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Good comedians are often people who complain about life's bullshit in a funny way, so why not?

I think it swallowed rather than spat it this case

I agree - and I would hope any advice given by a priest would cover this - but if it becomes a mandatory thing where does it end. Should priests report abortions in states that have made then illegal? How about sheltering an undocumented immigrant, or any number of things that the current administration might decide they don't like?

You miss the part where the copyright owner did not assign them the rights to use the material for such a purpose, and yes most copyright does cover a ton of stuff like retransmission, reproduction, public production and a bunch of other shit which is all separate license. It's not so simple as "they did what a human does" because even the WAYS a human uses said material is limited under the terms of the copyright

a) An AI is not a person. We do not WANT an AI to be regarded as equal to a person under law. That's a terrible idea

b) How is that AI training material being generated? Did they buy copies of every copyrighted song and every movie by every artist to include in the training data? If it's music and streamed, are they paying the artist royalties based on every "play" the AI is processing during training the same as of a human played the song over and over again to learn a long? How about sheet music? Because if a PERSON is learning from training material, the license for sheet music and training materials is different than a playable copy of the same work.

I'm willing to bet that the AI companies didn't even pay for the regular copies of works much less ones licensed for use as training materials for humans, but it didn't matter because an AI is an advanced algorithm and NOT A HUMAN.

This isn't about priests abusing kids (though that's definitely a recurring issue as well), it's about people who have done so confessing such to a priest.

I'm not religious so don't really have any stake in this, but it's interesting that it is specifically about child sex abuse and not other major crimes such as rape, murder etc. That makes me worried as "for children" is often used as a testing ground for stuff that will be expanded upon later, and there's a lot of stuff people likely confess - supposedly under strict confidence - to their religious figures.

Not too mention that if he's taken out violently (assuming not as part of a greater revolution) then the result would likely make the post-911 response look cute.

I wonder how hard it would be for an "unofficial" patch to "somehow" be released that restores the previous functionality

The version I recall was once if those Flash animations with a cute squirrel or whatever saying something... but it was really quiet so you'd need to turn up the volume to hear. Then partway through it changed to sex stuff and blasted out in a voice like a monster truck announcer

"anal sex dot com, all anal, all the time!"

I still want the trees outdoors, but this would be cool for indoor spaces. Each mall or parking lot could have a solar panel overhead and slime-tanks to produce useful byproducts.

Maybe it could be mixed with and aquaculture like fish and sea plants to create cool scenery

I say we nominate him for Sainthood...

SJ in Ghost seemed particularly fucked up given that all the original content was Japanese