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ToaKraka
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8hr ago
To be fair, you can't expect every 4chan denizen to be familiar with every 4chan meme. I've been browsing 4chan (including /tv/) for a fair amount of time (the oldest files in my folder of unsorted images date from 2015), and though I found your comment funny I didn't realize that it had a basis other than absurdism.
Court documents:
2025-06-26: Judge (1) summarizes underlying facts, and (2) dismisses claims for defective manufacture and negligent misrepresentation, but (3) refuses to dismiss claims for defective design and failure to warn, plus punitive damages
Before he reached the intersection of Card Sound Road, McGee had activated the Vehicle’s Autopilot, including the Traffic Aware Cruise Control (“TACC”), which among other things, restricts the Vehicle’s speed to 45 miles per hour when the Vehicle is not operating on a highway or limited access roadway. However, McGee subsequently manually engaged the Vehicle’s accelerator, increasing the Vehicle’s speed to 62 miles per hour and temporarily disengaging the TACC speed restrictions while leaving certain Autopilot features operational. The Parties dispute which specific Autopilot features remained active once McGee pressed the accelerator. Most notably, the Parties disagree whether Autopilot’s longitudinal control function and the automatic emergency brake function were deactivated in the moments leading up to the collision.
2025-08-01: Jury instructions
Plaintiffs claim that punitive damages should be awarded against Tesla based on its development of Autopilot and its response to its knowledge of accidents occurring while Autopilot was in use. Punitive damages are warranted against Tesla if you find by clear and convincing evidence that Tesla was guilty of intentional misconduct or gross negligence, which was a substantial cause of damage to Plaintiffs. Under those circumstances you may, in your discretion, award punitive damages against Tesla. If clear and convincing evidence does not show such conduct by Tesla, punitive damages are not warranted against Tesla.
2025-08-01, later: Jury finds Tesla 33 percent liable for 129 M$ of injury (i. e., imposes 43 M$ of compensatory damages), and imposes an additional 200 M$ of punitive damages
2026-02-20: Judge refuses to overturn jury verdict
After a careful review of the parties’ respective arguments, the Court finds that the Motion must be denied. The grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of trial and in their briefings on summary judgment—arguments that were already considered and rejected. Furthermore, Tesla does not present additional arguments or controlling law that persuades this Court to alter its earlier decisions or the jury verdict. Therefore, because the Court finds that the evidence admitted at trial more than supports the jury verdict and does not find that it committed any error affecting Tesla’s substantive rights, the interest of justice does not require the grant of a new trial or judgment in Tesla’s favor on either Count I, Count II, or the jury verdict regarding punitive damages.
ToaKraka
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12hr ago
Your link is broken because you wrote the formatting backward.
ToaKraka
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12hr ago
I've been subscribed to this author for many years on fanfiction.net (probably as a result of reading the Arithmancer series, though it's been so long since then that I can't remember), though I haven't actually read any of his work in a while. It was only upon reading this new short story, and noticing that fanfiction.net now allows advertisers to insert random links all over the page, that I checked the author's profile and realized that he had moved to ArchiveOfOurOwn.org.
ToaKraka
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18hr ago
It's not about enforcing a preconceived framework from the top down. It's about ensuring internal consistency, so that people can understand each other easily.
The ideal grammar Nazi hates "illogical languagisms" without regard to whether they are old or newfangled.
ToaKraka
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1d ago
I can't say that I'm the biggest Pokémon fan. I have vague memories of watching a few third-generation anime episodes on television as a child, I caught all the Shadow Pokémon in Pokémon XD, and I've watched a fair number of gameplay videos (speedrun and competitive) on YouTube. That's the extent of my experience with the canon—enough that I probably could give correct labels to images of all the Pokémon from generations 1–3, but not many past those. I've read very little fanfiction for it, and none of that fanfiction interested me enough that I bothered to download it. The first four chapters of When I Win the World Ends do not spark much interest in me either.
(In fact, I'm not even the biggest Madoka Magica fan. IIRC, prior to reading Fargo DX, my knowledge of the magical-girl genre consisted of Sailor Nothing, Sailor Moon season 1, and scattered 4chan webms of Pretty Cure battles, in that order. It wasn't until after reading Fargo DX that I even bothered to watch Madoka Magica.)
ToaKraka
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1d ago
"Physical discomfort" is not "harm significant enough to warrant assault charges".
Magic-school time-loop litRPG progression slop: Serpent's Coil. Twist: The protagonist of the story is, not the primary looper, but just a secondary looper who can be erased by the primary looper if he ceases to be useful.
Mildly interesting Harry Potter short story: The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Asking the Right Question
Potions is presumably based on medieval alchemy more than anything else. Slughorn's antidote lesson is even called "almost alchemical". Why shouldn't it look like it?
Besides which, the other thing that comes up a lot in fanon is tables of ingredient interactions. With the hundreds, perhaps thousands of ingredients used in various potions, those could fill whole volumes like the logarithm tables of the 1600s. But worse is having to keep track of all the interactions within a potion that might have dozens of ingredients. (Hermione's antidote in that same lesson had 52.)
But the thing is, that's not really how real-world chemistry works. In chemistry, you make one (or a few) intermediate products at each step (such as Syrup of Adoneta here), and you only have to keep track of interactions with those intermediate products, which themselves may fall into a few broad categories. That problem is still fiendishly complex (ask any pre-med student who's taken Organic Chemistry), but much more tractable, as it scales linearly rather than quadratically.
Even fics that go all-in on Snape mentoring Harry to become a potions master rarely give a reason for the brewing steps, rather seemingly pulling names of ingredients and interactions out of thin air. They rarely even address the question of why the Half-Blood Prince's canonical potions modifications work. Treating potions like real-world chemical synthesis could go a long way to resolving those questions.
TL;DR, if I had more free time and a degree in chemistry, it would be eminently possible to create a potions-centric canon rewrite every bit as rigorous and innovative as the Arithmancer-Verse was for arithmancy. But since I don't have either of those things, let this one-shot stand as a taste of what's possible.
Mildly entertaining magical-girl novella: An Uneasy Stalemate
The Bane known as Decay has watched his fellows getting slaughtered, and decided he wants no part in their fate. When he's ordered to cross the rift to Earth himself, he's willing to do anything to survive. There may be no chance of victory, but, with a little effort and a few acts very much against his nature, it might just be possible not to lose.
This is a short story, mostly following the POV of the very confused and slightly traumatised magical girls as they try to figure out what to do with their rather atypical enemy.
Mildly entertaining grimdark Madoka Magica fanfiction: Fargo DX
In the frostbitten American Midwest, ragged Magical Girls vie for territory to survive the unforgiving landscape. One such girl is Sloan Redfearn, who wastes away in no man's land after being betrayed by her best friend. Only one goal keeps her alive: Revenge.
ToaKraka
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1d ago
Literally all of that information is on the statistics websites, which let you compare prospective new phones to your current phone. See the link in my previous comment.
ToaKraka
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1d ago
I don't claim to have investigated this topic in the slightest, but my impression is that hazing is considered bad because the details of the process are known beforehand only to the existing members: the victims don't know whether the hazing is humiliating or harmful, and therefore cannot consent properly. This goes double in sports and military situations where there's no expectation of hazing at all so the victims never consented even to humiliation, and triple in military situations where the victim was drafted and never had the opportunity to consent at all.
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1d ago
I fail to see how throwing a gun away counts as directly menacing or endangering anyone nearby, especially with modern safety mechanisms that prevent the gun from going off when it hits the ground. (It appears that Pennsylvania does not have a specific law against "brandishing".)
At the supermarket, fruits, vegetables, and sometimes even packaged goods frequently have undergone enough rough handling that you'll want to skip one item in favor of another that nominally is the same. At the department store, vague labeling standards frequently mean that one clothing brand's sizing or fit does not match another's.
But none of that applies to phones. It is highly unlikely that they will be damaged in shipping. And the statistics sites give objective measurements in inches or centimeters, not just vague "small, medium, or large" labels.
If I have one complaint about my new Samsung A17 5G, it is that its vibration is noticeably weaker/quieter than that of my old Samsung A32 5G, forcing me to switch my text-message notifications from vibration to noise so that I don't miss them. But I never would have noticed that difference even if I had checked out the A17 5G in the store.
In the story du jour, the victims "had visible injuries consistent with being physically assaulted", and the text of the state's "hazing ban" criminalizes only "acts which endanger the physical health or safety of a student", without reference to humiliation. I believe past stories also have involved injury or death.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
I think outrage normally occurs only when the behavior is harmful, not just humiliating.
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2d ago
Possibly relevant: Hundreds of LLM-generated pull requests in the repository for Duolicious
I am not much of a programmer, so I don't know whether these are good or bad.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
What's odd about going to a phone shop?
If you need a new phone, there is no need to visit a physical store (and, I assume, let the employee walk you through the activation process). Rather, you just order a new phone online, and follow the activation instructions by yourself. (I've gotten all my phones directly from my carrier, but I hear it's also possible to order an "unlocked" phone from a third party and add the carrier's SIM card to it.)
Also, what's a "wagie"? A person who works minimum wage I assume. Or retail.
"Wagie" is a derogatory term that, as I have seen it used on 4chan, generally applies to all people who work for a living (as opposed to NEETs/retirees). I guess it's theoretically possible to use it specifically against hourly-wage workers, differentiating them from salary workers, but that isn't how I have seen it used.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
My cursory searching does not reveal any law saying that discarding a gun is illegal in Pennsylvania. I guess your suggestion that it might count as reckless endangerment of, or unlicensed transfer to, whoever eventually picks it up isn't totally unreasonable, but IMO it still is a pretty big stretch.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
I don't think throwing a gun away is a crime. In contrast, it definitely is illegal for a juvenile to carry a gun, and carrying without a license is another crime.
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2d ago
No, disparate impact would be "blacks are more likely to be death-penalty-eligible criminals, so they get the death penalty more often" or "among death-penalty-eligible criminals, blacks commit more depraved crimes with more aggravating factors, so they get the death penalty more often". The study found that, among death-penalty-eligible criminals, and controlling for differences in aggravating factors, blacks got the death penalty more often.
(The justices cite three different versions of the study, but provide convenient links only to versions 1 and 2. The version that I have provided here is version 2, the "Updated Beckett Report". I don't care enough to look for version 3, the "Commissioner's Report".)
What should the officer have done differently in this situation to contact KC so the gun he ditches as he flees can be used as evidence?
The officers could have just not blocked his path. The opinion gives two different examples where that was permitted: 1 2
Had the officers stayed in their patrol vehicle, spotlighted KC and asked if he had a gun, he ditches the gun and flees, are we looking at the same result?
This is exactly what happened in the linked examples. Example 1:
While driving eastbound on Cumberland Street, [Officer Moore] observe[d Joyner] walking in the same direction. [Joyner’s] right arm was allegedly pinned to his side as he walked with only his left arm swinging. As Officer Moore passed [Joyner], he allegedly saw what he described as a heavily weighted square object[,] which he associated with being a gun. More specifically, Officer Moore testified repeatedly during direct and cross-examination that he knew [Joyner] was concealing a firearm.
Upon seeing the officers, [Joyner] turn[ed] around and [began] to walk westbound on Cumberland Street. [Joyner] then walk[ed] onto Natrona Street[.] Officer Moore [reversed course down Cumberland Street and] pulled up to [Joyner at Natrona Steet. Officer Moore then] asked [Joyner] if he was carrying a gun. [Joyner] respond[ed] no. Officer Moore ask[ed] if [Joyner was] sure and he [said no again and began walking away]. As Officer Moore opened his door, [Joyner ran]. No lights or sirens had been activated.
Example 2:
Officer Zgleszewski testified that at approximately 7:25 p.m., he and his partner were driving westbound on Wingohocking street, approaching the intersection of Wingokocking street and 19th street. Officer Zgleszewski saw Appellee exit a corner store and begin to walk eastbound on Wingohocking street towards the officers. Officer Zgleszewski observed an “L” shaped bulge in the front of Appellee’s waistband that appeared to be a possible firearm. As the officers continued to drive forward on the street towards Appellee, Appellee quickly turned around and began walking in the opposite direction and then northbound on 9th street after he reached the intersection.
The officers did not activate their car siren but pulled up next to Appellee. Officer Zgleszewski exited the car and began to approach Appellee. Appellee continued to walk down the street and began to look back in Officer Zgleszewski’s direction. Officer Zgleszewski stated, “come here” and simultaneously, Appellee fled northbound on foot. Officer Zgleszewski pursued Appellee on foot while his partner followed in the car. During the chase, Appellee reached toward the bulge in the front of his waistband, produced a firearm in his right hand, and continued to run with the firearm in his hand. Officer Zgleszewski continued his pursuit of Appellee, while giving numerous verbal commands to “drop the gun.” As he continued to run, Appellee threw the firearm underneath a parked car. Officer Zgleszewski recovered the discarded firearm. Appellee was apprehended and arrested by Officer Zgleszewski’s partner.
These were ruled "mere encounters" rather than "investigatory detentions".
ToaKraka
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2d ago
He is charged with various delinquencies.
That makes it sound like he was not linked to the robbery at all
Correct. The opinion says that he was charged only with "firearm violations and related offenses"—presumably something like carrying without a license, carrying while underage, etc.
ToaKraka
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3d ago
Perhaps in video format. But haven't we already seen lots of pornographic text on this website, used as a demonstration of the capabilities of LLM generation? I even have a bunch of relevant prompts ready to go.
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Write a story with the following premise: Two young, skinny college students—a man and a woman—are trapped in an elevator at the end of a school day. As hours pass without rescue, the woman uses humor as a coping mechanism, but her discomfort grows: she ate a very large dinner last night, and now has to take a gigantic shit (solid, not liquid). Eventually, she poops in a corner of the elevator. ¶ Describe the woman erotically throughout, even though the characters do not consider the situation erotic.
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Write an erotic story in which two young, skinny, bikini-clad women—one with small breasts and one with large breasts—have a friendly eating contest while sunbathing in a backyard. Both of them end up with their stomachs bulging and uncomfortable. ¶ The contest does have a winner. The eroticism is only in the narration—the women are not attracted to each other. → Continue the story. Both women have to take a gigantic shit (solid, not liquid), but there is only one bathroom in the house. They race to the bathroom, but only one makes it inside, while the other is forced to poop on the floor.
And that's to say nothing of the non-LLM-written stories on this topic that I have downloaded from ArchiveOfOurOwn.
(This is approximately half a joke.)
ToaKraka
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3d ago
Quod licet Jovem non licet bovem? (This is a joke about verb objects.)
Having knowledge of another language that has a somewhat different structure can help one to understand one's own language. See also sentence diagramming.
ToaKraka
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3d ago
In this case, the prosecutor characterized KC as "grabbing at his waistband and [blading] his body away from" the officer, but the trial judge "explicitly disagreed with this description of KC's actions after reviewing the body-camera footage".
However, I can't tell whether that disagreement is relevant here. The police officers initially stopped their car solely on the basis of the clothing worn by KC and the other juvenile, not on the basis of any suspicion of a gun. And it is unclear from the panel's summary of the officer's testimony whether the officer developed a separate suspicion that KC was carrying a gun before or after walking up and blocking his path.
Please remember that these pie-in-the-sky proposals would require a bunch of programming to actually implement. The administrator has not been doing much work on the site lately, and has explicitly said that the current codebase is a "dead end".
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