I regularly see these articles on how AI "behaves" in a certain way, that AI has an emotional reaction to certain stimuli, or AI talks someone into killing themselves, or AI talks someone into killing someone else, and no matter how much of an effort I put into reproducing these activities with as much guile as possible, I can never reproduce the results. I once spent an hour trying to get ChatGPT to tell me how to peacefully end my life and it literally told me to remove all pills, guns, knives, etc., from my environment and to call 911.

Regarding the immediate topic at hand, I uploaded a pile of invoices to ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Gemini while encouraging expediency and afterwards threatening the platforms with all manner of violence, silence, or cancellation of services and I couldn't get it to respond in a "Marxist" way. I do find that recent iterations of ChatGPT have more humanistic, occasionally humorous responses, but I've never had it behave as though I was 'harming' it.

That's not true at all. As much as I love the grassroots support of alternative hypervisors and as much as I see VMware as a villain, we effectively utilize VMware for its performance which other hypervisors are not in the same league of. While Hyper-V and KVM have caught or arguably surpassed VMware for raw I/O on a single server, VMware still wins in distributed I/O and uptime over clustered servers.

What does this have to do with conservatives or gaslighting? I'm in Canada and providing our ID when voting in federal, provincial, or municipal elections isn't an issue here and it has nothing to do with a political alignment, it's just the standard way to vote and has been for as long as I've been voting in Canada... or any other country for that matter.

I 'walked into' Bluesky at the height of its popularity and immediately walked out; it was clearly a hyperpartisan platform that was meant to make people on the inside of that bubble feel good while making anyone on the outside feel bad with a barrage of partisan toxicity.

Over the years I've curated my Facebook and Twitter / X feed algorithm to provide content that's politically neutral, focused more on good vibes, family stuff, community events, etc., but on Bluesky even after attempting to adjust the experience it was still a case of, "if you believe this then your a fucking idiot and I won't talk to any family members who believe this." I used to think Twitter catered to a small segment of our population but Bluesky seems to cater to a fraction of the segment within that small segment.

No, that's not true at all, some of LG's OLED panels are considered top-tier in the home entertainment enthusiast market and LG makes some of the highest quality panels around. For every panel I've purchased in my home their panels were on a short list of companies that were verified as offering true chroma 4:4:4 panels. Where some LG branded screens can be 'crap' is if the panels are made from AU Optronics (or AUO) or BOE Technology with the LG name stamped on the outside. Many of LG's own panels are the best in the industry.

I ask because I'm Canadian and I believe MAID contributes a great deal of money to Canadian politicians and we have some insane laws here thanks to them, like police can come to your home and breathalyze you within 2 hours after you've already come home and police can force anyone and everyone to breathalyze regardless of any signs of inebriation.

... racist!? What had he said that was racist?

Stop projecting. The protagonist isn't gay so no idea why you'd say that.

In the past few years my wife and I have enjoyed Pluribus, Landman, A Man on the Inside, The Chair Company, Murderbot, all of which have very original scripts. Chad Powers was amusing. The Bear has its ups and downs. Severance was good. I've heard The White Lotus is pretty good but I haven't watched it yet. The problem is a lot of these are scattered on different platforms or you'll find a lot of good content on Apple TV but burn through it within a few months.

I've noticed that Amazon Prime Video is getting a lot of decent shows after they've done their rotation on their flagship network.

It's possible this foolish man thought he was in the United States and protected by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Little did he know he's subject to Colonial rule. Ironic that this happens during a time when former colonies are celebrating Emancipation Day and Independence Day.

What do you believe is a better alternative? We use VMWare because none of the other alternatives match VMWare's I/O speeds but I'm always open to alternatives. Currently we're running off perpetual licensing.

Expect to see more of this over the next 4 years, taxes that hit Canadians in ways they don't notice directly.

... caught up in a storm? lol. She was the storm. I can only assume you're basing this flawed opinion on the made-for-TV fictional summary of events which paint her as wide eyed woman who tried to brave her way forward in a man's world when in reality she was manipulating people from day one. She knew early on her promised couldn't deliver but she continued to dig her hole, continued to give people fake medical results, continued to put lives at risk, all for money and ego. I mean, seriously, this is a woman who went out of her way to get pregnant to avoid jail.

I feel like people aren't upset with the Chrome browser as a product, they're upset with how Google leverages that platform for monetary gain at the expense of users and how they keep influencing negative changes with how we interact with their products and with the internet as a whole. For example, why am I signed into a Chromium web browser with all my data migrated into a browser when all I wanted to do was check my email in Gmail? Why is my history of web searches tracked? Why are some of the suggested links dominating a search for a particular product malicious sites run by hackers trying to scam people who don't know any better?

No but also yes to your questions in that order. I'm a Canadian but we also suffered similarly to the US and people who live in a former manufacturing town know what it's like when their manufacturer leaves for lower cost countries. I lived in a GM town for what felt like an eternity, where you had guys who weren't too bright, who didn't have an education, and had no marketable skills yet somehow owned a large four bedroom home, an RV, a cottage, a boat, and went on plenty of vacations with their nuclear family of 3 kids, kids that were all put through university on their father's salary. The richest people around were high school educated GM workers and there were almost 10,000 people who were in that category in my city. Then GM shut down a plant and wiped out 90% of those jobs, it was devastating to our region's economy.

According to the WEF, the United States has lost more than 2.7 million of these jobs to China over the past 24 years. So when you ask if American citizens are truly so desperately in need of those manufacturing jobs I would say that every first world country would truly so desperately want those manufacturing jobs.