SparroHawc

Hm. That’s a good point.

Better would be destroying the speakers. I can just look away from the screen showing ads, but it’s still annoying if they’re blaring in my ear.

I have a friend who wants to get one just so he can wrap it in a badly-aliased texture like the PS1 would have, just to riff on how much it looks like someone was scrimping for polygons when they designed it.

The screen used for blaring ads is the same screen that you have to read to be able to use the pump.

No More Heroes for the Wii does! You have to shake the wiimote to recharge your not-a-lightsaber and it’s hilarious.

Using the toy on your partner is potentially part of bringing more to the table, yes.

Most animals do not fight to the death, outside of predators going for prey to eat.

The only reason this is true is because every moment of combat is dangerous - which means it is far safer to chase your opponent off, whether by intimidating them or wounding them. Humans are unique in that our tool use allows us to kill our enemies with a single blow. Animals besides ants that operate in large social groups can absolutely come into conflict with other groups, and engage in what can easily be considered warfare.

If you somehow managed to hand a rabbit a pistol and teach it how to use it, I guarantee there would be dead animals near its burrow.

Honestly it’s a great place to hang out when you can’t afford the alternative, too, even if it’s not by choice. There are some absolute gems from decades ago that still hold up to this day.

The problem is one part corporate consolidation, and two+ parts that corporations are allowed to harm the public for their own gain without repercussions (or repercussions that don’t sufficiently punish the corporations). A corporation is often just an entity that looks for commons to tragedy - whether it is big or small.

The real indicator of global warming.

There was a lot getting lined up, and then the fucker got re-elected. I’m pretty sure he would have faced consequences if he wasn’t president.

He’s spent his entire second term dismantling the nation, probably in part to try to make sure it doesn’t actually have the ability to punish him.

If they’re only a couple meters wide, how the heck are they supposed to fit watercraft?

The thing that annoys me is that I still need to be careful when clicking on links in emails to my work address, despite having my web browser locked down to the nines. I just wanted to see what the page looked like, security peeps! I’m not a risk! I knew what it was!

Still had to go through additional training, mutter grumble…

Yep. It’s called the standard deduction. If you make less than that, you pay zero income tax.

AI has some interesting and fun applications.

The problem is capitalism.

Except LLMs are the worst of both worlds in that respect. In order to work in a robot factory, its output needs to be reliable and repeatable, ideally across as wide a range of inputs as possible. LLMs … are very much not that. They’re also only as ‘skilled’ as their training data, which thanks to the morally bankrupt scraping of every source the AI companies can get their grubby hands on, is of enormously variable quality - and because of the nature of LLMs, it will never be better than its training data. The average quality of its output will, in fact, be the average of its training data.

It’s possible for LLMs to be creative - in the sense that it can output novel sentences - except that as you increase its ‘creativity’ (temperature) beyond the default that most of the chatbots out there have, the quality plummets. It still can’t solve complex problems though, because even if it does have an internal model of how certain things function, it can’t come close to the complexity of what humans can hold in their brains - or perhaps cannot abstract portions of their model in the same way - as evidenced by their utter failure to work through any problem that has more than five or so layers. This is a problem that sees diminishing returns with increased parameter count - the primary metric that is driving the enormous data centers being built.

LLMs are a solution looking for a problem, and aside from ‘bs for people who don’t want to make any decisions in their day-to-day life’ and ‘scam generator’, there doesn’t seem to be very many niches that they are actually good at filling.

Yeppppp. I personally know three people who moved out of Texas specifically to get away from their abhorrent legislation.

‘Zionist’ is separate from ‘any religious fundamentalist’. Creative interpretation supports your statement. :)

You’re ignoring the fact that you have to:

• get a wallet
• make sure your wallet is secure
• fund the wallet from a trusted source
• back up your wallet

Crypto is many things, but it isn’t exactly as friendly as a credit card provided by your bank. Or PayPal, for that matter.

Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more

You would be correct if not for the fact that consuming animal protein is waaaaaaay less farmland-efficient and more environmentally damaging than consuming plant-based protein… unless you’re eating meat from sustainably-grown animals. Including carefully-managed hunting of wild animals. Factory-farmed meat, however, is very much not that. Most of the feed that goes to them is ALSO a mono-crop.