Flax_vert
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- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 13 hours ago:
LLMs are nice for basic research or explaining stuff in your terms. Kind of like an interactive encyclopedia. This does sacrifice accuracy, though
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 day ago:
Now that’s T-Bagging
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 day ago:
But could the dinosaurs DO THIS? Straps myself to a rocket and blasts off the planet into space
- Comment on Public testing of the Emergency Alerts system 2 days ago:
If we’ve only got 4 minutes anyway, what’s the point?
This isn’t about nukes.
Natural disasters, invasion, etc will be announced through so many news systems that I think I’ll stick to a nice silent phone.
Actually, the amount of people who have mentioned the alert was unexpected/they didn’t know last time just shows how these systems aren’t completely reliable.
I’d also like to draw attention to Storm Éowyn. It was upgraded to a severe red warning less than 24 hours before the storm hit, in the late morning. The whole country essentially needed to be locked down the next day. Someone could have a long day at work and returning home tired, or simply not read the news to find out. I think a lot of people didn’t realise how severe it was until their phone blared at them. (Including my parents, who weren’t sure on whether to cancel their morning coffee with a friend, until the alert came through.)
Nobody died in the UK during the red warning period. Unfortunately, there was one death in Scotland during the amber warning period of someone trying to race the storm home after a nightshift. Someone died in the Republic of Ireland. No deaths in Northern Ireland, despite being one of the worst hit regions.
I do firmly believe the warning saved lives. You’re entitled to a quiet phone, but this system is essential. (Especially with how enshittified news is today- tabloids cry wolf about weather events all the time!)
So far the UK doesn’t appear to have abused the system but America certainly has
Most countries don’t, and we have a pretty robust national framework on when they’ll be sent. I do not support abusing the system, but I support the system existing.
- Comment on Public testing of the Emergency Alerts system 2 days ago:
Once again, conspiracy theorists will be having a field day spreading misinformation about this 😂
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- Comment on Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject 2 days ago:
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 2 days ago:
Yeah. I think online gambling should be banned. Just keep the bookies open so you don’t get a prohibition problem
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
What?
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
Quite frankly, gambling should be culled kind of like tobacco (although maybe not that harsh). I think they should ban large gambling companies from operating here. Betting shops are fine if they’re independently owned
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
My second statement is asserting that their is mortality and that atheism is false, that some atheists being moral is evidence against atheism
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
No def not, most people I know and myself would be killed under any religious moral system because their entire existence is sin because that’s what’s written
They’re right, except you can set it to “everyone I know”
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
If atheism is true, morality doesn’t exist. Most Atheists still feel some sense of mortality because we do have a knowledge of objective right and wrong. Although one can be misled into thinking some right things are wrong and some wrong things are right, without an infallible moral framework to turn to.
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
The punishment for sin is death. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It’s mercy that God’s let you live this long. How shall you escape?
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
That’s why there’s only one true religion.
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
How do you have something being morally wrong without a religious framework
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 3 days ago:
Advertising gambling should be illegal
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 4 days ago:
I think we should shoot nazis. Primarily because they are traitors to King and Country
- Comment on How do phone scammers work? I get them trying to get another persons money. But how do they get all the info and now can do voice fakes. I highly doubt they just pick a random person and say fuck them 4 days ago:
Can’t you get a lot of people’s names by looking up their number on WhatsApp?
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 4 days ago:
tbh what he did say was inciting violence. You cannot deny that
- Comment on Is there a self hosted version of Google Earth? 4 days ago:
Build a spaceship
- Comment on The Queen was the victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager, book claims 4 days ago:
Historically, Consort hasn’t really been used.
Can you provide a source on hin “banning” it?
It was used to differentiate it from the late Queen. Although, I can see why charles would discourage it as comments keep appearing everywhere saying “Queen Consort*” because of the vile, vitriolic hatred against Her Majesty.
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 4 days ago:
I just treat cyclists like cars. I give them the space as if they were another car.
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 4 days ago:
As someone who drives, it’s not hard to not hit a cyclist
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 4 days ago:
I bet you drive a BMW
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 4 days ago:
Deserved
- Comment on Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by, new reports find 4 days ago:
You guys are getting retirements???
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 5 days ago:
Doesn’t Mastodon already receive the posts?
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 5 days ago:
Glad I’m from Northern Ireland where our railways are still somewhat nationalised
