given the choice between the benign tumor and the malignant tumor, one is better off with the benign one. refusing to choose just hands it to the malignant tumor by default. furthermore, it’s not about supporting the lesser of two evils but identifying which evil is the worst overall and focusing everything you have on punishing it. refraining from punishing evil is, surprise surprise, AN EVIL ACT

Wow. I had no idea this was going on. Well…

If the author of the code, who was distributing it for free, wants to pick and choose who gets to run said code, then one is welcome to a refund of $0.00, I guess.

…y’know, I feel like, hypothetically, if I made a list of ‘bad people’ and used it to control access to software made available to the general public, that would put me in a fair bit of hot water. If it doesn’t count as targeted harassment, it still creates a literal set of targeting data that anyone else can pick up and harass.

But one way or another, i don’t think it’s very constructive for me to to continue to exist within the vicinity of someone who hates me. even vicariously through their code. just kinda stings is all…

Ah, so you actually saw that before I decided to that my profile is better off without such filthy language in it and deleted it?

Well, in that case,

Good.

nailed it <3

but that’s aspirational at this point; right now I’m due-diligence jumping through hoops that my doctor keeps putting in my way to gatekeep me from transitioning. honestly though, i really did need to lose all this weight. i’ve recently surpassed a hundred pounds down, but i’m still at least 125 more away from a healthy enough condition to put my foot down.

it’s gonna be rather compelling and demonstrative of this not being a fleeting ephemeral whim that only arose ‘just recently’ when I can look a doctor in the eye and state with total honesty,

“I have dedicated several years of persistent effort to drag my weight down into a healthy range specifically because I promised myself that I would pursue a gender transition if i made it. I have lost more than my entire current body weight specifically in pursuit of this goal. If you try to tell me after all of that, that all my effort toward this exact goal was for naught, The Result Of Your Decision Shall Be Very ‘Unhealthy’ For Me, DOCTOR.”

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it’s extremely shoddily made due to blatant inaccuracies.

obviously this statue needs a LOT more work to have any worthwhile representation of charlie kirk.

first of all, it’s missing the very important actively gushing neck hole.

second of all, he looks lucid and composed instead of convulsing due to sudden loss of oxygenated blood pressure in his brain.

i don’t think anyone will buy it until these glaring issues are amended.

“Fuck off shitbag. You can’t hang with us; You voted for a rapist pedophile.”

moreover, I’m convinced the entire reason my generation (millennials) turned out to be tech-savvy was because adults didn’t understand it, were trying to control and curtail our usage, and we were mostly focused on finding ways to circumvent boomer and gen-x meddling in our usage.

LLMs are never going away.

Are you basing this assumption on the idea that they’re free to use? Because that’s not sustainable.

The every single time an AI company has tried to actually require compensation for the tokens burned for AI queries, even amounts that would hardly cover a fraction of the operational cost for that ‘work’, contracts have mass-canceled immediately.

You don’t have any control over token churn, either:
First of all, no matter how simple the prompt, LLMs can get stuck in thought loops that can chew through thousands of tokens before an answer can come out.
And second, every prompt you make not only eats a bunch of tokens incorporating the system prompt that can be billions of parameters long, but also includes every PRIOR prompt you put in, AND all their responses for “Context”, therefore token use increases geometrically for every next prompt.

The only thing holding its usage aloft is that nobody has had to pay up front. But the bill is racking up more and more every day for the power and cooling and facility upkeep, presently “paid for” by massive debts. When these firms that took out those debts file for bankruptcy, you do realize what’s owed doesn’t just magically poof into smoke, right? Even if a court literally ordered an injunction that those debts be stricken from the books as if they never happened, there is no financial firm on earth that wouldn’t find some backhanded way to balance the loss by shifting the burden to its other clients.

Maybe if any one of these companies posts a net profit, EVER, I might change my tune… but so far, this has been the emperor’s new clothes all over again.

it’s been wrong for as long as i can remember. perhaps longer. it’s always been wrong, as far as i know.

it’s still wrong…

…but for the first time, it seems to be getting less wrong.

… Depends on your definition of “okay”.

A maximally “good person” would not consider it OK to criticize someone’s religion, but they may criticize harmful activities that individuals perform, even if such individuals use their religion as an excuse to do harmful things–because it is not about religion, but rather about choices and actions.

However, I am admittedly not a maximally good person, no matter how much of a cinnamon roll I do wish I could be… And I draw the line a little further into the gray area, in that the thing that gives me pause is not “it’s a religion” but rather “participation in these activities–” this religion in particular “–strongly correlates with specific marginalized demographics.”

There is a very strong likelihood that dissing islam will also, with proverbial ‘splash damage’, hit people who are also going through a lot of awful shit with government leadership and legislation that somehow manages to STILL be more cruel and more corrupt than a given “global north” or “western” nation state.

So … It’s just awareness of context.

Also there is a chilling effect from all the highly publicized incidents where journalists are murdered for saying something that some individuals whom are Muslim do not agree with.

(although that does not make them look any worse than when israel murders journalists lately…)

Generally speaking, the normative population of christians (using the broadest possible definition in Literally Anyone Who Prays To Jesus) does not, statistically, suffer nearly as much oppression as muslims.

So … due to EXTERNALITIES, mocking islam itself, specifically, feels too much like ‘punching down’ for my liking. It is my hypothesis that there are other people hesitating to talk shit for the same or at least similar reasons. Meanwhile, mocking christianity is quite a bit less like ‘punching down’ because the most corrupt, powerful, dastardly sacks of shit on the planet dress themselves up as christians.

…That said, I do not think anyone has a leg to stand on as far as trying to dictate at other people that they are “allowed” to mock some religions but not others. I for one believe this is a personal choice that one must make for oneself. If you wish it did not happen, the extent of one’s individual influence is to choose not to oneself.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK:

PUBLIC LEGISLATORS AND EXECUTIVES DO NOT DESERVE PRIVACY!

Now he lives in constant fear for his life, unable to feel comfortable or safe anywhere he goes.

(Good; LOL. Perhaps LMAO, even.)

One must NEVER eat gas station sushi ._.

The bed is too damn hot.

huh. i have somehow managed to instill within myself a penchant for unambiguous specificity in response to this question before this ever became a problem for me.

“Are you busy?”

“I am not available for any communication at this moment except for textual.
I anticipate my response time shall be approximately between 30 and 300 seconds.”

the hamper needn’t be empty, comrade; it is only necessary to ensure it is not full.

somewhat alarmingly prescient o.o; i mean it’s basically palantir’s business model…

oh, my friend, i’m sad to say that this planet has been as fucked as a toddler at a republican invite-only soiree for a long time already u.u

Our fate was sealed since the 1960s.

The timeline branch where we avoided this was the one where Nixon was executed for treason. We are, unfortunately, obviously in one of the variations of the world where that did not happen.

(edit: i know he was only sworn in by 1969 and resigned in 1974 but the prerequisites for dragging his sick bastard carcass to justice were supposed to have been laid out in JFK’s second term. … Which also didn’t happen in the timeline where we have had the misfortune to find ourselves)

YAAASSS go get it fam!!

live free of social convention!

honestly LOVE that for you <3