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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • Sure, but their point still stands. You can easily make the argument that the backlash against AI and datacenters is specifically driven by people with

    jobs to keep, bills to pay, groceries to buy and perhaps even think of the environment

    And I don’t see how the backlash is inorganic. You have a new tech being shoved down peoples’ throats that is dog shit at most tasks and passable at some, which is being used to justify layoffs, make workers that keep their jobs work harder, drives up electricity costs, made computer parts unreasonably expensive, uses stupid amounts of power and water to train and outright takes any digital data not nailed down to increase the training data so it can generate shit like revenge porn, deep fakes and CSAM on major social media sites.

    If anything, I’m honestly surprised the backlash isn’t stronger and more widespread. But given the politicians this country is electing, I can only assume it’s because a large fraction of us are dumber than fucking bricks and brainlessly parrot anything their media daddies tell them.


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    I guess it all depends on how much you enjoy struggling to breathe doing basic tasks. If you want to struggle, go for it, but an upside to dying with healthy lungs means your last years are comparatively more comfortable.

    I have to assume so anyway. My friend’s husband didn’t look like he was enjoying it while he was actively dying of lung cancer and having to have O2 on hand at all times


  • Because (generic) you have no right to your child’s information when attending higher learning institutions, no matter your child’s age per FERPA. As it was explained to me, when attending higher learning institutions, it’s understood that the child is basically an adult and should be treated as such, which affords them the right to privacy, even from their parents. They can authorize you if they so choose, but it’s their choice.

    Having heard the arguments I got from helicopter parents, it’s much needed. The amount of grief I got from assholes who couldn’t be bothered to talk to their kids was insane (especially the kids who had a note on their account to not let anyone do phone resets because parents were willing to impersonate their kid to IT to break into their account)








  • Supporters say the measure tackles the problem before a downloadable file becomes an untraceable weapon. Everytown for Gun Safety says recoveries of 3D-printed crime guns across 20 cities have risen nearly 1,000% over the past five years, and argues that cheaper, more capable printers are already being used in illegal ghost gun operations.

    Ooooh, that’s two large red flags for me (disregarding the litany of red flags the concept in general has). Every town being involved makes me question the data on its face, given the number of times I saw gang violence near a school out of school hours listed as a school shooting in their database, as does a large percentage increase with no hard numbers. If they recovered 1 gun last year and 11 this year, that’s a 1000% increase, but the percentage sounds so much worse than the real number.