Ultraviolet

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Ultraviolet,

The danger isn’t to the cats, it’s to everything else. Ecologically speaking, cats are an invasive apex predator. They absolutely wreak havoc on local bird populations.

Ultraviolet,

Not in the wild, but in a suburban neighborhood they are. Apex is relative to what else is out there.

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Maybe if one side wasn’t an openly theocratic fascist party that wants women to be property and anyone who isn’t a straight white Christian to be dead, it would be easier to get along. I’m going to be hostile towards Republicans for the same reason I’d be hostile to someone pointing a gun at me.

Ultraviolet,

Similar to crumple zones on a car, but it can be put back together.

Ultraviolet,

To be fair Homer is a rough 32.

Ultraviolet,

Unfortunately his strategy was much more cartoonishly evil. By making it so taking the pandemic seriously was a partisan issue, he could make it so people voting in person were disproportionately likely to be his base. Then set up some regulations to prevent states from counting mail in votes until in person voting is done to manufacture a narrative that they’re less legitimate and try to stop the count.

Ultraviolet,

Right wingers making memes of characters that they had absolutely no idea were making fun of them is one of my least favorite meme genres.

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Which is even further off because that’s not the problem.

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No, but you do pronounce it in salmonella. English is not a language governed by logic.

Ultraviolet,

The danger of AI isn’t that it’s “too smart”. It’s that it’s able to be stupid faster. If you offload real decisions to a machine without any human oversight, it can make more mistakes in a second than even the most efficient human idiot can make in a week.

Ultraviolet,

This is an irrelevant distinction for any case where you aren’t worried about someone reverse engineering the algorithm and seed by logging output. Any half decent PRNG’s output will be statistically indistinguishable from true randomness.

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Often completely botching existing transitions on, say, two consecutive songs on an album that already flow into one another.

Ultraviolet,

Because it’s not the reason. Pseudorandom number generation is statistically identical to random.

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Ultraviolet,

Model collapse is likely to kill them in the medium term future. We’re rapidly reaching the point where an increasingly large majority of text on the internet, i.e. the training data of future LLMs, is itself generated by LLMs for content farms. For complicated reasons that I don’t fully understand, this kind of training data poisons the model.

Ultraviolet,

It’s projection. They’re offended by “happy holidays” so they assume everyone else is equally offended by “merry Christmas”.

Ultraviolet,

If it works like telescopes, the Very Large Hadron Collider, then the Extremely Large Hadron Collider, and then the Overwhelmingly Large Hadron Collider.

Ultraviolet,

It’s open source, if there was a back door it would have been found years ago.

Ultraviolet,

The line between creative worldbuilding and batshit insanity is surprisingly thin.

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Oh, not grams. I thought the dosage seemed high.

Ultraviolet,

If Mexican food gives you the shits, you need to eat more fiber so your digestive system doesn’t immediately panic on contact with beans.

Ultraviolet,

It would probably be 3%, as per the Lizardman Constant.

Ultraviolet,

It’s because the US started on the east coast and expanded westward, it was named back when it actually was the middle of the west and just never changed it. Same way we still refer to the art movement that began in the late 1800s as “modern art”.

Ultraviolet,

Also, for those wondering about the inevitable followup question, a stop sign has to be placed by a local or state government to be enforceable, and is required to follow the exact standard specifications. Tickets have been thrown out due to stop signs being a slightly wrong shade of red, so blue or green are definitely out.

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I think the difference is those are portrayed in a way where you’re still supposed to be rooting for her. Every one of those people, as brutally as they were killed, were monumental assholes. And instead of letting the viewer grapple with the fact that they’re on the side of a sadistic monster torturing someone to death, to explore the dangers of prioritizing vengeance over justice, the story just moves on. There’s a lot they could have done to bring the consequences of Dany’s shortsighted rage into perspective, really give the viewer several moments of “yeah, I see why she did it in the heat of the moment, but damn, that’s fucked up”. Then, her subsequent heel turn would feel like the logical conclusion of her arc.

Then just give her time to be the main antagonist for a bit. What’s the point of spending a series long arc setting up a powerful villain if she’s not actually given any screentime as the villain?

Ultraviolet,

Wage theft is the biggest form of theft by far. The biggest perpetrator of wage theft is, unsurprisingly, Wal-Mart. They have the audacity to call anyone else a thief?

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