about the racist part: it is a bit like saying women should cover their head it will protect from men staring at them. very slippery slope

nobody can expect malintent from a british gentleman’s or lady’s accent

I already don’t use airbnb but booking.com? Almost all holidays. That would be really hard to replace. Does anyone have any alternatives (other than directly calling the hotels obv)? I guess one could atleast minimally search from booking.com and then first check if the hotels you are interested in have their own online reservation systems. But it will probably be much less guaranteed than booking.com and one could easily end up with a holiday ruined and a mere apology for “making a reservation mistake”

take a chill pill

I would find it hard to believe if Jessica Rabbit wasn’t somewhere there, probably 6? Although the hair style doesn’t quite match.

It is indeed a complicated problem with many intertwined variables, wouldn’t wanna be in the shoes of policy makers (assuming that they actually are searching for an honest solution and not trying to turn this into profit lol).

For instance too much regulation on fields like this essentially would kill high quality open source AI tools and make most of them proprietary software leaving the field in the mercy of tech monopolies. This is probably what these monopolies want and they will surely try to push things this way to kill competition (talk about capitalism spurring competition and innovation!). They might even don the cloak of some of these bad actors to speed up the process. Given the possible application range of AI, this is probably even more dangerous than flooding the internet with revenge porn.

%100 freedom, no regulations will essentially lead to a mixed situation of creative and possibly ground breaking uses of the tech vs many bad actors using the tech for things like scamming, disinformation etc. how it will balance out on the long run is probably very hard to predict.

I think two things are clear, 1-both extremities are not ideal, 2- between the two extremities %100 freedom is still the better option (the former just exchanges many small bad actors for a couple giant bad actors and chokes any possible good outcomes).

Based on these starting with a solution closer to the “freedom edge” and improving it step by step based on results is probably the most sensible approach.

Fair enough, I agree it is common to go for more authoritative figures during times of stress. Which also creates incentive for authoritative figures to keep the stress factors going. But I think there is also some innate desire in humans to worship powerful figures.

Yea but then you are missing the point that people are not criticising their inability to fulfill their promise but making a clearly unfulfillable promise their main campaign slogan. please lets not cycle back to the politicians argument, that does not make it immune to criticism.

I guess the point is this enables the mass production of revenge porn essentially at a person on the street level which makes it much harder to punish and prevent distribution. when it is relatively few sources that produces the unwanted product then only punishing the distribution might be a viable method. But when the production method becomes available to the masses then the only feasible control mechanism is to try to regulate the production method. It is all a matter of where is the most efficient position to put the bottle neck.

For instance when 3D printing allows people to produce automatic rifles in their homes “saying civil use of automatic rifles is illegal so that is fine” is useless.

I don’t know if this is real but if it is, this method of forced watching something you are not interested in guarantees to create negative emotions towards that brand.

I also feel like there is always a constant portion of people who worship power and think they can squeeze a decent life out of siding with the powerful. So if there ever is any war, it definitely won’t be a clear cut class war. And the billionaires will do everything in their power to make sure the war happens within the classes first.

It’s funny this was around the same time as movies like Evil Dead which set the record (till 2020s atleast) for the amount of fake blood used. I guess it was a thing that excited people quite a lot at the time lol

this is gonna take rule 34 to a whole another level

it fulfilled its name mandate %100

So you are saying that their policies are generally wrong?

moving goal posts I see. First it was “well yes they promised to drop the prices but there is bird flu so it is very difficult” now you are saying “it is okay that they lie because they are politicians”. You still have the choice to not defend their particular lies by trying to find reasonable explanations for them, that is on you. Of course if you are an aspiring politician that is another matter.

Most? By what metric, hopefully not your wishful thinking and only focusing on articles that support your views. I would really like to see your science sources on this. And by sources I don’t mean science articles that discuss H5 is not a near term risk (for every such article I can easily find you one that says it is), I mean some sort of literature review that shows MOST experts in the field are not worried. I am educated enough to know the dynamics is complex and the situation is at best unpredictable. Common sense worth a grain of sand requires we should be on alert mode until the animal endemic is over, not firing possibly essential workers because it looks cool when you do it wielding a chainsaw. If we are just gonna trade articles though I will start:

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/bird-flu-is-raising-red-flags-among-health-officials

"On January 6, the Louisiana Department of Health announced that a patient hospitalized last month for H5N1 avian influenza had died, becoming the first U.S. death from the virus. To make matters worse, samples taken from the individual suggest that the virus mutated within the patient after infection—meaning it had begun to adapt to infect humans better—raising new questions about H5N1’s pandemic potential. "

My gut feeling is that you are a troll but nevertheless your questions help inform other people who are on the fence about such stuff so thanks.

If they haven’t learned from and can’t apply the science from the last pandemic then they aren’t doing their job.

Do you think that they are being fired based on merit?

we should be applying the lessons from covid19

Who do you think brings the relevant experience and science into practice for pandemic response? People who were fired.

strong Elysium vibes

even corporations wouldn’t be stupid enough to fire people working on H5 response at the onset of a possible pandemic. If you end up removing people in critical roles then you delay response to a situation where weeks matter.