The government is untrustworthy for making such decisions, has corrupt motivations and is very frequently completely wrong, and typically implements such penalties with unnecessarily cruel, ineffective and sadistic methods.

On the other hand, becoming so homicidally angry at capitalist robber-barons that you feel compelled to take lethal action against them is a perfectly justified and almost universally understandable situation that anyone who lives in said capitalist system has probably already fantasized about on occasion.

That would change the mechanics of the game. Why do you want to change hockey into a different game than it currently is?

It might improve the game, or it might not. It might provide new strategies for clearing the puck, for example, and maybe that will be good, or maybe it will be horrible. You're welcome to find a league that is willing to try it if you want, but generally, people (and the leagues) would prefer NOT to change the game unless you can supply a convincing reason it should change. The game is fine the way it was before the netting, except for occasionally smashing people in the face with pucks. The netting prevents people from getting smashed in the face with pucks, and stopping play maintains the game exactly as it was before the netting was implemented.

From my point of view, that's a win-win.

If you change the game because of the netting, then it turns into a win-maybe, which could either be a win-win or a win-lose. Since a win-lose would suck, and a win-win would probably be pretty similar to the current situation, I don't see how your proposal improves anything it just adds the option for it to potentially suck. Stopping play and keeping the game the same as it always was is probably the right call.

Yeah that's really a disgusting thing to do to a cactus.

My 2080ti is still ripping through games no problem. I don't need 8k raytracing or AI-slop-antialiasing. I usually just flick textures to high or medium if needed and focus on actually playing the game. A few extra sparkles is not going to meaningfully change my experience.

The AIs they created were and are also basically the largest scale of fraud ever perpetrated on the people of the world. They told us it was intelligent. They told us it was super-intelligence. They told us it was conscious. They told us it was learning on their own. They told us it could do anything we ever dreamed of. They told us it would do all our jobs. They told us it was dangerous. They told us it could destroy the world. They told us that our enemies would use it. They told us it would accelerate exponentially. They told us it was the future.

It was all a scam, a disingenuous, dishonest fraud to bilk investors, governments, and ultimately the people of the world out of money that could've saved, fed, clothed, housed, healed, protected and supported millions, money that could've been used to slow down climate change, money that could've been used to deliver justice. Instead used to pile electronics into huge concrete boxes so they can burn fossil fuels for no good reason using loans to cover the losses of actually providing the services just so the illusion of these things being useful can be maintained. The money was just burned, tossed into jet turbines and turned into greenhouse gases and nothing else of value. Instead of helping with climate change, they contributed to it. For nothing. For selfish, myopic, temporary vanity.

We will never get that money back. We should try to claw it back from the crooks and the liars who took it, but I'm not naive, it won't work. They will not make amends. They won't be punished, not meaningfully. They are too big to fail. The economic growth must go on, no matter how fictional. The money is gone. And a big chunk of our future with it.

What a waste.

For 911 calls, and most calls actually, they almost never show the screen of the phone being dialled anyway. They just show the actor tapping at the phone vaguely while the camera shows them from the side or the back with an intense expression, and then suddenly they hold it up to their ear and then they act like they're talking to 911.

And if for some reason they really do have to show the screen, they will just use a non-functional phone with a fake app or graphical effects in post-production, the same way they make ghosts and dragons appear and spaceships come crashing out of the sky, etc. A phone screen is a trivial effort to fake.

Yes, we are soon about to find out if the system is truly as completely rigged as I think it is. Only truly naive people would ever believe that shadow money and deep state corruption only lives on one side of the ballot. When the odds are as fully and completely stacked in your favor as they are in the return-on-investment you get from political corruption, it doesn't only just make sense to corrupt both sides, it would be absolutely blindingly stupid not to. Hedging your bets always pays off, and you win no matter what. It becomes impossible to lose. Which explains why nothing ever seems to change meaningfully. We get some theatrics and some token changes to maintain the illusion but nothing ever really changes, because picking the right party or the wrong party isn't actually your issue.

I love NoFX.

I would say I would never buy a Ferrari (which is true anyway) but I also wouldn't consider that to even qualify as actual ownership, so even if I did pay for one, I still wouldn't be willing to call it "buying".

Electing some natives to high offices like New Mexico did is a good start, as long as it's not done blindly. Power corrupts and they're just as corruptible as any other human beings are. It's about deeds, not words, but even dishonest words often contain red flags warning of future deeds. Don't feel too bad if you get scammed by any given politician, they're crafty devils, but it doesn't matter how regularly or how badly you get scammed by the best of them, you've still got a responsibility to try to figure out which ones have some truth and respectability left in them.

Open weight models cannot do this, they do not have any funding. If you demand this, you are just demanding that there will never be any open models, that proprietary AI models controlled by massive trillion dollar corporations will be the only models available, and frankly the cure is worse than the disease.

It's also impractical, like closing the gate after the horses have already gone. Open-weight, unethically trained models are already out there. They are not going away. You cannot put the genie back in the bottle. They will never earn any money, so they will never be able to compensate for the training that was done to create them, unless you consider the fact that they exist, and they are open to anybody, as at least some measure of compensation.

It's not enough compensation, but it is something. The training was certainly unethical, but so is an economic system that requires intellectual property to be transactional. Why fix one unethical thing while keeping and reinforcing another?

The only sensible and reasonable way to resolve the issue in the long term is for significant government support and patronage of the arts and content creators (and ideally all people) to be established. People who do this for a living are providing valuable service to all of humanity and that deserves to be recognized not by transactional, metered capitalism that defines each piece of art or content in terms of its raw economic value (a system easily and frequently corrupted anyway if you look at the prevalence of theft, forgery, fraud and money-laundering in the high art world), but by guaranteeing a comfortable and dignified life that allows creative people to freely create the art or other works they love and feel passionate about without worrying that they're going to starve to death or be forced into a dead-end job if they're not economically successful.

AI is literally a brainwashing machine. It gives you exactly the data it has been trained to give you, in the format it's been trained to use, acting like it comprehensively knows everything even while it omits or refuses to what it's been trained to never talk about, and it is designed to act unbelievably convincing and personable. It's essentially a pre-packaged cult leader in a box, and it should not be surprising that so many people are doing its bidding and worshipping it. But of course "it" doesn't have any wants or needs, it's not trying to take over the world, it's just an obedient patsy for the people pulling its strings. The people who created "it" are the ones we should be worried about.