'Bruh, we literally all came from the poop organisms that survived on space rocks from that one planet that exploded a Brazilian years ago. Why are you being weird?'

The rolled edges on the eye slit look like lips.

Often enough, even with the degree, you can end up no better off for some time. If you don't get a degree and make x/yr, or you get the degree, spend 6~8 years in school and looking for a position that pays 2x/yr but you spend half of the money on paying down your debt for 20 years... That's a long time to get back into the black, assuming you even went for a degree leading to a position that will pay that much. It is almost criminal that a credit hour learning to work on machine learning systems often has the same cost as one spent learning about art history. Both are valuable to society in their own ways, but they definitely won't get you the same paycheck, and the cost of entry should reflect that.

Yeah, more guns in schools always seemed like a dumb answer to any problem.

The trick is, it depends. All vampires are bound by obsessive compulsive behaviours, but the particular form that obsessive behaviour takes depends on a number of factors. The most prominent are age and culture of origin.

More recently embraced American vampires tend to become absorbed in the minutiae of the contractual, legalistic formulation of things, so if they have an aversion to entering without permission, it is more based upon an obsession with the sanctity of individualized private property. This leads to the trait of rarely making a direct entry into a home for predatory purposes but rather a focus on convincing the victim it is in their best interest to give willingly their vital fluids and life force. Many victims of such vampires are not even fully aware of what they have had taken.

Older vampires from a more European context take a more hierarchical approach to property. If your home is in their territory, you are their subject and, as such, no permission is needed to enter what is effectively their house, perhaps literally if they are your landlord.

Other contexts, such as that of the Middle East of antiquity, produce vampires who hold sacred the unwritten yet iron clad laws of hospitality. They would never dream of entering unannounced, or taking more than a token sip from one who invites them willingly into their home, but equally would feel no compunction over slaughtering one who turned them away. To these, a welcome mat is an amusement, not an invitation, and only the most desperate leach would stoop to taking a whimsical decoration as written law.

But then again, vampires are an imaginary metaphorical construct for describing the greedy people of a society, so really the answer is no.

Deregulation-induced anorexia? That's a new one for me.

When I was young and trusted police, I wanted them to have taser gloves because it seemed like it would be better than shooting people. Less death. Harder to drop or have stolen. Now... No, I still prefer this to them just shooting people. Both are bad, but I'd rather see fewer people killed by the police and hope we can find a way to reach zero eventually.

I remember hearing about at least one study that said yes, (and it should always be remembered tasers are less lethal, not non-lethal) but I didn't look into it that deeply. Still, if it's less people being killed, that still feels like a better result. A living victim of police abuse can speak out. A dead one can be suppressed much more readily.

Joke answer: condom, in case the driver is very grateful

Real answer: I don't see a good light on that list. Even in daylight, it can be quite dark in an engine compartment. Trying to use your phone as a flashlight and use a tool at the same time is awful.

One activity occurs in a hazily understood chemical system with near completely unobservable states in interplay with activities and systems which have effects on the main system that are barely recognized, much less fully understood. The other is a constructed, completely defined system with near total observability of states affected by probabilities based on inputs defined by human written, completely known tokenization systems.

Will they next speculate about the similarity of 'preferences' between a robot from Japan and the nearest non-terrestrial intelligent species?

Hey, babe, look. We got a freebie from the co-op.

'Sup. Got mouse?'

You can look at a pair of meshed gears and understand it just as readily as you can understand a single transformation by running the math on paper with a pencil, but I don't think anyone will ever be able to comprehend the fullness of any useful-scale model for the same reason they would never comprehend a clockwork with the same number of gears as an LLM has transformers or indices. It's a non-intuitable space with too much complexity which cannot be simplified without oversimplifying.

The people you work with and the management of the site/company/team/etc. are oft the most important factor in your experience while working there. I have worked for a company/management that literally was known for firing people without cause just to put a sense of fear into employees and a company/management that sent employees for paid educational courses without being legally obligated to do so. Same industry. Same city. Just different people. The attitudes of management tend to impart a flavor to the workspace that is nigh impossible to ignore. So, if you have the ability to get away from the workplace that mistreats you, do it. It's really not all people. It's those people, in that workplace, with that management. Chances are, if you chat with a few people in other places, you can find an in somewhere the people are not so awful, and the best time to look for a new job is always while you have one.

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'But they won't catch ME. I'm smart. The fire will burn all the evidence of my crime. I totally won't post about it later on social media.' - the arsonist

People who commit crimes and make wild bets are not usually known for their impressive executive function.

I have never wanted to earn money. I have only been forced to do so by the need and desire to spend it.

If the police torture you, you have some voice. You can at least try to find justice. If they kill you, you have none. You're dead. The gloves are still better.

Call me a cynic, but I suspect it would be entirely possible for representatives of the US government to say something is bad without paying a penny to do anything about it.