The plot thickens. That would explain how young and spry the tank driver was.

You joke, but the law is a prime area for AI to do most of the work:

• far more expansive knowledge of statute and case law, to include comparable cases from other jurisdictions that may not be precedential, but could inform consistent rulings.
• ability to know disposition of all similar cases to ensure ruling is consistent.
• not swayed by emotion
• able to readily detect specious arguments, and other tricks lawyers play.

It would probably be a bad idea to just turn everything over to a computer but I could definitely see them I mean into something like a "super law clerk" in the next few decades.

I wonder if in 3 years we'll start seeing if movies have a different tone, ones that started their production cycle after Trump already got elected.

We will see a whole raft of films centering around the rise of fascism (some historical, some near future-type) and democracies being dismantled from within by evil leaders.

The video itself is pretty cringe, but how the fuck was it allowed to be played in court? Sure, the victim impact isn't part of the evidence at trial, but it's supposed to be considered in sentencing and it becomes part of the trial record.

No one knows if he would have forgiven his murderer, because he's fucking dead. It's nothing more than supposition given a false veneer of authenticity with a computer simulation.

Old guy looks great for his age; I would have guessed he was in his 70s. Shame he's being used as a political puppet.

So, a handheld to play all the games that will also be available on every other platform (except Nintendo, who uses cell phone-power processors)?

This is where exclusives drive sales. Why would I buy your handheld over something like a Steam Deck if that device plays all your games and then some?

OK, dude is 85 years old. The oldest allegation is from 2007, 18 years ago when he would have been 67. The most recent is from 2024.

Does anyone believe an 84 year old man was sexually assaulting anyone? I mean his bones would probably shatter if she gave him a hard shove. It's more credible when he is in his late 60s, but we're back to the perennial question: why did you wait 18 years to report it?

#believeallwomen (are liars)

Who had Street shitters starting World War 3 on their prediction sheet for 2025?

The biggest tragedy of the Holocaust is that people three generations removed from it still have to have it rubbed in their face everyday by Jews.

When I know people don't like me, I ask myself how I may have contributed to their dislike and if there's anything I could have done differently or should be doing differently to repair the relationship. That's clearly a level of self-reflection beyond the Jewish people. Simply hand waving away any and all criticism as anti-semitism is the equivalent of blacks crying racism whenever their actions are called into question.

And honestly, ROFL that someone got a bar owned by a Jewish guy to display "Fuck the Jews" on a marquee. First class trolling.

“More importantly, the people who ordered these signs, they have agreed − [and] I'm going to pay for it − we're going to send them to Germany, to Auschwitz, [to] learn a little bit about history,

Auschwitz is in Poland...

"Money = Votes"

I wish we would go to a "merit=votes" system. Everybody can have one vote as a sop to the universal suffrage crowd, but it goes up from there. Graduated high school? +1. Served in the military/Peace Corps/Americorps? +1. Net tax payer? +1. Pick whatever indicators you like for being a "good citizen" and productive member of society and assigned bonus votes to them.

In a scenario like that, someone rich like Bill Gates would get the extra vote for being a taxpayer, but he never served in the military and quit college before graduating, so he'd lose those sorts of votes. The goal would be to concentrate the maximum amount of votes in middle class taxpayers (both an absolute numbers and in votes per person), leaving predatory rich people and welfare parasites both unable to muster enough votes to be a deciding force in an election.

I think this gets posted every year or so on this board, but it's relevant to the post today: https://youtu.be/9rcIJIWqYmo?feature=shared

The Enforcer was released in 1976, which makes it almost 50 years old, but it's still within the lifetime of a number of posters here. You will never, under any circumstance, see the protagonist in a current day movie raise such heated and well-founded objections to affirmative action. It, along with the clip from Death Wish, show just how far western society has fallen in only one generation.

Spoiler alert: despite the female character being uncharacteristically competent, he was correct in his initial assessment as she was later killed.

The point of the tariffs is to raise the price of imported goods in order to make US made alternatives more competitive. I'm not sure if it's the right move, but I think continuing to fund a country that is most likely going to be our major enemy in the next war by purchasing mountains of cheap crap from them isn't a good idea.

Regarding transparency, I'm all for it: let's also itemize all of our bills to show what the company paid for raw materials, production, shipping, and wages. I'm betting people wouldn't be willing to buy as much stuff or would choose products with a lower price to cost ratio if they had that info.

And that's always been a headscratcher for me: you've just ended WWII, where most of Europe tried to wipe your race off the planet (the French happily loaded the boxcars, and the Eastern Europeans manned the camps. Only the Scandinavian states, and ironically Italy, actively refused to participate).

You would think they would at least try to get along with their neighbors when England guiltily gave them the land that was also promised to the Muslims to form their new country. Instead, they immediately settled in out of bounds areas and they've been fighting the Arabs and stealing land ever since.

I'm not a con-pro heil Hitler type, but between the behavior of Israel and how jews have disproportionately inserted themselves in so many positions of power and influence in the west, there's definitely something off about them.

The neck was the first thing to go.

They're also extremely rare, unnatural, and undesirable. It's like saying that since there are e a few two-headed snakes in nature, we should run around sewing second heads on a ton more.

There's actually been a case where one single man killed a Grizzly bare handed by shoving his arm down the grizzly's throat and grabbing the tongue, then holding on til it choked to death.

I think we would be surprised at what people will do to survive, and in a group of 100 there's bound to be at least a few that could pull off some similar feat out of desperation.

I'm not sure. I was pointing BollocksToBolsheviks to where he might find people that play hardcore war games. Sort of a tangent to the main topic of the thread.

Check out the wargames sub on Boardgamegeek. It's probably the only non-BLM and LGBTQABCXYZ flag waving portion of that site

I don't have a specific wish list, but the thought of every show with a race swap or annoying female protagonist having a corrected version pop up in torrents within a day of airing warms my heart.

So it's some ceremony where the aborigines open up events by announcing that their allowing the event to happen?

Edit: that's exactly what it is:

A Welcome to Country is a ceremony performed by a local Aboriginal person of significance, usually an Elder, to acknowledge and give consent to events taking place on their traditional lands. It is a sign of respect and protocol that dates back to traditional times prior to colonisation.

A Welcome to Country is different from an Acknowledgement of Country, which can be performed by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to recognise the continuing connection of Aboriginal people to Country. However, a Welcome to Country can only be performed by Traditional Custodians of the land.

Fuck that noise. All the land in Australia belongs to the descendants of the English penal colony established there who took it by right of conquest. What an enormous slap in the face to have to ask for permission from the natives to honor their own war dead.

The only time I see ads is on the TVs at the gym (which are muted) and when I visit friends and family. It's jarring how annoying and pervasive they are.

I don't understand how someone can watch a movie or TV show on broadcast TV because they interrupt every couple minutes with 2 minutes of commercials, and I swear it becomes more frequent the closer you get to the end of the show.

What is "Welcome to Country"? A song?

Bonus points for the wife being the one in charge in both commercials. I am absolutely disgusted how for at least 20 years men are consistently depicted as incompetent in media and basically the children of their wives.