Well, yes, someone wires the plugs at the appliance cord factory, but unless you work in appliance cord manufacturing it’s typically not the appliance user. And yes, there are exceptions, such as installing some heavy appliances or replacing damaged plugs, but that shouldn’t be typical for “all” of someone’s appliances.

They were specifically invented to clean ears, but we now know it’s not safe to use them to clean ears. So we added a warning on the package about the danger of using them to clean ears, and continued to sell them to people, most of whom who are definitely still going to use them to clean their ears. Why? Because, aside from the inherent danger of permanent hearing damage, they really are an effective tool for the job.

Yes, they thought they could have it both ways. Thinking those lines in the contract would mean anything when they went against corporate interests was the naive part.

This is why all capital 'i’s should have bars on the top and bottom. It is my strong opinion that disambiguating serephs should not be considered optional, even in sansereph fonts.

Per the article, Ben & Jerry’s the brand was sold to a multinational conglomerate years ago and is not permitted to take any stance the corporation finds controversial, which includes genocide. Ben & Jerry the people are, commendably, taking a stance against genocide and are sad that they can’t align their company with that stance, since it is actually not their company because they sold it. I applaud them for speaking out, and roll my eyes at them for their naivity in thinking they could sell the company and still be allowed to take a moral stand with it afterwards.

Yeah, I’ve just stopped going to Taco Bell entirely because of this crap. Left an angry Google review about it too, for all the good it might do.

I’m American, and in my experience anyone with actual training on canoeing technique would stay on one side like you’re supposed to, but plenty of people also go canoeing who don’t know any better and switch sides to attempt to steer. I grew up canoeing and immediately was annoyed by the forward turn section of the diagram.

There is no lie. It’s just tough to admit that it’s fairly accurate.

Yes, I just glossed over that detail by saying “similar to”, but that is a more accurate explanation.

“They’ve been saying so many bad things about him for decades, and nothing stuck. He says he’s innocent, so who should I believe, the man I trust, or the lying media and the deep state? They just have it out for him because he tells it like he sees it.” You can point out all the inconsistencies in what Trump says, but they’ve tuned out already. They already know what they need to about him, or they just aren’t detail people at all. Some are so far gone, they think, “He’s a good person, therefore whatever it was he did was a good thing.”

Unfortunately the most probable response to a question is an authoritative answer, so that’s what usually comes out of them. They don’t actually know what they do or don’t know. If they happen to describe themselves accurately, it’s only because a similar description was in the training data, or they where specifically instructed to answer that way.

Dumpster concerns aside, I think these count as feral yeast.

This reminds me. Some years ago I was driving down the highway and I found myself behind the most garishly styled car I’ve seen in my life. I don’t recall the exact details now, just that I found it so brightly over decorated that it hurt to look at. “Who would put all that effort into making their vehicle so hideous?” I thought. Then there was a slowdown and everyone had to hit their brakes. Their brake lights, I now saw, were partially masked to say “YOLO!” every time they hit the brakes. “Well, fair enough,” I realized. I still hated it, but I had to respect that the car made them happy. You only have one life to live, and if you want to spend part it driving the most ugly car ever bedazzled, well, you do you. I’m happy for you. They’ll never know it, but that moment really stuck with me ever since. Don’t let others’ judgment stop you from doing to your car, or your body, what brings you the most joy.

Well, unless it’s a safety hazard to others. Please don’t do car mods that risk harm to others.

They were asking Deepseek, an LLM model developed in China, because they were curious what limits might be baked into it by its makers. I imagine that if they were testing an American made AI, they would instead ask it about things an American company would be likely to censor.

I particularly enjoyed Adobe® Creative Commons™ software and Microsoft Minecraft® Bedrock™ for Workgroups™.

A lot of it isn’t new, or is new but wasn’t published because it was redundant at the time. Everyone who wasn’t wearing blinders already knew Trump is a pedo creep who was best friends with Epstein. Now, finally, thanks to Trump’s broken promise on releasing “the Epstein files,” those blinders are off, or at least weakened and so it’s actually worthwhile to put this stuff out there again. Framing it like it’s some new revelation will get some of the people who ignored it before to maybe consider it this time around.

Pointless nitpick: I don’t think he’s wearing a bald cap, it really looks like the guy partially shaved his head for the bit. That takes some real commitment to do that just to call out the hypocrisy of someone being also shitty.

It wasn’t the user’s infrastructure, it was the LLM company’s. The selling point is that it’s all integrated together for you. You explain what you want, the LLM not only codes it, but launches it too. Yes, his screen shots of the LLM “taking responsibility” are idiotic, but so many people don’t understand that LLMs don’t actually understand anything.

“Basically their methodology was that they asked ChatGPT whether the job could be automated,” he explained. “They also asked people whether the job could be automated and then they said ChatGPT and people agreed some portion of the time.”

lol. This is such an idiotic thing to do. “Hey, you know that linguistic pattern matcher that doesn’t actually reason or introspect? Since it can talk, why don’t we just ask it what it can and can’t do?” Seeing this, published by an AI research institute no less, is what inspired the creators of the actually riggourus test the article is about. It inspired me with a desire to smack those idiots upside their empty heads.

Dude went dumpster diving for a name. It’s not theft if they’re throwing it away. One woman’s trash is another man’s treasure.