It reads to me as an AI-driven follow-up chat

I don’t disagree, but I’ve also been wondering how much very high quality medical care is throwing off those guesses

Tech savvy groups have always included a significant amount of well established people unhappy with how technology is being implemented or used - who then, yes, yell at clouds. Hell, a lot of us still literally yell about the Cloud.

Paraphrasing a management quote I found a few decades ago - if the engineers aren’t complaining about something, it’s not because they’re happy. It means they’re complaining where you can’t hear them.

I mean, for half a billion years, the Earth’s surface was largely molten. Earth’ll be fiiiine…

Seriously, we’re getting as hot as it’s ever been while humans were around, and the change is accelerating.

(edit - got -> hot)

Hah! I remember the game, but I don’t think that was it.

I saw it on a Discovery documentary or something in high school, as I recall. There were a few shots of the test subject playing a sports skiing console game of some sort

Ah, I hadn’t heard about that one!

I remember a dream study that found if you’re working on a skill within something like half an hour of going to sleep, you’re markedly faster at learning the skill. I think they measured it using a skiing video game or something like that

If I remember right, the trick that makes sewing machines work came to the inventor in a dream.

The inventor was exploring the jungle or something like that in his dream, and got attacked by spear-wielding savages. The spears all had a hole near the tip. Which was what he was missing to make the sewing machine work - he’d been trying to make it work with the hole in the back, like a regular sewing needle.

I understood that to mean Jankatarch understood you to be insinuating that. That J thought you were saying Mamdani would cycle the money through charities he owns, rather than taking the money and donating the raise amount to charities (which I assume you meant?)

Nah, if a cop charges her for that, she’d be right to contest it. Maybe it had fallen, and she tucked it in her lap to let her get safely clear of traffic before stowing it properly. Doesn’t matter if it’s likely or not, the burden of proof is on the accuser, and it’s not met here.

Let’s not let the police assume lawbreaking without clear proof, and lets especially not let them automate that accusation process!

Okay - so charge her with having an unsecured object in her vehicle.

The fine was for use of a phone while driving, when the phone was not in use. Not for having unsecured items in the vehicle. Not saying it’s a good idea to drive that way - it’s pretty clearly not - but that’s not the actual issue here

Doesn’t seem to matter. This lady got a massive ticket without any evidence of anybody being bothered by her

Her phone was face down, she wasn’t looking at it that we can see. All we know here is her hands were on the wheel, she was in her lane, and she wasn’t looking at her phone right then. Anything else is speculation without evidence.

AngryRedHerring posted the image that seems to have been used as a source for McConnell: https://lemmy.world/post/49374470/24742512

Do we know where she’s at now? Would be fun if she was confirmed to still be out of the country when that photo was supposed to have been taken

That was what got me off - I kept feeling like I had to scroll much farther back to see the updates from friends I missed past what FB decided I should see, until I decided Facebook had made it no longer worth the effort

Not a fan of Robin Hood, then?

The moment you start selectively deciding who is and isn’t a thief is the moment the justice system starts breaking down.

Isn’t this exactly what a jury of your peers is intended for? So people - the members of the affected community - can decide who is and isn’t a thief, after ensuring they’re provided with all the facts of the case?

The difference is that the data centers aren’t part of the community. They’re invasive, coming in to steal the water and power and spoil the area with heat and noise. The locals have no say or control over them.

Turning a blind eye towards damage done to them is a form of self defense.

I think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?