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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • Many do. Others don’t. It’s not required for living generally, and it isn’t needed to validate a vote. This is an invented problem to try and control who can vote. One party has to do that to survive, and they’re very good at minimizing turnout of people who might vote against them. As you can see.






  • Lots of attacks on Gen Z here, some points valid about the education that they were given from the older generations (yet it’s their fault somehow). Good thing none of the other generations are being fooled by AI marketing tactics, right?

    The debate on consciousness is one we should be having, even if LLMs themselves aren’t really there. If you’re new to the discussion, look up AI safety and the alignment problem. Then realize that while people think it’s about preparing for a true AGI with something akin to consciousness and the dangers that we could face, we have have alignment problems without an artificial intelligence. If we think a machine (or even a person) is doing things because of the same reasons we want them done, and they aren’t but we can’t tell that, that’s an alignment problem. Everything’s fine until they follow their goals and the goals suddenly line up differently than ours. And the dilemma is - there’s not any good solutions.

    But back to the topic. All this is not the fault of Gen Z. We built this world the way it is and raised them to be gullible and dependent on technology. Using them as a scapegoat (those dumb kids) is ignoring our own failures.



  • It’s all about add on sales. If you go in and buy just a burger, even at the prices today they’re likely losing money from that sale. They want you to buy sides or a drink, and if it’s a spot where people are ordering meals for a game or event ice is a quick way to make more money. All it takes is a sign placement, and if they don’t know you have ice, they aren’t going to order any.




  • “Skeptical of arguments”

    Now I’m no lawyer and I can see how the details of this makes it seem like a complex issue, but my gut reaction was that it should be unconstitutional first and foremost for one group to be able to through their religious beliefs deny basic well being for others, especially in such a broad manner.

    And my first response days ago before even seeing the specifics of this case was “the best way to topple ACA is and always has been to propose something better”. Almost 20 years later and this has never been a route the Republicans have tried.


  • AI certainly can be a tool to combat it. Such things should have been hardcoded within these neural nets to have some type of watermarking way before it became a problem, but now as far as it’s gone and in the open, it’s a bit too late for that remedy.

    But when tools are put out to detect what is and isn’t AI, trust will develop in THOSE AI systems, and then they could be manipulated to claim actual real events aren’t true. The real problem is that the humans in all of this from the beginning are losing their ability to critically examine and verify what they’re being shown. I.e., people are gullible, always have been to a point, but are at the height now of believing anything they’re told without question.


  • Under President Joe Biden, the Education Department tried multiple times to forgive millions of people’s student loans, only to be stopped by courts.

    Both sides, something something.

    “American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.

    You’re hurting a large number of those taxpayers by doing this. This is akin to looking for budget cuts by going after who has the smallest amount of funding like NASA and the Arts.

    Plus, some countries actually consider investing in their students to improve their overall society. They don’t try to make profit off of them while minimizing who can get an education. I think our goals in the US are a bit messed up.







  • Mass bleaching has been monitored throughout the Great Barrier Reef since the 80s. There was certainly bleaching but not at the level seen in the years listed, and look how that frequency changed. I doubt it’s because we got better at documenting bleaching effects. The important thing is that bleaching to some degree is normal, but typically the population would have time to recover before the next event, and they would be localized. Large scale and every year doesn’t allow recovery.