wildncrazyguy138 @ wildncrazyguy138 @fedia.io

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Endive it will. It’s as if her ice bergled the rest of her face.

Right!? Can we not yuck other people’s yum please?

I wonder what the response would be if the OPs unpopular opinion had been on video games and esports instead? For the record, I enjoy video games.

Ok, so I am all about working to resolve climate change, very active in the movement even.

But gosh golly gee, can we talk about that particular websites UI for a moment? I do not need a roll ad every 3 seconds. And I really do not need to know that one weird trick on how to get rats to like me.

Again, all for the climate. I’m saying this as I just walked 45 minutes to go grab my lunch. Totally on board with more buses and trains. Big advocate of a Citizens Climate Lobby. Doing my part, hope you do too.

Keep the rats the f away from me!

Or perhaps it’s like wastewater treatment, where we collectively realized we all poop and somehow we need to clean up the waste to still have clean water.

And that scientists name? Albert Einstein.

Yep, trimming down the alcohol certainly helps as well. Also helps keep the beetus at bay.

There are some alternatives to cheese that are pretty good. I’m an omnivore but my wife has convinced me that there are some good vegetarian options out there. Might be worth exploring if the low-fat cheese isn’t palatable.

• Cashew cream on enchiladas is fantastic
• the fake shredded cheese made out of almond isn’t so bad. We use it on salads, chili, etc. It’s expensive though.
• TVP gives things that umami flavor, good in chili, but it more so acts like ground beef. Don’t put too much in.
• Blended tofu with nutritional yeast acts as a very good ricotta substitute (coincidentally tofu also makes for a very good chocolate pie)

With this, and trimming down my meat consumption to just a few times a week, as well as a little exercise, I’ve kept my LDL numbers below my late 20s highs, which were borderline - I’m nearing two decades older now.

It won’t be him if he attends anyway. He’s too much a coward to go himself.

But you and me and sunzu up there and the rest of us combined on this thread do make a difference. You matter.

Don’t allow perfect to be the enemy of the good.

A lot of us migrated months ago when the writing was on the wall.

Kbin became my home when I decided to move to a smaller foreign county, and I’m glad it was, because the land of Mastodon was a bit too distant for me. When the Kbin house was burning down, fortunately the next door neighbor, Fedia, was there to take me in and make things feel familiar.

I suppose that’s the whole advantage of the Fediverse. One head of the hydra may get chopped down, but many others can spring out from it.

Don’t forget to support your admins y’all.

I take it you don’t recycle then eh? Paper and cans just aren’t worth your time.

It’s all the corporations fault, we’re totally not complicit in the degradation process as well.

And y’all call me deluded…

I think it’s that PayPal was one of the firsts to provide a method for collecting credit card transactions electronically.

Before PayPal, you’d often have to visit a website, then call the phone number for the seller to collect payment.

eBay needed paypal because their sellers were often not businesses, just people yardsaling stuff online.

Coincidentally, I interned at a PayPal competitor in 1998 that went under during the bust. We had an electronic interface through MS access, but it was a still a human entering in the CC number into one of those dial pads on our side and then confirming the transaction. I’m sure with all of the concerns around security nowadays that you can understand why that was a terrible long term business model.

An offline friend and I have this hypothesis that usually, the further left or the further right one becomes, the more closed minded and reactionary they become when presented with an opposing idea.

It’s difficult to live in the grey and to keep an open mind. I think this has become so much harder in the era of social media.

That said, there are absolutely some core beliefs of mine that I would be highly resistant to ever budge on, so maybe you’re encountering some of those folks on theirs.

Shrug it off. Keep going. Be you.

To expand on what you wrote, I’d equate the LLM output as similar to me reading a book. From here on out until I become senile, the book is part of memory. I may reference it, I may parrot some of its details that I can remember to a friend. My own conversational style and future works may even be impacted by it, perhaps even subconsciously.

In other words, it’s not as if a book enters my brain and then is completely gone once I’m finished reading it.

So I suppose then, that the question is moreso one of volume. How many works consumed are considered too many? At what point do we shift from the realm of research to the one of profiteering?

There are a certain subset of people in the AI field who believe that our brains are biological forms of LLMs, and that, if we feed an electronic LLM enough data, it’ll essentially become sentient. That may be for better or worse to civilization, but I’m not one to get in the way of wonder building.

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Could the copywrited material consumed potentially fall under fair use? There are provisions for research purposes.

Take your blinders off please. https://www.fool.com/research/how-many-americans-own-stock/

It’s easy to hate on Boeing. Yea, they done f-ed up a few times and upper management made some very poor decisions, but there are 10s of thousands of people who work there and it’s a good manufacturing job in a country that used to pride itself on manufacturing. We can’t all be service workers, and I’d venture that, given the way you present yourself online, you’re probably not someone who is resting on their laurels either.

Now, back to stocks. It’s also quite simple to throw a slick quip about how the big bad shareholder bogeyman is ruining our country, but, unless you’re among the minority in this country, you likely own some stock in some company, somehow. The shareholders are us.

But therein gives us a lot of power. Many shares are voting shares. We could, if we all chose to, enact the corporate change we wish to see. And coincidentally enough, there are people precisely doing that kind of good work. Look up the philosophy behind ESG, it is becoming a thing. Or certified B corps. Likewise, many countries require unions to have a seat on their board; unfortunately for now, the US isn’t one of them, but that could change.

Or, ya know, we could just be dismissive and scapegoat our problems. That’s life, we get to choose our own adventure.

TIL the pensioners who are part of CALPERS are parasites.

So then they’ll move here, not such a bad deal.

But then, who makes sure that ActivityPub doesn’t sell out?