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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, this isn’t talking about the big war on adult content in the UK right now that’s across all the headlines. Just for those who wanted to see more on that. This is foreign stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People really do not like seeing opposing viewpoints, eh? There’s disagreeing, and then there’s downvoting to oblivion without even engaging in a discussion, haha.

  Even if they’re probably right, in such murky uncertain waters where we’re not experts, one should have at least a little open mind, or live and let live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And giving them sweeping ability to track everybody via their identity papers, to see what websites and services they’re using, what all their online identities are, etc.

  They claim the info isn’t being saved or passed on to the government to form a big surveillance database to one day use against people - sure, it’s legal to, say, be gay or a socialist or of a particular religion today, but societies and regimes change, and the info they collect on you today may become ammunition against you in 10, 20, 40 years time.

  But I don’t for a moment believe their obvious lies.

  This is nothing but authoritarian police state monitoring and control. It’s extremely obvious. Yet, who are we to vote for in the next election? Not Labour, thanks to this (and a few other big reasons perhaps), not the Tories because, well, you’ve seen what they’re like.

  It’s not impossible for a third party to be elected of course, not as impossible as places like the USA that have a very worryingly solidified two party system, it’s just very unlikely.

  Knowing the British people and their seeming apathy and poor judgement at scale these days I wouldn’t be surprised if they elect the racist bigots at Reform - who ironically would be even more authoritarian and evil than what we have now.

  As usual, there’s no hope for the future and no possibility of good outcomes.

  Humanity is doomed to repeat it’s failures for all of history again and again, and we’re just along for the miserable ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What does any of this even mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aahhhh, that makes more sense. I wondered how such a seemingly respectable, proper journalistic platform could be owned by that tosser, haha.

  Well, small victories I suppose! Thank you for clarifying that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😭😭😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas no, brain aneurysms don’t have to have any outward symptoms at all until they strike, and then you’re dead within minutes.

  You can spot some issues before they kill you if you have a brain scan, but as you’ve got no symptoms, why would you be having a brain MRI once a month?

  So, alas, it’s a silent, deadly killer. One day you just drop dead for seemingly no reason.

  RIP Grant, you were fuckin rad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame, I had no idea he owned Sky News. I usually found them to be an excellent professional news source when one doesn’t want the Governmental bias of the BBC.

  I wouldn’t trust Comedy Central though, joke or not, they’re American, and the Americans can’t be trusted these days either.

  I suppose the lesson here, sadly, is that we can’t believe anything from any source at all. Assume everything is half-truths, half-reported, and what we’re being shown is the distraction from the thing they don’t want us to look at.

  I wish I knew how to find the hidden “real news”, but the sorts of people that purport to provide it are loonies in their basements in tinfoil hats, alas. Though, perhaps that’s just the image of them that the media wants us to see…

  :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Feck you too, I guess. If that’s how you want to behave.

  I could understand you being unhappy with our government, but just blanket swearing at all 68 million of us is a dick move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd never let my tongue touch a pineapple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  omg u didn’t censor the bad word enough and now my mum is mad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHUT THE FUCK UP!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the timestamp says 2012, how can it be 13 y…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google does try to feed me news from “The Times of Israel”, quite often, which is really odd. Usually I only get shown valid local news, occasionally stuff from America too.

  And… The Times of Israel, I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m not even in that country, I’m not sure how it’s relevant to us all.

  Many countries have corrupt governments sadly, it sucks, and I wish them the best in however they fight their internal societal enemies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no.

  Many would argue for example that the politically correct thing to say right now is that you support Israel in their defensive war against Palestine.

  It’s the political line that my government, and many governments and politicians are touting, and politically, it’s the “correct” thing to do.

  Even if we mean politically correct as just “common consensus of the people”, that differs from country to country, and changes as society changes. Look at the USA, things that used to be politically correct there - things that continue to be here, have been thrown out the window.

  What this prompt means, is that the AI should ignore all of the claimed political rules and moralities and biases of whatever news source they’re pulling from, and instead rely on it’s own internal moral, cultural and political compass.

  Sometimes it’s not politically correct to discuss the hard truths, but we should anyway.

  The issue here of course is that you have to know that your model and training data is built for unbiased, scientific analysis with an understanding of the larger implications in events and such.

  If it’s built poorly, then yes, it could spout racist nonsense. A lot of testing and fine tuning from unbiased scientists and engineers needs to happen before software like this goes live, to ensure rigour and quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? A greater effect than not having children, or tireless activism against one billionaire until they realise the error of their ways and turn to the light side?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future teachers in Oklahoma!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, America. My condolences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Infrastructure that was torn from public control and privatised, ruined, and now begging for more tax money to fund their bonuses, you say?

  Delightfully devilish!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s at the top, I have that same bannister mount, it points upwards to the banister.

  The mattress is wedged at the top of the stairs thanks to its extreme springiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think while your frustration is understandable and I feel it too, very much so (though I myself feel it in the overall direction of late stage capitalism in its entirety), in this instance you’re confusing people immigrating with those seeking asylum.

  The immigration debate is a reasonable one to have, but this particular post is about people fleeing danger, persecution and death, seeking asylum, not those simply wishing to immigrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re right, but I’m a working class, poor, and routinely fucked over Brit, but I’m not stupid enough to fall for this nonsense.

  Granted I’ve always thought people trying to get me to believe things that didn’t make much sense to me were idiots and disliked them.

  They tried to sell me on religion in school, I thought it was a load of rubbish - I remember telling the priest exactly that when I was 11 and he wanted me to do my Holy Communion.

  I looked at stuff like the Daily Mirror and thought it was crap, and eventually I got the Internet and started learning more, and it wasn’t too hard to use the basic critical thinking skills taught by my parents and teachers to figure rubbish from not.

  That said, I’m probably wrong about loads of things and believe all sorts of propaganda and misinformation that I don’t realise, but at least the bare faced obvious lies like “It’s people seeking political asylum who are the reason the minimum wage is unlovable” are very, painfully obvious to me 😂

  …like, it’s actually insulting that they would think anyone would be thick enough to fall for that.

  I grew up in a dirt poor shit hole council estate in schools constantly in special measures about to be shut down, surrounded my chavs and yobbos in school who literally murdered old ladies in their homes and the like (I’m not exaggerating, sadly), and yet I’m perfectly capable of spotting this rubbish.

  I know some people are extremely stupid, but surely it’s a small percentage in the grand scheme, so why do so many seemingly smart people fall for this obvious nonsense?

  :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s relevant, yes, but not the center of every single topic or event they is happening or exists anywhere.

  Go online however and you’d think it were.

  The bigger problem is their assumption that their country is the “default” country. Discussing something highly specific to your nation, or posting a news article covering a topic that is only relevant within your nation? You need to provide the context of what country you’re talking about, otherwise people might be confused or waste their time reading something irrelevant to them. Over and over.

  … unless it’s about the USA of course, then you don’t need to give any context at all because of course the only people they use the Internet are Americans, and obviously the only country worth talking about is the 🇺🇸 US of A! 🇺🇸

  This is highly encouraged in places like Reddit, where communities like /r/news or /r/politics are actually local national subreddits just for the USA, but because they’re special little darlings they use the format that should be reserved for all news and political discussion, rather than a more appropriate and descriptive title like /r/usanews or /r/usapolitics, which would actually be… you know… descriptive and helpful.

  That’s not even mentioning the number of times some random person has used code/abbreviation to describe where they are to lend context to a conversation, but failed to take into account that people outside of your country don’t know your local regional internal place names.

  Oh, you’re from ML? OH? TA? Great, that provides precisely zero information because those aren’t country name abbreviations. Oh, you’re from London which is all the context you think I need? Okay, I know Lo…oh, London… Texas? 🤦‍♀️

  So many wonderful people in the USA, so many fantastic people who don’t have any of the traits I’ve described, I just wish the ones strutting around acting like they’re the only country in the world and on the internet would open their eyes to how that sort of toxic personality trait looks to, and affects others :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC is Getting a Paywall.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense, we pay our licence fee for our public service, why should people abroad get for free what we have to pay for?

  I was happy with the current arrangement of adverts supporting the service use abroad, but if it has to migrate to a subscription model to meet modern demands then that’s the way it is.

  I wouldn’t go to another country and ask them to make one of their government’s national public services free for me to use, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Murdered. Not killed, murdered.

  Both technically true, but the way they write killed suggests it wasn’t murder in cold blood, an act of war against another country to bully and control them.

  Murder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hammond

  gesticulates

  …of Texas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cuppa Jill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha aye, we call it Corporation Pop round my end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cuppa Jill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We call it Corporation Pop here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  hehe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But why? Why make them scared they’ll lose their jobs at any moment Vs feeling secure?

  If they’re scared, they’ll be seeking better employment, applying for other jobs whilst working this highly unstable one. Probably reduced productivity too, I wouldn’t be as productive under that sort of negative environment.

  Make them feel valued and secure though and they won’t leave, there’ll be less workplace issues for you to have to deal with, and they’ll work harder.

  Unless you see them as completely disposable because the law won’t touch you and there will always be desperate people to fill those positions at any given time, fear is a ridiculous thing to want to instill in your workforce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Methane is what the majority of natural gas is made up of, and if your generator isn’t made to be very efficient (like a real power station is), you’ll lose some of your fuel unburnt into the atmosphere.

  Kinda like unburnt wood smoke vapour, which could have been burned in a higher quality wood burner, but just goes up the chimney in an open fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...📉⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Glazing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was glorious. I used Stardock’s Windows Blinds to adjust the transparency to what felt just right and that was chef’s kiss

  Ahh, what we’ve lost…