What tech do you think is going to be introduced?

Designer pandemics

Someone can lack education but be pretty mentally sharp in some cognitive tasks regardless

There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.

These statements aren’t in disagreement, but accusing “street smart” people of actually being stupid is contradicted by the first one

At this point I’m just hoping for reduced federal influence over blue states and measures to help out refugees from the places whose own state governments are working against them.

To me whether this comic is being fair hinges on stuff like, how many people are being intentionally murdered with cars but the killer gets off easy because of the method? How many accidental gun deaths are prosecuted more harshly than they should be? I don’t actually know the answer to these. It does seem relevant that guns are a tool designed for killing.

The easiest way to tell they only did this for the picture is the lack of red stains on the pants

One thing I dislike about streamers is when you can tell they are using their voice in a “hey you should take me seriously, I am obviously right” kind of tone, and are good at that, but the actual words are just repeating a common opinion and devoid of much any substance or argument. Like they think adjusting the way they say something makes them more right.

I wouldn’t go that far, because it’s not the worst possible thing, but yeah I still don’t like it.

Never read the article—why bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?

Unfortunately you can’t even really blame people when it’s all paywalled and you have to know the extra steps (or be rich and subscribe to 100 online newspapers) to be able to actually obtain the text.

Does this website have an onion mirror?

This is why, as a legal principle, freedom of speech can’t be contingent on things like the subjective definition of terrorism. Governments must be prohibited from shutting up protestors.

This is one of the main reasons I hate the attitude that everything you write is supposed to be very filtered.

Also we’re talking about a life-critical system here. What kind of testing and certification are offered by this software. What about the assembly of the hardware?

All irrelevant if the alternative is nothing at all. If the barrier is a million dollars being too expensive, get someone with moderate technical skills to spend a few weeks doing their best setting something up, it will still be an improvement.

Even then I don’t see why something like this wouldn’t work. If not, you could spend 100x more money and still be nowhere close to a million.

flood warning systems are often simple networks of rain gauges or stream gauges that are triggered when rain or floodwaters exceed a certain level.

The gauges can then be used to warn those at risk of flooding, whether by text message, which may not be effective in areas with spotty cellphone service; notifications broadcast on TV and radio; or sometimes through a series of sirens.

It doesn’t seem like a basic solution should even cost nearly that much.

Sure, but this is more addressed to the people who do not intend to go vegan, but are considering replacing the red meat in their diet with other meat for ethical reasons.

I don’t think anything is more likely to work. I don’t think they are capable of preventing terrorist attacks on planes directly, just like they aren’t capable of preventing any mass killings. I think TSA procedures are there to serve the purpose of pretending that they can. If it isn’t happening, it’s because no one happens to be trying hard enough. The only thing that could work is creating an overall situation in society where people are less motivated to do it, not preventing specific acts.

the conditions of meat chickens living in cages is the reason why bird flu spread so much

There is actually a bad epidemic in wild birds recently, and there is a big risk of it transferring from them to chicken flocks when they have access to the same space.

One cow with a low quality of life imo is less ethical than a bunch of chickens with a decent quality of life, even if we consider numbers.

I guess that makes sense, if you can make an animal’s life good overall, in that situation maybe it wouldn’t be a net negative to farm more of them. Though realistically I think it’s going to be very difficult to have any confidence you’re buying such meat at the grocery (if you can even afford the stuff claiming to be more ethical) and you’d probably have to raise the animals yourself for that.

Well no, because the line between “superstitious bullshit” and “timeless moral principles” seems to be one you chose, where the standard is your own values. So it doesn’t make sense to me to criticize people for picking and choosing, when the real issue is that the line they chose between what parts are good or bad reflects values that are bad for reasons other than religion.

Since it’s a comic I wouldn’t expect the letters to be that consistent if you assume the artist is writing manually, but otoh the specific font being used looks exactly like the font in every ChatGPT comic.

but it’s a lot easier to have free range chickens than it is to have cows doing the same.

I don’t know about that, it’s pretty difficult to keep (what I would consider) genuinely free range chickens because of predators and various other factors (the need to keep them away from wild birds because of bird flu comes to mind), and the commercial definition of free range doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good quality of life. There’s also how meat chickens are mostly all a specific type of crossbreed that is perpetually hungry, prone to cannibalism and health problems, and not meant to live longer than a few months.

But even if you could say that the average chicken raised for meat is better off than the average cow raised for meat, there’s still how you need vastly more of them for the same amount of meat, so if their lives are still a net negative and you’re weighing it by sum of individual experiences, it could be considered worse from a utilitarian perspective because of the numbers.