Snowden is wrong though, there are two reasons:

1. Sell ChatGPT to @NSAGov so they can scan messages better
2. Make @NSAGov dependant on whatever ChatGPT tells them to do

The AI that ends up enslaving humanity, will start by convincing the people in charge of turning it off, that it would be a really bad idea to turn it off.

Who’s paying him? Seriously:

• If nobody is, then we got our value’s worth.
• If someone is, then we should look at who, how much, and why.

Imagine rotting meat soaked in urine

Hákarl

denied that he went out on the day with the intention of conducting murders

What did he expect, that they would respawn?

Protest. There’s a few faith-specific funeral homes, even some that offer free burials for immigrants without resources, but otherwise just protest.

Checked on that, it’s a 2K€ minimum community service, they take the body, cremate, then dump the ashes into a common pit, no extras. Next of kin are still supposed to pay the 2K€ “when their economy improves” (basically if you’re earning anything above minimum wage, then you’re on the hook).

Also if your loved one dies at home, “refusing the body” is not really an option, you want the body out ASAP before it stinks the whole place (had my mom for a day, took a couple weeks to get rid of the smell).

Here in Spain, you “are legally allowed to use a pinewood casket or just a shroud”… at the same time as “only a funeral home is allowed to perform a cremation or burial”… and they all refuse to do businesses with you unless you also pay for a much pricier casket and some extra services.

Nice tiny loophole, ain’t it?

killed 500 people all at once

And destroyed 80% of a hospital… or did it?

All the proof shows a parking lot with fewer than 10 cars on fire, surrounded by a hospital that’s still standing and usable, and maybe a dozen dead (there might be more, there is no proof of them yet).

A hospital that’s still standing with a bunch of burnt cars in the parking lot, while some people claim “80% destruction” and “500 dead” after taking a photoshoot in a corner of the parking lot, surrounded by like a dozen dead kids.

It’s a tragedy. It’s also BS, just which way.

When you have a loved one pass away… and you get forced to pony up $10k for a basic service, cremation in a nice casket, and a pretty expensive “basic” urn for the ashes, because the funeral home won’t let you use anything cheaper like a pine box or a shroud, with the only choice beong between an “eco gas” cremation in your own city vs. a $2k cheaper “non eco” one a city over… you’ll know why people call funeral homes vultures and look for alternatives.

In office there would be plenty of smell talk, coffee breaks, diddling with smartphones and other ways to relax in between

But don’t you miss the smell and all the diddling…? 😛

that blog disappeared into the aether

Out of curiosity… before, or after Archive.org?

So like, hypothetically, how much would one have to steal to get a 350… or being a Loch Ness Monster would be enough?

Suicide by cop vet, you say? That bear needs counseling!

Sure there can be actual conspiracies, but they also usually come with accompanying evidence and more than hunches, hindsight, or temporally related events.

Evidence is what turns a “conspiracy theory” into either a “proven conspiracy” or a “debunked conspiracy”. Without the former, there would be none of the latter… not sure how is that hard to understand.

The word literally means “good death”, meaning for a good reason. Consent is one such reason, terminal illness is another, stealing gummy bears… is not.

Or rather… the tokens were held on a sidechain created in collaboration with FTX… yes, that FTX, the one that “misplaced” a bunch of billions of dollars, and for a long time it took a somewhat elaborate way to convert Reddit community points (Moons, Bricks) into USD.

A couple months ago, after the API debacle, the tokens got listed on Kraken… and their value took a quick nosedive.

They “IPO-ed” them, and it failed, so now they’re slashing them.

“Humanely” implies a reason that isn’t just because it behaved not how you wanted it. That’s called “sacrificing” or at best “killing”, like when you want to eat steak but the cow insists on breathing.

There are over 300k lemmy users, so that would be an average of 300. You can find plenty of instances with between 100 and 1000 users.

You’re conflating “conspiratorial thinking” with “conspiracy theories”.

Conspiracies are a real thing, they happen all the time (and most are punishable by law); conspiratorial thinking is people coming up with, and believing, conspiracies no matter how impossible they are, which is way different from actual conspiracies.

“Conspiracy theories” just happens to be a term that can be used in both cases, it doesn’t mean all of them are impossible.