Using the term “rainy day” is poignant here, as climate change weather catastrophes are a main driver of this issue.
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There appear to be two and only two mainstream opinion pieces now: 1) why the natural disgust and anger you feel is counterproductive and the obvious atrocity that elicited that reaction is complicated; 2) Nazi parents who want to liquidate your child for existing have several valid concerns, too
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That’s not how that worked. That’s not how any of that worked.
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Tell me you never actually…
You know what, never mind.
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Strongest argument I’ve seen yet that “A.I.” is just algorithms…
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That wasn’t AI… dipshits.
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And yet in some sense it was as much artificial intelligence as the LLMs they’re talking about now. Making something respond to the player in a way that looks like it’s pursuing a particular goal. The algorithm has gotten much more complicated but there’s even less attempt to have it model any actual understanding. Both are just pretending there’s a ghost in the machine. 
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JFC, his “pre-existing health problem” begins and ends at “Israel has been trying to murder me since before I was born”. 
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This reminds me so much of certain parties trying to underplay the COVID death count by blaming all of the deaths on pre-existing conditions, as though they all would have coincidentally died anyway if COVID hadn’t been involved. Or claiming that Eric Garner died of asthma that totally had nothing to do with that cop kneeling on his neck.
ETA: Apologies, George Floyd was the one who was kneeled on. Eric Garner “merely” was strangled in a chokehold. 
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They tried that shit with George Floyd, too. Surprised they didn’t try to claim Breonna Taylor had pre-existing lead poisoning.
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And it shouldn’t be a defense anyway. In law there is something called the eggshell skull rule – if you punch someone and they are injured far more than you expected because they had a fragile skull, you’re still liable for all the consequences, because that risk is one of the reasons you shouldn’t be punching people. Well, when you starve an entire country there will inevitably be some people who were already in less than peak health, and maybe that just makes it even worse to starve entire countries.
Seriously, what kind of monster thinks “but actually they were starving sick kids” is somehow an exoneration?
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I promise you, there’s a middle ground between that and raising selfish children.
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Indeed. And possibly keeping the kid’s trust along the way is a nice bonus.
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They’ll try to pin 9/11 on him somehow next.
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