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Those licenses are standard for any website where you can upload content and are just the basic functionality of a website written in legalese. Without it, everyone’s feed would be blank because they’re not allowed to copy what you uploaded, they wouldn’t even have a copy themselves because you didn’t give them permission to store it. If someone’s screen resolution is different, they technically need separate permission to “adapt” the content by delivering it in an appropriate resolution. Arranging several posts into a feed or timeline is including your post in a derivative work, which also is a separate legal permission they need to request from you. They can sneak extra things in there, but the agreement itself is a legal formality for making a website that stores and displays things the users enter. If they don’t have it, you can post something, then sue them for distributing your post to others.

Ultraviolet,

It’s the composite score, and especially the heavy emphasis on it as some innate unchangeable thing, that’s the questionable part.

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It is different. In the US, the cop wouldn’t be charged with murder.

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Even if it works completely as intended, that’s also terrible under capitalism. You think advertising is manipulative now, wait until it comes in the form of literal mind control.

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Here’s a fun fact entirely unrelated to this post: the default password on the control panels to those signs is “DOTS”, and they usually don’t change it.

Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition?

10 years ago, I’d have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I’m interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn’t feel such a lonely frustrating issue....

Ultraviolet,

Hyperphantasia. A subset of that is prophantasia, where you can physically conjure a mental image in your field of vision, but that case is extremely rare.

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This 3-category thing is why you see so many people think they have aphantasia, well above the expected 3%. People in category 2 find out about category 3 and assume that’s what most people can do.

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The standard for losing a trademark essentially boils down to “no reasonable person would expect the public to know it’s a trademark, so any infringement can be assumed to be accidental”. So things like dry ice, heroin, escalator, gasoline, trampoline, flip phone, and teleprompter. Common words where the fact that they were once trademarks is obscure trivia. The more commonly cited examples of genericized trademarks like Kleenex or Band-Aid are not actually genericized, that’s a myth, they’re in no danger of being genericized because people know they’re trademarks.

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Blowing up pipelines doesn’t kill anyone. I know you think property damage is worse than murder, but sane people don’t think that.

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Steam forums are the absolute bottom of the barrel for game discussion, maybe tied with 4chan.

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I don’t think this one is even an LLM, it looks like the output of a basic article spinning script that takes an existing article and replaces random words with synonyms.

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The majority of vegetables are also fruits. They’re not even close to mutually exclusive terms.

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And cannot, since battle facilities prohibit items (except the Battle Pyramid, but you can’t bring items in there either, just what you find during a run).

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It’s like calling blackmailers “privacy providers”.

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I’ve also been dead for 13.8 billion years before I was born, and I didn’t mind it then.

X, formerly Twitter, faces 2,200 arbitration cases and filing fees over $3 million (www.nbcnews.com)

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million....

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Might as well just call it Twitter. The only people that go along with calling it “X” are chuds and Musk sycophants.

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How do you not know how recessive genes work?

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5e rules explicitly refer to spaces on a grid and had to be changed in several ways to work in a gridless setting.

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That’s even dumber. You’re paying taxes either way, the difference is what you’re paying for with them. I’d rather them go towards healthcare than corporate bailouts and military contractors.

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Three possibilities. a) people who bought into the propaganda that being exploited by your employer means you’re more dedicated. b) the temporarily embarrassed millionaire effect. They’re willing to take the exploitation on the off chance they might be the one exploiting people in the future. c) they already are the ones exploiting people.

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Is there an obvious winning line for White or do you just mean the material disadvantage?

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Sundials are also responsible for why we say “o’clock”. It’s a differentiatior. Because the speed of a sundial would vary based on the time of year while a clock was constant, you had to clarify what kind of time you were talking about. Did you mean 10 of the clock or 10 of the sun? (Basically no one said o’sun, if you didn’t specify, it was assumed you meant by the sun.) Somehow, that stuck around long after sundials fell out of common use.

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Especially when their main selling point is that they don’t do fact checking.

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I assume the thinking is because it’s toxic, nothing lives in it. It’s an incorrect assumption, there are bacteria in it, but that’s probably where the misconception comes from.

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No need to convert. 0 to 40 is the part of the scale for weather, where 0 is dangerously cold and 40 is dangerously hot.

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If you know those two numbers, 0 and 40, you can get a general idea of what the temperature is in Celsius without doing any math. If you hear 20, you know that’s a moderate temperature because it’s right in between. If you hear 30, you know that’s fairly warm. If you hear 10, you know that’s chilly but not freezing. Below 0 or above 40 are extreme cold and extreme heat, respectively.

Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?

Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?

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The solution is simple, but will never happen. Make it illegal to own a home you don’t live in.

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That’s not extreme. The extreme answer involves more guillotines.

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Failing implies an attempt. The government deliberately chose to lift restrictions prematurely, knowing it would result in the deaths of millions of people, just to make billionaires richer.

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They’ll also say they’re too smart to be affected by advertising.

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They factor it into their decision to use self checkout. If the increase in shoplifting is less than they save on staff reduction (it is, significantly so), they consider it a tradeoff, so it’s hard to call it unethical.

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Social media addiction comes from algorithms designed to psychologically manipulate you into scrolling endlessly to maximize ad impressions. It’s not a good thing.

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We were supposed to have learned that from Cuil.

What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online?

There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

Ultraviolet,

It’s not well intentioned. Those egregious privacy violating measures are the intention, “protecting kids” is a smokescreen.

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Why are we continuing that pattern? Generation X gets named that, fine. Then we call the next one Generation Y, a few years later we realize that’s stupid because we’ll run out of letters and rename it to Millennial. Then we learn literally nothing from that, repeat the same mistake with Z and then loop over to the Greek alphabet? If we were going with the alphabet, why not start at A?

Ultraviolet,

Port was also initially Larboard, but it turns out when shouting a direction from the other side of a boat, having two similar sounding terms for opposite directions often results in crashing said boat, so it was changed in the mid 1800s.

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The funny part is that they supposedly believe in the Antichrist but don’t realize Trump is closer to that description than the Second Coming.

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I wouldn’t even mind that if the end result of engaging with all those systems was something more satisfying than just completely nullifying the combat, the part that’s supposed to be the core of the game. Why even have different types of enemies if as soon as your build gets up and running they’re going to die before they’re even on screen, let alone being able to attack?

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Also disproportionately inflicting false positives on neurodivergent students.

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An LLM is a specific type of AI, and honestly one that’s a useless novelty at best and the death of information on the internet at worst. Machine learning has been used in chess for literal decades before LLMs, is Stockfish “a few if statements”?

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That’s just efficiency, inflicting and curing heartburn at the same time.

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Like many things, the damage was done by the British. Specifically one Bishop Robert Lowth. In 1762, he wrote a book of prescriptivist grammar rules starting with the premise that Latin is a perfect language, and any construction in English that doesn’t match Latin is a flaw. This is where those nonsense rules like “never end a sentence with a preposition” and “never split infinitives” come from, as well as the claim that the singular they (in common use at the time) should be phased out in favor of the generic he, because that’s what Latin does. The damage this one book did to the English language still has not been fully repaired.

Ultraviolet,

4 degrees is the apocalyptic scenario. The vast majority of oxygen in the atmosphere is provided not by trees or any plants, but by the algae and cyanobacteria in the ocean. At the 4 degree threshold, they can’t do aerobic respiration anymore, so they switch to anaerobic respiration. This means they stop producing oxygen, drastically reducing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and drastically increasing the carbon dioxide. This does two things: kills any large fauna, humans included, and the additional carbon dioxide continues to act as a greenhouse gas, accelerating the effect even further. Eventually, after almost all oxygen breathing life is dead, we reach equilibrium, assuming your definition of 'we" includes insects, because that’s basically all that would be left. If there’s a risk of reaching the 4 degree threshold, we would be forced into taking our chances with the literal nuclear option of deliberately inducing a nuclear winter.

Ultraviolet,

One of the first people to be arrested at Stonewall was just a random passerby that saw people throwing bricks at cops. He just started grabbing some bricks and joined in, saying anyone who would stand up to the police has his support.

It can be less aggressive than that of course, but that’s an example.

Ultraviolet,

That would unironically be more humane than a lethal injection. The injection was developed by non-doctors taking their best guess at what they thought would kill reliably and painlessly, but it’s neither. And that’s by necessity, no doctor would ever throw out their entire career by violating their oath as flagrantly as developing a substance with no purpose other than being poison.

Ultraviolet,

It’s a really poorly communicated image. Less detailed visualization isn’t literally a washed out version of the thing, it’s more that the details only exist if you’re actively thinking about them, rather than your brain subconsciously imagining all the details immediately.

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Cops murdering a child isn’t “literally nothing”, it’s a very good reason to riot. Just because it happens so often here that we’re desensitized doesn’t make it any less abhorrent.

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The Doomsday rule.

Not necessarily the part for calculating the day of the week for any arbitrary day centuries ago, that’s just a useless party trick, but for the current year so you don’t need to pull out your phone to check. Knowing that 1/3 (or 1/4 on a leap year), the last day of February, 3/14, 4/4, 5/9, 6/6, 7/11, 8/8, 9/5, 10/10, 11/7, and 12/12 are all the same day of the week, that this year they’re all Tuesdays, and next year they’re all Thursdays, is mostly easy to remember and very frequently useful.

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