That’s what I tell my partners. They are, thus far, unimpressed.

The front fell off

It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

“You want your money? Then get out there and march!”

If a person murders another person, what should their punishment be? What if they murder 2? 3? 10? 20?

Ok, so you are anti-death penalty. So are a lot of people. You seem to be trying to make an argument by preaching the to choir. No one here is saying that the death penalty is a good idea. No one is arguing that with you, at all. I’m really not sure what you are getting at.

I guess if you want some dark humor about it, you could twist around the old idiom: The best time to abolish the death penalty is before we kill an innocent person, the second best time is after.

Ok, if that is the direction you would like to take this discussion, then we can go that route. I have no issues with looking at the extremes.

So, we’ll say that there is the defendant, and they have been accused of murder so foul by the witness that in their jurisdiction the death penalty is sought.

There are many outcomes to this, but for the sake of the discussion you want to engage in, we’ll look at three of them, and for each, we will assume that the witness has maliciously, and falsely accused the defendant of this crime.

In the first outcome, the defendant is found guilty of the crime and put to death. The witness is not discovered, and goes on living their life.

The second outcome is that the defendant is found guilty and put to death, but after they have been put to death, the witnessn is discovered to have falsified their testimony.

The third outcome is that the defendant is not found guilty because during the trial the witness was found to have lied.

Now, we have three ends to the scenario, each very different. Do you believe that in each scenario, the witness, who has maliciously falsified their testimony each time, should be punished differently depending on the outcome of the scenario? If so, what should their punishment be after each outcome?

I never said I was for the death penalty, and this discussion isn’t about it. It is about a person who maliciously accused another of something, and was given a sentence that I feel does not match the crime. If you would like to discuss the death penalty, I’m open to that, but that isn’t what we have been talking about, and not where this conversation started from.

Because the judges an the prosecutors are (we hope) acting in the best interest of the general public, and want to see justice served. They are not the instigators. That’s like saying that your team lost a game because the referee called the rules as they were written. The judge and the prosecutor are (again, we hope) bystanders and only there to help move justice along.

Because if the sentence for the innocent person would have been carried out as the death penalty, then an innocent person would have died. Thankfully, in this case, the justice system worked, but if it hadn’t, the outcome would have been the figurative end of that person’s life. The weight of the accusation, especially a malicious one (which this was), should be born by the accuser, should it be proven false.

Not long enough. That’s not what he would have gotten.

They give the Miyazaki quote and then say, “of course, he wasn’t talking about generative AI, but he could have been.”

What kind of article is this? They misattributed a quote, then admitted the misattributed the quote, then doubled down on it, and then threw in a political message.

People, this is rage bait. It’s yellow journalism. Don’t fall for this shit.

What do you mean, missing DLLs? Just download the missing DLLs from dll.com

And all of them sharing a single 26k connection, too

It was discontinued in 2011. Anything that is out there today is outdated at best, and malicious at worst.

I know some people hate on these things, but I fucking love them.

You know what I love about blocking people?

“Workforce” doesn’t produce innovation, either. It does the labor. AI is great at doing the labor. It excels in mindless, repetitive tasks. AI won’t be replacing the innovators, it will be replacing the desk jockeys that do nothing but update spreadsheets or write code. What I predict we’ll see is the floor dropping out of technical schools that teach the things that AI will be replacing. We are looking at the last generation of code monkeys. People joke about how bad AI is at writing code, but give it the same length of time as a graduate program and see where it is. Hell, ChatGPT has only been around since June of 2020 and that was the beta (just 13 years after the first iPhone, and look how far smartphones have come). There won’t be a huge demand for workforce in 5 years, there will be a huge portion of the population that suddenly won’t have a job. It won’t be like the agricultural or industrial revolution where it takes time to make it’s way around the world, or where this is some demand for artisanal goods. No one wants artisanal spreadsheets, and we are too global now to not outsource our work to the lowest bidder with the highest thread count. It will happen nearly overnight, and if the world’s governments aren’t prepared, we’ll see an unemployment crisis like never before. We’re still in “Fuck around.” “Find out” is just around the corner, though.

I have a salty memory about buying that album. I grabbed it based solely on the first album, which I fucking LOVED. I went to the record store in my town to buy it, and I was so stoked to get home and listen to it all the way through without ever hearing a single thing from the album. I walk up to the counter to buy it on day one, and the guy behind the counter is like, “sick album,” or whatever. Then, instead of ringing me up, he turns and changes the track on the store’s sound system. It plays the opening thrums of Prison Song, and even though I hadn’t heard the album yet, I knew moments into the track what he’d done. I was devastated. I was so ready to have a religious experience with the album, only to have some shithead ruin the first track for me. I mean, I really can’t blame him, it’s not like there is some rule against what he did. He probably thought he was showing solidarity with another fan, but he crushed me. Still love that album, though. Steal This Album is criminally underrated, too.