the Central Park Five and the West Memphis Three are two of the most infamous cases of lazy cops pinning brutal crimes on groups of children and then coercing confessions out of them.

That's really fucked up. It almost guarantees that there's gonna be a percentage of people who are totally innocent but take prison time in a deal because they are threatened by too much more. In my country the system is the opposite - too lenient, which isn't necessarily bad if accompanied by work to rehabilitate and reduce recidivism, but there's very little of that either.

Yup, we have an insane amount of laws and no one can actually read through and remember the entire legal code.

The average American unwittingly commits 3 felonies a day.

The assailant used chemical weapons in attempt to escape ICE.

Dude: I forgot to take my lactase and ate too much dairy for lunch and farted in his face while they were illegally arresting me.

Absolutely ridiculous that its happening in a legal court system that most people believe in too.

It does make sense, because money and power override whats fair and decent in a society. Thats why all the evil people want money.

The models were made to be run locally on your own data, let the corpos in and they'll find a way to destroy the world, screw the people, and add eshitification to literally everything.

To add on that: For repetitive tasks, we don’t need AI. For that, we need programming. AI might help some of us write the code though (if you don’t care about code quality).

Lmao go away

This is the best tip so far, I hadn’t thought of pre filtering it like that, I usually just look for older links in general. Thanks!

That doesn't solve the problem: it only disables the duck.ai assistant, but doesn't disable the search results that are normal websites generated with AI (the real issue here). To be fair, that's not DDG problem specifically but every search engine problem.

The web is now full of these fake websites, which is a real problem because on the search results they look legit and only when visiting them you realize it's AI crap.

And the funny (or sad) thing is that current AIs are being trained on these fake hallucinating sites, so even they are suffering from false information, which in turn is given to humans and used to make more fake websites and... the result is up to your imagination.

I think they meant that even when you have AI disabled, the top search results are still mostly AI slop.

Startpage is also an alternative. Privacy and no AI. Better than that DDG shit.

Been a while since I've had to use that piece-of-shit in anger; but doesn't the "save as" options give you the possibility of saving it as HTML but with all of those changes baked in? It's easier to copy-paste HTML.

I mean, AI matches perfectly with some of the stuff Allende was working on before he was murdered

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You ever serve on a grand jury? It's a fucking joke. No defense attorney, only the prosecution. Not technically allowed to consider the potential sentencing if eventually taken to trial and found guilty. My grand jury peers had basically no discussion before greenlighting every indictment. There's no justice in grand jury indictments... Except the sandwich guy.

I used it like 2 years ago to help write some copy on my web site, and it did fine. But it's a novelty.

Stfu *until jury deliberation

AI data centers can get electricity. They just gotta pay.

You know, like other large industrial users of electricity.

Where I live, electricity companies are state owned, I'm guessing it's not like that where you are. However, the taxes the company pays helps the area.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath