Just don't make it weird.
swope
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I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent "normal" people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.
Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.
Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn't it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?
It's been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney's mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?
What does "connected experiences" mean?
I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].
So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.
The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.
The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like "it's difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers" doesn't say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And "checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure" seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.
A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.
But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.
Is porn intake measured in sieverts or mW/cm² or what?
What level is considered safe?
Asking for a friend.
I think most computer vision cameras are fairly low resolution, so I'm not expecting the hit-and-run vehicle will be identified.
I knew XMPP as Jabber, and I remember being delighted when I tested messages between my Jabber accounts and my Gmail account.
Found Ismo's fediverse account.
https://youtu.be/RAGcDi0DRtU?si=TC4rJJ7HqJMdPwsz