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by toofy 2y ago
nope. if i ask an llm to give me a detailed schematic to build a bridge, im not magically * poof * a structural engineer.
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by toofy 2y ago
that’s the faculty of arts and sciences—is this administration going to mandate university economics and business schools —which likely lean heavily capitalist—demand ideological diversity and bring in more communists?
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by toofy 2y ago
it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it were being manipulated, but we know for absolute certain facebooks sites and twitter are manipulated. we should be looking to stop all manipulation, whether from a state or billionaires. this kind of man
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by toofy 2y ago
im not sure this is at all accurate. the book stores around here that carry a good selection are always packed.
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by toofy 2y ago
honolulu, well all of hawaii actually. something like 80+ percent of texas cities ban them or are phasing them out with heavy new restrictions. for example, in dallas, if you want a new billboard, you have to tear down 3. and new ones have
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by toofy 2y ago
this is far too broad of a generalization. just like it would be too broad of a generalization to declare all conservatives to be maga. if we’re to believe trump he declares people to be “extreme leftists” who are clearly not even leftists
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by toofy 2y ago
while some humans are confidently wrong occasionally, if this seems to be a pattern with someone we move them to a different role in the organization, we stop trusting them, or stop asking their opinion on that subject, or remove them from
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by toofy 2y ago
people getting addicted to a chatbot is so weird to me… just talk to another human, i mean… the lengths some people will go to in order to diminish other people is bizarre. just talk to another person. if you’re paranoid people are judging
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by toofy 2y ago
Being this article is 5 years old, it’s likely just Baader-Meinhof, feels like it happens to me every time I learn a new interesting word or concept—seems like I start seeing it everywhere.
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by toofy 2y ago
there are many things in life which cause crying which are not negative. crying is absolutely not limited to “a negative emotion.” if you’re struggling to imagine a crying situation that isn’t negative, i would heavily encourage you to indu
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by toofy 2y ago
the fact that we’ve sometimes been misled on history should teach us to not do that again. to reach closer towards the truth. the answer is that both of those instances in your example should be called out. the answer is not “whatabout $oth
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by toofy 2y ago
> … and likely also don’t understand the difference and the consequences that well. this could be a very good argument to explain why so many have become skeptical of companies. we have example after example where companies take advantag
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by toofy 2y ago
Private equity typically starts with rhetoric along the lines of, “Look at how much good we’re doing!” and then will ultimately end up a race to the bottom. They don’t expect financial sustainability with reasonable returns, they expect sig
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by toofy 2y ago
They absolutely benefit significantly more, from roads for shipping/traveling to educated workforce, to a more stable economy, more stable international trades, to a more stable electrical grid, plumbing, more stable buildings to house
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by toofy 2y ago
i run into this problem often when building teams, people who fail to understand that the real world is not an algorithm. the very first people i release are those incapable of seeing beyond math. their failure to see wider context, their
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by toofy 2y ago
i thought it was plainly obvious it was Santa testing new sleighs and all the sheep keep denying it.
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by toofy 2y ago
i would love to see Bluesky add RSS to user feeds the same way Mastodon does by just adding /rss to the end of the url. it really is rad to add my most read users to the feed.
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by toofy 2y ago
personally i think there are two significantly larger reasons: 1) terrible experience: a lot of people just don’t have fun on twitter, it’s just an awful experience. why spend your free funtime in a place that you just don’t enjoy? we don
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by toofy 2y ago
i realize this may come across as whataboutism, but i think it really is an important question to ask: please keep in mind, i absolutely am not challenging your concerns, but if this concerns you, are you under the impression places like tw
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by toofy 2y ago
> why don't we have cameras with full fledged modern OS-es running custom androids for example with installable apps… because then you end up something that is mediocre at a bunch of random stuff rather than great at something speci
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by toofy 2y ago
i would argue, if it’s that powerful, it should be illegal for anyone to have that sort of power. from china to musk to zuckerberg to religions. we really should ask ourselves why we’re continuing to allow some to continue these abuses…. th
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by toofy 2y ago
i’ll never understand people who put surveillance cameras _in_ their houses. like everything there are of course exceptions, but a normal ass everyday person… i can’t imagine living with this kind of paranoia.
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by toofy 2y ago
> Often the entire point seems to be to get those specific people spun up, realizing that the troll is not constrained to admit error no matter how airtight the refutation. Your point is exactly why I can’t take anyone serious who claims
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by toofy 2y ago
it really has been incredible to watch. the whole main crew behind this really are genius. i always wondered why someone didn’t do a long term role play with a big group and WoW. no pixel does it sooooo well with gta5, WoW always seemed l
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by toofy 2y ago
people are allowed to blog why they decided to read more of some genre. why does it upset you so that someone else wrote their own personal reasons on their own blog?
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by toofy 2y ago
> …the community can hear no criticism, bear no criticism, and self-rationalizes everything. Sometimes it takes a bold stance to make a point against one of the most toxic, delusional, and self-righteous communities online. if one’s “cri
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by toofy 2y ago
gunsmiths are absolutely regulated on who they can’t sell guns.
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by toofy 2y ago
> I don't need a physical store to compare two different 6-foot USB cables. i’ve had the opposite experience. the number of times i’ve received knockoff usb cables is crazy. or misleading specs from their amazon “store” pages, cab
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by toofy 2y ago
> I have to return so much stuff, live with so many things that I don't actually love, … and spend hours on hours researching everything because I can't hold it in my hand. i’ve basically stopped shopping online for these exact
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by toofy 2y ago
There are an awful lot of Chinese products that are not illegal, what specifically about TikTok are We concerned with? It isn’t because it’s a pair of pliers or a notebook. it is because it has been decided it is too dangerous for that gov

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