Just to be clear, cops show up. One guy is alive, and the other is dead. The alive guy claims they were arguing over parking, and the dead guy is dead because he’s been riddled with bullets from a gun that the alive guy is holding. The dead guy is unarmed.
They don’t even arrest Bougere. They only confiscate the murder weapon. It’s beyond bizarre. You’d at least expect them to arrest him on suspicion of something.
I guess the joke is that he won’t get lost because he has a map. And then stop thinking because that’s the entire joke.
Trump specifically appointed him because he’s a doctor who doesn’t believe in medical science. Now, they’ve gotten rid of him because he doesn’t believe in medical science.
This seems to be the difference between incompetence and corruption. He wants to deny new medicines and reduce the use of vaccines because he’s incompetent.
They want him to reduce the use of vaccines because it’s politically expedient, and to approve new drugs likely because that is also politically expedient. So, they’re simply corrupt. I think if we look, we’ll see a clear money trail.
This reminds me of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. They have a disturbing talking animal that is genetically programmed to want to be eaten, and it comes to your table in the restaurant and tries to convince you to eat it.
The real reason Tea-Rexes are so grumpy is that they cannot get the tea cup to their mouths with those tiny arms.
I think the important thing to understand the meaning isn’t the “weak” as much as the “doesn’t make you”. Like they could have achieved the same meaning by saying, “You are not defined by the emotions you feel in times of trouble.”
I see the word “weak” as an emotional appeal rather than an actual important part of the meaning.
Is pacifism ever about practicality, though? The issues you describe sound like the normal issues that always accompany pacifism.
Cardiac Arrest
Turns out all those times he was ripping his shirt off, it was just because of chest pains.
It has even happened to people who were known as strong swimmers.
The one I know said that Francis was “the antichrist” and wasn’t really the pope, or even Catholic. And based on her history, I can guarantee that she’ll have no trouble believing that Leo is “the antichrist”, despite the fact that there’s only supposed to be one.
She claims that she doesn’t use social media or watch the news, but somehow, she always believes things 100% the same as QAnon.
It’s a little weird to ride on a bus or train with only socks and no shoes. Even the other passengers seem to think it’s weird that they have no shoes.
I don’t know too much about this guy, but if you ignore the part about him being a horrible person for a moment and focus more on the part where he did something new in this field, this is pretty much what happens.
People who are seen as trailblazers in these sort of daredevil fields often end up dying young. It may be quite safe to go skydiving, for example, but people who push boundaries also tend to push their luck with safety margins.
Trump can be part of the reason without being the entire reason, can’t he?
Also, Trump has made it clear in the past that he thinks it’s strange to do something for free, even if it’s a normal part of your job, like appointing somebody to an office. If the deal requires approval from Trump, then it’s completely on-brand for him to try to milk it for all it’s worth. And I am sure that he’s petty enough that he’d nix a deal for a personal squabble, as long as he wasn’t going to lose anything huge.
This doesn’t have the ring of a conspiracy theory. It’s literally all out in the open. It’s a prediction based on how Trump usually acts. Colbert might have been on the ropes and Trump’s team did the knockout blow. I guess we’ll know for sure if Trump did do it, because then he’d inevitably brag about it publicly. Or CBS maybe did this preemptively, expecting Trump to act like he always acts.
I saw somebody do the math and say that this method would dampen the voice so much that it might as well be said not to work. But I don’t know much about this topic, and I can’t say whether the math is correct, either.
I mostly brought it up because it was interesting and let me make a joke about “touching helmets”.
There’s a theory that astronauts may be able to communicate in space without their radios by touching helmets together. Don’t know if it’s ever been tried.
And speaking of touching helmets, I can imagine another version of this comic where Bob is making a sexy scream, instead.
Seem like an easy solution would be to have certain transactions be nonrefundable.
I say easy, but I guess it would involve quite a bit of software changes, and then you’d also have to deal with angry customers who ignored numerous warnings that a purchase would be final.
I read a story recently about how a graphic designer realized they couldn’t compete anymore unless they used generative AI, because everybody else was. What they described wasn’t generating an image and then using that directly. They said that they used it during the time when they’re mocking up their idea.
They used to go out and take photographs to use as a basis for their sketches, especially for backgrounds. So it would be a real thing that they either found or set up, then take pictures. Then, the pictures would be used as a template for the art.
But with generative AI, all of that preliminary work can be done in seconds by feeding it a prompt.
When you think about it in these terms, it’s unlikely that many non-indie games going forward will be made without the use of any generative AI.
Similarly, it’s likely that it will be used extensively for quality checking text.
When you add in the crazy pressure that game developers are under, it’s likely that they’ll use generative AI much more extensively, even if their company forbids it. But the companies just want to make money. They’ll use it as much as they think they can get away with, because it’s cheaper.
I remember when rich white fascist dudes tended to keep their stupid fucking opinions to themselves, and only worked to ruin humanity behind the scenes. Those were the days.
My knowledge on this is several years old, but back then, there were some types of medical imaging where AI consistently outperformed all humans at diagnosis. They used existing data to give both humans and AI the same images and asked them to make a diagnosis, already knowing the correct answer. Sometimes, even when humans reviewed the image after knowing the answer, they couldn’t figure out why the AI was right. It would be hard to imagine that AI has gotten worse in the following years.
When it comes to my health, I simply want the best outcomes possible, so whatever method gets the best outcomes, I want to use that method. If humans are better than AI, then I want humans. If AI is better, then I want AI. I think this sentiment will not be uncommon, but I’m not going to sacrifice my health so that somebody else can keep their job. There’s a lot of other things that I would sacrifice, but not my health.
I added emphasis to show how Scott even managed to rebut his own argument with a single word. He’s admitting he’s supposed to be “serving”. That’s because he’s supposed to be a servant. He’s supposed to be a public servant. Even if it’s possible to get rich, obviously, a public servant’s first priority is to the public, right?
He’s like a fucking butler trying to defend why it’s okay that he took the silver serving trays.
Either you’re “serving” or you’re not. Rick Scott is obviously not serving. He’s eating from the buffet while everybody else is starving.