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  • In case people don’t know who this dufus is, from his Wikipedia page

    His elder son, Jared, is the husband of Ivanka Trump, the daughter of U.S. president Donald Trump, during whose first presidential administration he served as senior advisor from 2017 to 2021.

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    In 2005, Kushner was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, which he served in the Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery. As a convicted felon, he was also disbarred in three states. He later received a pardon issued by his son’s father-in-law, President Trump, on December 23, 2020. Kushner has donated significant amounts to Trump’s campaigns









  • And claiming that the story is fake because “36 red bulls would literally kill a horse” is just plain old hyperbole.

    While I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 14l of coffee at once. But going from “some horses would die from this” to “this story is definitely fake” is just bad reasoning.

    Sure, it’s reasonable to question the story, but dismissing it because a horse couldn’t do the same? WTF?

    Not every horse, human, or humpback whale would survive consuming 36 red bulls. But it’s not unreasonable to assume that a majority of humans would survive.

    Personally I want to believe the story, if for nothing else than it’s not a story about how the world is going to shit.


  • Yes, there’s always going to be outliers, that’s how statistics work. That LD50 is 192mg/kg just means that 50% will have died by that point. Some individuals can survive beyond that point, while 50% couldn’t.

    I’m not saying that 50% of the population will be honky dory a-ok after surviving, what killed the first half. Just that it’s not unlikely that you could survive consuming 18l of red bull over the course of 10h23m. You’d probably still be pretty fucked up, but surviving is a subset of being fucked up, not the other way around.


  • I’m not going to fabricate stories, but if the explanation for something is “AI was used irresponsibly” then I would tend to not dismiss the idea. And I’d be prone to propagate the idea far more. It’s not a conscious choice mind you, that statement is a result of self-reflection.

    The way people unquestionably, irresponsibly, and without the slighest contemplation of the ramifications, are using AI for the most mundane tasks, worries me. Why do you need to make a photo of someone, who haven’t accepted the use case, into a drawing? Why do you need to have an AI transcribe our meeting and summarize the points? Nobody’s going to read the summary anyway, and now some unknown entity knows what other people said with an otherwise ordinary expectation of privacy.

    One thing is that tech overlords have already scraped every image, sound bite, video clip, and written word publicly, and semi-publicly, available. Don’t give them more material.





  • She hired a homeless guy to play her dad (for some reason) and used a fake birth certificate.

    She hired the guy? Nobody exploited her?

    I kinda want to look into this, but at the same time I don’t want this in my search history.

    Update: According to her Wikipedia page she definitely did not have a harmonious childhood. Getting raped by her mom’s alcoholic boyfriend, after they move across country from her alcoholic father. Then getting raped by her own boyfriend.

    I don’t know what growing up as a gen x woman was like, different generation and gender, but I suspect that Traci Lords’ experience was even worse than average.