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Comment #41532778
It doesn't matter whether I write a module in Fortran, fold laundry or sell a kidney on the black market. It's all morally equivalent!
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Comment #39918185
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
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Comment #39459046
When Jesus said this: "What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?" (Luke 11) He was actually foretelling the future. He saw Gemin…
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Comment #39458996
Ah, I remember when such things were mere jokes. If AI 'trained' this way ever has a serious real world application, I don't think there will be much laughing.
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Comment #39458945
Tell me you take this seriously: https://twitter.com/napoleon21st/status/1760116228746805272 It has no problem with other cultures and ethnicities, yet somehow white or Japanese ju…
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Comment #39458858
From one of the Twitter threads linked above: > they insert random keyword in the prompts randomly to counter bias, that got revealed with something else I think. Had T shirts writ…
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Comment #39129613
All hail our beneficent global bureaucracy! Filled with smart people who care deeply about our freedom and individual wishes. Now if I could just contact one of its accountable ele…
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Comment #39129592
Finally someone else will do the window twitching snitching for me.
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Comment #39106877
"Inclusive" but meaningless. The Georgian calendar (at least in the numbering of years) is a Christian construct, and it therefore makes sense to name year 0 after the year of Chri…
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Comment #39028379
You underestimate how much frustration is boiling at the amount of ad breaks on YouTube videos. It only takes one political opportunist to channel it...
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Comment #38243879
If I open a forum and see it is Discourse, I immediately close it. What was wrong with distinct boards and clear categories? And you can leave your endless scrolling on facesbook w…
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Comment #38243856
That 'everyone online is a predator' act has been going on for a while hasn't it? Its current snake head is the UK's online safety bill.
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Comment #38243790
Bizarrely I find a certain notorious imageboard to be much more sociable than anything that calls itself 'social media'. Even though everyone is anonymous, I come away feeling like…
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Comment #37752421
> nonsensical and dishonest. Or what some of us refer to as 'humour'. It's worth getting into, a lot of people say good things.
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Comment #37751853
My desired method of muting them might require a bit more clean up. It may also involve a trip to the ER ward for burn treatments. But I would at least look back and say I enjoyed …
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Comment #37751572
'Please sir, control and regulate the contents of our speech' - smacks of astroturfing to me
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Comment #37751544
I'm not too bothered about their loss, given that gas pumps now have advertising screens installed. Let the ad revenue make up for it.
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Comment #37595812
This is what I was getting at - it is impossible for us underlings to imagine what it is like to have the grasp of power over millions of individuals and innumerable resources. We …
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Comment #37595760
I think the point was - if the BBC (closely tied with the political establishment) cared so much about children's safety they would have acted against Saville before they were comp…