Skyrmir

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Because it's always accompanied by human trafficking and rape. Even in countries where it's legal, the laws are shaped around an idea of allowing it, while preventing the worst aspects of it. The efficacy of various systems is still under review, as none of them are as effective as anyone would like.

It's a similar issue with polygamy. No one really cares what a group of consenting adults gets up to, but it always ends up devolving into some ones twelve year old daughter being married off to an old geezer, or a cult leader, or both. So it ends up getting banned.

They're both non problems that cause problems. And yes, a hundred ways to control the real problems have been tried. No one has really been happy with the results so far, there have just been various levels that local societies have decided to accept.

There's a combination of physics models and statistics. And they're constantly updated with current measurements. They should get more accurate as the physics are modeled and measurements get more detailed. Of course we fired a lot of the people that do the modeling and shut down a bunch things doing the measurements.

Pretty sure the goal of the mystery meat is to make everyone too afraid to buy beef, and cause the price to drop due to lack of demand.

It's the same strategy of randomly firing off a gun in a neighborhood you want to buy a house in.

Toddlers can cover the distance from the sidewalk to under a car tire faster than you can blink. Ill never judge a parent for having them on a leash.

The muzzle is a bit much though.

Pasquerella agreed that Canadian institutions face their own challenges to academic freedom as long as right-wing populist movements remain a global force. Still, she said her association is tracking increased interest among American researchers looking to Canada and to other countries like the U.K., Germany and Australia.

It's not so much moving to Canada, as moving out of the US. It's been a building problem for decades now.

I should add that given the details it's not entrapment. At the same time though, there are thousands of flock cameras, and somehow the cops knew this particular spot for a fake one would lure someone in? There's no telling if they instigated it in some way not mentioned. And the charges they filed are very likely to fall apart anyway, because it wasn't a flock camera, it was a cheap decoy, and felonies are based on actual value, not imaginary. It also may not have been authorized to be installed. So the defendant could legally have been removing vandalism from a pole.

This is why you can't really adjudicate from a news story, there's a million unknowns, and often weird technical details to laws that aren't well known to the public. Top that off with most news information coming from defense lawyers giving an intentionally biased account of events, because the police don't just call the press most of the time. And when they do, it's usually to give their own damning version of events.

on What could have been... · c/Risa · 3 pts · 6d

Now I'm just hoping her family estate has her image rights locked down so we don't end up with some AI abomination of this.

Isn't this the same state that had a naked knife wielding guy get in a fight with a naked knife wielding guy?

Nope wait, that was Seattle, my bad whole different state.

There's really no such thing as a totally accurate voting system. It's a whole rabbit hole of variations, all with various trade offs. The stated goal is to create an accurate representation of the vote with an easily understandable voting method. It's easy to see which is more accurate just by the chart, but understandable can be debated. Which is how the US ended up with the worst possible solution.