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Couldn't find a good thread for this kind of thing, but I ran across this article today that made me stop and think WTF.

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Apparently Elon Musk is implanting monkeys with brain microchips and teaching them to play video games with their minds:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech ... SKBN2BW2H2
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-camb ... SKBN2BY0EO

Let's put a smile on that face
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*snort* Aykshually, it's about oppression dynamics
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TLDR: Irish digital artist "restores" photos of Khmer Rouge victims in colour - and also with added cheesy grins. Cambodians mad. I'm looking forward to the guy's response! Sans the quoted paragraph, I'd assume he was simply a ham-handed moron. Now I'm really wondering WTF his problem is. He seems to have defaced victims of mass murder for his death camp fanfiction, which is not a practice I recall encountering previously. I'm sure it's been done, I've just never seen it.

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BIL wrote:He seems to have defaced victims of mass murder for his death camp fanfiction, which is not a practice I recall encountering previously. I'm sure it's been done, I've just never seen it.
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Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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Checks out! Image Wouldn't put anything past that gangrenous micropeen.
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BIL wrote: Let's put a smile on that face
Dude. That's seriously fucked up.

Whether or not this was intended to be manipulative, it's definitely is. The question, as you said, is really what he intended. But also, could have been subconscious on his part.

Last thing I really read pertaining to the subject was the Susan Sontag book Regarding the Pain of Others. It's got a lot of really important stuff to say about how western media portrays people in volatile and war-torn parts of the world, and the responsibility that we have to treat them, not only with a certain amount of dignity, but also not to use them to make points.

She speaks of the spectacle that western journalism makes of the world...
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"To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breath-taking provincialism. It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment-that mature style of viewing which is a prime acquisition of "the modern," and a prerequisite for dismantling traditional forms of party-based politics that offer real disagreement and debate. It assumes that everyone is a spectator. It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world. But it is absurd to identify the world with those zones in the well-off countries where people have the dubious privilege of being spectators, or of declining to be spectators, of other people's pain, just as it is absurd to generalize about the ability to respond to the sufferings of others on the basis of the mind-set of those consumers of news who know nothing at first hand about war and massive injustice and terror. There are hundreds of millions of television watchers who are far from inured to what they see on television. They do not have the luxury of patronizing reality."
I also want to say that I'm not a huge fan of what Vice has become. In the beginning, there was some interesting shit there, but this kind of irresponsible thing has been going on for awhile, so I'm really not surprised.

Thanks for the post.
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Ever read some of the fine print on the back of a dvd that makes you wonder if you're breaking the law by watching the film with somebody else and that your purchase is meant for your eyes only? Fear not, you were absolutely right! This was their plan all along.

https://twitter.com/Sean8UrSon/status/1 ... 3557120001
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Searchlike wrote:
VENUE enables the ability to monitor a living room for people and sell individual On-Demand tickets
Movie Night - IN FUTURE :o
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There was an attempt to sell these self-destructing DVDs. The implementation was of course so jank that they'd die on the shelf eventually. If it had caught on, it would have squandered hundreds of tons of plastic and killed millions of whales with all this trash in the ocean. Which would have a higher death toll than bitcoin. (Thankfully it didn't and bitcoin is responsible for hundreds of thousands of more deaths, hey-o~)

They actually sold those things, they really exist.
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Because I Got High.mp3

Some startling case law from France - as a man who broke into an elderly Jewish woman's apartment, beat her bloody while yelling antisemitic slurs, then threw her out the third-floor window to her death avoids criminal liability - because he got high.
Police investigations later revealed that Halimi had told relatives that she was scared of Traore, who insulted her visiting daughter as a “dirty Jewess” a few weeks before the murder.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/04/14/n ... ah-halimi/

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Speaking of nationalism: With Apple's ARM chips breaking their collective foot off in your fanny, you might reconsider your national security objections to Nvidia coming aboard. Just sayin'. ARM is already losing (terribly) and the firm obviously has no answers. Microsoft is now (also) moving to swipe ARM designs for their own private chips. How long before Google follows? Apple already beat ARM's own designs and ARM has absolutely no reply. Do what you will, but ARM better do something quickly--and waving a Union Jack won't get it done.
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Is this the story you're referring to?

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-intervenes-nvidias-takeover-arm-national-security-grounds-2021-04-19/

The way your post is written, it seems to hinge on my being British. I just work here, often being mistaken for a Burger. :cool:

Also, "fanny" over here means pussy, cunt, fassyhole - not ass, butt, batty, as it does in the States. "Break my foot off in your cunt" is probably randier (frankly kinda grim!) than the desired idiom "break my foot off in your ass." Image
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BIL wrote:Is this the story you're referring to?

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-intervenes-nvidias-takeover-arm-national-security-grounds-2021-04-19/

The way your post is written, it seems to hinge on my being British. I just work here, often being mistaken for a Burger. :cool:

Also, "fanny" over here means pussy, cunt, fassyhole - not ass, butt, batty, as it does in the States. "Break my foot off in your cunt" is probably randier (frankly kinda grim!) than the desired idiom "break my foot off in your ass." Image
Yeah, there's were dozens of pieces about it.

I expect the fast way to upset the plebs is the European Super League. :mrgreen:
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BIL wrote: An amazing precedent. Image

I remember the story when it happened. Unbelievable that anyone could be convinced that marajuana is capable of turning a person into a raving homicidal lunatic. Reminds me of all the old 1950's propaganda commercials. Oi!
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SHAKE THIS SQUARE WORLD AND BLAST OFF FOR KICKSVILLE :cool:
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Oh man. This is just nuts. Let's all get some practice cutting open a rib cage. Any volunteers? No???

https://nypost.com/2021/05/05/ex-navy-s ... isis-teen/
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Canadian soldier charged with feeding cannabis cupcakes to artillery unit during live-fire exercise

Okay. So what could possibly motivate something like this? NBD? Didn't see Starship Troopers?

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GaijinPunch wrote:Oh, and this fucking nugget :?
VIRUS BUSTER WATER

What's in it??
MIOX electrolyzed water, weakly alkaline, concentration 20 ppm
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I suppose it's preferable to making all your fans breathe aerosolized bleach.
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GaijinPunch wrote:How to not get Covid in Japan

Oh, and this fucking nugget :?
Oh jc. Why not just cancel the fucking Olympics if they're so concerned about it? Typical hypocrisy very much hits home spending any length of time over there (outside of the shelter of an expat community).
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Now I could've missed on some thread and this was mentioned on forum but not sure. I've run across this lately:
https://www.zophar.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40933

Note I accept everyone views on ROM download sites etc., whichever it is but my point about this case is a different one. It qualifies for topic because I question the decision to sue that man. This act alone dates a while back but lately reading the conclusion of this case is a "wtf" in my book. It would've been enough by Nintendo to see the site down and done easily.

Instead suing a single "poor" man (what I have in mind is between "not starving" but "no one in particular position") is an embarrassment from a massive company with Japanese roots. That's my opinion of course but one more fact is that they haven't done so for the money because it's clearly "not there". Rather they invested in this case to make it a public affair. Is Nintendo really struggling at market this bad?
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I was wondering whatever happened to that yandere chick in Japan who gutted her boyfriend like a fish. For as close as you can get to real murder without going over, she had to pay $50,000 and spend ~3.5 years in prison. So a man's life is worth 142.8% of a romfile, I guess.

...I used to always joke the biggest problem with androids is they would be little NARCs, squealing on every tiny thing you do ever. Eggheads somehow managed to top that with an even more miserable idea: in-app purchases. And you thought Blade Runner was bleak.
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BryanM wrote:I was wondering whatever happened to that yandere chick in Japan who gutted her boyfriend like a fish. For as close as you can get to real murder without going over, she had to pay $50,000 and spend ~3.5 years in prison. So a man's life is worth 142.8% of a romfile, I guess..
Japan has a bizarre criminal justice system. Generally a single murder will not result in the death penalty, and sentences are quite short. To boot, if the suspect never admits the crime, it is somewhat difficult to get a conviction. Like this nugget.
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GaijinPunch wrote:Japan has a bizarre criminal justice system. Generally a single murder will not result in the death penalty, and sentences are quite short. To boot, if the suspect never admits the crime, it is somewhat difficult to get a conviction. Like this nugget.
Pretty heavy story. But tell you the truth, I do agree on that verdict. Of course I also see the "ridiculous" part without any doubt. There's but one thing, maybe you know or maybe I'll see myself to find that information: is the charged given a choice to be represented by an attorney by law? (without taking any costs)
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The defense doesn't make any sense. How would discovery of her body (after suicide) point to his affair? He could sanitize her apartment if that exposed him, but he could do that without dropping the body in the ocean.

I suppose she must have been down there too long for them to pinpoint the time of death, and thus prove she drowned in the sea rather than elsewhere. I can understand (based on their legal system) why he didn't go down for it, but I think it's obvious he did it.
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vol.2 wrote:The defense doesn't make any sense.
That's right, so that question of mine came out of: was there any defense at all? How do cases like this proceed in Japanese courts? (what formalities, frequency and flow of proceeding)
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There is a defense but their motive may not necessarily be your absolutely innocents. They have a reputation for being rather shitty. That's somewhat anecdotal, but it's not like US TV where they bust in and demand all of their clients rights be honored. In fact once incarcerated you have very few rights. Interrogations are 8 hours and not recorded.
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GaijinPunch wrote:There is a defense but their motive may not necessarily be your absolutely innocents. They have a reputation for being rather shitty. That's somewhat anecdotal, but it's not like US TV where they bust in and demand all of their clients rights be honored. In fact once incarcerated you have very few rights. Interrogations are 8 hours and not recorded.
Thanks for bringing it up. This is just about what I expected and makes a lot of sense to me, going back to why I agree with the verdict. A fair judging can only be made based on facts that don't leave any doubt, in the most literal sense of it. Establishing that is the aim of all attorneys involved. The commonly used term "defense" is actually misleading, especially if the principle of courts is obligation to truth.

But what implementing ideals can sometimes mean in practical terms is in your posted example. What was gathered there as evidence wouldn't leave any doubt in terms of interpretation. But as undeniable fact accounting for any possibilities, even the most abstract ones, might not have been enough.
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Seems like more "save face" honor BS that permeates everything over there.

Prostrate yourself until you can't prostrate no more and then go seppuku because you lost all face-saving options.
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vol.2 wrote:Seems like more "save face" honor BS that permeates everything over there.

Prostrate yourself until you can't prostrate no more and then go seppuku because you lost all face-saving options.
You mean like, judges making sure they keep clean hands? Or not quite sure.

One very far side note, if: "save face honor BS permeates everything there" how on earth can there be some much embarrassment going on casually on streets? Clothing, pop art, all sort of stuff. Now I do consider everything for any personal taste, yet I find there's a lot of embarrassment going on there. Still, far side note, not much related here.
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