Outside is often colder than the rooms we live in

I appreciate the links! I still don’t think it’s a slam dunk either way, because even in Anthropic’s release, it never actually says that a human will be involved. “Training” could be anything, and while intent does not always matter, a threat is one of the few crimes where it really does.

Chthowlu!

I can absolutely imagine this ignoring a carcinoma that no human doctor would have.

I used to think coffee was for men and tea was for women because of the adults in my family’s preferences

My heart goes out to all of the people deported, killed, and terrorized by ICE.

For anyone confused about this comments section seeming uncharitable towards Floridians, please imagine an article about how the war in Gaza is tearing Israeli communities apart or one from 1994 about how difficult it is for Serbian families to deal with disappearances.

Americans are currently experiencing negative side effects, but they’re by no means the primary victims. We can mourn Alex Pretti and Renee Good, like we mourn Sophie Scholl and Fritz Dressel, but it’s pretty offensive to suggest that Germans as a whole between 1933-1945 were victims.

Sometimes people forget that they have agency. I taught a class of six exchange college students in Germany recently and blew their minds when I showed them a racist bumper sticker that I had torn down. Our class was only six weeks long, but during the course of it, students gave me three more stickers they’d taken down (two were racist and one was a pun that my student didn’t get and thought was racist, but it was a good language lesson).

I’m so, so proud of this, because they’re taking ownership of their situation and actively improving their environment. It feels like a way more important lesson than anything I could have taught them about German.

Damn, it’s almost like trans rights are human rights.

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I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to be alone that badly, but I lived alone during the pandemic and went about eight months without seeing another human in person and I already started getting weird. After a certain point, you have to readjust to having people around. I can’t imagine how it would be after that long.

I think they’re getting at whether this pneumonic plague variant is the standard pneumonic variant caused by normal yersinia pestis, or whether it’s been augmented by the lab in any way.

That’s why I said she was probably SOL on that side, but the other requirement for it to be considered an illegal threat is less cut and dry

Onishchenko told state news agency TASS that the onset of cold weather would likely prevent transmission.

I’ll grant you that Irkutsk has colder winters than most places, but that’s not normally how illnesses work in the winter.

The article very much states that it is in fact illegal to write down a threat under Florida law.

I don’t know that that’s my read here. The emphasis on the below quote from the article is mine.

Heller faces a charge of making a written threat of violence under Florida law. Florida Statute 836.10 makes it a second-degree felony to send, post, or transmit a written or electronic record threatening to kill or injure someone, carry out a mass shooting, or commit an act of terrorism. The communication must be made in a manner in which another person may view it.

It sounds like it’s not illegal to write the threat down, but it’s illegal to share it with others. If you do keep a private journal, or write your feelings onto slips of paper and burn them (idk if this is actually common, but it’s always been recommended to me after a breakup), that’s not illegal, even if you describe wanting to do something illegal. It’s the sort of hair splitting that wouldn’t normally be relevant, but could make a huge difference here.

Of course, she probably will be legally considered to have sent, posted, and transmitted it, so she’s SOL on that end, but she could credibly (imo) claim she was unaware that another person might view it.

That or we come out with a bunch of fake claims about wolves which would improve society, were they to be applied to people

I know, I know, that’s an insult to science, but how cool would it be if Joe Rogan started spreading the idea that the wolves in a pack survive longer when they share resources more evenly? Or that “lone wolves” do best when they’re cordial with nearby packs? Maybe even that packs formed by genetically diverse wolves outperform homogeneous packs, even if the individual wolves are stronger in the less diverse groups?

I’m being mostly sarcastic here, because I really do value honest research, but it’s a nice thought.

Of course, we already have chimps and bonobos, who are basically ideal proxies for mostly warlike and mostly peaceful humans, respectively, and it hasn’t made us any less violent.

Listening to that song before I was familiar with the idiom “losing [one’s] religion.”

Listening to it after learning what the phrase means.

It’s clearly either graveyard or friend hub

Yeah, but it’s not potable anymore

My grandmother was purported to have frequently said that this was the only true crime.

Of course, she lived through Jim Crow, WWII, and The Korean War, so she overlooked a few other massive crimes, but she was a young adult living in the dust bowl when the Great Depression hit, so I think it’s reasonable for that to have been pretty formative for her.

I don’t forget to add salt, but I don’t like salt nearly as much as other people seem to, so when we have guests over for dinner, we warn them that the food is lightly salted and provide various condiments at the table to add salt.