30% jokes, 30% attempts at academic discussions, 40% spewing my opinions uninvited to find out what might be missing from my perspective.
I'll usually reiterate this in my posts, but I never give legal advice online. I can describe how the law generally tends to be, analyze a public case from an academic perspective, and explain how courts normally treat an issue. But hell no am I even going to try to apply the law to your specific situation.
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I'm loving rule (lemmy.zip)
what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
Not knowing wtf Kevin is this weekend (media3.giphy.com)
Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane?
First off, I don’t base my views on “what Americans are like” with what people post online. Just about everyone I know personally has just gone off the deep end it seems....
What did you do to survive the night of/after a breakup?
Boyfriend of 2 years (best friend of 6) just told me he’s started seeing someone else. No discussion. Just ghosted me for a week and hit me with this news. Thought he was my soulmate, lmao. I feel like someone just ripped out my insides. Just turned 31 this year, this shit is not any easier than when I was a teenager....
There are more women with incel beliefs than men and nobody cares/labels them
I have so many friends who would 100% be labeled as an incel if they were men. They hold men to impossibly high standards while meeting none of those standards themselves....
In the Company of Culprits (lemmy.world)
AI content generation is on fast track to kill the whole porn industry.
If you think about it, there are already tools that can do pretty convincing face swaps with few clicks and just from one low res photo at whatever angle. Long are gone the times you had to train the models for hours and had to have few hundred photos to just get “okay” fake. Once deepfake video creation becomes this simple,...
What 1st world Baldur's Gate problem would make you sell your soul to Raphael in order to fix? (startrek.website)
For me I can’t stand that they put difficult terrain in the act 2 camp. Makes zero sense. Who the F builds their camp in mud? I would sell my soul to Raphael for a boardwalk.
Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter?
And if so, how do they label headphones, contact lenses etc?
Bro (lemmy.ml)
My god. (lemmy.world)
Alabama band director tased by police for not stopping his students' performance (www.npr.org)
What began as a routine band performance of Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck by Cameo at an Alabama high school football game ended in a troubling confrontation when a police officer tased the marching band director for refusing to stop the music....
Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing? (scitechdaily.com)
The key takeaway here is that the people writing these guidelines try to give as much information as possible,” Reaves says. “That’s great, in theory. But the writers don’t prioritize the advice that’s most important. Or, more specifically, they don’t deprioritize the points that are significantly less important. And...
ADHD + Depression is weird
I don’t know where the purpose of my life is. I looked where I last saw it and it isn’t there anymore. It’s like losing your keychain. All I can do is hope I forgot it somewhere at home because I sure can’t go outside without it. I wanna find joy in things again, and it is so difficult to get you shit together when...
I really need GameDevs to stop doing this (startrek.website)
Judge rejects Trump’s request to move Colorado ballot case to federal court (www.nbcnews.com)
A lawsuit brought by a group of Colorado voters cited the Constitution's 14th Amendment in their effort to prevent Trump from getting on the state ballot in 2024.
Toxic (i.imgur.com)
OK so if you feel Lemmy has been trending towards hostility in the past weeks ppease here me out, interact in the comments but keep it civil....
Disney wants to narrow the scope of its lawsuit against DeSantis to free speech claim (apnews.com)
Disney wants to narrow the scope of its federal lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis to just a free speech claim that the Florida governor retaliated against the company because of its public opposition to a state law banning classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades....
Could child labor ever be acceptable if it's done consentually?
While child labor is viewed negatively, apparently child labor and child slavery aren’t the same thing, and child labor though it could still be exploitative/cruel in other ways, can be done voluntarily by the child, and with fair treatment/compensation/etc....
4-Year-Old Fatally Shot By Woman Who Was Teaching Her 'Firearm Safety,' Authorities Say (www.huffpost.com)
Warning: Article has detailed accounts of the shooting...
Prisoners want to extend time in custody due to Canada’s housing crisis, says criminal defence lawyer (nowtoronto.com)
We also have people driven to assisted suicide because they can’t afford to live....
Choose you name (lemmy.ml)
In the age of AI-spam, I now treat typos in webpages as a good sign
I used to think typos meant that the author (and/or editor) hadn’t checked what they wrote, so the article was likely poor quality and less trustworthy. Now I’m reassured that it’s a human behind it and not a glorified word-prediction algorithm.
Burger King must face lawsuit claiming its Whoppers are too small (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. judge has rejected Burger King’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is....
Liability for AI damages?
When the idea of self-driving cars first started becoming mainstream, I remember a lot of debate about liability. If an accident occurs, who would be at fault? I think a lot of those questions are still unanswered....
Is someone really tired of the therapy speak on reddit?
I havent been on Reddit in a while. I reduced drastically the amount of Reddit related content I watch, and gotta say, they helped me a lot a while back to recognize unacceptable behavior, and showing it to my bf was important in his development to recognize how abusive his mom was and taking steps to go leave her and go NC....
You can choose a super power, but the first person to reply can name a side effect.
I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?
Being a pessimist is better than being an optimist or a "realist." Time almost always proves you correct, and very occasionally, you're pleasantly surprised!
It feels like being an optimist in this world must be absolutely soul crushing.
You glorious Bisexual Fashion Lizard (startrek.website)
Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial (newatlas.com)
Everything Made By an AI Is In the Public Domain (doctorow.medium.com)
The US Copyright Office offers creative workers a powerful labor protective.
Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night?
Not referring to lucid dreaming, which is simply controlling your dream. I’d like to know how to control what I dream the next night, regardless if it ends up as a lucid dream....
They're not supposed to look like that (thelemmy.club)
Joe Biden’s DOJ Is Claiming “There Is No Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate” (jacobin.com)
In the same week large swaths of the US were under extreme heat warnings, Joe Biden’s Justice Department filed its most recent motion to dismiss a landmark climate case by arguing that nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to a secure climate.
Hey guys, why is it getting warmer? Did y'all leave the stove on? (reddthat.com)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Survey_on_existence_of_global_warming_and_responsibility_for_climate_change_-_bar_chart.svg
Whenvideos games tell you to press X (lemmy.world)
Amazon pinches sellers: Use our costly logistics services or pay extra fee (arstechnica.com)
Oh boy. (feddit.uk)
Why do Americans keep falling for the Democrat and Republican scare mongering and propaganda?
Is it due to what we eat, our social media, the alphabet propaganda machine (most likely)?...
[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
cross-posted from: monyet.cc/post/153506...