Not sure between the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses which of them is worse. They both share a lot of commonality. In that both were created by some dude to excuse their behavior and control the community (in my opinion). Obviously deeper than that and plenty of differences but both of them I find have pretty dubious history.

It's just like ... Not though?

If they just straight up live in an alternate reality world where seeing a flag and leaving people alone to live their lives is equivalent to pushing the "woke agenda" there isn't much you can do.

You can ask how it's being forced on them but honestly they just are cowards with a victim complex who want to feel like they're being persecuted as they actually are insulated from the worst shit and are benefiting the most from our society.

So ... Yeah anyone that says woke stuff is being shoved down their throats is a moron tbh. I've had Mormons come knock on my door, never a queer person trying to convert me to ... The horrible idea of equality before the eyes of the law?

I'm aligned with you on that. Also speaking as someone in the USA ... We desperately need electrical infrastructure overhauled, invested in and nationalized. The state needs to intervene and help support the American people. Really all of our public infrastructure desperately needs help. So do a lot of people who are looking for work. We spend billions of dollars on killing kids but we can't fucking spend some to employ folks in massive green energy grid public works projects and kill two birds with one stone?

It's embarrassing. FDR, our most popular president, literally implemented all of these kind of policies - it's insane the Democratic party keeps shying away from them.

I do think there are responsible ways to build data centers, they have been around for a long time now - just the scale and speed and cutting corners happening now is something awful.

There is no modernity without data centers, this message between us could not exist without data centers - but what is going on now with these large AI companies and hyperscalers and the giant market speculation and spectre of the looming pop of this huge economic bubble .. That all is madness to the highest degree.

I'm not really disagreeing with you completely but I do think there are good use cases if the technology is applied well and the infrastructure is built responsibly in the way that causes the least environmental impact. That's not happening though.

No amount of training will prevent this sort of thing, ever.

Really, like not even prevent some of it?

We can likely limit it, some of it

Oh so some amount of training will prevent this from happening just not completely eradicate it.

Your statements are directly contradictory - idk why I'm pointing this out just that it bugged me I guess but I agree with you that elimination of all violence carried out by the state is impossible. We can definitely limit it!

That is so many words to say you're okay with the status quo and making no changes.

because of my ADHD, I tend to run a bit on the verbose side of things.

Feel that. I'm sure my speech patterns and propensity to be long-winded will eventually bring me some AI accusations too.

Problem with LLM tech is that if it truly models speech it will eventually be indistinguishable from humans - scary thought but what are you going to do?

I mean, I think you can kind of feel off of vibes if something has used or is AI but it is becoming increasingly harder to spot.

Look if someone thinks you're Claude because you bothered to test your code that's kind of sucky. But then again the fuck do I know, I don't contribute or maintain anything so that's just an off the cuff take.

At some point we'll have to acknowledge that AI doesn't mean inherently awful and bad IF it's used responsibly and in a helpful manner. I don't think LLMs are intrinsically bad but the way these companies have been marketing them and trying to make them some technological panacea that'll replace all the people and fix everything is utterly deranged and divorced from reality.

At the end of the day they're large language models, their job is to come up with what the model "thinks" a person would write as an answer to whatever the prompt is. They're not magic and I'm tired of people anthropomorphizing the shit out of LLM / "AI" and acting like AI output is being delivered by the machine with some sort of logic and knowledge and oversight. It is not.

I'm dumb as fuck

Yes.

Embarrassing

Yes.

It's blatantly obvious climate change is anthropogenic there's tons of evidence and overwhelming consensus amongst the scientific community globally.

I mean, given the comment the reply is to it's not a crazy leap in logic or strawman considering the comment itself specifically was talking about gas guzzling vehicles and not having sympathy for people who bought them.

Perhaps as a reply to the original post it would be read differently but the context it's in makes it so it reads the way it does.

Eh cats don't run away, if they do they usually come back eventually anyways but yeah ... Every single cat owner has had that experience. I know I have!

I just learned eventually that you have to trust the cat is somewhere in the house playing hide and seek really well. They'll show back up for meals or treats. My cat always wanted to go outside but when given the opportunity she often changed her mind and just stayed in. Or when she was outside she stuck close to the door and went back in with me.

That man is enough of a landlord that a molotov cocktail is probably justified in some way shape or form. That dude is part of the petit borgeousie for sure.

The guy driving for Uber and getting paid by them as his employer is not a small business owner. He's a poor proletariat schmuck just like most of us.

Dude ... I'm pretty sure there's been a ton of legal precedent set that Uber drivers are employees of Uber, same with DoorDash, and all the rest.

Just because they're trying to say "oooh 1099 independent contractor" and hand wave away our shared reality does not make it true. I won't reply any further but if you honestly think a dude driving for DoorDash is a small business owner you're just being blatantly obstinate and obfuscating the meaning of owner.

Well at least you know now why a Doordash or Uber driver is decidedly not a small business owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

It's been widely speculated that Karl Rove said it but nobody knows for sure. Sounds like something that pos would say.

They're not. They're not at all. What do you think a small business owner even is?

Agree.

Also people seem to think the head rests are there for you to constantly be resting your head on but they are head restraints.. They're there so you don't break your neck if you get in an accident - not to be comfy on a long drive.

It's insane to me that this is even a discussion. What kind of evil people would prefer to actively poison their constituents?

It's such a no brainer to remove toxic chemicals from our water supply. Who cares if it's expensive, so is an aircraft carrier, this needs to be done to save lives. We can afford it.

they should have [thing that already exists]

Nobody reads the article though...

Hello foreign intelligence agencies, would you like an easy way to intercept and read classified communications? Maybe just buy it off Mossad? JFC what is this clown show. Why are our intelligence officials even using off the shelf, or even modified, software solutions for communications? Shouldn't we have some secure messaging app and protocols developed here?

Am I missing something here or is it really this dumb?