Cruel
@Cruel@programming.dev
- Comment on i have a fantasy of marrying a divorced dad and being the young cool stepmom 6 days ago:
Good for women who don’t want to give birth, but still half-raise kids. You get a break from the kids during joint custody with ex-wife.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
It’s not factual. You’re just an idiot typing a single prompt, probably with no agentic loop or curated database to keep it on line. Then you get mad like a caveman wondering why sticks only give fire half the time because you’re not fucking understanding what you’re working with.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
Not cancelled. But they may have been flagged internally, I don’t know.
We weren’t violating their terms, only violating their built in model guidelines.
But even adjusting prompts, it didn’t yield reliable results. So we have to use uncensored open weights models for many things. It’s not SOTA, but it’s better than nothing.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
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Government can certainly do illegal things. But why ever enter into a contract with ANY organization or business if you’re concerned that they can violate the terms?
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Generally not.
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Even if they aren’t, Anthropic started business with them months ago. Backing out now for this reason would be a pretense.
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- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
If your AI tools are wrong half the time, you’re using it wrong. My legal AI is linked to databases of statutes and case law, providing results more reliable than most legal professionals.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
Why? I can’t think of any reason that would not also preclude their usage if all computer assisted tools.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
Wait. You still trust human judgment?
My company has facilitated the filings of hundreds of pre se litigants who cannot afford lawyers, helped swamped public defenders with more cases than they could ever hope to defend without just making plea deals.
Meanwhile you probably sit around complaining about prison industrial complex and corrupt justice system. Doing nothing. Worthless.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
This honestly strikes me as a story people don’t understand. Mass surveillance is not lawful and the government thus agreed not to do that. However, they still needed the guardrails removed. People interpret this as them wanting mass surveillance, but that’s not necessarily true.
I work for a company that uses AI for legal work, processing and analyzing court cases, discovery documents, etc. We had problems with AI models like Gemini and GPT refusing to do what we needed because of guardrails against violence and abuse of minors. It refused to discuss and analyze cases that involved murders described in detail, or cases involving child molestation, etc. We weren’t used it for unlawful purposes, very much the opposite.
I feel like if people knew that we, like the DoD, had to use uncensored models that allowed such things, people would complain “Wow, you guys are trying to remove guardrails for child porn and violence! How terrible!”
Is it so shocking that a military needs their AI to work with such things even if they’re not implementing it? They cannot afford to have AI in critical moments be like “sorry, my guidelines say I can’t help with this.”
This seems like the time Trump advised against pregnant women against using Tylenol. So people started buying and using it in protest. This is yet another reaction to Trump punishing them, but people are pretending Anthropic is making a stand for the people and OpenAI is somehow not. It’s not that simple.
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 2 weeks ago:
Which of the Epstein files indicate a criminal offense requiring an arrest? I’ve seen so many of Epstein emails with comments like “WE NEED TO ARREST EVERYONE!” attached to a photo of Epstein with his goddaughter on his lap.
Like… Epstein was already arrested… and it does not appear he trafficked minors to anyone. Am I missing a key email somewhere?
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
Section 132 was recorded in 1843 and they were married in 1827. This is not a matter of interpretation. You’re just flat wrong.
By your logic, all sex in Christian marriages is rape. After all, they’re all taught the threats God made against fornicators, thus they’ve been groomed under duress into marriage.
You can go with that logic, and it’s not necessarily wrong. It just muddies what rape is into something meaningless.
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
I believe they were already married for many years before that. The threat of destruction was if she didn’t stay loyal to him in their marriage. She’s specially mentioned because she was consistently against polygamy, so this is more accurately described as intimidation to stay married. It’s a stretch to say it supports rape, no more than marriage itself is a social/legal pressure for those married to have sex with each other.
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
It’s very unlikely Joseph was in his 70s. Neither of their ages are mentioned. Common estimates for Mary are 13-14, and Joseph being in late teens or early 20s.
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
Instead of taking his virgin daughters, the mob wanted the men (angels). Pretty demoralizing for his daughters. Lot’s daughter may be the first recorded femcels, which would explain their desperate attempt at getting pregnant by their father.
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
She was pubescent, and thus irrelevant to pedophilia.
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
How do they support rape? Or do you consider it rape of I tell I woman she’ll go to hell if she doesn’t consent?
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think the Bible talks about child brides. Without that, none of those are related to pedophilia…
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 months ago:
US police forces kill far more people than the overall homicide rate in Europe
How are you calculating this? Doesn’t seem right.
2024 was the worst year with 1,365 police killings in the US. That’s around 4 people for every million. Per capita this is a rate 8x that of France which I believe has the most police killings in Europe.
General European homicide rates vary on countries from 5 (Swiss) to 42 (Latvian) per million. It’s higher than the rate of police killings in the US.
However, the general homicide rate in the US is like 6x the European rate.
I only briefly checked the numbers, I hope I didn’t get anything wrong.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 months ago:
I strongly doubt they were banned for posting a police report.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 months ago:
Trump meets with Putin and is nice to him: “Trump is Putin’s bitch, look at him!”
Mamdani meets with Trump and stands at his desk like an obedient puppy: “Wow, our hero really charmed him with his immense rizz! Trump’s a coward!”
Politics is so braindead. 😩
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 months ago:
I don’t know if this is some sort of joke, but that’s not an agreement. That’s Trump not wanting a convoluted political beating around the bush, which is what Mamdani was about to do. Such a response would feed the media, but just saying yes and Trump shrugging it off sabotages the media’s obvious attempt of pitting them against each other.
- Comment on Had to look this up 3 months ago:
There’s no way you people would think she’s racist if she wasn’t transphobic.
She was very accepting of Hermione being cast as a black girl. Seaman was just used as comedic relief in the movies, much moreso than in the books, with his magical mistakes causing explosions being primarily when he was a kid. He was loyal and high achieving character.
Meanwhile, the blonde character who uses the offense slur “mudblood” is the childhood villain for most the books. Yet she is racist for this somehow too, I imagine.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 3 months ago:
Are you joking? Not even close.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 3 months ago:
With a centrally controlled food supply, a misstep can lead to there literally not being enough food. You know this is different and this post is disingenuous.
More people die from obesity than starvation. There are tons of options for free food. Nobody is going to starve to death.
- Comment on PC Master Race 4 months ago:
When 1.6 came out I was stubborn and refused to install Steam which was needed for it. But I eventually did and it eventually grew on me even though recoil and everything is a bit different. Still using my 22 year old steam account.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 4 months ago:
Sometimes lawyers do preliminary motions like to suppress unconstitutional search warrants or change of venue and stuff. If it’s complex, it can take a while, and defense cannot request speedy trial if they’re filing things, but you also don’t necessarily want to forgo filing useful things.
Also, if they violate the constitutional right to a speedy trial, you can file a habeas corpus or something and, even if you win, there’s still no consequence except them shrugging and saying oops.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 4 months ago:
Yeah, been like this for quite a while. They can drag you for a while, lose their case, shrug it off, and continue as normal.
Meanwhile, you lost your job after your arrest, maybe even were denied bail and had to stay ~2 years in jail waiting for trial, and spent $100k on legal expenses. Winning at trial gives you no restitution for those massive losses. You’re expected to also shrug it off and continue life.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 4 months ago:
Important for those who don’t know: police can legally lie to you. Happens all the time when they’re trying to get a confession. In a discussion, they’ll be like “we have your fingerprints matched and we have video of you, so it’s better if you’re just honest with us.” But they often don’t have anything which is why they’re desperate for a confession.
Weird to me that people are taking issue with the cameras more than the police work.
The problem here is charges being made with weak evidence and officers legally allowed to lie. I had a similar experience, but she was smarter than me. I was 22 and naive, thinking I didn’t need to prove my innocence because they have to prove my guilt in court. The presumption of innocence is a lie. I had to learn the hard way, losing many years of my life.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 4 months ago:
To be fair, nobody here would care about this if a Democratic was responsible.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 4 months ago:
Lol, DOGE was the quickest abandoned federal organization ever. Trump used it to get votes of real conservatives and some libertarian types.
- Comment on U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic 4 months ago:
You must be almost 40 years old at this point.