i know cheating is bad but i'd like to thank it for what it has done for music & movie industry
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trying on a metaphor
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i know cheating is bad but i'd like to thank it for what it has done for music & movie industry
ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten
Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.
Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch
Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are
I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.
"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen
Gender Neutral Pronouns
Saw a few posts about gender neutral pronouns in Irish so I thought I'd talk about it a bit.
So like others have said, there's no native gender neutral pronoun, traditionally in Irish if you don't know someone's gender you'd call them duine (person) which is grammatically masculine, and then use masculine pronouns to refer to that.
But of course there's lots of non-binary people who wouldn't really want to use masculine pronouns so let's talk about alternatives a bit.
Siad
Siad is originally a plural pronoun in Irish meaning "they" (pl.), but is the most commonly used option nowadays for non-binary people. It is a direct calque from English, but as far as calques go it's a pretty useful one.
Neopronouns
Neopronouns are pretty tough in Irish, harder even than in English where still they have pretty low adoption rates. This is because pronouns in Irish come with a lot of grammatical baggage. It's not enough to say "subject / object / possessive"
A pronoun in Irish needs to have subject, object, possessive, and a prepositional form for every preposition.
Like for brevity we often write pronouns as like sí/í. But in reality what we have is:
Subject: sí, object: í, possessive: a (h-prefixes, no lenition), ag: aici, ar: uirthi, as: aisti, le: léi...
So to create a neopronoun you have to both document all of these forms, and then get people to adopt them (which is hard, because there's more to adopt).
Also for the possessive form it's hard because the third person possessive is always a, it's just that masculine lenites, feminine h-prefixes and plural eclipses. If you try to add a different a, it will have to have the same mutation pattern as one of them, at least in many situations.
One possible solution to this is to use a neo pronoun but use the grammatical forms of siad, so like tá siú ag obair ag labhairt leo féin (they are talking to themself). But at that point we are still calquing from the english.
ea
ea exists in the language in certain situations as a neuter reference, historically it existed more, but if you tried to use it now you would have similar difficulties to the neo pronouns, you'd need prepositional forms.
Also, é gets reduced a lot in speech especially in Conamara, to the point where it would sound very similar to ea if you were trying to say things like Is dochtúir ea for "They're a doctor" it would sound a lot like Is dochtúir é "He is a doctor".
Conclusion
Because of all that, I think generally the most flexible option is to use siad, even though it is a calque of English. But for those who would like neopronouns, now you're prepared for the large table that comes with it!
If you want something that's a little bit neo a little bit traditional you could consider adapting dar, the ending of the 3rd person plural past in words like bhíodar (they were). This ending has become a pronoun in some limited contexts (still for the plural, but stuff like tá dar - they are) but if you wanted to use it as a singular pronoun with the grammatical forms of siad, that could also be an interesting option.
[ID: A chart showing many prepositional pronouns in their masculine and femine forms. Full transcription under the cut. It reads as follow:
AIge - aici
Air - uirthi
As - aisti
Chuige - chuici
De - di
Dó - di
Fairis - farae
Faoi - fuithi
Ann - inti
Ionsair - ionsuirthi
Leis - léi
Uaidh - uaithi
Roimhe - roimpi
Thairis - thairsti
Tríd - tríthi
Uime - uimpi
/end ID]
happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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just go find a drug dealer bro. just go take some unregulated street drugs. its just a felony no big deal why are you being such a pussy about it. it's not like testosterone has any medical effects on your body that might interact with other medical conditions or medications or anything that might need to be monitered. you're just making up problems at this point
get peer approved
happy pride
Here is an absolutely iconic bisexual:
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG FROM GREENDAY
💖💜💙
I can be the ship and its sailors
men and women are not opposites. men and women are not enemies. men and women are two parts of a broad coalition which fights against a mutual enemy: inkjet printers
would you still be alive without modern medicine? looking back at your life, would you survive without any to the moment where you are now?
yes
no
barely
yes but it would affect me for the rest of my life
results
I'd have my knee fucked up forever alive but yeahhhhh
i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era
#weird way to describe 1973 but i guess it’s accurate
I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted
If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)
There's more to do actually, now
go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999
additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm
also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false
note! this will limit video to 1080p
and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP Fuck Google
We jailbreaking browsers now lmao
Hey so we need someone to go through this stuff and double check, cuz turning "media.mediasource.enabled" to false locked my youtube vids to 360p.
So yeah everyone be VERY careful what you edit on browsers
The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that
This problem isn't AI. This problem originates with our terrible schooling system. It fails to prepare young people for existing in the real world, probably under the expectation that parents can do that themselves. The economy of this country has rendered parents basically incapable of spending hours and days teaching their kids how to exist, on top of those kids' ludicrous amounts of schoolwork.
Basically, the system has been designed to result in young adults with no ability to do much of anything besides basic manual labor, who rely on technology or other people's labor to cover the gaps in their own understanding.
The problem is indeed "AI," though other factors may be at play as well. Programs like chatGPT are actively designed to breed dependence, and are actively detrimental to the decision making and imagination parts of the brain.
The thing that people really need to understand is that the "product" that chatGPT and other "AI" chatbots create is "more interactions with chatGPT." Everything it does is engineered with that one end in mind. Think about how it's billed, and you'll see that's true, and why it's true. What do "pro" subscriptions give you? More inquiries, faster answers, etc. So its entire thing is "getting you to ask it more things, more often."
Will it say "I don't know?" No. You won't ask it things if it answers that. This is why hallucinations are built in, and cannot ever be eliminated.
These programs are machines meant to generate more inquiries, which means they will generate dependence in order to generate them.
The purpose of a machine is what it does.
I did not intend to defend AI LLM. It's total bullshit. I merely meant that a class of people who have been left functionally incapable by a broken system are more susceptible to a machine designed to make people more stupid.
Right, and what I'm telling you is that this matters way less than you would like to think. Like, it doesn't matter. At all. You are not "less susceptible" to AI because of your education.
It really does not matter how well-educated you are, because this kind of endless flattery and dependence-creation isn't the kind of thing that "being educated" protects against. The idea that "kids these days" are specially vulnerable to ChatGPT due to a failure of general education is insultingly wrong, skips over the fact that a lot of highly-educated people from my generation and older have been sucked in to dependence and even psychosis by LLMs, and frankly makes it more likely that people will look at this "kids these days" thing and say, "Ahh, but I'm [older/better educated/built different], I'm not like Those Kids, AI's tricks won't work on me, or at the very least, I will be less susceptible to them!"
And that's just wrong.
ChatGPT is Wormtongue, in a very real, not metaphorical or exaggerated sense. The only way to truly avoid the way in which it rots your fucking brain is not to use it at all.
There is no amount or type of education which will protect you from the automated evil vizier whispering flattery and lies into your ear. Telling yourself or others otherwise is simply incorrect.
Trying to reframe it as "Kids These Days are more susceptible because they're 'functionally broken' by our education system" doesn't change the basic thesis statement.
And it's wrong.
... That's an excellent point. It's essentially using cult recruiting tactics, which I know work on even quite capable and independent persons.
Basically, yes.
AI has made the internet so much less fun. I don't want to question whether a photo of a bunny is real. I don't want to worry about someone making a deepfake just because I posted a pic with my friends. I want to read a recipe and know that the photo is a real cake they made. Yes I know I need to touch grass but also I think I should be allowed to interact online without second-guessing whether someone fabricated every image for personal gain
btw this is about the tragedy of the commons. it's not about spending too much time online or whatever - it's about the fact that a handful of people are polluting the collective space to the detriment of everyone else, and that there is no way to stop them from doing that. it sucks and it's killing the internet, and I'm mad about that
"does Noah Wyle really expect me to watch five seasons of Robby's ~mental health journey~? 🙄"
no, i think he expects you to be normal and choose not to watch the show that's about the main character played by him if you fucking hate him and/or the main character he plays. because literally no one is forcing you to do so