Took him long enough. Jesus.

So…this is just a podcast ad then

I mean, fuck him and all that, but here’s no need for that kind of hyperbole. He didn’t try or risk killing her. He made it so she was disqualified from the contest.

Yeah, smuggling is moving the illegal goods. Trafficking is buying or selling illegal goods.

A lot of times, they’re done together by the same person, but they can also be separately by different people.

I buy some heroin, I’m trafficking. I give it to you to take to my buddy across the border, you’re smuggling. He takes it from you and sells it to others, he’s trafficking.

And if the goods being illegally moved are people, then they are indeed smuggling people. That’s what mules do.

Yep! So there is definitely a very real difference between the concept of slavery and human trafficking. They often go hand in hand, but they’re distinct processes.

To have even more fun, there’s also smuggling, which is moving the goods illegally, and that is different than the buying and selling, and that is different than owning.

It ain’t trafficking if it’s legal.

Well, by definition, to traffick something is to illegally buy or sell something.

Buying, selling, and owning people has not always been illegal, so it’s more that humans couldn’t be trafficked, depending on if it was allowed.

If you want a concrete example of the difference, let’s say I kidnap someone and keep them as a slave. That’s simply me enslaving someone.

Now let’s say I kidnap someone and sell them to someone else who keeps them as a slave. What have I done? I’ve trafficked a human.

Not really, words have meaning

human trafficking: noun

A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harboured, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery.

slavery: noun

1. The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner’s control, especially in involuntary servitude.
2. The practice of owning slaves.
3. A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.

Why would she get a pass for believe someone who was well known to be in the Epstein files and is a known con artist? She might not be a hypocrite, but she’s for sure fucking stupid. And honestly, whether she votes that way from profound idiocy or actual malice, it doesn’t matter. She helped fuck us all. And fuck her for that.

Bright Line Watch fielded two recent surveys of political science faculty at American colleges and universities (whom we refer to as “experts”) and representative samples of Americans (whom we refer to as “the public”).

Faculty’s relationship to a university is not the same as a CEOs relationship to a business.

This would be akin to a CEO surveying his engineering team about the state of the company’s engineering

If I understand your statement correctly, only the most intelligent creatures would understand that LLM’s are themselves?

Why?

Frank Zappa considered himself a classical conservative in the era of Reagan

QED steambox is the PC version of McDonald’s in Rome or Vietnam

The US has never really been friendly to Catholics as a whole. Jfk was the first Catholic president, and a fear at the time was that the pope would have undue influence. The KKK also went after non-protestants.

I don’t think the image is trying to indicate professional seniority, it seems to me to try to represent seniority from an experience standpoint

It doesn’t have to be edgy, it just explains what happens. In db replication, a master holds the truth and slaves repeat it/follow orders. The US has a unique and relatively recent relationship with chattel slavery so people are more sensitive to it now. Doesn’t make it right or wrong, the words mean certain things that describe what the system does.

The predestal/respect bit in my comment was about this post as a whole. IMO, the screenshotted person does not deserve to be paid attention to. They are not revealing anything new by any means while choosing to make the problem worse.

I don’t know what anyone being in my family has to do with anything. My response is the same: if you are unhappy enough to complain out loud about something you are helping cause, either do something about it or shut the fuck up.

That’s all good and well and I agree with you, but I also believe if you have and are continuing to feed the machine, then you don’t get to be put on a pedestal or respected for recognizing how bad the machine is. This person is repeating something that is already very well known and accepted and is simultaneously adding to the alarm while causing it. I have extremely low patience for that particular brand of person. They are continuing to cause the problem they are rallying against.

If I were face to face with this person, I’d genuinely say “either quit working there or shut the fuck up.”