According to this source, adult male bengal tigers weigh 380-580 lbs. Pretty sure it could just run into you at full speed and do plenty of damage.

Disney should just pay him 10% of the expected total of the lawsuits if it had in fact rolled through the crowd. He’d be set for life for sure.

It’s almost a certainty that not everyone who was in communication with Epstein - not even everyone who visited his island or flew on his jet - was personally involved with raping kids, but I find it difficult to believe that they didn’t see what was going on, even just hints of it, and they didn’t say anything. As far as I’m concerned, that makes them complicit until such a time as they’re proven innocent.

Yes, to be clear, I am saying that I consider them guilty until proven innocent in this case and I wish that wasn’t the case. If everything wasn’t being covered up so thoroughly, maybe it wouldn’t be, but as it stands, I will never look at or talk about anyone on that list the same way again, unless some irrefutable evidence in their favor comes out at some point.

Either all of these people have a fundamental misunderstanding of what our currently accepted “AI” is, or I do. Or this is all just astroturfing by e.g. Agentic to make people think their shit is much more advanced than it is. I don’t even…

“People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,” said Bengio.

Who is doing this? Until this article I have never seen a single example of this.

The restraint that man showed to not beat the everloving shit out of the guy who kidnapped and presumably intended to rape his daughter is just incredible.

The problem isn’t content, it’s engagement on the content. Folks complain that niche communities have no engagement, just a bunch of posts by a single person… but it feels like 95% of the time, if I comment on those posts, there’s no reply, not even from the OP, and that discourages further posting.

If you’re willing to engage on everything you post, I don’t see the harm in it, but at that point, why even use a bot? Why not just find content you like (or have the bot notify you of content), then post it yourself as an actual human?

They’re whining too much. Make it a recurring tax. If they keep whining, make it 8%. See how far they want to take it.

Even if ads were a thing, they would be instance specific, unless they just took the form of posts advertising things (much like Reddit has) which personally I find to be toxic as hell. How would that money make it to content creators?

Personally, I’d prefer to read posts from people who want to post them because they have something interesting to share or something they want to discuss, rather than people who are trying to maximize engagement because engagement = income. There’s plenty of other places to go if you want to be fed that kind of content.

I think the sweet spot was 20-25 years ago when we had special interest forums with tight-knit communities around specific topics. It would be nice to get more engagement on Lemmy in niche communities, but I’d argue the way to achieve that is to go to other places where that content is posted, and share links to content on Lemmy, as a way to spread the word. Part of the problem there though is recognition, and if people see links to 20 different lemmy instances, they won’t associate those with lemmy as a whole, they’ll see it as all disparate things, and I’m not really sure how to solve that.

I can imagine that the Fediverse could develop remuneration models that are much fairer and more sustainable

What do you even imagine that would look like, without degrading the experience for everyone else? Not throwing shade, just curious what you’re thinking of. Like, who is hypothetically paying in these scenarios, and where is the money coming from? I think everyone would agree that if it’s coming from ads or anything similar, nobody is interested.

The best feature of Lemmy is that it isn’t as big as e.g. Reddit. I much prefer the size we have now to some big mega-site. Yes, there’s less content. Who cares? None of us need a constant stream of new content 24/7. It’s OK if you’ve viewed everything on your feed. It’s more reminiscent of forums from the late 90s / early 2000s, especially in the more mid-sized communities. I like that.

Purchasing the license unlocks features such as an even more Windows-inspired desktop and control panel, an integrated Android subsystem with graphics acceleration, a graphical OneDrive client inside the file manager, Copilot and ChatGPT integration, advanced system configuration tools, improved security for web browsing, and exclusive desktop enhancements that are not available in the free base Winux install.

I’m surprised they didn’t include these things by default and remove them when you buy a license; that sounds like a straight downgrade. Aren’t these things some of the main reasons people stop using Windows?

Instigated by someone who won’t live long enough to experience the consequences and allowed to happen by people who have enough money and power to insulate themselves from the worst of it.

In fact, get a legally enforceable commitment to leave before the vote. Put a date on it.

Do you know something about these particular pastors that the article doesn’t mention, or are you just generally hostile towards people who choose to follow a religion?

I had a horrible Amazon experience 3 or 4 years ago and haven’t shopped there since, so I’m probably remembering the time when it did work.

Misread this headline as ‘Conservative groups’ and couldn’t figure out for the life of me why they’d do that. This makes much more sense now.

Closest thing you’ll find is likely to be prediction markets, but “whether it rains tomorrow” isn’t something that would be available unless it’s in the form of “Will X event be rescheduled due to rain?” or similar more boolean things.

They’ve been doing it for a while. They’re all low-budget, made-for-TV movies that follow some pretty predictable formulas and appeal to a very specific type of person - usually the lonely, single type.

She was a successful businesswoman with a promising career. He was a small-town nobody. Can he win her over before she returns to the big city?