There may be some merit to the argument that people who get off on this stuff can do so without harming an actual child. Of course, there’s the counter argument that this stuff can normalise this sort of abuse and make it more likely to occur to a real child. There’s also the fact that these AI gen tools are trained on existing data, they’re not making this shit up, they don’t have imagination. So I’m pretty sure that the training data will have included lots of material of actual children being harmed. Certainly there are real children in need, and yes they need help. But this sort of material being published should concern all of us. What happens when your activism on behalf of hungry children is met with people pointing to these torture videos and saying “Lol could be worse!”

‘Significant injuries to both arms’ makes it clear they didn’t have a fuckin clue how to find a vein. They were jabbing away, and it sounds like they injected into tissue. A junkie would have done a better job. That statement is very rarely true, and it’s a sad indictment of their competence.

Or heroin. In the past I’ve overdosed on heroin a couple of times and it is quick and painless. And it’s not as though it’s difficult to source.

That said, I’m also against the death penalty until we can come up with a system that correctly identifies the guilty 100% of the time. I doubt that’ll ever be possible.

Time to call the great innovator, Donald trump.

Stuff like plumbing and electrician work seems to be pretty stable.

Hasn’t everyone had it at least once by now?

Nah, just plain hanged is fine.

Being nice to people. You come out of interactions feeling better, and you often get more out of people by being nice.

This is why companies should be worker owned cooperatives. Yes, management is a useful skill, and the workers can hire it.

Wishful thinking I know, but so much more sustainable.

If AI ever reaches the point that it can produce a creative, fun game that feels worth playing - which I doubt, because you gotta have a soul to make art - then anyone can press that button. Why would people buy their game when they can get AI to make their own?

He’s right, these people have shit the corporate bed.