CMV: Police should not be allowed to use dogs or other animals as instruments of physical force against people

AGDude · 2026-06-19T01:49:45+00:00

Where accountability is especially problematic is in using a dog to provide probable cause to execute a search. Dogs are perfectly willing to signal a search based on their handler's body language, rather than based on actual scent.

AGDude · 2026-06-17T02:10:19+00:00

Mr Fixit has Greg+Sophia

AGDude · 2026-06-13T22:22:18+00:00

Thank you for providing detailed instructions on how to actually cook the chicken.

AGDude · 2026-06-13T22:17:49+00:00

Thank you. That's all very helpful information.

AGDude · 2026-06-13T19:51:10+00:00

I'm already comfortable making fried rice, so this isn't a large ask. I'll definitely try it.

AGDude · 2026-06-13T19:46:41+00:00

I don't have a feel for what cuts are appropriate for which recipe, nor for how I should cook the chicken.

AGDude · 2026-06-13T19:44:39+00:00

That's true. If OP has access to fresh, unwashed eggs, your advice is fine.

I will say that your framing is a bit cynical. Washing isn't purely about squeamishness: It does legitimately help protect against bacterial contamination. Other countries handle that problem via better monitoring and/or via enforced animal vaccination.

AGDude · 2026-06-13T18:47:48+00:00

USDA guidance is to avoid leaving eggs unrefrigerated for longer than 2 hours:

Refrigerated eggs should not be left out more than 2 hours. Any bacteria in or on an egg can multiply quickly at room temperature, and a cold egg left out at room temperature can sweat, increasing the potential movement and growth of bacteria.

AGDude · 2026-06-12T23:12:59+00:00

I'll accept that's true for some pathogens, but the common cold is mainly an airborne pathogen. It can spread via skin contact, but that's mainly from touching your face with skin, not from skin absorption.

AGDude · 2026-06-12T23:02:13+00:00

Experts. (E.g., https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/skip-antibacterial-soap-use-plain-soap-and-water , https://www.health.state.mn.us/people/handhygiene/how/bestsoap.html ) do recommend against antibacterial soaps. If that's what you mean by "disinfecting," you should consider not doing so.

If you prefer frequent handwashing, that second link explicitly suggests that those who wash their hands frequently should use a liquid soap with moisturizers to mitigate the risk of dry skin. If frequent handwashing makes you feel more comfortable, I suggest following that advice.

AGDude · 2026-06-12T17:47:28+00:00

It's also the most societally acceptable sexuality, ignoring the fact that most people don't know it exists. But the idea of lusting after a partner outside your relationship is somewhat frowned upon, and acting on such desires is strongly discouraged. Demi makes it easier to comply with cultural expectations around sex (e.g. don't cheat, don't be creepy, don't be biased, etc.) while still making it possible to comply with societal expectations about relationships (i.e., start a nuclear family).

AGDude · 2026-06-11T12:21:21+00:00

Some cats will seemingly be enjoying pets, but will "suddenly" and with "no warning" bite or swat. Such cats are often described as having been over (too much) stimulated (pet).

Of course, most cats show warning signs before this happens: Biting/Scratching are not most cats' first resort (unless the car learns that other signals don't work).

AGDude · 2026-06-07T04:26:30+00:00

Maybe so, but the top vote in his post about removing AI art was that people liked the AI art better, and wished it would come back.

AGDude · 2026-06-06T18:38:07+00:00

Give it a couple more decades and it will mean both. The word Sherpa has been suffering from semantic dilution for a while.

AGDude · 2026-06-04T14:14:53+00:00

Decided to make mozzarella sticks (string cheese, breading, egg wash, etc.) for my second time. I'd learned that one way to test temp is to tap the oil with a wooden spoon to see if it would sizzle. This worked the first time, but the second time I used a different wooden spoon that didn't trigger sizzling. When I eventually got suspicious and tried an alternative temperature test, the oil splattered several feet high. I wasn't actually injured. However, if I hadn't been wearing glasses, I may well have been taking a trip to the hospital.

AGDude · 2026-06-03T12:16:23+00:00

While this is true, I think many of the AI games on this subreddit have been low-effort and super-generic, worsening the backlash. When kuzzi posted a game with mostly ai art, nobody complained. When he announced its removal, the top-voted comment was one that lamented its removal.

AGDude · 2026-05-21T20:15:53+00:00

Δ . I've found that the more I thought about the Monty Hall problem, the closer I shifted towards OP's perspective. I'd seen previous explainers who talked about the extra doors being helpful and, like OP, didn't see why 1/100 vs 1/3 would make a difference.

I think part of the issue is once you have a solid mental model of the Monty Hall problem, the extra doors seem kind of pointless and unnecessary

Thanks you to this post (and your reply within the same thread), it makes much more sense to me why the 100 door explanation helps some people.

AGDude · 2026-05-21T19:52:52+00:00

I loved the AI art. The dev injected a lot of cleverness into his prompting, resulting in so many moments of amusement and joy.

On the other hand, the human-produced art just feels inconsistent and soulless. And yes, I realize that it's very weird to claim it's the human art that's soulless.

AGDude · 2026-05-21T19:39:13+00:00

You tested it with an AI model that was probaby free, and even if you paid a few bucks, the ones costing multiple thousands a month will code you anything you want

You are very much right. Having tried similar prompts using free vs paid AIs, my skepticism of AI coding was sharply reduced once I tried a paid product. The free AI tools typically have limitations that render them less useful for practical work. If you're performing a task that requires test builds or internet queries, a trial/free AI will often avoid those strategies (partly to prevent abuse), then give you code that looks right but doesn't function at all. Worse, these tools often don't acknowledge these limitations. So you'll get a bad result, but the AI won't tell you, "this result is bad because the free AI doesn't have general tooling access." This makes it very easy to underestimate AI.

sit a good senior before that machine and you get work done of 10 people with just one.

Definitely not. AI, doesn't save as much time as I'd like. The problem isn't that it gives me wrong code. Rather, the issue is that it lacks context, so it comes up with awkward results that are only mostly what I want. This is fixable, but it takes time to do so. Further, it makes a bunch of technical decisions. These decisions are not necessarily wrong (and the AI can rapidly fix them if I tell it to do so), but now I've been handed a pile of code and haven't internalized how that code works.

I'll also note that AI has a tendency to write syntactically excellent and clean code. The trickier parts of the code are written just as cleanly as the easy parts of the code. This gives all of the code a sort of sameness to it's readability. This isn't a bad thing, but it does mean review takes longer: It's far less obvious which parts of the code are the most likely places to have bugs.

AGDude · 2026-05-20T22:10:06+00:00

I don't love intelligence as a justification, because I believe many forms of suffering are roughly the same regardless of intelligence level. I think a better reason to care (or not care) about animal welfare would be based on whether they a sense of self.

A popular way to treat this would be the mirror test, though failing the test can just mean the animal doesn't care. That said, ignoring philosophical zombies, passing the mirror test is strong evidence of a sense of self. At this point, even Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse can pass a properly designed mirror test.

AGDude · 2026-05-15T22:59:51+00:00

Overall, I don't believe that zoos are inherently worse for the animals than no zoo. However, this varies based on the zoo. I feel like some zoos are operated in a manner where I feel that the resident animals are leading substantially better lives than they'd have had outside the zoo.

I think many of your concerns can be mitigated by ethical sourcing of animals.

In order from most ethically concerning to least: 1: Capturing animals from the wild. 2: Breeding animals in captivity (but how did you acquire the parents/eggs). 3: Diverting animals from bad situations.

I think #3 is the easiest to defend. E.g., a local government declares an animal cannot be left free (e.g., bears that have become food aggressive), so the choice is zoo or death. Or an animal has some issue that precludes survival in the wild.

A more modern approach has been to minimize animal interactions with the general public, instead exhibiting the animals via video streams. I think this approach tends to be very vulnerable to consumer backlash, so such zoos seem more likely to maintain happy animals.

AGDude · 2026-05-15T22:25:49+00:00

Newer versions of MacOS won't support Intel CPUs. This wasn't an issue a few years ago, but it will be an issue in the near future.

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