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You just blow in from stupid town or what?

False. They’ll track whether you have an account or not. Even NoScript won’t completely disable their tracking. If you use the web, Meta is watching you.

🎶Blame it on my AD*(H)*D baby🎶

It’s EA. You’ll be playing it until they randomly decide to turn off the servers.

Google: 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑💰💰💰💰💰

LOL 😞…

CSS features like vertical alignment would be defined by web standards. Those fall under the non-profit org W3C. They’re pretty slow about things as to not break the fuck out of everything.

Browser behaviour like merging redirects falls on browsers tho, so yeah, we can blame Chrome or FF on that one.

Wait, toads don’t goose…

I type 120. How fucked am I, doctor?

LOL?

Just because it isn’t dangerous to the average individual does not mean it isn’t a problem and something that should not be happening.

The entire point of this thread is that from an outsiders perspective, you’re only going to see the news articles and form biased opinions. You’re going to see “Oh wow, the US has a lot of school shootings, schools must be super dangerous!”, meanwhile there were 82 deaths from school shootings last year out of 49.4 million students, or 0.000165% of the student population. Even looking at injuries, we only get to 0.00054%.

Is that number too high? Fuck yes. Any number of children injured or dying due to violence is unacceptable. It’s disgusting and the lack of response from our leadership is abhorrent. But are schools in the US dangerous because of this? Absolutely not.

I meaaan, there is no pandemic in 2024. We fucked the whole thing up and it’s just a regular ol’ endemic disease killing people every year that could have been prevented. Weeeeee!

Amd keeping with their initial example, 5he US also has a lot of school shootings. Doesn’t mean schools are dangerous.

That’s still civil. I think this is just a case of fraud plain and simple.

How quirky

If it is on the open internet and visible to anyone with a web browser and you have an adblocker like most people, you are not paying to support that work. That’s what it was trained on.

I personally use it’s answers as a jumping off point to do my own research, or I ask it for sources directly about things and check those out. I frequently use LLMs for learning about topics, but definitely don’t take anything they say at face value.

For a personal example, I use ChatGPT as my personal Japanese tutor. I use it discuss and break down nuances of various words or sayings, names of certain conjugation forms etc. etc., and it is absolutely not 100% correct, but I can now take the names of things that it gives me in native Japanese that I never would have known and look them up using other resources. Either it’s correct and I find confirming information, or it’s wrong and I can research further independently or ask it follow up questions. It’s certainly not as good as a human native speaker, but for $20 a month and as someone who likes enjoys doing their own research, I fucking love it.

I think this works great if the student is interested in the subject, but if you’re just trying to work through a bunch of problems so you can stop working through a bunch of problems, it ain’t gonna help you.

I have personally learned so much from LLMs (although you can’t really take anything at face value and have to look things up independently, but it gives you a great starting place), but it comes from a genuine interest in the questions I’m asking and things I dig at.

It’s the world we live in. It’s very much intentionally designed to make you complacent.

My boyfriend and I did this by accident in one of the big ass multi floor arcades in Akihabara. By default, service in Japan is so polite, and people are often very indirect, so the employees kept giving us subtle cues to leave that we were both oblivious to. Eventually, we caught on and were like, “Oh shit,” so we headed to the exit. Most of the employees had gathered to wave off customers as they left, but they all looked pretty pissed. We were the last two customers in the building, and they closed the doors behind us.

I still feel so horrible. It doesn’t help being foreigners and falling right into bad stereotypes 😭