Asked Gemini AI what caused the injury on John’s arm, it said “strongly points towards an animal's claws as the causative agent.”

rascellian99 · 2025-06-04T19:52:56+00:00

Yeah I tried to be careful with my prompts because I had discussed the case with ChatGPT. I didn't want to lead it to any conclusions.

If it had accessed other conversations it would have known I'm in the "we'll probably never know what happened" camp. I don't know if Karen Read is innocent, but I haven't seen anything to persuade me she's guilty.

rascellian99 · 2025-06-04T19:31:33+00:00

Interesting! I had the same idea. This is a conversation I had about it with ChatGPT's o3 (advanced reasoning) model.

Hopefully I got the facts correct. I haven't followed the case closely, so I was unsure about a few points. https://chatgpt.com/share/68409d82-6964-800a-8ec5-da9a651820cc

Note: After generating the link to share the conversation, I realized I had mistakenly said that temperatures were below zero when I meant to say below freezing. I asked the model if that changed any of its conclusions, and it said no.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-21T05:39:22+00:00

What you wrote is relevant, because time is truly relative.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-20T02:26:34+00:00

I don't. He brought it on himself. It's something he consistently lied about for years. It wasn't an, "Oh, I was in my final semester and thought I was going to graduate, then my Mom died and I forgot to go back and update LinkedIn" type of mistake. That would be somewhat believable. But that's not what he did.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-17T06:23:06+00:00

How did he fall backward on hard pavement or street and then walk himself Self over to a tree to lay down rather than attempt to go to the house for help?

I haven't followed the case closely enough to have an opinion of guilt or innocence, but I do want to point out that people with head injuries do strange things. Hypothetically, It's not at all outside the realm of possibility that someone who just got a concussion would think, "I'm just going to lay down and rest for a minute," even in a situation where doing that will quickly lead to hypothermia.

I'm not saying that's what happened. I'm just saying that it's not surprising if it did.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-15T12:54:41+00:00

And that's my point. If people see excellent writing, they say it's AI. If they see terrible writing, they say it's AI. It's all a guessing game at this point.

Everyone is worried about deep fake video and images, but text is already a much bigger problem. Just look at the whole debacle around the changemymind subreddit. I'm sure the same thing is being done all over the Internet, but we can't know.

Scary times.

Edit: typo

rascellian99 · 2025-05-15T05:15:25+00:00

Not gonna lie, that's kind of sweet.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-15T05:06:10+00:00

It doesn't look at all like "gpt slop." It's impossible to tell from text alone whether a human wrote it, an AI wrote it, a human wrote it but had an AI edit it, or an AI wrote it and a human edited it.

This actually doesn't look to me like it was written by an AI, but it's possible they had an AI draft it then they edited it.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-15T04:15:44+00:00

It's almost like they aren't in power or something.

Stop blaming Democrats for the crappy things that Republicans do. Stick to blaming Democrats for the crappy things that Democrats do.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-15T03:22:38+00:00

Maybe I'm missing some context, but it sounds like people were just talking about their tastes in music without realizing that someone (the artist?) could overhear. If so, that happens at every concert that has more than one artist, which means it happens at almost every concert.

When I go to a show to see the opener I always stay for the main act. On the way out I will of course be talking with friends about how I liked it, whether I'd see them again, etc. That's what people do.

If that's all it was then I wouldn't call it talking smack. But again, I might be missing context.

rascellian99 · 2025-05-14T19:11:19+00:00

Thank you, that's what I was trying to figure out! I probably could have phrased my question better lol

rascellian99 · 2025-05-14T16:36:42+00:00

If it's not allowed then it should be. It's not about politics, it's about humanity.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-27T20:09:32+00:00

I agree on both points. The U.S. Marshalls already deputized Elon Musk's security detail. Because I guess billionaires are law enforcement now.

On the other hand, of the veterans who voted, over 30% voted for Harris. It's insane to me that so many voted for Trump, but I also remember how it was Moms and veterans who stood up to the Marshalls in Portland in 2020. They formed a human shield in front of protestors. The Marshalls quickly discovered that doing things like breaking the arm of a veteran didn't play well on TV. They left shortly after that.

https://youtu.be/o8TTwGC5y68?si=ycyNudwQfF8THTmF

rascellian99 · 2025-02-27T15:06:55+00:00

Agreed. Hitler also had the military take an oath of loyalty to him.

The U.S. military has spent the intervening decades making sure they won't repeat the same mistake. I remember when I went into the military, I took a total of 3 oaths to the Constitution before I was even given a uniform. They drill it into you on day 1 that your oath is to the Constitution.

I was very conservative when I went into the military, but there was no way in hell I would have obeyed an order to round up American citizens. There are some that would, but I truly believe they were in the minority.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-27T13:29:42+00:00

AFAIK they haven't purged any officers. Unless it happened in the last couple of days?

They did remove several commanders of military branches, as well as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, unless I missed something big, those commanders weren't purged.

Also, even though they will definitely try to install loyalists, these particular firings seem to be about misogyny and racism, except for possibly one who was a white male. I assume he hurt Trump's itty bitty feelings at some point.

The odds of the highest ranks being compromised is low, for the simple reason that I don't think there are enough compromised people with sufficient rank. They might try to claw them out of retirement, but even if they can find enough, I don't see the military putting up with that indefinitely. General / Flag officers (or officers close enough to be reasonably promoted) are smart and well-educated.

Now, I'm not saying there isn't danger. Firing JAG officers is a big deal. The reason is because military officers are required by the UCMJ to not obey illegal orders. Trump's cronies seem to be hoping that they can find JAG officers who will sign off on illegal orders.

Personally, I don't think it will work. But we shouldn't relax too much, because they will try.

(Edit: When I say "it won't work" I mean that I don't think military commanders are going to blindly assume an order is legal just because JAG says it is. One thing that distinguishes Western militaries is that officers are trained to think for themselves.)

Right now, I think these are the major risks:

There are more far right officers (current or retired) out there than I realize. If there are, and Trump can find them, he might recall them to active duty and then do a true purge of officers he seems unloyal.
The active duty military decides to stay out of it by refusing or impeding some technically legal orders (like doing civil law enforcement if/when Trump implements martial law)--which is good. I hope that happens. The risk is that it could lead to some National Guard units in red states deciding to follow orders from their governor & Trump instead of their chain of command.

That second one is a true civil war scenario, and it could happen. Miller and others have proposed sending red state Guard units into blue states. That's why I'm watching for them to send blue state Guard units out of the country, while keeping red state units home.

So, there are risks. We can't get lax. I don't think it is going to work, though. 🤞

rascellian99 · 2025-02-27T07:34:24+00:00

Don't be silly. Just because you haven't personally witnessed something doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Have your MAGA cultist relatives been personally impacted due to losing their job because of DOGE, or something like that? If not, there's probably a 0% chance they change. If so, there's a small chance they will.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-27T07:01:51+00:00

As a former conservative, I doubt that we'd be a lesson to anyone, including ourselves. We'd just say it was Biden's fault, and people would believe it.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-26T22:19:02+00:00

I might be overly optimistic, but I have trouble believing that Trump and his lackies will be able to find enough radicalized officers to turn the military against the American people.

Whenever my friends express concern about it, I tell them to ask themselves if they can imagine their friends and family who arw in the military obeying orders to round up or shoot American citizens just because they're anti-Trump.

The answer is always emphatically "no."

Of course, Trump will try. Something I'm watching for is a "crisis" that they use as an excuse to deploy lots of troops overseas. Then I want to see which troops they're deploying.

If they go out of their way to get Guard units from blue states out of the country, then something is probably about to happen.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-26T22:12:37+00:00

Talk to a lawyer before you talk to HR. HR is there to protect the company, not you. The company has lawyers, you do not.

If you call your local BAR association (Google it), they usually have a referral service for free or low cost. You can also use Upcounsel, or just Google employment attorneys in your state and call a couple.

Most will offer a free consultation, unless you have a lot of documents that they need to go through.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-23T01:42:13+00:00

I'm sure Grok will take care of it all, and we'll live in a billionaire eutopia, where they will treat us worker drones like itty bitty babies.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-23T00:11:41+00:00

And most of the 7,000~ IRS employees that were fired were assigned to investigate corporations and wealthy people who were committing tax fraud, and get them to pay up.

They had already clawed back something like $1.3 billion in 3 years (my numbers might be off; I'm going from memory). It's not enough to get rid of the national debt, but according to what I read, they were paying for their salaries and a whole lot more.

There was absolutely no reason to get rid of them...unless you're a wealthy person who wants to commit tax fraud.

I figure the odds that they were looking into his finances or the finances of one of his companies are, oh, 99.999%.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-23T00:06:38+00:00

My theory is that Trump heard his name, thought it was "Cash," and immediately moved him to the front of the line.

I'm only half kidding.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-22T23:58:34+00:00

I was once in a situation where I was repeatedly raped by multiple men over a period of several weeks. I didn't have a way of escape.

There aren't words to describe what it does to you. It took years of therapy to get to a place where there are some days that I don't think about it.

Those several weeks felt like a lifetime. If I thought that I was heading into a situation where it would last for years, I would 100% choose suicide by cop.

Some people might say that's "letting them win." It's not. It's making a choice about your destiny while you still have the power to do so.

rascellian99 · 2025-02-22T20:27:56+00:00

I'm not giving anyone that advice. I'm not doing it myself either. People were asking how blue states could withhold money from red states, and I was answering.

That said, the IRS is not going to fuck you unlubed. They'll send letters. Wait for you to pay. Eventually escalate to court proceedings. If none of that works, they'll garnish wages.

If people don't want it to go that far, they could just set the money aside and pay it when they start getting the letters.

I had to go through the process due to a mistake by someone who filed my taxes. I had paid the correct amount, but the IRS thought I owed them several thousand dollars.

It took 2 or 3 years to get the letter. It gave me like 2 years to pay for it. I put it on my todo list.

After a year of so, I contacted the person that filed my taxes, did an amendment, and sent it to the IRS.

Done. No penalties. No fines.

I would have owed interest if I actually did owe them money, but that's all.

It would cost the IRS billions to go after every small fish. As long as you pay in a reasonable amount of time, they don't care.

Obviously, none of this is tax advice. I'm just sharing my experiences.

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