At least animals getting ground up live is a horror as old as time. We seem to always be moving in the other direction and creating more new horrors instead of making things better.
I wonder if that type of article would exist if they had made good brewery decisions before launching the commercials. I mean they aren't great commercials, but I don't know I'd compare them to the unabomber or call it the brand killer. The brand was already killed, the commercials just weren't great.
If the brand had taken off and recovered the advertisers would claim "daring and powerful commercials that saved the brand" - the one thing they can't admit is that advertising isn't terribly effective.
I've always wondered if Stirling(n) can be used to arrive quickly in the vicinity of n!, and then use a search of some kind to get to the exact target.
God bless the woman who felt they had no other choice & give them help rather than punishment. We will never know the circumstances but we can obviously assume they weren't very much better than the baby's to have done this. Nobody doing something like this out of disdain for the child would have carried it to delivery (regardless of their stance on abortion).
At least in NY State, babies up to 30 days old can be left for care by the state.
> New York State's Abandoned Infant Protection Act allows a parent to abandon a newborn baby up to 30 days of age anonymously and without fear of prosecution, as long as the baby is abandoned in a safe manner.
> A parent is not guilty of a crime if the infant is left with an appropriate person or in a suitable location and the parent promptly notifies an appropriate person of the infant's location. A hospital or a staffed police or fire station are examples of safe and suitable choices.
> A person leaving an infant under this law is not required to give his or her name.
I think every state has a similar type of safe haven law these days. This one for NY first came out the same summer as the story in the article starts. This and similar stories were making a lot of news around the time and people were really interested in trying to help. It doesn't make things perfect, there are e.g. still occasional situations where a person isn't in their own control or in a sane state, but these kinds of changes did help thousands of cases since.
I think a lot of school sex ed programs/health classes have started teaching this to kids as well. Not all of course, as with most things sex ed.
Just flag and go, or report directly in email if you feel the account isn't being cleaned up quick enough. There is a good chance such accounts will end up being bots anyways.
It's good that GP posted that. I didn't initially clock that it was AI slop. Their message prompted me to look at the poster profile, which immediately showed this was a bot. That in turn meant I downvoted that message, which increases the signal that it's a bot. The community has something to gain from it. Downvotes are not strong, visible signals. A message it.
Flagging != downvoting, be sure to actually flag. Flagging & moving on or emailing is the advice of the guidelines. I don't think replying is something GP should have been downvoted themselves for though.
For whatever reason, the site makes you click the direct link to the particular comment you want to flag. I.e. the timestamp link. For posts you generally always click a direct link (via the comments link) so that's why it's obvious for posts.
If you opt to have "showdead" enabled in your profile you'll still see flagged comments but marked as [dead]. In this case you can also vouch for comments in the same fashion (or add another flag to make it harder to be vouched for).
I think it's something like >30 karma to flag/vouch posts (so you should well qualify). This means users actually gain that well before the ability to downvote... but the site sure does a good job of hiding that from them lol.
The downvote feature requires even more karma to unlock. Something like >500 IIRC. Downvoting is only possible on comments (not stories) and a down arrow will just appear (no settings to change etc) below the up arrow once you qualify.
> Works nicely on Linux where the syscall interface is explicitly stable, but on many (most?) other platforms this is not the case.
There is a footnote on this saying as much:
> 3. Where “syscall” means “the lowest level primitive available”. On Linux, it’s always actual syscalls. On Windows, that’s usually NT. On macOS, it’s usually the syscall-wrapper subset of libc because you’re forced to link libc and it’s not quite as open as Linux (although there is a rich “undocumented” set of APIs and syscalls that are very interesting).
That might work on FreeBSD but is pretty well guaranteed to break on OpenBSD. (Dunno about Net and Dragonfly) (I'd caution that treating the BSDs as a monolith is likely to end in errors; they're quite diverse.)
The best place to put malware is wherever people don't think they need to be suspicious of the software they run. Free games, paid games, supply chain - it doesn't really matter so long as they think they can trust it blindly.
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