You are wrong. In all levels of knowledge work, if you provide garbage input you get garbage output.

There's an old notion that if you don't put care and consideration into what you're asking me to do, I might threaten to do exactly what you ask and let you find out. I may know better, my more professional judgment may be to do what you want, not what you ask. It may often be to TELL you what you want, and disregard everything you said. Someone less experienced would simply do what you ask and cause a lot of trouble. There are FAR more people like that than seasoned veterans that will tell you what you're asking is stupid to save you from yourself. People that know when to say NO.

That is why you're wrong. There is an entire world of information workers that will try to do what you ask, and they are not useless. We use formal communication to reduce the chance of errors, we make you fill out forms for work requests, we review the work of junior employees to make sure they're not satisfying a weird request or in an unconventional way without reason. We watch out for **clever** solutions that should have been aborted early because the ask was stupid. That's not even just knowledge work I described there, that's our entire workforce, every job ever, the purpose of team leads, shift leads, whatever you call them.

It's sad that on /. we have this much ignorance. There are dozens of free LLMs out there, there is no excuse for being this uninformed. They are useful because of the work we can get out of them.

You COWARD, don't you DARE blame video games for deranged psychopaths attacking election officials, judges, congressmen, governors, mayors, the Capitol, pizza parlors, or Republican leaders openly threatening to imprison or execute their opponents because they disagree with them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://apnews.com/article/cou...

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

You know god damned well video games have nothing to do with all this hate, all the lies and all the cruelty going on around us. "metaphor" my ass, people eating cats and dogs wasn't presented as a metaphor, it was presented as truth, to dehumanize normal everyday people, and to stir hatred and paint a target on their backs. And that's just par for the course, because if I have to make up something cruel to bring your attention to the hatred, I will. - Vice President of the United States. Fucking video games. Are you serious.

There is no rational conversation to be had. Anti-vaxxers have heard the best, simplest arguments, and they have rejected the premise. You can no longer get there from here, so stop trying to reason with them. Their response will be something like rejecting the source of your data as untrustworthy, which is the most effective way to reject that which you don't want to entertain.

This is a good example of the old truism: you cannot counter an emotional argument with a logical one.

Case in point. A family friend told us all back when we all were lined up for the first Covid vaccines that she was so sad for us, since we'd all be dead in six months. Had lunch with her recently... still as strongly anti-vaccine today

DarkOx on self censoring to not to enrage a minority group's feelings. When he is in that group.

Yah I know your post history bud, fuck your feelings.

Everyone that doesn't understand what misinformation is should irrigate their nasal passages with hot shallow pond water to boost activity of their immune system.

That's factual, it will make your immune system go wild. It's also misleading, and dangerous. But only if you believe in misinformation, if you don't, then make sure you get the water all the way up there for maximum effect.

That is abhorrent, and extremely irresponsible medical advice. You should get things like flu vaccines to reduce the spread of a highly infectious disease, so you don't miss work unexpectedly, AND to avoid other unpleasant side effects or complications. Not just based on your individual chances of being put in the dirt by the disease.

It's not rocket surgery. The entire U.S. military requires annual flu shots despite being very young and fit compared to the general population. They do it for force readiness. They've done this long before cousin fucking magatards labeled everything they can't spell as "woke"

What kind of drooling TikTok moron gave you your opinions on the matter, because Jesus F Christ that is stupid medical advice and you should stop. YouTube is right to pull that bullshit.

How, the government has been in different hands for what, nine months now hasn't it?

So the government didn't recently change, what did? Oh, the President of the United States personally threatened and sued YouTube, who settled the bribe out of court by agreeing to ... ?

So, I'm sorry, can someone please explain which government is forcing Youtube to do something they don't want to? Which government coerced YouTube? It's blatantly obvious, Trump did.

State and local taxes, being a "charge... mandated by a government", are specifically exempt from the rule.

I was replying to a post that proposes to not do that. It proposes, "you must show the *total* price."

The Anthropic ruling was only against the use of pirated copies. For IP obtained legally and trained on, that was deemed fair use, as creating a model from it is "a highly transformative use." That includes books scanned into a database and then used for training, which seems particularly pertinent for making a comic book illustrator. If the output looks distinctly like any copyright comic, then I suppose it would not be sufficiently transformative in that case.

https://www.authorsalliance.or...

Although then every single tax jurisdiction - city, county, state, and federal - must have a different ad.

So a web store or advertisement, or a search engine, could not advertise price, or e.g. sort results by price, unless you revealed your location first.

And national TV ads would be, I guess, unable to state a price.

Not much different than if say Amazon were required to advertise only prices including sales tax, except at least there are only 50 of those (I think?) For cable it's every city.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

Until the moment you use some product or service, its value is somewhat speculative - it's is how many goods/services you expect to get from it at some point in the future. That's true of dollars, stocks, investment real estate, a stockpile of baked beans and bullets, whatever.

So let's say you buy a beanie baby for $5. Suddenly there's a craze and somebody somewhere pays $100 for the same type of beanie baby you have. Congratulations, your wealth just went up by $95. You start thinking about retiring early. But then the craze crashes, and another beanie baby like yours sells for only $2. Aw crud, $98 of dollars of your wealth was just destroyed! Except there are also 10,000 of the same one held by collectors. So $980,000 of wealth was destroyed! say the headlines.

I quoted the linked BBC article. Shall I quote it again for you? " in the EU, months of weak wind and hydropower performance led to a rise in coal and gas generation."

The article talks about an elephant in the room here, which is that Europe and the UK are lagging because they just don't get enough sun to make solar work really well, and wind has not experienced anything like the 99.9% price reduction solar has since the 1970's. And the US is running in the other direction because politics.

In contrast, developed nations like the US, and also the EU, saw the opposite trend.

In the US, electricity demand grew faster than clean energy output, increasing reliance on fossil fuels, while in the EU, months of weak wind and hydropower performance led to a rise in coal and gas generation.

Ha, it's even called "legacy stoves."

Me, I cut down the coal bill a little by switching all my lightbulbs to 200w incandescents.