"Since a victim impact statement is a real thing, and has implications in sentencing, is it your premise that an AI construct is saying exactly what the dead person would say?"

The full story I read about this earlier included that folks' have the ability to present their impact statement anyway they want. This family decided to present it as how they remember their loved one -- and that's exactly how it was presented to the court.

"Problem is that almost always the statement "I will pray for you" is made with passive-aggressive intent. "

I've never experienced this. At all. I have no doubt you perceive it this way is more of a reflection on you and distrust of the "bad other people" who believe differently than you.

" It's also offensive because it's not a real meaningful gesture, it's easy to just tell someone you'll pray for them and you get the benefit of seeming to care for no real effort."

Ah, so for you everyone who believes something other than you must be just pretending to care about you, your soul, or whatever? Deliberately being fake and insincere? Wow, what a "wonderful" world you live in. You can stay there. Alone. Better yet, maybe move to an island with a soccer or volley ball. You have a very low opinion of individuals.

"I wish you people would learn how offensive it is to tell someone you are going to pray for them."

Seriously? How effed up is that? Is it offensive if they tell you they are making coffee when they get home? Is it offensive if they tell you I'm so sorry $_Bad_Thing happened to you? Why is it offensive that the so feel your pain they want to reach out to their $_Diety to help you?

My family had something horrific happen to us and folks meaning well would say "God only gives us challenges he knows we can overcome". My response was always: "I wish God didn't have so much faith in us" -- but I felt no offense in their good will. Good people care about other people. Focus on that.

Are you a prof in CA?

Sun tried that 25 years ago and even today it is hard to find correct examples of how to create the configuration to make it useful. There were a lot of good things in Trusted Solaris that never got used even in most places that decided they needed the "Trusted" version.

"It's hard to come up with a better term"

"mean". Mean is a better term. Thought I was being pop-culture funny while also being "punny" -- I thought wrong. Typical would be a functional range where most people would fall. Literally, "not abnormal".

"Neurodivergent" is kind of meaningless when it appears that most people are (or at least believe they are) "Neurodivergent".

Thinking of oneself as "challenged" in some way because they don't have a brain like Einstein, Hawking, Penrose, Cox, etc is just wrong. Seriously, there's effectively no difference in folks with 110 IQ and 90 IQ, yet they represent most (over 60%) people.

"Once you take autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and all the other ways that you can developmentally be different from the typical, you actually don't get many typical people left,"

You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means.

It is hard to tell if the sun is upside down but the moon sure is.

But what if how the world really works differs from the intention of the policy?

Foxconn renames two factories in Zhengzhou to "Vietnam" and "India". Chinese government confirms by assigning territorial sovereignty of the loading docks to the respective countries.

It's worth running the numbers.

In 50,000 years, there could be a whole new crop of coal to repeat this whole cycle all over again.

LK

That's the thing about the eco wackos that really burns my ass.

Nuclear is the only viable option for cheap, clean power and they fight it tooth and nail. Solar and wind are great additions but nuclear would give us everything we need.

They don't want that. They're not pushing for thorium power, they're not pushing to update safety standards. They're fighting to shut it all down.

They're not concerned with saving the environment, they're neo-luddites.

Cheap, clean power would do more than anything else within our reach at the moment to improve the lives of everyone on this planet and they oppose it, have you ever wondered why?

LK

CA fights verifying anything. We gifted over 20 billion dollars (likely north of 30 billion) of unemployment benefits to scammers.

It's a good thing we hold our elected officials accountable!

(oh, wait...)

What happens in countries that have all their internet links cut at the same time?

I'm still looking for one real world example where a short cert expiry time solved a problem.