They probably didn’t know how to market it. Barely any purple zappy lights or spandex or or flames or blowout fight scenes.

It was decent. But I think I’m past where even “good” or “unique” MCU stuff interests me much.

I get you, but I see legal distinctions between the two.

Slavery, owning a human being as property for labor, which may include for sex.

Human trafficking, trade of a human being for purposes of labor which may include for sex.

I would say that the Tates witholding passports and pay and all that shit to manipulate women into doing cam work for them, I would call that slavery. If they ever “sold” or “gave” those women to anyone else, I would say that it’s human trafficking.

*Not a lawyer, I had a gut sense and googled the “difference between slavery and human trafficking” as a starting sanity check.

I would not consider 5 cups of coffee in a day to be “moderate”. Who the heck are they studying?

Local city sub, it’s the best place for news and events. I have dwindled down on posting or commenting, trying to find alternatives so I can fully drop it. Unfortunately, Facebook is still heavily used for events and I’ll take Reddit over Facebook.

Assault. Does this question ever wind up with answers that don’t hit the bottom?

Despite the normal safety measures + an intentional lack of flirting when the vibes weren’t there, public space, no booze on first meeting, split the check so there are no “implications”, no physical contact. Dude didn’t like hearing no as I wanted to head to my car and leave. Fortunately, it was in public and he tried to keep it low-key but I had deep bruises on my arm for a while.

A much better article, thanks.

Can we get higher quality AI ragebait?

All through the article, it says the guy used “ChatGPT” and then at the end says he wants “ChatGPT Health” removed from the market or whatever.

Is ChatGPT Health a thing?

Was he actually using it?

Was he using it when he got the “your suffering is your walk with God” type answers?

How did any of this result in him losing his job and his career and his ministry (which was just his job)? Poor guy losing his job three times over.

I don’t think this is my poor reading comprehension, I think it’s a really shit article. Probably written by ChatGPT.

A second opinion is an option. And a better one than a bunch randos on the internet who don’t know anything but that you’re questioning your doctor’s recommendation.

Quality control and honest labeling type laws, similar to what we expect for food and beer.

Laws around operating vehicles and such while under the influence, similar to alcohol.

I hope it isn’t hashed 👉👈

My Lemmy password is: IThinkMy$erverAdmin1sCute

“Knock knees” is a predominantly childhood thing that most kids grow out of. It’s not a less-than-luxury-size thing.

Adult peeps with knock knees who have never talked to a doctor about it, please look into PT. That shit can be potentially fixed or at least improved with good ol’ physical therapy.

Huh, I don’t know where to find the metadata like you did, @WhoIz. This one was for sure a .gif file.

I see a static frame of the gif in the comment and then click on it to fill screen and see the gif do it’s gif thing. *Still on Voyager client

touche.

Same way I link an image. *Voyager client

(Boop)

most engineers actually doing the road design ‘assume’ drivers are mostly rational actors and are not overtly defensive in their design. Instead, they wait until crash data collected after the fact forces the issue.

This is absolutely wild to me. I’m an engineer, mechanical background, related to traffic in the air rather than on roads, and we have SO MANY REMINDERS pushing the idea of proactive safety measures and mistake-proofing any potential safety hazards. From industry standards to regulatory body and customer requirements, to internal procedures, backed by tools and specific courses in engineering coursework. Folks would be in jail if they acted like this, like, "yeah, that plane door might fly open if some idiot goes at it the wrong way but *shrug, we’ll tweak the design once someone actually does it and kills a planeload of people.

Mine scrolls to down to other article titles, which click into similar page with email address prompt and more article titles.

Must sign up with email to read :/

Corporate greed also wants my email address so they can resell it to other corporate asshats.

Maybe I need to go further than Lemmy and get back into Usenet newsgroups. It’s been a decade-plus and I’m sure it’s more civil there.

As long as I’m not anxious about anything, I sleep well. I do all the usual advice. Maintain a consistent sleep schedule, including weekends, and try to hold to it as much as possible even during travel and vacation. General healthy diet and exercise. Turn off screens. Max Richter sleep soundtrack low in the background. The “alphabet game” or whatever, probably learned about it on here or reddit: pick any letter and then think of every word that starts with that letter. It keeps you brain occupied on something inconsequential so no other important thoughts take my attention. Melatonin when I do need to shift away from my normal schedule for some reason.

I suspect a genetic predisposition; my dad is like this and most of my siblings.

My real super power is my ability to sleep on planes. I’ll be out cold by the time the plane leaves the runway.

And sometimes I’ll get my brain knotted up over some dumb problem, worry about it and not sleep for two nights straight. Crash hard. Then be fine.

I think because it’s so car-centric lots of people have to be able to drive to hold a job or go to school. So it’s seen almost more like a “right”. Compared to my friends in London or Sydney were the view seems much more that proficiency should be worked towards and licensure earned.

There is probably some parallel to gun culture, though that actually is a “right” here. A person who has no business around weapons can still buy enough to kit a small army. Beat their spouse? Meh, they can still own guns. Road rage? Psh, that’s no reason to pull their drivers license or their guns.

Also, I was 13 when I got a license to drive. My state had the lowest age I am aware of for kids who lived in rural areas and didn’t have school bus service so they could drive themselves to school. So yeah, 13 years old and I drove a car from home into the city of 300k people to get to my school. The only accident I have ever been responsible for was wiping out a mailbox when I slid on some ice. Motorcycle license at 15 years old after a short written test and riding the bike about six city blocks. I’m technically a successful example of the low age limits and I think it was fucking stupid.