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Buddahriffic

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  • The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’

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  • Sad part is when I first read that title, I thought it was part of the war on climate change data rather than tracking the new gestapo. Both are equally plausible.

  • Help.

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  • At this point, I don't think there's enough competent therapists in the world to help everyone who could use some therapy. And that's ignoring the bad therapists who can make things worse and the whole bit where therapists like to get paid but not everyone who needs them can pay them.

  • Help.

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  • Personally, I hate the idea of not doing something because there's idiots out there who will fuck themselves up on it. The current gen of AI might be a waste of resources and the whole concept of the goal of AI might be incompatible with society's existence; those are good reasons to at least be cautious about AI.

    I don't think people wanting to have relationships with an AI is a good reason to stop it, especially considering that it might even be a good option for some people who would otherwise just have no one or maybe too many cats for them to care for. Consider the creepy stalker type that thinks liking someone or something gives them ownership over that person or thing. Better for them to be obsessed with an LLM they can't hurt than a real person they might (or will make uncomfortable even of they end up being harmless overall).

  • Only 54% of U.S. adults say they drink alcohol, a record low. A new poll shows what's behind the decline.

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  • You cherry picked one line from an article that does talk about alcohol's harms, including in the opening paragraph.

    Not to mention the "growing skepticism of alcohol's benefits" is also accurate because there have been cases over the years where some study will come out saying it's better to drink a little than not at all (despite awareness of many of alcohol's harms, but they were blamed on drinking in excess) and people have been growing more skeptical of those lately.

    Belief in those benefits drove a different kind of drinking (like a glass of wine with dinner habit) than a lack of awareness (or denial) of the harms (which can lead to more severe alcoholism involving frequently drinking to get drunk). By addressing both the awareness of harms and skepticism of benefits, it's showing that both of those groups are on the decline.

  • Quick! before the woke gets em!

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  • Yeah, that conclusion (in the OP) sounds a lot like some aita commenters who give judgements based on a bunch of assumptions they just made up in their heads. They don't believe the original version where the daughters are at fault, so replace that version with their own and add the discrepancy (that they created in the first place) as another point against it.

    It's a fictional story where the daughters were written as villains. Or maybe it was erotica of its time, intended to sell more copies of the Bible or get people in to listen to what crazy shit happened next.

    Though I just remembered another part that does really bring the paragon of goodness (and what they thought was good) into question: the city of Sodom was destroyed because the citizens, upon seeing an angel or pair of angels or something, insisted they needed to gang rape them. Lot, in his unquestionable goodness, offers his own daughters for the gang rape instead. So clearly, at best they saw his daughters as his possessions that he could "sacrifice" to do "good", at worst they thought so little of women getting gang raped that it was just an "out" offered to the people that they refused and thus justified their destruction (because a normal gang rape must be fine, but angelic gang rape is something else).

    Oh and the call for blind obedience just thrown in when the wife looks back after being told not to and is punished for disobeying.

    Lol the story as told is fucked up enough, don't know why anyone feels the need to act like it was based on true events but was actually just a coverup for a different rape.

  • Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare

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  • I don't get why it's not common for people to cut out the middleman with these services that just connect a provider with a seeker. Then the seekers can stick with a reliable provider when they find one and the provider can take the full amount rather than giving away a cut (or, more accurately, accepting whatever the middleman thinks is the least they can give without driving the provider away). By the time they come in contact, the middleman has already added all of the value they can to that interaction.

  • 💀 💀 💀

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  • Keep it to a light poach.

  • TIL about the Concorde aircraft that flew at twice the speed of sound, and thad passenger flights from NY to London in three hours (versus 7 hours)

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  • At first I read "engineers" instead of "engines" and wondered if there was revival process or if they just didn't want the engineers working on anything else.

  • Aspergers officinalis

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  • On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.

  • Gaming on Linux hasn't been great so far... | JayzTwoCents [27:59]

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  • Personally, I find the Linux incompatibility with games that want to do shit to the kernel a plus so I don't accidentally install one without realizing it comes with malware.

  • 💀 💀 💀

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  • How many bubbles before the pump fails and needs to be re-primed?

  • Why do they all have the same procedure?

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  • Are they going for a trans look? Because each of those after pics look way less "passing" than the before ones.

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  • Implying they are selling products they know you are likely to be unsatisfied with.

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  • I wash my car every time it rains!

  • ChatGPT killed my wife (GPT5 release drama)

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  • I mean, it sounds like 5 might be an improvement in this regard if it's shattering the illusion.

  • YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

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  • Based on the other comments, the article itself is as garbage as the title.

  • What is your absolute favourite track from a video game?

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  • Metroid Prime OST, too many good options to pick just one.

  • How would you react if someone said they had a dream of you in it?

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  • Act surprised and a bit concerned, get a few details and then pretend that I also had the same dream but from the other perspective.

  • The miracle of life

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  • Baby: Also what the fuck is "click", "every", "image", "that", "has", "a", "in", "it", "what", "the", "fuck", "is", "also", and "and"?

    Baby probably doesn't even realize it's a participant and not just an observer yet.