That’s why I have my own olive trees, chicken farm, lemon orchard, anchovy fishery, and a dairy farm in Parma

I don’t know why anyone would buy readymade olive oil, eggs, lemon juice, anchovies, or Parmesan, they’re dead simple to make

We just have to succeed before we get drone striked

The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.

It absolutely does, because this time the enforcers wouldn’t be on the same side as the rioters

Hegseth has to be a master of drunken boxing

Not like any actual fighting style, just years of experience trying to punch people outside of bars

Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”

I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.

Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.

You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.

This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.

No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.

Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.

We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!

No.

Hey, it was pretty cool before the Romans showed up

Bet you were pretty disappointed when Nelson Mandela got out too

There’s some interesting research from Kent State about that

The US has no credibility, from the USS Maine to the Gulf of Tonkin to this

My first thought was about potentially protecting encryption, with all the privacy-invading laws that are popping up here in the US and abroad, but after skimming through the bill it seems like they could still use the “but criminals use encryption” line

Nestlé: I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life.

I seem to recall a pretty successful one against the British…

Spoken like someone who’s never had a cheesy gordita crunch

Tattoos are expensive, they can take a while to finish

It probably won’t take long