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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

A haiku about the lives of pets:

Cherry blossoms fall
our pets brief lights touch our days
time then lays them down

"drama queeeeeen"

He can take some of our "trades workers" who have no business working in Canada. The ones who weren't trained in Canada.

The vote splitting argument is dangerous.

If we say "don't split the vote", why stop at YP? Why should the greens be allowed to split the vote? Those left wing votes "belong" to labour!

And why should reform be "allowed" to "split the vote" on the right? Those right wing votes "belong" to the conservatives!

Soon you have the US two party system. Vote team red or team blue.

Reality is, other parties are important because those votes don't "belong" to any party. Either the bigger parties earn your vote or some other party does.

Even parties that don't win a single seat can have an outsized influence if voters are indicating satisfaction with certain underrepresented policies or dissatisfaction with certain overrepresented policies. On the right, reform only got like 5 seats in the last UK election, but they've fundamentally changed the discussion on the right, for example.

It's true, reform did split the vote on the right, and they're the reason labour is in power right now, but just as you can't drive a car by saying "left" or "right" every hour or so, you can't run a national government that way. A lot of people on the British right are sick of pressing the "right" button election after election and getting functionally left politicies.

With respect to progressive policies, this sort of feedback is actually essential because progressives are constantly in a process of creating policies, and quietly dropping old policies that end up being bad and pretending they were always right wing. Without a feedback mechanism, perhaps progressives would still be nationalist eugenicists.

Most moderate fedizen

There's a reason why it's taken so seriously in China, Singapore, and so on. They've read a history book.

I was getting some incense cones for this cool 3d printed dragon I bought that breathes incense smoke, and two of the smells were frankincense and myrrh. With christmas coming of course I had to pick up those.

It shocked me how much frankincense smells exactly like women's perfume.

Never ask a woman her weight
A man his income
A politician if they cheated on a mortgage application

Lol

She isn't a thicko, she's a wealthy, highly educated young woman playing the part of a black wigger because it plays to her base and her opposition.

A lot of things that demo really well fail in practice.

The problem is that demo environments are limited and don't involve your own company data, which tends to be ugly and sloppy. That's where good humans come in, we can automatically carry context no LLM can, at least at the moment.

Since the information you're looking for isn't trained into the llm, it won't be able to just give you the right answer, but for most companies you also don't have enough data to train an LLM. Same problem with the similarly exciting but ultimately largely ignored "big data". Most companies aren't Google with everything on the web saved, and their LLM sucks.

Some people are just evil, and a lot of those people are in prison.

The average income in my house is pretty high, but if you remove me from the question it's zero because most of the people in my house make 0.

Fediverse is more like atb

It's a fork of pleroma. For a while it had additional features over pleroma such as quote posting but it's been somewhat stagnant for a while so I'm not sure there's actually any advantages at this point or if pleroma proper already has the new features. At some point I'm planning to migrate back to pleroma, but everything works pretty well for me so it's not very high priority.

https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

Someone ported Windows NT for PowerPC to the Wii. It works, too.

People go "How do people fall for scams on the Internet?", the real answer is "Because a lot of crazy things aren't scams!"

Every year, it becomes easier to become a millionaire, but every year it matters less and less because a million dollars is less and less. Eventually, a millionaire will be someone on minimum wage.

Patel always looks so surprised. Like "what the shit you guys actually made me head of the FBI?!"

Honestly, even the COVID shot was insanely harsh. I slept a full 24 hours with a fever with it, and my dad had to quit a job he has lined up because it knocked him on his ass for a month. Then we all got COVID anyway!

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