QC in tech and in business is generally ubiquitous to mean quality control though

It seems like common cynicism. Mozilla adds this feature, as not to yield major features to other browsers. Mozilla’s lets you natively have lots of different AI solutions to pick from.

Not every feature is for everyone. Not every feature is done being improved on at release.

And in spite of popular opinions, organizations don’t do just one thing and then do just the next thing and the thing after that. Organizations can and do focus on and prioritize many things at the same time.

And for people who are naysaying AI at every mention, it has a lot of great and fascinating uses, and if you think otherwise, you really should try them more. I’ve used it plenty for work and life. It’s not going away, might as well do some nice things with it.

Irregardless and inflammable add two unnecessary letters and one unnecessary syllable. Society cannot afford this gargantuan waste!!

Is it super bright there or is that a high exposure pic?

“stfu Donny, you’re out of your element” … “life does not stop and start at your convenience you miserable piece of shit.”

I now realize I completely misread your original statement. In light of that, my previous replies don’t make any sense. I actually agree with what you said, I think I just didn’t comprehend it the way it was intended.

I think I’ve read somewhere that strife increases religiosity. I’d say it’s a very defensible stance. I think it’s also defensible that the religiosity sadly causes strife, too. The world would be better off if certain common religious ideas would be abandoned.

“If any god at all” in that context implies the person has doubt in the existence of any god. This again is not a statement of preference. One can be an atheist and happy with their beliefs or unhappy with them.

I just don’t see anywhere that the person said they’d like for things to be that way. They could easily be very unhappy at a disbelief in a god for all we know.

Said another way: just because I don’t believe I’ll ever be a millionaire doesn’t mean I’d prefer never to be one.

EDIT: I want to acknowledge that many people get strength and relief from their faiths and beliefs. And I would like to acknowledge that people’s happiness and comfort in a difficult world is a very good thing.

They didn’t say they’d like for life be without a worship-worthy god. They said they’re not sure why so many people think that there’s a god worth worshipping.

By itself, their comment is really just statement of belief, not a statement of preference.

I think this is their reasoning for that position: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

For a more detailed explanation of the reasoning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

If biology for humans were such that both participants had an unpredictable, uncontrollable, 50/50 chance to carry the baby, abortion access for all and would be a non-issue.

Alternatively, if Jerry Falwell never existed, it still wouldn’t be nearly as contentious an issue.

I think I agree on all your points here. I’d add that society and a criminal who we repeatedly fail to rehabilitate would still likely benefit from avoiding the death penalty. The inmate can serve as a learning opportunity in rehab and criminality. I’m sure there are people who simply cannot be rehabilitated by any known means. As long as they remain imprisoned and not a threat to anyone, I think death is an unethical option, but for assisted suicide.

Said pilots are not being locked in a chamber where they will undergo execution. I’d wager most who are in bliss aren’t even aware that they’re very close to death. It seems probable their bliss is exclusively dependent on their ignorance of the present circumstances, but I’m happy to be proven wrong.

My point isn’t that nitro is worse than what we’re doing now. It’s that I don’t think we know it’s humane in every case. If the inmate is already suicidal or indifferent, it’s probably how they’d want to go out. I just can’t say that about the rest.

And I have no trouble believing that we can screw up getting 100% nitrogen saturation in a prisoner’s containment. That would be a terrible thing to put someone through.

All these concerns are mitigated if we at least give the prisoner some choice in their exit, or especially if they are permitted life without parole as an alternative.

I’m not convinced Nitro is a silver bullet to this problem.

I think Nitrogen asphyxiation has a lot of problems. You can’t absolve the terror a person goes through knowing they will die unwillingly. The process can take up to 15 minutes. I’d probably have a panic attack just watching or especially partaking.

People who ordinarily go through nitrogen asphyxiation have the advantage of not knowing they’re dying, because it’s usually by accident or negligence. An inmate can’t possibly share this benefit, unless they’re quite drugged during the process or mentally unfit for execution due to general unawareness. Inmates who get executed in this way live through the entire process fully aware they’re being suffocated, even if Nitrogen suffocation is better than CO2 suffocation.

Also, I owe you a source for this last section that I’m about to provide, so you don’t have to take my word for it. IIRC, if you do not get the nitrogen and oxygen ratios right, the person will experience some symptoms of sickness due to low blood oxygen and will survive barely. The process is a akin to waterboarding IIRC, and has a history, in at least one country, of being used to intentionally inflict that effect as a means of torture. Again, citation needed on my part, and perhaps someone can help me out here find the source.

Two big issues with the death penalty aren’t solved, and may never be solvable.

1 - We cannot know perfectly that a person is guilty in every case.

There is often evidence that exonerates suspects and criminals. Sometimes, we really do know without a doubt, but we don’t necessarily have a process of “we know this person did it because there is no reasonable doubt” vs “we know this person did it with perfect certainty because this person admitted it proudly, ad nauseum, there were cameras, there was plenty of DNA and lots of witnesses. Their own mother testified against them.”

This issue may not ever be perfectly solvable. This means we execute innocent people, too. You can look up famous cases where we executed innocent people. We can’t know exactly how often we do this, but we are aware of doing it regularly.

2 - Our methods of execution are often inhumane and torturous. Some of them char the person being executed. Others paralyze them and put them in a state where their whole body is in excruciating pain but they cannot move or make a sound. There’s a good John Oliver episode on this fact.

We might be able to improve in this area with better methods and technologies, but we’d need federal enforcement to ensure all states are using these.

Also, people who perform executions have no medical expertise, so they wouldn’t necessarily be able to clearly tell we are torturing someone. If an execution fails, we have to revive the victim, who is probably traumatized and tortured, and we try again later.

This process seems inhumane and we definitely would rather get it right the first time, quickly and painlessly, than legally torture people on American soil.

AFAIK, we have nothing from Madison but her word. It seems little, if anything, was written down. The best we can hope for is a denial or affirmative from anyone else at LMG about her testimony. Even then, it’s all “he said, she said”, unless there is actual corroboration or evidence.

That said, I think what we can corroborate from her is probably the managerial issues and workflow problems. That’s what I’m most confident in.

For all the rest of her testimony, the sexual harasshment and toxicity she endured, I think it’s more likely than not that she is sincere. Women in my life have endured similar treatment elsewhere, under the radar, and they often do not report it, sadly, and I don’t blame them. Anyone can lie about anything, so we have to be careful, and just accept that we may never know factually what the real story is on some of the issues.

If more employees were to speak out or some other evidence came to light, we’d have far more confidence one way or another. Maybe there will be a lawsuit between Madison and LMG and more evidence can come from that. We’ll see

Edit: looks like an independent investigation going to start. Perhaps that will corroborate more of Madison’s testimony

we’ll die of preventable and curable illnesses to own the libs