The immigrants devalued our dollars, just like they raised our home prices! /s because, these people, ffs, probably is a real thing they're saying now.

The Democrat party is not at all hostile to Christianity, it isn't affiliated with any religion and doesn't pick a favorite.

The Republican Party has decided it's so close to religion that when their politics get in the way they'll change the religion to fit. To the point of failing every single WWJD check and calling empathy a sickness. Personally, I don't think any ideology with Christ in the name has a lot of room to fail many WWJD checks, but here we are.

I don't think so, but they were called by the government to testify to Microsoft forcing them to make Internet Explorer the default browser or they'd pull Office for Mac. IDK what the analog of that would be, is Apple making Google do anything with Android, or influencing the hardware manufacturers?

If Apple had done what you suggested I'm sure we'd have heard of it with 20-something years of bundling Safari on Macs because that would be more on point.

He's what Texas thinks a smart person looks like.

That makes no fucking sense. Companies at the top got there because lots of other companies are their customers.

Amazon may be influential in the realm of cloud services for example, but we are their customer and I don't owe my job to them, I owe it to OUR customers, because that's where the money comes from.

Your idea, that my customer can't tell Amazon what to do inverts the whole fucking power structure, that's batshit. Also the premise that Amazon would cease to function without Bezos and his personal wealth being what it is, that is doubled-down on batshit insanity. There are lots of valid reasons personal wealth distribution shouldn't be so fucking disparate that don't have fuck-all to do with the environment, and all of your personal choices affect the economy and environment. Tax Bezos, regulate Amazon, educate yourself.

How did it work out, let me get you straight. When Trump announces a ridiculous new punitive tax like 100% on inbound moose nuts, then TACOs a week later you say it was a brilliant negotiation strategy because the real 4d chess goal was to gain things like .... uh, IDK, this? Which is a net gain because no math allowed we say so.

Then when another country announces a dumbass punitive tax and later drops it, you say haha, got'em. Like you can't see they did the same thing back to you to show how dumb it is and everyone can do it. This is why we think Trumpism is a cult.

That's bullshit, an LLM can mimic how humans write very well, but they can't manipulate you. They entirely lack a model of a human mind. They're not capable of modeling your state of mind to infer why you said what you did or to reason about cause and effect of what can be said to influence your mental state.

You can mistake its mimicry for intelligence if you don't really think very hard... look, the thing is some people are one step away from joining a cult. They are looking for someone to think for them. We do need to look out for them and chatbots should be written responsibly to protect people from themselves, but an LLM is no more a risk of manipulating you than a book is. Some books need guardrails too, they need an appropriate amount of context presented alongside them to protect vulnerable people. I guess we could say books are manipulative, but we all know this entirely depends on the reader being easily influenced, same with chatbots.

GS only goes to 15. If you count one of your hands twice you don't have to take a sock off.

You accuse others of not listening to people affected by the problem, and here's the governor of Ohio telling you your problems are made up and exactly what the real problems are which are basic needs for any population boom - more funding for schools, law enforcement, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

Time and time again, this is what the Republican Party represents. It does not listen to Republican governors on refugee settlement issues. It does not listen to Republican mayors on border issues. It does not listen to Republican women on women's issues. The finger is always pointed somewhere else. You "make things up to bring people's attention to the real problem" - JD Vance, but accuse others of not listening. This is why nobody takes you seriously, notably your own constituents who are happy to vote for made up things but aren't really that stupid to believe it, and you'll always be fighting that internal inconsistency. Good luck, moron.

Nobody has ever won a fight by announcing how many pull-ups they can do.

You're both-siding "residents of X are doing Y" with "someone somewhere did Y sometime"

Saying nobody is fucking goats in Boston is not partisan rhetoric ignoring the fact that somewhere a goat has in fact been fucked.
Those are not two "halves" of the truth unless you're fucking a goat in Boston. ARE YOU, RobinH? How do I know, because if I have to make stuff up to bring the media's attention to this goat fucking problem, I learned that skill from a highly regarded, Yale educated hillbilly that certainly knows a thing or two about goat fucks.

It's like any other strength, having it and applying it are totally different things. Nobody uses all of their potential all of the time. It comes down to willpower and training. Like being able to paint well but never finishing a painting, being strong and not knowing how to fight or lacking endurance, being smart and buying crypto.. IQ tests are like pull-up competitions, it'll help you find strong people, not people that don't suck at everything.

Nice to see you catching up with the rest of the world...just your usual 20 years behind everyone else. Got to be at least 20 years since I last saw a data cap on fixed line internet access in the UK.

If that were true you'd see it in at least some other species, and you don't.

Our survival didn't depend on beating the environment or our development would have stopped a long time ago. You don't need what we have to do that, look around at everything else that does it.

The only thing that makes sense is we were competing with ourselves, or a more intelligent predator, which doesn't exist. Like a shit ton of humans were living together and had fuck-all else to worry about but outwitting each other to survive. I can't think of any other way to evolutionarily force runaway intelligence gain. It had to have happened where food was abundant and there were a lot of people. Or precursors to people, whatever.

Depends entirely on the type of business.

Engineering companies building electronics or mechanical devices must use specific, industry standard software for interoperability with other shops.

Media businesses need to provide proofs and intermediate products in specific formats, and will receive subcontracted work in those same interchange formats.

I do government controls contracting as a side business, all of their software specs are in Word documents with macros and other special features of Word, their interlock and safety stuff is in Excel with VBA scripts and what have you.

It is never as easy as just deciding that you dont need certain software products, the larger ecosystem makes a lot of those decisions for you.

The Danish government can do this only because they are the originating entity for the documents, and they are the root of the tree for work rather than a leaf node.