whoa, im not blaming impoverished people with poor english from taking customer service jobs… they’re doing what they can with what they have…

im saying customer service is already practically a black hole… just instead of an AI that doesn’t understand or help with your problem… and regurgitates pieces of a script inappropriately, we already have that right now but with humans.

this is already the case, except i can eventually reach a human that doesn’t understand english, reading an english script…
at least the AI won’t get frustrated and hang up on me.

can be… i.e. “Nobody shall give, either orally or in writing, information to a peace officer performing their duties, when they know the information is false.”

• some california law

protests like that really just serve to raise awareness…
let’s the government know people are very pissed, and let’s other pissed citizens know they’re not alone…
and makes unaware citizens aware of the problem…
it’s a great start, but doesn’t solve anything on its own

well, i guess if you shoot someone, i do hope you get tricked into admitting it…
the rest of the criminal “justice” system is bullshit, but i do prefer to separate murderers from other people…
…
regarding never admitting something, sometimes it actually works in your favor… especially, or only really, if you’re directly caught.
lying to a cop will piss them off, and is technically another crime. apologizing will often get you you a warning…
(the 5th means you don’t have to incriminate yourself, but doesn’t give you permission to lie)
especially if you look chagrined and throw a “sir” in there…
source: lifelong petty criminal
p.s. you can kinda combine the two with “oh did i? i’m sorry… i thought i came to a full stop…” and then fight it in court.

i always thought the whole, bullets being like fingerprints thing, didn’t make sense.
i could see them narrowing down the type of gun… but not the exact one…
especially since they’re regularly disassembled, cleaned and oiled…

“Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on Palestinians who had gathered to receive flour brought by UN trucks”

well that’s about the most horrible thing ive ever heard of…

it’s not going away on its own…
alternatively you could pay someone else to do it

negative

posts celebrating the Hamas massacre of October 7th minutes after it began

ah, so they all knew of the rapes minutes after the attack began and were celebrating it…
and it was rape, in particular, that they were celebrating…
thanks for clarifying that

that’s not the reality…

it’s not safe to stay out to shovel until Wednesday (when the temps and windchill will finally be above negative)

i grew up in michigan and, yeah i shoveled snow in negative temps when i was 12… it’s safe IF you bundle up properly.
some long johns, or even sweat pants, two pair of jeans… boots… (you can put breadbags over your socks if they leak or you don’t have boots…
tons of layers of shirts, a ski mask, and gloves…
no problem… you want the outermost layer to be waterproof/windproof…
trench coats are actually quite functional and not just for murderers hiding guns…
and the more you shovel, the more you warm up…
of course, if the wind is real bad it gets kinda pointless, but you can kinda throw the snow with the wind and it’ll fly away… (unless there’s not one prevailing direction of wind)
ummm… road salt is pretty important… sand helps too…
also the layers help when you fall down on the ice…

yep. they shouldn’t be allowed to abandon games that people paid for… if they require drm…
i really like ID software’s system of open sourcing games once they’ve aged enough…
i think that should be the standard…

https://i.giphy.com/D2kFkQwMzFcVq.webp

pretty easy, if soldering is easy:

(first result from amazon, not endorsement: https://www.amazon.com/Type-C-Trigger-Module-Supports-Output/dp/B08LDJBN8P)

why not?

welll then just use inches

just convert it with math?
it’s not really that hard…

scary

allow me to sum up interpersonal relationships between all 8 billion people in one sentence:
you can’t

but, in a nutshell… physical attraction is usually important, so is romance… usually a commitment to this person in terms of time and future plans where they become more like family (and maybe eventually actually family if you have kids)

there’s such a crazy spectrum of the ways in which people could get along and consider themselves “in a relationship”.
every rule or tendency is constantly broken, it escapes definition.
in general, it begins with attraction and flirting, or it’s cemented as a friendship…
and, poetically, i’d say it’s a relationship when they start to see themselves as an entity, and of course others will see them like that too… a sort of hive-mind develops…
sorta like when celebrity couples get a combo nickname…