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"the irony reads" isn't even grammatically correct.
Should be OK (besides the lack of irony!). Easier for me to show with another noun, comedy: "You HAVE to buy her novel ASAP! Sure, the comedy reads a bit acerbically at first, but chapter two through to the end is literary perfection."
WHERE DO I BUY ONE? This is not a joke. The prime thing that keeps me driving my old vehicle is my avoidance of modern corporate totalitarianism in tracked vehicles, spying, and other crap. I'm not buying something just to rent it too. I would pay above-market. I'm researching this right now. Maybe I've finally found my new car.
Edit: changed to present tense. Searching Google shopping for the model shows the locations and prices.
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Funfact4life, even with modern cars in emergency braking scenarios you _still_ want to STAND on that brake pedal with all your weight! ...ooh, a mnemonic: "STOMP, STAY and STEER". (Stomp brake, Stay stomped, Steer around obstacles while pressing brake hard.) Even if it vibrates! [Grand]pa had to "pump" his brakes (on/off/on/off), we have it easier :)
> Steer around obstacles while pressing brake hard That seems like a good way to flip a car or truck. Also runs counter to the advice that's given for surviving a sudden kangaroo on road at night incident .. for the past 60+ years. eg: Don’t swerve Most severe crashes involving an animal occur when the driver veers off the road, and hits something else instead. What’s more, the animal is just as likely to flee in the…
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sure, but there's still actual journalism behind it. Isn't the primary objection to ai slop is that it's just vapid regurgitation? I've been reading electrek for years, they're generally pretty decent journalists. If the author here is doing the interview, getting the notes together, doing the research and then has a system prompt of the voice of the publication and says "generate", do we still say slop? Personally I…
> most people don't yell about synthesizers not being real music any more. I think a lot more effort is required to release (popular) music, and I'm only hearing 'independent' music at concert venues which also require a lot of effort. It doesn't take a lot of effort to transform the raw materials of journalism, which you cite, into a finished product outside the process of writing and sitting with your thoughts. And…
The reason many of us dislike AI slop is because it's very evidently AI slop, if you cannot tell, then I wouldn't even say it's AI slop, maybe AI assisted if anything, but matters less if the content itself actually doesn't suck.
All software should be placed in escrow, made available at end of support.
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> most people don't yell about synthesizers not being real music any more. I think a lot more effort is required to release (popular) music, and I'm only hearing 'independent' music at concert venues which also require a lot of effort. It doesn't take a lot of effort to transform the raw materials of journalism, which you cite, into a finished product outside the process of writing and sitting with your thoughts. And…
If you cannot tell if the work is poorly done or not, why it matters if it's AI or not? The reason many of us dislike AI slop is because it's very evidently AI slop, if you cannot tell, then I wouldn't even say it's AI slop, maybe AI assisted if anything, but matters less if the content itself actually doesn't suck.
In music, it's hard to make a convincing AI product (at the moment) because editing sound is challenging.
In journalism, it's easy to make AI articles and relatively easy to edit them not to sound like AI. So if someone isn't doing that minimal work, I wonder what other things they're taking the easy route for.
> We had reviewed the Ocean in late 2023 and found the hardware genuinely attractive — but the software was simply not ready for prime time. The irony of that headline — “Coming soon, in a future software update” — now reads like an epitaph. Those future updates never came from Fisker. They came from the owners themselves. It’s sad to see a good site put out bad AI writing like this.
> We had reviewed the Ocean in late 2023 and found the hardware genuinely attractive — but the software was simply not ready for prime time. The irony of that headline — “Coming soon, in a future software update” — now reads like an epitaph. Those future updates never came from Fisker. They came from the owners themselves. It’s sad to see a good site put out bad AI writing like this.
"the irony reads" isn't even grammatically correct.