She posted kill all the Mexicans and they freaked out because school shootings are so easy to do because firearms are so readily available and we aren't allowed to take them away from people who are irresponsible or mentally ill.

This is about gun control and school shootings not AI but you're not allowed to talk about gun control so here we are.

Except that they're using an automated system to try and detect School shooters.

This is a gun control issue not a AI or technology issue.

The problem is we don't have a solution to gun control in this country. The other countries solved mass shootings by just taking all the guns. If you just take a few of the assault rifles that doesn't do shit, Columbine happened during the assault rifle ban

The correct solution is to have a process for taking firearms out of reach of mentally ill people but that means taking firearms away from their parents and for a wide variety of extremely emotional reasons we are not going to do that.

And I don't think just locking the parents up is going to work either. There is little or no evidence that extended punishment works as a deterrent even for obvious crimes. Not that I've opposed for charging them with manslaughter.

So right now the solution is a bot monitor is everything you do and if they think you're violent you are relentlessly punished. No actual help of course. We never help anyone in this country we only hurt them.

Our hypercompetitive civilization is not going to survive. But there's no way we can get away from it because we were all taught during our most malleable time that competition solves all problems. It's called 4 to 14 look it up...

But it means that instead of actually helping people that might become School shooters our solution is to hurt them as much as possible in the hopes that they just go away.

That doesn't work when you have tens of millions of them because you've abandoned so many people to poverty and misery.

I guess what I'm saying is we're just fucked in human civilization is going to collapse and there's absolutely nothing anyone can do anything about it because we are a fucking bunch of dumbass 12-year-olds.

While there are some physical responses to stress, for clinical purposes best practice is to simply ask the patient regularly how they are feeling, and to keep a log of stressful events in their life.

One thing I found helpful is an app called Migraine Log. I don't have migraines, I just use it to track how I'm generally feeling. I set up a reminder on my phone, every day at 9 PM. The app is great, it lets you rate each day on a simple scale of green, amber, or red, and optionally add a note. All data stored locally, open source, no internet permission at all.

Smart watches, bands, and rings are quite good at some stuff. The high end ones have pretty accurate heart rate sensors, on a par with medical devices like chest straps, and the very best like the Google Watch can take that data and use it to do a decent analysis of your sleep cycles. The cheaper ones are mostly just okay, giving a decent indication of heart rate and overall activity levels, but things like sleep tracking are little more than random number generators.

I seem to recall there was an HBO drama documentary series called From the Earth to the Moon that was decently accurate, but still entertaining.

It sounds very much like "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?"

This sort of thing seems to be fairly routine, if you start to dig into it. There was an example recently where the police raided someone's business and took a load of lithium batteries, which they warned them were volatile. You can guess what happened. Caught fire, destroyed a load of other evidence along with them, police now trying to blame the business owners (who were not charged or doing anything wrong).

Another very common one is losing CCTV evidence, often because the police don't request it before it gets deleted. If you think you might need it, make a request for it yourself, don't rely on the cops to get their act together.

Two wrongs don't make a right. But either way, at least the alcoholics manage to socialize with other humans and don't generally start out drunk nor require to get drunk every time they meet another human being. They still socialize with yumans.

Otoh, here's an article about people so broken they'll upset at the loss of their "friend" who went away during a standard software version upgrade process.

I certainly didn't feel lonely when I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7.

And it's still not the OP's fault those bot-friend people are so broken. He's under no obligation to go door to door looking to befriend lonely broken people. He'd probably get arrested for it.

It's mid-70s stuff. It was part of moving the manufacturing that couldn't be automated over to China and Japan.

The factory workers were fucked either way because automation was coming for their jobs. But nobody likes to talk about or think about technological unemployment because the moment you do people start braying like donkeys repeating the word Luddite over and over and over again occasionally stopping to belch out a comment about buggy whips.

I used to wonder why Europe let the Russians put Trump in office but now I know those dumb motherfuckers think they can take over from America as the predominant global currency.

Short-term China's going to steamroll them and long-term has the American empire collapses we're going to invade Europe and Russia and even eventually china.

Because that's what dying empires have to do. You expand your borders to loot other countries so that you can fill the coffers back home because you're all you're incompetent mismanagement.

Of course this time we've got nukes so that's going to be fun. Said it before I will say it again I just wish I had died before all this crap.

It helps but it's not enough to get us this crazy dominant position that allows us to get those ultra cheap imports that allow Americans to maintain their high standard of living.

And also Louisiana and well every other Red State I think it's safe to say you aren't going to be getting anything through Congress.

It's possible Gavin newsome has the cojones to get the Democrat governors together to counteract the gerrymandering with their own gerrymandering, but after so many years of my party rolling over I'll believe it when I see it.

Still if he wants to be president he doesn't have a lot of options. At the rate we are going there aren't going to be elections in 2026 let alone 2028.

The funny thing is assuming the Democrats don't pull off and upset a whole shitload of people who have been voting Republican since Reagan or about to find out what that means. Starting with their 401ks going to the Elon j Musk memorial trillionaire fund.

Like they did with those postal workers.

What I like about criminal justice systems is that they are all absolutely fucked up and terrible but they each have their own unique flavor of fucked up and terrible.

That's what happens when you focus on punishment instead of harm reduction. But a lot of people find punishment fun and not in the kinky fun way in the sadistic way.