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Yes, which is why I explicitly said I do not blame the person for making the split second call. You do what you can with the tools you are given at that moment.

But it’s a very compelling case to analyze what went wrong and try to learn from it. Saying “there’s no other way” is silly, because in this case it sure seems there could have been several other ways.

Strongly disagree. They literally shot him in a less than lethal way (he was only slightly wounded, according to the article) and he stopped attacking. It’s entirely possible that other countermeasures would have been sufficient.

They should NOT have shot at him. Gun safety 101 is “don’t fire unless you’re willing to kill something past the target”, which in this case was a BIG FUCKING CROWD. The criminal needed to be stopped, but this was not the way. Perhaps if he had been actively shooting I would feel differently.

I’m actually not criticizing the guy who pulled the trigger. The situation was a mess and I don’t think a human has the reaction time to think this one out. But it’s another case where we can see that even “good guys guns” can cause more damage than bad guy guns, unlike what the right wing might lead you to believe.

No, there was a bad guy with a gun, but the good guys killed an innocent bystander instead of the actual criminal.

You can’t even trust someone with perfect intentions with a gun.

“Our victim was not the intended target,” Brian Redd, the Salt Lake City police chief, said, “but rather an innocent bystander participating in the demonstration.”

Sounds like police to me.

So glad that the good guys with guns took out the bad guy with guns. Oh wait.

Lenticular lens + eye tracking is how I would’ve approached the problem too, that’s interesting. I wrote something similar five years or so ago for phones that gave a pseudo depth effect with just the eye tracking part.

I wonder how they can keep the display sharpness up with the lenticular lens though.

I wondered how the “multiple midgame reset” change would affect the gameplay. It might be the single biggest change to the formula since the original.

I know people resist change by default, but yikes, that almost makes it a different game entirely.

It’s funny in a somewhat horrifying way, because these attempts to control the narrative are so hamfisted that it’s laughable.

I’m worried about the near day when AI is good enough to subtly inject disinformation created even by incompetent idiots like this.

The hallucinations are not getting worse. People are putting more AI into critical positions, making the existing hallucinations more prominent. Yeah, that means a company shouldn’t trust AI to do their customer service for them, DUH. I think we all knew that.

I’d be interested to look at any real research on hallucinations instead of cherry-picked anecdotes like in this article.

I’m not sure it’s even possible to have a universal flu vaccine, but putting funding in that direction will almost certainly yield new techniques even if it fails.

Imagine wanting to see if you can change people’s opinions and deciding to test it by trying to make them adopt horrible viewpoints.

Like, if you have the power to do that, shouldn’t you try to make the world a little less shitty?

Good concept, of they can deliver on it. We need more inherently repairable and simple vehicles.

Props for fighting back. I hope there are some penalties this time (but I doubt it).

Another would give a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.

That does very little compared to the cost of having a baby, which can easily be in the $14k range if you don’t have insurance.

I’m aware. Talking with people in your DMs is still leaving evidence online, even in E2EE platforms. Unless you fully trust the other person, don’t give them incriminating evidence.

As always, don’t leave records of illegal activities online. The internet is a surveillance platform as much as it’s a communications platform.

Probably not the first live streamed genocide, but that distinction hardly matters.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon

The asteroid never had a chance to hit Earth, we just refined our observations so we are more sure of its trajectory.

How did [insert anything here] become so expensive?

It’s pretty much the same answer for everything.