dhork

u/dhork@lemmy.world
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I've seen the stalking charges described as "stalking resulting in death", which I suppose is worse than plain old stalking but not quite murder. Regardless, he's facing a max sentence of life. It seems like he's taking a gamble that he will get less than that.

And as far as I can tell, he is betting they by saying "I killed him" as part of this plea in this trial, he can get out of the state trial.

“While the defendant pled guilty, our office does not have a plea agreement with him,” the U.S. attorney said. “There are no accommodations or concessions, and we are free to seek the maximum penalty under the law.”

There wasn't any plea deal in place, he (in consultation with his lawyers) probably figured this was the best path for him to possibly not get a life sentence. It's as simple as that.

Do either of you have a common last name? I get spam calls (and even more emails) all the time really meant for people with a similar name somewhere else.

on Africa · c/dadjokes · 2 pts · 1d

No, AI is profitable for some customers - if you look at things purely on a transactional basis and ignore the environmental costs and blatant copyright infringement.

The only way to force AI companies to go away is for the regulatory bodies to make sure they are paying the full cost of all this, and not freeloading on the rest of us. Then it will cost so much that it will go away entirely, and we will all go back to editing memes in MS Paint, like it oughta be.

on Africa · c/dadjokes · 1 pts · 1d

I am in favor of AI slop being used for unprofitable endeavors. It accelarates the point at which these companies evaporate, just like their water.

on Africa · c/dadjokes · 19 pts · 1d

I also dont exactly know what's going on in the background, it looks like someone opened a window or two

on Africa · c/dadjokes · 10 pts · 1d

I always misheard that lyric as "a hundred men on Mars", I like that version better

I feel that, my house was right in the path of totality of the USA eclipse last year but we didn't see a thing. Still set out some lawn chairs and experienced the birds and other critters getting confused.

The most remarkable thing for me was looking to the horizon all around and seeing the light stream in through the clouds. We are used to cloudy sunsets where it is lighter to the west than to the east, so it was surreal to see the clouds overhead get dark while we could see lighter clouds all over the horizon.

No, President Dumbass definitely wants a census. The census explicitly needs to count all residents, but he wants to add questions about citizenship to it specifically so he (and Stephen Miller) can have a list of non-citizen residents to harass.

If they get their way, by the time the census after that one is taken, there won't be any non-citizen residents to count anymore.