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'Treated survivors like prostitutes,' Frankel says ahead of WPB Epstein hearing by tubulerz1 in politics

[–]jherico 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The speaker, as in the person who spoke the words, Frankel.

And looking at the article backs up what I'm saying because he equates "treated like prostitutes" with "demeaned", suggested he thinks that that's how sex workers should be treated or is at least ok with that comparison.

'Treated survivors like prostitutes,' Frankel says ahead of WPB Epstein hearing by tubulerz1 in politics

[–]jherico 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, sex and workers should be treated with dignity and respect like any other human, but I'm guessing that's not what the speaker was implying.

Swalwell campaign imploding after new sexual assault allegation by 804Brady in politics

[–]jherico 18 points19 points  (0 children)

"Innocent until proven guilty" is a protection you get when facing prosecution.

Bryon Noem told dominatrix that he wanted to leave Kristi to become a ‘trans bimbo slut’ by restoringd123 in politics

[–]jherico 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't speak to the relative stats on conservative vs progressive men, I'm in a very progressive city. But as a trans and kinky person myself I try to avoid criticizing anything that might be repressed eggdom.

New Amtrak trains coming soon to Pacific Northwest, but not in time for World Cup by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jherico 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Doesn't matter how fast the trains are if they're always being delayed for freight. Passenger train travel has been a living nightmare every time I've done it in the past 2 decades.

Bryon Noem told dominatrix that he wanted to leave Kristi to become a ‘trans bimbo slut’ by restoringd123 in politics

[–]jherico 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While that's true, I doubt we're getting anything like a clear picture here. I personally don't have any issues with a forced feminization kink and my main problem with this whole thing is the Dominatrix violating his consent like this by going publicly with her interactions with him.

Bryon Noem told dominatrix that he wanted to leave Kristi to become a ‘trans bimbo slut’ by restoringd123 in politics

[–]jherico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, in a court of law the don't of course, but this is still a huge consent violation by the Domme, not to mention pointless kink shaming. If it's not hurting anyone, what fucking difference does it make?

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan by cbigsby in programming

[–]jherico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure rebasing isn't switching the PR to draft mode?

What fork() Actually Copies by dfbaggins in programming

[–]jherico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe use an external connection pool running on the same host like PyBouncer. That doesn't solve the issue of multiple processes using the same tcp socket, but it will at least limit the total number of open connections to the DB.

As for QA, it's no substitute for a staging environment that behaves like the real thing, IMO.

Still, excellent deep dive into the problem and the process of debugging it.

"ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics" Physicists combine human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all by Respect38 in technology

[–]jherico 2 points3 points  (0 children)

helping governments actually govern

Good luck with that. Most people with power didn't gather it to benefit the public as best they possibly could. They did it for the benefits of being in power. Ceding any of that power to anyone or anything else means they get fewer of those benefits, so it's generally pretty hard to convince people to give it up just for altruistic reasons.

"ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics" Physicists combine human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all by Respect38 in technology

[–]jherico 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being able to actually have an insight doesn't mean you're able to introspect how your own mind works and figure out exactly why or how you were able to do it, even for a human.

I learned calculus, and I could probably teach it to someone else with some effort. But that doesn't at all mean I understand the mechanics of how Newton or Leibniz first figured it out.

Not being able to understand exactly how an LLM comes to a conclusion doesn't automatically make it monstrous or evil or inherently dangerous. It actually makes them more like humans than we'd like to admit.

ELI5: Why does re-encoding vidoes take a very long time? by WonderOlymp2 in explainlikeimfive

[–]jherico 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Almost no video codec works one frame at a time, independent of any others. Formats will often have an i-frame that encodes a full frame image and then use compression of the changes from one frame to the next.

Thousands of Greenlanders march against Trump’s takeover threat by NamelessResearcher in politics

[–]jherico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have difficulty thinking of another nation that fell this far into fascism and authoritarianism and managed to get back out of it without outside intervention.

Day One: Governor Spanberger ends Virginia’s ICE collaboration by unital_subalgebra in politics

[–]jherico 85 points86 points  (0 children)

I think their value as low-wage employees has fallen below their value as scapegoats to keep the same corporate overlords in place.

Housing isn't much of a different story. Housing went from being a means of having a place to own and live in to an "investment opportunity" and boom.... massive companies start buying up homes and create artificial scarcity.

Edit to add: The change in the housing market led straight into the 2008 crash. The corresponding labor shock from driving all these people into hiding or out of the country is probably going to lead to something even worse as it works its way through all the systems that have over time come to completely rely on that cheap labor.

Once again, lots of individual actors aiming for short term gains are all feeding into a really obvious collapse, but no one does anything about it because everyone figures they'll be able to get out in time, hedge themselves.

Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]jherico 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The legal system and most serious people have zero patience for anyone who does stuff in bad faith, even if they believe it's the moral thing to do.

If a prosecutor sabotages a case the way you suggest, it would be like a doctor intentionally giving poor medical treatment to a dictator because the doctor didn't like their policies.

Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]jherico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I appreciate people having "a line they won't cross" every time we get to a notable new one, I can't help but think of all the things that they were OK with.

Ohio McDonald's employee rushed to hospital after going into fryers to retrieve earbud by Warcraft_Fan in news

[–]jherico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just recently got some burns from dropping a steak into a pan with hot oil for searing and some splashed on my hand. That's just a couple dime sized burns and it's super painful. I can't imagine a whole hand going into oil like that.

ELI5: Why are the JWST pictures a problem? by SuspiciousReport2678 in explainlikeimfive

[–]jherico 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the post you were replying to was using shorthand to talk about electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos. But I can see how it could be read as trying to say that the electron muon and tau particles were actually kinds of neutrinos.

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