halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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FDA is generally good with drug safety

Just you wait until RFK Jr is all up in that FDA pipeline. You think the brain worm controlling his corpse is going to just sit at the head of HHS and not try to force changes wherever he can remotely pry?

To be honest, that seems like it should be the one thing they are reliably good at. It requires just looking up info on their database, with no manipulation.

Obviously that's not the case, but that's just because currently LLMs are a grift to milk billions from corporations by using the buzzwords that corporate middle management relies on to make it seem like they are doing any work. Relying on modern corporate FOMO to get them to buy a terrible product that they absolutely don't need at exorbitant contract prices just to say they're using the "latest and greatest" technology.

Meanwhile my local Costco in AZ had no eggs at all 4 days ago.

It's almost like the inhumane, cramped, living conditions we permit a lot of our agriculture industry to have for animals is biting us in the ass.

And before dipshits come in about how that doesn't apply to cage free chickens, etc. Of course that shit still affects overall product prices. One of the businesses along the line between the farm with the chickens and your grocery store aisle is going to raise the price anyway to gouge a little more profit from the system when they have the chance.

Even without confirmation, there's basically zero chance that a jet on final approach striking a helicopter, with at least one of the aircraft in the Potomac... Could possibly result in no fatalities.

Almost surely everyone on the helicopter, at least.

Your point OpenAI? Weren't you part of the group saying training AI wasn't copyright infringement? Not so happy when it's your shit being copied? Huh. Weird.

I mean company backs pro-company party isn't exactly surprising. You want to not shop at every company that supports Republicans? You're going to have a hard time finding anywhere to shop in most of the US. Gotta stick to smaller companies, and if you get small enough you'll get to mom and pop locations where personal votes are the comparison and they've voted Republican their entire lives.

Missing a single period at the end of a single sentence reply is a far cry from a wall of text filled with off topic complaining.

Oh it predates the US. The Crusades eliminated massive numbers of people in the name of Christianity. There have been innumerable cullings through history based on ideas of righteousness, pureness, etc. just because the guys with the power want land.

Where did I say Starbucks didn't use beans? I'll wait...

I said Starbucks burns their shit. It's the McDonald's of coffee. Speed, quantity, and consistency across tens of thousands of locations worldwide at the lowest cost possible; quality is not a primary factor. It's why their business is focused around hiding the crap coffee with milk and syrup.

That's not at all what I'm saying.

I swear no one on the internet has any reading comprehension skills anymore. Either that or everyone purposely assumes the worst interpretation of everything because they want to talk shit.

I was saying that just like regular beans, there are a variety of instant options as well on the market. Just because Walmart stocks terrible options, that doesn't mean there aren't others available. We're not talking about the pompous assholes that can't stop talking about their home espresso machine, fancy grinding habits, magical aero press, or how to properly do a pour over.

Most people just use the cheap stuff, the quick K-cup, or the Starbucks drive thru on the way to work because THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK, they just want their caffeine. So that's what you need to compare against.

Not all instant coffee is terrible. There's a wide variety in quality there just like with full beans.

Also keep in mind that the average American is used to shit like Folger's in a Mr. Coffee, a Keurig K-cup, or the burnt espresso from Starbucks.

Shit, I won't be surprised when legal us born citizens get deported in a mix up.

They're already rounding up native Americans in these groups. It's only a matter of time until they start deporting randomly to other countries because ICE was already an incompetent organization and has done that previously numerous times, speeding things up just means more fuckups. Which is of course, the plan. Because it's not about illegals, or immigrants, it's about non-whites.

I mean it makes sense, I just finished the anniversary edition on my smart toaster so they had to come up with a new way to make me pay for it again.

It's not because of disagreement, but your apparent inability to even consider a reality where the racial aspect isn't involved here. And since that's the entire basis of what I'm discussing, would mean you aren't intending to have a real discussion.

Not surprising given your other posts elsewhere in the fediverse. You never seem to try to consider alternative perspectives when people post them, just insisting they're wrong for various reasons often including various logical fallacies. So I'm not exactly surprised you're doing the same here.

I'm also on Lemmy blahaj which don't know if that matters

It does. If your home instance blocks other instances then you'll never see their posts, regardless of your settings.

I don't believe there's a native way to see these blocks in Lemmy, you'd have to look at a third party site that tracks that sort of thing.

You are internally ignoring my point, notably that the racial aspect you want to focus on may not be related AT ALL to the usage of the phrase.

You are assuming that race is related, and it might be, but the phrase is used all the time without actual terrorism being involved, so blindly assuming it is means you instantly discount alternative scenarios without considering them. Just because there appears to be a link on the sirface, that doesn't mean there actually is.

No point in trying to discuss it further since you clearly aren't actually trying to have a real conversation about it.

Depends, are we using the same phrase that's been separated from its origin in colloquial use? Because that's the distinction I'm making. That the phrase usage itself being tied to the racial aspect here is flimsy specifically because the phrase is widely used outside of that racial context.

So if we remove the specific thing that links the phrase here to be so bad, the racial link, would the situation be viewed differently? I don't think it would be nearly the same. The usage in the context of teacher/student is obviously bad, it's not an appropriate location for the phrase in any context, but that has nothing to do with the race of the student. Without more context to show it should be related, like previous racist comments from the teacher, simply assuming it is related just taints objective analysis of the situation.

Not gonna really bother reading past the first couple sentences, it's the same shit people post all the time that relies on flawed assumptions of the average person. It assumes that most people have the time to learn facts and properly weigh them for conclusions. And that's assuming they even want to pay attention to anything remotely related to politics.

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Many work multiple jobs. They do not have the time to spend educating themselves about these topics. Most people scroll social media and maybe watch an hour of news before bed. They are 100% reliant on messaging from social media, friends, and news organizations to do most of the analysis for them and tell them what the takeaway is for complicated situations.

Now combine that lack of both desire and time to research, with 40+ years of targeted propaganda from the likes of Fox News distorting basic definitions about words like fascism, socialism, etc. and outright lying about the facts to push a narrative with the exact opposite explanation of reality. Right wing media has been saying the exact thing Democrats started warning people about, but they have been doing it for decades and saying it was the Dems. So those words are meaningless to the average person now, because they've been getting disinformation shoved down their throat for so long that the effect has been diluted and defined incorrectly.

It's obviously not appropriate to say to a student, but it also happens to be a colloquial expression used quite often as a generic joke response to exactly those types of requests.

That phrase alone means almost nothing since it's used much more widely than it appears on the surface. The context is inappropriate, but that doesn't mean the phrase was at all intended that way.

If the child were white would we be having this same conversation as it is? If the teacher was saying it to a friend outside work instead, would it be different?