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- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 days ago:
“Hold hands and say it like me The most shady, Frankie baby, fantastic Graphic, tryin to make dough, like Jurassic Park did quick to spark kids who start shit” -Biggie
- Comment on Jury shown CCTV of alleged assault on police at Manchester Airport 1 week ago:
I see you are not a lawyer. Neither am I. But I have learned that in many countries, a guilty verdict could be tossed out by the judge if the pigs’ actions were bad enough. You can also get jury nullification, if you’re lucky.
And sometimes it turns out the officers actually fucked shit up before or after the video, which might only be uncovered before or during trial. Depends on the details.
All of those possibilities go to zero if you plead out.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
If you’re renting, maybe it’s not your problem. The landlords jack us for rent, so we mess with their drains. Meh.
Should we respect our landlords, you might ask? That depends on them. Respect is earned.
- Comment on Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation? 2 weeks ago:
You should know that in many countries, and now also the U.S., the government will revoke the visa of “political irritants”. In other words, your question is actually a historical one, and it is equivalent to, “Is it immoral to immigrate?”
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 weeks ago:
Patriotism leads to nationalism and racism. Fuck patriotism.
- Comment on UK to be first country to use AI healthcare system to prevent future scandals 2 weeks ago:
You said it yourself: extra places that need human attention … those need … humans, right?
It’s easy to say “let AI find the mistakes”. But that tells us nothing at all. There’s no substance. It’s just a sales pitch for snake oil. In reality, there are various ways one can leverage technology to identify various errors, but that only happens through the focused actions of people who actually understand the details of what’s happening.
And think about it here. We already have computer systems that monitor patients’ real-time data when they’re hospitalized. We already have systems that check for allergies in prescribed medication. We already have systems for all kinds of safety mechanisms. We’re already using safety tech in hospitals, so what can be inferred from a vague headline about AI doing something that’s … checks notes … already being done? … Yeah, the safe money is that it’s just a scam.
- Comment on Interesting how THIS happened at every place that I've worked 2 weeks ago:
Although that sounds cynical, I think it’s often the opposite. People learn what their job actually is, and they do it, and good for them. :-)
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
You’re trying to paint windows in a positive light when Microsoft is desperately trying to spy on us and force more advertising on us even though we really don’t want it, and the only reason they can do that is because they have a monopoly. So yeah, it really is that awful.
And if we want to do side by side comparisons of the available software packages, most things that you would need for your average office setup are free and come by default on your major Linux distros. On Windows, you have to install them manually, and the default options are mainly commercial. So you’re paying more and possibly getting something worse, depending on your personal preferences about each software package and its alternative. That’s pretty bad, my friend. Windows is competing with free and losing, but they have inertia and a monopoly.
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 2 weeks ago:
You should absolutely see something wrong. This is solving a problem that doesn’t exist, which means it’s actually trying to solve a different “problem”, namely that minorities get to vote.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 2 weeks ago:
My friend, it’s really important that you get the subjects correct. We were talking about Israeli soldiers here, and even if you generalize, Israelis. We are not talking about Jewish people on the whole.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Actually it’s a very very brief summary of some philosophical arguments that happened between the 1950s and the 1980s. If you’re interested in the topic, you could go read about them.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
You might consider reading Turing or Searle. They did a great job of addressing the concerns you’re trying to raise here. And rebutting the obvious ones, too.
Anyway, you’ve just shifted the definitional question from “AI” to “sentience”. Not only might that be unreasonable, because perhaps a thing can be intelligent without being sentient, it’s also no closer to a solid answer to the original issue.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Mind your pronouns, my dear. “We” don’t do that shit because we know better.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 2 weeks ago:
IMO there is no definitive mainstream any more. Hasn’t been for a decade. There’s just too much music out there for you to know all the “popular” stuff.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
It already is happening. Source: a person getting a visa now-ish.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
Actually they ask for the last five years, deleted or not.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
There is no rule against deleting accounts, my friend.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
That is a fucking terrible idea. If they later find it, they’ll lock you up and maybe later throw you out. The financial risk makes no sense.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
They say they will find those “with AI”. And they will, for true or for false, because they only want another weapon to use against the “undesirables”.
- Comment on Robotaxi Drives Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed… Tesla Influencers Describe It as “Excellent.” 3 weeks ago:
Wait a second. Are you saying we can hack them? This is wonderful.
- Comment on US senators reintroduce bill to open Apple and Google's app stores 3 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine it passing, but good for trying. Let’s see how it goes.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
Right, listen to that manosophere and you can commit some R or SA … Is that what you mean by “get laid”?
- Comment on It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed? 4 weeks ago:
When you say most countries, which countries are you talking about?
And if you’re wondering where the US goes for help, I’m not sure what you mean, but there have been a variety of peacekeeping missions and wars over the past few decades where other countries worked alongside the United States. Whether you think those military operations were justified is a different question, but if you’re looking for which countries worked together, you can easily find out by browsing Wikipedia for 20 minutes.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 weeks ago:
That’s what they’re banking on, but we know that eventually they will f*** it up and lose everyone.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
The article is also full of bullshit and it gets basic history wrong. The agreement was never made, but to the extent it exists anyway, it was never supposed to be about a monopoly that’s destroying shit. Once upon a time, not even very long ago, there were competing search engines.
I know tech writers want to write stories that sound fancy, but if they don’t know the facts and the history then they need to find someone to proofread their work more carefully.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think we can accept your argument, because in point in fact Hong Kong was an independent country. Certainly trying to disagree but now we’re getting into a definition question, but if that’s going to stop us from applying the proposed principle, then we can do that in every situation.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
Well no, it’s not, because they have multiple monopolies. So we should blame them and blame government for not stopping them.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank 4 weeks ago:
Obviously the situations are different. We all know that. The point is that it’s hypocritical of a company to say hey, let’s ask our employees to do more by throwing AI at them, and then getting pissed off when potential employees do the same thing.
Although I think it’s more funny than anything else. The company found out that people are gaming the system, which means they have a really shitty system, and rather than change how they interview people or what types of questions they ask, they’re just acting obstinate.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
I think we’ve seen enough changes in social media platforms over the past few decades to say that your claim is true until it’s not. As payments to content creators fall, and as garbage postings increase, the actual value to the average user of the site is clearly decreasing. So we’ll see how long YouTube is relevant.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
So you’re saying that other options do exist but some companies don’t want to use them because Microsoft is very popular, which is kind of a circular thing, and I understand, but it’s a sign of laziness, not quality.