Can you point to one? I think it's been months and months since I talked with one. The last time I interacted with a "Russia isn't that bad and it's partly Ukraine's fault anyway" was a couple of days ago.
Who in God's name doesn't take issue with Israel attacking everyone in the region?
I mean I understand that in the US government and in some of the less news savvy parts of the US people think it's fine, but I think on Lemmy we're pretty much lacking in anyone who thinks anything Israel is doing is okay. Russia of course is another story.
Took a lot of public outrage to make those happen.
Correct. Almost as if a lot of it is up to us, not this fatalist thing where the strong always crush the weak.
I mean it's not even fully correct. It's partly correct. Dan Ellsberg didn't have any public outrage directly on his side except for a handful of Weathermen, it was just a general sentiment of the time that worked in his favor. Which, again, was my point. Of course that was a while ago, things have gotten worse since then. On the other hand, we are where we are.
In the chauvin case, i think several of the people who organized protests were suicided or car bombed
Car bombed?
You "think"?
Not really dude. That's why I brought up things like Dan Ellsberg. That's why Derek Chauvin is in prison right now.
That thinking is true sometimes. Not always.
Yeah. We basically made all of this up. It's just down to what the traditions are, what judges have habits of ruling on, how the police and courthouse staff and attorneys are all in the habit of listening to people and conducting themselves and what they do and don't enforce.
We can have Jim Crow, or Nuremberg, or Daniel Ellsberg getting found not guilty for what the White House said was basically high treason. Or we can have the French Revolution. We can have whatever we want. It's all just kind of how people set up their habits, at the end of the day. I'm just saying that if you look it up in the law books, and follow the details, it's illegal.
It's also not legal. I don't really know the details, I feel like usually in practice in the US it's a civil penalty instead of criminal charges for the cops, but it is certainly illegal to arrest people for things that aren't crimes, even if all your friends are doing it too.
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Cunningham, who said that he’d skimmed the op-ed, testified that he “didn’t see anything in the op-ed that suggested she’d committed a crime.”
“I did contact our legal counsel to make sure that we’re on solid legal ground.”
I can help you with that one sir
Wait, is this a dragon fruit? I have I think exactly this plant that I was given, and aside from a single big red flower one time it's never made any effort to make dragon fruit. I thought it was just a aggressively minded cactus...
I love how everyone in your replies is all of a sudden an expert on hitmen and their parameters.
Yes, a few minutes alone in a room with someone is long enough to kill them and make it look like something else. I'm as qualified as anyone else here (I've even seen a YouTube interview with an ex-professional hit man, so probably more so), so I can just say that and it becomes so.
Yeah, generally having it read the conversation (I think as JSON, maybe in markdown for the first pass, I can't remember, it's a little tricky to get the comments into a format where it'll reliably grasp the structure and who said what, but it's doable) and then do its output as JSON, and then have those JSON pieces given as input to further stages, seems like it works pretty well. It falls apart if you try to do too much at once. If I remember right, the passes I wound up doing were:
And I think that was pretty much it. It can't do all of that at once reliably, but it can do each piece pretty well and then pass the answers on to the next stage. Just what I've observed of political arguments on Lemmy, I think that would eliminate well over 50% of the bullshit though. There's way too many people who are more excited about debunking some kind of strawman-concept they've got in their head, than they are with even understanding what the other person's even saying. I feel like something like that would do a lot to counteract it.
The fly in the ointment is that people would have to consent to having their conversation judged by it, and I feel like there is probably quite a lot of overlap between the people who need it in order to have a productive interaction, and those who would never in a million years agree to have something like that involved in their interactions...
No, I just know scripting