MNByChoice
@MNByChoice@midwest.social
- Comment on reaction 2 days ago:
I likely ordered it. So thank the waiter and start eating.
I can read a menu.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 week ago:
Given the number of people that think the Sun orbits the Earth and that the Moon is never out in the day time, this would be a good idea. It doesn’t even need to be deep. Just random science facts.
As an aside, I want to buy a billboard in town and post science facts.
- Comment on coping 1 week ago:
Anything than to have to fix my life.
I don’t shower as I don’t want the females to think I am gay. I don’t read, study, or try so I am not a nerd. I work a deadend job to prove I am “self made”. I avoid the “roids”, the gym, and exercising, which saves me so much time.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
I cannot read the article, but this seems like a non-issue.
Loads of old Wikipedia pages are essentially complete. Just freeze them.
And didn’t the Wikipedia foundation have years worth of funding already? And wouldn’t fewer visitors imply less need for server and bandwidth?
Current events need editors, and those will have controversy. I expect primary news sources would be better for anything less than a week old.
A Wikipedia that freezes at 2024 would still be of great value.
Clearly, I am missing the problem.
- Comment on The ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" 1 week ago:
It didn’t take much digging, but for exposure I am posting here.
A big page on Eliza at sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/About
One can try a reasonable Eliza right now. anthay.github.io/eliza.html (linked from the previous link.) - Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 1 week ago:
I understand the failure rates for the GPUs is huge. The duty cycles tend to be high, with power and cooling issues.
(Actually the power issues are wild and can destroy power distribution and generation equipment. “Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters” 21 Aug 2025 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14318)
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 1 week ago:
Another advantage of cookbooks. (There are good ones, but a lot are junk.)
- Comment on Taxes and nature 1 week ago:
Whoa Whoa.
The story of Noah’s Ark is not about saving animals. It is about surviving a calamity that one saw coming, AND NOT saving more of humanity. This way one and their children can become insanely wealthy, and nearly the only humans.
When one needed an elephant, where did they go? To Noah. Need a chicken? Noah! Need help due to your house washing away, killing you and your family? That’s right, Noah!
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 weeks ago:
Jesus would be rolling over in his grave, except he left that and is not there.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
I fully expect OpenAI and the others are already doing this. And this is why the USA wants to keep China from developing better AI. Not for better AI, but to keep spying on corporate secrets within the USA.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
I did those as well. That and not using personal equipment.
Then at one company, we could use personal equipment. And accepting gifts was suddenly okay. And their training did NOT say I could not buy potential clients sex workers.
I never had the opportunity to clarify with HR…
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 weeks ago:
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25:35-40
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 2 weeks ago:
It is possible to do an internet search for a date range. Looking at 2016, there were many articles regarding fascism and Trump. Here is just one:
forbes.com/…/yes-a-trump-presidency-would-bring-f…
It is true that many people were uncertain if Trump was a full on fascist, or if he was thwarted by a lack of reading. Which sounds like a lie. I am cherry picking this quote.
Do you think that Trump is consciously using fascist tropes, or do you think that he’s just sort of stumbled into this?
I doubt it’s conscious. I don’t think he’s a bookish man. I’m sure he’s never read a book about Hitler or Mussolini.
slate.com/…/is-donald-trump-a-fascist-an-expert-o… - Comment on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team 3 weeks ago:
No advantage to using social media tied to your name or identity.
Be a hermit crab. Start new accounts periodically. Be certain they are not tied to your meat space persona.
- Comment on U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device 4 weeks ago:
Or this is incentive to simplify the devices sent to the US with the complex calculations taking place out of country. Fewer imported chips, more monthly subscriptions.
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 4 weeks ago:
They all are disqualified for praying in public. Shouldn’t have done that.
Also, presuming to tell God what is what, and vanity.
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 4 weeks ago:
With a hard cap of 144,000 in Heaven, the rapture happened already.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Though gullible people are often stupid. Skeptical people are not necessarily smart, but have learned to not believe everything said to them.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 weeks ago:
I agree with you. The implications are staggering.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 5 weeks ago:
The kernel change in WinXP really helped stability. It was certainly easy to have a bad install with any of them though.
Win98 SE was my personal “best experience” with Windows, with WinXP a close second. (Though this likely has to do with the hardware and tasks I was experiencing at the time.)
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 month ago:
Remember how much people HATED Win95? They still moved to it to escape DOS, but still. Loads of hate.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
Ah, but I bet those monkeys produce more text than Shakespeare! At least within the last 6 months!
spoiler
The joke is that Shakespeare is dead and no longer producing text.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
Seems a better prompt could solve that.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
One’s dishwasher is not exposed to a harsh environment. A large percentage of code is exposed to an openly hostile environment.
If a dishwasher breaks, it can destroy a floor, a room, maybe the rooms below. If code breaks it can lead to the computer, then network, being compromised. Followed by escalating attacks that can bankrupt a business and lead to financial ruin. (This is possibly extreme, but cyber attacks have destroyed businesses. The downside risks of terrible code can be huge.)
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
What was the timing of the US Senate vote to not release the Epstein Files?
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
That is the nice thing about the American Way. Just call up the neighboring states’ militias and ask who didn’t show up for drills and if any weapons are missing.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 month ago:
We know.
There are a number of people that have a home in the country with their family, and they travel to the city to work. Sometimes they are homeless during the work, or rent a small room.
No, it is not the ideal solution, but it is a solution. Fixing the housing situation is beyond most people’s power, and it will take a long time for those trying to fix it to actually fix it.
- Comment on Society needs to keep score on positive impacts 1 month ago:
It negatively impacts the children.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Alternative Headline: Billionaire Signals States Should Speed Fiber Rollout
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 months ago:
It is always tempting to try to justify one’s position and get out of being laid-off/fired.
The decision has been made by those that “know your position”, or your manager is being let go next.