I think I saw a documentary film about one of those couples.

Well, there’s a whole string of words I’ve never seen next to each other.

I am outraged that - let me check my notes - the EIC of The Verge has published an article partially generated by AI.

Well, yeah. It left outer space and entered Florida.

It weighed 2.6 metric tons when they jettisoned it. Two pounds made it to the ground.

There are different challenges in early and late childhood. Things like peer pressure are a much bigger issue during late childhood.

In early childhood the kid wants the entertainment and it’s incumbent upon the parent to deny them that and provide more enriching activities that have fewer strings attached.

The only reason it’s controversial is because parents do not take responsibility for their children.

It seems like the big hangups are parents unwilling to face social backlash (“but all the other kids have phones”) and parents trying to justify their lack of effort with their kids (setting a device in front of the kid to shut them up). Ironically these two groups are willing to throw all the effort they don’t put into raising their children into defending their bad behavior.

Parent here, raising kids without smartphones until they’re at least in high school.

I couldn’t agree with you more.

I think you may be miscalculating the opinion of the American public. “It’s European law” isn’t exactly a selling point for a lot of folks.

Oh boy, I have some news for you …

And then everyone clapped

Good for the EU I guess?

I was talking about it in the US, where the article is focused.

I’m arguing against the technology. I believe that the decision to make an arrest should fall to a human being and that individual should be allowed to override a bad call by the shit being billed as AI.

There’s a real possibility that law enforcement agencies may try to foist responsibility for decisions onto software and require officers to abide by the recommendations of said software. That would be a huge mistake.

In terms of legal precedent this may be a good thing in the long run.

The software billed as “AI” these days is half baked. If one or more law enforcement agencies point to the new piece of software the city deployed as their probable cause to make an arrest it won’t take long for that to get challenged in court.

This sets the stage for the legality of the software to be challenged now (in half baked form) and to set a legal standard demanding high accuracy and/or human assessment when making an arrest.

Don’t worry, Lemmy is just home to a disproportionate number of whack jobs.

Bullshit.

I’m a parent. The first time my kid catches flak for not having a smart phone he’s going to say exactly what we practiced, “my parents are crazy, they won’t let me have one. It’s so stupid, I hate them”.

The other kids will find something else to pick on even if every kid has a phone. Period. Children are monsters. It’s not worth letting your kid’s brain rot and have them try to off themselves when they’re a teenager because they never had a chance at being well adjusted just to avoid them getting bullied about phones in particular.

Conversely why do I need to pay to read the opinion section?

No, we shouldn’t wait.

We will, but we shouldn’t.

I’m actively trying to find a non-Reddit content aggregator, then I’m getting the hell away from this freak show.

So the cost aspect is absolutely massive. You can theoretically filter elemental gold out of sea water, but it’s not reasonable to do that to supply gold for use in electronics. Similarly you can purify helium as much as you want but at a certain point the cost makes whatever you were doing with it prohibitively expensive.

Right now we’re still pulling helium out of the ground alongside natural gas deposits. We’re also not doing everything we can to recover, recycle, or substitute the industrial and scientific grade stuff either.

As less helium gets extracted the cost will go up. This will put market pressure on all users to use it more efficiently or find substitutes wherever possible. If the price goes high enough it might also drive producers to purify helium that might have been sold at a lower grade in the past.

This find in Minnesota pushes that future scenario down the road a bit, which can either extend the status quo or buy time for technological improvements to be made that will make use and extraction more efficient.