Collective punishment is fine if you're choosing to be there. Search "BDSM group punishment" on pornhub.

Much of the body positivity movement just says you shouldn't be mean to fat people, or anyone else, because of their body shape. That's what the words mean: body positivity.

There are some crazy body positivity types who actually claim that any amount of obesity is just fine and has no adverse health implications at all, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary (although I haven't met any that think anorexia is cool). That is indeed RFK Jr style crazy.

Wah, BMI is a stupid measure because I am all muscles!

Okay, we came up with much better criteria based on clinically validated measures like waist to hip ratio.

Wah, moving the goalposts! Now pass me the cheetos.

Not exactly apples-to-apples. That's like saying there is no experimental evidence that an addition problem with n+1 digits where n is the most anyone has bothered to actually add can be performed.

Besides my statement being just as true as the one I quoted, it is indeed "apples-to-apples."

You can break factoring-based public key enrcryption with quantum computers, just like you can do with classical computers. Both problems are scaling up. Both problems have possible fundamental limits in the way of scaling up to current key lengths. The difference is that for classical computing we know we're already bumping into those limits.

There is definitely theoretical evidence that movement in time can go in any direction, FTL (hello warp), and transporters can be things

An episode of Star Trek isn't theoretical evidence. There's no (definitive) theoretical evidence those things are impossible, but that's not the same as theoretical evidence that they are possible.

I value them but I also value human expertise also. You don't seem to. Voyagers have been on borrowed time for a long time. They will likely fail in the near future anyway, although I suspect funding cuts will end the mission in the next year before the hardware does completely fail.

The science they've accomplished is awesome, no doubt about it, and it's amazing they're still getting readings that are expanding our understanding of the universe. Obviously the crew will do their best to keep voyagers going as as long as possible, as they have done before, and did during the crisis caused by human error. Absolutely no criticism here. They are geniuses that you and I simply aren't. I say keep em funded as long as possible.

I used the free trial and there were a few things worth watching but by the end of the trial I'd watched them all.

And the Apple TV app is possibly the worst app I've ever had to use. They hide the movies I bought on iTunes in a mess of movies and TV shows that I would have to pay extra to watch. I can't help but feel that Jobs would have executed whoever came up with that idea.

Next they won't include a computer but you'll get the cool Apple box you can show off to your friends.

This has been a trite phrase uttered by republicans for decades to excuse the fact that they don't believe in democracy at all and that voting is a privilege reserved only for them, as the god-appointed ruling class. The phrase is meaningless in every way and designed to shut down discussion and debate. They often utter it when they are rationalizing the rollout of an unpopular policy such as restricting voting rights, or when rolling back supreme court rulings from the past.

I can see evidence that the founding fathers feared democracy and as such designed a system that would mitigate popular voting somewhat (electoral college for one). But to say "we're not a democracy" is ignorant and malicious on their part.

AI =/= LLM.

It's not that funny. Purges of the military and government are pretty standard practice when taking over a country. You kick out anybody who can't be relied upon to support you. The problem is there tend not to be a big pool of both qualified and politically reliable replacements so by emphasizing the latter the former suffers.

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I'm a neophyte, but there's some interesting information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Local...

It's easy to tell you haven't used Apple hardware in a long, long time.

Yeah, Siri sucks and Apple's models are behind, but Apple is doing some interesting research and the M chip architecture is very, very good for running local models.

Even if you ignore Apple's own AI software, it's popping up in 3rd party software all over the place, including graphics and video editing.

Yeah, they absolutely are. There are some Local LLM reddit groups where people are doing some neat stuff.

The M* hardware is very impressive.

As if that's different from any other "Sponsored Item" search results?

I really look forward to more widespread adoption of AI search in listings. I hate spending hours having to manually dig through listings to see if the product listed *actually* meets my needs or building up spreadsheets to compare feature sets. This should be automatable. We have the tech to do so now.