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Is that terrorism?

Forgive me, but the kid had talked to these bots for 2 weeks? And after taking the phone away mom sent him to therapy? That seems… extreme to me, how much damage did those chatbots cause in such a short time?

IIRC Germany > Germania > Allemania > Alemanic tribes, people who lived in Germany. France calls them “Allemagne” as well, you can see where that came from.

A TOS is not a liability shield. If Raine violated the terms of service, OpenAI should have terminated the service to him.

They did not.

For those confused: it was the Dutch that placed the display panels about African American soldiers.

It was removed on orders of the Trump administration.

That’s not a Christmas celebration, and the Dutch authorities are actually pretty pissed about it, because the Americans had it removed.

You really won’t short something, and wooden toothpicks are at risk of splintering and leaving more behind than getting out if you’re not careful.

You generally won’t be touching the contacts much, since most gunk like lint can just be scooped out. Just be a bit gentle and you’ll be fine.

Those other absurd laws aren’t remotely relevant, hence the lack of acknowledgement. Many are irrelevant or very old. There is a large movement in the US that seeks to demonize trans people in sports, and this law isn’t that old, so in the current political climate there’s definitely a non-zero chance it gets acted upon.

And that the law allows you to correct your birth certificate does not mean that the law assumes your future to-be-corrected certificate is currently legally valid. I’m sure they’ll get it resolved eventually, but at that moment the school felt they had to apply the law.

The law does not provide room for the birth certificate being mistaken I’m afraid.

And yes, there’s a chance the state could come after them, or some other parent or activist group could citing this law. Hence them attempting to shut down this potential liability. They can’t risk enforcement, so they won’t.

I think the point was that “biological sex” is a legal term, not a biological one. Hence the application of the law here, irregardless of what this kid’s actual situation is. It’s a demonstration of why this law is stupid, and what stupid things a school board has to do to remain compliant.

They’re almost certainly not grouping the kid with the girls out of spite, but to avoid being liable for not doing so if someone were to find out this kid is, according to the law, “biologically female”. The school has to protect itself from this liability, and thus we get this extreme example of the law being stupid.

I’m fairly certain it’s easier in Croatia than in most countries.

As the article addresses, inflation is down because demand has cratered, as people are simply significantly poorer than they were before. Demand for food is down, as people don’t have the money for food anymore, so prices must come down. Instead, people have to stand in breadlines to be fed.

This isn’t a good thing. It’s the worst way of addressing inflation, as it leads to sharp increases in severe poverty without addressing any of the actual causes of inflation. The Argentinian economy is becoming less productive and the added imports means more money is flowing out of the country instead of towards it.

Before, inflation was making Argentinians poor. Now it’s Milei making them poor. In the end, poverty is just getting worse.

They were transporting the only remaining copies of the Epstein list.

The point was that they haven’t always held themselves up to those standards and have sometimes only used professionals espousing a single viewpoint (where multiple exist).

I should mention this isn’t bias, iirc the channel did release a video apologizing for some of the issues (though not all), so it wasn’t even up to their own standards by their own admission.

There’s a wikipedia entry listing some of the controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt#%3A~%3Atext=While+some+commentators+have+praised%2Cand+use+of+emotive+language.

Looking things up now, I see that the plagiarism case was slightly different: they had published a video on addiction, which was fairly explosive in its claims. Turns out it was citing basically just one fringe researcher who was also accused of plagiarism. The claims did not seem to hold up to scrutiny.

When another channel doing a series on how pop-sci influencers can sometimes spread misinformed ideas asked some questions to Kurzgesagt, they were immediately a bit apprehensive but agreed to do some interview questions, though with the caveat that they were busy with other things and needed a few weeks before it could take place. Then before the interview took place they suddenly put out their own apology video and took the addiction video down. At no point was it mentioned that another channel prompted this action, it was presented as some kind of inward reflection that they had come to themselves.

No they spoke Venezuelan, clearly.

To be fair, the media usually does a real shit job of explaining it.

I mean there’s been some controversy surrounding a number of their videos. Some were under fire for poor research or demonstrating a singular, not widely-held view on certain topics. And I think for one video they were accused of plagiarism iirc. This was when it was still somewhat early days for the channel, haven’t followed them since so not sure what the state is now.

There’s at least two more votes at different levels before this becomes regulation.

The point is that they haven’t done so yet. This is just a motion to tell the responsible minister to explore whether or not it can or should be done. They don’t have the power to simply instate such designations.