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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hands you a random laptop.

"The thing doesn't work."

Refuses to elaborate and leaves.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I bought an LG microwave a few months ago to replace a dead 10 year old Sharp. My favorite "features":

  • The sticker on the door stating that by using the microwave I agree to LG's TOS, including binding arbitration.
  • The single 4 minutes and 30 seconds of use I got out of it before the magnetron broke.

When I returned it they customer service person asked if I wanted it serviced under warranty -- hilarious. Bought a Panasonic instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're not wrong, but the idea that "plant based" is "safe" isn't right either. Plants can create all kinds of horribly toxic, carcinogenic compounds -- especially when burned or heated.

Wood smoke of all things is mildly carcinogenic and we cook our food with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

One theory about how the whole Roswell UFO/aliens thing as government gaslighting.

This stuff happened during the height of the cold war when the Soviet Union was 100% looking for anything they could get on the USA's secret programs. It's easy to poison a source of actual intel if you send a few guys in suits and sunglasses to ask vague, leading questions to steer them towards "little green men."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are jobs where it's not feasible or practical to pay an actual human to do.

Human translators exist and are far superior to machine translators. Do you hire one every time you need something translated in a casual setting, or do you use something Google translate? LLMs are the reason modern machine translation is is infinitely better than it was a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

One of the major problems with LLMs is it's a "boom". People are rightfully soured on them as a concept because jackasses trying to make money lie about their capabilities and utility -- never mind the ethics of obtaining the datasets used to train them.

They're absolutely limited, flawed, and there are better solutions for most problems ... but beyond the bullshit LLMs are a useful tool for some problems and they're not going away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't disagree with that part. Doing what you suggested and using the "vape detectors" aren't mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Considering they are only harming themselves

Again, we're talking about actual children. You know: people that have yet to mentally develop to the point where they can make fully informed decisions on everything and sometimes have to be "coerced" by reasonable adults into doing so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's this wild, outlandish idea that kids don't have the maturity, experience, or impulse control to make informed and rational decisions all the time. Thus we don't give kids the exact same rights and responsibilities we give to adults -- they gradually gain them as they mature and demonstrate they can handle them.

How would you like this installed in your workplace?

Yes, because my workplace staffed entirely by people 21+ is the same thing as a school filled with literal children. Also, for some unknowable reason we don't have issues with people vaping in the building despite having people that smoke and vape. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact none of us are teenagers.

What if [slippery slope]?

You do know that's a fallacy, right?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (12 children)

.... good?

Everyone (even kids) have a reasonable expectation of privacy, but children using drugs in school isn't something that falls under that reasonable expectation of privacy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

How dare people cope with something horrible by making jokes. Everyone knows it's impossible to make those jokes while simultaneously being horrified by and pushing back against the thing they're joking about.

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