My eyes can’t roll hard enough. Start throwing the sabots, they won’t bother me. The current shit the public is being sold as AI is very likely a dead end, but AI will be doing a better diagnosis than doctors soon enough, and already is in a number of medical fields. If you or others don’t have the cognitive ability to assess the various branches of artificial intelligence, well, then you aren’t doing any better than the people pushing the current consumer AI. As far as the progress of technology goes, this dance has been done many times before and always ends the same way.

The people have an opportunity to remove her every 4 years, more or less. Hopefully enough of them have the good sense to do so. That won’t solve the problem of how she got in in the first place.

We outsource various processes all the time. I can learn to cook a good meal, or I can go to a variety of restaurants. I can build my own house, or I can buy or rent. I can learn about a topic, or I can ask someone in the field and get an overview of the topic to better direct my own studies. I can type a request into a search engine, review the results, and select the one I believe is most relevant for me. I can ask a question in some LLM AI or other, review their sources, and pick the one most relevant to me.

We already outsource a lot of our brains to other devices. This is why writing was invented. Certainly, using AI to do the thinking for you can have negative consequences. Using AI as a search engine, likely less so, or no worse than using a more legacy search engine would. There are other very good reasons to not use AI in a lot arenas, which is why I very rarely use it. But even a bad tool can have utility in the right circumstance.

Dehumanizing people is the first step in treating them like animals, and then extermination them - genocide. Don’t go down that path. It always ends the same way.

You mean authoritarianism like vowing to knowingly pass unconstitutional laws and use the notwithstanding clause to keep them in force? Is that the “totally not embracing authoritarianism” you’re talking about?

given that our current Public Safety Minister is unwilling to learn our laws and safety regulations In regard to firearm ownership.

Bold statement given that it’s his “third week on the job.” But it gives a great opportunity to chortle about someone who likely never had an interest in guns past his eigth birthday not knowing what an RPAL is, as if that’s the single most important subject the Minister of Safety has to deal with. Andy came in to do a hatchet job and he performed the task well.

Pretty much any book that is going to have useful information for sex ed, which is taught at around ages 10 to 12, is either going to be useless or sufficiently graphic for hormonal pubescent kids. Back when I was a kid, the go-to source for accessible nudity was National Geographic. Also, there were kids who would read the National Geographics to learn about the world (which included places with different taboos than us). Should the education of some be hampered for the sake of the ignorance of others? Alberta says yes.

There is text below the image in the post that explains it.

This quote from Chris Rock hasn’t aged too well, but the overall sentiment is correct.

It’s absolutely possible, quite likely now. It would probably be too big a project to do anywhere but earth and maybe the moon right now. But the doors it would open if completed…

First, we need an autofactory. This is not a minor step.

“Technically, if your computer breaks and you can’t recover those games after Valve decides to close its doors, those games are gone forever.” Yeah, and? Is there a storefront that doesn’t apply to? Just how long do you think CDs and floppy disks (and the hardware to access them) last, if you haven’t lost them already? Is it more or less than Valve’s lifespan so far?

I’m sorry, I misread your statement. I think we’re on the same page.

Yeah, the good news is no one has ever suffered permanent damage from verbal abuse, so no problems, right?

And why is physical violence no-tolerance (except when it isn’t) but verbal violence is a-okay?

I’m not saying physical violence is okay, and I never have. In fact, I generally go the other direction, saying that physical violence should be a last resort for solving problems, and that those who use it clearly don’t have better tools to solve their problems. And know which groups is known for not having a lot of experience solving problems? Kids. That’s why we have adults supervising them. And training those kids that verbal violence is okay, and a great way to harass your peers, is, to put it bluntly, pretty fucking stupid. And some of those kids learn that a suspension isn’t that big a deal to some of the kids they bully, which is a hell of a lot better lesson than the adults around them were teaching them.

Most of my immediate family are on Android and use Signal. I’m happier this way.

Even the guy beside the jumper was pulling him back.

I suspect this side of the mold is flush with the face of the coin and the other side is recessed to the depth of the coin. That would give the depth of the coin for metal to flow and still make this a workable partial mold.

Or you’re completely right and this is an unworkable mold.

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There were other critical fails, but this is certainly the biggest.

Absolutely the most environmentally friendly option.

There is also out-of-season produce from Mexico. I’m not sure of the price difference - I didn’t even look - but it solves some problems.