Bougie_Birdie
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- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 days ago:
Sure, but underestimating the scope is how you wind up with a Scunthorpe problem
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 days ago:
Pepe has been sensationalized for a while now in the media as being a hate symbol. I think it’s because you see it largely on 4chan which traditional media demonizes.
I’m not on 4chan, but it seems like it has similar problems to Steam: a large userbase and poor content moderation gives insufferable people a platform to spread hate from. These problems aren’t unique to either platform, but the news likes to latch on to them.
I hate that some people consider Pepe to be a hate symbol. He’s just an expressive frog, dang it
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 days ago:
I don’t disagree, but it is a challenging problem. If you’re filtering for “die” then you’re going to find diet, indie, diesel, remedied, and just a whole mess of other words.
I’m in the camp where I believe they really should be reading all their inputs. You’ll never know what you’re feeding the machine otherwise.
However I have no illusions that they’re not cutting corners to save money
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 2 days ago:
With the sheer volume of training data required, I have a hard time believing that the data sanitation is high quality.
If I had to guess, it’s largely filtered through scripts, and not thoroughly vetted by humans. So data sanitation might look for the removal of slurs and profanity, but wouldn’t have a way to find misinformation or a request that the reader stops existing.
- Comment on I ❤️ Plants 3 days ago:
Mother-in Law’s tongue looks like a plant that I know of as Snake Grass
They must have named it after my MIL
- Comment on Now is the best time to start that thing 3 days ago:
…I guess I better go do that thing I’ve been putting off.
No wonder people hate Clippy
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 3 days ago:
Ah, I’m still waking up, so I must have misunderstood.
I hadn’t considered political spending, but I didn’t get the impression we were talking about super PACs. Those are abhorrent, and undemocratic.
My stance was that if a person wants to buy something that’s stupid, ineffective, but gives them some small degree of hope and doesn’t harm others, then they should be able to. However, I’m also of the opinion that regulators need to remove those products from the market because they’re lying to people about their efficacy.
Ideally we’d be teaching people that snake oil doesn’t work. But the current political climate suggests that Big Snake Oil has captured the regulation, so I don’t see that happening either.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 3 days ago:
Are you defending snake oil? The pseudoscience con so uniquituously used to deprive the desperate from their money that it became the term used to describe “harmful bullshit sold for profit?”
Freedom of choice or not, I suppose you should be able to spend your money however you want.
But if someone is selling people lies under the promise of medical miracles, we need to throw the book at them.
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 4 days ago:
Isn’t chemistry all a matter of scale though? I admit it’s not my field
I mean, if the cat pees on the rug and you clean it up right away, that’s probably not a big deal. I imagine it’s a different story if you’re cleaning out a hoarder’s cat colony in a poorly ventilated area and don’t dilute the bleach because you wanted something stronger
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 4 days ago:
Friendly reminder that using bleach to clean cat pee can fucking kill you and your cat
I mean, I’d be kind of surprised if it did kill you, but ammonia and bleach mix to make an extremely toxic gas
- Comment on Can someone explain this to me? 4 days ago:
I haven’t played the game, so I’m not sure how accurate my help would be. It would be helpful to be able to look at some tooltips from these skills. But to my eye this looks like a talent / build system that’s fairly common in ARPGS.
My most basic assumption is that every so often you’ll level up and be able to pick one of these skills. They’ll provide some kind of effect which is tied to an active skill (Red, Blue, and Purple appear to be likely), or a passive bonus (Orange, Yellow, and Green I’d guesss).
The arrows are throwing me off a little bit because sometimes they point in both directions, and other times they appear to loop. Usually these might mark a pre-requisite skill, so if it shows [A] <-- [B] then that implies that before you can acquire A you must first acquire B.
If I had to guess, [A] <–> [B] implies either you can freely choose between A and B, or perhaps once you select A you must select B before you can select A again.
The loops feel weird though (notably in the yellow block). I guess that means that whatever skill you start with, you must then select clockwise from there.
There’s a great variety in how games will implement this sort of thing, but in general there’s usually a way to get a tooltip with a more complete description of what each thing does. Usually that would be by hovering over the icon, but some games include an encyclopedia of effects if they’re particularly involved.
The order in which you acquire these skills often influences your playstyle. Some people are going to prefer to get abilities that seem powerful quickly, and other people like to strategically synergize their build. For my part, I tend to prefer acquiring passive bonuses that increase my experience/luck/currency to more easily game the system.
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 1 week ago:
Yes, because surely all adults know better, that’s why they so frequently swallow propaganda and vote against their own interests.
It’s controversial and it has its own problems with enforcement, but it often seems like there should be some kind of civics and media literacy test before voting. Of course, whoever is administering the test is going to have their own biases and agendas, so it’s no magic bullet solution.
There’s a vast gulf in maturity between children at different ages, and everyone develops at their own pace. Some thirteen year olds are more mature than many eighteen year olds, and some forty year olds needed more time to cook but they still graduated anyway.
- Comment on New frog just dropped!!! 1 week ago:
He does not look happy to be discovered
Can we put him back?
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, and if you want any online services, you’ll want to look up what those cost. I don’t know if they offer a family discount for multiple accounts
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 1 week ago:
I guess ultimately it depends on what kind of games your family likes
As you mention, party games you only need one. If your family’s into single player or portables then each person needs one
How is it affordable? Well, it isn’t really. Although I guess a switch probably retails for about half the cost of a PS5
It’s funny though, if you compare it to other consoles, I think people are far less likely to buy an Xbox or Playstation for each family member. And yet, people would do that for the gameboy and DS without batting an eye. The switch is trying to be everything, for better or worse.
When we got ours, we were pretty content having just one and then playing party games or taking turns on single player games. Sooner or later though, we had to get another so we could play pokemon together. Which is a shame because my interest in pokemon seems to have suddenly fallen off a cliff and now my switch is collecting dust
So I guess all that to say: your mileage may vary
- Comment on If you're not serious about cheating then you're not serious about winning 3 weeks ago:
At what point do you think it becomes ethical to break the law for the greater good?
I don’t like the idea of destroying ballots either. It’s so undemocratic. It’s a shame that other actors don’t have scruples about it though.
Is it truly better to wait for the fascists to come to power before we resist them? It seems that would allow them to enact much more harm.
Anyway, I don’t endorse destroying ballots. But I do understand why people would be so disenfranchised with a system that’s working against the individuals that they would feel compelled to take some sort of action.
- Comment on Anon needs tips. 3 weeks ago:
Fake: anon has a female friend
Gay: anon likes the tip
- Comment on They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them 3 weeks ago:
Do you know how many microplastics are in a full grown human? No thank you.
Maybe we ought to throw them in a pit, chain them to a wheel, and let them grind their own meal. Like the serfs in the good ol’ days they long for.
- Comment on They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them 3 weeks ago:
That’s Richard, he just likes to keep things casual.
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not great to be queer in China.
Depending on how things go in the next couple weeks, we might say the same of the US though. It’s already true for certain parts of the country
- Comment on Trickle down 3 weeks ago:
Trickle-down economics and the glass ceiling!
Two-for-one!
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 4 weeks ago:
It’s the line of best fit, not the line of good fit
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I feel like I’ve had several radical changes in personality through life. I’m not the person I was when I was a teenager. I’m wildly different from who I was in my 20s.
As I’ve grown and learned about myself and the world, I’ve become more empathetic. That’s definitely had a mellowing effect to my personality.
That said, I agree that you can’t suppress your identity. You might try to push it down and repress it, but some things you just can’t change about yourself. But your personality is in your brain, and the brain is plastic.
But at the end of the day, all a person needs to do to have a pleasant personality is not be an asshole. If a person can’t restrain themself from being an asshole, then they’re probably not interested in developing their personality.
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
Fair point. How can anyone learn if they don’t know what they need to learn?
I hadn’t considered disability. Maybe “present yourself” wasn’t the best choice of words - maybe “conduct yourself” would suit better. And all I really mean by that is that if you think you’re perpetuating a toxic trait then you can take notice of when it happens and strive to improve.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
You know what, their claim about odour being caused by bacteria, and bacteria being damaged by radiation is on point.
I’m sure you’ll have some odour when your mouth turns into a giant weeping sore though
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, like in what world can you not learn to change your personality? I mean, sure, it’s not always easy, but you always have a choice in how you present yourself.
- Comment on Sustainabily sourced 5 weeks ago:
I have it on good authority that fruity bussies are the best kind
- Comment on Hmmmm 5 weeks ago:
Haha, I was way off, the jargon made me think it was like Electrical EnGineering or something
It’s funny how we just get used to the acronyms. Every industry has them, some of them even overlap
- Comment on Hmmmm 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile I’m in here thinking, I wonder what EEG means?
- Comment on Important notice! 5 weeks ago:
The packing has important information to be retained
Does it now?