The “secret messages” part cleanly gives it away.

Entirely correct. Latin Times is owned by the International Business Times who also drove Newsweek into the ground. I don’t think the Latin Times have enough usage yet to get much discussion on Wikipedia, but we consider the IB Times generally unreliable – effectively heavily discouraged against using.

I’m going to go brutally murder and deep-fry my dog just to cancel out whatever grass you ate today, you extremist vegoon! something something lions something desert island grumble grumble muh canines

Hope that serves as a warning the next time you feel like expressing an opinion that differs from mine being preachy.

“Finally, my time has come.” —the model train nerds

Theoretically, cutting and pasting a file into your browser will just act like copy–pasting, but that’s still a dumb way to phrase it.

A friend brought up Greenland nuking somebody as a joke. And I imagined how disproportionate a retaliatory strike could be, quickly remembering though that the current population is less than 60,000 and that I’m almost certain I’ve seen figures of more than 60,000 nukes during the Cold War, so I imagined a retaliatory strike where literally every person in Greenland had a personalized nuke.

The research was done make sure I wasn’t misremembering, that Greenland didn’t at any point exceed 60,000 (thus necessitating a closer comparison), and that I’m not Senator Armstrong-ing this.

Okay, but the ruling is totally sensible inasmuch as it applies to “purposes of tariffs, imports and customs”. Tomatoes by and large aren’t being imported for their botanical value; they’re being used for food. This ruling exists so corporations can’t “um ackshually” their way out of paying their fair share.

But that’s too sensible; in reality, this unanimous ruling that I never bothered to spend five seconds researching independently (I am very intellectually superior) was just “le Americans uneducated ecksdee”.

(And before you point it out: yes, an “um ackshually” definition of vegetables includes fruits, although this is using a culinary one. So indeed, the original post can’t even pedant right.)

Edit: to totally gild the lily, imagine your country adds a tax to crab meat because overfishing for a luxury good is destroying the Earth’s oceans. Someone sells Alaskan king crab, and they go to the courts demanding their taxes back because “um, ackshually, crabs are infraorder Brachyura, but king crabs are nested cladistically inside the hermit crab superfamily”. You would hope the court would tell them to get lost, because for the environmental impact and culinary uses that the bill is targeting, it’s a crab.

It’s chiefly a UK usage of the word. And happy cake day!

Winston Payne energy. (Like Squidward, it’s even funnier when the flashback shows them losing that hair in a single traumatic incident.)

Ah yes, much like Catch-22 is a strawman of war. Or The Handmaid’s Tale is a strawman of patriarchy and theocracy. You know what, like, themes are, right? Is “dystopia novels aren’t literally reality but are designed to critique existing political structures through an exaggerated late-stage version of them” too nuanced for ML?

Finally, some vegan recipe representation on Lemmy (with some ideas for vegetarians too).

Uh… Yeah? If you’ve never read Nineteen Eighty-Four, it’s a phenomenal and bone-chilling read, but as a minor spoiler you’d figure out not too far into the book: Orwell, an anarcho-socialist(asterisk), is critiquing authoritarianism through an attack on Soviet-style socialism.

I actually disagree having listened to it as someone who gets sensory overload and panic attacks. (Disclaimer: I’ve just listened with headphones; the real-world implementation might change this.)

I thought the music was pleasant. I can see it helping to organically drown out the loud, chaotic, stressful noises naturally present in the airport.

I’m interested to hear what other people who get sensory overload think, though, since I’ll bet it manifests in very different ways.

Since the the Internet is full of “I think this person’s position is based” —Abraham “Einstein” Lincolns, yes, this quote is real.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell — mouths mercy, and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

I’m just saying, renaming your store to “53 Shoes” after this would be really funny.

OP’s article is from July 1st.

OP, LLMs don’t “know” shit. When they say something that conforms to a preexisting bias of yours, that’s nothing. That should affect the strength of your argument in no capacity. It’s not a knowledge base; it’s a transformer model that exists to tell you what you’re most likely to want to hear given what’s come before.

The part of the anti-AI crowd who denounce rampant, uncritical use of LLMs but who also shit their pants and clap every time an LLM says something against LLMs tells me they don’t have even a bare minimum understanding of machine learning or of cognitive biases like confirmation bias.

(Your link results in an internal runtime error btw.)

OP, for preservation purposes, could you swap your MSN rehost link out for the original: https://kfor.com/news/local/man-who-advised-ok-gov-stitt-deported-to-guatemala/

It’s not against the rules, but MSN is notorious for link rot. That link will likely be dead within months.

Edit: Thanks, OP.

Except it categorically isn’t. If you sit two people in a laboratory – an adherent to an Abrahamic religion and a “practitioner” of “magic” – neither will be able to perform a supernatural feat. We agree that far. But unless the “witch” wants to resort to special pleading that they can’t perform it under laboratory conditions for no good reason (the woo magic system presumably isn’t sentient and has no reason to care? or maybe they have really bad performance anxiety?), then it’s provably false. Even if they say something vague like “better luck” or “better health”, well we have statistics for a reason. Are you not powerful enough? Okay, well like, we’re measuring down to the attometer at this point. If you want to drink masala chai under an amber calcite chandelier of 100 candles, listening to pagan-coded fantasy music, and you can consistently, measurably move a human hair 20 meters away, congratulations: you’ve still proven witchcraft is real.

The Abrahamic God, meanwhile, is constructed to be unfalsifiable. It’d be subject to everything I just mentioned except that there are a million bullshit but unfalsifiable rationalizations why a sentient God wouldn’t respond to these prayers to let them be observed. Literally no matter how hard you try, a sentient third-party gets the final say.

The difference between believing in a monotheistic God and believing in witchcraft is the difference between believing in Santa Claus and believing you made and placed those presents yourself. Of course neither is true and both are ridiculous: there is another entity putting those presents there, but it’s not magic, and by taking action in the real world, you can influence what those presents will be without magic. But for one of them, if you told your other little kid friends, they’d ask you to put up or shut up.

Sure. Doesn’t make them not stupid as hell; it just makes their beliefs less corrosive to society. I can imagine they’d be extremely toxic if they had widespread public support, but probably still not nearly as much as “I commune with an all-powerful sky daddy whose word is ultimate law that divides people between everlasting bliss and everlasting suffering and I can choose to believe whatever that word is” like Abrahamic religions.