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  • The technology itself is great though. Imagine having an AI that you can easily train at home on 100s of different academic papers, and then run specific analyses or find patterns that would be too big for humans to see at first.

    Imagine is the key word. I've actually tried to use LLMs to perform literature analyses in my field, and they're total crap. They produce something that sounds true to someone not familiar with a field. But if you actually have some expert knowledge in a field, the LLM just completely falls apart. Imagine is all you can do, because LLMs cannot perform basic literature review and project planning, let alone find patterns in papers that human scientists can't. The emperor has no clothes.

  • Eh. I'm not the better person on this. I have no problem treating bigots the way they treat others. I'm a trans person, and I have to live with a constant parade of politicians and influencers calling me and my people pedophiles simply for existing. Sorry, turnabout is fair play. And really, the GOP really is the party of pedophilia. Their entire worldview is pro child fucking. From their encouragement of child marriage, to their complete rejection of the rights of children, to the general belief of "Father knows best." Their ideal world is one where girls are married off to older powerful men by the time they are 14 years old. It is not a coincidence that so many GOP politicians are arrested for crimes against children. It's their whole worldview.

    I'm not going to start accusing random parents of being child fuckers if they simply have a few questions when their kid comes out. But if you are a politician or influencer, who makes attacking trans people a core part of your brand? Someone really needs to look at your hard drive. You're probably a pedophile.

  • My cats are like that except instead of an automated litter box they're curious about, it's me in the bathroom. If I don't close and latch the door all the way, they'll push the door open and barge their way in.

    WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE???!

  • Wrong, cause gerrymandering won’t work because we don’t have enough states to gerrymander. I respect the intentions behind it but it is a bad strategy.

    And why wouldn't we at least cancel out as much of the Republican gerrymander as possible? I think I found the Republican.

  • Frankly, I'm tired of leaders responding to bomb threats. No one who actually intends on bombing something sends a bomb threat. Giving in to a bomb threat is an act of cowardice. And it gives the terrorists exactly what they want. Unless you actually have some intelligence about a bomb threat being real, they should be ignored in all cases.

    And no, before anyone says it, I give zero credence to the spineless attitude of "well, better safe than sorry!" I'm sorry. But letting bomb threats disrupt gatherings is not a neutral act. It is surrendering to terrorism and giving terrorists exactly what they want. It's corporations and organizers covering their asses, nothing more.

    The correct way to respond to a bomb threat is to refer it to police and completely ignore it. Today it's just way too easy to send anonymous communications for us to treat every bomb threat seriously. And really, no one that actually intends to bomb something sends a warning in advance.

  • My dad sometimes uses that word, and he's in his sixties. But then again, he and my mom had six kids and had kids in potty training for a long cumulative amount of time. The word just stuck I guess.

  • Section 8 stops at the same point on two independent pages. Is it possible they're both referencing the same source file? Maybe. But why would this ever get truncated? This isn't some dynamic page that will have to buffer blocks of text of unknown length. It just doesn't pass the smell test that the site suddenly can't display correctly a block of text that hasn't changed at all in over 200 years. And the sections that are deleted just happen to be those areas that Trump hates the most.

    Regardless, we should screaming about this from the mountaintops. If there is one website on the federal government that you do not want to have displayed incorrectly, it's the fucking Constitution.

  • Stop framing it as you might help others that take advantage of the system and frame it as helping yourself and those who might need it legitimately.

    Exactly. You know what I see when I see someone who "just doesn't want to work?" I see someone likely struggling with depression or other mental health issues. And I'm not so prideful that I believe I'm immune to those mental health struggles. I'm certainly not immune from them. None of us are. And if I fall into such a dark place in the future, I don't want to risk dying or bankruptcy just because I'm struggling with my mental health. If someone thinks they can't fall into such a dark place, they're a fool.

  • Honestly, one of the most patriotic things someone could do right now would be to sign up for ICE and then deliberately be the most incompetent work-to-rule ICE agent they possibly can. Be a net negative to ICE's operations.

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  • The problem with this is that every market is going to have a certain number of empty homes in it in any given time. Properties are bought and sold, vacated and re-rented, and often in this process they sit vacant for a few months. Properties need to be cleaned or renovated. It doesn't matter how egalitarian the home ownership distribution is. It doesn't matter if you're talking socialized housing. Any housing market will have some large number of vacant units at any given time.

    My point is that it's incredibly foolish to just look at the raw numbers of "vacant" homes. Most of those "vacant" homes are only temporarily vacant as part of the churn of the real estate market.

    The truth is home construction dropped off a cliff after 2008. The real causes of the housing crisis are due to:

    1. A general shortage of home construction.
    2. Consolidation and mergers among home construction companies.
    3. General wealth/income inequality encouraging resources to go to small numbers of lavish homes for the wealthy instead of large numbers of modest homes for the working class.

    Vacant units are not a significant cause of the high cost of housing. Are units sometimes kept empty because of financial reasons or to avoid the rent dropping in certain saturated markets? Yes. But that behavior cannot be maintained long term. In practice, there isn't some vast supply of vacant housing, in places where people want to live, that can just be handed over to the homeless.