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Comment The service animal loophole. (Score 1) 190

Does it keep out the entitled people carrying their little rat dogs into the store. I saw a god in the store in San Jose where we were staying at least every third time I went to the Safeway. I wish I had recorded my arguments about unsanitary conditions. Even the staff said "it's up to the manager." And the workers would often pet the rat dogs. Dog shit to their fingers to produce. No, no health issues at all. They of course claimed they were service dogs. Well I have a friend with a service. It smells her sugar level to alert here when she is close to a seizure. That is a great dog. That is a dog she can take anywhere she needs it. Those bitches (pun intended) and their rats think their prestige items are service dogs? "Oh he improves my mood." Fuck you bitch. I eventually went to another brand that was 10 minutes away by car, and gave us on the unsanitary shit hole.

Abuse of the "service animal" status is a problem. Mostly because while there are laws about service animals. There's no laws that designate what is and what isn't a service animal. But it's just a giant legal loophole. Until that's fixed there's not much you can do though. For a while you might get by asking the two questions you are legally allowed to ask about service animals. But the fakers will catch on quick and make up answers and there's no ramifications.

Comment Good riddence to yet another racist misanthrope (Score 2) 64

Good riddance to that race baiting prick. He was racist against Black people, Irish People, Latin people, Jewish people, women people, fat people. Far as we can tell there's no one he wouldn't throw stereotypes at and suggest they were genetic. He supported post birth abortions. He was a disgusting misanthropist who justified everyone he hated with the veil of genetics.

“all our social policies are based on the fact that [African] intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really.”

"people who have to deal with black employees find [the idea of equality among all people] is not true"

"Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society"

"[Melanin increases libido] That's why you have Latin lovers. You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient”

The intelligence of Africans is “not really ... the same as ours.”

His views on genetics also veered into ethically dangerous territory. He was a proponent of genetic selection, once saying that if a woman could discover a “gay gene,” she should be allowed to abort a homosexual child. Furthermore, he suggested that a fetus should not be considered alive until three days after birth, which would give parents the option of infanticide if they discovered a birth defect.

Comment Re: Cancelled for saying the truth (Score 1) 64

there's no difference in IQ test results for races once proper adjustments (income, education, etc) are made.

What the ... "proper adjustments" ??? So I guess Polynesians are no heavier than Sri Lankans once you adjust for waist size? What a bizzare abuse of logic to suggest these are independent measurements.

Poverty you moron. The adjustments are things like being poor makes you less intelligent. Dropping out of high school makes you dumber. If it's the case the more black people are less intelligent than their white counterparts. It's more likely a reflection on the fact that more of them are poor and more of them drop out of high school (for various reasons, not always voluntary). So saying it's genetic is stupid like Watson.

In your example adjustments would be things like diet. are polynesians genetically heavier or do they just eat more. It's called science to eliminate variables by reaching for more similarity. No one says you have to have twin biracial children but schooling makes up a lot of someone's measured intelligence so comparing someone who doesn't have any to someone who has the most is going to lead to flawed conclusions. But I suppose it's inconvenient if you have no minorities to look down upon ehh?

Comment Re:what is it? (Score 3, Informative) 20

"one of the most recognizable names in Android launchers". What's an "Android launcher"?

It's what you get when you hit the home screen button on your phone. It's how you "launch" applications. It can include the home screen, the lock screen and the app drawer. Nova was the best of the third party launchers. SOO customizable. It's going to be frustrating to have to pick up a new one. Nova let me launch three different apps depending on how I swiped the icon on my home screen. I designed my setup and I haven't changed it in years. It's so convenient. Heck I paid for pro to unlock all the features even though I honestly only use about 1/3 of them.

Comment Re:Are VideoGames more costly? (Score 1) 69

nah I want guidance. give me a well directed game and it will feel open even if it isn't. The illusion of choice is more important than actual choice when it's done well.

AI frame generation needs to go the way of the dodo. If you're telling me you can't keep the framerate stable at 60fps on modern hardware without resorting to an AI to fake the result, then you shouldn't be spending money on art assets that aren't actually being rendered most of the time. (Especially when some of those assets are themselves made by AI in all or in part. Or the asset is only on screen for a total of 45 seconds out of 60+ hour game.) If this means smaller worlds, fog, etc. So be it.

I agree.

Comment Re:Servicing a need (Score 1) 39

especially the phrase "this is such an extreme need", I got the sense that the poster is bothered by women sharing information about men, and I would like to know why.

huh? My point is that women desperately want to protect themselves from bad men that's all. They're so desperate to protect themselves that even when they hear the app was hacked the result is just more women wanting to sign up. Which isn't unexplainable. For some of them this is life and death. I was just trying not to be so melodramatic as I expect the audience here trends against that sort of perspective.

Comment Re:Servicing a need (Score 1) 39

I remain curious why thewolfkin and others seem bothered by women sharing information about men.

Where did I say I care about that. My point is that clearly women feel very strongly about this which I understand. I'm not bothered by it or worried about it anymore than I'm worried about laws that enable women to report sexual assault. What I was saying is that I don't trust the technical aspects of the app developers. I think if you want to make a woman only app there are too many practical barriers. For instance sending in photo ID or picture validation runs into ugly women problems where mannish looking women might get rejected. I think the only secure way to make an app that's only for women is to have women pass the app the other women phone to phone. But it's slightly more trustworthy. That's the only thing I care about I just think it's inherently insecure. Men don't like being excluded and they hate being talked about and since that's this apps entire purpose the idea that some vibe coded it meant it was destined to get 'hacked'.

Comment Servicing a need (Score 1, Insightful) 39

If anything the fact that it's still so popular just goes to show how much of a need this serviced. I wouldn't trust Tea at all but it does indicate that women feel very strongly that they need a way to share information about men. For women this is such an extreme need that ever after two leaks the desire hasn't even leveled off.

For my money the most surprising thing is that Tea somehow didn't anticipate this and really focus on their security. Because obviously they were going to get the entire might of the manosphere banging on their security. The fact that they were EVER taking driver's licenses and saving that data is just so mind-bogglingly dumb.

Comment Guilt has it's own problems (Score 2) 35

As any good Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or heck any religious person can tell you, guilt can be exploited. If people can be exploited through their guilt. Why wouldn't a machine that's programmed to respond to guilt? This is like trying to bring two north poles together. They slip and slide around each other and eventually you just have to realize it's not going to touch.

You're not going to solve this AI issue because you're AI is never going to be "everything" unless it's a person. You'd have to design guilt and then design a system of assessment to determine if the guilt is fair or not. Then your AI is just gonna need a therapist and AI Therapist is going to be a human job for a bit until they decided to AI the AI. Then they'll realize they can just grow the AI and at that point you're simulating raising a good person and we've burned down 3000 forest just to create a shoddy imitation of a human because a human is the only thing that can slow into the overly wide scope you have for an AI. You want something to create copy and make sure that copy isn't racist or facist or overly sexual or asexual that is attractive to people but specifically your target audience.. stop trying to AI something that needs a person.

Comment Re:"users are purchasing licenses -- not books" (Score 1) 175

I wonder how a law suit would pan out.

Against a man so rich he rented Venice? Probably not well. I'd say a good 60-70% of the problems with have with any specific corporation is due to monopoly, regulatory capture and inconceivably vast wealth disparity. We have laws and systems that prevent and can attack things like this but laws don't matter when you're the only game in town, you heavily influence the regulators and you have more money than your anyone who would say differently. The only way to fix it to attack one of those and the only feasible one is regulation. Give teeth to the regulators let them break up these obese companies. Into if not lean at least merely fat only marginally advantaged companies.

Comment Re:"users are purchasing licenses -- not books" (Score 1) 175

Then I'll keep going into book stores where I can purchase books.

i mean that's a nice thought but I tried to buy an MP3 not from apple and it's kinda hard. If you google an artist they have a linktree with their latest single but all the links are various streamers and Apple. Sometimes they link to Amazon but in my country Amazon doesn't sell MP3s. I can't confirm that but I spent 3 hours looking for where to buy MP3s and not stream them and I gave up. I've done it before when I lived in the US I bought like 50-70 MP3s from Amazon but where I am now there's literally nothing i can find. Used to be bands would sell the MP3s on their sites but no more. Best I can find is paying premium for master quality DJ tracks which .. works but is more than I really want.

Comment Re:screen based devices (Score 1) 82

I don't see a world where AI replaces or diminishes display based devices, what kind of dumbass question is that?

it's basically all the tech bros saw those "rabbit" and similar devices and they just assumed the public would buy in. To a streaming AI wearable widget with no screen and assuming those are all blowing up about now they have to reconsider the value of a cell phone.

The problem is no one bought into those POS trashboxes. So they sound dumber than usual.

Comment oh that's adorable. (Score 1) 166

>Historians

lol. why bother reading past documents when you can just trust the AI to tell you what it says. I still remember when a sponsor was flooding YouTube with a service that would summarize a book in a 5 minutes any classic book and I was just constantly baffled at who this is for? The idea of a five minute summary of The Count of Monte Cristo just made me cringe. They say it gives you enough to be able to talk about the books but it can't. That's just silly.

That's a tiny list of 40 jobs and all it tells me is that someone is planning on using AI for things you should NOT use AI for. AI had it's place within limited targeted scopes like spellcheck. But even things like translation can't be replaced with robots as anyone who is bilingual will tell you. It can make you passable and you can order food but you can't just replace translators entirely with robots. That's silly and anyone reading fan translated manga can confirm this.

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