said otherwise.
TIRM
4d ago
Thinking about the Obama administration: malicious tax audits of non-profits, Operation Choke Point debanking conspiracy and Citizens United outright censorship. So yeah I don't have to imagine very hard.
TIRM
4d ago
Their policy manual and official department rules do not supercede the law. A cop can follow their procedure to the letter and also be convicted for his actions. Their procedures are something they made up and very much not the law.
We can have sanctioned violence with law enforcement follow the law rather than the "official rules" their department made. State legislation defining murder is not inferior to department policy.
TIRM
4d ago
They are okay for summarizing research. But if you think it may be wrong, it can't back its facts up. Or you tell it you think it is wrong so it pivots with equal confidence to a new set of claims more in line with your demands.
Your post well could be correct. But with low confidence.
TIRM
4d ago
excited delerium
I thought this was a fake thing cops made up. I'm sure their internal documentation refers to it and recommends methods of dealing with it. Pretending as though it was a medical diagnosis they are sensibly dealing with. That way when they get caught behaving in an unjustifiable manner they can use procedure as a shield from criticism. A procedure they made up and may not be legal if actually applied. As seen by this cop following procedure and then being convicted of murder.
TIRM
4d ago
Did you copy-paste Grok output? This might be correct or approximately correct. But I have low confidence in raw LLM output. I use these things at work and they say weird stuff and I demand a citation and they cannot find one. I'm pretty skeptical of these things.
TIRM
4d ago
staff are trained to always take the side of racial minority complainants
The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence.
Paper bag testing people and blindly siding with white suspects is dumb. This, doing the opposite, is just as dumb.
Going by memory: that's Herod's stepdaughter fathered by his dead brother and I believe aunt through incestuous marriage. He then married his widowed aunt/sister-in-law. John the Baptist was killed for criticizing this doubly forbidden marriage; as young Salome demands his head after dancing. She's not a courtesan getting the king horny, she's his stepdaughter. Unless you imagined some higher grosser level of incest where he goes for his aunt and niece.
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