phutatorius
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- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 11 hours ago:
There are no pearls. It’s uniform, blenderized raw sewage.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 11 hours ago:
Partners and managers (at least senior ones) are held accountable for profitability. A fine directly hits their bonuses. But holding the partners personally liable for fraud would be a good thing to do as well.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 11 hours ago:
At very least, they should be banned from bidding on Australian government contracts for a couple of years.
If a doctor did this, they’d lose their license to practice.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 3 days ago:
If it’s more than a picowatt-hour, it’s too much.
LLM delenda est.
- Comment on Hydrogen's Big Year Continues With New California H2 Transit Project 5 days ago:
only really needs to deal with the volatility issue
H2 is the smallest molecule there is, and among the worst to contain. It’s also quite reactive. And the production of H2 for storage is not wonderfully efficient, nor is the whole lifecycle from production to consumption.
The only real reason for hydrogen is to repurpose rather than scrapping the existing gasoline supply chain. That benefits nobody but the fossil-fuel companies. And that’s why it’s being endlessly hyped, despite being a profoundly suboptimal solution.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
I prefer calling them Goebbels or Himmler.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
Vegan dildo.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
We’re not done yet. There’ll be a lot, but it might take a while.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
The range of invective is far richer than that. American terms of abuse are far more limited.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
“You leotard!”
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
In England, twat (pronounced to rhyme with “hat”) is barely considered rude.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
People in the small-town South don’t take it well when you call them sister-fuckers, either, as I quickly learned.
Didn’t stop me, though.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
Cancer sufferer works in the Netherlands
Kankerlijer. You can replace cancer with any of a number of other nasty diseases.
It’s also customary to tell someone “get cancer!” (krijg de kanker), “get tuberculosis!” (krijg de pleuris) or “get leprosy!” (krijg het lazarus). All map to English-language sentiments such as “eat shit and die” or “fuck off.”
You can also just use “cancer” as a prefix to anything that happens to piss you off: cancer-influencers, cancer-sandwich, whatever. And the same goes for other diseases.
I personally prefer “klootzak,” which means ball bag. The word rolls off the tongue so nicely. But then, everything said in Dutch sounds aggressively pejorative, even sweet talk.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 5 days ago:
You fucking spanner.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
My, what a lot of conclusions you just drew on zero evidence. Almost impressive.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
Clarkson went into farming as a tax dodge.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
Farmers usually have a lot of money invested in capital equipment but their lifestyles are anything but lavish.
They often hide it, but the farmers I know are far from poor. Like a lot of us, they’re rich in illiquid assets but not in terms of cashflow. That’s my situation too, and I don’t whinge about it.
Inheritance tax is a tax on unearned wealth. There’s no reason to distinguish one asset from all others. Those inheriting almost invariably did nothing to earn it; it’s almost always an accident of birth that puts them in line for an inheritance. That, and the whims of some elderly person. A steeply progressive inheritance tax, with no exceptions besides spouses, would be ideal. And if you’re concerned about corporations grabbing all the arable land, regulate them to prevent any firm directly or indirectly owning more than, say, 10 hectares of land. A similar rule should apply to housing.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
but clearly most Brits are dead against that.
With the likes of Palantir sniffing about in the lobbies, there’s good reason to be against it.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
He hasn’t rescinded it.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
I think he’s practical and level headed
He seems to me frightened of the rightwing media and of Reform and twitchily reactive.
You don’t defeat the enemy by becoming them.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
Huh? He banned weapons exports to Israel, publicly condemned Israel for war crimes, sanctioned a bunch of members of their parliament, ramped up aid for Palestine, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever steps foot on British soil, resisted joining the US and Israel with their attacks in Iran, and has recognised Palestine.
And still has contracts for the Israeli military to train British troops, and still criminalises the expression of support for Palestinian rights. At best, we’re seeing some mixed messaging here.
They’ve been a centre-left party for half a century now.
Sure, because there’s no difference between Labour under Michael Foot or Corbyn and Labour under Blair or Starmer. /s
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
the guy did give off the impression that he was genuinely trying to improve things and was giving it his all despite his party being a unruly shitshow
Funny, all I saw was a smug time-server who didn’t give a toss about British people who aren’t rich.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
His attacks on trans people are also scummy.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
There probably wasn’t time to conduct a poll before Truss fucked off.
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 1 week ago:
It’s gotta be someone who has a staff
It also seems that they have a full crack pipe.
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 1 week ago:
And edh and yogh get no respect…
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 1 week ago:
That guy’s a thorn in all our sides.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
They’ll be counting the wrinkies on my asshole.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Chile Verdius (cum cervino).
- Comment on Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system 1 week ago:
Boy, NBC sure swalloed that press release hook, line and sinker.