[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

So let me get this straight. You're saying that a member of clergy should be allowed to hear an adult say, "I molested that child last week" and not have to report it?

Is that what you are saying? I want to hear it from you straight.

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Keep up the good work. You're a great avocate.

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I asked GPT-4 with the exact same wording and it answered:

"N/A"

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I think that's their point: That maybe, as long as a candidate is mentally fit, then voters ought to be able to continue voting for them if they feel like the candidate is still worth voting for.

Honestly, if there was some kind of magical bullet to simply ban candidates who are mentally unfit (i.e. losing their marbles) from holding office that couldn't be exploited, I think a lot of people would find that preferable to an age limit.

That doesn't address issues like politicians who are too technologically illiterate to do things like open PDF files, though.

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're saying that politicians like AOC, Katie Porter, Sanders, etc. are high quality public servants, and that high quality public servants should be able to be elected as long as they have cognitive function.

On one hand, in a hypothetical and ideal scenario, that would be nice to have for us voters.

On the other hand, even if an elected official does great work and has a great track record, should they be able to just serve indefinitely until their brain gives out? There'd be a lot of potential problems such as having entrenched and corruptible political operators, even if they started out good, who prevent "fresh blood" from entering politics. It'd be neat to see a study comparing different countries and political systems where there are age barriers and term limits vs those that don't have them.

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Forget women laughing with salad, this actually makes me want to buy salad. He looks so happy!

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's possible to build intelligent AI

What does intelligent AI that we can currently build look like?

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

DeSantis is so tough that he got the shit beaten out of him by a cartoon mouse.

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

IQ is mostly a pretty arbitrary and pointless metric because things like attitude, process, and creativity matter a lot more for getting results, but it can still help to diagnose learning disabilities and it has a solid statistical underpinning. The only thing it strongly correlates with is chess ability.

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It looks like it!

Looks like the only completed Gen 3 nuclear reactors are in Asia, at Kashiwazaki (Japan), Kori (South Korea), Yangjiang, Fangchenggang, Tianwan (China), and Kudankulam (India).

Edit: I missed the Gen III+ part of that Wikipedia page. The other currently operation or under construction Gen 3+ reactors are in Sanmen, Shidao Bay, Taishan (China), Novovoronezh II, Leningrad II, Kursk (Russia), Akkuyu (Turkey), Rooppur (Bangladesh).

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Canadian government at all levels is failing Canadians when it comes to housing.

It's a crisis and I honestly don't know what the solution is.

[-] fsmacolyte@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I heard rumors a few years ago that they were already separated. Weird that they're supposedly going on a family vacation right after announcing that they're separating.

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