It would be fine if they asserted their right to get eaten by zombies. The problem is that they decide they have the right to let a zombie loose in middle of the haven.

Yeah, I was making a 13th Amendment ‘joke’, since you said “own”

They are not supposed to own my body except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

/hj

https://archive.ph/3qgEp

We even trained it on thousands of examples of how to walk through a doorway! How could it have done this?!

Exactly, so why two different character codes? :-P

Easy solution, use only a single space for each level of indentation.

/s, probably. Though one could make an editor expand the single spaces at the start of a line to an arbitrary width, for readability.

I’m undecided on if Canada having nukes would be good or bad.

You’re right that the more people that have them, the more likely someone will use them, which would be extremely bad.

But if the choices were: 1) USA invades Canada, 50,000-2,000,000 Canadians die (plus some number of Americans). 2) Canada has nukes, USA does not invade, no one dies.

How can you balance the existential danger of another country having nukes against so many deaths?

(All potential deaths, yes. But we’re already solidly in theoretical territory. I sure can’t accurately estimate the chances of the US invading Canada in all potential scenarios, nor can I estimate how much more likely Nuclear Armageddon is if one more country has nukes)

Yeah, I couldn’t avoid the meme response.

Careful tariffs can help shield a local industry against an exploitative economy in another country, which could result in benefits to a larger workforce / population.

But “tariffs so American automakers get higher profits so they can do more stock buybacks” ain’t it. (Example; I don’t really know who other than Trump is benefiting from current tariffs)

strategic benefit for US industry … just funnel money to the rich

They’re the same picture

I don’t like violence, may I salt the tester instead?

Nah, sadly (?) that’s not how it works. People’s desires come first, and then they find a way within their belief system to justify their actions.

The people I’m hurting aren’t human.

They’re bad people.

They would do the same to me.

I’m only doing it because I’m a bad person.

I was hurt, so now is my chance.

That’s just how the world works.

Et cetera. Sometimes if the conflict between their beliefs and their actions gets too great they change their beliefs.

But for the most part, people don’t want to kill, steal, rape, etc. So they make up a reason to not do it, like “God will punish me if I do that” or “It’s morally wrong” or whatever, and then they don’t do it and move on with their lives.

(And those who do that stuff come from literally all belief systems; the only real differences being social environment - acceptability, expectations, protection from consequences, etc)

Yup, LLMs are wonderful.

They provide anyone with access to knowledge that only about half the time is misleading in some way, but is just as persuasive as an expert explanation of the truth.

By automating writing, coding, and data analysis, LLMs remove any need for humans to understand how to express nuanced thought, how to clearly and safely execute a technical process, or how to extract insights from large amounts of information.

By automating customer‑service tasks, LLMs remove the last vestige of a human who can understand why a corporate process is failing a customer and find a way for the system to meet their needs. And as a bonus the LLM can confidently declare ‘facts’ that aren’t true.

LLM‑driven tools can assist clinicians with literature summarization (reinforcing training-data bias, eliminating the actual point of scientific papers, and making lots of errors), patient communication (eliminating any human contact and care towards vulnerable patients), and preliminary triage (with extra training data bias and distracting the doctor from reading the not-written-down actual human presenting symptoms in front of them)

Artists, writers, musicians, and game designers use LLMs as co‑creators, generating drafts, ideas, or entire works that rehash old works and remove any pesky ‘artistic expression’, as the LLM is much faster at making a polished-looking end product, and it’s not like people ever come up with new insights during the revision process.

Advanced multilingual models translate and transcribe minority languages, ensuring that no one ever need learn the language of their cultural heritage, as they have an English approximation that’s totally good enough.

And the best part is this can scale to billions of people, meaning that no one will ever need to be knowledgeable, or know how to write, code, analyze data, do customer service, read a scientific paper, talk to a patient, observe someone to understand their current state, or have to learn anything about other languages or cultures. Just trust in the often wrong but-who-cares-stop-complaining LLM!

Or skip the search engine:

“Tell me about the ecology of Namibia. Use only sources from before 2022 because I do not trust LLM generated output. Make no mistakes.”

The roof is on fire

Yes, this. @ 👆

It almost always will be a false start, unless you’ve been in contact with some other sourdough starter recently.

Just be patient, it takes time for the starters environment to get to the place where it’s hostile to non-sourdough microorganisms, and friendly and full of happy sourdough critters.

The “undesirable” bacteria are actually fine at the start, their lifecycle just pushes the starter in the direction you want it to go (more acidic, probably other complex environmental changes)

I don’t usually buy into “both sides same”, but this is actually how ‘both sides’ win or lose elections - if you put up a candidate that people are excited to vote for, people vote. If they’re disappointed, they don’t.

This is the majority of voters, not the vanishingly small minority that post online or pay attention to politics.

Elon has clearly stated that he hates Wikipedia and wants to destroy it.

And here is one of the ways he’s working on that.

The Author’s comment when they posted this on Bluesky:

Life of Lamb #26 - Closet

I hate that living in the USA right now has forced me to weigh being authentic about myself IRL versus looking out for my safety.

https://pixelfed.social/p/NickEastPhoto/988350626603935285

Looks like the photo series didn’t survive federation to lemmy, but that link should work