• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    My ex-wife used tarot cards to justify cheating on me, and then leaving me.

    I didn’t even know she had tarot cards.

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      It is amazing what excuses cheaters will use to justify their behavior.

      In my case, my ex did the nature documentary argument way before the manosphere became a thing. I dunno why that is a pattern with that sort of man. They like to think of themselves as superior intellectuals until it comes to sex, then they will make graphs and studies and be pseudo David Attenboroughs to justify that their caveman urges are too strong for them to overcome.

      I guess the female version of that is tarot cards, coffee grounds and zodiacs? I hope you found a better lady later, because that one surely wasn’t worth keeping in your life!

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        Well, it’s probably true. Their urges are too strong for them to overcome. But that’s what an adult should be able to do, overcome the fucking urges

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          Exactly. But cheaters love pretending their urges are mystical forces, not a failure to act like grown-ups. Funny how that “strength” vanishes when accountability’s involved.

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      Not necessarily. I think that predicting crime using public information can be beneficial. It just shouldn’t be invasive or biased, and shouldn’t be used in court to justify a warrant or arrest.

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        Let’s not kid ourselves. Publicly available information is invasive and a violation of privacy.

        We have corporations who have effectively set up mass surveillance networks and they call it “adtech”.

        There is an entire economy surrounding “publicly available information”. There are corporations that act as as data brokers and people search websites that compile way too much sensitive information about private individuals. Newspapers systematically report on events that aren’t really of public interest concerning private individuals; e.g. arrest records and these articles hang around forever even if the arrest doesn’t result in a conviction or the crime is expunged.

        If this was employed by the government or law enforcement, it would absolutely include data that extends far beyond the reaches of publicly available information — and it’s worth pointing out that the US has a mass surveillance network in the form of the NSA/PRISM.

        There is zero way you could convince me that AI, prone to hallucination, would be well served to predict crime or criminals. Even if it didn’t hallucinate, it still wouldn’t be possible to predict crime - only potentially anticipate a crime. We aren’t 2D characters following a script — anything can happen.

        Law enforcement is already very unhinged. Let’s not cheerlead the addition of any tools that aid in psychosis to their arsenal.

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        I agree with you, but:

        invasive, biased, used in courts

        All those things that will soon happen whether we like it or not.

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    It seems that the woman has a penchant for believing mystical guidance. “A few years ago, she visited an astrologer and it took a whole year for her to accept that none of it was real,” the husband said.

    That should’ve been the first clue. I can date someone who engages in fantasy for a bit, but if they never come back to reality then just put the relationship down humanely.

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    Sure, it can’t count how many Rs are in strawberry, but it definitely for sure can predict future affairs in bean stew ingredients. /s

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      can predict future affairs in bean stew ingredients.

      Ain’t nothing more refreshing than adding some coffee grounds to your bean stew

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      Theyre not in the clear yet. This type of crazy doesn’t exit your life just the once.

      Heck, you’re lucky if you catch them entering back in before they’ve made another exit.

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      Bad for the kids…

      “I laughed it off as nonsense,” he said. “But she didn’t. She told me to leave, informed our kids about the divorce, and the next thing I knew, I was getting a call from her lawyer.”

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          Easy for a man to get custody of the kids? What world do you live in?

          My friend’s ex repeatedly crashed her car while drunk with their daughter in the car and he had to fight a pretty much non-stop court battle for over a decade to maintain his 50%.

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            that why I said you never know

            basically the same for me and my sisters with our parents. Dad in the army and mom is robbing walmarts to pay for crack. Hmm, mom gets summer custody it is!

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    I mean at this point, shame on him for marrying someone like that to begin with