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Ultraviolet,

Not all at once. Fascists target a series of out groups, starting with the most marginalized, making the in group smaller and smaller. The more of the rich white cisgender heterosexual Christian male boxes you check, the further down the list you probably are, but you will be targeted eventually.

Ultraviolet,

The ÷ sign isn’t used by “Americans”, it’s used by small children. As soon as you learn basic mathematical notation in your introductory algebra class, you’ve outgrown the use of that symbol.

Ultraviolet,

Oddly with the exception of water.

Ultraviolet,

Maybe if one side wasn’t an openly theocratic fascist party that wants women to be property and anyone who isn’t a straight white Christian to be dead, it would be easier to get along. I’m going to be hostile towards Republicans for the same reason I’d be hostile to someone pointing a gun at me.

Ultraviolet,

The problem is whether or not that rule is taught depends on when and where you learned it. Schools only started teaching that rule relatively recently, and even then, not universally. Which of course makes for ideal engagement bait on your hellsite of choice.

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

Ultraviolet,

Model collapse is likely to kill them in the medium term future. We’re rapidly reaching the point where an increasingly large majority of text on the internet, i.e. the training data of future LLMs, is itself generated by LLMs for content farms. For complicated reasons that I don’t fully understand, this kind of training data poisons the model.

Ultraviolet,

Also the classic question of does a lock of hair or a drop of blood count as a body with (a lot of) missing parts?

Ultraviolet,

It’s projection. They’re offended by “happy holidays” so they assume everyone else is equally offended by “merry Christmas”.

Ultraviolet,

The Olympics have this solved. Trans women have been allowed to compete for the last 20 years as long as they’ve been on HRT for at least 2 years and have hormone levels in the expected range. The results plainly show there’s no advantage, and possibly even a disadvantage. The only trans person to win a medal was an AFAB nonbinary soccer player who wasn’t taking hormones, and the only trans woman to compete in an event came in dead last. No other trans athletes made it past qualifiers.

Ultraviolet,

That’s a sigfig error. A fever is 38C, which is 2 significant digits. Converting to 100° F goes up an order of magnitude so you get a free sigfig, but unless the original number was 38.0C, you don’t get that 0.4, you’re implying precision that the original measurement never gave you.

Ultraviolet, (edited )

But the fever definition wasn’t that precise. They took the average temperature, 36.88 C, rounded it up to 37 C, and somewhat arbitrarily defined a fever as 1 C above the (rounded) average. Which is perfectly fine, but it means the equivalent in Fahrenheit is 100, not 100.4.

Ultraviolet,

It’s open source, if there was a back door it would have been found years ago.

Ultraviolet,

Oh, not grams. I thought the dosage seemed high.

Ultraviolet,

Where does sauce rhyme with mouse?

Ultraviolet,

There’s no such thing as a child in the womb. A child, by definition, has been born.

Ultraviolet,

SQL Server technically does behind the scenes, but automatically commits, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Ultraviolet,

This is an irrelevant distinction for any case where you aren’t worried about someone reverse engineering the algorithm and seed by logging output. Any half decent PRNG’s output will be statistically indistinguishable from true randomness.

Ultraviolet,

Often completely botching existing transitions on, say, two consecutive songs on an album that already flow into one another.

Ultraviolet,

Because it’s not the reason. Pseudorandom number generation is statistically identical to random.

Ultraviolet,

If Mexican food gives you the shits, you need to eat more fiber so your digestive system doesn’t immediately panic on contact with beans.

Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space?

So I have a born again christian family member in their mid twenties who stated with complete confidence that there is a dome in the sky called the firmament and beyond it is where heaven is. She believes space doesn’t exist and rockets just blow up because the bible said so. She is not the brightest and normally I would let...

Ultraviolet,

Even by fundamentalist/Young Earth types, it’s considered pretty extreme, but yes, literal belief in the firmament is a thing.

Ultraviolet,

Bankruptcy.

Ultraviolet,

Don’t forget starvation, that’s a big one. Climate change hits your food supply before it hits you.

Ultraviolet,

Also, for those wondering about the inevitable followup question, a stop sign has to be placed by a local or state government to be enforceable, and is required to follow the exact standard specifications. Tickets have been thrown out due to stop signs being a slightly wrong shade of red, so blue or green are definitely out.

Ultraviolet,

It’s almost like using precedents instead of just writing the fucking laws unambiguously is an inherently broken concept.

Ultraviolet,

Technically schools are keeping litterboxes in classrooms, but the reason is very different. It’s because in the event of a school shooting, kids don’t have to leave to go to the bathroom. But if people were talking about that they might start thinking about the real problems, and they can’t have that.

Ultraviolet,

It’s quite easy to accidentally do that when trying to adjust the volume without looking.

Fight over Texas anti-abortion transport bans reaches biggest battlegrounds yet (www.reuters.com)

Two Texas jurisdictions will consider measures this week to outlaw the act of transporting another person along their roads for an abortion, part of a strategy by conservative activists to further restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade....

Ultraviolet,

It’s not just unconstitutional, it’s legally nonsensical. Citizens of a state are not the property of the state, a state only has jurisdiction over what people do inside the state itself.

Ultraviolet,

It would probably be 3%, as per the Lizardman Constant.

Ultraviolet,

It’s because the US started on the east coast and expanded westward, it was named back when it actually was the middle of the west and just never changed it. Same way we still refer to the art movement that began in the late 1800s as “modern art”.

Ultraviolet,

SEO should have been immediately dealt with years ago by having search engines permanently blacklist domains that pull that shit, no questions asked.

Ultraviolet,

Tea. Whole milk goes in coffee, skim milk goes in tea.

Ultraviolet,

It’s because of the way an LLM works, they’re completely blind to things like what a word starts with. Ask it something like “List 10 words that start and end with the same letter but are not palindromes.” and it completely shits the bed, because it can only process words as unified tokens, it can’t look inside the words to see how they’re structured.

Ultraviolet,

NY’s legalization process has been a mess. It’s been almost 3 years since it was signed, and the majority of dispensary licenses outside of a small handful of open ones are still in paperwork purgatory, so in the meantime, the grey market has picked up the slack.

Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’ (www.al.com)

Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.

Ultraviolet,

Is the “tight end” in American football any better?

Ultraviolet,

I don’t see how anyone can consider the sound puzzles in the jungle, the Tetris piece puzzles in the swamp and the color theory puzzles in the greenhouse the same kind of puzzle and be arguing in good faith.

Ultraviolet,

Wage theft is the biggest form of theft by far. The biggest perpetrator of wage theft is, unsurprisingly, Wal-Mart. They have the audacity to call anyone else a thief?

Ultraviolet,

That’s more accurate anyway. There’s no Beyond section.

Ultraviolet,

The solution that clears up all of these issues and results in a fully consistent view of the self is the one people like the least. There is no “you” or “me”, the self is an illusion the brain creates to make sense of things.

Ultraviolet,

That’s about consciousness, which is a much larger claim than the self being an illusion. You can have consciousness without a self, that’s what we call ego death. In theory, a conscious being could exist that’s always in a state of ego death, and have no understanding of the self and be utterly confused by why people find anything unintuitive about the teleporter paradox.

Ultraviolet,

Calling a secret police force something other than a police force is literally the most basic aspect of a secret police force.

Ultraviolet,

About 5 years after, and there was a research team behind it.

Ultraviolet,

“If you were unable to think rationally about the case, you would have a different opinion” isn’t the slam dunk argument you seem to think it is.

Ultraviolet,

This is the plan the vast majority of people in the US have. It’s dogshit.

Ultraviolet,

Using a shop vac to clear out hornets sounds weird but it’s the go-to approach that professional exterminators use when they can’t fumigate for one reason or another.

Ultraviolet,

They’re all racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and antisemitic, just in different orders.

Ultraviolet,

Especially if there’s head bob. That simulates the exact difference in your senses of vision and balance that triggers seasickness.

Ultraviolet,

I ran a DnD campaign where an important shop was under the same owner for over 1000 years, a friendly copper dragon shapeshifted into a halfling, who discovered trading with adventurers was the best way to amass a hoard, they would go all over the world finding interesting things that they have no idea of the true value of, could you believe they’d trade this neat spider statuette that may or may not be mildly cursed for a boring old ring of protection because it “has no practical use” and it “makes them dream of the whisperings of elder gods”?

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