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1. Consideration.

2. Goin' for it.

3. GET SNIFFED IDIOT

4. Retraction.

It is really not all that hard to get away with murder. A basic amount of foresight and prep will get rid of enough evidence that the police either won't find the killer or will be unable to make the charge stick.

Despite this, most murders do get solved, because someone who decides that murder is the solution to their problems is probably not the kind of person to be levelheaded and careful enough to avoid getting caught.

I think something very similar is true of sockpuppet accounts. It's not that hard to make a convincing sockpuppet. However, people almost always make sockpuppets as a way of defending their egos, of making it look like they have more support than they actually do. And this passionate defense of someone the sockpuppet ostensibly doesn't know and has no reason to care about is a dead giveaway. So if you want to validate a sockpuppet you have to lose an argument to it. You have to get owned. Once it makes you look like an idiot, basically no one will ever suspect it again.

2 options:

1) rabies (Lyssa) was born when the blood from the castrated balls of Uranus fell into the night (Nyx)

2) Rhabdoviruses (family Rhabdoviridae) are RNA viruses that infect a diverse selection of hosts, including vertebrates, invertebrates, and even plants. Phylogenomic analyses show that the earliest rhabdoviruses originated in arthropods (Li et al., 2015). These early arthropod viruses likely served as precursors to vertebrate-infecting genera, including Lyssavirus. Genome sequencing of over 70 arthropod taxa revealed hundreds of novel viral clades basal to all known vertebrate mononegavirales, suggesting that rhabdoviruses like Lyssaviruses emerged through long-term coevolution and horizontal transmission between arthropods and early vertebrates (Li et al., 2015).

While there is much debate about exactly when and where lyssaviruses originally emerged, it is generally believed that bats are the principle reservoirs for most described lyssaviruses and likely served as the “evolutionary wellspring” for the genus (Rupprecht et al., 2017). One hypothesis on the evolution of lyssaviruses proposes that ancestral bats carried an early lyssavirus into South America during intercontinental dispersal from Africa. There, the virus became endemic in diverse bat taxa and later spilled into carnivores, evolving into what we know today as RABV (Rupprecht et al., 2017). Fossil and molecular evidence places early bats in Gondwana, where the most recent common ancestor of the modern bats likely existed 80 million years ago. This ancient chiropteran origin may explain the divergence between the American indigenous RABV and Old World species of lyssaviruses (Teeling et al., 2005; Rupprecht et al., 2017).

It was from my evolutionary biology class last year. I think my professor was a little confused on why I chose to do this instead of… you know…write something about my actual research focus (pygmy raccoons.) But I just think rabies is cool

Again.

114 people died in the Hyatt Regency collapse, and in the US it's the third largest structural collapse fatality count, behind 9/11 and the Pemberton Mill collapse in 1860.

I've learned about this tragedy in my physics classes, to demonstrate tensile strength, and as a reminder about the importance of calculations being done right. I've also learned about it in my legal classes as an example of construction defect lawsuits. I've seen it referenced in disaster response classes.

Between AI and the current Presidential administration, we're barrelling right back towards this nightmare.

There are multiple errors that resulted in this collapse, but these stand out to me:

1. Kansas City was facing high unemployment and needed to attract jobs and business into the city. So the planning and inspection departments may have looked too closely at the designs.

2. An engineering firm too lazy to double check their designs or design changes by the manufacturer before approving them. The error that resulted in the collapse was one that the owner of the engineering firm said that a "first year engineering student" would spot.

3. The steel manufacturer treating preliminary plans as final plans, not verifying the math on their end.

The bridges' original design could only hold 60% of the minimum load required by city code. The design changes recommended by the manufacturer halved that. Less than a year and 3 weeks from opening to the public, the whole thing collapse.

Articles about the collapse say that everyone "trusted" the other party to have done the calculations correctly.

A significant portion of the population trusts what the computer or AI tells them, without checking. Imprecisely calibrated AI hallucinate information. The US economy is going into a downturn and federal regulatory agencies are being gutted.

We are going to see the Hyatt Regency Collapse repeat over and over for decades, not just in buildings, but in medicine, manufacturing, the environment, etc.

Some of this we're just going to have to weather, but the message for AI users comes straight from IBM (once the world's leading computer manufacturer) back in 1979:

"A Computer Cannot Be Held Accountable. Therefore A Computer Should Never Make A Management Decision."

The owner of the engineering firm that designed the Hyatt Regency spent the rest of his life lecturing on the disaster, to serve as a warning to his fellow engineers about the real-life consequences of sloppy design.

I don't think Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk will have the courage or the honor to do that when OpenAI / Meta / xAI are responsible for getting people killed.

BECAUSE THE STUDENT KNEW WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE DOING.

I've long wished that I could find a short-term hair dye that could be bought in one big tube that I could use whenever as needed, instead of one-time use boxes that cost just as much as the permanent dye boxes and always have more dye than I needed anyway. So I went to this store that usually has the kind of hair dyes that regular grocery never has, in hopes that there would be something like that.

And lo and behold, I found a HUGE tube of short-term hair dye that was exactly that way, to be used as needed whenever. And it only cost as much as the one-time use ones! So I got a tube, figuring that this is going to save me so much money in hair dye in the long run, because holy shit 30-50 hair dyes for the price of one!

Getting back home I needed to shower anyway because sweaty as hell because it's summer, so might as well get the hair dye on as well. As the tube came with no instructions save for a QR code to the website and I am too much of a caveman to figure out how those work, I just looked up the instructions from some other store's product description. That one said "leave in for 5 minutes or more depending on the desired intensity of the colour" so Ieft it on for 15. Worked like a dream.

But once I'd rinsed it off and my hair was finally dry, it turns out that the dye only stuck to the hair that had already been dyed before, leaving my roots their natural colour while the dyed part is now jet black. It's a fun look for now so I ain't even mad, but that's not what I intended, so I tried to see what I did wrong. Turns out that even though it was sold as a hair dye in that store in particular, most other places are calling it a "colour mask" or something of the sort.

THE DYE LATCHED ONTO A RED/YELLOW TINT THAT'S USUALLY COMPLETELY INVISIBLE IN MY HAIR

Listening to a podcast about bodies and eating disorders and the body positivity movement of the last decade ish and hearing someone say (paraphrasing from memory here) "body positivity was all capitalism, there were no legislative changes, just new brands of jeans"

Legislative changes are super important but I cannot emphasize enough that jeans coming in bigger sizes and fat-friendly cuts is actually a really big deal! With meaningful impacts on people's lives (including mine)! Fat people do need clothes! And you may not realize this, but if you're over a certain size (that's not even that big a size) there's a very good chance you can go to a big box store and *not find anything that fits you*. There are towns in the US where if you're over a size 18 you need to drive an hour away or shop online to get things in your size. And they're expensive! "Just buy used" if they even have your size! Fat people want to look nice too. And we face enough judgement during job interviews (to give one example) without trying to do it in clothes that don't fit or are super uncomfortable.

Actually: If you're fat and you want to look cute/hot/masc/femme/etc I cannot recommend this website enough, you put in your measurements and it lists what brands have your size. You can filter for stuff like sensory friendly, nonbinary, masc, organic, etc. It's not AI just a database.