Captain, remember your breathing exercises. They're not worth it.
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Alright, you do actually make fair points here that I hadn't taken into consideration. I still stand by my statement but now I see that you aren't really necessarily disagreeing with me. Guess I'm going to have to start checking the edit history as well as the sources now...
It is an encyclopedia. It is not a place for subjective content. Just because you keep getting your opinion edits rolled back does not mean that that's a bad thing. A Wikipedia page SHOULD be filled only with objective facts. Again, it is an encyclopedia.
Also, you can trust that a given page is not poisoned by checking the sources yourself. They're all right there at the bottom. Anything without a citation can be ignored but most things of substance are going to have a citation, because an encyclopedia is a place in which to collect objective facts with sources to back them up.
The same could really be said about human teachers as well, though. An AI is frequently confidently wrong but so was my history teacher.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a terrible idea. But we were already vulnerable to misinformation with classical schooling. To use your example, we WERE taught that Colombus discovered the Americas peacefully. It wasn't until I reached college that I learned the truth behind the discovery and colonization of the Americas, and I only even learned it then by doing my own history reading. Up until that point I had been taught that Thanksgiving was celebrated in memory of the happy-fun-get-along-times that were had between the settlers and the natives.
Kids are already taught ridiculous inaccuracies on purpose and while I hardly think an idea like this would improve that situation, I have to point out that at least accidental misinformation would be less objectively evil than what we already misinform kids about.
The neural network of a human and of an AI operate in fundamentally different ways. They also interact with an image in fundamentally different ways.
I bet the fucking moon did it. That big luminous asshole. I know it's up there plotting something.
Well... Yeah. Otherwise they wouldn't ask me for a credit card for a free trial of a service. It's always been obvious that that's their aim, refusing a single use credit card isn't some big "gotcha" moment here. Free trials only exist anymore in order to steal money at the end of the trial period, counting on the user forgetting to cancel. This is a known quantity.
No, that's just what the political right tells you they are all about. Inspect their actual actions over the last several centuries and they tell a very different story.
Make no mistake, conservatives desire an oppressive government. They want the state to be able to tell you you can't be gay or Muslim. They yearn for the boot on their neck, so long as it steps harder on their neighbors than it does on them personally.
Just went and read the entire article. That's pretty much spot on. Journalist sneaks into Amazon warehouse with a camera, interviews drivers, gets caught, and then has the idea to sell bottles of piss (real piss? Fake piss? Empty bottle? It's not specified) on Amazon. Which some people then buy and then an Amazon automated service contacted him about boosting his business.
There's also a bonus bit in there about his daughters being able to buy knives and rat poison from Alexa without any age verification.
It brings up some notable points in the age verification section, and it brings up some notable points about life as a delivery driver, but as far as the actual product is concerned it's hard to paint Amazon as the bad guy this time. This is clearly a ridiculous item. If you're shopping and you click on and order a clearly labeled bottle of piss, when it arrives on your doorstep that's your own problem.
That said though if just anybody can post and sell literally anything, even things like that, and Amazon does nothing to monitor what they're selling through their site - well, Amazon is going to get flooded with garbage and scams sooner rather than later.
You write things and read like you fucking want
That's the last lesson you have to learn before becoming fluent in English, especially American English. If you put a Cajun, a Yankee, a Brit and an Australian in the same room, despite all four of them allegedly speaking the same language you'll be lucky to communicate more than a sentence or two between the lot of them.
There are certain rules to be followed in English but a solid 45% or more of our "rules" are more like "subtext" and can be freely ignored, changed, or customized based on location and current company.
As for the "Why, English?" that's because English is a stolen mishmash hodgepodge of 14 different languages where we took the cool and useful words and bastardized them into unrecognizability. English more than any other is a patchwork language. We didn't invent shit, merely reappropriated other people's words in true classic English fashion.
"Welcome to Randy Random's Drive Thru, here's your double burger and onion rings, that'll be $12.89 please thanks"
Actually though, the speed of this place would be legendary
The wiki for Bird Box told me a hell of a lot more about what was going on than the actual movie did.
Pretty much spot on. This imaginary man also owns a truck too big to park and will assault you for being gay and/or brown. People just like him populate moderate swaths of the American South and make other minor appearances farther north.
Maybe I'm just missing something here but I can't think of what part of discord's UI could be considered convoluted. It's a list of servers with a list of channels in them. You also have a list of DMs. End of story. Everything you need is right there in front of you.
It's miles better than any IRC client I ever used, which is the most direct comparison between Discord and "the good old days" of the internet. And I liked IRC a lot.
I understand having issues with Discord's corporate backing or having issues with how it's difficult to find files or specific posts. Because it isn't a forum, it was never really intended for that. But I think it's a bit disingenuous to say the UI is complex, convoluted and impractical, because it's actually none of those things. Discord has done its best to keep up with people misusing their platform as a forum, as they should, because that's what the userbase wants (even if they're using the product "wrong"). But the core functionality of what it's supposed to do is wide open right in front of you and is highly intuitive.
Do correct me if I'm wrong though, I'm curious to hear what people have to say about this. There's always a possibility that I'm some savant who is the only person in the world to intuitively grok Discord. But I very much doubt that.
As a very long time DCSS player I've recently discovered and been having a ton of fun with Zorbus, which I found on Steam. It isn't intended to be a DCSS 2 but it does feel like one in a lot of ways. It's paid, but dirt cheap. I recommend it.
Thanks, I'll get right on that.
On an unrelated note, got any virgin blood?
I work at a mechanic shop. In general,
- spark plugs and coils/ignition packs
- battery
- any and all air filters
- oil change
Can all be done in your home driveway for under $100 and half an hour of free education from YouTube for 95% of all cars. They're all dumb easy, your least favorite coworker could do it. Depending on your level of expertise you can also add brakes to this list, but incorrectly installed brakes will kill you and will be expensive if they don't, so lots of folks leave those to the professionals. But if the shop recommends you any of the above you tell them no thank you and then you pick up the parts from AutoZone for 1/5 of the quoted price.
Special shoutout to batteries though, if you're driving a Rich People Car (essentially anything as or more expensive than a Benz) lots of them will fucking demolish your battery if you don't take it to the dealer service center to get the system reset with new battery voltage. Whole check system is frankly unnecessary and could be easily done automatically even if you did want it to happen, but no. They all want to ride the battery at the razor's edge of available voltage so that if you dare install one outside the dealer service center it'll last about six months before death, possibly catastrophic death. But if you're driving a Honda? No problem. You can remove the battery while the car is running and it'll just keep chugging along.
I hate to break the news to you that way, but I think you wasted some money. That said though, if one of those failed, the others might follow suit soon. Now you're prepared with the knowledge that you can fix it yourself for way cheaper if that does happen.
"We can't find any evidence. But we definitely know they're guilty! They just covered their tracks so well that there is no evidence of wrongdoing available anywhere. Given the situation at hand and how obvious it is, without evidence, that these guys have committed a crime, we better lock them up."
Cunning Action is a hell of a drug. I have to consciously stop myself from dipping Rogue 2 in my irl tabletop games too, bonus action dash or disengage is literally game changing. It redefines everything you can do within a turn.
Well, they're all basically locked in a submarine, but way worse. You're in a sealed box hurtling through space. You need a doctor on board, and you need a counselor on board. If you don't want both of them to go completely insane, both of them also need friends and social interaction.
While I agree that Starfleet levels of general fraternization are a lot looser than in modern military, I also think it's just kind of something you learn to live with when you serve on a ship.