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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 4 days ago:
Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.
Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn’t agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.
You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.
I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.
None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.
This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 days ago:
Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy.
You mean drones? You’re talking about drones. What’s wrong with drones?
We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.
Hell, most of the pivotal technology developed in the last thousand years started as a military invention before civilian use. Including this internet thing you’re arguing on right now.
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 4 days ago:
They could be ready by 2030.
Statements like this make me question why I even bother to subscribe to this forum.
Every post here is fully of pop pseudo-science, double-digit sample sizes, correlation/causation fallacies, double-digit sample sizes, confirmation biases, conflicts of interests, fucking double-digit sample sizes, and every other fallacy, bias, and problem you could think of. Where’s the real science with actual provable conclusions, perfectly peer-reviewed, and has an appropriately large sample size?!
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 days ago:
I don’t think it’s fair to take the two items they were fighting against, and warping around the details, as a statement of acceptance, especially given how Stinky Pete wouldn’t even budge on those two.
Anthropic took a stand on a couple of guardrails, that you or I would consider to be very basic acceptable rules, but that the rest of their competition immediately lambasted, at the risk of their Pentagon contract, and even a national blacklisting that could completely take down their company. They lost, but at least they didn’t back down. And they are still at risk of being blackballed, because we live in a dictatorship where some fuckhead president can write whatever EO his wants without Congressional approval.
I’m sure as fuck ain’t going to call Dario a hero, or ignore all of the shit Anthropic did to get this far. But, I am going to call out when a company and CEO sticks their neck out in front of a crazed axe-wielding executioner.
- Comment on Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI 5 days ago:
ChatGPT is crap, compared to Claude Opus. Claude does a helluva lot better with any of the programming tasks I throw at it.
Trump and Stinky Pete choosing the worst decision as usual. I hope they don’t follow through with all of their threats of putting Anthropic on a security threat list like Huawei, but if they do, maybe that prompts Anthropic to do the right thing and open-source the model.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 2 weeks ago:
We shouldn’t try to do anything, because the guilty are too powerful?
No. I’m saying we’ve had far too many false hope protests that have wasted decades of time and uncountable resources, and the people in power are literally incapable of the empathy involved to produce results. In fact, the latest craze in right-wing doctrine is calling empathy a weakness, just to make sure any vestiges that still exist within their voters is excised out.
If you want to do something, do something more forceful. These people only care about a few things: not losing their fortunes, and not dying. If you can make them afraid for one of those two things, pursue that.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 2 weeks ago:
I am close to feeling like we need pitchforks, torches and shovels if this justice system won’t actually do anything
You think we need pitchforks, torches, and shovels? They are armed with guns.
Typing on a forum won’t do anything. Shouting real loud won’t do anything. Protests won’t do anything.
You can’t appeal a horde of psychopaths. Narcissists and sociopaths and psychopaths do not give a shit about you, and they never well. They would happily step over your dead corpse as they climb the Congressional steps to vote that day.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps it’s because they shit awful code, with more bugs than my house this summer? And even when the code doesn’t malfunction in an obvious way, it’s harder to decode it than my drunk ramblings?
Naaaaaaaaah, that’s just prejudice. /s
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 3 weeks ago:
Yep, this is what I use.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
This is just “AI = Actually Indians” all over again.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 3 weeks ago:
This is just this scene from The Jerk in written form.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
Europeans being casually xenophobic about immigrants in The Americas and the dishes they bring from home, thus proving this new community’s point.
No shit. Orange chicken was invented by a Chinese-American chef in Hawaii. Chicken alfredo was invented in the US by combining the Italian dish fettuccine al burro with cream and chicken. And breakfast tacos were an adaptation of a Mexican dish tacos de guisados, except Texans used eggs, instead of yesterday’s stewed leftovers. (Also, I’m not sure the OP and community admin even gets the point.)
American is not just a single culture, it’s a melting pot of a bunch of different cultures. Same goes for Canada, just with a different mix of dominant cultures. American food is a reflection of that, sometimes remixing the idea so much that it turns into something else. Cajun food wouldn’t exist without a mixture of French and American influences.
America may be constantly battling racism and xenophobia internally, but we recognize it for what it is: a shit behavior that should should be excised. European and Eastern cultures like Japan are so casually racist and xenophobic that they don’t even recognize it in themselves.
The Axis powers came to be out of a combination of elements, but xenophobia was the biggest one. Germany got their shit together in the end, after brutal period of being forcefully separated themselves, and a period of self-reflection. Italy and Japan? Yeah, not so much.
So, to the OP: I hope your new community isn’t yet another outlet to be racist.
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 4 weeks ago:
It had Ice Cube, and I can’t, for the life of me, understand why the fuck people keep giving that man work.
Ghost of Mars, that horrible XXX sequel, War of the Worlds, shit… they are remaking Anaconda? That’s going to suck, too.
- Comment on Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective 4 weeks ago:
They are a billion dollar company because they made decisions like these over the last several decades. They could have gone the easy route and make decisions that fuck over the consumer, and make billions of dollars in more insidious ways, but they didn’t.
Steam Deck and their commitment to Proton are the reason why we can even have a conversation like this, talking about the rise of Linux Gaming in the year of our lord 2026. Without those two components, we would still be talking about how Windows 11 is fucking us over (while still using it), how nobody likes to switch to Linux because they still want to play games, how the whole “Year of the Linux Desktop” is the same tired fucking joke it’s been for the last 30 years.
Instead, we’re in the timeline where we have enough Linux gaming developers to form their own fucking collective! Because of Valve!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:
Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.
- Comment on Swedish study of 100,000 women found AI-supported mammograms lowered rate of interval cancer by 12% 4 weeks ago:
This is why I hate the term “AI” to describe LLMs, which only passively have to do with ML algorithms.
- Comment on Ban Prediction Markets 4 weeks ago:
The stock market is gambling.
- Comment on Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective 4 weeks ago:
Valve has done more for Linux gaming than all of these people put together.
- Comment on TikTok USA is broken 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 5 weeks ago:
Now’s not the time to hope and pray the fascism away.
- Comment on White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" 5 weeks ago:
It’s a vocal minority and an apathetic majority, with another less-than-vocal minority trying to fight it.
It’s still not right to lump every American with these assholes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, 96.5% of email was spam a decade or two ago, so this is nothing new, AI or not. Hackers and other blackhats are just shifting targets.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 1 month ago:
it’s a government agency enforcing immigration law, not goose-stepping brownshirts.
“Enforcing immigration law” = Deporting anybody they think looks too brown
And yes, they are goose-stepping brownshirts, or at least they wish they were.
- Comment on UK government starting to think about leaving X 1 month ago:
Brexit was a Russian op.
- Comment on Video games where you get to kill US soldiers 1 month ago:
The Prototype series.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 1 month ago:
Even Metroid Dread was trend-chasing.
- Comment on Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content 1 month ago:
You obviously haven’t seen certain sections of CivitAI.
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- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 months ago:
Yeah, Home Assistant is the way to go, but it’s been a slow progression because every company is more interested in proprietary lock-in than trying to push for standards like Z-Wave. It’s cloud-based bullshit everywhere, which is exactly the wrong kind of thing for in-home privacy. There needs to be a better push for standard APIs and internal wireless protocols.
This shit should be fucking easy. HVAC systems are still wired like it’s the 1930s, and all it takes is one company to just swoop in and create an all-in-one solution that uses standards and monitors inside/outdoor/room temps, humidity, occupancy, etc. It could control smart vents to close off rooms that aren’t in use, turn on humidity systems when it’s too low and isn’t too cold outside, hook into other rules from HA.
Doing the right thing could earn them millions, but nobody wants to bother actually doing it.
