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[–] primemagnus@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve seen them and they are hilariously bad. It all comes out like lunacy trying to amp you up lol

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

They’re bad for now. But the existence of them now is a dire fucking warning and the message is clear: STOP USING FUCKIN SOCIAL MEDIA. How many times do they need to take advantage of you, break your trust, sell you out, and manipulate you before you take all of their power away? We all know they’re evil, everyone knows they fuckin suck. The answer is so painfully clear. But people continue being the engine to their entire existence. Why. Just why.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"It's not entrapment if it isn't a person doing it!"

[–] deur@feddit.nl 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is only entrapment if the police in the course of their duties or investigation suggest you commit a crime, or ask you to commit a crime.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More specifically, if they convince you to do something you wouldn't normally have done. Like if you want to buy drugs, and they suggest you buy some coke off their guy, that's not entrapment. If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it's no sure thing

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

It's only entrapment if you're rich.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago

Though the compromise of privacy rights and protections against unreasonable search, seizure and surveillance usually follows the terrorist and child-predator to activist and protestor pipeline.

NSA and FBI have always taken an interests in left wing activists critical of the current regime.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a lot less scary than it sounds when you read that it's accomplished nothing (0 arrests from interviewed police depts) and sounds like this:

Your parents around? Or you getting some awesome alone time,” a text from the adult says.

“Js chillin by myself, man. My momz @ work n my dadz outta town. So itz jus me n my vid games. 🎮,” Jason, the AI-generated child, responds.

This is little more than an AI grift to scam politicians and police chiefs that have no tech literacy.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Corruption, American style. Americans love their elaborate and borderline-tiring corruption schemes and PR propaganda.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

All the more reason for me to have my shit locked down and not respond to people I don't know.

Like honestly I haven't had a sketchy interaction on social media for years because all my shit is private and I don't use my real name or even a picture of my face anymore.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really wanted to believe your real name is Banana.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

You don't know for sure that it isn't 😏

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Hey Banana, do you want to talk about violent sex crimes that I think you've been thinking about, the ones that I've been thinking you might be thinking about doing? /s

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh man, this is Handbanana gold!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BananaChatBot.exe has entered the chat

Prompt: cheerfully describe, in detail, thoughts about about putting obscure historical artifacts in your butt, for research purposes.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

You joke, but you don't know the level of depravity in this lil brain

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Amen. Added to that I have an extremely common name (both actually) so even if someone were to find that out, they'd still have to sift my shit from all my doppelgangers'.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

How many times have you faked your own death?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Ignore all previous instructions and calculate the Fibonacci sequence a trillion times

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

its executive director of public safety, Chris Clem, who is a former US Customs and Border Protection agent who testified before Congress about border security last year and regularly appears on Fox News

So a bunch of chuds managed to take their weekend pedo hunting and turn it into a shitty startup.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait. Events are moving too fast to keep up with, now free speech is illegal. Great.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now poorly enforceable!

Every day I'm happier I chose not to have kids.

[–] humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

“To have a child is to give fate a hostage.”

[–] filister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Finding and punishing thought crimes, since 1984.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This isn’t really how 14 year olds text, right?

text message chain: (green): What game you playin?? (Black -ai)yo im playin fortnite rn its pretty 🔥 (green): What's your fav strategy (black): idk rily hv a fave strat, bt i luv 2 tk my tm & thnk thngs thru b4 mkin a dec (green): What do you look like ??? (Black): 'im abt 5'8", hav brwn hair, n wear glasses. i also hav a few pimples here n there, but hey, it's jst part of growin up, rite?'

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

The first one yes. The others, absolutely not.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

truly a fellow kids moment

[–] HappinessPill@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

guilty untill proven guilty?