There is absolutely reason to pursue second, third, and fourth solutions to medical problems. There is 0 reason to assume that if treatment A is effective in 70% of patients and treatment B is effective in 70% that it's the same 70%.

Braindead take.

High humidity can cause them to go off as well. Used to use a cool air humidifier in our kids' room at night and had to stop because it would eventually set the alarm off.

That's my biggest problem with the whole "burn it all down" mindset so many people espouse on this platform. If we burn down society, we aren't gonna magically have a utopia. We're still, at best, the same as folks during the so-called dark ages. Likely, we still basically tribal hunter-gatherers, and the only reason we have any semblance of modern life is because we put so much work into maintaining and improving it generation by generation.

And "Free speech absolutist"

Less good than helping the shooter before they went over the Rubicon...I think that's the point.

LLMs are not general AI. They are not intelligent. They aren't sentient. They don't even really understand what they're spitting out. They can't even reliably do the 1 thing computers are typically very good at (computational math) because they are just putting sequences of nonsense (to them) characters together in the most likely order based on their training model.

When LLMs feel sentient or intelligent, that's your brain playing a trick on you. We're hard-wired to look for patterns and group things together based on those patterns. LLMs are human-speech prediction engines, so it's tempting and natural to group them with the thing they're emulating.

I had to get an electrician to come run the 220 line for me because I don't trust myself with high voltage electrical work. Bought the charger itself on Amazon for around $300. I installed that part myself. Wasn't too hard, basically jist mounted the converter to the wall and plugged it in.

Lv 1 charges are pretty shitty...takes my car about 12 minutes to get a mile-worth of charge on a 120v. I could still make it through a week of commuting doing that, but my range was a little lower each day until the weekend when I didn't have to commute. That being said, I ponied up for a 220v outlet in the garage, and the Lv 2 charging is much better. Takes about 15 minutes to recharge from a days-worth of driving (usually 30-40 miles between work and running the kids around to all their activities).

Yeah, I didn't take it as you trying to bash, just expanding the convo a bit. I think the outcomes are very dependent on why the decision to homeschool was made and how prepared the parents are to actually educate their children. If you're doing it because you don't feel public schools are safe enough, I could get on board with that...my kids are in public school, and it's scary as shit sometimes. Our 7th grader had to deal with multiple lockdowns last year, and we live in a pretty safe area. If you're homeschooling because you don't want your kid's mind "poisoned" by basic science like geology or biology, or don't want them exposed to different races or religions, you're probably gonna end up with a young adult who isn't prepared to exist on their own in the world when the time comes and that transition into adulthood is going to even harder than it already is.

2 of my half-sisters were homeschooled for religious reasons. Both ended up failing out of college because they didn't even have a rudimentary understanding of science, math, or history.

On the other hand, I know a guy who was homeschooled and, aside from us teasing him a bit about which sister he'd take to prom, he's perfectly normal and intelligent and had no problem making it as a radiology tech.

Everyone likes to poo-poo regulations as government overreach (and sometimes, yes, it is), but typically, they're just there to protect those who can't protect themselves (like kids who deserve a good education)

Jesus gets sad when you get DNA in Uranus, or so they say

Probably easier than thawing the gasoline in the ice engine, which freezes at -40. And your diesel generator won't run either unless you kept it plugged in to keep the fuel from turning to gel (that process starts at -10).

My guess is you still die in Russian prison, just more slowly and painfully.

""Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you've got." - Michael Scott" -Ulvain

The best comedians can always pull it off because they know it's about the focus of the joke. I have no idea who the original writer was, but there was a reddit thread about a cishet comedian who did

"You know how I know trans women are women? Because when we have sex they don't finish either"

I love it. It's a joke about trans people, but it works because the butt of the joke is the comedian himself... it even affirms trans identity.

Yeah, as long as we have Musks, Zuckerbergs, and Shkrelis in the world, we'll always need a public entity strong enough to act as a counterbalance. I can't imagine an entity other than "government" to do that.

The last thing I want is a visit from the privately-owned police department to interrogate me about using an ad blocker.

Never skip tail day at the gym...

I think the IEDs, suicide bombers, and RPGs made a bigger difference in both cases

If ever there was a case for "more guns = more freedom", right?

I'll remind my daughter next time she calls me having a panic attack during an active shooter lockdown that at least she still has the right to love who she wants make her own reproductive healthcare choices get IVF if she can't have kids be open and honest about who she is