Man, I wish…

But there’s tons of examples to look into.

This money almost never comes out of police budgets, and their budgets still increase every year.

They feel zero pain from settlements. The people pay on person for what the cops did, and the cops keep doing it.

As long as that’s the system, it’s gonna keep happening

I’d love to see a law where if the intentional actions of a department results in X amount of settlement dollars paid out, it automatically triggers a flushing of current police leadership.

As is, there’s no real penalty except to the taxpayer.

At least with that system, there’s incentive for leadership to keep their officers in check, they’re care if their own jobs are on the line, and “was fired cuz we had to pay out millions” makes it hard to get hired a city over.

Cities won’t want someone who’s going to cost them money.

Cops won’t do what’s right because it’s right, so we have to give them a selfish reason to do the right thing. That goes for most people, it’s always best to explain why doing the right thing is right for selfish reasons.

I’m sorry I couldn’t explain it in a way you can understand

If they get resold 5 times, that’s four scalpers making money and one losing…

That’s not gonna solve the problem, especially since Ticketmaster offers up tickets early to large volume buyers and even reserves huge blocks for them.

Ticketmaster doesn’t give a fuck what the person who sits there actually paid or if the seat is empty

Because everytime it resells, they get the same percentage of an ever growing number.

The product is ticket sales, so they sell the same ticket as many times as they can.

Empty seats won’t solve anything. And if it keeps happening it’ll end up like airplanes where they just sell someone else a new ticket at a discount and profit off the seat again.

We need to actually fix it, and not just for the Cup

The only federal thing is an online check to see if your name says you can’t get a gun…

In a lot of states, there’s no waiting period, or anything else. It takes me personally about an hour to walk in and out with a gun.

But if I just wanted a gun ASAP, I could contact someone on an online forum specific to my area and procure a gun in the same amount of time without telling anyone even my first name.

In fact, the way the laws are set up, a seller getting any info is more risky legally speaking. Some people ask for a state ID to prevent the gun crossing state lines, but many don’t ask for that, because then they know the person’s name and if they’re a criminal a prosecutor may say they should have reasonably recognized the name.

Gun laws are essentially pointless because of that, however the solution is to close the loopholes not further de-regulation

Not only that but it’s illegal to not use an FFL in the exchange and sale of a firearm

It’s possible 1 or 2 states require it for personal sales…

But at least in the vast majority of America, you don’t need one for a private sale.

It used to be called the “gun show loophole” and more states require one for “sellers” at a gun show now. But you can still be a private citizen without an FFL and have a table with 100+ guns for sale, and not do a single background check or even ask for a name from any buyer.

Yeah, you’re talking about prenatal testorone and that link has been proven:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2741240/

It’s one of the things we know subconsciously, prenatal testorone also causes physical differences for the entire life, most notable a wider face width/height ratio.

And most people intrinsically distrust “narrow face” people because that low prenatal testorone also means they have less group cohesion. A wider faced person is more likely to blindly defend their in group no matter what. So when looking for group members, we want them in our group, because then they’re blindly loyal to us.

Most people don’t consciously understand it, but subconsciously learn the pattern thru personal experience. Currently the term is “rat faced” but it’s prenatal testorone that’s the cause.

Quick edit:

To be clear testorne levels still play a role, I’m just saying prenatal testorone has actually had studies done, while “active” levels for adults hasn’t.

Not with that attitude…

A human can use a drill thru an AIs hard drive, I haven’t seen any AI do that yet

The suspect who used a 10-millimeter Glock 29 to shoot Bartholomew was not the original owner of the gun. It was first purchased in 2024, according to investigators, in an illegal transaction at a Range USA store in the northwest Indiana town of Merrillville, a short drive from Chicago.

Even if the original sale was legal, anyone can “decide” to sell a gun they just bought the second they walk out the door, and can sell it to anyone they want without even asking for the buyers name.

They could walk up to a stranger on the sidewalk and offer to sell it for a profit immediately and break zero laws.

So if this store wasn’t doing background checks, that’s a huge problem.

But the facts are until we require “private sales” to go thru a FFL and the buyer to get a background check, we’ll literally never stop this.

Anything else is just security theater

No, the article says their problems are with surveillance and automated weapons…

Which are valid concerns for almost everyone…

Which is why everyone should have a say in it, and not just the people the AI companies choose to employ.

If their employees get to decide it, they just won’t have any employees that are willing to say AI shouldn’t be used for that. Employment would be predicated on saying AI should have no limits.

Which is why if this happened, it would overall be a bad thing.

Why do people keep posting AI articles without understanding them?

Or are you really advocating for the fix being a couple thousand tech ros making the calls for everyone instead of a handful of techbros?

Even if this happened, people like Musk would just pay his employees more so they say it’s ok. If they won’t say it’s ok for any amount of money, they’re not employed anymore.

Why would anyone whose job is training AI, say we shouldn’t have AI?

It gives the illusion that it’s ok, without changing anything.

The solution is the democratic process, not slightly enlarging the circle of unelected oligarchs making decisions for us.

Like, if these workers gave a fuck, they wouldn’t have taken these jobs to start with,they’re not gonna save us anymore than people working in a coal mine will save us from climate change

Especially focused on resources for blocking or identifying AI music.

Critical thinking?

Like, that’s the only way to do it. Anyone trying to memorize tells will be fighting a never ending battle, you need general critical thinking to ID AI anywhere. And not everyone is going to be able to do that right away or without a lot of effort.

So your going to make way more progress trying to teach people critical thinking than a hyper specific use case.

The AHLA said this does not align with Fifa’s statement that more than five million tickets have been sold, external and it creates a risk that “the anticipated economic lift may fall short”.

Lol…

It’s obvious what’s happening, but it’s not as good as people are thinking.

The reason to kets are so expensive, is American reselling processes.

Scalpers ought up all the tickets immediately, and instantly relisted them for higher. New scalpers are buying those, and listing them again.

Everytime they’re resold, another cut gets taken out by Ticketmaster. And Fifa is likely getting a piece of that in addition to their original piece.

FIFA is going to make a shit ton of money. Scalpers may lose some, but what little “economic incentive” from the games won’t materialize, because we’re almost guaranteed to have a bunch of “unsold” tickets that were sold 4-5 times already.

People already there may be able to capitalize on tickets being cheap right before games start as scalpers panic, but no one will travel short notice. And once the first games air with a bunch of empty seats, people will try to wait till last minute and buy tickets. Likely getting ripped off at the event and trying to enter with fake tickets

The entire thing is going to turn into a giant cluserfuck, and that’s without ICE running around like they’re almost guaranteed to.

You couldn’t pay me enough to show up in the general vicinity of one of these games

This is pro-AI propaganda disguised by a headline people will share…

They don’t talk about the real reasons people hate AI, just imply it’s because everyone thinks they can’t compete with it.

Reuters is doing this, because theyve invested hundreds of millions into AI:

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2023/november/thomson-reuters-unveils-generative-ai-strategy-designed-to-transform-the-future-of-professionals

If people realize it’s bullshit, they lose that money. And maybe all their companies.

So they know “people don’t like ai” headlines will get shared by people and make their propaganda reach more eyeballs and make more people feel like AI is inevitable and they should invest

C’mon people, we need to start paying attention to this shit

No I just grabbed a random UK link…

The weird blog OP linked is a paragraph with no details, that article has a lot more

If you don’t like someone’s link tho…

It’s known as a “dick move” in my culture to not provide one.

You could have just don’t this:

https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-catherine-connolly-sister-detained-gaza-flotilla-israel/

Why would you ask if something obviously important matters…

And then type a long rambling rant about how actually the thing everyone knows is important, turns out to be important?

So you didn’t have a question? You just wrote a click air headline for a post telling people something everyone already knows?

Am.i missing something?

The “study” is pointless

They said “no one has studied this”, searched old studies, and then said “no one has studied this”.

Anyone that thinks that means there isn’t a connection, don’t know what “meta-analysis” means or the basic ways the scientific community speaks…

Which apparently is a lot of people on Lemmy because they just blindly upvoted it

This is “absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence” all over again…

It’s not a new study, it’s a review of prior studies…

So all it proves, is that no one has empirically proven the connection yet, which was the reason they did this literature review in the first place.

Research like this can be done by a single person without leaving their desk, in an average work day. The link even shows you the three searches they ran… It wasn’t the scientific equivalent of “googling it”.

It doesn’t prove anything, except how many people blindly up ote and don’t understand science.

Or “world news” which this apparently is?

Yeah, it’s just always set off my Spidey tingles.

Even if well intentioned, it’s shitty journalism

Parts of the ocean are colder and several species are having issues locating new spawning grounds.

I remember hearing of a corodile species or something that recovered due to a new power plant discharging warm water.

Overall ocean temps rising is a problem, but the real problem is becoming more uniform temps.

Cold spots are getting warmer. But warm spots are getting colder too. And especially for fish and reptiles. They need warm spots to spawn.

Ecologically speaking this is likely to be a good thing and within a couple years this could be a very important habitat that people are talking about and acting shocked about.

Even tho logically it’s obvious