Never said ads are good nor that adblockers shouldn’t be used

Most of your arguments hold for stealing from a baby “they should protect it better, I don’t owe them shit”

This one “why shit allover someone saying a website has more ads than usual” comment I made seems to have found a lot of selfish assholes that can’t not force their views on other people and tell them how they should live their lives

Just a reminder that this thread, and my comments, are in the context of someone saying the OP had linked a particularly bad website for ads, and this person being attacked

If your position is what you’ve actually written here then I don’t think there is a real disagreement but I am surprised by the effort. There’s only a disagreement if you think it’s reasonable to call out someone for making a comment about the ads on a website being excessive and telling that person they don’t get that privilege because they don’t use the internet your way. Everything that follows is just a retaliatory mirror on the issues with “your way” (yeah it’s another poster not you)

This is the best answer so far

Oh, I can scroll up two comments. 1973. Scratch that

Half of US state capitals are in the middle of states because they were created at a time when travel times were large enough that you wanted to minimise them for political centres. I’m assuming this was around the same time so maybe it even took time to get congress together?

No warning, no siren

Why is this part of the title? It reads to me as making the attack seem more spooky and scary, but is there any other reason I’m missing?

An asshole move is consuming other people’s work without giving them something in return and then bitching at anyone that accurately points out you’re a leech

But yes, the current ads based system is mighty broken. I did touch on that, so did the comment before me, and I’m surprised an expansion felt needed

That’s happened a few times before hasn’t it?

Yeah, it’s pretty no win being in a place that tips. You’re just punishing the server if you do anything but a good tip and a good tip is just embedding tipping more

I usually just do blind maths for the tip but with an accent I always liked asking the server what I should tip and doing it well before I had to pay so I could get a feel for what sort of person it was or if I was missing something and sometimes it was surprising. I ordered six beer cans takeaway on a road trip once and (believing that take away was not usually tipped) asked. Their answer was something like “I’m earning $3 an hour, it’s your call”. Its pretty messed up anyone thinks that’s okay let alone enough people that the system persists

Yeah, I just wanted a cheap dig at tipping. I don’t enjoy watching people dancing for me in the hope they get a liveable wage out of it. I’m glad to no longer be living in a place where it is the norm

Thinking tipping is a good thing might be a (minor) red flag for me actually since there isn’t much too it besides giving the customer an amount of control over another human (and moving who is responsible for wages away from the business)

“All of it, obviously!”

Mostly agreed on this. Tipping is just a weird cultural / historical quirk though

“Scientists could soon use…”?

What the kind of articles are you sending us? That is clear bullshit

It’s weird to me that people complain about how long it takes to get to work, why don’t they just aggressively speed to get there earlier?

Sites need money to run and many rely on ads. Blocking them is an asshole move (that I admittedly do) but so is dumping them all over a page. It would be nice to have some sort of pay for what you use alternative but until then, bitching isn’t half as weird and obnoxious as whatever you’re doing in this comment

“Skytanic” was a great episode of Archer. For anyone that hasn’t seen it, the running gag is that Archer thinks the non-flammable helium is going to explode the blimp they’re on leading to things like this slap

That is a very misleading title for the article. It’s basically a short timeline of the DoD doing its table flip. The article doesn’t seem to include the dot point for the political funding.

Half the article seems to be trying to make the point that these AI providers aren’t jumping to support the DoD with logic that basically amounts to “Even though Google ran to rename to the Gulf of America, there are some rank and file engineers that say they don’t like this” with a couple of companies treated that way. The article’s thesis, for me at least, is a massive shrug until more pushback is seen from these companies.

engineers pointed out that if the Pentagon carried out its threat, nothing was stopping it from using the same tactics to force other companies to work with it.

No shit. That’s been true of most of their companies complicity. I was pretty vocal about early actions it was just less headline grabbing and my voice wasn’t going to do shit to change the company’s actions. The argument that this situation is any different is pretty precariously made in the article.

You’re replying to their comment about Australian politics compared to other countries to make a point about the shame of Australia politicians by using an example from British politics and another from US politics? Somehow I still can’t tell if this is a deliberate troll

Oh…

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam

Altman had secretly been working on the deal since Wednesday.

• before he announced his support for Dario
• before Trump had denounced Anthropic
• but after Brockman had donated 25M to Trump’s PAC

Alternate title: “Inland lake filling to levels not seen in 160 years”:

For the second year in a row, an inland sea is making its slow journey through some of Australia’s driest country to its home in the heart of South Australia.

Not only is every major catchment that drains into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre already wet, more rain is forecast and there is plenty of water yet to arrive from upstream.

If this water fills Australia’s largest inland lake — after getting tantalisingly close last year — it could be just the fourth time that has happened in 160 years.

Where is the water coming from?

The Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Basin is fed by a network of inland creeks and river systems across 1.2 million square kilometres, more than five times the size of Victoria.

It’s the fourth-largest catchment in the world that does not drain into the ocean.

I’d argue these quotes are on topic but don’t come close to addressing the logical inconsistencies.

OpenAI said it had found a way to put safeguards into its technologies that would somehow prevent the systems from being used in ways that it does not want them to be.

That could depend on your take of this statement. I personally don’t understand how this could be done with high certainty and most AI researchers I respect seem to have a similar analysis