People tell you all the time: don't talk to the police. But why not?
Here's one reason you may not be aware of. In most American jurisdictions, once police have you in an interrogation room, they are free to lie to you if they believe it will help them produce a confession.
What kind of lies do they tell? Things like:
* "We have surveillance video of you committing the crime."
* "We have multiple eyewitnesses who saw you committing the crime."
* "We have a confession from the friend who was with you at the time, saying you talked them into helping you commit the crime."
Let's assume you are actually 100% innocent. Even if that's the case -- if you believe that the police have evidence that could convict you anyway, you are going to be under enormous pressure to confess, EVEN THOUGH YOU DID NOT DO IT. Your brain leaps to the thought that, if you're going to be convicted regardless, maybe confessing will at least get you some leniency.
So you confess, and the cops are happy. A confession nearly always leads to a conviction, and they just produced a confession out of thin air.
You just convicted yourself.
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v3.0 features some new Unicode characters, mainly stuff that can be interpreted as either input devices, or just stuff on a camcorder!
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Guillermo del Toro — “Animation is not a fucking genre. Animation is film!”
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1537911747956203520
Been terrible about posting art, but figure I'd share a cute sketch @jonas did for me recently at least
https://artconomy.com/submissions/13681
The thing about large language models like GPT-3 and Lambda describing the experience of being self-aware is they can also describe the experience of being a squirrel.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/interview-with-a-squirrel/
A glowy computer mouse of some sort?
Into programming (esp. web), #furry, rodents, sci-fi, art, roleplay (dm for f-list), etc.
Occasionally may post NSFW, please +18 only
Not a fan of Tesla, Inc. or its CEO, came up with the name long before they were a thing.