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mriswith

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  • Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

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  • Are you a bot posting this on every thread? Or are you just here to feel outraged? Because this is a post about doing the opposite.

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  • That's because it's a programmed response.

    There literally is no concept of a joke in their algorithms, it's an advanced chat bot basically going through a list of responses and comparing them similar questions it as analyzed, and spits out the answer that is likely to match.

    Take a giant spreadsheet with two columns. First one is questions, and the second is responses. Compare queries against first column. When a close match is found, prints out what is in the second column. That's an extreme simplification of what ChatGPT does. It was never programmer to know or understand what is in either column.

  • Something something far-left

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  • Boomers still think fast-food jobs are part-time things that teenagers do for some pocket change. They literally do not grasp the idea that there are adults working there to pay rent and buy food.

  • A note about the security of your Steam account

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  • For context, my account is over 15 years old, it has over $6k spent, and almost all of that is in the last decade. And it still comes out to under $50 a month, with thousands of hours played across a bunch of games.

    For comparison, I know people who spend much more on their hobbies with car, bicycle, home theater equipment, etc. each year

  • Have you tried going outside though

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  • It's literally been decades since I've seen it, but I seem to remember that he got upset regularly when he was forced to participate with the family instead of playing outside.

  • Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

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  • As the old saying goes: Don't feed the trolls.

    Replying as if half the comment doesn't exist and putting the word intelligent in quotes is a classic antagonizing move by trolls to make people try to engage them.

  • Jadzia Dax has some good quotes for trans folks

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  • I checked memory beta(which includes non-canon but licensed work like some comics, Star-Trek Online and similar) and here's a list of hosts with known information about spouse or child(ren):

    • Lela, 1st host, 21st century: Wife with husband, two children.
    • Tobin, 22nd century: Male trill with one child, no spouse listed.
    • Audrid, 23rd century: Wife with symbiont husband, two children.
    • Torias, 23rd century: Husband with symbiont wife

    • Jadzia, 24th century: Wife with husband

    The info box lists six marriages and nine children. So I'm guessing not everything is accurate or not all sub-pages updated.

  • YSK: there's a petition in europe to ban conversion therapy with a deadline in a few days.

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  • It's banned in several European countries like Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Iceland and Greece. And it's pending legislation in several others. As to why it wasn't EU law already: Some of the legislations are pretty new so it wasn't considered as something the majority would approve until they started implementing their own laws. On top of that several EU countries have pretty strong homophobic communities.

    Countries like Poland. In 2020 the EU was witholding funding for parts of Poland, because they established "LGBT-free zones". And the last one was only made invalid by the Administrative court last month.

  • Why Windscribe's court case proves how important VPN no-logging policies are

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  • Get your head out of your ass and learn to read. No one likes the "Uhm akshually, that's not technically true" -guy. Especially when they're techinically wrong(it's not talking about no-logging for your entire browsing session, just that the VPN doesn't store logs of your usage. And that is very much a thing, as proven by this court case).

  • Why Windscribe's court case proves how important VPN no-logging policies are

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  • Tom's Guide has nothing to do with Tom, and it's not for privacy oriented people.

    Case in point: In the article they link their top 5 VPN picks for 2025. Those being NordVPN, Surfshak, ExpressVPN, Proton and PIA. And for some reason the site has a hate-boner for Mullvad, and keeps mocking it in this article, and others for not having all "features" the others do, not paying for audits, etc.

  • Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.

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  • A little context:

    • It was bought just after WW2.
    • It's not an original, original. It's the 1300 version, not the 1215 or 1225.
    • It's one of 25 known originals
    • It's one of 3 known to still exist outside of Britain.

  • Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

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  • He's a software engineer, I'd bet on him automating it in a way that it's been flagged by commonly used recruting tools and is auto-rejected.

    Some of those tools also use LLM now, and they're regularly found to be flawed and turning away wanted applicants.

  • Minister: Finland plans to change its track gauge to European standard

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  • “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”

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  • The average Hollywood executive is really dumb, but they tend to be great talkers and networkers.

  • A note about the security of your Steam account

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  • People need to stop acting like it's some scary thing to know.

    https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/AccountSpend

    Don't just open it, see thousands of dollars spent, react like it is some huge expenditure and close it without thinking things through. Don't forget that the account is years old and when you do some simple division it going to come out to $30 a month or some number that is reasonable for you to spend on a hobby that you have spent hundreds to thousands of hours enjoying.

  • WATCH: Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Gets Dragged Out of RFK Jr. Hearing in Wild Protest Scene

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  • To be fair, Ben & Jerry's is owned by Unilever. And if one of those leaders showed up it might have been different, but they're mostly British and don't care.

    (For reference, there's more than a 50% chance you have some of their products in your home, as they "serve" over 3bill people a day. With brands like Knorr, Jif, Hellman's, Lipton, Axe, Q-Tips, Dove, Vaseline, and many, many more. They are the world largest ice cream manufacturer.If you look at your local brands, at least one probably has the "heartbrand" logo, indicating it's owned by them. )

  • Github keeps shoving copilot everywhere.

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  • They spent a lot of money developing it, and now they have to justify that money. So they're going to keep pushing it until some idiotic manager doesn't have red numbers in their spreadsheet. Regardless of what people want.

    I hate modern MBAs.

  • Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

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  • If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.

  • Lord Buffalo Drummer ‘Forcibly Removed’ From Plane and Detained by Border Patrol; Band Cancels European Tour

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  • Why are they removing people from planes leaving the country to detain them.

    Wouldn’t it be better to just do the European tour and then stay in Europe at this point?

    Because it's just nazism. They want to imprison and harm non-white people, and they're using "immigration" as an excuse.