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He wants to father many many children. He believes we have an upcoming population decline problem.

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I get it but, you probably ought to share some core values with the person you’re procreating with.

The kid is 50% her and (at least at the moment) 50% hers….maybe make sure she isn’t insane first?

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They'd forget to pick them up and you'd have those all over the roadways.

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Maybe chocks (like the ones they use for aircraft) might be a better solution.



Easier to remember to pull them before you let someone go and they won’t accidentally damage someone’s tires if the cop does forget.

Serious question, would that be legal/constitutional in a technical sense?

In my mind, that sounds like you’ve been detained…would cops need to read you your rights before they do something like that?

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Yes it’s my lawn. Who else would own it

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I think we’re wondering if it’s like an easement or something like that.

If it’s right next to the road, maybe you’re required to allow public access?

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CHAZ/CHOP lasted about three weeks before it went Lord of the Flies, and that was during the summer.

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This.

Just wait it out. Anyone who owns a home, car, etc will very quickly get tired of the lawless bullshite and be begging for law enforcement.

Looks like a normal neighborhood with working folks and families, I’ll be surprised if this isn’t resolved in days.

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Am I the only person considering not following college sports any longer?

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I’d say I still pay attention, but I’m not particularly invested in any of it.

From the top down, it’s every man for himself, and for me, it’s weirdly transparent. Like watching a stage play where the 4th wall just disappears. I just don’t really want to engage any deeper than “oh this is interesting”.

I’m sure they’ll still get views from people who enjoy the spectacle, but it will be interesting to see what happens when they run out of people who genuinely care about it.

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My beef with the Catholic church is the fact that you have to be a confirmed Catholic and have an up-to-date confession in order to receive communion. Other churches don't care who you are, they allow you to receive communion. That, and they want you to attend a year's worth of catechism classes - IN PERSON - in order to be confirmed. Like, can't I do this online?

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As a non-Catholic, I honestly think this is more of a feature than a bug.

Your actions should follow your beliefs on some way….if one claims to be a practicing Catholic…then one should practice Catholicism. :dunno:

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In one particularly glaring instance, the AI software picked up on background chatter from the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog that was playing during the creation of the report. This led to the bizarre inclusion that the responding officer was himself transforming into a frog.

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I think this is an example of AI’s (specific LLMs) biggest hurdle. Interpreting a world that it doesn’t physically exist in. I just don’t see how you bridge that gap of not having the context that someone would have by “actually being there”.

A less ridiculous example of this is Tesla FSD. It’s fantastic, but does not-so-great things sometimes mainly for this reason. So I’m at a red light on a really windy day, the lights are swaying back and forth. The car slowly starts to move into the intersection so I hit the brakes to take over, and as I’m glancing at the screen, I see that the stop lights look like flashing reds, and that’s how the car interpreted them.

Now, that’s a mistake no human is ever going to make, but it’s understandable for an AI using cameras to interpret light colors at an intersection. There are a lot of tiny problems like that FSD is trying to solve…and that’s just driving. There are probably billions of little micro-problems like this that AI is going to encounter while it tries to interact with an entire world it doesn’t live in.

TL;DR AI is amazing…and it’s not going to be doing everyone’s job anytime soon. And if it is doing a job, supervise the hell out of it. :lol:

I’ll go against the grain a bit here and say she’s not (totally) crazy.

If she is a devoted Protestant and she believes that the Catholic worship experience and belief system is incompatible spiritually with what she believes to the point that she would be unequally yoked to you…then she would be right to say you two can’t be married.

You and I may disagree with her about the extent of that incompatibility but that doesn’t matter. It’s her line to draw.

Similarly, she shouldn’t be throwing your literature in the trash either. That’s completely out of bounds, so both of you have a valid reason to part ways IMO.

AM Church on Easter Sunday.

We usually do Saturday service. Did Easter morning one year and quickly remembered why we switched to Saturday. Way too many of the Lord’s children for me. :lol:

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It’s almost unsafe to share your kids on social media now.

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Personally, we felt this way 15 years ago and about 10 years ago, “almost unsafe” became a hard no.