Oil is mainly carbon, the carbon isn't destroyed by burning it. It just changes form. But now it's in the atmosphere instead of inside the earth. That's still a problem.
Writing by hand is very painful for some people. I always dreaded blue book exams for this reason, and ended up not writing as much as I wanted because I could not stand the hand pain. Or I got incredibly sloppy so that I could write as fast as possible and get it over with.
I've got kind of messed up hands, but not enough that you'd look at me and say "that guy should get special treatment". From the comments here, there are others like me who similarly hated hand-written tests due to the physical pain of hand writing.
> Did you see the story of thousands of homeless voters registering and told to vote for $2-5 in LA
Is this the type of voter fraud that the SAVE act would prevent?
And where did your "hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes" number come from? You jumped from "some Pakistanis" (the article lists possibly 2 to 3...) to "thousands of homeless" to "hundreds of thousands in large cities"
30 years was the MINIMUM sentence given to this group. The MAXIMUM sentence given to J6 rioters was 22 years. Are you honestly still trying to conflate the two?
You don't see a difference between local and foreign organizations influencing an election?
Most countries only allow citizens to vote. By your logic, they should let anyone vote, because what's the difference between a citizen and a foreigner when it comes to elections?
In your opinion, what is the positive aspect of this kind of AI video/voice generation tool that these videos are using?
In my opinion, AI video/voice generation is being used to scam and manipulate people en masse, without a compelling, good use case besides generating more (slop) content.
> At the national level, 58 Democrats voted against a resolution to posthumously honor Kirk.
Why does being assassinated mean they should be posthumously honored?
He farmed clips from uneducated impromptu college debaters to push a narrative that included "some gun deaths are worth it" and that women and minorities are often selected only for DEI reasons and you should worry if they are your doctor or pilot. He was not a nice or honorable person, regardless of the situation in which he was killed.
I don't endorse or support the assassination of Kirk (I assume you will jump to that conclusion based on how you read Kimmel and Dowd's comments), but we have to be real... he wasn't honorable, and the "free speech" and "encouraging debate" aspect of his career was mostly for YouTube views and political gain, not an actual conversation to improve mutual understanding.
> I don't see an indication for past or present support of Trump. All he said was "I am a conservative voter" while vastly agreeing to the the critics of Trump.
Rick is one of the most prolific pro-Trump accounts on this site. He's jumped through so many hoops to excuse or ignore or what-about Trump's actions, there is no doubt in my mind he is a Trump voter, and would likely vote for him for a third term if possible. Just look at this current thread to see how often he minimizes the rampant abuse of power by Trump because he "moves the ball forward on conservative policy".
Do not let his acknowledgement of Trump's issues fool you. He is 100% onboard with what is happening in the current admin.
No one is saying the water is destroyed, but it is removed from the local community that depends on it at a significantly faster rate when used this way.
Except for it's so un-abstract, AOC literally has a JAR OF IT to demonstrate part of the issue. People understand they don't want their drinking water to look like the water in the jar. That is about as un-abstract as you can get. It makes the issue very real.
This isn't even about excess water use, it's about water pollution.
If you think you'd get wider consensus while talking about CO2, which is so abstract that we have a climate change denialism faction running the government, you're being naive.
I think it's a symptom of software jobs paying really well for multiple decades. It attracted many people who are in it for the money only, and not the process or result (nothing wrong with that, imo). These are the people who fully embrace the vibe coding model and enjoy managing an AI more than developing anything by hand.
> The idea of "all the public works ever created" is easily contested.
Hence the word "public," implying that they are published and accessible.
> The internet now allows potentially anyone to publish anything, e.g., via personal websites, social media pages, etc. But that doesnt mean everyone partakes. How much of the unfiltered garbage published by those who do has been used to create these "models"
This seems like a nitpick instead of actually responding to the idea that they have stolen massive amounts of other peoples' work and are using it to enrich themselves. And the stealing is ignored or given a slap-on-the-wrist fine, which is not how it has worked for numerous other people in the past (the example being Aaron Schwartz). It's kind of irrelevant if the models do or do not train on low-effort text on the internet.
> No, I'm not ok with murder or theft and I don't understand why you write about it
Because you seem to think doing ANYTHING to limit people is tyranny, and preventing someone from being able to murder or steal would fall under "anything".
> I really don't understand this "totalitarian" thinking.
Way to avoid engaging with any of the things the poster said, instead nitpicking their first sentence.
> where you are free to participate against centralised governance where you must participate
Adding regulations to what companies can do regarding pollution is not a "centralized government" ala the USSR. All functioning societies and governments impose rules like this. The person you are responding to is mentioning that the externality of climate change is not properly factored into the free market, and we need SOME form of regulation/rules to compensate for that.
What you have typed does not address anything the person you are responding to said.
With those 50 million subscribers, how much do they pay and how much do they cost? That is the only relevant piece of information when discussing the investment and returns of OpenAI.
> You don't have to be Mormon or even religious to think that there's value in having a youth program that is specifically male-only, such that you'd be highly motivated to abandon a youth program if it stopped being male-only.
Are you going to expand on this at all? What is the value in Scouts being male-only?
I don't think anything that Walensky said was incorrect. She just said that their studies thus far showed very low Covid infection rates and very low rates of virus detection in vaccinated people. In what way was what she said incorrect? Her starting the quote with "Our data from the CDC today suggests" indicates she is only commenting on what the data they have shows, and not making any promises or 100% guaranteed statements.
Then, someone under the same organization, a spokesperson whose job it is to speak about these things, further clarified that the statement was broad, but they never said it was incorrect or was not supported by the study cited by Walensky. This seems to be things working as intended, and anti-vaxx people then attempted to misconstrue this quote as a promise or guarantee.
Oil is mainly carbon, the carbon isn't destroyed by burning it. It just changes form. But now it's in the atmosphere instead of inside the earth. That's still a problem.