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by tensor 2y ago
Except that comprehensive studies, in contrast to anecdotes, show that people in countries with public health care in fact DO get good treatment generally. So while maybe in rare circumstances you could have to wait too long, the vast major
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by tensor 2y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. Anecdotally, most people I know who love actual raves generally didn't go to clubs, for one. But also more broadly, I've heard from multiple local venues that one big change is that EDM crowds d
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by tensor 2y ago
I also think that simple exposure to a narrative, whether it has any actual facts/data backing it up or not, is likely the primary driver of people believing it. Now, consider that in most "free speech" societies, those with
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by tensor 2y ago
Instagram needs a Bluesky. It's truly an awful experience, but the only semi-competitor is TikTok which... isn't great either.
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by tensor 2y ago
But at least in first world countries, unlike the US, you WILL get treatment. Even if you are poor, like 95% of the US population.
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by tensor 2y ago
No, it would be a landslide only in one sense, the first past the post sense. Not in any other sense. The majority of individuals would still not want the cons in power, but with FPTP the left vote gets split.
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by tensor 2y ago
For context, the liberal party is right of centre these days. We don't even have a "far-left" party. The NDP is solidly left, probably slightly left of what the liberals were years ago when this poster thinks things were wond
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by tensor 2y ago
Yes, they harassed people, they cornered people, yes they restricted access to stores, buildings, and yes they used their truck horns to attack local residents by preventing them being able to sleep for days on end. Preventing people from s
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by tensor 2y ago
Substack absolutely refuses to stop emailing you. It's simply not possible to subscribe to paid content and NOT have them either email you or force push notifications. Enough people have complained about this that it's pretty obvi
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by tensor 2y ago
I pay for things, but often there is no option to pay. When there is, eventually the company figures out that they can have you pay AND show you ads. Then the argument becomes "well if they opt not to have ads, you should pay more for
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by tensor 2y ago
I’m going to tell mine: the only thing worse than news media is random internet comments. They’re either propaganda, lies, or snake oil.
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by tensor 2y ago
It's more similar to chatgpt search. E.g. it does real time search and gets the AI to summarize/rank/interpret the results for you.
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by tensor 2y ago
Kagi assistant costs more than your ask, but is a good product and comes with their also good ad-free traditional search.
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by tensor 2y ago
By making ad-free models. Everyone assumes that the only people big enough to make models will be the ad-pushers, but my prediction is that eventually every household will be able to have effectively their own model if they want, trained on
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by tensor 2y ago
Oh if only there were a thing like sex education that could solve these problems. Though, I suppose dead kids don't have these issues either. I'd encourage you to reflect on the fact that your children now have active shooter dri
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by tensor 2y ago
Oh yes, "simply" obey a law that would not respect the privacy of people, and given the current religious zealousness in the US, may expose customers to future danger. Good for Pornhub. They made the right call.
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by tensor 2y ago
I'd rather have an honest conversation about teenagers having access to violent media, especially how violence is absolutely normalized in the US. Seeing a boob never killed anyone, but violence kills thousands every year in the US, in
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by tensor 2y ago
I don't think any of these things ultimately work. There will always be someone who will take the money or the deal. Advocating for regulation is the most effective way forward. But probably the first thing to advocate for is some noti
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by tensor 2y ago
Actually, training it yourself is probably better in terms of copyright. If you train an LLM that only you use, from books you own, I don't see how that is actually illegal. As long as you're not selling the LLM or content it gene
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by tensor 2y ago
This is why there will be a market for personal LLMs that act as your agent, or maybe shared for a family or the like.
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by tensor 2y ago
Europe is doing no such thing. They are preparing for physical war by drastically increasing military spending [1], and some countries are already sending out "be ready for war" information sheets. [2] [1] https://www.e
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by tensor 2y ago
Probably because they prefer a ranking order that promotes sites with more of their ads or some such, and/or causes users to spend more time going through results looking at more ads.
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by tensor 2y ago
Advertising should be opt-in, and user tuneable. I avoid advertising in my life as much as possible, but yet, I still find out about all the cool local things going on. How? I use instagram, where I follow things that interest me. The key d
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by tensor 2y ago
Yeah, I realize it was part of the game, but I just have such a strong aversion to it that that was the line for me. Even creating a fictional account is too much.
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by tensor 2y ago
I bailed at create an account.
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by tensor 2y ago
The conservatives claimed precisely this about the last election, but investigators deemed the interference was not significant enough for a redo. Foreign interference is one of the biggest threats to democracy today. I’d absolutely support
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by tensor 2y ago
You setup a straw man with a loaded fabrication. No, democracy was not sacrificed at all. There will be another vote, with a now far better informed population. A lot of posters here have a very strange sense of "free speech" as w
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by tensor 2y ago
But they have been provided with true facts: that the candidate is actually backed by Russia, and that the supposedly "true" facts that they were provided were in fact not true facts. The election has still been influenced for sur
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by tensor 2y ago
PACs are one of the biggest problems with the US system. Thank god most democracies outlaw them.
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by tensor 2y ago
Yes. That’s how it is in North America too. “A few ads” probably no, but if it’s enough to be significant then yes.

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