BertramDitore @ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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Damnit Shiro, how many times do I have to shut it off for you??

Human and AGI collaboration might be interesting, if ever real AI actually develops. But I wouldn’t call augmenting or probing of existing works of fiction with rehashed LLM sludge collaboration, I’d call it glorified and advanced plagiarism at worst, and low quality cliff notes at best.

I would much rather read a work of creative fiction from a human being than to encounter autocorrect word predictions written into paragraphs. The idea that the text itself can be queried to gain additional meaning divorced from the author’s intention strikes me as unrealistic and not faithful to the person who originally crafted the words.

Though I’m obviously biased against LLMs being used for this kind of thing, from lots of experience seeing how crappy they are.

Ugh.

Most BO comes from the bacteria that grows on the armpit hair after sweating, so while he’d probably have issues with the “manliness” of this suggestion, if he just shaves his armpit hair it’ll take a bit longer for the BO to develop. As long as he’s showering regularly, that is…

But it’d probably be better to just tell him that cleanliness and showing that you have personal hygiene (by washing regularly and using deodorant) is most definitely manly. Having BO doesn’t make him manly, cause I’ve got news for him: women have BO too.

I get what you’re saying, but in reality this isn’t always possible. If you are directed to do something by your superior and you choose not to comply, disciplinary procedures will start, and will ultimately lead to your termination. Throughout that process, the principled protest that lead to your termination would be muddied and probably forgotten. Resigning on idealistic or principled grounds sends a stronger message than allowing yourself to be fired, and least for those in the administrative state that don’t have highly visible jobs. The result is still the same either way: the action you were protesting was probably carried out anyway by someone less principled than you, but you’re out of a job and few people will ever know why.

If you loudly resign, your message will be received by more people and will be backed and strengthened by your sacrifice. It’s fucked up that it has to go down this way, but when there are two bad choices I’m glad enough people are making the harder one that might benefit more people even at personal expense. For heads of agencies and high level staff it might be more impactful to let yourself get fired, but I think those cases will be the exception (the FBI director, for example, should have let himself get fired).

I’ve earnestly answered some of your other questions, when it was quite clear you were either trolling or incredibly stubborn, and this additional question (which purposefully ignores the basic answers I gave you weeks ago) makes it obvious you don’t actually want to learn anything. Stop asking questions if you don’t intend to genuinely engage with the people who are taking the time to respond.

SO good. Not stringy, naturally sweet, especially when roasted like this it gets all nice and caramelized. It’s pretty versatile in lots of different dishes.

Once you manage to crack into it, that is. Need a sharp knife and patience.

It’s so interesting to think about how certain word choices become the norm. These were Palestinian hostages taken by Israel. The vast majority of Palestinians in Israeli detention are there without being charged for any kind of crime. They were picked up off the street and thrown in a cell to be tortured, starved, and sexually assaulted, without even a suspicion of having done anything other than being Palestinian. They are hostages. This was a hostage swap.

Ed Zitron has the best takes on this imo. One of his pieces is linked in the posted article, but here it is again. His podcast also has some of the most grounded and hilarious insight into the absurdity of the AI bubble. If you want to hear from him in a more mainstream setting, I highly recommend the interview he did with Brooke Gladstone on On The Media. That was the first time I heard anyone really talk about the AI industry with genuine frankness and honestly.

Basically, OpenAI, Sam Altman, and all of the big tech players have defrauded us and investors by raising laughably high amounts of money and wasting precious resources to build inferior and closed products, when any reasonable person would have known there were better ways. This whole thing also proves how essential competition is to a healthy market and producing things people actually want to use.

In essence, DeepSeek — and I'll get into its background and the concerns people might have about its Chinese origins — released two models that perform competitively (and even beat) models from both OpenAI and Anthropic, undercut them in price, and made them open, undermining not just the economics of the biggest generative AI companies, but laying bare exactly how they work. That last point is particularly important when it comes to OpenAI's reasoning model, which specifically hid its chain of thought for fear of "unsafe thoughts" that might "manipulate the customer," then muttered under their breath that the actual reason was that it was a "competitive advantage." -Zitron

Since this community is for any kind of question, I’ll answer, but I get the vague sense that you don’t really want a genuine answer, based on the inherent bias you included in the question (calling someone older than 20 a hag is pretty uncool, for example).

But here goes: people have different tastes. Different things turn on different people, and your lack of experience being aroused by older women says nothing about the legitimacy of those who are. Also being 21 for example, is still considered very young by most people. Your question presumes that everybody in the world must only be attracted to very young women, and frankly that’s a bit strange and just not how the world works.

Try to put yourself in some other people’s shoes, and I think this question would answer itself. Your sexual preferences are not everyone’s preferences.

Will suffer. We all will. He was just confirmed by the Senate.

And the advice columnist gave a supportive and heartwarming answer to this woman’s concerns.

Sex positivity for the win!

“Sanctuary Cities,” or policies that local law enforcement won’t actively assist ICE agents, are fully in line with Federal law. And for what it’s worth, Supreme Court precedent has made it perfectly clear that Federal agents do not have the right to commandeer state or local resources to carry out a Federal action.

Officials in sanctuary cities obviously can’t obstruct a federal investigation or action, but they are under no obligation to help. This has long been accepted by legal experts on the right and the left.

The country’s Attorney General flat out lying about the spirit and letter of the law shouldn’t be surprising to anyone at this point, but it’s still worth noting how far we’ve fallen.

100%

I’ve had dreams where my long locks were dramatically blowing in the wind, only to wake up and run my hands through my…well shit, that’s just my scalp.

I started losing my hair when I was a teenager, so I’ve been bald for most of my life. I’ve been shaving my head for decades because it’s the only way my head and face don’t look absurd. I’m totally used to it, and long ago accepted that I’d never have hair on my head again.

But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want my hair back.

If this turns out to be legit and works on most people, there could be a worldwide explosion of self-esteem in adults.

I’m always shocked how few people know about these. We’re still not even close to cleaning up existing leaks.

even a pinprick-size hole in an underground tank can send 400 gallons of fuel a year into the ground, polluting soil and water. Spills can also destroy habitat and kill wildlife.

Roughly 81 million people live within a quarter-mile of an underground storage tank that’s experienced at least one leak

More than 516,000 leaks have been cleaned upsince Congress directed EPA to begin regulating underground tanks in 1984, but more than 57,000 known sites still await a full cleanup

Source

Huh, you know what also delays the start of smoking? Never starting.

No, those stalls are reserved for people who actually need them. They’re not for your comfort or convenience, they’re a basic necessity for people who have very different daily lives than you.

Even if all the other stalls are occupied, you should still pretend that the handicap stall is also occupied, even if it isn’t. There’s always the possibility that someone who needs it will arrive after you’ve gone in. You don’t park in handicap parking spaces, do you? Same deal, just one is based more on the honor system and basic human decency, and the other could get you a ticket.

Looks delicious!! This is one of my favorite go-tos for a filling and hearty meal.

Not a criticism, but in case that’s a bay leaf hiding in there, you probably want to pull it out before eating. Bay leaves do their best work without needing to eat them. They’re not toxic or anything (that’s a common myth), but you definitely don’t want to accidentally bite into that thing. Your mouth will regret it…

Think I’ll make some curry tonight though, thanks for the inspiration!

Bernie has compromised on some issues, like a good politician should. Nearly everybody else has compromised their integrity and the offices they hold with corrupt behavior. There’s a huge difference.

Effective politics/government doesn’t exist without compromise. America was founded on compromises, some of which were morally reprehensible, some of which were just about the structure of the nation and its government. A huge caveat of course, is that compromise only works when there are at least two groups equally willing to concede something big enough to reach a resolution.

Without the ability to compromise all we’re left with is tyranny.