that plus the gate attendant. but still, the passenger reactions could be explained by them only starting to pay attention when she started to cry (and not whatever before) and we don’t really hear how the flight attendant appeared to exchange, so an unsure partial story

first person implies she uploaded the video herself

I agree it’s not enough to cast judgement here, but it’s enough of an omission for me to wonder what happened before the video starts (what else has been left out), so I’m not comfortable making any judgements. It’s much bigger than bread because bread isn’t illegal and alcohol isn’t bread especially at high altitudes: https://www.fodors.com/news/wine-and-cocktails/why-you-cant-drink-your-own-alcohol-on-airplanes . (The plane hadn’t taken off yet but it would.)

I hope this lady consented to being recorded and posted

the video caption is first-person

March 14 – 15

today

this is ticking off my “bot repost!!” heuristics…

some more quotes from the new york times

Forensic analysis of burner phones used by Ms. Richins showed searches for “women utah prison,” “can cops.uncover deleted.messages iphone,” “if someone is poisned what does it go down on the death certificate as,” “how long does life insurance companies takento.pay” and “what is a lethal.does.of.fetanyl.”

Prosecutors said that weeks earlier, on Valentine’s Day, she had tried to kill him by poisoning his favorite type of sandwich with fentanyl. Mr. Richins became extremely ill that day but recovered after using Benadryl and an EpiPen, charging documents said. Afterward, Ms. Richins asked the housekeeper, Carmen Lauber, for “something stronger,” Ms. Lauber told prosecutors, specifically asking for “the Michael Jackson stuff.”

Ms. Richins’s lawyers argued that Mr. Richins was addicted to painkillers and had asked his wife to buy painkillers for him; they suggested he may have overdosed. They argued Mr. Richins could have purchased the drugs himself, and contended during the trial that there was no evidence that showed how Mr. Richins had ingested the fentanyl. Detective Jeff O’Driscoll, the lead investigator on the case, testified that law enforcement authorities did not find evidence of fentanyl on any glasses or straws in the home.

fire. how often would you suggest someone use linkedin?

how does one get such a wonderful job

Archive.today implements a custom CAPTCHA unrelated to Cloudflare stylized like a Cloudflare CAPTCHA that used to block Cloudfare DNS users and DDoS a specific blog site

it’s called a dash 😭

One way I usually can tell it’s AI or human is to see if there’s spaces surrounding the longer (—, “em dash”) dash. I find AI often puts spaces there while humans often don’t.

The bumping phenomenon entered the Japanese public consciousness in 2018, when a slightly blurred video appeared of a man deliberately barging into several women at Shinjuku station, the busiest railway station in the world.

That’s not an influencer thing.

Not everyone lives in oceanside windows. Out of those who have looked at one they don’t necessarily know that’s an oil tanker; if it’s through a beach, it’s too distant (and likely heatwaved) to perceive something different with the deck at first sight, and at closer ranges I used to think they were just empty cargo ships “and of course the decks are so high up because the ship is floating higher up because it’s lighter”. Working with content who’ve never been on a ship they think there’s nothing beneath the deck except what makes it float.

There’s also the assumption that one wouldn’t think “it’s probably a different kind of oil tanker I haven’t seen since it ‘obviously’ says gasoline”. “What the fuck is an MMBtu?” Something related to gasoline, of course. Hindsight is not first sight.

Most US people are profoundly ignorant about energy infrastructure other than coal plants exist and the US relies on fossil fuels and you put petrol in your car. Just because you remember a great education doesn’t mean others remember their bad education. Ask someone outside of the energy and environmental subject what they learned in Earth Science (sorry if I got the subject name wrong) other than the different types of rocks, tectonics, and what the weather really is.

it just means they have zero standing to complain

An infographic’s purpose is to communicate to the uninitiated, not preach to the choir. This is just a single word that artificially limits its target audience and frankly I don’t see why we’re arguing so pointedly about it.

the reader would need to be willfully obtuse to construe the graphic to be about electric cars

I didn’t think it was about cars either, but I still think it’s plausible enough that one in a hundred could mistake it, and that is my point.

P.S.: Kudos for the diaeresis.

If you’re just gleaning it in a hurry, you miss the relatively fine print from “LNG” to “55%”. Selecting font sizes to emphasize the most important information, and being understandable by an uninformed audience base (think social media), is absolutely fundamental to infographics.

the comparison would be nonsense because electric cars pull from the grid, not pure solar.

Not necessarily. Quite a lot of solar installation companies like Tesla’s popular roof-like tiles push self-sufficiency for some reason. My guess is to sell batteries. Anyways, even without that, your petrol bill’s still a useful visualization for how much more economic solar is

anyone who’s seen a crude oil tanker

MMBtu

gas plant

https://xkcd.com/2501/

In Yankee places “gas” means “gasoline” so I’d blame the infographic for saying “gas imports” instead of “natural gas imports” if it’s supposed to target the country that uses the most natural gas

well that’s the proportion that thinks it’s wrong, not the proportion that thinks it should be criminalized. one reason is what you’ve pointed out in your first paragraph.

and even this statistic comes with a caveat. according to https://thebetterindia.com/134673/survey-nfhs-marital-rape-india/, it’s 42%, which places only 58% of men as against marital rape. that is a majority but it’s not what i’d call a “vast” majority at all. it seems plausible that at least 50% could be against criminalization if 42% don’t even think it’s morally wrong. (interestingly, 52% of women don’t think it’s morally wrong either.)

the point is that a lot of these examples of similar severity that happen to women would get rallying and protests from time to time, yet the MRA movement doesn’t say a word when these examples of patriarchy hurt men

school bullying and blue-collar work forcing definitely discriminate against men. there’s similar issues that also affect women, one prominent one being (generally white-collar) workplace discrimination

the vast majority of men are in favor of criminalizing rape of any kind

not in India, where this comic’s from

this one’s the size of a shipping container so it seems more believable. improvised solar stills give you 2L per square meter per day iirc

you can’t buy an iPad without a touchscreen. your argument feels like arguing that tariffs won’t affect consumers because they’re paid by the importers

on that note:

The Copyright Office has separately rejected bids by artists for copyrights on images generated by the AI system Midjourney. Those artists argued that ⁠they were entitled to copyrights for images they created with AI assistance - unlike Thaler, who said his system created “A ‌Recent Entrance to Paradise” independently.