andyburke
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- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 2 months ago:
Comment sections are for comments.
This is the fediverse. I feel like these kinds of bots should be emitting something other than a comment, just a generic "metadata" might be good. Then work to get that adopted by the various platforms.
Because comment sections should be a place for people.
- Comment on What Can a City Do When Neo-Nazis Start Marching Down Its Streets? 2 months ago:
Just to be clear, you are the one advocating for tolerating those promoting intolerance in this situation.
You have laid it out very clearly here.
That is why you are subject to the paradox. Nothing to do with complicated situations or anything. You are saying people who push an ideology of inequality and intolerance.deserve a voice. I do not agree.
- Comment on What Can a City Do When Neo-Nazis Start Marching Down Its Streets? 2 months ago:
You need to be cautious of the paradox of tolerance.
- Comment on What Can a City Do When Neo-Nazis Start Marching Down Its Streets? 2 months ago:
Newsflash: some number of people are absolute shitbags.
If you let them take over and run the show it's gonna get real bad.
Nazis are absolute shitbags. They will always be around in some number. You need to always suppress them so they don't fuck up the good shit we have managed to eek out.
- Comment on UAW Rips 'Corporate Greed' of John Deere as Mass Layoffs Follow $43 Billion in Stock Buybacks 2 months ago:
Conservatives: THESE CORPORATIONS AND THE PEOPLE THAT RUN THEM ARE THE REAL PROBLEM.
Please stop obsessing over people's genitals and get with the rest of us on trying to fix this broken system we've got.
- Comment on Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office? 3 months ago:
He does not.
As wild as this timeline is, let's remember it could be worse. Vote. Care for your friends and family. Keep trying to make the world a little better.
- Comment on Why Did the National Education Association Just Lock Out Its Own Staffers? 3 months ago:
Yo, if you are in this union, your union president needs to fuckin' go. This is not how you union.
- Comment on answer = sum(n) / len(n) 3 months ago:
I think you're not aware of the AI making up a case name from whole cloth that I am talkimg about? Because that's not misremembering, it's exactly what you would expect unintelligent statistical prediction to come up with.
- Comment on answer = sum(n) / len(n) 3 months ago:
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- Comment on answer = sum(n) / len(n) 3 months ago:
You know what we do in engineering when we need to understand a system a lot of the time? We instrument it.
Please explain why this can't be instrumented. Please explain why the trace data could not be analtzed offline at different timescales as a way to start understanding what is happening in the models.
I'm fucking embarassed for CS lately.
- Comment on answer = sum(n) / len(n) 3 months ago:
Yeah, but the critical question is: is human intelligence statistics?
Seems no, to me: a human lawyer wouldn't, for instance, make up case law that doesn't exist. AI has done that one already. If it had even the most basic understanding of what the law is and does, it would have known not to do that.
This shit is just megahal on a gpu.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew told Rick Berman she wanted a gay character on the Voyager bridge 4 months ago:
As a cishet white male who dislikes Voyager, I would absolutely have enjoyed a clueless straight Tom Paris trying to set gay Harry up.
Instead he turned into a fish and kidnapped Janeway to, and I will be very gracious to the writing staff here, have consensual offspring with her.
Why did I tell myself I needed to watch that show? Worst trek. 😢
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 4 months ago:
I will die on the Enterprise theme song hill.
It's been a long way...
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 4 months ago:
As someone who watched it with no nostalgia glasses: it is not good trek.
I can't think of a really outstanding episode off the top of my head (maybe the Tuvix one? But even that is just ... rough?). And there are some episodes in there that I actively dislike in a way I don't with most of the other series.
I like Kate Mulgrew, she was a strong actor for the role and the theme is a banger, otherwise .. meh.
- Comment on Jimmy Carter : The Most [Unfairly] Hated President of the United States - Documentary 4 months ago:
For emphasis, it's a common practice in online text communication.
- Comment on Just catching up now, but apparently this is the source material for most Generation A cultural milieu. 5 months ago:
well, A+ for getting kids into Tears for Fears. - Gen Xer
edit: thank you for your front-line reporting 🤣
- Comment on 'LOOK HOW FCKING MANY ARE DEFENDING THIS KILLER'S HOUSE!' 5 months ago:
well, on the plus side, the killer is in jail now. It shouldn't take national protests for that to happen, though.
- Comment on Every damn day 5 months ago:
Do y'all have any idea how jealous the old angry people are?
- Comment on Libertarian Sea Pods: A Hilarious Aquatic Disaster - YouTube 5 months ago:
I know: I will take this stupid idea and make money making fun of it.
This kinda content is garbage, just like the content it's making fun of.
I should stop whining and just unsub. These videos are lame.
- Comment on What is that sound effect in the House M.D theme music? 5 months ago:
You're right, my fault. Thanks!
- Comment on What is that sound effect in the House M.D theme music? 5 months ago:
Hello, I am now confused. Can someone link me the song being discussed because I think I only know the US opening?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 5 months ago:
I'll say that this reaction does nothing to make me think you are approaching this with any objectivity.
The argument, to me, seems to be that it's impossible in the modern world as things stand to actually totally avoid animal products. That would seem like an issue that Veganism should be concerned with.
I see your point, I think, about it being an individual choice. But though I have heard of things like vegan shoes, I can see how saying those are vegan when you may not control all the inputs seems problematic.
Regardless, your response was so unpleasant that I don't think I'm much interested in continuing.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 5 months ago:
Can you explain what's wrong with this argument? As a relatively disinterested observer it seems reasonable to me.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 5 months ago:
We need to trust such a country to be judicious in their use of force, to not engage in any unnecessary conflict that puts both they and their allies at risk, and we want that country to be stable and share our values.
Israel is not demonstrating these qualities, at least not now.
Given that, why should we continue our support?
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 5 months ago:
he's got bees! no bees! <takedown>
... they don't allow you to have bees in here.
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 5 months ago:
just a little light treason... 🤣
- Comment on Disneyland performers file petition to form labor union 6 months ago:
Unionize everything!
- Comment on Rewatching TNG: classic Riker boning his way out of the problem 6 months ago:
Right? They play Riker being coerced into sex for laughs. It's the worst bit of the episode and if any other character were the target it would be very obvious why.
- Comment on Indiana Jones Whips Up $130 Million Loss For Disney 6 months ago:
I didn't see whatever movie this link is about, just gonna imagine the final Indiana Jones movie was as described here.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek 4’ Beams Up New Screenwriter: ‘The Flight Attendant’ Creator Steve Yockey 7 months ago:
As a Star Trek fan: maybe we have too much Star Trek.