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Comment · 3 days ago
Seems like the kind of thing someone should go to jail for. You can't just run a "social experiment" by committing fraud and lying to people, and that's assuming this isn't just an excuse someone came up with once they knew they would be caught.
Comment · 9 days ago
They still probably are violating plenty of state and local laws that the pardon won't do anything about.
Comment · 13 days ago
But most people don't participate, they just hunker down and wait it out. It's a small minority who are aligned with the government who do most of it. The prequel makes this very clear, where the government sent masked mercenaries to participate in the test purge to give them the results they wanted. The movies aren't high art or anything, but their message is pretty clear that they think the average person wouldn't be violent.
Comment · 13 days ago
I feel like maybe you missed the point? The concept of the Purge movies is the government is using the Purge as a smoke screen to eliminate the people it considers undesirable. It's supposed to be like Kristallnacht with plausible deniability.
Comment · 13 days ago
The AI agents didn't actually talk to anyone as the article lays out.
Comment · 16 days ago
Do you think if a stalker found out about the AirTag silencer from an article they would decide not to use it because the article was critical? They made the choice that publicizing it would lead to harm, so didn't.
Comment · 16 days ago
I live in a suburb and I know and talk to my neighbors way more than any of my coworkers who live in the city do.
Comment · 18 days ago
But we don't know how to make a self sustaining fully sealed environment on Earth, let alone in space.
Comment · 23 days ago
But to be real, does this really matter? Do any software engineers or other positions Microsoft is looking for in these examples look for jobs in the paper these days? Would they get more responses if they advertised in a larger paper?
Comment · 24 days ago
Henry the Eighth never allowed vernacular service, that was his son Edward the VI.
Comment · 24 days ago
Also also hard to fake and easy to slip in. You throw in a Latin quote in your conversation and either the other person gets it and you both know you're the proper class, or they don't and you both know you're higher up the ladder than they are.
Comment · 1 month ago
Are you saying all insults should be illegal? Or just any insult to anyone who is doing work at the time?
Comment · 1 month ago
This isn't really true though is it? Most people in history were some sort of farmer in a small village where everyone knew everyone, you probably had a home with one room, and your finances such as they were would be immediately obvious to everyone else in the village.
Comment · 1 month ago
In battle yes. In sieges it was much more common, along with the murder/enslavement of all or the majority of the non fighting population.