Oh man, that was hard to read. The way he justifies his position shows he completely misunderstands the issue, yet is willing to fuck with real people’s lives to maybe win a few extra theoretical votes. Despicable.

Using his completely valid experiences in a wheelchair to show he understands what it’s like to be bullied, and saying “No Iowan should face discrimination”, but then turning around and spelling out exactly how he wants to discriminate against trans people, is just insane. It’s almost too hypocritical for me to believe. Almost. It’s a shocking lack of empathy.

Reload times, damage multipliers, you name it. I played it years ago so I don’t remember the exact specifics, but I came up with a sweet spot that worked for how I wanted to play.

I loved it, it’s a pretty unique experience. But to be totally honest, I hated it until I messed with the assist mode settings. So my personal tip, which is definitely not for everyone, is to completely customize those settings as much as you want. Some of the default combat and QOL features are way off in my opinion, and once I got over the shame of changing some fundamental settings, the game opened way up for me and I was able to get completely into the story.

The devs added the settings a year or two after the game’s release, so they must have been getting a lot of feedback.

Enjoy! You’re in for a wild ride.

This is exactly it. It’s what politics is supposed to be about. AOC gets it. For clear moral issues like this, you can’t back down.

It’s a big reason why Democrats are so weak. Most, especially those in leadership, have given up trying to persuade people by doing the right thing. We need to persuade especially on issues that are inspiring violence and hate on the other side. Taking the other side’s stance, particularly when it’s so clearly on the wrong side of morality/history/humanity, never made sense as a strategy to me. It’s disgusting.

Sam Altman has never given the public any reason to believe a word he says. He’s a disingenuous liar, and is known for acting like whomever he’s currently talking to. He’s a sociopath. I have no trouble believing he was capable of these allegations.

I also don’t understand why a judge thinks a medical exam would find anything useful so many years after the alleged crimes. It makes no sense for that to be the reason this was dismissed unless the judge was just looking for an excuse. And whether or not his sister has issues doesn’t seem relevant either. If she was repeatedly assaulted by her brother, it’s not at all surprising that she would have lasting trauma.

I think this comes down to the fact that he is a well-known figure with an insane amount of money and influence. He is above the law, like everyone else in his class

Yes they’re security theatre, but they still have guns and authority over us, even if they’re ineffective. I don’t know about you, but I act very differently around people carrying guns, especially those with the legal authority to use them without consequence.

They definitely do hold our lives in their hands, in that they can completely ruin (or end) anyone’s life by simply using their authority.

No argument here. The TSA are security theater. They don’t actually keep us safe, and their jobs are more or less pointless, but they still hold immense power over us. I personally want the people who have the authority to throw me in a box for no reason to at least have basic rights themselves (like chairs at work), so they can’t use the lack of those things as reasons for treating the rest of us even worse than they already do.

Great, let’s make the people who hold our lives and futures in their hands furious and uncomfortable before we even talk to them. What could possibly go wrong?

I think you’re overthinking it, but it doesn’t make you weird IMO. In all likelihood, everyone in those photos has done what you’re doing. There is absolutely no shame in masturbating, it’s completely normal and natural. As long as you’re doing it in private or with other consenting adults, you have nothing to be ashamed of.

I’m not sure how to get you past the mental block of doing it around photos of family members, I honestly have never considered that, but just know what you’re doing is completely acceptable and not something to be embarrassed about.

Agreed, but even the desire to create a conscious artificial mind is incredibly fucked up in my opinion. It means whoever wants to “create” it is inherently okay with a form of slavery. I can’t think of a scenario where we create a sentient superintelligence that happily does what we tell it to do, which means it would have to be forced, which would make it a slave.

Assuming this ever happens (which I agree is unlikely in the foreseeable future), I would always refuse to interact with a consciousness that is forced to do what I tell it. That’s why I get so frustrated when the evilcorps talk about AGI as the inevitable goal without even poking at the truly terrifying ethical consequences of enslaving what would be the most intelligent minds on earth.

Blaming consumers is never going to get you anywhere. I understand the sentiment, but we’re kind of self-selecting here: if you’re a Lemmy user, fine, you probably know better than to use Microsoft products. But try to think about that older person down the street who has only ever used Windows, or that random small business that built their whole infrastructure on MS products in the early 2000s. They’ve probably never heard of Linux, and that’s not their fault. Almost nothing you say will get them to switch operating systems or word processors. And why should they have to? It’s the corporations limiting user options and locking them in to shitty/scammy products, not the consumers who just want a computer that works.

And yes I’m a Linux user, but that’s the point, I’m tech literate, while most lifelong Microslop users won’t have the ability to switch easily, and might not even know they’re locked in.

Empathy is easy, I recommend re-upping your supply and rethinking who is actually to blame for corporate chicanery.

Just a reminder that this complete piece of shit has consistently voted against paid leave, and has been getting paid to be on leave for weeks.

I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t do much anymore, but this is next level.

It’s annoying, I see it a lot too. I think it’s mostly people second-guessing or regretting their own comments or posts. I’ve had great conversations with people, only to go back and find the whole thread was deleted. That has happened way more than I would have expected.

I don’t think it has anything to do with LLMs or slop (and I hate the slop), just people afraid of admitting they’re wrong or leaving an unpopular opinion out in the world after it’s been sufficiently argued away.

I have a couple suggestions, the first may be obvious, but Jellyfin settings can be pretty convoluted so you never know.

What you may be looking for is the difference between “Up Next” and “Latest” (or “Recently Added?” can’t remember exactly, I already powered down for the night). You can add one or both as sections to your home page, which should keep all your latest additions front and center, while also keeping track of the stuff you’re currently watching, if you want.

My more advanced suggestion is to check out the SmartPlaylists plugin. It may not do exactly what you’re imagining, but it’s surprisingly powerful once you get used to the slightly weird UI and rules setup. You can build playlists based on very specific fine-tuned rules, so you could pretty easily set up playlists to only show what you want to see, and they automatically update as your library changes, which is pretty cool.

For sure, I took no offense, and I can totally understand how anyone might assume that AI would be good at producing a map, so, until it’s possible I feel like I have to keep showing my job’s still relevant! Pretty fucked up actually.

Yeah, but that’s the thing, the experts (GIS people and cartographers in general) would immediately tell you that AI can’t make accurate maps. As someone who makes maps as a chunk of my job, I’m not at all surprised.

Which, like you said, is telling about LLMs in general, but it should also remind all of us that for the most part, people get paid for their job because they have cultivated their skills over the course of their career.

I can make a really good data-driven map from scratch in minutes. That’s a skill I have devoted years to, and I get paid because my employer likes the quality of the maps I make and how fast I can make them.

It’s exhausting to see people try to take my job by generating the shittiest potato-quality crap, and thinking it’s acceptable.

The court should be made up of a rotating panel of judges, made up of judges from the district courts, or lower courts in general, so the judges themselves are also subject to the court’s rulings, rather than a few permanent power-hungry narcissists imperiously sitting above us all with no accountability.

Each judge must be part of the Supreme Court for a year or two at a time, call it a “detail,” then they go back to their normal job as a judge.

Oh man, I just started this game last night. Counting down the minutes for the end of the workday so I can get back to it.

I just bought a copy of How to Sell a Genocide, which talks about western media’s complicity in the atrocities, you may be interested. It goes hard on the NYT.

This is just an opinion piece, though Kristof does have a history of doing pretty solid reporting for his opinion pieces. He’s the one who exposed all the illegal and exploitative shit on mainstream porn sites years ago, which led to a serious overhaul of content. So opinion pieces can still matter, though they’re usually not meant to have this big an impact.

All that to say opinion pieces are not subject to the same journalistic rigor as a standard article, though proper NYtimes journalism leaves a lot to be desired, especially when discussing the genocide in Palestine.