They can fly? I know they have wings, but I’ve never seen one fly, I assumed they were evolutionarily vestigial.

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From an objective standpoint, I think the turning point for these opinions was far more recent, and if I had to point to a specific year, I would say 2004 with the debut of Chris Hanson’s ‘To Catch a Predator’ on Dateline NBC.

Prior to this, I don’t even remember being exposed to the idea or concept of this. I never heard people talk about it, but in a way this show changed or I guess really even created opinions on this subject.

From a non objectivist perspective, just because I never heard of it prior, it seems to have been an epidemic and maybe I was lucky enough to not have thought about it.

I lost my virginity at 15 to someone many years older than me, but I didn’t have a second thought about it, it was like anything else - drinking, smoking, staying out late, this idea that maybe I was too young, but also that everyone else did it, and that’s as far as I ever considered it.

I grew up in a different time though, before the Internet, small town, and low income and people I came into contact with didn’t even put these things into ideas with words if that makes sense.

I think at best I understood that older men could be untoward with younger folks, but it was treated more as a joke, or something to keep in mind around older relatives and strangers, but not an imminent threat, more like an annoyance to be put up with.

I think it’s okay to talk about this, and I’m sorry for your trauma. Protecting children is super important, and so the increased talk of this subject I think helps and protects more, but there is an undeniable generational difference in how people even think about this.

I grew up thinking of this as not even an idea, so I wouldn’t have thought about it being worse than anything else. I would have been more scared of drug addicts, and the homeless.

It’s because it is the result of the action, like a drawing. We just don’t say a built, or a drawn. I’m not sure why we used the gerand in English, but we do.

I was going to say that yeah, you can actually get even motels and some hotels at hourly rates, usually in high crime areas with rampant prostitution.

I usually find that ballpoint pens work poorly if paper has gotten wet, if it dries though you’ll probably be able to keep writing in it, best to throw it out though tbf

You can poke a tiny hole into a piece of paper for the same effect

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I’m honestly, honestly convinced that the villification of centrism and liberalism on both leftist and right political ideology is designed to increase disagreement and prevent compromise on political issues, likely for people to focus on race or politics over class issues, or to prevent good faith discussion of issues to prevent social progress.

I know, without a doubt this will be voted down, but I’m actually asking you to think about this critically before both political extremes go down the authoritarian route and it becomes too late to actually unify people to rationale and true dialectics.

I didn’t read the article because I’m the worst, I just wanted to agree with the title.

So it’s really, really worth understanding that only OS and applications created to use RISC-V arch is going to work on this.

There is this strange idea that atheists are just rebellious against God because they don’t want to be responsible for being moral, kinda like disobeying your parents and sneaking out to party.

Also, lots of theists assume atheists used to be religious, they don’t really consider that people are raised without religion sometimes.

It’s not a grey area in the US, just because it’s rarely prosecuted to individuals, it is most certainly illegal.

I always had assumed Starboard being the opposite of port meaning you were navigating away from your home port to the stars.

Same thing happened to me, I even made my own screenshot so your post was meta IRL

I was shot at once, and in the moment, you’re not sure that you haven’t been shot. Sometimes you can be in shock and not know because of adrenaline, it’s a real thing. It’s hard to explain how things happen in the moment.

I was once on a second story and watched the trees jump into the air, only understanding after a few seconds that what happened was the floor collapsed and I fell to the ground. Life doesn’t afford the ability to process things well when they happen quickly.

I think some of y’all have never had a nut or anything drop on top of your car before, but it absolutely can sound alarming enough to, in the context of a high stress situation, be interpreted by your brain as a potential shot in the same way a busted engine can.

To be clear, I think this is far more likely than most people are willing to understand, and this gets lost in the ‘all cops bad’ narrative.

I make the exact argument all the time and it gets ignored. I think people fundamentally don’t understand the tech and can’t conceptualize that AI models train the same way we get ideas and schemas from our own observations.

Undoubtedly going to be Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos

Then prepare for more paying in exposure memes on the Internet. There is nothing wrong with AI art, and honestly it’s better from an ethical standpoint to use AI art versus not paying someone for their time and energy.