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Wasn't there some trend of people wanting to make self-driving cars take into account ethics in their decision making in emergencies, by having some website where people could pretty much solve trolley problems, with just a conductor in the trolley to also take into account some years ago? I'm imagining them scraping that subbredit for answers to questions like "AITA for having run over 2 orphan children in order to save 6 old ladies?"

lemmy.ml has non-unicode emojis?

German has the term raubkopieren for piracy which translated literally means theft-copying. I kind of find that term funny because somehow it makes it sound even worse than just piracy, since with pirates we at least have the pop fiction image of the pirate, and because it has a paradoxical sound to it ("how can you steal something by copying?").

They made Hawaii about the same size as the other 48 combined though. I guess that's something.

The f in foss is for free as in libre, not price. And I imagine it is used to avoid touching the topic of open source software vs libre software. So saying you can make money from one and not the other doesn't make sense.

I thought it was going to be a !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml post, until I reached the corporeal punishment part.

I was confused for a moment about your comment, because when I think about "thongs" I think about a tool to grab something, which could be useful for grilling, which didn't seem weird to me. But then I realized that's spelled "tongs" and that there's also a revealing garment called "thong", which is what you likely thought about.

With the assumption that we now measure inclines of course

I interpreted your reply to njm1314 as meaning "we don't need to measure inclination to cheat, we can do that by simply increasing our precision"

That would work for the perimeter, but not for the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold

Benedict Arnold (14 January 1741 [O.S. 3 January 1740][1][a] – June 14, 1801) was an American-born military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British in 1780. General George Washington had given him his fullest trust and had placed him in command of West Point in New York. Arnold was planning to surrender the fort to British forces, but the plot was discovered in September 1780, whereupon he fled to the British lines. In the later part of the war, Arnold was commissioned as a brigadier general in the British Army and placed in command of the American Legion. He led the British army in battle against the soldiers whom he had once commanded, and his name became synonymous with treason and betrayal in the United States.[2]

Were the republicans doomed? It seemed to me republicans were doing very well in the race.