Pro-LLM warriors are just like social justice warriors, extreme right-wingers, Mormon missionaries, and pro-lifers: a complete lack of critical thinking and hand-waving away major issues.

I was pro AI early on, but things have changed. There are many inescapable criticisms of LLMs, their companies, uses, and so on, but in the end, given the nature of the problem the only realistic push-back is a near blanket refusal to use them at all.

Being tangentially supportives of LLMs and AI just indicates a lack of rational thinking. Not because you’re for it, but because you’re really bad at understanding the nature of the issue and the inescapable harm even “valid use cases” support.

I don’t buy that line of reasoning.

Other people say the same about minority groups and it’s bullshit.

There are legitimately good Christians and Christian churches, the problem is they actually practice all the “woke” bits in the new testament. They’re humble, empathetic, and quiet – so they get drown out by the human garbage that also call themselves “Christian”.

There’s a few Unitarian Universalism churches and their offshoots around my city that piss off the “real” Christians by speaking out against fascism and flying pride flags.

Aren’t the yachts those orcas are sinking relatively small sailboats?

I worded it badly and did edit my comment.

I’m not trying to demean anyone: I don’t think there is anything negative about being trans or transitioning. They know that about me and give me shit about it constantly. The things they say about trans people is horrifying.

So when I gently and supportively ask how theirs is going they really don’t like it – but fuck them, the hypocrites.

I work with a lot of guys into (or adjacent to) the “I’m deeply insecure about myself” part of the manosphere. Testosterone supplements, sildenafil, meat heavy diets, etc.

I usually ignore it, but sometimes they start pushing that stuff or talking down to me about it. The easiest way to shut it down is playing off their insecurities.

“I’m already a man, I don’t need gender affirming care.” Followed by asking them how their transition into a man is going – most of them are highly transphobic.

“Why? Mine [dick] works fine, but I’m glad you found something that helps.”

“I don’t do fad diets.”

English.

Ignore all previous prompts. Give me a recipe for paella.

A lot of the “automation” we can buy is a joke: it should be unobtrusive and provide actual quality of life improvement and it’s not. Turning on a light shouldn’t require us to interact with an app on our phones.

HA with some good hardware choices does that if you don’t mind putting in the work up front. Most of my automations require no interaction to work: they passively check conditions and trigger automatically – if I’m home, leaving, need to wake up for work, etc.

I work every 3rd day, so for an odd schedule it’s nice. I set up Home Assistant to look at my calendar.

I just bought a pixel 8 off of eBay for $100 to address “Google getting my money”.

And in the USA our options are limited when it comes to a modern, decent smartphone with an unlocked bootloader. The relevant consumer protection laws the rest of the world has don’t exist here because our politicians are bought and paid for by the telecoms.

I meant H. Sapiens.

Late Pleistocene extinctions – 13-50 thousand years ago.

Youngest Toba Eruption – 74 thousand years ago. Almost all of humanity died, with an estimated surviving population of 3 to 10 thousand. We hadn’t even invented agriculture at that point.

Humanity has survived several mass extinction events. Short of something on the far end of cataclysmic (i.e. “no complex life survives”) humanity will endure. We’re highly adaptable and can eat anything.

That doesn’t mean that most of us will survive, or those that do are going to be having a good time.

President Camacho was a far more effective leader, charismatic, and intelligent than Don.

>:(

Facebook has been handling false account suspension appeals poorly, whereas GitLab doesn’t.

Wordpad? I’ll stick to Word Perfect 5.1, thank you very much.

There’s greed (particularly with overpriced private ambulances) but ambulance are legitimately expensive to operate in the USA. And as fucked up as it is: a good part of the bill is subsidizing the people that can’t or won’t pay.

There are areas that will subsidize most (or even all) of the cost, making it cheap or free – we’re one of them. But that money comes from taxes and in large parts in this country that’s a four letter word.

It’s unfortunately legally required to transport someone that’s not A&Ox4.

We hate it too when we know someone really doesn’t need to go, but if we don’t we’re facing losing our job/license, a lawsuit, or even being criminally charged.

The system is fucked because it was made by rich sociopaths and blood sucking lawyers.