People often use Greek or Latin roots for new terms if they want them to be used internationally, without biasing usage to one language.
This was probably the case for Smuts, who was a committed internationalist and whose native language was Afrikaans rather than English.
It means he wants to see how people react to him saying it.
I presume the goal was to put the remains in low earth orbit, where they would eventually have reentered anyway—right?
Who would even follow Elon Musk?
Candidates looking for funding.
I can’t see a significant percentage of Trump’s MAGA supporters abandoning him in favor of Musk. But I can see Musk being a divisive figure among the non-MAGA Republicans, with some refusing to work with him while others are happy to take his money.
The most likely outcome is nothing.
The second most likely outcome is a fracturing of Trump’s opposition, further weakening their ability to impede him.
If they weren’t such incompetent idiots I’d suspect it was a ploy to create a controlled opposition.
You could restrict it to cases where the victim and defendant belong to significantly different demographics, then.
You could expand that to a general principle for all criminal cases: select one judge that matches the demographics of the defendant as closely as possible, one that matches the victim, and one that differs to an equal degree from both.
He was originally jailed for life but at an appeal doctors told the court the rapes arose of sexual frustration arising out of his marriage to an “ambitious and demanding” wife. The sentence was reduced and he spent only about two years in jail.
Why are rapists seemingly the only category of offender judges always manage to find sympathy for?
They do say the rate of change was greater than the pre-COVID trend, but I don’t know if that means the level is now below where it would be if the pre-COVID trend had continued without interruption.
It’s interesting that the same stimulus (COVID) could cause crime to spike in the short term, then decline to below the original level.
I wonder if that could be a general pattern with societal trauma or social change in general—there’s an initial period of disruption, then a re-adaptation that creates an opportunity to resolve long-standing issues with the previous status quo.
It always seemed to me that the obvious conclusion to draw from the idea that some teens are under so much social pressure to align their mental and biological genders that they see suicide as the only alternative is that that aspect of society is in urgent need of fixing, not the bodies of the teens in question.
AI models aren’t willing to do anything—they’re just generating hypothetical behaviors based on the predictions they’ve learned to make about the behavior of others.
It’s like asking a child to describe the behavior of their imaginary friend.
Part of the ideology of the major AI companies is that AI is actually profoundly dangerous, and only the companies who recognize the danger should be allowed to develop it.
The best dog whistles come with plausible deniability included.
IMO the focus should have always been on the potential for AI to produce copyright-violating output, not on the method of training.
Why would the article’s credited authors pass up the chance to improve their own health status and health satisfaction?
Critical paragraph:
Our research highlights the importance of Germany’s unique institutional context, characterized by strong labor protections, extensive union representation, and comprehensive employment legislation. These factors, combined with Germany’s gradual adoption of AI technologies, create an environment where AI is more likely to complement rather than displace worker skills, mitigating some of the negative labor market effects observed in countries like the US.
It was the power station near Arak that the IAEA had been monitoring.
Are all those qualifiers even needed?
Are there any state or local agencies larger than the federal government’s? Are there any other countries with larger agencies? (China or India, maybe?)
Or can we just call it “the largest law enforcement agency in (western) history”?