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  • Another data point yesterday was University of Miami (Ohio) poll of Ohio showing Trump+3 in Ohio. It's not as extreme a swing as the Selzer Iowa poll but it's a significant shift from 2016, 2020 and much of the polling this cycle.

    So while the Selzer poll is out on a bit of an island, the Miami-Ohio poll certainly shows a similar swing.

    I'm inclined towards pessimism, but it's hard not to feel there's some significant herding happening, and that the averages are being affected by it as well as some low quality pollsters flooding the data with polls

  • THIS is the Bad Place.gif

  • Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true."

    There's a word for that already. Lied. They/He lied.

    No need for 30 words when 2 will do.

    They Lied.

  • I'd argue a lot of our current problems are directly descended from Nixon being pardoned and facing 0 consequences for his crimes.

  • I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the fashion at the time

  • Are you sure you're not thinking of Jolee from Kotor 1 ?

  • I think it's a poor phrasing. A more accurate statement would have been, "We have not been able to confirm a motive at this time" or similar. Basically leaving room for the idea that we all more or less know what the motive was, while acknowledging that's it has not (yet) been proven conclusively.

  • In-N-Out is definitely overrated. Their burgers are fine, maybe even good, but the fries are fucking trash. You can't be a restaurant with 2 things on the menu and have one of them be awful.

  • My name is Barf. I'm a mawg. Half man. Half dog. I'm my own best friend.

  • He's English. You have described a Canadian.

  • Which I find extremely odd, since some traditionally masculine activities are nature oriented. Hunting, fishing, outdoorsy stuff in general. It wasn't that long ago that (environmental) conservation was a huge component of those activities to ensure continued access for people to those activities. Maybe it still is but I certainly don't get that impression as strongly anymore.

  • Disney built its entire empire on existing/public domain stories. Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood. The list goes on. Hell even Aladdin is largely located from Middle Eastern fairy tales.

    The fact that they're relying on existing IP now is nothing new. It's who they've always been. It's just that they had to buy it since it wasn't already in the public domain.

  • What I don't understand is how Microsoft has/has Watson which was able to answer questions well enough to go on Jeopardy and dominate. And now, more than a decade later these LLMs absolutely suck at it.

    It makes me wonder if Watson was nothing more than a Mechanical Turk because what is out there now seems like a huge step backwards.

  • 30s

  • I will not stand for this! Rankine will be the standard! It will confuse and infuriate everyone equally. Truly the fairest of outcomes.

  • Fascists are funny like that