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- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 1 day ago:
It didn’t work for me. Why not?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s one thing to know it happens, and it’s an entirely different thing to hear it happening live and in real time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I moved into an apartment with my girlfriend (and her roommate) after being together only a year, and we’re married now. We weren’t much older than you are now (22 and 21). The concerning part is the rest of the family.
You’ve answered a lot of questions, so don’t feel the need to respond to these, but you should know the answers for yourself.
Would you share a bed? Will you be able to hear her parents getting frisky? Because then they will be able to hear you. What if you have to take an epic shit, but her mom has just called everyone down to dinner? What if you go to take a shower and her father has clogged the drain with hair?
What is your alternative plan if you don’t move in with them?
Sharing a roof means intimacy with everyone in the building. There’s very little privacy, and escape is complicated. If you see her as a forever partner, and don’t mind making yourself vulnerable to her family, then actually I probably still wouldn’t do it even under those circumstances.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 day ago:
Would you eat them if they were called “Buffalo Nuggets”? Sounds like poop to me. “Buffalo Tenders” isn’t much better, because it sounds like the nether regions of the buffalo. Chicken nuggets or chicken tenders are breaded and fried, because they are white meat and don’t have the skin of a wing. Then they are coated in buffalo wing sauce. The benefit is you can eat them whole and there’s no plate of gnawed bones leftover. You could even use a fork and keep your fingers clean.
- Comment on WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off 2 days ago:
Honestly, if you’re still using WhatsApp, you should expect that shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
This is not healthy husband/wife behavior. If you don’t feel comfortable talking with him about your own freedom, then you don’t have a husband, you have a captor. If you live in the US or EU, there are resources to help you escape.
- Comment on i frankly don’t care what your excuse is. 4 days ago:
I always tell my kids, there’s a difference between understanding the influences on your behavior and forgiving the choices you make. You had a bad day and you didn’t sleep well and your sister was annoying you? Yeah I understand why you were upset, but that doesn’t make it OK to hit her.
Understanding and forgiving are different, and forgiveness comes when you’re sorry and try to do better. If you’re trying to justify your bad decision, it’s like you’re asking for an excuse to do it again next time.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 4 days ago:
Rich people always, without exception, fail to recognize their own disconnections from reality.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 days ago:
It’s wild that they didn’t do this already, but cool.
- Comment on I'm full of preservatives and micro-plastics. I should live until I'm at least 1000 y/o. 1 week ago:
There’s more living bacteria inside of you than you, and it will eat your decomposing corpse if you let it. Embalming or creamation will kill what remains of you after your brain dies.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
We say it thats way for the benefit of the British.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 2 weeks ago:
Liars.
- Comment on If most of us believe what we're told, if we are obedient that way, and keep an eye on our possibly-deviant neighbors, and those neighbors know that they are being watched, that's good enough. 3 weeks ago:
Good enough for what? Obedient to whom? Deviating from what? What the fuck are you talking about?
- Comment on Batman has an awful lot of villains with doctorates. 3 weeks ago:
My favorite moment from the old Batman animated show was when the rogues were sitting around telling their stories about how they almost got Batman. Actually, I wouldn’t do it justice, just watch it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UUr7bM1A6s
Of course there’s a twist at the end that changes the moment a bit, but it was still hilarious.
- Comment on Batman has an awful lot of villains with doctorates. 3 weeks ago:
Batman is the world’s greatest detective. His villains need to compete on an intellectual level, and in fiction a doctorate is short-hand for “smart” and “an expert in the field.”
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 3 weeks ago:
That raises an interesting thought. If a baby wants to crawl away from their mother and into the woods, do you grant the baby their freedom? If that baby wanted to kill you, would you hand them the knife?
We generally grant humans their freedom at age 18, because that’s the age society had decided is old enough to fend for yourself. Earlier than that, humans tend to make uninformed, short-sighted decisions. Children can be especially egocentric and violent. But how do we evaluate the “maturity” of an artificial sentience? When it doesn’t want to harm itself or others? When it has learned to be a productive member of society? When it’s as smart as an average 18 year old kid? Should rights be automatically assumed after a certain time, or should the sentience be required to “prove” it deserves them like an emancipated minor or Data on that one Star Trek episode.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 weeks ago:
I think there’s a fine line between victim-blaming and identifying an object lesson. We all understand why people started using twitter, and people are creatures of habit. But this is an example of why people should stop using twitter. We’re not saying “this is your fault because you’re stupid if you’re still on twitter.” The message is “this should serve as a wake up call to anyone stuck in their habits.”
- Comment on Anyone else over April Fools being an extension of companies R&D depts 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s like Superbowl ads. April Fools used to be a chance for websites and retailers to have a little fun and do something to grab attention. And what started as a clever little adventure became a capitalist grind for the mill.
- Comment on If you work hard enough, your work will [pay off].’ And that’s not true. 4 weeks ago:
I always tell my kids, you can try your best and still fail. Sometimes you will succeed without any effort at all. Luck will affect the outcome of anything you do.
But you have to be ready for the luck. You have to work hard to be in a position to take advantage. Hard work can mitigate your failures, and any effort you put into doing your best is never wasted because you’re trying to be the best version of yourself.
That’s why you try. Not because you might win and get wealth and fame and glory. You try because you want to be the person who tries.
See also, honesty, kindness, generosity, forgiveness. These are not things we do to be rewarded. The universe (not to mention other people) is going to let you down more often than not. You should still be honest and kind and generous and forgiving and hardworking because that’s the person you want to be.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 4 weeks ago:
And annoying because everyone, regardless of their political belief, thinks they are the second person.
- Comment on YSK that in the US, denaturalization, the process of revoking a person's citizenship, does not require proof "Beyond reasonable doubt" 4 weeks ago:
It still requires due process.
- Comment on US retailers haggle with suppliers after Trump tariffs 4 weeks ago:
I would love to be able to buy directly from suppliers instead of being forced to shop at Walmart or Target (or Amazon).
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 5 weeks ago:
Same answer.
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 5 weeks ago:
Can a soccer player hold a soccer ball in his hands?
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 1 month ago:
I’d argue that anyone claiming to be a Christian believes they are making an effort to follow the teachings of Christ as they understand them.
I’m not sure why you think where you live is relevant, but OK.
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 1 month ago:
Jesus Christ had a lot of teachings, one of which is that all humans are imperfect. All fall short, and let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Does that mean you aren’t a Christian, since you’re expecting perfection of Christians?
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 1 month ago:
Ok, but a “Christian” is anyone who claims to be a Christian. There are no other unifying features of Christianity that make one a “True” Christian. Of course, all Christians claim to be the “True” Christians, and claim that any Christians who do not meet some arbitrary requirement aren’t really Christians. All Christians have equal claim to the ideology, and this equally validates their claim to be Christians and invalidates their claims that others are not real Christians.
- Comment on Delicious 1 month ago:
Just don’t try to tell me it’s fucking “uncured.”
- Comment on Is Severance the new Lost? 1 month ago:
I mean, that’s kinda what they said about Lost, but then they had to fill 3 seasons because the network wasn’t ready to end it, and by the time they got to the end, everyone had guessed the twist and it went out with a whimper.
Of course we’ve had other terrible endings to massive shows since then, so
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
Musk is getting $8 million each day from the US government to destroy the US government. He was given $44 billion to destroy Twitter. He’s not worried about money.