in my experience, the state colleges are literal cops and are not private: they are literally the same as city police, with all the privileges and power that comes with it, which makes them subject to the same oversight.

you're probably right about private colleges though.

gorg!

song goes so hard

yup. i'm tied to unreal engine 5.

(yes, i know there's a version for linux. i need to be on windows for the latest updates and work though.)

sorry i live a happy well-rounded life and don't know what any of this means.

i like this

what's the logical conclusion of your point here?

jesus christ you should be shoved into a locker

i didn't downvote you, regardless internet points don't matter.

you're not wrong, and i largely agree with what you've said, because i didn't actually say a lot of the things your comment assumes.

the most efficient way i can describe what i mean is this:

LLMs (this is NOT AI) can, and will, replace more and more of us. however, there will never, ever be a time where there will be no human overseeing it because we design software for humans (generally), not for machines. this requires integral human knowledge, assumptions, intuition, etc.

i hate microtransactions, but as they go, this implementation is fairly benign.

personally think it's less a problem with age. age limits are arbitrary and likely have no basis in science (within reason). however i do think it could be advantageous to require a variety of ages of people, and somehow weight their input, but that process may destroy the inherent value of a representative democracy; if we let everyone speak nothing will get done.

personally i think hard term limits and ranked choice voting would fix the majority of issues caused by generational gaps.

inhaling carcinogenic smoke to get nicotine would age you more, but nicotine itself also has adverse effects by constricting blood vessels, which would affect how much oxygen and nutrients are able to reach the dermal layer. this would also affect hair follicles.

here's some decent sources for more reading:

E-cigarettes containing nicotine cause blood clotting and make small blood vessels less adaptable

NIH-funded studies show damaging effects of vaping, smoking on blood vessels

it's certainly possible that the ecigarettes used in the testing here may have altered the results, but it's not looking pretty.