Let’s go through examples:
“He’s retarded” - that’s a slur, unless it’s ironic.
“That was retarded” - not a slur, cause it’s kinda taking a dig at an action, not a person.
“I’m retarded” - technically a slur but almost always used with a hint of irony, therefore usually not a slur.
That’s how I use the word with my friends. And I have autism, so technically 100 years ago I would have been the resident retard ;)
everyone has at least 20 minutes […] every day.
No.
A lot of people do, but a lot of people don’t.
They may have months without any time surplus. And then maybe some months where they do have a significant time surplus.
But never assume everyone has the same time to dedicate to things.
My mom is currently working 50h weeks and I’m sure that’s on the lower end for some people. I’d prefer her to focus on not getting burnout so she is able to survive a bit longer, and that means she physically can’t.
That sounds like a really dumb design idea. Why make a federating protocol if you still rely on the server? I don’t even get why they did it at all then.
That’s indeed very interesting and peculiar.
For me it’s 4 Lemmy results and then 2 reddit results and after than chaos ensues.
why does it matter?
Should we stop splitting sports by gender?
It’s inherently boring to watch sports competitions between unequally capable people, and there is a natural difference in that that can be clearly attributed to gender.
I admire your thought of equality but we need to talk about the differences in physique in genders as well if we wanna discuss this.
Don’t dismiss this claim, scientifically debunk it or share why not and how you come to this conclusion.
This might get down voted but let me share a nuanced take.
AI is either overhyped or underhyped.
Yes, right now LLMs won’t change the world, don’t make great lawyers, don’t replace software devs and don’t write all of your emails. But if you used some of the more recent ones, they can definitely help you express or help to write quicker, and they can give you a bird’s eye view of a topic.
And let’s also make clear that AIs are not useless nor is their potential exhausted. Right now they are useful helpers in specific scenarios and they only get more useful from here.
There are important questions around: what constitutes a personality, a right to an image, or when does imitation become stealing, and how do you even consider an AI model on questions of copyright.
I think the problem is that people have promised too much from this technology and that’s why everyone just associates it with bad results. But there’s more to it, and nuance gets lost in the stream of strong opinions.
I like the comparison.
The implantation is different, the effects will be different, and how we evolve with it will be different, but AI does already have a solid impact and it will continue to have one.
And the industrialization was neither good nor bad. How some people fucked over poor people’s lifes in the process is despicable, but just because things get faster or more efficient is not inherently a bad thing.
Now we definitely need rules here. Some shit people and companies do with AIs is wild and should be illegal, but as always law takes time. Maybe it’s an illusion but I hope for a healthy integration of AI in small ways into our life. And I really mean small. Give me chatgpt and AI spell checking, and maybe some code auto completion. Don’t put all those AI assistants into everything because that’s not the way to go. Change done right moves slow, and if we only had the things we know how to use, we’d be a lot better off rn.
Just as automated assembly lines at some point led to electronic devices being more accessible, I hope the LLMs and other AIs we use will become well placed and non-intrusive.
1000% agree.
As a software dev, I’m using windows and I know I shouldn’t switch.
Tbh it’s even worse, I can not switch. And that’s why it’s even more ridiculous. Linux power users like to say that you can do everything you can in windows but with more control. And with “control” they are right, but with “everything” more than wrong. Everything that’s not working out of the box is a gamble on time wasted getting said thing to work. For the simplest thing you can be stuck for weeks just by sheer bad luck.
Say you are a software dev? Yeah Linux is pretty solid.
3d artist? Meh. Blender is the last thing that works, otherwise you are stuck. Octane, 3ds max, Maya, c4d, Houdini, v-ray, real flow, … You gotta be lucky to find them to be compatible even if it’s only with a workaround.
Music production? Well you are stuck on LMMS, which is basically only used by very specific experimental artists. Also plugins, especially those with copyright protection will give you one hell of a hard time.
Images? Well gimp is not Photoshop if we’re honest, and stuff like coreldraw is also hard to replace on Linux.
Video cutting? You have to carefully tip toe about everything Adobe, and that’s an awful hassle. And because everyone would love to give Adobe the middle finger, we are slowly realizing how hard it is to replace Adobe and that if you go somewhere, it is not working as well by default, you have to really make it work.
And especially in big enterprises time is money. So every time someone thinks about where to migrate to, how to migrate, or when they are migrating, and than when they have to propose new workflows, new solutions, a bunch of workarounds, maintenance pipelines, etc. it’s just not worth it. Not on a big company scale, and unfortunately also not on a me scale.
At the end of the day, an OS is a tool to me, not a lifestyle choice, a hobby or a commitment. And it shouldn’t be. As long as Linux is at least 2 of those things for everyone that’s not using it, it’s not very compelling to switch. And that goes for every distro.
Btw. this is the reason why I can understand people using apple over windows. Yeah it’s 1000 bucks to take like 20min less to do a thing. But it stacks up exponentially with every device that integrates into Apple’s universe. And if you spend even 20min less per day, that’s already more than 2h per week that you now have to dedicate to other things.
I’m not rich and this doesn’t entice me, but I get it.
So yeah, make a distro that’s not only modular and expendable,but make it also very easy to understand and make it as easy. And make it either as compatible with Windows software or add those features in a different way. And then people like me can dream about a FOSS universe for everyone.
As a 26yo I need this.
Tbf it’s more that the feel of a live audience would be missing otherwise. They wanted that live audience feel and be a fully written TV series.
I guess to some degree it’s not completely wrong tho.
I’m not sure there is a reason
Continues to describe a very plausible reason…
what a retard
Probably didn’t need the personal insult. Reddit with it’s CEO huff and puffmann is basically as bad as it gets, so I’m happy about every competition. Obviously Lemmy is doing way better but I’d be happy for Discuit to do well too.
Let’s be very clear: a witness refusing to testify is a rare occasion. Why? Witnesses usually only get called if a party thinks they’re worth the hassle. So things like this are usually avoided. Also there’s only a few reasons to refuse to testify:
Basically the only way you can get in trouble is if you distrust the legal process / the police, you can not raise 5th amendment issues or there is an immunity deal that applies.
Currently you are only able to issue contempt charges, and that’s about it, and that stuff is also very much limited considering relevant case law.
I think it’s like a day to a month in jail.
Let’s also make clear that there is currently a court case going on against young thug, where basically the whole law community is mad at the previous judge (which has been overruled by the supreme Court in an emergency motion; the equivalent to a royal “you fucked up”), and there’s still an endless list of issues. A lot of issues surround a witness who has been lying his ass off and said as much in open court, but who has been part of highly improper ex parte communications and other shenanigans which basically aimed at intimidating him into testifying against young thug.
I bring this up because although there’s a lot of publicity, this is not how it usually works, and this is a bad reference, so I don’t want people to draw from this case.
Back to your question, the penalty, which I again think is about a day to a month in prison. I think it’s a bad thing that you can throw people in jail for this shit, but I also think it’s the best thing there is right now. Court does not have the resources nor the time to properly deal with hostile witnesses, and that means they are limited in what they can do.
Also let’s point out again that in any case, such witnesses only exist, when the moving party has made a huge mistake or something slipped through the cracks.
TL;DR I think it’s not a great penalty but it’s the best we have. Also there’s truckloads of context needed to have a very productive debate on this.
Disclaimer: specific cases get weird, because circumstances and jurisdictions are weird, so “it depends” is still the only viable answer to most things, and IANAL.
There’s always a risk but considering currently there’s no incentive for ppl to invest their time and sanity, I think you’re fine.
Unless you do stupid things. No one is liable if you do stupid things :)
I can’t remember exactly, but there was some shit going on with contract terms or monopolistic market behavior or something.
That’s the only criticism I’ve seen that was somewhat credible tho.
I don’t know if there’s ads in there, but I think a bigger part of your description matches with “Pou”.
I mean if there’s a time to test it out, it’s right now I would argue.
Lemmy is still small enough to test those things.
Don’t you dare question the brave little space robot. He’s probably been working hard on this.
nothing. I have autism. There’s nothing wrong with me, but I’m obviously a little bit different like other people, which in itself is neither good nor bad.
because we need a descriptor and that’s just what my friends use; we know what we mean with it and what we don’t.
Also I’m gonna take those questions at face value, but I’m just gonna note the first question is a bit out out of left field, as no one implied that something’s wrong with that.
But I don’t wanna assume you are an asshole, so I’m gonna take it as a misunderstanding.