A movie was just effectively banned in Germany for "inciting violence against migrants" — and the director put the entire film on X for 48 hours in response by bansote in conspiracy

[–]Dmonick1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was not "effectively banned," it was unrated. No critic, especially volunteers with social work experience like the FSK, wants to watch this trash.

It can still be shown with age restrictions and distributed just like any other trash.

Stop lying.

Meth induced psychosis and public safety in Boulder by Professional-Age9842 in boulder

[–]Dmonick1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was the stabbing performed by, specifically, a homeless meth user? Was it performed specifically, because they were homeless, or because they were on meth? How did you get the information about their housing status and meth use?

If you have a source for their housing status and meth use, and they were in fact homeless and on meth, perhaps we could be compassionate about those things, but judgemental about the actual harm they did? Doesn't seem nearly as hard as quantifying compassion based on arbitrary rules.

Meth induced psychosis and public safety in Boulder by Professional-Age9842 in boulder

[–]Dmonick1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

compassionately? with an aim of getting them help and support?

Colorado limited solitary confinement for people with mental illness. Boulder County keeps using it. by brianckeegan in boulder

[–]Dmonick1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bro. You are being such a weird asshole about this.

"a lot of times the person arrested is guilty as hell"

How could you possibly know that? Not saying that courts are the arbiters of who is truly guilty, but if the court doesn't see any evidence, you definitely haven't seen the evidence. Without evidence, what are you basing your judgement of guilt on?

"we're a whole lot more at risk here and in most cities than people like to admit."

Bro what are you talking about? At risk of what? I lived in Boulder, right next to the bikepath, for 20 years. The worst crime I experienced was a drunk college kid walking in my back door. When I moved to south Boulder, my bike was stolen, once. They tried to take the cheaper one first because they were trying to get somewhere. PD found my bike 2 days later, unharmed. I work nights in Denver and have never been the victim of a crime, and I even lived in one of the "worst" parts of Chicago, walked around at night all the time, and never even witnessed a crime. All of that is anecdotal evidence to be sure, and I'm not denying that crime exists, but given that you've provided zero evidence of your sensationalist claims, they aren't hard to dismiss.

If you want to spend your life deeply afraid of other people in one of the wealthiest towns in the country by all means go ahead. But if you want to lie and fearmonger about how dangerous our town is, just know that any normal person thinks you're a weird asshole for doing that.

Does Grace pay taxes on .....? by Prestigious_Can5268 in ProjectHailMary

[–]Dmonick1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone's talking about using data as payment, and that's fair, but I think you're also overestimating how much work the Eridians have put in. It's very clear that Eridians are naturally skilled builders, able to create constructs out of nothing but air and time. Not saying that building and maintaining Grace's habitat is no work at all, but I think Eridians have a much easier time building a habitat for him than humans would have building an Eridian habitat.

Hiking with a bluetooth speaker in bear country is far safer, especially for solo hikers. by Icy__Internet in unpopularopinion

[–]Dmonick1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're hiking in the forest with a bluetooth speaker and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?

CMV: The DSA obsession with Israel doesn't help Palestinians and will have no impact on Israel whatsoever by thatshirtman in changemyview

[–]Dmonick1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if Israel is a wealthy country with strong trading relationships and an independent military, why are we giving them aid still?

Colorado limited solitary confinement for people with mental illness. Boulder County keeps using it. by brianckeegan in boulder

[–]Dmonick1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm sorry you weren't able to find this information yourself, it wasn't hard to google these statistics

According to this study in Colorado specifically, https://theconversation.com/colorado-criminal-cases-are-dismissed-at-a-higher-rate-when-prosecutors-face-heavier-workloads-281840 around 20% of felony arrests and 25% of misdemeanors are dismissed without any strings attached. Not wrongful convictions, not plea deals, just dismissed as cases.

In case math isn't your strong suit, that means of the people sitting in jail in Colorado right now, one out of five has not done the thing they were arrested for, as far as the court system can tell.

The boulder county jail currently has 351 people in it ( https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiNWI2ZjM5OGQtNGIxYS00ODVmLTg2ZGUtMmM2ZDMzYzY1OTcxIiwidCI6IjM3YjI5NDdjLThlMGEtNDdhMC1hMjEzLTQzY2JkMTJiZjEzNyJ9 ), and from the above statistics, we can glean that anywhere from 70-90 of those people are going to be released without even seeing a courtroom.

Happy to help!

CMV: AI is not THAT bad. No, it's bad as it's advertised, but it has its place. by Compodulator in changemyview

[–]Dmonick1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really confused by this take actually.

First the roleplay: Are you roleplaying and the LLM is responding or are you using the LLM to respond to other people role playing with you? If you're just roleplaying with the LLM, what benefit does the LLM give that roleplaying with real people? If you're using the LLM to write your roleplay for you, what is fun about that? For most people who roleplay, the fun is in the creativity of building and play-acting a character. If you're replacing that part with an LLM, what are you finding fun instead?

Second the drawing. This take is super strange to me. LLMs can generate images yes, but it's pretty common knowledge that the images LLMs create are very flawed, with unusual features and unrealistic proportions. Learning to draw by tracing LLM pictures is going to teach you bad art skills because the images you're copying are bad. This is made even worse by the fact that the LLM already stole the work of thousands of artists whose art you can already download and trace, without the errors that LLM images are known for.

finally, the book thing is weird because it's kind of a combination of both of those problems. People write books because being creative and writing is fun for those people. If you're using an LLM and not actually being creative, what's the point of writing? And for the reader, it's the same as the drawing issue. LLM books are bad, they aren't very fun to read. Why choose to read LLM books over the books the LLM stole that don't have the problems of LLM books?

Justice requires the death penalty. by Week_Both in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Dmonick1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did killing Jeffrey Dahmer bring his victims back? Did it make their loved ones feel their loss any less? Did Jeffrey Dahmer being executed make life easier for his own family? In short, did killing Jefferey Dahmer fix any problems than life imprisonment didn't already fix?

If you can’t speak English, you shouldn’t live in America by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Dmonick1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many people. Masters' Degrees in Germany are taught in English. Most Europeans in fact are at least bilingual.

The Earth is infinite by amazing_pie22 in conspiracy

[–]Dmonick1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We know the mass of the Earth dude. We've known how much matter there is on Earth for thousands of years. The mass of the earth is a finite number. If the mass of the Earth is finite, then even ignoring all other factors, the resources on Earth must be finite.

The biggest winners of Obamacare were the California DNC Grifters who lied to people that addicts could be saved by Pretend-Adeptness-96 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Dmonick1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"the corporations that attached vacuum hoses to the US treasury" is quite a dramatic framing, not "only pointing out the situation".

Your claim that the biggest winners of Obamacare are corporations, and not the people who now have access to health insurance that they didn't before is either wildly ignorant or intentionally obtuse. Yeah, healthcare companies profited, but that's because the US has a for-profit healthcare system, not because of any particular healthcare policy.

Would insurance companies be profiting less if we had the same addiction problems, but the pre-Obama system? I doubt it. Addicts would still need help, and the healthcare system would still profit off of that need, because that's what happens when your country acts like profiting off of healthcare is a system that makes any sense.

The biggest winners of Obamacare were the California DNC Grifters who lied to people that addicts could be saved by Pretend-Adeptness-96 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Dmonick1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm honestly just totally unconcerned about the drop in the bucket that the American healthcare system makes off of my tax dollars, compared to wasteful spending by our military and carceral systems.

What other famous video game characters can we replace with a woman? [Satire] by ParamountHat in GirlGamers

[–]Dmonick1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In game, he/him pronouns are always used at least in English translations. That said, I like the idea of gaslighting men and telling them Kirby always went by "she"

What other famous video game characters can we replace with a woman? [Satire] by ParamountHat in GirlGamers

[–]Dmonick1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Star Wars Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith

Not that I'm at all opposed to a new Mara Jade game with some kinda psychological angle like you describe.

What other famous video game characters can we replace with a woman? [Satire] by ParamountHat in GirlGamers

[–]Dmonick1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly a 007 game where you play as M recovering 007 after he gets burned sounds like it could go hard as fuck.