The excellent @pluralistic highlighted this Wired article from 2015 regarding car “accidents”.
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The excellent @pluralistic highlighted this Wired article from 2015 regarding car “accidents”. The author’s story mirrors our own loss of our three year old daughter playing in front of our house in 2012. There needs to be greater accountability for people using automobiles.
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/stop-calling-daughters-death-car-accident/
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The excellent @pluralistic highlighted this Wired article from 2015 regarding car “accidents”. The author’s story mirrors our own loss of our three year old daughter playing in front of our house in 2012. There needs to be greater accountability for people using automobiles.
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/stop-calling-daughters-death-car-accident/
@thegaffer @pluralistic The shooting sports community has been working for years to do something similar, replacing the term "accidental discharge" with "negligent discharge" to reflect the fact that barring extremely rare mechanical malfunctions, guns don't just go off on their own.
If it fires without you intending, it's because you were doing something stupid and dangerous like having it loaded when you shouldn't have, leaving your finger on the trigger, etc.
So just like with a significant number of car crashes, it's not an accident it's negligent behavior on the part of the operator. This sort of terminology should become more prevalent in general.
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Val d’Hérens, #Switzerland
Larch trees stand in fresh snow beside a partly frozen Lac Bleu in the Swiss Alps
Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters#photography
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#autumn
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I now understand that it's not just the weather that you're wanting to get away from...
At least your government has the concept of "coalitions" and it's not a two-party circle-jerk like in USA.
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Seems like he only criticizes the AI companies that he doesn't do PR for?
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