Pretty much this exact thing happened to me.

Being taken without due process can be somewhat traumatising.

Breathing and drinking are different tubes.

I hate the situations in which I have to say “I fucking told you so”, but I do love saying “I fucking told you so.”

Petty, I know.

It’s really a very small consolation that one can now actually go “fucking told you so.”

I remember once reading that having one beer and then changing to water would be a good rehydration strategy.

And I definitely believe it. Feels like that anyway. But.

Oh man I’d like a cold beer.

Yesterday I honestly had the bot flip and flop on an answer while deeply apologising and everytime saying “now you can actually trust, I checked and rechecked and now it’s definitely correct”.

Like a simple question with two choices.

It didn’t know the answer so then it prompted to choose from two answers. One which confidently said one thing and one which confidently said the other. I called it out on making me choose the answer to a question I asked. Then it decided itself. I then questioned it. It changed it mind. And around and around we went for like 20 minutes, everytime it swearing this time it isn’t hallucinating.

They suck so bad for most things, but they’re useful for some very niche things, but even for those, they still sort of suck at those as well a not non-significant. They’re definitely shouldn’t be used for official shit, but they very much are.

It doesn’t have a corresponding wavelength in the spectrum of visible light, but as we perceive it to be there and have a name for it, it doesn’t really matter that there’s no specific wavelength it corresponds to.

By that metric abstract things likely love, justice, duty, honour, could be argued to not be real either. Can’t touch them or there’s no corresponding physical thing in the world to measure them.

If one is alphabetising things, which cones first “A” or “AA”?

To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.

Feel free to have a look-see at what that could look like. Taxonomy isn’t “taxonomy” anymore, it’s “setlore.” Find that easier to understand?

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Lifelore (“Lifelore” is biology)

It’s an “Anglish” wiki, based on Poul Andersson’s “Uncleftish Beholding”, a text that’s trying to see what English would look like if it didn’t have latin borrowings as much, just the teutonic words.

Here’s some atomic theory ie “uncleftish beholding”.

The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mighty small: one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in chills when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike unclefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

Very much along the lines I was thinking of, yeah.

I think it’s gonna be functionally the same, but it’s gonna take a different form, is my point.

I don’t think that’s really the style in the US, but I agree with the sentiment

they aren’t concerned since they’re citizens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

“Blitzkrieg” is literally “lightning war”, and just refers to the style of offense the Germans used against other European countries in WWII, which was largely responsible for their early military success.

Armies at that time relied on stationary positions and slow logistics, horse-drawn carriages for a large portion. The Germans just blitzed into France, through the Maginot line.

Which makes me wonder whether the current idea of MAD holding off war isn’t as deluded as relying on the Maginot line. I sure hope it isn’t.

Anyway this is more just fascism in general. A fast rise in authoritarianism. Not “war” in the classical sense, although it certainly is basically war.

I mean he says that, but surely he doesn’t mean me…?

That is a sharp fucking rise for three months.

Well both would obviously suffer from the fact that any reasonable person could expect someone to accidentally drink milk from the fridge. That being the reason to adulterate the milk to begin with.

Depends on how the law if formulated.

For instance technically having psychedelics wouldn’t be illegal in Finland. VERY technically. Insofar that all drug crimes are defined as something being used, or being meant to be used, as an intoxicant.

So like legally there’d theoretically be wiggle-room, since one might just have milk with psychedelics in it, without ever having any intention of consuming it, or offering any to anyone else. But it’s not your problem if someone goes and eats stuff not intended for consumption.

Obviously it would never fly, but like… technically.

Look here, we took this water, put it through the cows, now it’s better!

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying,"

Now who here thinks this sentence sounds like law enforcement in action in real life and not an excerpt from a badly written gangbanger movie?

The kid having leukemia makes this very much a cruel an unusual decision. Can’t say “punishment” since they’d argue it’s not a punishment, just bureaucracy. But them not being able to known where they’re gonna even have to go looking for healthcare is just horrific.