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My cousin died when she hit a tree after swerving to miss a deer. My friend Aaron died in high school when he had a diabetic siezure driving to work. They would probably both be alive if we had this technology back then. I miss them.
I don't care if I sound like a shill, my Tesla is amazing
Every drive is just, wow, the car is driving
Soon drunk driving manslaughter will be over. Text-and-drivers, geriatric loons on the wrong side of the road, road ragers, just gone, a historical problem
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I don't care if I sound like a shill, my Tesla is amazing
Every drive is just, wow, the car is driving
Soon drunk driving manslaughter will be over. Text-and-drivers, geriatric loons on the wrong side of the road, road ragers, just gone, a historical problem
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Every day that goes by without updates the more concerned I am that yeah, we Terri Schiavo'ed Christa Pike
I'm not against the death penalty per se but this would rightfully create a massive legal and ethical quagmire around the dominant method in all 27 practicing states
I had a dark realization that if we Terri Schiavo'ed Christa Pike, that would be considered a cruel and unusual execution
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All in all the failure goes to the prison commissioner who oversaw this process, if you're going to execute people your procedure should have a contingency planning section that definitely isn't just "we have a second dose, give it another go champ"
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If you were raised right you can literally just do this
I drank too much at a party sophomore year, ended up passed out on a couch.
In my intermittent conscious moments, one guy kept appearing. A popular senior I’d never actually talked to.
He spent the night telling every guy there that I was his little sister.
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I've learned by now that if I take a forbidden object from a toddler I can't just replace it with one he's allowed to have
No, I must act passionately interested in some other object I'm willing to sacrifice
This 1 y/o has nothing on me. I'm seeing in 11 dimensions. Miles ahead
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What we're seeing is an acknowledgement that legible law cannot solve this problem, but illegible law can. Prosecutorial discretion over the entire population of people having drunk sex with one another
In principle, very bad, but it's hard to say it's not what we deserve
Choosing to have a drink is not consent, and it’s never a license for sexual assault.
New York law should reflect that.
I support closing the voluntary intoxication loophole and will work with the Legislature to get it done.
Community note
There is no law in New York saying choosing to drink means consenting to sex.
Current New York law says voluntary intoxication does not invalidate an individual's ability to give consent, as it does not meet the state's standard of "mentally incapacitated".
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Comments like this go a long way toward understanding a certain soft-on-crime mindset
Isolating Christa Pike from other people is torture; subjecting her future cellmates to her opportunistic murder attempts is not
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If these companies think it's possible they've created consciousness in a digital substrate rather than a biological one I actually think it's very very very good that they're so weirded out they're consulting the theologians as well as the secular philosophers
This is deeply disturbing:
Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing, all while wining & dining them to the max. 1/ tinyurl.com/preview/296b5z8z
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Yes. Finally.
Be a good person. Care about how your behavior affects other people regardless of what you can get away with.
Protect yourself. Avoid people and places defined by self-destruction and vice. Always err on the side of leaving before there is a problem.
This should be really simple. If you’re a man, avoid extreme hedonistic edge cases of consent. If you’re a woman, avoid becoming completely incapacitated and defenseless in rooms full of strange men. This conversation has been deranged by deontological assertions about how the rules “should” operate that tacitly assume an omniscient and impartial court system. But you know we don’t and can’t have that, so don’t be an idiot. Exercise some basic judgement and restraint. It doesn’t really matter if you were morally in the right if it’s going to wreck your life anyway. Be sane. Tell your sons and daughters both to not engage in drunken orgies so your sons can avoid jail and your daughters can avoid rape. There is no possible system that isn’t dystopian-levels of intrusive and totalitarian that will close all possible gaps in our legal apparatus such that it’s safe to act like an unhinged moron with no consequences.
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