Tar_Alcaran

I had declawed rescue kitty and she had difficulty walking because of it. It also didn’t stop her from scratching stuff, so she damaged her paws frequently.

She was also VERY bitey until we had the time to properly train her (which, you know, they could have done instead of declawing, she was a pretty smart cat)

time is the one resource Big Tech steals that we can’t ever get back.

That’s an odd argument, since DIY takes significantly more time than just buying a solution.

By… Stepping outside and talking to people? I think all neighborhoods have that ability, even if we don’t really use it much.

Because you, and everyone, is in a huge bubble.

Normal people don’t give a shit where stuff is hosted, or if it’s hosted at all. The vast majority of people couldn’t care less what happens to their catpics if their phone gets crushed and they don’t want to use a separate messaging platform just to talk to you.

The things you think are important absolutely don’t matter to them. Most people don’t give a single second of thought to where their documents should live, and will just download it again on a second device instead of synchronizing anything.

It’s really nice that these things exist, but why would someone do anything with them if they literally don’t have a purpose for it?

Anyone able to fill me in on what the sort of “steelman” argument would be for such a punishment?

I’m having a hard time understanding the expected outcome - I guess just hoping he leaves the country, without actually kicking him out? Why not just kick him out?

These are two entirely different cases. One is a private company not wishing to deal with a private group due to fundraising for Cuba. While that’s a legal thing to do, it’s also perfectly legal for a bank not to want you as a customer. If the DKP thinks they’re being discriminated against, they should sue the bank. The government is totally not involved here.

The second example is a dude who is literally a paid Russian propagandist. Putting them on the sanctions list is much more effective, since they’re not actually in Germany most of the time, but base a lot of their work out of Turkey. Kicking them out would do nothing.

Dogru (…) was previously a key part of Red Fish, a platform financed by Ruptly, a Germany-based outlet partially funded by the Russian state-controlled network, RT. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Dogru closed Red Fish and started his own independent outlet (red. media)

Quite a few Russian propagandists are using the antifa label and Palestine support to get away with their propaganda work. In the case of Dogru is not even well hidden, he went straight from openly paid Russian propagandist to barely-covered propagandist without even bothering to change the name much, or the media channels at all.

They know one thing: Trump’s support won’t last 18 weeks, let alone 18 months, let alone any real timeframe.

And the US produced more oil than Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the UAE combined in 2024. You can probably add Qatar and Oman on that pile too for 2025…

Nah, religions mostly reflect on others, not themselves.

The US probes women and children all the time.

Oh. That’s not what you meant.

Welcome to 2026, where “kill”, “obese” and “predator” are swearwords.

Google search, youtube and android at least make owners money. ChatGPT just burns dumptrucks full of cash just to create the option to burn more cash.

Oh, you wanted code that actually works with your existing codebase? Sorry, here’s some additional sludge sprinkled on top of the previous crappy answer.

An AI subscription will have to be the next internet or phone bill for this thing to even think about making a profit.

Not really, since even the paying subscribers are costing the companies money. If they were a baker, they’re doing the equivalent of selling 1-dollar loaves of bread that cost 2,50 to knead and bake, and that’s not even counting the fact that you need to buy flour first.

Wait what?

Shaheds don’t have any sensors other than a pretty crappy camera (on some of them) and some GPS navigation. The Verba manpad bolted on doesn’t have any sensors except on the missile after firing.

How are they using this thing?

Magical forcefield though.

Zero times over my life.

I had great parents, who had a rule that I could just tell them any fuck ups and mistakes and they wouldn’t get angry and help me.

On the other hand, I was an incredibly boring teenager whose worst bad habits were staying up too late reading books in bed.

I have been studying AI for ten+ years

Really? Cool! What’s your take on people deliberately muddying the waters by conflating LLMs with other forms of AI like interpretative models?

And especially keeping in mind that the latter are a roaring success, while the former is probably the single most expensive waste of time, money and effort known to humanity.

Lots of people do that. It’s how they end up in crippling debt.

Silence Unknown Callers and Filter Unknown Senders on iPhone.

Doesn’t iphone have a “auto silence spam callers” function? The one Android is amazingly good.

Are there? I find unlocking my phone takes more time than shaking.

Since I have a shake-for-light feature, I’ve started using it numerous times every day.

It’s certainly better than the reverse.