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Reported, or total? That’s the funny thing, people who live off tips already are giving themselves a bit of a tax break by fudging numbers, so this isn’t as big of a deal as it seems. And maybe I found the catch - to get people who have these jobs to report their full income, and then when it’s exposed they get more than they’ve claimed, come after them. Yeah, that’s a bit conspiratorial…but everything else seems to be aimed at the commons and how they are the problem.

Don’t feel bad, it was a very subtle jab. The best part was it was at the end of a Fox News interview as they cut away, so it was what I liked to call a sarcasm grenade. Pull the pin, let it sit for a minute. Boom.

“if you gave Jerry Falwell Jimmy Swaggart an enema you could bury him in a matchbox.” - Christopher Hitchens (would have said RIP)

Absolutely. My post was just about how kids begin with a DEI mindset and that gets removed from them. What you’re talking about is reinforcing the normal, especially for those kids in bad environments. The issue then becomes the schools not having the backing to fight the eventual angry parents and their lawyers because their child is being shown that their parents are wrong. Schools used to be able to push back, but they bend over at anything now for fear of lawsuits and/or funding cut and jobs lost.

Education is one of the most critical careers we have, and yet it’s underpaid and attacked constantly for doing their job.

It’s worse than that. Kids aren’t born into this world racist, sexist, and hating, they get taught that either from exposure to it or directly. Of course they see other kids are different to them, but they’re fine with that until adults teach them otherwise.

Ask someone who is supporting all this anti-DEI stuff what DEI stands for. They either won’t have a clue, or if they do, you’ve found yourself a bigot who is find with oppressing others.

That’s a hell of a reduction.

1 in 6000 chance for an American nickel, which has a thicker side than most. Just for others sake. I felt it was far less than just <1% and had to find out.

That money goes straight back to Treasury.

There it is. “Why are they doing this?” Right there.

Best reply.

Isn’t that now “PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”?

– Trump response when asked about how the tariff situation was going.

for what it’s worth, Mbin can see and interact with both Lemmy type communities as well as the Mastodon type of broadcasts. They are still two different parts, but within a single interface. Often I see things on the sidebar from them, usually dropped into “Random” as the algorithm doesn’t know what to put it in, and have the same thoughts as you. That it seems like it’s shouting out into nothingness. But…I could respond to the commentary, and it would bounce back to them. It’s just a different way to communicate, not as “permanent” as a discussion board format.

“Stop shooting ourselves in the feet!”

So many decisions being made are very isolationist, and that never works well for the one shutting everyone else out. But who looks at history, right?

When Worlds Collide was a fun movie that was a double feature shown with the classic War of the Worlds, and had their ship launch via a ramp. The science for such a thing isn’t great, but it was the 50s and looked cool then. The biggest problem is the atmosphere thickness at lower levels. During rocket launches you can hear them talk about reaching max q, or maximum dynamic pressure, where the combination of velocity and air thickness puts the most stress on the structure. Above that it gets easier to go faster, and in the end you need to go fast to avoid falling back down.

Saw a Jason Bourne movie, didn’t use the right car.

LLMs can be good at openings. Not because it is thinking through the rules or planning strategies, but because opening moves are likely in most general training data from various sources. It’s copying the most probable reaction to your move, based on lots of documentation. This can of course break down when you stray from a typical play style, as it has less to choose from in the options of probability, and only a few moves in there won’t be any more since there’s a huge number of possible moves.

I.e., there’s no calculations involved. When you play a LLM at chess, you’re playing a list of common moves in history.

An even simpler example would be to tell the LLM that its last move was illegal. Even knowing the rules you just told it, it will agree and take it back. This comes from being trained to give satisfying replies to a human prompt.

I’ve heard the only way to win is to lock down your shelter and strike first.

It can be bad at the very thing it’s designed to do. It can repeat phrases often, something that isn’t great for writing. But why wouldn’t it, it’s all about probability so common things said will pop up more unless you adjust the variables that determine the randomness.

There’s some very odd pieces on high dollar physical chess sets too.