Trump: “We want to pay SNAP, we just don’t know how to! We don’t want to illegally allocate funds, we need the courts to tell us how to proceed!”

Courts: “This is how to pay it; you have to do so.”

Trump: [Appeals]

Well… yes? Did you read the article? Or the thread you’re replying to?

There are two court cases here (as you seem to understand…) - a civil case against the school, which awarded monetary damages to the teacher (as civil cases often do), and a criminal case against the mother, which awarded prison time (as criminal cases often do). Quite literally, as I stated in the post you replied to, the monetary damages she’s collecting are because the school administrator didn’t do her job. The prison time the mother is serving is because she had an unsecured firearm in her house that the child used. They’re two different things.

I firmly believe that police officer testimony that can’t be backed up by bodycam footage shouldn’t even be admissible. There’s essentially no reason for a cop to not have their bodycam turned on at all times unless they specifically chose to turn it off, so there’s no reason we should have to accept testimony without it.

It’s not absolving the mother of anything. This is a civil case against the school specifically because the administrator did not do their job. There was a separate, criminal case against the mother, which came with its own penalties.

Lairmore had testified that the sandwich “exploded all over” his chest and claimed he could smell mustard and onions. But a photo showed that the sandwich was still in its wrapper on the ground after it hit Lairmore in his bulletproof vest.

So he perjured himself, then? Surely something’s going to come of that? No? Huh, okay, then.

Well, no. She’s collecting tax payer dollars because a school administrator didn’t do anything when told that the child might have a gun.

An even scarier thought is that the Bible could actually be making them seem way better than they are in reality.

Would be hilarious if people just kept going and putting more eyes on it every time they removed them.

This seems… so completely not worth getting upset over. What image was supposedly censored?

No, but you sure need more of it.

why would toilet paper be cheaper if you shave your butthole

Imagine wiping peanut butter off of a tile floor vs. wiping it out of a shag carpet.

That was our feeling, too - if we did lose everything, we have digital backups of those documents. The chances are obviously low of having a fire, but that’s not really the point… the intent is to plan for the “what if” scenario. If you want 100% fire safety, you store things off-site, but this was an acceptable level of risk for the cost, for us. You mention floods; these boxes are rated for much longer in water, so they might be applicable to your use-case.

We have a fireproof / waterproof safe box we store documents like that in (essentially this). It’s not going to keep an intruder from getting the documents if they wanted to (they could just take the box with them and smash it open, it’s certainly not good as an anti-theft device) but it’s waterproof and fireproof and that’s more what we were concerned with.

It’s worth noting that these aren’t rated to protect documents from a prolonged intense fire; if your house burns to the ground, it’s probably not going to help.

Given the outpouring of support nationwide for Mamdani, this feels like a bold move. If they misjudge the population, this could end up providing unprecedented support for these candidates rather than scaring people away from them.

if an RSS bot posts an article, a human is not going to post it again

I reject your premise, on the basis that it seems like basically every article, worth reading or not, is posted repeatedly (by humans) over the span of a day or two anyway.

Of course, I block the bot accounts, so if there are interesting articles that aren’t being re-posted, I can’t see them, but… I’d say my Lemmy experience is considerably better even with the presumed reduction in content.

To directly answer your question, even if I could see them, I wouldn’t engage with bot account posts.

Johnson posted on X that “Zohran Mamdani’s election cements the Democrat Party’s transformation to a radical, big-government socialist party,” and that while “Mamdani’s extreme agenda is the future of the Democrat Party,”

Can this be true, please? Geez, Mike, I’ve never been so excited about politics as I would be for your hypothetical reality.

Equivalently, the total freshwater spent on entities doing the tasks will be lower if the AI does them than if we have people do them.

According to the paper you’re referencing, the most common use case is practical guidance. I’d argue that that directly opposes this statement. Those activities are actively engaging both the AI and the human, so however much freshwater it would take for the human to do independent research or whatever is appropriate on the topics they’re asking AI about is still being used by the human using the AI, but the AI’s water use is occurring in addition to that.

Same goes for “seeking information”, the second most common use case. This one I suppose comes down to how the AI is being used. If someone is asking the AI a question and taking the response they get at face value and doing nothing further, they will invariably spend less time than doing independent research, however the quality of that result is roughly equivalent to just typing it into a search engine and trusting whatever the top result is, which is also a very low time consuming task. In either case, the human is engaged during the whole process, so the AI is adding additional water usage.

In the case of writing / editing / translating, the AI is probably doing the task appreciably faster than the human would and I could perhaps see your stance holding true.

For fiction generation, I assume they’re talking about having the AI write something for the user’s consumption (e.g. roleplaying with the AI)… the examples they give are “Crafting poems, stories, or fictional content”. Is reading AI generated fiction really any better than reading a book? Because reading a book is certainly going to consume less water than having the AI write that fiction. I don’t see the appeal in AI-generated fiction personally, so I might not understand the common use case here.

I’ll also add as a tangential point that this only accounts for AI use that’s intentional and targeted (e.g. asking ChatGPT a question). If you also consider all of the “involuntary” AI use - for example, AI generated entries at the top of search results when none were requested or wanted - there’s a quantity of resources - not only water, but power, as well, which I think is the bigger concern overall, particularly in the US right now - being spent for zero benefit.

Regarding your points about the time that would otherwise be spent writing emails or looking up recipes, if that’s an accurate representation of how much time you spend on those tasks, I can at least concede that using AI to accomplish them is saving you a considerable amount of time. I think you’re in a stark minority in the amount of time you spend on those tasks, however.

One issue with AI generated recipes that I will point out is that the AI doesn’t actually know how to make that thing, it’s just compiling what it thinks is a reasonable recipe based on the recipes it has been trained with. Even if we assume that the ingredient quantities make sense for what you’re making, chances are the food will taste better - particularly for complex dishes - if you’re using a recipe curated by humans rather than an AI approximation.

Another Crab’s Treasure is excellent.

Etrian Odyssey HD is a good game but has Denuvo DRM for some reason so do with that what you will.

TW:WH3 is kind of a mess with an absurd amount of overpriced DLC; what you’re getting here is only a small piece of the game.

Can’t comment on the rest, as I haven’t played them.

I really hope we can all just collectively agree that we as a nation will never convict anyone by jury for crimes against ICE, no matter what they are. Trump is weaponizing the pardon, we can weaponize the jury trial right back at him.

Play Yakity Sax at 25% speed, then play the video back at 4x for the right effect.