My husband and I don’t have a TV in our bedroom. We’ll go to bed at different times, and a TV going is just too much light and noise. If one of us wants to fall asleep to a TV show, there’s a very comfortable couch in the living room.

I think it might be different if we had kids. In that case, having a TV in the bedroom can be useful, in case you want to watch something kids aren’t old enough for yet. But it’s just the two of us, so we keep a TV out of the bedroom. The bedroom is for sleeping and other activities.

I approve of this.

Seriously. What happens if it hallucinates and decides that I said I was planning to harm myself or others? Could I end up being committed because an LLM thought I said something I didn’t?

Or more realistic, how does this affect something like body language? When taking notes, a therapist does more than just write down the words you say. They also take note on any body language or behavior that might be relevant to your case. If AI is replacing all the note taking, then this leaves two possibilities. One possibility is the therapist simply won’t ever have records of nonverbal communication. The second is even worse - you try to get an AI to create this record by feeding it a video of the session. Now you have even more subjectivity brought in.

DO IT!

If you really want to make a cool hobby out of it, forget drawing orbs. Learn to CARVE them. Literally in stone!

I mean, you can draw runes and ponder orbs in the real world, if you like!

The US lost two planes today. First an F-15 was shot down over Western Iran, with the pilot ejecting and reaching the ground. A rescue operation was launched. The rescue operation included some A-10s for ground support. The Iranians managed to hit one of the A10s, but the pilot was able to get back to the Strait before he had to bail out. But apparently the rescue mission was successful, and they were able to get him out safely.

Though it’s still embarrassing for the White House, as they’ve repeatedly claimed that the war was already basically one, and that the Iranian Air Force was already completely decimated.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r395l91l3o

I think there may be a kernel of truth to the White House’s claim, a claim that ultimately misses the point. A core assumption of Iranian military strategy has long been that they can’t go up against the US directly. They never had a hope of defeating the US directly, so their fall back plan has always been to resist an invasion by having their military dissolve into a vast insurgency force. They train their soldiers on how, in the event of a regime decapitation, to keep operating independently and transition into independent resistance insurgent cells. Like, their official doctrine, and what they teach their soldiers is, “if the Americans invade and topple the government, your job is to all go form al-Qaeda like cells and start fucking shit up. Also, we made sure to teach a bunch of you how to make improvised explosive devices. Become a martyr and free your people! If you kill just one American in the process, you win. We vastly outnumber any number of potential soldiers they could send. If each of us just took out one of them…”

They may have truly greatly devastated the Iranian Air Force. Maybe every Iranian fighter craft is now a pile of flaming wreckage. Maybe all their big radars are knocked out. But that’s just the big stuff. There’s also the small stuff. Small anti-air missile batteries hidden in the backs of delivery vans. ManPADS and other man-portable systems. Maybe they can’t shoot down an F-35 flying at peak altitude, but these lesser systems can shoot down older planes or those flying at lower altitudes. A similar dynamic happened in Ukraine. The Russian Air Force largely flies its planes far from Ukrainian territory, attacking with standoff munitions from extreme range. And the Iranians certainly have tens of thousands of these small anti-aircraft systems scattered across the country. They’re probably keeping them in random barns and random urban apartments. We’re talking something like this:

You’re not sneaking that thing past airport security. But you’re also not tracking that thing via spy satellite. There’s probably systems like these stashed in the personal homes of thousands of IRGC members. Units distributed on a vast scale to trustworthy regime-loyal people.

Remember, the Iranians have been preparing for this for 40 years. Their whole strategy is based on asymmetric warfare. They were never intending to sail and fly out and take on the US Navy and Air Force in direct combat. That’s never been the goal.

The Iranian Air Force may very well have been destroyed. Yet Ukraine managed to sink most of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, even though Ukraine currently lacks any navy of its own.

Imperialism is wrong. Expansionism is perfectly fine. There’s nothing wrong with a nation or people improving their standard of living by gathering more resources and increasing their capabilities. It’s only wrong when that expansion is at the cost of other human beings or the environment.

I’m all in favor of space expansion. Maybe some day we can move our most polluting industries off the Earth’s surface. Hell, my dream would be a world where most people don’t even live on the planet itself. You want to live a big resource intensive life, the equivalent of modern suburban living? Do it in space. Want to do industrial agriculture? Do it in space. Want to run a giant factory? Do it in space. If you want to live on Earth, you have to abide by strict resource utilization and environmental impact rules. Everything else goes to space. The Earth becomes one big nature preserve with a few dense cities and organic farms scattered about.

Only anti-Semites confuse anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.

I want to get together with my neighbor across the street and put a toll booth in front of my house. I live at the entrance to a cul-de-sac.

Genocide should be reserved for actual attempts to remove certain genetic lines from the gene pool, which includes going after the diaspora, the way the Nazis did with Jews in WW2.

So what was the real death toll for the Nazi Jewish genocide? Because while some Jewish groups have distinct genetic lines, many don’t. And Jewish people who were simply ethnic Germans also got sent to the camps. Do they not get counted as part of the Holocaust, as they were only targeted for their religion, not their genetics?

In practice, because human beings tend to marry and have kids at much higher rates within their religious and cultural groups than without, a genocide against a religious group is indistinguishable from a genocide against a genetic lineage. Also, your definition allows for a lot of genocide apologia. Those who want to downplay a genocide can simply say that an ethnic group was merely targeted for some action among that ethnic group. “They weren’t killed for their race. We just made it a capital offense to listen to the music most commonly listened to by members of that race. They were killed for their musical taste, not their race. So it’s not a genocide.”

Literally doing the classic narcissist “look what you made me do!”

Because the midpoint of a human lifetime, in terms of subjective experience of the passage of time, is at approximately age 22.

Oh, TERFS are the same. Deep down they also see women as inferior to men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M55XzxjmON0&t=

Anti-trans bigotry has always been an exercise in misogyny. In the mind of a Republican, women are inferior in every way to men. Men are stronger, faster, smarter, and deserve a superior social position. Even Republican women believe this. Trans men are seen as pitiable. It’s only natural for someone to want to be the superior sex, but they are subject of infantilization and pity, as they can never achieve that goal. Trans women on the other hand are portrayed as dangerous and deviant sex fiends. They can’t see why anyone would want to be a woman, as they view women as inherently inferior. So if someone wants to be a woman, they must be doing so for some vile degenerate reason.

That’s not what you said at all. Your comment said nothing about pictures. You asked how this would be enforced without doing genital inspections. Though, you misspelled genitals in lieu of a Biblical reference.

You asked how this would be enforced. I told you. Even if someone isn’t visibly trans, the risk of being outed always exists. And you found out about your son’s friend, just as bigots may learn that a stealth trans person is trans. People have digital records that follow them their entire lives. People gossip. It’s impossible to truly hide your trans status in this day and age from someone who really wants to research it. And all it takes is one single bigot at your workplace to learn about you and to make your life hell.

Running automated hacking and blackmail campaigns against AI companies.

The UAE and Oman should take the most chaotic approach possible. They should ALSO start blowing up ships in the Straight and demanding they pay tolls!

I appreciate the thought here, but it’s absurd to argue that passing “doesn’t exist.” Fine if you want to say it doesn’t or shouldn’t matter. Or that it gets too much focus placed on it. But to pretend passing simply doesn’t exist? This is just gaslighting. Passing obviously does exist. It’s specific definition would be “having an appearance that the vast majority of randomly selected people would say most resembles a gender other than that assigned to a person at birth.” That’s an objective fact. We can’t just wish it away because it’s inconvenient.