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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 points 18 hours ago (10 children)

Christians is not the reason USA is involved. I would have said it's because Israel is a militarily valuable position to have in the middle-east.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

I see a lot more banned users and deleted comments on lemmy than I did on reddit.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

OpenAI's new model was able to get 5 out of 6 questions (a gold medal) on the 2025 International Math Olympiad. I am very surprised by this result, though I don't see any evidence of foul play.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

that's saul goodman right

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

I see that. That's why I said it's anti-bus as much as it is anti-car, rather than saying it's more anti-bus than anti-car.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

public transit is only that crowded one trip in a hundred in my city. This comic feels anti-bus as much as it feels anti-car.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

as for chips & salsa, tex-mex food is kind of an interesting case.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You've explained what +n means, but not what +n favourability means.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What does +n favourability mean?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 85 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Land stolen from the Native Americans in almost all cases. (That's different from the other items in this list, which were produced or invented or traded.)

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Logically, if A ⇒ B, then I think it still counts as "double dipping" to claim both A and B separately, if even B without A is possible.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

This is a possibility, but I don't claim to be good enough at macro economics to be able to predict whether this will be the outcome or not.

 

Seems like over the last week everyone in this community is talking about how the real reason AI is bad is because it is destroying the planet. Does this even matter though? AI is bad for so many other reasons. It's destroying art. It's destroying Hollywood. It's removing jobs from the workforce, and it's concentrating power and money. And ontop of all that, it produces only soulless slop.

We have a good front line there. We can rally around those points.

When you try to bring questionable objections like power an water usage onto the table, it just makes our front-line look weaker, since opponents can easily pick these arguments apart. "Sure it's a lot of power, but this will lead to nuclear power, which is a net win environmentally." Or, "a single AI query consumes 2 litres of water?? You mean milliliters, and it's just going to rain from the sky, and nobody is putting big datacentres in California anyway, and that's only 1/6th of the amount of water it takes to grow an almond." Or "yeah, google alone uses as much power as the entire city of Toronto, but Toronto uses green power; so what?"

And yes, we all have counter-arguments to these -- "how to deal with nuclear waste?" and "only a fraction of rain water is collected as potable water" and "almonds may take more water than AI but almonds are still bad" and "there are some datacentres in California" and so on but the deeper these arguments go the harder it is to maintain a stable front.

Can we all just admit that this environmental angle is a red herring? I could almost believe it's a psy-op intended to discredit the anti-AI crowd. Even if the environmental impact of AI is bad, I still think it's worse for our cause to focus on the environmental aspect than the other aspects. The world has already decided it doesn't care about the environment.

 

Curious if any women have tried taking T. I'm much younger than her but I've been feeling some of the symptoms she's talked about a lot, and I'm wondering if T might help. But obviously I'm worried about the effects of it.

Not looking for medical advice, just curious about other people's experiences.

 

I'm really loving Pedro Pascal these days.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/WomensStuff@lazysoci.al
 

This is an inclusive community for all things women. Whether you’re here for make up tips, feminism or just friendly chit chat, we’ve got you covered.

I feel like men can do all of those things, so I don't see why we are excluding them. Just because it's a women-centric community doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed. I think we should exclude people who are bigoted instead, or even people who just don't "get" women's issues.

Aside: I'm personally irritated that make-up is what's considered a woman-centric topic. That's kind of reductive -- not everyone is femme.

 

I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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