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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

  • Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris

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  • Not sure I've heard Swift described as "scummy" before.

    And if you're so against billionaires and politicians, why are you for the billionaire politician from the party who wants to cut taxes for billionaires, and not the candidate from a working class background who wants to increase taxes for billionaires?

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  • The zero C is freezing and 100 C is boiling, so not really arbitrary.

    But it's pretty hard to define a scale that has intuitive, round numbers for everything we might care about.

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI.

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  • Yeah, I'm far from anti-AI, but we're just not anywhere close to where people think we are with it. And I'm pretty sick of corporate leadership saying "We need to make more use of AI" without knowing the difference between an LLM and a machine learning application, or having any idea *how" their company could make use of one of the technologies.

    It really feels like one of those hammer in search of a nail things.

  • AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds

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  • What people mean by AI has been changing for as long as the term has been used. When I was studying CS in the 80s, people said the holy grail was giving a computer printed English text and having it read it aloud. It wasn't much later that OCR and text to speech software was commonplace.

    Generally, when people say AI, they mean a computer doing something that normally takes a human, and that bar goes up all the time.

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI.

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  • LLMs don't "understand" anything, and it's unfortunate that we've taken to using language related to human thinking to talk about software. It's all data processing and models.

  • Is it normal for men to be propositioned by swingers, and what makes a man an attractive candidate to swinger couples?

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  • When I was late teens and early twenties, I kept getting propositioned by gay guys. It started to bother me - I've never been in any way homophobic, but I've also never been attracted to men - and I started to worry that there was some vibe I gave off that made people think I was gay.

    Then I mentioned it to a gay guy who I knew, and he said that the vibe I give off is of someone who isn't judgemental and who wouldn't react badly to being asked. Maybe there's something similar or analogous to your situation.

    Edit: propositioned, not preposition

  • ‘I Approve This Message’: Kamala Harris Instantly Uses Trump’s Own Words Against Him

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  • Man, I'm so happy with the way this is going so far. I sure hope she wins the election.

  • Trump Demands Changes for Next Debate, Prompting Claims He’s “Afraid” to Debate Kamala Harris

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  • He came out far on top in the last debate, doesn't seem like he has any justification to make changes.

  • Guess these types have always been around. [Printed in the Leicester Chronicle, 1931]

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  • Obviously some kind of symbolism, but not sure what. I did some searching, but not finding anything.

  • TIL Shrek is based on a very weird book

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  • If what I've read is true, the saddest things about the Shrek movie is that they changed what Fiona was. What I read was that she originally was some other sort of monster, not another ogre - one that Shrek thought was physically unattractive at first. The whole message about a person's insides being what's important loses a lot of impact when Fiona is an attractive version of Shrek's same race/species.

  • Can someone ID this comic strip?

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  • For those curious, from Wikipedia:

    Giving birth is difficult for female hyenas, as the females give birth through their narrow clitoris, and spotted hyena cubs are the largest carnivoran young relative to their mothers' weight. During parturition, the clitoris ruptures to facilitate the passage of the young, and may take weeks to heal.

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  • 400 km?

  • Is anyone else tired of the doom posts on Lemmy?

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  • Fear and anger sell, which is why so much news media is focused on things that make people angry and afraid. Same with politicians. This place isn't inherently trying to push anything (not the way the media does), but it certainly reflects the stuff that people are talking about.

  • Lauren Boebert rails about “Biden Crime Family” just before her son is arrested for crime spree

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  • You realize there has not been one single piece of credible evidence provided suggesting that he was at all involved, right? If there was, don't you think it would be on Fox nonstop?

  • Why was Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan so bad for the American people?

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  • There are quite a number of good articles on the subject if you want a thorough answer, but some of the main things are:

    • He's responsible for a massive deregulation of financial institutions that were a precursor to the Wall Street issues that led to the giant government bailout.
    • He pushed "trickle down economics," which is the theory that if you cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, they'll succeed more and create more jobs so that everyone wins. This is something conservatives always push and it's always a horrible failure that results in a bigger and bigger income gap.
    • He funded his big tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) by slashing federal assistance programs, including low income housing subsidies and mental health support, resulting in an unprecedented surge in homelessness that we're still wrestling with today.
    • Nancy Reagan was the "Just say no to drugs" lady - the figurehead of the largely failed war on drugs which was like trying to prevent teen pregnancy with an abstinence only education program.

    There's a lot more, but those are some of the big ticket items.

  • What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?

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  • My wife and I always laugh when we catch ourselves tapping other faucets. The soap dispenser sounds like a good idea.

  • What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?

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  • It does! It runs for minutes without retapping, but not like ten minutes. Never really timed it, and only noticed when I was filling the sink up (it's a big sink).

  • What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?

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  • Here's an odd one my wife and I were just talking about. Some years ago, we were redoing our kitchen and the contractor told us to go buy the kitchen faucet we wanted. We went off, looked at several, and picked the one we thought looked the best with what we were doing.

    When the contractor went to install it, he opened the box and a battery pack fell out. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why a faucet would need batteries. It turned out that you can turn it on and off by touching it anywhere (handle, faucet itself, whatever), you just leave the physical handle open and set where you want it, then you can touch on and off. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and we'd never use it.

    Flash Forward to now and it's one of the most used conveniences we've ever bought. All those times your hands are covered in raw meat or other cooking mess? Just touch the faucet with your elbow. Rinsing a bunch of veggies one at a time? Tap on, tap off. It works flawlessly, unlike those touchless ones at the airport: no delay and works every time. We will never have a kitchen sink without it - my wife wants them for the bathroom.