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- Comment on Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr 4 days ago:
I’m not talking about personal responsibility as in “don’t smoke cigarettes”. I’m talking about “ultra-processed foods are the mono-cause for all human disease”.
These people don’t believe in health-risks. They believe that everyone who ever gets sick could have chosen not to.
we have a personal responsibility to be as healthy as it is possible not only for our own good but for the greater good of society
Ironic how fast “personal responsibility” becomes “you owe your body to the State”. But even if we ignore the totalitarianism of your system, it’s still wrong.
Smokers and the Obese incur fewer lifetime health costs than joggers. So by your reasoning, it’s suddenly patriotic and prosocial to smoke, be a couch potato, and eat potato chips. People who work out are selfish and hate America.
- Comment on Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr 4 days ago:
RFK is the best illustration of the difference between informed skepticism and ignorant denialism.
The throughline of all his ideals is that health is a personal choice. Right wing people accept this because it means that we are not responsible for each other. Health-nut people accept this because it means that their quality of life is always going to be under their control.
Both of these ideas is so utterly wrong that it’s no wonder that people who accept them say and believe such silly things.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 5 days ago:
IDK, in school they spent a lot of time on MLK and Gandhi, focusing on non-violence. You’d never even know that these men ever talked about anything else.
Nobody ever learns about Fred Hampton, the Haitian revolution, or Malcolm X by sticking to the curriculum.
- Comment on Looks like she's making it official...! 5 days ago:
Why does everyone make fun of the May partner in May-December relationships? He’s the bigger fool. Doing way more for her than she does for him.
In a world where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos count as business geniuses and inventors, this woman is a self-made millionaire.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 6 days ago:
I feel like it’s OK to demonize narcissism in ways that would be unacceptable ableism if you were talking about other neurodivergents or personality disorders.
It’s just as blanket and vague as calling someone an asshole.
It’s become such a pop-psych phenomena, I think it’s time for clinical people to abandon the term to pop culture. When a diagnosis becomes an insult, it’s time for a new term.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 6 days ago:
I fucking love this because it leaves everybody with one of two conclusions. One, AI isn’t capable of doing the simplest of jobs. or Two, working a drive thru is actually quite complex and difficult and humans that master it are more valuable than trillion dollar software.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 6 days ago:
Wow, AI researchers are not only adopting philosophy jargon, but they’re starting to cover some familiar territory. That is the difference between signifier (language) and signified (reality).
The problem is that spoken language is vague, colloquial, and subjective. Therefore spoken language can never produce something specific, universal, or objective.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 6 days ago:
“When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts,” the blog post notes. “If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement.”
See? Even the people who make AI don’t trust it with important decisions. And the “trained” humans don’t even see it if the AI doesn’t flag it first. This is just a microcosm of why AI is always the weakest link in any workflow.
This is exactly the use-case for an LLM and even OpenAI can’t make it work.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 6 days ago:
The title implies that teens without preexisting mental health issues exist.
- Comment on Asleep at the switch 6 days ago:
Just remember: these are the same people who assembled the rides.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 1 week ago:
Some seem confused so: There was no organized effort to selectively breed enslaved people. While the slavers did get to decide who would have children with whom. And they no doubt chose individuals with “desirable” characteristics. This isn’t the kind of multi-generational project that could possibly hope to select for traits.
The brutality of slavery may have had some selective pressure, but that was unintentional.
- Comment on Lawsuit against Lyft alleges driver failed to intervene before ax murder 1 week ago:
CT Insider, a local news outlet, reported that Minogue [the victim] had reached out to police weeks before her death to complain of hundreds of harassing text messages from Dewitt, but an officer failed to follow up with an arrest warrant.
Rideshare drivers have a duty to protect the public, but the police do not.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 week ago:
I hate this argument. “You people can’t exist in public because I might have to talk to my stupid kids”.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
I think of analog time as kinda a pie chart telling me how much of the minute and hour that’s elapsed. So I don’t see 13:45, I see 75% past one o’clock.
Does that make sense?
- Comment on hawk alignment 1 week ago:
IDK why so many hyper-pedants waste their time on the internet when they could be studying to be taxonomists.
- Comment on The Era of 'AI Psychosis' is Here. Are You a Possible Victim? 2 weeks ago:
The American Psychological Association met with the FTC in February to urge regulators to address the use of AI chatbots as unlicensed therapists.
Protect our
revenue, er patients! - Comment on YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions. 2 weeks ago:
You should know the difference between dejure and defacto.
I don’t want to alarm anyone from outside the US, but the pigs are pretty loose about how the rules apply to themselves.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
At that price point, you may as well get a laptop, desktop, or just a frigging XBox (with some games).
- Comment on Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. 2 weeks ago:
found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza.
-Microsoft, in May Dear Microsoft, If you looked for evidence, that is going to imply that your software could totally be used to harm people, it just isn’t in this case. As far as you know.
- Comment on Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 2 weeks ago:
Wow, Republican delusion lines up perfectly with big-business interests? weird.
Also weird that the “extreme” climate agenda has been calling for strengthening the power grid for decades.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
I was able to roll-back this update. But my computer is still running Windows. Help!
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 2 weeks ago:
Calling Cain Abelist is some funny shit.
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 2 weeks ago:
Boy, you’ve obviously never seen Precious (2009)
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 2 weeks ago:
I think AI power usage has an upside. No amount of hype can pay the light bill.
AI is either going to be the most valuable tech in history, or it’s going to be a giant pile of ash that used to be VC capital.
- Comment on Refreshing to occasionally see an honestly written obituary 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s wise to keep in mind that outrage and moral condemnation of mothers abandoning their children is often the chain that keeps women in bad situations. It’s also a double standard that rarely applies to the legion of men who abandon their families every day.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 weeks ago:
“War of the Worlds” 2025
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 weeks ago:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
You could fertilize 200 acres with that much bullshit. truly a crime against the English language.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Let's Stop Chat Control 3 weeks ago:
That website looks like it was designed in GeoCities.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 3 weeks ago:
Don’t think of this as an individual making stupid choices with a game. Think of this as a game with thousands of players designed to target and take advantage of the neuro-divergent or those susceptible to problem gambling.
Micro-tranactions are a predatory gambling mechanic and this person was robbed of this money.
