He's a grifter, and the GOP audience will currently take the grift and ask for more. Like Trump, he pretends to be whatever he needs to be to allow him to continue the con. No morals, no dignity, just dollar signs and power.
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It's fuel for the cult, it gives them something to fear. The fear of the outside world and its people are what keeps people from leaving the cult, even if the cult leader is an asshole and grifting snake oil to them for what little money they have left.
A meant a leak in the chamber would possibly put the facility at risk, not just having the chamber. And we know the kind of maintenance a chamber used maybe a handful of times a year is going to get to keep it air tight. Plus it's added cost to the already absurd cost of killing someone, instead of actually trying to rehabilitate them (will always be some that cannot be of course). And putting it outside then makes the air tight chamber subjected to the weather/elements, adding more cost in maintenance.
And I know you mentioned the mask vs chamber thing, but I don't see it going differently just because they are going to vacuum oxygen out and nitrogen in. And would also add the cost of further staff training on opening a chamber full of nitrogen (potentially) rather than a room with possibly some nitrogen from a leaking mask. Just don't see the cost analysis of this being in the ballpark of cost effective when we could put that money to better use.
Not sure how we relocate basically everyone in the South though. And what about tornado alley, do we move all those people also? And then you have wild fires and earthquakes, do we move all of California also? I get what you are saying, but getting millions of people to move states or across the country isn't a simple thing. And what do we do with all the then empty previously "high valued" real estate? I do think we ultimately have to do something as global warming continues to cause humans issues at what seems like an accelerated rate, but we also have an alarming number of people that do not want to address it (or that even deny it happening).
We need some kind of ACA for regular insurance, where unless people are literally building in a swamp or the bottom of a crater near a lake/river they should be just automatically covered.
What about the "union jobs"?
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If his crime was that bad, why wait 25 years to execute him? The guy also didn't go into the store armed and looking to kill someone, he just wanted money for drugs, but then had a gun pulled on him and then exchanged shots with the shop keeper who pulled yet another firearm out. If this had been Zimmerman or Rittenhouse they might have called it "self defense". The guy seems more than willing to accept responsibility for his actions and remain in prison for the rest of his natural life. My hot take is to let him do as he suggested, remain in prison and help to rehabilitate those he can, kinda like the idea of what prison was supposed to do. If they need to kill inmates, why not save it for the people that have no remorse for what they have done?
And it’s not junk science that nitrogen inhalation causes hypoxia.
I was stating the part about using nitrogen as an "easy and painless" death were based off junk science, well not even science really, just people that know that it kills people and looking for new ways to use it legally to do so.
You’re thinking of the execution where they used a mask instead of a chamber like you’re supposed to.
The use of chamber, would require even more of an investment to make safe. If it were to leak during the execution, or staff opened the chamber before it was completely removed it could endanger the lives of everyone in the facility. I also think the results with a mask or chamber would be in the end the same, someone gasping for breath while suffocating to death.
Also here is a bit about nitrogen executions, and the horrific job done in Alabama last year.
The thing you have to remember about a cult is that nobody seeks them out, and nobody knows they are in a cult until it is to late. These are people that got caught up in something they saw someplace online likely, and once they started down the rabbit hole it was to late to go back. And the like most all cults, Trump actively reinforces that everyone outside of the cult is a danger to those inside the cult, and that leaving is to dangerous to themselves, loved ones, America. And from the outside it's easy to see they are being fed lies non-stop and nothing Trump says is true, but inside the cult bubble the lies and conspiracies are reinforced constantly, and the "threat" is always increasing.
... if they can’t learn from that, there’s not much else I can do.
Correct, it's going to take a mass therapist program to help bring these people back to reality because they have been conditioned against looking outside the cult for almost 9 years now. Trump isn't going to go away and they just deprogram overnight, this is going to be a long term issue for the US going forward.
“[The] main reasons that motivate editors to add AI-generated content: self-promotion, deliberate hoaxing, and being misinformed into thinking that the generated content is accurate and constructive,”
I think the main driver behind people misinformed about AI content comes from the fact that outside of tech people, most have no idea that AI will:
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100% make up answers to things it doesn't know because either the sample size of data they have ingested was to small or was bad. And it will do this with the same robot confidence you get for any other answer.
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AI that has been fed to much other AI generated content will begin to "hallucinate" and give some wild outputs, very similar to humans suffering from schizophrenia. And again these answers will be given as "fact" with the same robotic confidence.
Saw a video with a clip from a podcast last night where a guy called in because his father-in-law wouldn't apply for the FEMA money in NC because he believed Trump and his conspiracy theories and thought if he applied they would take his house. The son-in-law lives across the country and didn't know what to do, as his father-in-law is sending messages to family stating that he has no food or supplies and doesn't know what to do. But this same man said he believes Trump and would not under any circumstances except any aid from the government. They tried send him articles from FEMA and fact checkers debunking Trump's lies, but the man is part of Trump's cult and is waiting on Trump to save him.
I hope that this can become the Lemmy version of /r/AutisticWithADHD and be a safe place for all. Creating this community, and instance, has been my hyperfocus since Reddit announced the API changes. It has been a lot of hours in the works, but if I can use it to give back to the community and provide a safe space for anyone with Autism or ADHD, or both, then yay!
Former President... emphasis on former. As a candidate, his opinion shouldn't carry anymore weight than any other citizen.