I don’t think the truth is going to factor in, but my father has been outsourcing his thinking to Gemini lately and in that case it’s fairly straightforward: they have a profile on him as a moderate Democrat, so it suggests anyone with that tag. It likely isn’t going to fact check that tags, though.

But back to truth: it will pull top search results which very much can be gamed, just like pre-LLM days. That means a false story pushed on a candidate is popular, it’ll default to that and could mislead a voter. That, and of course whatever weights the owner of that LLM sets (although, that is much more subtle than other commenters let on; a weight generally isn’t absolutely, it simply tips things so like, Democratic Socialists won’t magically get recommended MAGA but conservative independents will based on higher values set to conservative tags like immigration views).

I still have DDR2s somewhere… pray we do not need it.

Same. We’re just projecting into the headline. I’m quite ambivalent today.

I appreciate the 23% willing to just admit they don’t know, and the 8% are kind of close. That 3% who things pilgrims are why can fuck off, though.

I mean, my mom found a Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo which featured black face and racist illustrations and whatnot. She took it but left it up to me but even that I didn’t really want to burn it for the reason you said.

Buuuut it did disappear from our place at some point and I don’t know who may have thrown it out. But like, I get it in this case.

I haven’t ever seen vandalism of these types of things, but I imagine it might be drug addicts or mentally unwell. It’s easy to imagine angry teens or greedy people, but given many unhoused people having schizophrenia or drug abuse, delusions could definitely lead to destruction of these public spaces. Although I only ever saw that with a store front, not a free service thing.

Still infuriating though, people need treatment and society does its best to ignore that or even discourage it.

My wife orders oat milk for her cream top kind of drinks that have been trendy lately and they usually give her a warning. I think people are mom and pop cafes are a little more mindful of customers, though.

Tbf, I do see tiny white specs on that coffee if you look at high res of that photo. It’s the kind of thing you see a lot at poor quality coffee places though I usually drink it anyway for the caffeine addiction.

I’ve seen it used very occasionally as a study tool, which is generally fine until it gets it wrong. Just like you can use Khan Academy (or I guess, YouTube but there’s again a chance it’s wrong lol). The craziest is when they use an AI delusional statistical theory that doesn’t exist, lol.

I’ve grappled with this before, and even before people were using AI, take home exams were always open-book by default because of course people will look things up. The irony is, since AI, I’ve had a lot worse essay submissions-- they simply get shit wrong a lot more relying on AI (especially in my statistics class).

And my stats class only needs to do basic stuff to show work; I let them use excel/sheets to check work. They can’t even type in “=correl()” properly and would rather take a photo of the data and send it to ChatGPT. AI gives them wildly wrong steps and it’s so obviously wrong…

I’m with you, fuck the lies (especially since this year I’ve got high cholesterol apparently; I blame crap like this although butter is probably not much better in that regard, lol).

I enjoyed a replay just a year ago and it held up as well if not better than I remember (and with RetroAchevements which is rather painful, not recommended for first time lol).

It’s really a contender for best Zelda, but it’s kind of a different genre from OoT and BotW. Certainly the best 2D top down, even with how good Awakening is.

I’ve known about Paxton for way too long, especially as a non-Texan. It’s astonishing he’s even at 47%; that means 47% of those polled are out of their fucking minds. It’s not just adultery and corruption, he’s also a complete floundering moron!

Instructions unclear, cooked pizza in clay kiln.

Man I wish more politicians were godless. As it stands, atheists and “nones” are still grossly under represented at all levels, even relative to the number that exist in the county.

Average citizens won’t necessarily call themselves atheist, but even if you include agnostics and “nones” and other unaffiliated people, it’s somewhere around 30%. In Congress, it’s four people (which is better than last Congress when it was just mother fucking Kristen Sinema.). It’s worse than pretty much every other religious categorization.

Here’s an article on it: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/01/02/faith-on-the-hill-2025/

I was thinking Lemmy isn’t even a real drug. It’s that weird kid who hands you a paper bag to hyperventilate until you feel high.

Or maybe that shit with the whipped cream cans. Except it’s whipped beans.

There was talk about doing that officially, actually, before our world became collectively stupider in recent years. The argument is actually to get people to take them more seriously since they cause deaths just as much as any other climate crisis. Name and rating, similar to hurricanes.

I mean, unless you play the last four decades of games in emulation… or the couple hundred thousand indie games on steam… or the other few hundred thousand mobile games or…

Oh, you mean your company profits are in crisis. Yeah. Good.

When the dust settles, we’ll see. It’s unfortunately difficult to prove something like that, but if we ever overcome fascism (hopefully peacefully…) then the case can be revisited or they can be pardoned. At the very least, I can believe that was their intention, though.

I know you’re making the point that ICE murderers should be tried and convicted, but real talk, the Jan 6 convictions (mentioned in the article) are more in line with what a violent conviction would look like).

They, of course, got pardoned… but naturally if the system worked as intended, pardons wouldn’t exist or be needed and sentencing wouldn’t be politically motivated. Ironically at this point the only possibility for justice for these 9 are pardons, though…