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Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities
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Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities
snake_case Link ParentI still believe that people generally want to do good and want to make decisions that help others. We’re all just having trouble making our way through the onslaught of propagandaI still believe that people generally want to do good and want to make decisions that help others. We’re all just having trouble making our way through the onslaught of propaganda
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Comment on Large US study finds memory decline surge in young people in ~health.mental
snake_case Link ParentI do the same exact thing but with documentaries. Every so often I’ll venture into a podcast. Been doing this for as long as I can remember. Had those national geographic vhs tapes when I was a kid.I do the same exact thing but with documentaries. Every so often I’ll venture into a podcast. Been doing this for as long as I can remember. Had those national geographic vhs tapes when I was a kid.
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Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities
snake_case Link ParentI haven’t given up trying to reach people. Its just frustrating. Its been ten years and I havent changed anyones mind about anything at all. I know there studies like “people do not change their...I haven’t given up trying to reach people. Its just frustrating. Its been ten years and I havent changed anyones mind about anything at all.
I know there studies like “people do not change their minds ever” and I read those studies and I get it but I just have this hope that my friends are more intelligent than that and…. Its been ten years.
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Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities
snake_case Link ParentIve had this discussion with my politically extreme friends so many times Ive given up. They are all suggesting grossly simple answers to endlessly complex issues and I just do not know how anyone...Ive had this discussion with my politically extreme friends so many times Ive given up.
They are all suggesting grossly simple answers to endlessly complex issues and I just do not know how anyone who doesn’t intimately know how the actual system that we have in place today works can suggest any kind of fix for it.
Looking at you, basic income supporters. Ugh.
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one asking questions still. Everyone else is just tossing out dumb ideas.
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Comment on Things to do when you've lost your job in ~talk
snake_case LinkWrite your resume yourself. Get your friends to review it. Hell, get us to review it. If you take all the personal info out you can post it on r/resumes and they will tear it up and you’ll be...Write your resume yourself.
Get your friends to review it. Hell, get us to review it. If you take all the personal info out you can post it on r/resumes and they will tear it up and you’ll be better for it.
Just write it yourself and you’re ahead of like 90% of the applicants.
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Comment on How has AI positively impacted your life? in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentThe users connect it to their data and ask it questions about their data, so like, they probably don’t know that its a RAG system but they do know its only supposed to give them information about...The users connect it to their data and ask it questions about their data, so like, they probably don’t know that its a RAG system but they do know its only supposed to give them information about the data they gave it
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Comment on How has AI positively impacted your life? in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentRAG models are crazy, I work on one for a living. Theres zero chance any lawyer is actually practicing without using one of these. Medical billing probably does it too. I know the US government...RAG models are crazy, I work on one for a living. Theres zero chance any lawyer is actually practicing without using one of these. Medical billing probably does it too. I know the US government uses it, but I’m not privy to knowing what the use case is.
We basically just don’t have to read through anything any more. I kinda cant believe I had to scroll this far down to see someone mention it
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Comment on How has AI positively impacted your life? in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI’m like the above poster and diagnosed with AUdhd when I was a child, but Ive never had to really seek professional help for it as an adult because of a mix of the bit of therapy I got as a kid...I’m like the above poster and diagnosed with AUdhd when I was a child, but Ive never had to really seek professional help for it as an adult because of a mix of the bit of therapy I got as a kid and basically just the massive amounts of information about how to cope on the internet.
I’m still slower than my peers to complete tasks for no obvious reason, but I do actually complete tasks, which is huge.
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Comment on How has AI positively impacted your life? in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentHaving a rubber duck has been amazing for me too! Even if it gives me the wrong answer, I know enough to work through that easily, its the getting my head around a task that always took forever,...Having a rubber duck has been amazing for me too! Even if it gives me the wrong answer, I know enough to work through that easily, its the getting my head around a task that always took forever, just like you.
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Comment on James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers in ~science
snake_case Link ParentWell yea? Humans live forever compared to pea plants it would take like thousands of years to see any difference. Idr when the movie takes place I only saw it once as a kid and thought it was...Well yea? Humans live forever compared to pea plants it would take like thousands of years to see any difference.
Idr when the movie takes place I only saw it once as a kid and thought it was kinda creepy but like even as a kid I knew it was an exaggeration.
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Comment on V for Vendetta - 20th anniversary | Announcement trailer in ~movies
snake_case Link ParentNo they’ll claim it as pro Trump and tell all their supporters that this movie is what will happen to them if they vote for democratsNo they’ll claim it as pro Trump and tell all their supporters that this movie is what will happen to them if they vote for democrats
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Comment on Microsoft is adding AI facial recognition to OneDrive and users can only turn it off three times a year in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentIve been using Linux Mint for like ten years now so all those words you just threw out there sound like nonsense to me hahaha Mint has a built in backup and restore with a GUI. I use it, its easy,...Ive been using Linux Mint for like ten years now so all those words you just threw out there sound like nonsense to me hahaha
Mint has a built in backup and restore with a GUI. I use it, its easy, amazing, easier than it was on Windows even.
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Comment on Experiences with united healthcare in ~health
snake_case LinkI have UHC and it's fine since I never have to actually use it. My doctors that I'd been using my whole life were in network. I just use it for my yearly checkups and that's it.I have UHC and it's fine since I never have to actually use it. My doctors that I'd been using my whole life were in network. I just use it for my yearly checkups and that's it.
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Comment on James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers in ~science
snake_case Link ParentI'll bite It is healthy science to go against the norm and question things Its not healthy science to continue to push a hypothesis that has been disproved as much as his "intelligence bell curve"...I'll bite
It is healthy science to go against the norm and question things
Its not healthy science to continue to push a hypothesis that has been disproved as much as his "intelligence bell curve" hypothesis has been. That's bad science.
The premise of Idiocracy is a world where intelligence is no longer important, and so then it's no longer selected for at a population level, meaning everyone collectively becomes less intelligent. That's not related to what Watson is suggesting, that's just good old fashioned natural selection.
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Comment on The shutdown of USAID has already killed hundreds of thousands in ~society
snake_case Link ParentYeah, I live in an area where good people are only good to you if you’re white and dress like they do. Idk what to do about it. Id like to say if they actually believed the news they’d stop voting...Yeah, I live in an area where good people are only good to you if you’re white and dress like they do.
Idk what to do about it. Id like to say if they actually believed the news they’d stop voting for him, but their hatred towards democrats is so deep at this point that many of them aren’t even Trump supporters and will admit they don’t like him and maybe even that he’s not doing a good job “but at least he ain’t no democrat”
wtf do you do with that? Literally the moment you say anything that even vaguely sounds like a liberal talking point they tune out and shut down.
I do honestly believe if a goldfish ran for the republican party they’d have voted for the goldfish.
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Comment on The shutdown of USAID has already killed hundreds of thousands in ~society
snake_case Link ParentThey really have no idea that its even happening, they don’t know how foreign aid works, they don’t know that people don’t just “figure it out”. They’ll just call this a lie and carry on about...They really have no idea that its even happening, they don’t know how foreign aid works, they don’t know that people don’t just “figure it out”. They’ll just call this a lie and carry on about their lives as they always have cause nothing has changed for them besides the news, which they call fake.
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Comment on Two signs that Democrats flipped Donald Trump supporters on Tuesday (gifted link) in ~society
snake_case Link ParentThats a lot of pressure to put on one guyThats a lot of pressure to put on one guy
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Comment on Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity in ~enviro
snake_case LinkThis is cool of course but what I’m really itching for is electricity at a flat rate because maintaining the infrastructure is the cost instead of actually producing electricity. Right now, both...This is cool of course but what I’m really itching for is electricity at a flat rate because maintaining the infrastructure is the cost instead of actually producing electricity.
Right now, both things cost, and rates are rising in the US as people use less electricity. The cost model is all screwed.
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Comment on Two signs that Democrats flipped Donald Trump supporters on Tuesday (gifted link) in ~society
snake_case Link ParentTo be fair it kinda seems like a similar situation to covid where the Democratic party doesn’t have to actually change anything they’re doing because gestures broadly at everything and 8 years...To be fair it kinda seems like a similar situation to covid where the Democratic party doesn’t have to actually change anything they’re doing because gestures broadly at everything and 8 years from now we’ll be right back where we started, with one conservative party and one looney tunes party.
However, in order for that to work, there need to be other systems in play
Our government was actually starving people because the democrats wouldn’t let them stop funding the tiny bit of healthcare assistance we actually have.
Basic income is a utopia idea. We’re so far away from this being an actual solution that its a waste of brain energy to ponder it and the one single candidate that ran on basic income was a total used car salesman of a candidate.
I get it. Free money for everyone cause everyone deserves their share of resources is an amazing reality to wish for. Humans just don’t work that way though. Best we can do is need based assistance which yes is a total waste of resources but so are political
Campaigns in general and like well most of the things we spend resources on.