Mnemnosyne

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[–] Mnemnosyne 1 points 6 months ago

Well I think it can be fixed with technology because fixing it doesn't violate any laws of physics.

A more pressing question however is whether we humans will obtain or develop the necessary technology and put enough resources into using it, soon enough to make a difference to us. And on that question my magic 8-ball says "Outlook not so good."

[–] Mnemnosyne 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It's not implying he can't be bothered, but that the machine can do a better job.

...which may be true, depending on just how bad he is at writing. Like, I was just watching this classic the other day. If this guy writes like some of those people, the machine may infact be better.

That said, for most people it's stupid, and the tech isn't able to do a better job at expressing such things.

Yet.

[–] Mnemnosyne 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, I understand better now. So in theory, if one of the other search engines chose to not have their crawler identify itself, it would be more difficult for them to be blocked.

[–] Mnemnosyne 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm kind of curious to understand how they're blocking other search engines. I was under the impression that search engines just viewed the same pages we do to search through, and the only way to 'hide' things from them was to not have them publicly available. Is this something that other search engines could choose to circumvent if they decided to?

[–] Mnemnosyne 2 points 6 months ago

That first edition version looks like a dog's head with horns and pointy ears to me at least, and that's kinda what I was referring to.

Admittedly the 2nd edition version looks a bit less doglike, but I still see similarities with some breeds.

[–] Mnemnosyne 101 points 6 months ago (8 children)

It's not a mistranslation that caused it, kobolds were both described and illustrated as doglike until 3rd Edition where with no explanation they simply changed it and decided they were lizard like/draconic.

I do think the new version of kobolds is an interesting creature, but truthfully they should've just come up with a new name for this new creature instead of just completely changing the kobold.

[–] Mnemnosyne 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

We could start with holding police officers responsible. It's great that they charged this one, but why aren't the other police there being charged as accomplices since they took no action to prevent the shooting?

So here's a few simple starter thoughts.

  1. Establish an external agency with the mandate of prosecuting police. They have their own prosecutorial system, their own investigators, their own prosecutors, their own courts and their own judges, completely unconnected to the prosecutorial system the police work with. You cannot have the same people that work together one day and rely on each other be the ones to investigate each other, it doesn't work. Not even a separate 'internal affairs division' is enough.

  2. Any police officer who discharges their weapon, for any reason, is immediately suspended, and any pay is withheld until an investigation for why the weapon was discharged is completed. The investigation of course is conducted by that external agency.

  3. If a police officer discharging a weapon causes injury or death, all police officers on the scene are suspended and their pay withheld until the investigation is over.

  4. If the police officer who discharged their weapon is charged with assault, murder, whatever, then all other officers at the scene are charged as accomplices, unless they took proactive action to prevent the first officer from committing their illegal action. Think of it like felony murder - if you and a group of friends are committing a crime and someone is murdered, you are all prosecutable under felony murder even if you had no direct hand in the murder at all.

That's probably a good start, it may not solve all the problems, but it'd be a lot better than what's being done now, which is very, very little. I'd say an even better thing to do in addition would be to have every current police officer purged and never work in law enforcement again. All police organizations kinda need a clean slate with fresh people and no organizational momentum and culture carryover from how it's happening now, because a lot of what needs to change is organizational culture, and just altering the rules is more difficult than rebuilding a completely new organizational culture from the ground up.

[–] Mnemnosyne 14 points 6 months ago

That means prices are coming way down, right? I mean, we've been told that's how it works in capitalism, right? High supply means prices go down, so we'll be having bargain sale prices for homes pretty soon!

Surely capitalism wouldn't lie to us...right?

[–] Mnemnosyne 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Better to acknowledge it in a response. I prefer to do that myself if I'm wrong or something of that nature, post a reply acknowledging instead of trying to cover up that I was ever wrong in the first place.

[–] Mnemnosyne 12 points 6 months ago

That would be hilarious if someone prepared a bunch of little clips of things Hitler said that Trump also says very similar things to, and then anytime he says one, just respond by playing a clip of Hitler saying basically the same thing, and giving a 'Do I need to say more?' look.

[–] Mnemnosyne 2 points 6 months ago

They aren't using it, no, but that doesn't mean the scientific method can't study what they do and come to an understanding of it - probably a better understanding of it than they have, since as you say, they aren't using it. It'd just take a few decades of study probably to have a much stronger understanding of how it works.

My point is just that people draw this weird line between 'science' and 'magic' as though they were incompatible. In a world in which magic is real and useful, science can study it.

[–] Mnemnosyne -5 points 6 months ago (8 children)

It irritates me that so many forums and media sites allow you to edit your posts at will. There's one site I go to that I like very much - it has a 5 minute edit window, and after that, your post can no longer be edited. You can't change what you said, pretend you never said things, etc, once you say something it remains. It would be nice if more sites were like that. Or at least, if you edit/delete something, for there to be an option to check the history to see what it used to be, so if you try to delete some comment you made people can still check it. Whether it's informational, or it's because you're trying to hide something you said that you realize was actually super shitty and people are getting angry at you for it, I prefer things to stick.

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