And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I’m driving, I’ll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

Tragic, hilarious, somewhat disturbing all in one.

Looks like it’s already been archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20250930051220/https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343-How-to-Complete-Age-Verification-on-Discord

This is, in fact, exactly what I meant.

Road design > personal responsibility

I feel like this is a gigantic blind spot in our society that affects many issues. It’s always about the systems and environments we place people in.

Is there a way to automatically back up a device to an external drive like that? An advantage of the cloud is it’s automatic. So I don’t have to manually do it all the time or risk losing recent files.

I could keep going but you seem to be expressing a desire to stop this debate. Why are you still arguing then?

Do you feel attacked? I’m attacking an idea, not you, to be clear. If you’re tired of defending this idea, then why not stop? This is truly a puzzling interaction.

I have no idea what you mean by this. I’m arguing the same point I always was, that we should avoid the word arrest in favor of terms that do not imply the guilt of the victim and the legitimacy of the state. But we can stop if you like.

No, arrested implies guilt. Kidnapped implies the action wasn’t related to the victim’s behavior. If it was, then the context can be made clear.

It’s better to assume innocence than guilt because that means any violence committed requires justification. An arrest is automatically justified in the minds of most people and they won’t ever question it.

I’m thinking about mint vs Ubuntu. Got any thoughts about which is easier for a tech-illiterate moron like me?

Language is always subject to change and evolution. I can’t predict the future and neither can you. I think explaining that context verbally is less harmful than implying it with weasel words.

And even if my desired change doesn’t happen, I think it’s valuable to challenge the assumptions built into these words to make people think about them and the way they are used instead of just blindly accepting “the criminal was arrested”.

Do we know that?

I mean you can think it’s good for people to be abducted under some circumstances. Maybe you are right, maybe not, but at least then you’d have to justify it. “Arrested” already means justified in most people’s minds. It’s a thought-terminating cliche, and as long as we make that distinction, it will be abused as in this case.

Using less savory words like kidnapping or abduction more accurately relays the severity and violence that’s happening. And yes, violence is sometimes necessary, but it’s still unsavory.

I never said they did anything wrong, I’m just staking out an additional position.

I’m not saying don’t call it out. I wish more people would. But I’d like to go further to eliminate this type of propaganda as even an option whenever possible. Some words are too linguistically useful to eliminate but some things like kidnapped vs arrested are literally the same action just different context. There’s no need to ever use the word arrest and its elimination or undermining would weaken abusive authorities and their ability to spin the narrative in ways people don’t question.

Nah it’s why we need to challenge this idea that violence done by the state is automatically legitimate. Such as by critiquing the words we’ve created to separate things that clearly aren’t very different in reality.

That place is fucking deranged but it’s also a carefully constructed culture where any critical comments towards Israel result in a permanent ban.

Legality is a fiction created by the powerful. I’m saying the word arrest is a synonym for kidnapping. It’s only existence is to mislead people into accepting the violence of our rules against ordinary people.

This is a perfect example. The kidnapping of Greta is blatantly illegal. Yet the world will pretend otherwise. And not because of the law but because of power.

Maybe lowest vote total I’ve seen on Lemmy? Congrats on being universally hated I guess. I never thought we’d all agree on anything but here we are. It’s beautiful.

What’s the difference?

It was a joke. I just mean they haven’t done much to resist the fascist regime in power.