Humans living is the whole point of civilization, though. We don't need the LLM to pay for the techbro carbon footprint or olichsrch child abuse, so we should similarly exclude the human's base sustensnce and survival from their budget.

You can include the human writer's coffee, music, and writing snacks / cigarettes.

AI is less a chainsaw that it is a guide-wire.

It doesn't accelerate the actual work. It provides a fairly elaborate way to do an adjacent task, which is still entirely dependent on the actual work being done correctly.

Knowledge work is a lot more like a professional restaurant chef than it cutting down trees.

Cats are apex predators, and your friend is subsidizing their pet far past what the local bird population can support. (Plus indoor cats live longer.)

Unless you're on an actual working farm, household cats belong indoors.

Seriously? Why give them over a month to answer such a simple question?

Apparently, because there was already an order for a report from the Kennedy center due at that time. And the Kennedy center not being POTUS is one major point of the lawsuit.

https://www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/judge-orders-trump-admin-to-explain-the-purpose-for-and-status-of-the-tarp-and-scaffolding-on-the-kennedy-center/

Tarot is only a little less modern than comic books. While there are superstitions prognostication techniques from antiquity, tarot isn't one of them. Playing cards were invented first, then a parlor game of making predictions based on playing cards appeared, and only then was the tarot deck authored.

It is a neat artistic form, however. And a fairly rich public-domain mythos whose use in games or literature will offend virtually nobody.

At its worst, it's the moral equivalent of a magic 8 ball.

Because nurses and doctors aren't lawyers, and have different concerns that justify and limit anti-testimonial privilege.

To illustrate, consider who should do what if a person approaches them while covered in someone else's blood and viscera.

• the spouse and should be free to offer comfort and advice in what was definitely a traumatic situation.
• the priest should be able to take confession without regard to temporal concern.
• the lawyer will need to start preparing a criminal defense
• the doctor and nurse should be able to heal their wounds, but also really should wonder if there's someone else out there in need

I absolutely won't defend the current system where patients need to be lawyers to know when they should lie to their doctors. Or where the CDC can't say *warning, DomeGuy has COVID!" but the DA can demand my doctor tattle on my prescriptions.

There things are both a result of the part of the American body politic that espoused an obnoxiously individualistic idea of "freedom". Because some jerks don't want to pay taxes or care about other people, they argue against government things that help people -- like regulating food and encouraging healthy diets for those with means, or giving the hungry food or money to buy food.

There isn't a good argument for it, just a bad-faith argument made by mean adults who don't mind children starving or adults dying early.

"OMG, they believe it when they say gender is just a performance and they will respect reported identity no matter how badly you pass!"

Was he expecting to be mocked like a white man in blackface? Only something like 25% of trans women are on HRT; the rest make do with clothing and makeup and being deeply closeted.

If you want to lie that's on you. We're just accountable for our own actions, and it'd be better to believe a thousand transphobic tourists than misgender one t-folk stepping out for the first time.

Parenthood has taught me that anyone who thinks they don't want kids should absolutely be free to follow that and not have kids.

It's also taught me that all of the cringe goofball nonsense is 100% sincere. Being a parent changes the human brain in weird ways. Which is good, because babies need someone to clean them up after they puke on themselves and shit their plants so hard it gets in their hair.

(Parenthood can be considered a necessary mental illness.)

They say "people will work less" like it's a bad thing.

The idea that a pedestrian walking anywhere but on a limited access highway would ever be at fault for a collision with an automobile is a direct result of century-old propaganda by the moral equivalent of the NRA.

If i made a self-propelled battering ram with remote controlled steering I would rightly be held to strict liabily if anyone was hurt. But if we put a a chair in the same thing and call it a "vehicle", suddenly the rules change in our favor.

I like cars and driving, and can easily imagine a number of mitigating circumstances that would shift liability away from the driver, but the presumption that once-walkable city streets are for cars is the result of fierce industrial lobbying and not a reasoned public policy process.

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are doing incalculable damage to Democratic party unity by not enforcing their party's candidate for NYC mayor.

It doesn't even matter at this point if Mamdami loses -- any call by either "leader" for party unity will be met with "you didn't endorse Mamdami, why should we endorse your pick" by anyone to their left, forever.

"if we just made this opt-in" has become the bleakest nonsense in IT.

Be it LLMs or ads or "free" albums, tech companies just can't accept that "make me say yes" should always be the default.

Denying any one of a prisoner's rights is the first step to denying all of a prisoner's rights.

If not the right to his religious text, then why the right to be visited by a priest? If not a priest, then why his family? And if not family, then why a lawyer -- and if not a lawyer, then why even bother with a trial?

Hey, let me try re-writing that headline:

"Republican senator interjects transphobia into a hearing about banning abortion ; OBGYN refuses to misgender her trans masculine patients."

Men can absolutely get pregnant. Because trans men can get pregnant, and trans men are at least as much men as bigoted transphobia like Hawley.

This isn't true. Go look up the definition for either word, and it doesn't comport with the usage rules claimed.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labyrinth

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maze

If you do want to draw a sharp distinction in modern usage, you could posit that a labyrinth is a type of maze that was made intentionally and can be walked through.

I'm very relieved to hear it was only water and apple cider vinegar. "Unknown liquid sprayed by an attacker" is just short of actually wounding someone when it comes to anxiety induced.

MN should throw the book at him. And at anyone who helped him do it.

You're assuming that the dramatically segmented and stratified experience is the "exact same service", which is patently not true.

There's a world of difference between a black officer who managed a supply line, a white non-comp who maintained aircraft, and a queer rifeman who witnessed half his unit die to an IED. And that's ignoring rape, gang infiltration, religions discrimination, and plain ol "was your CO a jerk or awesome?"

The Republican party chose not to impeach him when he sent a mob to stop a pro forma session.

The Federalist supreme Court declared him immune for prosecution for whatever shit he does in the white house, and exempt from punishment for what he does outside it.

Fucker didn't declare himself above the law. He just finally realized what his traitorous party has been saying for years.

Because "innocent" and "good" are not synonyms.