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New comment by wddkcs in "Number 16 (spider)"

wddkcs — Mon, 27 May 2024 15:46:02 +0000

Shit, all life is a birth defect? Explains a lot.

New comment by wddkcs in "Number 16 (spider)"

wddkcs — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:43:23 +0000

That's a birth defect, not applicable.

New comment by wddkcs in "Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT"

wddkcs — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:49:17 +0000

Privacy has always been dead. Idk why people love it's corpse so much.

New comment by wddkcs in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

wddkcs — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:16:12 +0000

Reifing, you can't help but not in English. Capabilities are given intention, intentions given classes, and godhood is a class...

New comment by wddkcs in "GPT-4o"

wddkcs — Tue, 14 May 2024 04:01:36 +0000

So shallow

New comment by wddkcs in "GPT-4o"

wddkcs — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:05:40 +0000

Oh my Lord...the GPTs are made of- people!

New comment by wddkcs in "GPT-4o"

wddkcs — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:53:42 +0000

Try getting GPT to draw pictures of Mohammed and it gets pretty scared.

New comment by wddkcs in "The Age of Rage: Why Are People Are So Angry?"

wddkcs — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:47:28 +0000

Inequality has clearly increased across the entire world.

New comment by wddkcs in "The Age of Rage: Why Are People Are So Angry?"

wddkcs — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:46:54 +0000

Are these expectations impossible, or simply accrued to the most privileged in society? It's not the materiality those kids are complaining about, it's the distribution. Big Corp and Big Government really think they can gas light Americans even when we have access to all the data. That's the rage

New comment by wddkcs in "Emoji History: The Missing Years"

wddkcs — Sun, 12 May 2024 17:27:11 +0000

Your ignorance of the content doesn't rule out it's existence

New comment by wddkcs in "Emoji History: The Missing Years"

wddkcs — Sun, 12 May 2024 11:19:57 +0000

Emojis capture emotional context. Definitions would track with groups of similar temperament.

New comment by wddkcs in "Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial"

wddkcs — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:46:50 +0000

Name one story where privilege doesn't flow from the top down. That's not a story, that's a fever dream.

New comment by wddkcs in "Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial"

wddkcs — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:05:08 +0000

It couldn't exist otherwise. The privileged will always be the ones to push the boundaries of any endeavor, medicine included. Have hope that those rewards continue to work their way down, even though the process is long and arduous.

New comment by wddkcs in "The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year"

wddkcs — Fri, 10 May 2024 03:01:23 +0000

These are differences in perspective. If you can't handle my disagreement with your imposition of regulation on my life, then you are the overbearing lack of evidence I fundamentally disagree with.

New comment by wddkcs in "The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year"

wddkcs — Fri, 10 May 2024 02:59:55 +0000

Please quantify the economic damage related to the decrease of sulfur in the worlds oceans. I'd love to see the breakout on the impact on Phytoplankton reproduction and the repurcussions on global fish reproduction.

New comment by wddkcs in "The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year"

wddkcs — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:21:33 +0000

Has it really decreased the prevalence of acid rain that much, and was acid rain really that large an issue? I haven't heard anything about it since the 90s.

New comment by wddkcs in "The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year"

wddkcs — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:20:19 +0000

That climate activists should be immediately pushing to re&add sulfur? Please show one source citing negative effects of an effort to re-add, and one source citing positive effects of its removal. I find it funny to have three such vapid responses in such a short time.

Almost as if people latch onto the emotional immediacy of being 'activists for good' instead of making substantive change.

New comment by wddkcs in "The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year"

wddkcs — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:18:14 +0000

Why aren't activists immediately pushing to re-add sulfur? If you see that as bad faith, I guess we don't see the world close enough to discuss

New comment by wddkcs in "The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year"

wddkcs — Wed, 08 May 2024 09:53:16 +0000

I agree with the first sentence. Alternatively, it's amazing how the environmental activists pushing these agendas are focusing on such bad faith efforts. Where has the outcry been to put sulfur back in maritime fuel, as another commenter mentioned? Where is the effort to fix America's broken recycling system? Where is the effort to eliminate the millions of pieces of daily junk mail?

If environmental efforts weren't targeted at the most authoritarian and obtuse results (demands to stop all car use, mass polluters being labeled green through the use of carbon credits, etc.) it'd be a lot easier to take the threat seriously. When the solution to the problem is 'pay me more money and do the things I want you to do' it turns the 'extinction level threat' into just another sales pitch.

New comment by wddkcs in "U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers"

wddkcs — Wed, 08 May 2024 09:31:01 +0000

This is a bad example and overall I don't see the argument. For decades companies did force workers into extremely long hours. The standardization of the 40 hour work week was in some sense a collective action effort, starting with the request of the National Labor Union in the U.S. in 1866. [1] Prior to those efforts, workers in industrialized positions were indeed working 80 to 100 hours a week on average, with little to no recourse.

Beyond that, you ask 'Why would workers argue for fewer hours if it doesn't end up costing the company net profits? The workers don't care about net profits, at least at the expense of their own time. Time is money, and if the company has more of your time, you have less...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-40-hour-workw...