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Explain to me why the rule is "if you can't make rent, cut out the streaming apps, lattes, and avocado toasts...but it's never if you can't afford your workers a living wage, cut out the mega-yachts,

It's always been a double standard. There's a list of things that are 'classy' if you're rich and 'trashy' if you're poor.

Like day drinking. Speaking two languages. Having someone else raise your kids. Getting money from the government.

Flipping the script would challenge a base idea of capitalism: that the wealthy create jobs and bring economic prosperity to the masses. And we can't have that.

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Planting mint

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It's not weed, it's that mint is very aggressive in spreading.

I personally like the mint growing in the yard it makes mowing the lawn smell great.

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Trump wins.

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And the White House sat on Trump's insurrection for four fucking years.

The system as a whole failed us when it didn't convict Trump on either impeachment.

You cannot convince me that Republicans wouldn't have been rabidly screaming from rooftops that a Democratic President should be impeached if one did the same things Trump did while in office. And the sad thing is Democrats would have agreed and impeached him.

Republicans only care about holding on to power. Nothing else anymore.

And we as a nation just handed it to a candidate who wants to be 'Dictator for a day' as if any dictator has ever willingly relinquished power.

As someone in a non-traditional relationship, and who has two female children, I am fucking terrified.

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Well, it's worth a try...

Way to make me feel old.

I never had to do that to my N64 cartridges. That was the meme for the NES.

And even then, blowing on it didn't really help. It was the ejecting and reinserting of the cartridge that fixed the issue because the slot on the NES was janky.

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LLMs are useless to me, and now I can say exactly why

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But can you actually trust what it outputs?

Hallucinations are a known thing that LLMs struggle with. If you're trusting the output of your LLM summary without validating the data, can you be sure there are no errors in it?

And if you're having to validate the data every time because the LLM can make errors, why not skip the extra step?

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Adobe made a small change to its terms and conditions and that made its users very, very unhappy — scrutinizing data to find illegal content is a risky move

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AFAIK, the unilateral nature of TOS/EULA agreements in the day of Software as a Service hasn't been litigated. Which means there isn't a court's opinion on the scope or limits of a TOS/EULA and what changes can be made.

Currently, Adobe has the full force of contract law to initiate this change without any input from consumers because a case about this has never made it to the courts.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes, but Adobe will likely backpedal on their language in the TOS before any case gets to a Judge because the last thing any company wants is for a TOS/EULA agreement to be fundamentally undermined by a court.

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Ex mod in need of assistance

What are the odds they're getting one of those scam calls from the "sheriff's office" and the bail is supposed to be in iTunes gift cards?

The person could be legitimately scared, but you don't normally get to pay bail to avoid arrest, you get arrested and pay bail to avoid being held in jail until your court day.

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I see three possibilities:

-it's all fully legit. The cops somewhere are legitimately threatening this person with imprisonment unless they can pay up. Extortion like this is never a one-time event. They'll keep coming back for more and more money until they can't pay up anymore and arrest them anyway. Your best bet here is to flee the area to somewhere safer rather than pay up.

-The person is legit, but the threat of arrest is a scam.

-The whole post is a scam

fuck_ai

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ChatGPT 5's PHd level intelligence is breathtaking \s

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This is the fundamental problem with LLMs and all the hype.

People with technology experience can understand the limitations of the tech, and will be more skeptical of the output from them.

But your average person?

If they go to Google and ask if vaccines cause autism, and the Google's AI search slop trough contains an answer they like, accurate or not there will be exactly no second guessing. I mean, this is supposed to be a PhD level person, and it was right about the other softball questions they asked, like what color is the sky. Surely they're right about that too, right?

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‘It has officially happened’: Mechanic says he can’t work on your car because they’ve officially been locked out of computer systems

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That's treating people as Humans. But in our capitalist hellscape, we aren't people, we're Consumers. We exist to provide money to companies, and they're ever interested in finding more ways to make us give them money.

It's not enough that you buy a TV, the manufacturer needs to have ads in it. They need the telemetry on what you watch, when you watch it, and for how long so they can make the ads more relevant. We can't have you replacing your phone battery, so we'll make it an internal component so when it goes bad you're more likely to just get a new phone.

But we can't pay people more, because that's an expense.

The line must go up at all costs.

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*Stares off into the distance*

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I think it's supposed to highlight the futility of the quest.

Frodo was charged with carrying the epitome of evil into the seat of its power while it tempted and tormented you. Not because you think you can, but because it is the only way to actually solve the problem.

In the council of elrond, some of the elves suggest throwing the one ring into the sea, and Gandalf warns that great rings like these tend to be found because they want to be found. They shouldn't seek a delay, but a final end to the evil.

And the only way to do that is to bring it to Mt Doom and toss it in.

So they do the right thing. They take the ring all the way to Mt Doom and in the midst of where it was made, it is so powerful that none could resist it.

But someone crazed about the ring could be careless enough to fall in. Which is why Bilbo's mercy was so important. Without Gollum, the ring wouldn't have been destroyed.

It was because the Hobbits were lawful good to the core that the ring was able to be destroyed.

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Linuxsucks relaunches on a different instance to a rocky start

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It was an unpopular shitpost community.

As a Linux user, I can enjoy memes about real problems with Linux, but his posting went beyond memes and straight into hate boner territory. He once said something about how open source is bad because a company charging money for services creates jobs.

Anything other than circle jerking about 'Linux bad Windows good' got you banned.