Because he took a plea deal, which was probably offered so that they wouldn’t have to hold a trial. At least, that’s what I gathered from the information at hand

I don’t think I could restate this any better. So many people hear about “logical brain” and “emotional brain” and just start trying to eliminate any emotion from logic.

Brother the entire reason we invented homes was because we didn’t fuckin like the alternative. But if we used logic way back in cave man time, it would have been more individually efficient to burn those logs for warmth. It took emotions to get us to the next step and then realise that it was more systemically efficient to burn logs inside of a little cabin and only then could we start applying logic to housing.

Emotions are so important

I’m a little fresher on the block than you are, we had a CRT when I was little but that thing is long gone for LEDs and OLEDs about a million moves ago.

Will I go scour the web for someone’s junk however to breathe life into it again? Fuck yeah that sounds fun

Strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding

My feelings about capitalism are largely fueled by how well I understand it. When I understood it less, I didn’t mind it as much

I don’t like this quote

You’ve given me a great idea

Reading other people’s explanations makes me feel a little bad that my brain went

“Mexican chocolate milk with cinnamon”

I oughta work on some biases

This message would have been much better if you talked about adrenal response instead of “man strong woman weak”

Mothers lift cars off their kids in extreme circumstances, everyone is strong when they need to be.

Probably don’t start by installing nothing but a window manager

Oops. I ran into a lot of problems by doing this, but boy did I run into a lot of tools too

You’re putting some words into my mouth. I have a lot more hope than you think, and that’s evident if you poke around my profile and see some of the politics that I talk about. My non-profit idea comes to mind first. I have to have hope in people for ideas like that to ever work, because it relies very heavily on communal thinking.

As to your question, it’s a balance. It’s not a matter of “this is more important than that” it’s a matter of “these things affect each other and we have to prioritize them correctly at the appropriate times in order to handle the current situation”

I wish the US stood for something positive. Whether that’s freedom (and actual freedom, not the shit we’ve been peddling for the last 200 years), happiness, well-being I don’t care.

But we haven’t stood for anything, or even bothered to put on the facade that we stood for anything, at least for the last 10 years or so. At least, that’s what I’ve felt. At some point we just said “fuck it you’re right. We’re here to make money, we were only pretending to care before lol”

I wouldn’t call it great, but at least they put up a facade. And the actual action, as cool as it was, shouldn’t have ever needed to happen and was therefore pretty not great.

Don’t pin your bullshit on me :)

People also fought for us to be where we are now. They didn’t roll over and die like so many want to do now

I mean we can be cynical about what it was, but it’s plain to see that people actually cared and worked together when we had the facade of caring about freedom. As we become more divided and cynical, as we push each other away and become more aware of the injustices around us without taking the steps to affect them, we clearly become less effective all the way down to the individual level

I think both work unfortunately

Man the US was so much cooler when it stood for something

Quick, someone remind me which ship it was that was starting to sink so they just shoveled water to one side do they could extend the range of their weapons and effectively become an extra artillery team during WWII (was that the siege of Normandy?)

I hope Canada and Mexico work together to annex the US and create Canaxico. It’d take a while to mesh the cultures but I think we could make it work

We heard you like AI so we trained your AI on AI so it would be more AI

I think deep seek have an uncensored model

They do, but the smaller ones and the distilled ones still struggle with some censorship. Methinks it has to do with more parameters = more ability to decide what is and isn’t disinformation, however I doubt they’re gonna self host the 18b model on 8b brand to get around that

Have you seen how cruel kids are to each other in school?

Kids around the age of 3 will play together despite language barriers. Playing is the international language that we all intrinsically knew as children, but forgot as we aged