Well, let's not single him out on that bit.

Just a tick.

Now, the blue part I can understand, but, you could associate blue with anything -- it's just the balls part. Twitter. Taliban. And Ticks. WHAT part of that made you think of aching hairy balls?

I think you expect more people to jump down your poorly lit rabbit hole than the surveys might support.

Technically you are now more correct than when it was just Truth Social and the refugees from Parlor.

For me it was; "They crave the Lyme disease?" For about 24.3 seconds.

You could probably even be Jihadi and buy a blue tick as Turning Point USA -- think of the possibilities!

It looks like Musk has found a way to please that sought-after Taliban and scam marketers looking for legitimacy demographic.

Google 2023; "Be better, at being evil."

Yeah -- clever of them.

It really is convenient, but it also means you are more stuck with Google and they know more about you.

Well sure, Levato is doing something to get outrage to sell albums, and the usual suspects are selling outrage as Christianity because hot air doesn't have royalties paid to the music industry.

I've always thought it was safer to SEE the traffic coming my way so I can avoid the cars due to the fact that we've got crap for bike paths in our state.

Wow, they'd make the hospital ER blush.

Seems like that's a conflict of interest for justice to be impartial.

>They even charged me for the apple juice and granola bar that I declined.

You need to report a robbery.

Me; I'm okay with that.

Wow, either I've been made well by a Gofundme, or, this sounds like you are saying it's broken to shit.

> focus on convictions

Yeah, it's like they don't even care about your well being.

Kind of defeats all the bullshit supporting the War on drugs as well. If we actually cared about the damage of drugs, we'd be researching them and teaching the REAL effects in school -- but, that would also mean admitting they don't automatically kill you, make you insane, or addicted. A shitty life that leaves an empty hole is the reason for most addiction-- let's be honest about that.

If we wanted less crime, we'd spend more on after school programs and counseling and maybe a fucking living wage so the single parent doesn't have a kid who joins a gang because their never home or always tired.

Most crimes that are measured are what poor people do, and the things rich people do that are damaging are less investigated or actually legal. Like, donating to a candidate is LEGAL??? That's a bribe -- why are we fooling ourselves?

Most people will never have anyone do as much damage to them as ten days in jail does to a person. And about 80% of the people in jails in some cities are there because they couldn't pay the fines. Oh, we don't have debtors prisons anymore, but, most of the people in prison are poor or have learning disabilities that made their formative years hell without proper support -- and so, most of them are poor as well.

I was in a holding cell once that was all plexiglass and concrete. I think the air came through a crack under the door. There were 16 guys in this 16' space. I'm surprised I didn't pass out from lack of oxygen.

It was weird being a citizen one second to a piece of shit on their shoe the next. I mean, I haven't experienced that with any other situation in life. How does that level of toxic and non-empathy affect a person? I could never be a police officer after hanging out with them any length of time. It's like they have blinders on.

Me with my ADHD would experience each day like a year -- so, no, I could not handle prison. Just shoot me.

Also, yes, I was not guilty. I waited 3 years for a trial and I was going all the way and the police officer didn't show. "Flat tire." I was contemplating whether to take your acquittal and abuse served or still go on with the trial. But I didn't want to tempt fate for the jury not to see someone with a badge and think "that's an honest person." Well sure, he convinced himself maybe -- but not enough to show up to even an unfair fight.

For the coach that misses the smell of a gym. Or Jim.

This is where a company mysteriously is not a person. Also, if they make money, it's 10, if they get caught doing something awful, it's 10,000+ who should have known better.

"I'm sorry." Said Greg the Janitor to a reporter.

>It’s not intelligence. It’s artificial intelligence.

It's really not intelligence yet and therein lies the confusion. There is no THINKING going on. It's Machine Learning with an Expert System and LARGE Datasets. Enough samples and it can sound like it's smart.

Neurons are vastly more complex than just a bundle of connections. They have protein storage for long term information (equivalent to memory in a computer). They have glial cells. And, they sort of function together in an analog way.

There is one gene of difference that separates human intelligence from Chimpanzee. And I think it might be part of the folding in the brain...

Anyway. The collection of parts in various algorithms might get a very close approximation of intelligence. It might be "insightful." But it won't be conscious and not actually intelligent.

Now, the "gestalt" of various systems tied together, could very well be conscious and intelligent. I really thought it was going to require a paradigm shift away from binary computing but much to my chagrin, looks like we are less complicated than we thought -- but, there is one more trick we do that nobody is doing yet with these machines and there might be some interface with quantum effects.

The human brain is doing something like Stable Diffusion on a constant basis. Our perception is slightly in the future -- anticipating our environment -- constantly.

The functional parts that work together to make a human mind all seem to be in development. And like humans, each alone won't be conscious.

Also -- humans I think are MOSTLY conscious. We rationalize more than are rational, and we think we are making choices all the time. But we aren't fully aware of things objectively and take a lot of shortcuts.

And a lot of us choose not to be intelligent on a regular basis, so, once the AI gets the conscious bit, it won't be much of a leap to get ahead.

Wow, this is hard news. I'm sorry for all the people taking that hit to their self respect to be riding a Triumph.

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/jk

Was it Craigslist? Because I imagine it was Craigslist.

Besides, how many Triumph enthusiasts are left?

Hey, it was just a test drive that went too far.

I’m holding out for the most meta story of stupid criminals; “FBI uses DNA evidence to determine who stole their Sequencer after repurchasing it for the second time. Someone working in law enforcement who has botched a lot of cases suspected. Evidence was here a second ago adds director Bob Malfoy.”

EDIT: What little twit is downvoting this rock solid meta humor comment? Shakespeare could never have gotten his start on r/writingprompts with this crowd.

I've never heard of a flyball. I have heard of a flywheel or a reaction governor.

I suppose I'm not well versed enough in steampunk technology.