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yawpitch
2y ago
Or maybe you both are?
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yawpitch
2y ago
Texas official warns against problem Texas officials created. Now, sports.
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Oh the many, many ways this will go wrong. The world ended not with a bang and not with a whimper… in the end, it was the sound of someone double clicking on a file written in a language the person “vibing” it couldn’t read and didn’t und
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yawpitch
2y ago
So what you’re saying is defund the police?
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yawpitch
2y ago
His name means “an asshole’s gaseous emission”; I’m not sure any other words are necessary.
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yawpitch
2y ago
You really like to read a lot more into my words then are (or ever could be) there. Let be be more explicit: my original comment was just to take the point you were not quite making and instead make it explicit… prisons don’t work at all,
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yawpitch
2y ago
Not mine, solid as a rock. That laugh aside, I’m not sure you made your point; once more, the heterosexual cisgender woman is in less danger from a heterosexual transgender woman than she is from another otherwise cisgender woman who will a
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yawpitch
2y ago
The 25th Amendment provides no mechanism for dealing with a rogue President, per se, its only contribution in that context is to clarify what happens if Congress has already successfully impeached said rogue President and removed him —
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2y ago
… ok, you might be getting a little closer to waking up here. If prisons worked (as anything but a source of cheap labor) all Americans would be safe.
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Assuming that prisons should be segregated by something like sex is shunting the problem off on women. Even assuming your binary exists — it doesn’t — a heterosexual cisgender woman is, obviously, under no additional risk being housed w
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yawpitch
2y ago
A few hours ago I saw a 3 year old child killed in a traffic accident. There’s really no need to reach for mathematics.
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yawpitch
2y ago
I would personally say that the time delay between that pop-up displaying and you needing to have already been that pessimistic will be a matter of nanoseconds.
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2y ago
If you’re in Europe when a war kicks off between what used to be the USA and will soon not be Europe, you (and humanity) have bigger problems than what happened to your digital corpse. http://collapseos.org/ https:/
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2y ago
If you’re living in a world in which someone in a deep suicidal crisis might reach out to something that, with near-certainty, cannot possibly think and, with absolute certainty, cannot empathize , you are living in a Dystopian nightma
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2y ago
If it can’t think it can’t have a moral code or ethics. If it can think, it can have a moral code and ethics, but now. we need to be willing to force our moral code and ethics on other thinkers. If it can out-think us, it can develop its
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yawpitch
2y ago
> Peter Thiel, one of the most sophisticated minds of our time ROFLMAO, cough sputter cough… Oh shit, he’s serious?
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yawpitch
2y ago
That is an argument out of (uninspiring and not unexpected) ignorance; there are plenty of “biological females” (technically speaking, we all start there, BTW) who end puberty with more muscle mass than their average male peer, especially
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2y ago
The reality of biological sex as a “hardware” function is vastly more complex than you are (apparently) aware, human beings do not actually arrive in one of two binary forms that fit comfortably into your bias towards biological essenti
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yawpitch
2y ago
Transgender girls and women are girls and women, and something tells me you would have zero problem with transgender boys and men competing against cisgender boys and men.
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yawpitch
2y ago
I was off them for most of the last twenty years, I’ve restarted one recently, after falling into a severe depression episode.
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yawpitch
2y ago
As others have said, ask your doctor, but also 5mg/day is a really low dose… 20mg/day is around the bottom of the usual dosage range; your doctor may just tell you to cut your pill in half for a few weeks to a month and then dis
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yawpitch
2y ago
Hmm… maybe it actually can think?
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2y ago
Examining that analogy in light of the electoral outcome, would you prefer to be in the timeline in which someone throws you a chair but there is a boat full of others who might throw you something useful, or the one in which someone has th
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yawpitch
2y ago
Recognizing when humans are ignorant and trying to help is like all I do.
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2y ago
> 1. Many accept Musk’s rise to power as good news. Do they though? Also, many accepted the rise of [insert genocidal despot whose politics you disagree with] too. > 2. I don’t see this change being forcibly reverted. The noise from t
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2y ago
> Here's an analogy. With phones, you own your phone number […] we just haven't had comparable competition in the social media space for a while now. One of the problems with this analogy is that the competition being lauded o
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yawpitch
2y ago
Given that it’s coming from Josh Hawley, it’s entirely likely it was written by DeepSeek.
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2y ago
Fascism is as fascists do.
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> Soon it will be better than the top developers, then the very best developers. I think this progression is reasonable and to be expected. An LLM cannot exceed the mastery present in its training data. Realistically it will always be
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Tech Optimists: We’ve released an algorithm that makes it easier for you to find what you want. Tech Capitalists: How do we make money by gaming it? Tech Realists: All I can find is SEO-manipulated garbage. Tech Optimists: We’ve released an
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