If it makes you feel any better it’s not mob violence, it just shares the worst aspects of it. Emotion driven desire for vengeance.
It’s not a defense of the death penalty to recognize that it’s deliberate, planned, and applied under the auspices of the law. It just makes the law look a little worse.

I’m assuming you’re ignorant. There was a supreme Court ruling that they don’t need probable cause, and can detain people based on skin color, and then the head of ice said “yes, we’re just stopping people who look Hispanic and if they can’t show proof of citizenship we assume they’re undocumented”.

invade via the mexican border

Dial down the racism there Willy, I’m already convinced. You don’t have to go all lugenpresse on me.

For visas: they aren’t waiting for expiration, but I was more referring to you going from “eesh, they could be better” to “they should have fucking expected to get locked in a cage without trial for invading our land, dirty mud bloods”.

Ah, I see you haven’t watched the video of the fucker walking in front of the car that was turning away from him, walking into the hood, then walking over out of danger and shooting her in the face several times.
I’m assuming you saw the video of them disarming that man, clearing the gun from the scene and then shooting him in the back several times?
It’s why all ice agents are trash in my book. Shut the agency down and deny them all pay. Fuckers get no sympathy.

If you have seen them, I honestly hope you never find joy in your sad little life you disgusting little troll.

… What do you think happened at Nuremberg that the Nuremberg special would be a bad thing? It was a trial.
When this all goes down I hope asshats like you get a fair fucking trial and your names are written in the history books as fucking assholes.

"Oh well, the law says that technically we can pen people up in chain link fenced enclosures without bedding, so that means that they deserve it. And that’s okay even without a trial, but because the cop though you looked too brown, because I’m okay with immigration arrests based on ethnicity. I’m also unwilling to address the contradiction of ‘crime gets a trial, but these criminals shouldn’t’ because of definitely not racist reasons. " - this is why you’re a fascist.
Remember, the SS was just enforcing the law to deal with a problematic population and people who wanted to “trans the kids”.

You backed down from visa overstay being something we should think about how we handle to “deserves being locked in an open air cage” in like… Zero time whatsoever.

What side is the side of tolerance and peace now?

Sure as shit ain’t the one defending shooting mothers in the face and locking children in cages.

you insulted me multiple times

You noticed? I’m shocked. I was so subtle. Maybe I was distracted by your talk of my execution.

No, it’s not a crime. The law is exceptionally clear: it’s a violation of the terms of the visa, not a crime.
If it were a crime they would be entitled to an individual trial by jury. So if you think it’s a crime, then ice is flagrantly violating their constitutional rights to a trial.

I don’t care that you don’t know what a concentration camp is. That doesn’t change what they are.
Comparison to a Nazi death camp only serves to make “open air cages without blankets, medicine or adequate hygiene” sound better by comparison.

fascist because that’s not what we are

I don’t think everyone who disagrees with me a fascist, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist, nor does it mean you’re not a fascist either. Try reading what a fascist is, as opposed to thinking about how the word makes you feel.

what you’re seeing now isn’t similar in any way, Trump has followed every law

Read a book.

Speaking about execution, he would’ve executed you if he was the fascist dictator that you think he is

Wow. Fuck you with your death threats. I hope you get the Nuremberg special. Do you think Hitler was executing people for dissent right out the gate? Or did he build up to it?

Pro tip: “illegal” isn’t a description of a person. Most of the people being targeted haven’t committed a crime in any sense of the word. Entering the country legally and then having your visa revoked isn’t a crime. Most people in the country without visas entered legally. It’s why you see ice targeting citizenship exams and places where people go to renew their documents: it’s easier to fill your quota if you revoke the visa of someone following the rules. They’re not against illegal immigration, they’re just against immigration by brown people.

Second, you don’t know what a concentration camp is. What you described is a concentration camp and you just prefer the newspeak. They are being used for the detainment of large numbers of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime, purportedly of a single demographic and predominantly from one ethnic group. Thats what a concentration camp is.

Finally, why on earth would I respect them or you? Fuck you for bringing the Holocaust into this. It’s vastly more insulting to forget the lessons they died for than it is to draw a comparison to their killers.

The world would be a better place if the Germans had killed Hitler at the first hint of despotism, not sat around just because he was fairly elected.

That’s not what that research document says. Pretty early on it talks about rote mechanical processes with no human input. By the logic they employ there’s no difference between LLM code and a photographer using Photoshop.

Not to totally detract from the point of what you’re saying, which is totally correct, but… All of everything seems to keep stepping over that it’s not just influential on American music, but it is American music. That they keep framing parts of our culture as somehow not shows that it’s just racism.

Puerto Rico has been part of the US longer than Oklahoma, new Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, or Hawaii. Puerto Rican culture is more American than whatever weird nonsense they have in Oklahoma.

And significantly, if you needed someone to actually do a job that wasn’t made obsolete by the removal of material scarcity you’d need to find a way to make it meaningfully enticing to them. Material scarcity is the driver for so much suckage that it’s almost mind boggling how much would change if we even made a significant dent on it.

Waste and trash also aren’t an issue because of the aforementioned replicators. Waste and trash become the food. Energy is cheap, next to free, and about as clean as can be.
Why would you live in squalor when you can just as easily push a button and teleport the trash and grime into the nothing?
Education is cheap and easy because we have both plenty of educated people, and sentient AI. Same for medicine.

It’s one of the few pieces of media that has traditionally outright agreed with the spirit of what you’re saying. There’s no need to shit on its message that if we find the cause to work together, we have it within us to develop fully automated luxury gay space communism because we’re more alike than we are different, and an exploration of those differences will bring us together.

The difference between a post scarcity society and the good place is that it’s not that there’s no problems, it’s that there’s no significant material problems. And it’s not like the entire galaxy was like that.

Cynicism becoming conflated with realism is boring.
At it’s heart, the expanse was explicitly not post scarcity, so comparing it’s treatment of inequality with one where those problems have been solved is silly. It’s like saying the expanse is unrealistic because their spaceships are too fast, and Apollo 13 is a more realistic portrayal.

Eh, there’s the legal concept of someone being an agent of the company. It wasn’t typically expected to take orders, nor was it tied into the order system it seems.

In the cases where the deal had to be honored, the bot had the ability to actually generate and place an order, and that was one of the primary things it did. The two cases that come to mind are a car dealership and an airline, where you could use it to actually place a vehicle order ornto find and buy flights.
As agents of the business, if they make a preposterous deal you’re stuck with it.

A distinction can be made to stores where the person who comes up and offers to help you isn’t an agent of the business. They can use the sales computer to find the price, and they can look for a discount, but they can’t actually adjust the order price without a manager coming over to enter a code and do it.

In this case it sounds like someone did the equivalent of going to a best buy and talking to the person who helps you find the video games trying to get them to say something discount code-ish. Once they did, they said they wanted to redeem that coupon and threatened to sue.

It really hinges on if it was tied to the ordering system or not.

Yeah, but why bother? They can just turn off the body camera and shoot them in self defense. Same outcome and way less work.

Well, first off he wasn’t actually doing it after Celsius existed as a temperature scale. He made it a solid 18 years beforehand.
Second, there are some issues. Specifically, ice freezes at 0, but it doesn’t stop getting colder. So if you have a bit of ice, that doesn’t tell you the temperature, just that it’s below a threshold. Boiling is more convenient because liquid water can’t get above 100, but you do have to consider side pressure.
Fahrenheit used brine because as it freezes it forces salt out of the ice, making it more resistant to freezing. It self stabilizes its temperature, which is immensely handy.

None of the people designing their scales envisioned that using the basic reference points for common calibration would be a thing. Just like how we don’t calibrate them with brine, ice, steam or butts today, instead relying on how we marked down how electrical resistance changes as a function of temperature and then calibrated reference numbers to get the scale right.

It’s important to remember that the people in the past were largely not stupid, they simply hadn’t found out something we take for granted or they had priorities that we don’t.

Well that solidly changes the context. :)

It’s always been a dream of mine to down an aircraft with nothing but the horrors of my body, but everyone this far has managed to keep me away from dairy before we travel by plane. Spoilsports.

Why would they be horrified? You’re literally trusting them with your life, and if the tamales aren’t safe to eat then you having food poisoning is comparatively minor.

Or was it that you deprived the pilot of vital sustenance and morale boosting food needed to safely fly the plane?

It’s more complicated than that. It’s literally that sometimes two of the exact same item last for radically different times. It’s not a different design or manufacturing process, just an amorphous series of random factors lining up we call luck.

Mean time between failures is something they do actually measure in manufacturing, and you see interesting results like what hard drive manufacturers do to increase reliability: stress test the drives until the ones destined to fail early fail, and then sell the others.

There are things that can increase reliability, but a lot of the things that make the extreme outliers are just random, and no one documents what they were because they didn’t know it was going not have an effect, good or bad.

So you get in the bathtub with the bike pump and have the hose connected to a nozzle going out. You might need something stronger that shrinkwrap depending on what you get, but your bathtub is invariably able to handle 1 atmosphere of pressure.

Or, hear me out: a bathtub, some shrinkwrap, a bicycle pump and so e good old fashioned grit and determination.

I’m one of those people who knows we should standardize, bit also finds Fahrenheit just very convenient.

Like, when people say it’s 50 out, I immediately know that it’s going to feel about halfway between what I know 0 and 100 feel like. No one can even put up the pretext of doing that with Celsius, because not even the most pedantic person ever bothers to tell you when it’s 100 c out.

In seriousness though, the Fahrenheit scale isn’t non-sense, it’s just addressing things we don’t much need help with anymore. The zero point was chosen as a temperature you can create reliably without particularly sophisticated tools, and the range is so freezing and boiling are 180 degrees apart, putting them on the opposite sides of a dial.

Ugh, I’m one of those people who will defend imperial as not being irrational, just built ad-hoc for purposes that aren’t in alignment with modern ones and … No, that’s not what Fahrenheit is.

Fahrenheit was trying to make a temperature scale that was easy to recreate to ease the calibration of thermometers. Zero is a temperature that can be created in your garage with some ice, salt and water. 100 was his best, ultimately inaccurate, attempt to measure human body temperature, since it’s another easy calibration point, and from there water was defined as 32 and 212 so that they were 180 degrees apart, which would fit will on a temperature dial.
Not irrational, not a comfort scale, and not in alignment with current needs.

It’s pure coincidence that it kinda lines up with comfortable outdoor temperatures in the opinion of a good chunk of a population living in the northern part of the western hemisphere.

Are you asking me why I have an opinion on something? Because I do. You don’t need special reasons to make comments on a forum.

You aren’t listening. They depicted black people in the fashion that they depicted Greek people. They didn’t find them a weird novelty. The nature of ancient Greek prejudice wouldn’t have them depict people as Greek that they didn’t consider Greek. That intrinsically says something about the cultural integration, because that’s what the Greeks got weird over. If it was uncommon for them to be there they would have mentioned it because they mentioned all manner of uncommon things.
If they were a part of the society, and common enough that it wasn’t worth mentioning “…and then the one black guy in Athens showed up…”, then it seems clear to me that that’s “plenty”.

Nothing is being spun. I and others have given you evidence. You haven’t and are just making vacuous claims. Why do you have the opinion you do about the skin tone content of ancient Greece? Is it the enlightenment era paintings of Greek philosophers as white as could be? That the paint fell off the statues so now they’re just white marble? That all the black people in the pottery are “obviously” artistic choices, but the white people just … Are?
I’m sure you have a reason for thinking what you do, so what is it?
Neither a conversation nor a debate works by one person demanding evidence, denying it, and then refusing to elaborate In their beliefs.