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BluesF ,

Everything? That's pretty impressive. I wonder how many illegal things you could realistically pack into your day... There are many inefficient legal things involved in my day, it would be tricky to make them all illegal. If I steal a lot of stuff in advance maybe then using it becomes sort of illegal? Tricky.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

BluesF ,

LLMs are just predictive text but bigger

BluesF ,

The annoying "letter" paper size is for some unknown reason what windows always sets as the paper size unless I change it to A4 manually. Naturally if I forget the printer won't print. US paper sizing - annoying me on the other side of the Atlantic.

BluesF ,

Well that depends on if gayness is a continuous or discrete quantity. If gay comes in very small but distinct indivisible units, the minimum could certainly be just 1 of these units.

Still, the upper range is likely to be unbound.

BluesF ,

I like the idea that we all have a >3-dimensional sexuality surface.

BluesF ,

Considering bisexuality and demi sexuality I suspect that attraction is what we are measuring, not just gayness. Perhaps even attraction along two dimensions - romantic and sexual. This has interesting implications considering that gender itself exists as a spectrum with multiple dimensions of its own, at very least expression and identity, perhaps sex should be incorporated too which further complicates matters...

Nonetheless, I don't believe that any of this precludes our units of attraction from being discrete... I will concede that it's probably more likely, if there is some kind of fundamental attraction particle, that it has comparable properties to the photon.

I'm considering that each of these attraction particles (furthermore referred to as attractons) exists as excitations in the gender/sexuality field. Thanks to wave particle duality we can have a quanta of attraction with continuous possible amounts of attraction associated with each - just like the photon's variable energy.

BluesF ,

I have diagnosed ADHD and maybe a little spicy hint of ASD but who knows. I end up somewhere in the middle, I explain things very quickly in lots of words and communicate almost nothing.

BluesF ,

No, please, no, let this stay in the other place

BluesF ,

It's a r/bonehurtingjuice meme (a little like an anti-meme, but bonehurtingjuice takes memes and recontextualises them).

The original comic it's referencing shows an air hostess asking someone to turn off a tablet for takeoff. An older man, holding a book, chimes in with 'I guess I don't have to turn mine "off" eh? Ha! Heh heh.'

The laugh in particular is so off kilter and strange it became a meme in itself, a very persistent one used in tons of other bonehurtingjuice memes.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

BluesF ,

It's amazing what your phone can run, even better if you have a Bluetooth controller.

BluesF ,

Some things yes, most things... Not by a long shot.

BluesF ,

I am not surprised that it's just ChataGPT in a box lol, not at all.

BluesF ,

Couldn't you just go for a slow, spiralling course instead of the direct route? Much less correction needed from Earth's course, just a constant deceleration relative to the orbit path.

Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows (www.404media.co)

In exchange for selling them repair parts, Samsung requires independent repair shops to give Samsung the name, contact information, phone identifier, and customer complaint details of everyone who gets their phone repaired at these shops, according to a contract obtained by 404 Media. Stunningly, it also requires these nominally...

BluesF ,

S24 ultra, I have one for a similar reason, although I also really like a lot of its other features. While you can certainly get good photos with other phones, it is among the best on the market.

I was considering a £500-600 DSLR like I've had in the past, but ultimately I like to take photos when an opportunity arises, not just at the times I happen to have my expensive camera on me. If you take a lot of photos but you aren't a professional, the best thing is a high end phone. Doubly so, because unless you're very experienced at setting up the camera correctly for the conditions, your phone camera is almost certainly going to do a better job than you would on a manual camera.

So, in the end, rather than getting a cheaper phone and a camera, I combined the two. I know Samsung suck in a lot of ways, but when it comes to actually using my phone, they're excellent compared to other brands I've tried.

BluesF ,

possibly kills

Head is missing, subject may be deceased

BluesF ,

Holy shit femboy trump looks like Taylor fucking Swift what the hell

BluesF ,

You and the cat can join my coven. I hope you can do magic tho cause my skills align more closely with the cat...

BluesF ,

I'm not sure what the disaster is supposed to be in disaster lesbian but it feels appropriate

BluesF ,

Sadly not compatible with everything, though. My phone is off the list ☹️

BluesF ,

Yeah I don't know what any of that means so I'm stuck with good ol' daddy Samsung for now 😂

BluesF ,

Does anyone know why you can't wash them in direct sunlight?? Lmao wtf

BluesF ,

No one who has even a vague understanding of present day ML models should not even entertain the idea that they are sentient, or thinking, or anything like it.

BluesF ,

Good thoughts, I agree wholeheartedly in most cases. There is a point to be made about the energy consumption of AI, too. Right now I doubt that we're actually getting as much out of it in really value as we are pumping in, just in sheer electricity.

BluesF ,

Are these people being serious? I can't tell if the dad is genuinely affronted or just fucking with the kid lol

BluesF ,

That might be why the other options are better. Patience is a virtue n all that.

BluesF ,

I've been seeing these for ages and I have never understood what's funny about either the version with or without Heathcliff. It's quite bizarre to find something so far removed from my sense of humour that I don't get it even once.

BluesF ,

I'd anything this just provided me with a well worded explanation for why I don't like it:

It’s zany but not fun, there’s no joke, just “Here’s a thing, and here’s another thing, these two things don’t normally go together, but here they are together, isn’t that funny?”

BluesF ,

I was fully ready to accept that was an image of a bearded lesbian who I hadn't yet heard of.

BluesF ,

Not just that, but don't acknowledge that it is a masquerade. Wrestling is "real" in that the performers and fans act like it is, even though everyone knows it isn't.

BluesF ,

We seem to be missing a key gender here

BluesF , (edited )

Obviously there's quite a difference between fucking a cow and artificially inseminating one... But IVF is consensual, I think everyone would have a problem if a doctor was forcibly inseminating women.

BluesF ,

Yes. Most people use just a bit of business jargon nonsense. Not enough to really sound like they're talking completely from the wrong end, but just a nonsense word here and there. Usually they use them wrong, but because it's so prevalent it starts to fade into the background.

When people use almost nothing but buzzwords it's pretty transparent though, and almost always falls apart on questioning.

BluesF ,

I must admit I'm on the edge of jumping ship, even the software which has been keeping me locked to windows is getting less and less appealing.

BluesF ,

True, true. I think the chances of me doing at least some sort of installation this year are close to 100% lol

BluesF ,

Don't you basically have to have rich parents to even survive as an intern?

BluesF ,

Not exactly, AI would be able to interpret sensor data in a more complete and thorough way. A person can only take in so much information at once - AI not so limited.

BluesF ,

You really trust this thing's fearsome actuators with your delicate starfish? Bold indeed.

BluesF ,

Jesus Christ well I'm glad they moved on from that design.

BluesF ,

When speech passes over a line break it's common to have it like this. It's odd because it's separated into separate boxes, but in paragraphs this is acceptable.

BluesF ,

Not necessarily, the white box could be narration, no?

BluesF ,

Yeah they need to be, when going across paragraphs you leave the first set open, then open and close the second set. The first set then leads into the second.

BluesF ,

Like so:

"The quotation opens on one paragraph," the commenter explained, "but is sufficiently long that it needs to span over more than one. The quotation marks do not close at the end of the first paragraph.

"The quotation resumes on a second paragraph, with a corresponding open quote mark. Once the quotation is complete, the mark is closed at last."

BluesF ,

CAN IT! When God gives you lemons you FIND A NEW GOD!

BluesF ,

No

BluesF ,

Yknow what always makes me laugh about certain anti trans folks is that they think "biological sex is immutable" is something that trans people disagree with. Like, yes I'm well aware that I remain biologically male despite transitioning I'm not an idiot. Your sex is immutable - the concept of sex isnt as clear cut as is often implied by this statement, but nothing is going to change your chromosomes or whatever.

BluesF ,

I didn't mean to suggest that sex is easy to define, just that characteristics like chromosomes, gametes and the like cannot be changed by transitioning. There are obviously things we can change (hormonal makeup, appearance), but it doesn't change the underlying biology that you are born with.

Definitely agree that the whole concept of sex becomes shaky in some circumstances - but it remains a concept which has value in fields like pharmacology. There are outliers, but there are also a huge number of people for whom the basic male/female categories apply.

BluesF ,

There are many changes HRT doesn't make. Chromosomes, gametes, bone structure, etc. Hormones are a small part of a complicated picture. Like I said, and the other commenter elaborated on, sex is not exactly a straightforward thing to define or to say "you are this or that"... But there are features that I have which relate to what we consider a sex, and they won't change.

BluesF ,

I really appreciate this like of argument, and I don't exactly diaagree, but at the same time I think you are falling into the same trap as the "simple biology" anti-trans crowd do, and looking for any one thing that defines sex. Sex is a complex collection of features which tend to co-occur. Your primary and secondary sex characteristics are all a part of what defines your sex. I'm not an expert here - the things I've listed are fairly basic in terms of what can/can't be changed.

But there are many aspects that won't change with transition - there is no treatment that will magically make me a cis woman, I will always be trans. I will always need to make new doctors aware that I am - because there are factors affecting some medications that mean I should be prescribed as a male for example.

I think the important thing for us trans people is not to focus too much on the biology. The important part imo is that it shouldn't matter what your biology is - your gender identity is what makes you a man/woman. I'm wary of brain structure/chemistry "justifications" of trans identities for similar reasons. I'm sure there is truth there, don't get me wrong! But I worry about over-medicalising trans identities in general, or even a diagnostic criteria which not all trans people meet...

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