The primary reason an MRI is expensive to run is that it has this magnetic field that must be maintained. This is a cost that is irrespective of whether they are running a scan.

So if you have an MRI for small animals and it’s not being used, you might use it for a hamster.

Yeah, it was almost wasted hitting some shitty pavement and causing even more of a heat island problem in this city. But instead, it not only gets the honor of interacting with me, it even serves a useful biological purpose.

I forget where I heard it from, but somebody said that it’s strange how we believe that if we go back in time and make a small change, it will have a huge effect on the future, but we also believe that making small changes today won’t make any difference in the future.

When I read your comment, my monocle popped right off!

How about 4D Venn diagrams?

If you’ve been to Reddit since the API meltdown, it’s pretty clear that large sections of it were fucked by angry moderators, and still remain that way. I don’t think the fediverse was ready to take over, but Reddit very clearly has fewer people working for them for free.

Specifically, there are several subreddits where they used to be strict about submissions, and now they let anything mildly related in.

I’m honestly pretty surprised that they still haven’t recovered. At this point, I’m hoping that their mediocrity will continue to push people away until Lemmy can catch up.

This reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there’s no such thing as a fish.

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“Walking” is a continuous action. They didn’t say “just stepping”.

By the way, it doesn’t matter to me whether other people get my jokes.

They didn’t say occasionally walking on it. They said just walking on it.

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I didn’t think you were trying to pick a fight or were disingenuous. What I thought was that when I read my original answer that I had written, that somebody would end up reading that and would try to fight with me.

This is just from my experience from some other forums, but on those, they always thought there was no punishment enough for some crimes, especially child abuse, and they even rejoiced in the thought that the person might be raped to death in jail. If you even suggested that might be an excessive punishment, people would fight with you.

Look, I had a comment typed out to explain this, but I don’t think people act rationally when it comes to cases involving children, so even if I can perfectly explain why I think it, I’d expect a neverending fight and tons of shitty downvoters.

I think it’s enough to say that it just seems surprising to get 17 years in prison if nobody was physically harmed.

What a coincidence that this cop never did anything that landed himself in jail for his whole career, but then after he retired, he suddenly turned abusive. /s

I don’t know exactly what he did, but 17 years seems excessive for what is described in the article. I wouldn’t be surprised if the plea deal was specifically giving a long sentence on this sort of crime so that another crime could be dropped.

Like, let’s say that in addition to all of these computer chats, he actually abused a child in person. If he pleads guilty to that, he might have a hard time in prison. Also, the child he abused might have the truth come out. So, they figured they’d let him plead to this other crime to save everybody embarrassment, because he’s going to die in prison, anyways. It’s just a theory to explain why the sentence seems long.

I love word ladders. Here’s one that I do every day, which even has a word ladder in the URL. https://wordwormdormdork.com/

For your second point, do you say that you use Adobe or Windows?

I mean, you already know the answer to that. The point is that you don’t have to give the entire context of your computing environment every time you mention some product you use.

Linux is just the kernel.

It’s not only the kernel. It is also the name that people have settled on for differentiating the computer running the Linux kernel from a computer running Windows.

I was contrasting it with the animal “gnu”, otherwise known as the wildebeest, which is pronounced more similar to the word “new”. I suspect more people know the animal gnu than know the organization GNU.

I understand why Stallman wanted us to say GNU/Linux, because his organization needs money and wants its name out there, but that’s simply not how things get named in the real world.

First, GNU was always a mouthful. It’s always been intentionally pronounced differently from the animal. People prefer names that are not confusing and that don’t sound strange.

Second, we don’t do the same thing for other operating systems. If you’re an illustrator, you don’t say that you work on Adobe/Windows or whatever.

Third, GNU/Linux adds nothing interesting over simply “Linux”. And in fact, there have been distributions where they avoid GNU tooling due. Everybody still recognizes these as Linux.

As Reason’s Jacob Sullum reported, Reps. Tim Walberg (R‒Mich.) and Jamie Raskin (D‒Md.) reintroduced the FAIR Act in March. The legislation includes several major reforms to civil asset forfeiture at the federal level, including eliminating the equitable sharing fund.

“It makes me feel more resolved to get this legislation passed,” Walberg told WCNC. “At least the thought can come in people’s minds, they changed their approach, and they rushed it more quickly in order to get that $69,000. It really ended up hurting the victim.”

The government’s actions “really ended up hurting the victim.” That really just about sums up this entire story, and civil forfeiture in general. It’s mostly used to hurt people, not to seek justice.

If anything, they feel more confident, unencumbered by experience or the truth.