I've always been downvoted to hell in other subs, but my opinion remains unchanged.

I believe Taylor is ultimately responsible for Ana Benevides' death from heat exhaustion at her Brazil show.

Yes, there is blame to share. I understand the venue didn't allow water bottles inside, etc. But the buck should always stop with the performer, and the fact that Taylor had to stop her show *multiple* times to ensure the fans passing out got water should have been a red flag to her and her team. Temperatures were above 100 degrees during the daytime. She's not stupid.

It's also bullshit how the statement put out by Taylor claimed Ana died before the concert when in reality, she died during the second song. If Taylor's team truly didn't know a fan died *during* her concert, she needs a new team because that's an entirely new level of ineptitude. (I actually believe she knew and intentionally lied about it for PR purposes.)

Additionally, Ana's family mentioned that no one from Taylor's team reached out for them for days, until ultimately public pressure forced Taylor to acknowledge them.

I've heard all of the excuses about her contract, the promoter, blah blah blah. I don't fucking care. If Taylor isn't calling the shots at her own concert, then who is? Swifties claim she IS the music industry, yet apparently isn't powerful enough to stop her own show when fans are passing out and dying? Get the fuck out of her with that bullshit. Oh, she was afraid of being sued? The billionaire who hands out millions in bonuses to her truck drivers was worried about getting sued for a few million? Again, GTFO.

When fans died at Travis Scott's concert, he was criticized for not stopping the show. Yet Taylor isn't responsible because it's always someone else's fault when it comes to her.

Here's what I think happened: Taylor didn't care that someone died. She hated Brazil so badly that she wanted to be done, so she pushed through it despite the risk to her fans. She wanted to cash that check and go home. The only reason she postponed the show was because of the bad press she was getting from Ana's death. It was actually *cooler* on the day she postponed than previous days.

Par for the course, Taylor. Par for the course.

RIP Ana. I'm sorry no one will be held accountable for your death because Taylor is untouchable. You deserved better.

Edit: Just found out an estimated 1,000 fans fainted that day. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? Who in their right mind would still have a concert with a 139 degree heat index?!

I (F29) knew from a young age I don't ever want to have or raise children. I met my husband in college and he was decidedly childfree too. We got married a couple of years back.

My husband's younger sister (F24) has three kids (M5, M & F 2) with different dead beat guys. Two months ago she left all of them at our house, said she was going on a errand and never came back. Just left. We filed a report and everything. Last we heard she was safe but did not want to come back.

My husband's mom is a minimum wage worker barely scrapping by. She used to be a single mom and do not want to raise these kids.

I don't want to raise them either. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for them. But raising kids is a huge responsibility I don't want to take up. In the 2 months they were here, our expense has increased, we had to buy them clothes and stuff, and they are sleeping in our living room on air mattresses (we only have one bedroom). I had to work from home and look after them cause my husband could not get wfh and daycare for 3 is expensive. It has been really rough to say the least.

CPS did get involved and asked us whether we want to keep the kids or not. I do not. I thought my husband would be on the same page but he wants to keep the kids. CPS has asked us to decide quickly and make necessary changes (get a bigger home for one).

My husband and I have gone back and forth on this. I cannot live the next 16 years like this. Raising kids is hard. And expensive. But he wants to be there for his family. Which I get.

So yesterday I told him I want a divorce. Quickly, before he made any commitments and dragged me into it with him.

He called me a AH for divorcing over kids. For abandoning him when he needed me.

I told him he knew my boundaries well in advance and this was a commitment (children) that he is unilaterally deciding on.

AITAH?

Don't they both have a right to be pro-choice?

I had a random thought the other day, after playing a multiplayer game and also seeing some posts complaining about sweaty multiplayer gamers. It got me thinking, in say 50 years time, when all these guys are going to be old men and women, how many of them are going to have (or have had) the sudden realisation they blew away a good portion of their life sweating over getting good at video games.

Being as this something my generation will have to look forward to in the future, I wondered how many of these people, the basement dweller stereotype kind, will end up becoming angry and resentful of the world when they realise they blew their life away playing games, instead of focusing on proper meaningful stuff like careers, other life goals, relationships, families and so on. Kind of like how incels start resenting women because they are generally undatable, and instead of fixing themselves they join the dark side and just start hating women.

I suppose this is more of a future prediction than a random thought, but it got me thinking nonetheless how the world will look if this were to happen and how we will deal with it. Its like my Dad always tells me, you only get one life, don’t waste it cause you don’t get a second go if you mess it up. I suppose it just saddens me to think that these people are missing out on so much in life by just playing games all day

Edit: I should of clarified I meant ‘did nothing BUT play video games all day’. Not as a pastime on a weekend, but frittering all their time, every day, away on the game. Not doing anything else meaningful, just permanently killing time. Its like it a guy was to do nothing but watch TV all day every day for, say, 10 years. At some point, that guy (even though they will have enjoyed watching the TV) will likely have a moment of reflection on what they could have done with all that time if they had done other things instead, how much they could have achieved, how much more of a rich and fulfilling life they could have had in that time. And as I said, I think a lot of people who realise this might just go down the angry, alcoholism to forget the mistake kind of route. Its a unique experience to realise one has wasted their life, not one many of you I think will ever know. But a guy at a certain time in their life looks back on it, on what they achieved, how they lived. I just think these guys who spend all day every day taking games super serious, and getting nothing to show for it, will be very regretful of how they spent their time, and like a lot of things, this can lead some people to go down some very dark roads

Edit 2: Ok, I’m sorry I didn’t explain myself better. I specifically refer more to multiplayer games, and addictions to them. Where it can basically, at its worst, be as life consuming as alcoholism for example, especially if you get addicted to buying the pay to win stuff. And also favouring these games solely over any other life pursuits, where the game becomes your life, but instead of becoming a pro justifying the time sunk they don’t even get any awards or trophies or prize money or anything

I know, I know a face tattoo? In this economy? But I couldn’t be happier with it!

Good Evening Shipmates,

Currently serving CMC here. I'm looking for insight and opinion on a topic that I struggle with a lot. Im a younger Masterchief, less than 20 years of service. I love Sailors! You all are the passion that keeps me going, day in and day out. Being able to use my influence to positively impact our Navy and our people is AMAZING!

One problem, I'm Trans, MTF. No one knows but my Wife and teenager. Both fully support. Blessed to have them.

I know what the policy says, I know that transgender service members can serve and I understand the path.

I'm worried about the impact it could have on my career. I don't know how it would be perceived as such as Senior person coming out. I'm not sure I'd even get to keep my job. I also don't think I could do more than 20 years without being genuine to who I am. I have spoken to EMH about this, as well as anxiety, PTSD, and depression. I've been referred out in town which helps but doesn't at the same time.

I'm also worried that being trans would make me unapproachable or would make Sailors uncomfortable. I pride my self in being on the deckplate and really knowing the pulse, from genuine care for our people.

So, I guess my questions are this:

For the Sailors: What would be your thoughts if your CMC was trans?

For the Senior Folks: Do you it would even be possible? What are your thoughts?

Thanks for your thoughts and time!

As a parent of a student at the University I am appalled by the decision to bring in Knoxville police to arrest students engaged in peaceful protest of unjust conditions happening in the world. While the events of Hamas are deplorable, the reaction of the government of Israel resulting in the deaths of over 34,000 two thirds of which are women and children is also deplorable.

Holding Israel’s government accountable for their actions is not anti-semitic, harassing Jewish people and calling for their destruction is, and is unacceptable.

Universities are for higher learning, the exchanging of ideas and to make students better global citizens. Just like in the 60’s calling out the injustices of the Vietnam War, it is not only our right but also our duty to call out those same injustices happening today.

It may not be comfortable, but sometimes it is necessary to be uncomfortable to work to right injustice.

I fear the heavy handed action committed tonight will simply fuel a much larger response tomorrow.

For those that do not study history are doomed to repeat it and I expect more from the University.

Sony has swooped in and crushed Democracy and super earth is not under authoritarian control.

I feel like so many people in this sub idolize learning the theory behind ML models, and it’s gotten worse with the advent of LLM’s. I absolutely agree that it has a very important space in pushing the boundaries, but does everyone really need to be in that space?

For beginners, I’d advise to shoot from the hip! Interested in neural nets? Rip some code off medium and train your first model! If you’re satisfied, great! Onto the next concept. Maybe you are really curious about what that little “adamw” parameter represents. Don’t just say “huh” but use THAT as the jumping point to learn about optimized gradient descent. Maybe you don’t know what to research. Well we have this handy little thing called Gemini/ChatGPT/etc to help!

prompt: “you are a helpful tutor assisting the user in better understanding data science concepts. Their current background is in <xyz> and they have limited knowledge of ML. Provide answers which are based in theory. Give python code snippets as examples where applicable.

<your question here>”

And maybe you apply this neural net in a cute little Jupyter notebook and your next thought is “huh wait how do I actually unleash this into the wild?” All the theory-heavy textbooks in the world wouldn’t have gotten you to realize that you may be more interested in MLOps.

As someone in the industry, I just hate this gate keeping of knowledge and this strange respect for mathematical abstraction. I would much rather hire someone who’s quick on their feet to a solution than someone who busts out a textbook every time I request an ML-related task to be completed. A 0.9999999999 f1 score only exists and matters in Kaggle competitions.

So go forth and make some crappy projects my friends! They’ll only get better by spending more time creating and you’ll find an actual use for all those formulas you’re freaking out about 😁

EDIT: LOVELOVELOVE the hate I’m getting here. Must be some good views from that ivory tower y’all are trapped in. All you beginners out there know that there are many paths and levels of depth in ML! You don’t have to be like these people to get satisfaction out of it!

It looks like there are a lot of NSFW subreddits for the gay community in Brisbane - as much as there are pubs, clubs and such.

Soooo... I have started a subreddit and Discord aimed at those who are looking to connect outside of the usual scene. Many events and Queer themed events are loud and boozy - that's fine but we're hoping to establish an alternative.

We're open for allies as well as the rainbow community. We have flair for you too!

We also have the "Queen's Counsel" flair; a play on words of the "QC" tag used by barristers and now - us. This is the tag to use when seeking advice from your rainbow friends - like a Queer Eye for reddit.

So, please, come on over and join us! The support will much appreciated.
https://www.reddit.com/r/QueerBrisbane/

This is just Sony wanting to up their new account numbers. The game works fucking perfectly for steam users without PSN.

What username will be shown in game? What if my username is “Invalid” or already taken on PSN? What if PSN is banned in my country but steam isn’t? What if my PSN account gets banned?

Arrowhead please for the love of super earth tell Sony to just piss off with this one thing.

I genuinely don’t understand. They occupied a small grassy area by the law building earlier today. I left to go do something, drove right by the peaceful gathering, and then on my way back tonight cops had completely blocked off the area they were in. I mean it looked like cops with riot gear blocking the lawn, and then at LEAST 10 cop cars blocking an entire lane on cumberland. the protestors moved to the side with the student union but the cops were just standing there directing traffic around THEIR cars!! I mean i don’t know what happened after i saw them earlier today but there weren’t even that many protestors for that kind of reaction. i mean the anti-abortion and bible people have literally harassed students during normal class hours gathering insane crowds. where were the cops then?? i just don’t get it.

Are you facing retaliation, or student conduct hearings for participating in a protest? Or for anything else within your rights as a Graduate Student? The union can help you!

If you’ve been a union member for 30 days, the legal team from the VEA is ready to help you navigate this process!

If you aren't a member, we can't provide you with a lawyer but we may still be able to help: 1. Accompany you to disciplinary meetings 2. Documentation 3. Assist you in understanding policies and procedures for reporting retaliation 4. Explore external options **Limited by our availability, but we will always try to connect you to resources

This offer of help is not specific to protests. If your job is threatened for any reason, please reach out to us and talk about options. While only members in good standing can access legal representation, we want every grad student to know their rights and to be supported through these processes.

Sadly, many people only get in touch with us after being dismissed or after student conduct hearings and appeals are over. Please reach out early so we have rhe best chance of helping you!!

Learn more about the union and join here: www.vtglu.org

I live like 15 minutes away from the track. a trip getting off of Crittendens exit to my place takes only 10 minutes. Today, it took an hour because they closed that exit and like 3 more that followed up. It’s only Thursday, this is fucking ridiculous and the city knows better and knows it’s the same shit every year so why not do fucking something about it. Edit: for the people saying you knew what was coming, they closed exits consecutively from crittenden all the way down to Dixie. They were closing exits unnecessarily.

Hoping to have a serious discussion free of moralizing Karens and alt right incels who were both astroturfing here when the New York magazine article came out. He used the “extreme ownership” words himself and I think it was an abuse of the term. When asked about the article, he talked about the history of the pod, then went on and on about whether he skated for Venture. Then quickly addressed the cheating. I respect that he had the courage to address it at all but I would say he definitely minimized at very best.

I think this is stupid but my husband is annoyed with me so it’s whatever. This morning I went to take a shower and I was that my husband had not so gracefully spewn his seed on our glass shower door and didn’t clean it up. I went to him and asked that he clean it up in the future and maybe consider not jerking it in our shared shower if he can’t clean up after himself well. I don’t want my shower to be filled with crusty old jizz. He argued with me that it was just shampoo, and that I’m being crazy basically.

The fact that he kept insisting it was shampoo when I knew it wasn’t annoyed me, so I grabbed a q tip and a microscope slide and glass covering and made a wet mounted slide. If you’re wondering why I have those on hand it’s because I took a microbiology course in college years back and kept all the stuff. I viewed his slide and showed it to him, it was obviously sperm.

We had a big fight and he got mad at me and said I can never let anything go, and I said we wouldn’t be in this position if he just cleaned up after himself, and I told him to stop insisting I’m wrong when I know I’m right. We have disagreements all the time where he tells me I’m wrong when I know I’m right, and he gets so angry when I prove I’m right. Like when he insists our dogs vet is open on sundays, when I know it’s closed on sundays. Etc.

I work as a private investigator. Wanting to know what’s true and what isn’t is just in my nature. He knew this before he married me.

AITAH?

EDIT: since some of you are slow, obviously there’s nothing wrong with protesting, but doing it during graduation week is poor timing whether you think so or not😂

TTo think that it’s ok to do it during finals week when people are struggling to get through finals or graduate, and to think you’d get away without any consequences is pretty selfish in my opinion.

A A lot of people have worked so hard for several years to finally graduate, whether financially or academically, and have been looking forward to it their whole lives.

A Also, I’m not justifying what the cops did on Tuesday with the tear gassing or rubber bullets on students, but for God’s sake.

TThere’s absolutely nothing wrong with protesting, but you had 15 other weeks of the semester to protest.

P Protesting in the US isn’t gonna change what’s happening literally halfway across the world. Some of y’all are so sensitive at this point it’s comical.

I If you actually want to make a change to the situation, like the title says, join a humanitarian aid org, donate, or go to the Gaza Strip.

Linking a PSN account has always been listed as a requirement for PC players, but AH made it temporarily optional.

It’s not a big deal. It only takes a minute. Link it to a burner email if you must. No, they’re not going to give you a refund because this requirement has always been there.

You guys want friend invites and player reporting to work correctly. This should help them solve these issues.

Also averaged 2.7 stocks and 3.2 offensive rebounds per game. All while having Bell's Palsy and coming off a meniscus tear