Adderbox76

Every single one of us, as kids, learned the concept of “garbage in, garbage out”; most likely in terms of diet and food intake.

And yet every AI cultist makes the shocked pikachu face when they figure out that trying to improve your LLM by feeding it on data generated by literally the inferior LLM you’re trying to improve, is an exercise in diminishing returns and generational degradation in quality.

Why has the world gotten both “more intelligent” and yet fundamentally more stupid at the same time? Serious question.

I’m a guy and I’m in a very customer facing line of work and I don’t have that issue at all.

As others have said, maybe it’s an age thing (I’m middle aged) or maybe it’s a tone thing. If I’m complimenting them, it’s usually on something specific; “Oh hey, those are really cool glasses” or “I love what you’ve done with your hair.”, etc…

It’s never “You’ve got pretty hair, lady.” or “Gosh yer’ beautiful.”

The line between platonic comment and creepy sex weirdo (in my mind) is if you’re complimenting them on something they actively did that you think is cool (hairstyle, choice of glasses, etc…) it’s fine. Complimenting them on features that they have no control over, like saying “Hey, I just wanted to, completely randomly tell you how attractive you are” is creepy.

I’m not entirely clear on what your angle is (or even what you’re particularly asking about). But I’ll try my best to offer something meaningful.

From what I can gather, you are making the rather common mistake of equating captialism with corporate capitalism/venture capitalism It may seem convenient (and depressing to think of the things as intertwined, but they’re really not.

Capitalism is very simple. It’s the exchange of goods and services for monetary reward. The harder you work (theoretically) the more you’re rewarded. It’s only when corporations, venture capitalists and stock prices become involved that that notion begins to become corrupted.

If I make a point to trying to do my grocery shopping at the local grocery store rather than the big chain, that’s still capitalism. I’d argue it’s more pure capitalism than corporate douchebaggery.

If I have a neighbour who likes to make wooden furniture in his garage and I procure a table and chairs from him instead of going to IKEA. That’s still capitalism.

If (as I had all the time growing up) our neighbours kept cows while my family kept chickens, we would purchase beef from them and they would purchase eggs and poultry from us. THAT’S CAPITALISM.

Seeing the reward from your own sweat rather than a corporation seeing the reward from other people’s sweat.

I guess in some sort of answer to your question, take back the notion of capitalism from the greedy corporations that have hijacked it. Support your local community. Go to your local farmer’s markets. Buy from local artisans and farmers. THAT’S how we reconcile (and fix) capitalism.

They’re not properly referred to by that word. They USED to be referred to by that word back when they (falsely) believed that such disorders made them inferior.

Classifying those who were mentally less-developed as “retarded” became the excuse for a world that would try all types of monstrous experiments, ostensibly in an attempt to “heal them” because this was they only way “those people” could be a use to society; as lab rats for things like lobotomies, electro-shock therapy and any other wacky insanity that the early 20th century had dreamed up.

In effect, while “retarded” was once the so-called medical terminology it very quickly became shorthand for an entire group of people that could be dismissed and used because they’d serve no other purpose otherwise.

I only found out within the last couple of years that it’s considered a slur

No. It was always a slur. It was still a slur when we were younger, we were just too immature to understand that. It just means that we grew up and learned that it’s denigrating and (most of us) stopped using it once we grasped that.

It’s absolutely a slur. And (IMO) one of the worst ones. Nothing infuriates me more.

He was told by Stephen Miller that if he concentrated hard enough, he could kill Harris with his brain. Or poop himself. Whichever came first.

I’m not heading “right” by any stretch of the imagination. In fact if anything I’m more militantly anti-corporate than ever. But while I once thought of “globalism” as “the future”, the COVID pandemic and the following supply chain crisis really veered me away from it.

A modicum of self-sufficiency is critical.

The Abed Movie could have been great.

Galaxy Quest the Show inside Galaxy Quest the Movie

Baron Samedi

Or Alf reruns.

The family was the Tanners. Gordon Shumway was literally his name from back on Melmac. ALF is an acronym for Alien Life Form and is what the family called him as a nickname.

“This…” (long pause to make sure she doesn’t say something stupid) “…former president”

She didn’t need to say it. The long pause said everything it needed to.

Also, going over to shake his hand was such an alpha move and she knew it. Trump was pretty much rattled from that point onwards.

If you draw women like children, and then give them high pitched voices, like children, and have them act girlish and foolish like pre-teen girls, and then sexualize them…There is something very very fucking wrong with you. Anime “purists” can deny it all they want, but it’s inherently tied in/related to fake waifu girlfriends and lonely neckbeards drawing naked waifus all over DeviantArt.

It’s skeevy as shit and I refuse to pretend otherwise.

• File system access being locked down unless you’re rooted. I basically makes using some retro emulators impossible because in some cases the emulator installs the ROMs into the data partition which the launcher can’t access.
• The inevitable forcing of Google/Apple’s fucking A.I into every aspect of my phone. I can only opt out for so long before it’s just baked into the OS itself with no way to disable it. If I want to ask an AI a question, or to double check my code for errors, I’ll go to a website and ask it. I don’t need/want it doing shit proactively all the time.

No one is saying that “now he’s a good guy”.

Quite the opposite from what I’ve seen. They’ve been all saying “If Dick Cheney…one of the most divisive republicans of modern times, says that Trump is a threat…we should probably fucking listen.”

It’s like The Joker teaming up with Batman because even HE thinks The Riddler is “a bit much”

Most food has a Julien Code to tell you when it was manufactured/packaged.

In my experience owning old pieces of crap, you start a manual transmission by pushing it until it’s rolling down an incline, and then jump in and quickly pop the clutch.

Seriously though, if you’re just learning how to drive a stick, do NOT take it to test for your license.

This could also be in a thread titled “Tell me you’re Canadian without telling me you’re Canadian”.