Th4tGuyII

Man it’s wild that even W Bush had more decency than Trump, and he was terrible

Well that’s easy. Those who would have been rendered powerless, and those who could won’t cause they’re in on it.

Perhaps the biggest fundamental problem with using AI like this - how can you know the programs it generates are truly clean-room replicas? Can you guarantee Anthropic never trained their AI on Adobe’s suite or any of Adobe’s code?

Also, if you’re desperate to cut Adobe out of your life, why not use the open source tools that already exist and aren’t at risk of being sued out of existence by Adobe

Partly at least, publicity.

Due to the way it came to be and its allegiances, Israel is generally treated as part of the “Western world”, and is thus much more in the European and American spotlight.

Thus its absolute oppression and genocide of Palestinian people has a lot more Western eyes on it than the plight of the Kurds.

“That bonfire in the middle of the field that sees both sides, that understands that peace is not a lack of conflict. Peace is not a blank canvas that we need to guard and be polite. [Peace] holds enough beauty, enough tragedy, enough sorrow, enough joy and life if we learn how to integrate it and hold each other in balance. We will find a way through this together.”

What hell is this even meant to mean?!

True conflict free peace might just be impossible, wars in the middle east are nothing new, but putting your fingers in your ears screaming lalala over the sound of innocent people dying in a genocide is not peace dude.

Guy in the middle must have a splitting headache

In principle I do agree with you - ER care should absolutely prioritise the sickest individuals first, to ensure the least loss of life.

But I can only reconcile that in the case where you are not actively being charged for the privilege of waiting in line.

When everybody in that room is being charged hundreds of dollars for the privilege of suffering in line, then that philosophy can kindly fuck off. See the people who started paying first.

I mean I also believe you shouldn’t be charged for access to emergency medical help at all (tax payer fund it) - but that’s a non-sequitur

So in essence the price that the market will bare for the cost of AI usage is significantly lower than what the big AI companies would like it to be (in order to pay back their ever growing debts), which means there is a possibility they might never achieve profitability on their own (without some external/governmental strong-arming)

ER triage is driven by risk of death or serious harm, not by level of suffering

In a system of free healthcare services, I would expect patients with more severe outcomes to be treated first…

Hell if they were kind enough not to bill for the privilege of sitting in a waiting room for hours of suffering, then I might also accept that…

But in a system where I’m being billed hundreds of dollars just for the privilege of being triaged and sitting in your waiting room, you can kindly fuck off with that prioritisation bullshit and get to work on the people who came in first.

Every time I see this come up, I’m reminded of that one Achievement Hunter clip of

So if I’m in plane that’s lost pressure with an oxygen mask on, I shouldn’t help anyone get their’s on because I couldn’t help everyone get their masks on in the like 1.5 minutes you get before brain damage?

Like I know this is a slippery slope example, and I do a agree with you that you should aim to save as many lives as possible…

But FFS this is literally the same wording right-wing politicians use to break down laws and decay public infrastructure because if it can’t work perfectly its not worth having, and then they let companies in to canabalize what’s left.

Basically any fast food. Within my lifetime fast food went from cheap end of week treat, to being a complete ripoff that’s almost never worth shelling out for…

Which is weird cause the price of actual restaurants hasn’t gone up as much during that time, so it now oftentimes makes more sense to just go to an actual restaurant where you’ll (usually) get better food in better portions

Reboots some switches

How are you rebooting a switch with a connector?

There’s an egg in a pan emoji??

What on Earth would you even need such a specific emoji for??

As if Google and other big providers deciding that giving you bad results so you’d have to view ADs for longer wasn’t bad enough for the young people’s ability to critically think and find information…

Now they’re going to AIs that’ll outright lie to them with confidence of someone about to say “I told you so”.

Not everyone has the time or ability to go out and protest, but the amount of people I see that not only have no problem with what Israel are doing, but go out of their way to decry anti-genocide protests is disgustingly high.

Like you don’t feel safe??

You’re WAY safer than the people who have to worry about being shot in the streets everyday by the IDF with no home to go to because it got fucking carpet bombed.

Obviously hate crimes against any group of people is wrong…

But it is a bit rich to complain that you’re no longer safe in America because you’re scared of the #FreePalestine movement, while people of your same cloth are committing literal genocide in Gaza.

I understand the need to maintain your own personal safety, but FFS gain a bit of perspective David, cause I’m sure any of the folks in Gaza would be more than happy to swap places with you.

The comfort-eating point you mentioned is why I stressed I’ve been there.
I used to have a really bad problem with overeating. Like to where I was classed as morbidly obese as a kid.

Which does add another difficult point I didn’t mention. The motivation.

You need that to push through, cause it will suck to start with - and without motivation you’re likely to go back to what comforts you, instead of forcing the change you want.

Again, I went from comfort eating to being able to being perfectly fine not eating for hours, and even being uncomfortable when full. It’s doable, but you have to fully want to do it.

Not to be poo-poo on your answer, but GLP1 for all has the same vibe as turning on your heating with all the windows open. Its solves the issue today, but doesn’t solve the problem.

Firstly, BMI only really works for people of otherwise average height and musculature. A bodybuilder could be seen as obese for example. So just fixing for that would help.

But more importantly, and perhaps unpopularly, I think people have gotten too used to feeling full all the time, and that the slightest feeling of hunger signals red alert. I see people constantly grazing throughout the day the moment they get even slightly hungry, sometimes without evening noticing it themselves, then they’ll still eat big meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Unless you’re regularly getting a good amount of exercise from work or your personal lifestyle, then of course you’re gonna put on weight cause those calories have got nowhere to go. Now while there are other factors that can tip the scales into or out of your favour, ultimately:

Daily Energy Input < Energy Output = Weight Loss

Now some will say they can’t not eat, because they can’t concentrate otherwise, it gives them the shakes, or something else. But for 99% of people, that “need” is all psychological, and can be shaken off with time and patience.

I would know, cause I experienced this when I was younger changing my diet to help lose weight. Being purposefully intermittent about eating will suck at first as your body and mind adjust to the new status quo, but stick with it and your body and mind will be healthier for it.

((Just to be clear, I’m not promoting any kind of eating disorder or crash dieting. Losing weight sustainably is about small changes that you take with you into the future, not making huge changes that make you sick/depressed, or throwing your body around like a metabolic ragdoll. But I do mean it when I say putting more planning and restraint into when and what you eat will do you a world of wonder))