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- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 hours ago:
I buy all my groceries from Omega Mart, like a normal person.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 hours ago:
I use dashes all the time, but em-dashes? I don’t even know how to type those. I guess I could long-press the dash on my phone and select it, but… why?
- Comment on wtf i love capitalism now 1 day ago:
love is DLC.
- Comment on Top 10 Most Realistic Photoshops... 5 days ago:
it could be a real cat sitting inside a miniature model Italian alley. that was where my thoughts went.
- Comment on Alternatively 1 week ago:
She’s a transphobe, disappointingly:
- Comment on Alternatively 1 week ago:
I, for one, enjoy not living in a Puritan theocracy.
- Comment on Alternatively 1 week ago:
it was an art piece, not a serious product idea. they weren’t pitching it to Trojan, all it purported to do was make a “statement.”
it’s like an OmegaMart product, basically.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 1 week ago:
I’ve noticed a lot of infantile and absurdly maximalist takes on Lemmy lately. it’s kind of souring me on the project.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 week ago:
this really is a model/engine issue though. the Google Search model is unusably weak because it’s designed to run trillions of times per day in milliseconds. even still, endless repetition this egregious usually means mathematical problems happened somewhere, like the SolidGoldMagikarp incident.
think of it this way: language models are trained to find the most likely completion of text. answers like “you should eat 6-8 spiders per day for a healthy diet” are (superficially) likely - there’s a lot of text on the Internet with that pattern. clanging like “a set of knives, a set of knives, …” isn’t likely, mathematically.
last year there was an incident where ChatGPT went haywire. small numerical errors in the computations would snowball, so after a few coherent sentences the model would start sundowning - clanging and rambling and responding with word salad. the problem in that case was bad cuda kernels. I assume this is something similar, either from bad code or a consequence of whatever evaluation shortcuts they’re taking.
- Comment on The audacity 1 week ago:
you’d think a public healthcare system would figure out that treating conditions early is actually cheaper.
- Comment on Startup Hack! 2 weeks ago:
I was considering tipping off the FBI until around the second paragraph when I realized this was Dwarf Fortress. without context, this was… disturbing to read.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 2 weeks ago:
tbf that was around the time the cold war resumed.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 3 weeks ago:
your cat lets you do that?!
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 weeks ago:
honestly tho. if the Torah is legit its advice should apply to the future too. haShem wouldn’t just have been writing to Moishe’s time.
- Comment on Rare insults dropped 5 weeks ago:
the content is better than I remember, having watched the video you linked. I guess I’m just cranky about the particular way that thumbnails and video titles have converged on YouTube.
- Comment on Rare insults dropped 5 weeks ago:
eh, he’s okay. he puts out a lot of slop content like “REAL LAWYER reacts to $MOVIE” and “r/LegalAdvice DISASTERS!” with those annoyingly exaggerated YouTuber faces. I guess you have to play to the Algorithm, but slop is slop.
I like Liz Dye’s legal analysis when she appears on his channel to discuss current events, but I wish I could just watch her directly, rather than suffering through LegalEagle’s bombastic and superficial framing to pump up viewer engagement.
- Comment on I'm telling ya Jimbo.... 1 month ago:
she garban on my zo until I bean.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 months ago:
There’s a few ways to handle, but for example:
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Roads: large towns and cities would mostly handle their own road maintenance. Roads connecting towns would probably be joint ventures. Projects would be funded and contracted by the towns and financed by town income tax. Rural areas would be underfunded, but that’s partly intentional - dense population centers are more sustainable.
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Environmental regulations: handled at the level of impact. for example, water quality standards for a river bind everyone who accesses the river. restrictions (e.g. standards for heavy metal levels) would be passed by minority vote - if 40% want a standard, that’s enough. carbon credits would be administered at the Federal or World levels, by a combination of central government and treaties.
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Education: probably pretty devolved, mostly a choice by municipalities in what they offer/teach. there’d likely be standardized tests that most places agree on for transferability (e.g. how the SAT works today.) religious schools could exist in religious communities, or you could have a Montessori program in your secular socialist Kibbutz.
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Slavery: illegal at the Federal/World level. same with indentured servitude and coercive contracts. one of the most important functions of the central government is to protect the civil liberties of individuals.
So the principles are mostly:
- Externalities are handled at the level of their impact.
- More power locally, less power centrally. City governments are more like micro-nations bound by a sort of EU.
- Cities largely have a lot of direct democracy with some representatives. Critically, city governments wield lots of power over the businesses that operate in the city. This is critical to check corporate power.
- Federal government exists as a backstop to safeguard fundamental rights and for truly national concerns.
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- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 months ago:
I’m a left libertarian. I embrace decentralization, collectivism, freedom from corporate and central government tyranny, and want to maximize individual liberty and progressive values as we ideally move towards a society like the Culture series by Ian M. Banks.
I’m not Anarchist because it’s too chaotic and unrealistic, and I’m not ML because I don’t like State authoritarianism and central planning.
- Comment on Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings 2 months ago:
I’ve been denied all the best ultra sex 😞
- Comment on We're cooked, I'm hooked 2 months ago:
once in a lifetime recession
slightly bit-crushed Mr. Incredible
once in a lifetime pandemic
monochrome nightmare fuel Mr. Incredible
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
America: third world country, first world prices.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
it’s extremely rare to find such a cheap used car. my partner spent $8k on one that lasted a year. also, you might be surprised to learn that driving isn’t optional in most of the US - it’s literally impossible to live without a car. I live in a suburb. it’s several miles of dangerous roads to get to a grocery store. there is no nearby public transit. even large cities like LA were completely designed around cars. zoning and urban planning here completely screwed us.
yes, it sucks, yes I’m aware, yes I’d love to live in a walkable European city with commuter rail and cafes on the street corner, no I don’t have a choice.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 months ago:
weeds are to gardens like my house is to HOAs.
- Comment on long 2 months ago:
is this… somehow… real?
could you make this?
- Comment on Late 1900s 2 months ago:
and I was just looking at a 100Tbps backhaul the other day… that’s what, a billion times more bandwidth?
- Comment on Late 1900s 2 months ago:
I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.
- Comment on Life goals 2 months ago:
He might have a connective tissue disorder? EDS in particular causes stretchy skin, though I’ve never seen the scalp do that.
t. EDS patient. it’s pretty crippling and painful but I have some fun party tricks!
- Comment on I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke. 2 months ago:
Lemmy has a grand total of one (1) spambot, a scammer posing as “Nicole.” in a way, this is Lemmy World Heritage in the making.
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 2 months ago:
things I dislike Reagan for:
- ignoring HIV because he was okay with it just killing the gays (until straight people started getting it.)
- trickle-down economics (how we got the billionaire oligarchy)
- Iran-Contra.
- firing the striking air traffic controllers.
- doubling down on the War on Drugs.
things Reagan was kinda based for:
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actually wanting to eliminate nuclear weapons. everyone remembers SDI as a ridiculously expensive boondoggle (which it would have been tbf) or as a trap to get USSR to spend itself into bankruptcy (it wasn’t imo, since the Russians realized they could build MIRVs), but I honestly think Reagan sincerely wanted a missile shield to have a missile shield. apparently he was hawkish on nuclear war until he watched The Day After, which terrified him and left him depressed for weeks and completely changed his thinking on nukes. he got so close to bilateral disarmament at the Reikjavik summit, but it fell apart because of his insistence on pursuing SDI.
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not being a raging egotistical jerk like Trump. he was respectful towards Carter and Mondale. he even respected the Soviet Premiers he met with, despite his anti-Communism. he had actual principles and ideals, even if I disagree with some of them.
when the USSR collapsed, Bush ignored Russia’s pleas to help it restructure and rebuild, to secure its nuclear weapons stockpiles, to integrate its economy. so we ended up with a country with starving nuclear weapons designers trying to grow potatoes in their back yards, and a Mafia takeover, and massive distrust and antipathy towards the West. I think Reagan would have actually lent them a helping hand, and Putin wouldn’t have happened.