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It’s headcanon, but in my mind Terminator and the Matrix are in the same universe. Terminator is how things started, the Matrix is how it ends.

She had tried working with them and they weren’t giving her any other choice.

I know someone who had to do this. Her parents were abusive and were refusing to do the FASFA paperwork, holding it over her head for something. She had already been in college a couple of years at this point. So, she found a friend she trusted and they got married, allowing her to get the funding she needed to continue to attend college.

You don’t have to go all the way to straight razor to get significant savings. Even just a safety razor basically cuts the cost per shave to nothing vs. modern cartridges. And it’s much easier to use.

There’s a park in my area. Literally every time I have been there, over several years, there is a van in the parking lot. It has a wire mesh bust of Hillary Clinton on top, and is covered with writings about various conspiracy theories about her, and slogans like “Hillary for Jail!”

Possibly the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

There’s a park in my area. Literally every time I have been there, over several years, there is a van in the parking lot. It has a wire mesh bust of Hillary Clinton on top, and is covered with writings about various conspiracy theories about her, and slogans like “Hillary for Jail!”

Possibly the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

Hell, even before the NES, the entire video game industry crashed and nearly died out because there were so many crappy shovelware games that people started to think all games sucked.

That’s fucked up

If he had been fined, do you think he’d actually pay it? And what then? You can’t stick him in jail to make him pay it.

I think this was the real reason behind the decision. Any governmental punishment is ultimately backed by a threat of jail/prison for non-compliance, but if you can’t do that to the president, then he can just ignore it anyway.

I’m not talking about things that have happened to me specifically, rather events broadly across the Earth that should be rare happening on a more and more frequent basis.

I don’t believe in karma as some kind of cosmic balancing force, but I do believe a lot of it is the consequences of our actions a-la climate change.

My entire adulthood has consisted of one unprecedented once-in-a-lifetime event after another, and on occasion the same kind nearly back-to-back. This won’t be the last.

Most absurd was from a job I had in college. This was the password to log into an ancient dumb terminal (literally a monochrome black and green display) on a local-only network that only handled our time clock.

Requirements:

• 8 characters exactly
• You supply the first 4, the system generated the last 4
• I can’t remember if it allowed numbers, but there were definitely no special characters and I think it was also case-insensitive

Required to change password every 30 days.

I’ve definitely had one that was 8-12 characters before…

Honestly, it’s probably more about being realistic. By the same logic of the presidential immunity that SCOTUS invented, you wouldn’t be able to imprison a sitting president. The other option for a punishment is a fine, which Trump likely would refuse to pay, and then what? They can’t jail him for the refusal because presidential immunity. So, the judge is admitting that nothing he tries to impose is going to stick.

It’s because SCOTUS also said anything in the aura of an official act can’t be used as evidence. So if the president, as a private individual, does something illegal, but the only evidence is from an official presidential communication, sorry, can’t use it. It’s bullshit, but that’s what they ruled.

Trump’s team was claiming that key evidence was subject to this immunity. But the judge completely shot them down.

It’s not just about traffic.

Driving requires sitting, which we do too much already and, at these levels, is bad for our health, both mental and physical. Cars also make the world around them noisy and polluted, which also negatively affects health. Even being near the streets and not in a car is taking your life into your hands. Roads take up space that could be (and often was, in the past) devoted to housing or park space.

Our overdependence on cars has radically altered the shape of life in America, and basically none of it for the better.

Or, you know, the lead that we put into the air for decades burning leaded gasoline…

Even though we’ve (mostly) stopped doing that, the effects are cumulative, and there are still plenty of people alive who were around when that was still a thing.

I really hate that people keep treating these LLMs as if they’re actually thinking. They absolutely are not. All they are, under the hood, is really complicated statistical models. They don’t think about or understand anything, they just calculate what the most likely response to a given input is based on their training data.

That becomes really obvious when you look at where they often fall down: math questions and questions about the actual words they’re using.

They do well on standardized math assessments, but if you change the questions just a little, to something outside their training data (often just different numbers or a slightly different phrasing is enough), they fail spectacularly.

They often can’t answer questions about words at all (how many 'R’s in ‘strawberry’, for instance) because they don’t even have a concept of the word, they just have a token that represents that word, and a list of associations that they use to calculate when to use that word.

LLMs are complex, and the way they’re designed means that the specifics of what associations they make and how they’re weighted and things like that are opaque to us, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how they work (despite that being a big talking point when they first came out). And I really wish people would stop treating them like something they’re not.

I think it’s just secular prosperity gospel. He’s rich, therefore he must be smart. Right?

State crime