I mean it’s not illegal for someone to tell someone else to take more drugs. If two guys are hanging out and one says “hey I think I think I should take more drugs” and the other says “hell yeah brother do it” they aren’t responsible if the first guy ODs.

Less fancy

The number of people in this comments who think that looking for the key to a gun safe, getting a gun out of it, loading it, and using it to murder someone is normal 11 year old behavior is insane. Kid has some serious issues to be capable of something like this

I hate when I accidentally search for the key to a gun safe, accidentally unlock the gun safe with the key, accidentally take the gun out of the safe, then accidentally aim it at someone and then accidentally shoot them with it that’s the worst!

accidentally

Unlocked gun safe to get the gun

I legitimately cannot comprehend polls where people who voted for Trump in 2024 changed their minds.

Trump- “Hey I’m going to do all this terrible shit”

Voters- “I’m going to vote for Trump presumably because I like his platform”

Trump- *does exactly what he said he was going to do*

Voters- >:(

This is the bumble experience lol. The man still has to do the real first message because the woman’s first message is going to be “hey” 99% of the time.

Yeah this. We’ve had like 50 years of home video games st this point. Even if big budget blockbuster games come out that I can’t play without a subscription, I can just keep playing great old games that don’t have any bullshit micro transactions or anything.

I think there is a big public perception issue of who exactly is a “Chimo” in prison. Most men in prison do not consider teens to be children and people who sexually abuse teens to be pedophiles. In spite of structural issues that lead to people being in prison, most people in prison are still bad people and have views outside the acceptable norm outside of prison. So someone in for raping a 15 year old isn’t going to have the same social stigma in prison that someone who raped a 9 year old would.

This is the same culture that decided that X was a better name than Twitter. These people are so far removed from regular society that this idiotic shit actually makes sense to them

Eh. It really depends on the topic. I am a Wikipedia addict and I would never tell anyone that Wikipedia should be used for anything beyond surface level familiarity. Ideally you start with Wikipedia then move on to better quality sources. The problem with Wikipedia isn’t necessarily inaccuracy, but lack of information and bias. I’m not talking about right wing conspiracies saying Wikipedia is too liberal, but rather I am talking about things in history where a specific view is presented and alternate views are not. This is especially common in situations where modern scholars are questioning historically mainstream views. I suspect this is because the editors simply aren’t aware of these developments and are accessing more available older sources, but it can bring in bias. This can also happen in science and engineering as well. Plus there is the classic Wikipedia problem where some random B list Marvel superhero or star wars extended universe side character has an extremely high quality Wikipedia page and a relatively important historical to figure has a very basic overview. Wikipedia is incredible and one of the greatest achievements of Humanity, but it’s got some flaws and I don’t think that it’s wrong to tell students not to rely on Wikipedia. It’s kind of like all the same issues with ChatGPT but way less severe and way more subtle.

You should be careful with how you interpret the religiosity data. Often people interpret people responding “None” to the question of “What is your religion?” as these people being atheists, but overwhelmingly that is not the case. I believe it’s like over 70% of “religious nones” (the term used for people who respond this way on surveys in academic contexts) believe pretty strongly in the supernatural, and many believe in the existence of God and/or spirits that govern the world. When people say they don’t belong to any religion on surveys, they apparently most often mean they don’t belong to a particular organized religion rather than being atheist.

Eh. For people choosing to vote for a fascist or sit out the election, the better choice is to sit it out. We should accept the little victory of them not voting at all if the alternative was Trumpism

This is frustrating but anyone dumb enough to let this be a major hinderance to them working on their own cars deserves to get scammed by the dealership. $30 on a knock off set of these screw heads vs thousands of dollars at the dealership. The main problem with BMW cars is that they’re designed to be difficult to work on even in spite of stuff like this. You have to take the whole car apart to do basic maintenance.

I legitimately don’t understand how someone can interact with an LLM for more than 30 minutes and come away from it thinking that it’s some kind of super intelligence or that it can be trusted as a means of gaining knowledge without external verification. Do they just not even consider the possibility that it might not be fully accurate and don’t bother to test it out? I asked it all kinds of tough and ambiguous questions the day I got access to ChatGPT and very quickly found inaccuracies, common misconceptions, and popular but ideologically motivated answers. For example, I don’t know if this is still like this but if you ask ChatGPT questions about who wrote various books of the Bible, it will give not only the traditional view, but specifically the evangelical Christian view on most versions of these questions. This makes sense because they’re extremely prolific writers, but it’s simply wrong to reply “Scholars generally believe that the Gospel of Mark was written by a companion of Peter named John Mark” because this view hasn’t been favored in academic biblical studies for over 100 years, even though it is traditional. Similarly, asking it questions about early Islamic history gets you the religious views of Ash’ari Sunni Muslims and not the general scholarly consensus.

$2m is nothing to someone like Epstein. The private jet they’re flying in cost $61m, for example

I have a theory that Lemmy commenters are dumber than you’d expect and this comment section doesn’t help their case lmao

Canned air is not actually pressurized air in a can though. It’s a liquid refrigerant.

This is a dangerous mindset. People can and do seriously believe in utterly stupid things like flat earth. The thing is, being a flat earther kind of ruins your life. Everyone you know who isn’t a flat earther (so, most people) thinks you’re a complete moron and have gone off the deep end, and good luck getting a job at a normal company if your entire online presence is promoting a belief in flat earth. It’s not really something you can do casually- it’s all or nothing.

Yeah I just don’t understand the strategy here. You’re not going to Out-AI Google and Microsoft, and so I don’t know who both wants an “AI Browser” but wants an alternative to the offerings of those companies.