TranquilTurbulence

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Keep up the good work, Trump! Soon you’ll unlock the coveted “economic disaster” achievement. Once that happens, you better start printing dollars, because Hungary still holds the record of 4.10*10^16 % inflation rate.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Now we’re officially at the “Yeah, that may as well happen” -stage.

Just like in 2020 when Trump was tweeting bizarre things every day. At some point, you became desensitized to all the madness and just went “Yeah, that might as well happen. Why not.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

To be fair, most black Americans voted for Harris. Trump voters are a tiny minority by comparison, so you can expect all sorts of unusual things from a small group like that.

Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/interactive-how-key-groups-of-americans-voted-in-2024-according-to-ap-votecast

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Even within a single language, you can have several different options like these

“curly double quotes” look like 66 and 99, so they are asymmetric. The font you use may change the appearance radically.

"vertical double quotes" are identical.

‘curly single quotes’ are asymmetric.

'vertical single quotes' are identical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Eventually, there’s going to be a February when they don’t send a bill at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

You know what’s infuriating about multiple choice tests? When you know enough to notice a mistake. You can tell the teacher screwed up, and now you know none of the answers are correct or more than one is. Next, you’ll just have to telepathically figure out what the teacher was thinking of when designing the exam, and pick the answer that was originally supposed to be the right one.

If you’ve mastered the art of exam telepathy, you also unlock the ability to pass any multiple choice exam.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yes, and that’s why I don’t like looking at old pictures of me. I feel like old me isn’t the same thing as current me. It also sparks lots of Ship of Theseus type thoughts.

The atoms and cells the old me was built out of are mostly gone now. The emergent properties of that collection of brain cells is also different. Thoughts, beliefs, emotions, habits and attitudes have changed. The old me and new me are different parts of the same continuum. If we lived in the same time, everyone would consider us two different people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Just take a look at the countries that have the word “democratic” in their name. Seems like that’s the unofficial way to let everyone know exactly how authoritarian the country actually is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If you use internet discussions as training data, you can expect to find all sorts of crazy biases. Completely unfiltered data should produce a chatbot that exaggerates many human traits which completely burying others.

For example, on Reddit and Lemmy, you’ll find lots of clever puns. On Mastodon, you’ll find all sorts of LGBT advocates or otherwise queer people. On Xitter, you’ll find all the racists and white supremacists. There are also old school forums that amplify things even further.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. If you’re training your AI with free labor, expect to get trolls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This is absolutely brilliant! Can't wait to see someone try to hide something in plain sight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I feel fine. Sure, there’s lots of stuff to do, but it’s ok. Just one thing at a time…

 

They might also be meaningless internet points. Who knows.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

While I was in the shower, I thought of a brilliant idea! Let’s trigger several smaller volcanic eruptions that release a semi-controlled amount of volcanic ash into other atmosphere. That will cool down the atmosphere, which should buy us some time to fix our carbon emissions.

Then I realized, that doing so would block visible light. Plants need the light to grow, and we need the plants to breathe and eat. Obviously, this is not going to be a long term solution. Oh, and how do you even make sure the volcanic eruption doesn’t spiral out of control and suddenly spew out 50 times the ash we were aiming for. Oh, and volcanoes also spew CO2 and even nastier gases, so… It sounded so good while I was still in the shower. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.

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