Yeah, we need to be asking what the purpose of trying the child in question as an adult here is:

Rehabilitation - I think the juvenile system would probably be better suited for this purpose, so no.

Deterrence - I don’t think the knowledge that they might be tried as an adult has much bearing on their decision to commit the crime. I’d be willing to wager that people who do this sort of thing don’t much care what the consequences are. They’ve given up on themselves and their own lives.

Removal - This strikes me as the main motivator. If the system has no way to rehabilitate, and recidivism is likely, then what other option is there?

Retribution - As much as the US loves its retribution, usually it’s less keen to enact it on children. I’m sure some people would be happy about this aspect though.

Retaliation - I’ll let y’all judge off of the tone of the rest of the comments for this one.

I’ve got to agree with this. I love Linux and have run it on my servers for years. That said, I’ve got Mint on my laptop and tried to print an image over wifi at a friend’s place and could not for the life of me get it to print properly.

For the most part things do just work, but there are a lot more “obscure” scenarios that are handled correctly in windows but not Linux.

I also find that when things go wrong on Linux, they are harder to fix. I’ve had several times I’ve had to deal with circular dependency hell to get something to install properly. I did eventually get those problems resolved, but it was often a single person having a tangential problem that hinted me to how to solve it.

Edit: I think if your usage patterns are straight forward enough, it is by far and away the better choice. If you do the same stuff all the time, it’ll pretty much never break, which is not something I could say about windows. So for OP, it sounds like it would be a good fit.

I first read this as:

Policeman stole new car from Lansdale Library, drives to police station to ask for drugs back

It did seem a little weird, but still believable.

Yep. The only way to taste wine is to do it blind so you don’t have preconceptions of quality based on the price. Doing this really exposes that there’s not a ton of rhyme or reason to wine pricing. There is a general trend that you get a better wine for more money, but there are so many outliers, especially expensive wines that just aren’t anything special.

I don’t think it’s mere coincidence that an industry devoid of compassion for animals is also devoid of compassion for humans. The issues are certainly distinct, but not entirely unrelated.

That was indeed what I was thinking of. I didn’t realize it was rejected. My bad, and thanks for the letting me know!

Not to mention that their orbits degrades over time so they have to be continually replenished. That comes at a huge cost which is highly subsidized by US tax payers.

It’s honestly hilarious how badly being called “weird” gets under their skin.

Like, normal people are pretty weird. If someone called me weird, I’d be like “Yeah, true.” But these guys are so out there that they feel a need to deny their own weirdness so that people can identify with them. It’s just weird, TBH.

The problem is systemic IMO. The whole VC model requires the enshitification cycle to work. Any technology that should reduce human labour and be a net positive for society instead always ends up in the hands of capitalists who’ll use it to extract maximal profit.

Like, on a fundamental level, automating people’s jobs is a good thing. The problem is all the benefits are going to a very small number of people.

Honestly, deadlock doing the whole Fight Club marketing strategy really paid off for them. I heard so much about “the game you weren’t allowed to talk about” on various streams.

Yeah, exactly! Since history started in 1837, the year after it happened the first time. :)

Yeah, you know, by… uh… happening again.

Muh freeze peach! Wahh

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.

At least the gold backed dollar had scarcity and real world uses to back it up, unlike fiat. Sure the price of gold is still kinda speculative, but it provided a much more stable mechanism to prevent runaway inflation.

I don’t own crypto, but if anything its artificial scarcity does kinda the same thing as gold used to.

Yeah, when I drive other people’s newer cars, the only thing I miss going back to my early 2000s model is the backup camera.

I’ve got a magnetic clip for my phone on the dash, and a 3rd party Bluetooth > FM converter and it makes for a perfect gps and audio solution.

All money has been play money since the end of the gold standard in '71. Fiat is just more widely exchangeable for goods and services. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Oh, it’s basically the same as Asshole (or Janitor, as my grandmother called it) but with teams, a definite goal, and a few more valid card combinations. One is obviously a derivative. Now I wonder which came first.

Edit: And to answer my own question:

It is a Westernized version of Chinese climbing card games[5] such as Zheng Shangyou, Tien Len in Vietnam and the Japanese Daifugō.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(card_game)

It’s always a useless answer because AI is an actor that inherently cannot be trusted, it has no problem lying to you because it literally doesn’t understand the difference between truth and falsehood.

And the same should be applied to reading social media comments as well. Most people are willing to talk out of their ass about subjects they don’t thoroughly understand. That doesn’t mean all social media comments are useless, though. It just means you have to critically evaluate what you read.

Same with LLM’s. They can provide useful information about and overviews of various topics, but it’s important to understand their limitations and especially that they’re prone to hallucinations. They shouldn’t be used as any sort of authority on a subject, but make for a decent starting point.

*chirping crickets*

I don’t know. It seems to me like he’s just a bog-standard grifter and wanted to trade some votes for a cushy do-nothing job.

He’s obviously a spineless opportunist regardless.