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The schools & police trampling on student rights don't understand the true meaning of "trespassing"
  • This reads like something a Sovereign citizen would write.

    The first amendment allows you to say whatever you want without threat of arrest, but it doesn't give carte blanche to do whatever you want whilst saying it.

    If you're on private property after closing time to the public, then you're trespassing, regardless of why you're there.

    The threat of arrest is something you have to accept if you're going to protest in a disruptive way - the ones you're protesting against will do anything they legally can to get you to stop.

  • This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£
  • It always sucks to know you paid more than the seller did - but that just means Oxfam undervalued the book.

    Having worked in one, charity shops tend to have a habit of either really undervaluing or overvaluing their donated goods - cause the people who actually set the prices mostly just guess based on looks and nothing more. Only if an item looks expensive will they do any research, and even then never really enough.

  • We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem
  • Exactly. The big problem with LLMs is that they're so good at mimicking understanding that people forget that they don't actually have understanding of anything beyond language itself.

    The thing they excel at, and should be used for, is exactly what you say - a natural language interface between humans and software.

    Like in your example, an LLM doesn't know what a cat is, but it knows what words describe a cat based on training data - and for a search engine, that's all you need.

  • Skill
  • While I'm not in the business of defending rich folks, but there is a reason a lot of child celebrities tend to go off the deep end - having never being certain of your privacy is probably maddening.

  • Do you like olives?
  • I was a bit of a picky eater when I was younger, but I've become much, much less so over the years - one of the few things I've never come around on is olives. The taste and texture combination just don't work for me

  • It's complicated
  • "Where we're going Goat, we don't need boats - but we do need that cabbage"

  • Skill
  • Exactly. Every job has it's own skills, whether that be mental, physical, or both.
    There's not a single job on Earth that you could plop someone into with no practuce and have them instantly be good at it - if someone tells you otherwise they're either incompetent or they're lying (like stated in the above meme)

  • "Do you know how many spells are just recycled incantations?"
  • FTFY

    "Gods, I swear you fix one thing in a ritual, two more take its place - my teleportation no longor puts me in the ground, but now my clothes arrive backwards and occasionally I'm puside down - didn't even touch those bits of the spell!"

  • "Do you know how many spells are just recycled incantations?"
  • "Gods, I swear you fix one thing in a ritual, two more take it's place - my teleportation no longer puts me in the ground, but now my clothes arrive backwards and occasionally I'm upside down - didn't even touch those bits of the spell!"

  • JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows”
  • It's such a bad faith comparison to make about trans people.
    One's race oftentimes comes with a slew of cultural background, and misappropriation of that isn't cool.

    Gender meanwhile is just a societal constrict built of the typical characteristics of the sexes - if you don't line up with the one given to you at birth, then there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to identify with what you do line up with.

  • Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians
  • Has NYT only just figured out now that the nuance was never in Hamas being "the good guys" or not?
    Hamas may be better than Israel right now in that they're not actively pulling a genocide, but nobody apart from Hamas thinks Hamas are really the good guys in this - but Hamas being a horrid government doesn't then somehow justify Israel's genocide against the "Everyday Palestinians" Hamas are oppressing.

  • 13 May 2024
  • The analogue one would be so much cooler if it only had the damn date - it's great knowing what time of day I travelled back to, but it'd be nice to know if I travelled to yesterday or 10,000 years ago

  • r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.
  • While it certainly is a bit of a captain obvious moment that exposure to far-right echo chambers helped radicalise vulnerable people into the far-right, but I can see the merit in having empirical evidence supporting what we see (as OP said) - it is a lot easier to dismiss an andecdote than statistical evidence

  • Saw this skinwalker yesterday and can't really get over it
  • Damn, you definitely didn't catch their pretty side

  • Missouri bill to ban all child marriages runs into resistance from House Republicans
  • Of course they would be the ones trying to protect groomers - I'd love to see the day when Republicans reach self-awareness en-masse, but I expect to die long, long before that day arrives

  • What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign: Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy & more
  • Well that's certainly one way of generating the money you need to pay off your lawsuits.
    Let humanity burn so that you can pretend to be Mr. Monopoly a little longer

  • What did they mean by this?
  • If Microsoft stopped killing all their smaller studios that make these kind of games, they might actually have some of those

    Edit:
    Microsoft after killing all their small studios

  • I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath
  • Exactly. If my graphics card is going to be chugging, I'd rather it be because of the sheer amount of stuff to interact with in an area, rather than a beautiful but vapid landscape

  • I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath
  • Honestly I'd still argue there's diminishing returns on this front as well.
    I play plenty of older titles, and I wouldn't say I notice that much of a difference - though that is my very subjective opinion

  • I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath
  • Of course there are, and I do - but the focus of the article, and thus the thread was on the AAA gaming space and its obsession with graphics.
    Smaller studios and Indies already figured out the whole "you don't need to be able to see every fibre of a character's hair in order for a game to be good" thing

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