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- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 4 days ago:
“In just 4 easy payments…”
- Comment on I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney. 5 days ago:
but in the English speaking world I’d say it’s the most unique name I’ve heard.
Probably because it actually a French surname, which is itself based on a place name in France that no longer exists… and it is not her actual given name, but something she adopted from a character in The Great Gatsby.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 5 days ago:
No it’s a tool, created and used by people. If you use a tool to intentionally do things that would be illegal for you to do without the tool, then that’s still illegal. You can argue that maybe the law should be more strict with AI if you have a justification, but there’s really no way to justify being less strict.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 5 days ago:
It’s preety simple as I see it. You treat AI like a person. A person needs to go through legal channels to consume material, so piracy for AI training is as illegal as it would be for personal consumption. Consuming legally possessed material for “inspiration” or “study” is also fine for a person, so it is fine for AI training as well. Commercializing derivative works that infringes on copyright is illegal for a person, so it should be illegal for an AI as well. All materials, even those inspired by another piece of media, are permissible if not monetized, otherwise they need to be suitably transformative. That line can be hard to draw even when AI is not involved, but that is the legal standard for people, so it should be for AI as well. If I browse through Deviant Art and learn to draw similarly my favorite artists from their publically viewable works, and make a legally distinct cartoon mouse by hand in a style that is similar to someone else’s and then I sell prints of that work, that is legal. The same should be the case for AI.
But! Scrutiny for AI should be much stricter given the inherent lack of true transformative creativity. And any AI that has used pirated materials should be penalized either by massive fines or by wiping their training and starting over with legally licensed or purchased or otherwise public domain materials only.
- Comment on Starting a conversation with a stranger is usually unwise 6 days ago:
Starting a conversation with a stranger is usually unwise
Starting a conversation with a stranger by calling a kid ugly is usually unwise. Doubly so when the person you are talking to is the only other adult and possible parent in the vicinity. Triply so when you are grown adult man sitting alone in a park assigning beauty standards to kids. But yes, it is the baby with an overbite and his mother with alternative style that are the weird ones, sure.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 1 week ago:
More than that, giving food and drink to the hungry and thirsty, welcoming a stranger, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, and giving comfort to the imprisoned, is literally the same as doing those things for Jesus Christ, himself, from his perspective. And, moreover, those who do those things will earn their place in heaven, and those who fail to do those things will be eternally damned to hell. It’s not subtextual. It’s not ambiguous and up for interpretation. It says very clearly that Jesus separated those who are going to heaven and hell to either side and the distinction between the groups was how they treated “the least” of his brothers and sisters. Matthew 25:31-46.
So, bad news Christian Republicans. Might want to correct yourself now before it’s too late.
- Comment on I don't think he's sorry 2 weeks ago:
Beast master ranger confirmed
- Comment on Driving through Nebraska twice nearly broke me. The people who live there must be among the hardest motherfuckers alive. 2 weeks ago:
Like the Fremen. Harsh environments breed tough people.
- Comment on Canadian Wildfires signal major L over the United States 3 weeks ago:
Because fire doesn’t give a fuck about your imaginary lines in the dirt…
So in not disagreeing with you. It is worth noting though that the border between the US and Canada is not just imaginary. It does have an actual physical demarcation. And it actually can slow the spread of fire across the border, if only slightly. The trees at the border have been cleared for a 20 foot wide gap, often referred to as “The slash”.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
Low population, low density, lots of farm land, can count the number of houses in a mile stretch of road on your fingers. May have one small commercial area within 15 miles with a dollar general, a gas station and, if you’re lucky, a grocery store. Not nearly enough businesses nearby to employ people even the measly number of people there that isn’t a farmer, so they commute to neighboring towns or counties to find work in factories, possibly dozens of miles away. I basically just described where my sister lives in Tennessee.
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on There were probably some people who just really liked "Never gonna give you up" and really enjoyed getting rick rolled 5 weeks ago:
I unapologetically love the version by I Fught Dragons. And the original is really not that bad.
- Comment on This section of Jim Carrey's Wikipedia Article 5 weeks ago:
“Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger.”
- Comment on Chicken breast steak medium-rare is the best kind of steak 5 weeks ago:
And several people die from it each year. The chicken is meant to be sterile and safe. Chicken can be sushi grade like fish can be. But cross contamination, careless handling or use of non-sushi grade meat can make it extremely dangerous. I really can’t stress enough that IF you were going to try it, you should only do so at a very high quality restaurant with an experienced chef, and even then, you should be very very careful.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
Come on, live a little, show some ding-a-ling.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
What difference does most of that make? Sharing a room with others, sure. But I don’t walk around the house hanging dong just because I sleep in the buff. I put on some pj pants and a shirt, at minimum, to leave the room. My roommates have never cared what i slept in as long as it didn’t flash them on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
My wife and I have our own room. I have a door, it is shut at night while I’m asleep and doesn’t open again until I get dressed in the morning. If you open it in that time and see penis and scrote or hairy ass cheeks, that’s on you. I don’t care if you’re a roommate asking me a question, a 6 that had a nightmare, or a fireman saving my life. You know what you risked when you turned the knob. If you give me a second of heads up or wake me and then wait for a sec, I’ll put on something. But I’m not sleeping in twisted up boxers with sweaty nuts sticking to my legs to make life more comfortable and convenient for everyone else in the house.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
5bor 20… Donald Duck or Daffy Duck.
- Comment on demon named racecar 1 month ago:
People named Emanpuedamylsuoivbosihtgnisreverrehtobneveuoydidyhw…
- Comment on Good shit 1 month ago:
Gilear Faeth?
- Comment on Trump's US to resettle white South Africans 'within days' 1 month ago:
Yea, American immigration laws have been explicitly racist for the majority of our history. It is only in the last 50-60 years that they have been more low key racist.
- Comment on Bread is probably the oldest human invention 1 month ago:
Bread requires a number of other tools, cooking techniques and inventions to come around before it makes sense that it was invented. It has definitely been around a long long time, but many inventions predate homosapien, and I doubt bread predates agriculture by much if at all.
What is interesting though is that what likely coincided with the invention of bread was the invention of beer. They’re a pretty small hop away from one another.
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 1 month ago:
Close up off monstrous, horrifying, dangerous gravity dragon… pull back and back and back, and realize it was 1000x magnified. It’s magnificent roar a barely audible squeak.
- Comment on Shein Hikes Prices by Up to 377% Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs War 1 month ago:
That’s fair
- Comment on Shein Hikes Prices by Up to 377% Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs War 1 month ago:
Shein and Temu and other cheap chinese mail order goods companies only existed due to then loophole in previous tariffs for small sales. I imagine they will try to clear out stock and then call it quits soon.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 1 month ago:
Words that rhyme with Trump: chump, grump, slump, bump, rump, lump, hump, Gump, dump, frump(y), pump, thump, clump, stump…
For Don: gone, pawn, prawn, fong, jong, con, QAnon, Mastadon…
There’s some pretty inspiring stuff to work with here for sure.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
All of them are fingers. Thumbs are fingers, but a finger is not necessarily a thumb. I dont know where people get the idea that a thumb is not a finger. So many common sayings reinforce it. “Counting on your fingers (including your thumbs)”, healthy babies have “Five fingers, five toes”, “What did the five fingers say to the face… slap”, “high five”, “five finger discount”, etc. Also, honorable mention to Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya searching for “the 6 fingered man” which includes his thumb. “Middle finger” is not the only thing that makes no sense if you don’t accept that the thumb is a finger.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 2 months ago:
The very premise of this assumes that everyone is aware of what everyone else’s job is including all of their responsibilities, that they can objectively judge how well they do their job, that they will not base their decisions based on personal or identity biases (particularly against protected classes), that they have an understanding or even basic knowledge of company budget and financials, and that they can be trusted to properly weigh the financial health of the company with the relatively value each individual’s contributions and the desire for one’s own personal gain.
I would argue that almost no person in an company bigger than 10 people is capable of most (if any) of these. Not that existing company structures are always great at all of these, nor are they usually incentivized to pay people their true worth, but the system you proposed would likely lead to massive issues in any company. Financial issues, personal issues, etc. Even if a company like this were to survive, you would likely see rampant turnover for women, minorities, young people, and anyone else that is likely to be under paid by the might of the majority that believes they are worth less than their white male seniors. Likewise, the “nice” guy manager that does do his job in the slightest but is fun to hang out with is more likely to get a raise than the serious managers who actually keep the company working and on profitable endeavors, which is likely to lose everyone their jobs when the company is no longer profitable. There are more problems with this, but that should be enough to see the pitfalls here.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 2 months ago:
Cardinal: Sir, JD Vance is here to see you.
Pope: slipping on noose I know.
- Comment on Unpopular popular opinion - fiat 2 months ago:
Also how do I save up perishables like potatoes for a big purchase? Do I have to set up a potato payment plan? What happens when I need IT services, but my profession is teacher and the IT guy doesn’t need my services, so I have to source something he needs from someone who needs my services to get his services? What if I can’t do my job without his services? Shit gets way more complicated without a uniform non-perishable national currency, fiat or otherwise.
- Comment on My Easter decorations include a self portrait (oc) 2 months ago:
I like you beak
