VoteNixon2016
@VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 5 days ago:
All of our accounts were 29 days old at one point
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 week ago:
It’s bad enough that Wikipedia no longer allows linking to pages archived on there, and they’re actively working to replace any links already in use
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
So much of the wonder of computers and networks and just… all of it has been abstracted away
So many people just have phones or tablets as the majority of their computer experience
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
Assuming y’all aren’t just fucking around, reading the comments here is actually really cool, tangentially interacting with people who have internet stories from well before I was born
I’m just from the dialup era, and I still feel old online a lot of the time, but then someone here is like “yeah, Berners-Lee invented HTTP just to make a website to mock me”
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 weeks ago:
The solution is to take a bite of waffle and then take a drink of syrup like it’s a chaser
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 weeks ago:
But Leopold, that kills people
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone
I mean, yeah? Like the most basic understanding of anarchy is that hierarchy is a bad thing, so it applies to a lot of political philosophies
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
Most other things I can survive without, but I just miss pizza so much
The only reason I’d ever want to be a billionaire would be to fund vegan cheese research
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 weeks ago:
In your defense, there’s a lot of social pressure to go to BYU within the Mormon church, and most high school kids don’t have the experience and knowledge to navigate the official and unofficial propaganda. I just happened to luck out that my parents pushed me not to go to BYU
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense for the school that expels women for being assaulted. As if I needed another reason to hate BYU
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 5 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, I was just poking fun at the original comment making a hyperbolic statement about hyperboles
I’d bet that a lot of it comes from how pervasive advertising is; we’re constantly bombarded by ads that use that kind of language, so it’s worked its way into everyday language
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 5 weeks ago:
The irony of saying that only the US uses hyperbole
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 5 weeks ago:
Call us Yankees because it’ll annoy the “the South will rise again” crowd
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, Lanky Kong
- Comment on Be direct! 1 month ago:
www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com
An oldie but goodie
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is why I just never talk about brand-name products online, I don’t want to seem like an advertising shill account (I’m just here to get into heated political arguments and shitpost)
I’ll recommend things to people I know IRL, but very rarely will I do it online
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 month ago:
Selection/volunteer bias, no one who would give it a bad review would pay to see it
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 month ago:
We’ll finally get to see “Hitler on ICE”
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 2 months ago:
Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”
I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.
Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.
You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.
This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.
No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.
Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 2 months ago:
We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!
No.
- Comment on Off the Rails 2 months ago:
Tonal Languages have entered the chat
- Comment on Ska ftw 2 months ago:
We’re getting a new album sometime totally soon, for real this time, and they still won’t have a bad song
- Comment on Harry Potter and Harry Dresden are the same guy 2 months ago:
Harry Potter: “Expelliarmus!”
Harry Dresden: gun
- Comment on It sure is, babe! 2 months ago:
Buddy,
Not a lot of ambiguity in that statement.
But please, keep defending the banks and some of their most predatory practices.
- Comment on It sure is, babe! 2 months ago:
You realize some do?
Your original statement was that credit unions don’t insure your savings, full stop. Don’t spread misinformation and then try to backpedal when you get called out.
- Comment on It sure is, babe! 2 months ago:
Also, credit unions don’t have insurance on your savings, banks do.
In the United States, this is just blatantly untrue:
Established by Congress in 1970 to insure member share accounts at federally insured credit unions, the NCUSIF coverage is similar to the coverage provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Credit union members do not need to apply for share insurance coverage as it is provided automatically when they join a federally insured credit union. Each credit union member has at least $250,000 in total coverage for share accounts held at a federally insured credit union.
From https://mycreditunion.gov/protect-your-money/share-insurance
Your ignorance is hilarious though.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 2 months ago:
What’s worse, m*rdering kittens, or posting things that would offend advertisers?
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