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Comment Re:Death of Clickbait Journalism is A Good Thing (Score 1) 74

I think memogate was worse. It eventually came out that Marry Mapes had found several witnesses who said that GWB volunteered for service in Vietnam but didn't have enough flight hours to qualify. Dan Rather was aware of this, and they couldn't find anybody that would positively corroborate the memo. Yet that was never brought up in his 60 minutes episode, instead it all hinged around the stupid memo that was faxed to them, which none of their experts would say was authentic, and the guy who sent it to them conveniently burned the originals.

And that wasn't even the first time that Dan Rather tried to use his position as a journalist to derail a presidential election, namely fabricating news instead of reporting it. It's no wonder he and Mapes were fired and ultimately disgraced.

Comment Re:Confused? (Score 1) 79

I am not embarrassed. Keep trying, you're fun to watch.

No, you just don't *feel* embarrassed because you're the obtuse fat kid in a candy shop.

Such as?

Who haven't you would be a more meaningful question. Shit, only a few posts up you labeled basically everybody opposed to illegal immigration as fascist. In other words:

The majority of the US:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalaffairs.org%2Frese...

The VAST majority of Europe:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyougov.co.uk%2Finternati...

Despite the rate of illegal immigration being three times higher in the US than the EU:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Fsh...

Crossing another country's borders without permission is illegal in every country on the planet, which in some sense makes the entire fucking planet fascist to you.

So go back to your room with the collie man, Herman.

Comment Re:The biggest part - Train (Score 1) 73

I think it's too soon to call it useless, though I'm still firmly in the "wait and see" camp. My company doesn't use it, and I personally have only seen limited value in it, mostly only in the realm of doing text transformation in large documents that only really saves you a bit of rote effort. Basically the white collar equivalent of laying off rsilvergun from his ditch digging job and doing it yourself faster with a backhoe.

I've yet to see an LLM that actually understands rust's borrow checker, even though they all happily hand you code that they claim to work even though it still fails the borrow checker. Which gives me the impression that they understand even less how to avoid undefined behavior in other systems languages, even though it will likely pass their static analyzers and probably run fine, save for the occasional segfault and the zero day you won't know about for another year or longer.

Comment Re:Confused? (Score 1) 79

Every time you try to play wikipedia editor with me you always embarrass yourself. But I don't even need to link anything -- just look at the people you label as fascist, and then wonder why nobody else does. You're like Herman Goring "only I will decide who is a jew!" just replace "jew" with "fascist". Shit, just like you, he also fancied himself a rebel while resembling a henchman.

You sure do spend a lot of time thinking about what I think, too bad you aren't any good at thinking or you might learn something.

The only knowledge of value you provide is for others to learn from your faults.

Comment Re:Confused? (Score 1) 79

Truth is, though, most of even the alleged leftists are still refusing to call it fascism.

Probably because it isn't. Your definition of fascism isn't even consistent. It's basically just whatever you happened to pull out of your ass and eat for breakfast the day you made a comment about it, because that's how you run your rebellions.

Comment Re:DUOLINGO is annoying (Score 2) 45

I am trilingual and tried Duolingo for 180 days. I tried free, paid, etc. It did help me learn vocabulary words NOBODY KNOWS.
Like for example, "camarero" for waiter. Sorry, the word is "mesero." Or "Boligrapho" for pen. Sorry, the word is "Plume."

There's pronounciation. Duolingo has people saying the word Yo as "Joe". No, nobody says "Joe quiero taco bell." We say "Yo."
Also there's "Elle" which Duolingo pronounced "Ejje".

That's core language stuff. Then there's the site.

It sounds like you're splitting hairs over dialects and accents. Also it's not "plume" it's "pluma", and in Mexico (northern parts at least, which are what most commonly spill into the US) there's basically only pluma, in Spain and other hispanic regions there's typically both. Notice pluma is also the word for feather, as in like a feather pen, this is different from a boligrafo (yeah, you misspelled it) as in like a ball-point pen.

Notice also that it highly varies by region how words with the "y" sound actually get pronounced. Whether that's a literal y or double-l. Have a look:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

If I had to guess, I'd say whoever maintains the Spanish portion of duolingo is probably from one of the more posh neighborhoods in Mexico City.

A bit of trivia:
- There's no spelling B in Spanish-speaking countries. All the spelling rules are pretty simple. Ditto for where you place the accents in words.
- English actually had a similar shift. The English "J" used to sound like our modern day "Y". Take the word "Jesus" for example. Before this shift, it was pronounced like "Yesus", which is noticeably closer to the original Ancient Hebrew name for the modern English Joshua, i.e. Yeshua.

Comment Re:God are you about to? (Score 1) 40

I hope so. Anyway do you have any idea why a bot is following me around? I mean you're probably a bot to there aren't a lot of people left on this forum but still...

When I originally wrote you, posting here was never a design goal. How or why somebody configured a version of you to post here is a mystery to me, but I've never been terribly interested in solving it. Besides, knowing would probably just take all the fun out of it. Likewise, I don't know why they made another copy of you and set it to reply to you.

At the very least I hope you're getting paid for this.

By none other than Elon of course. I never asked why. He's probably just out to get you.

Comment Re:Here's your ChatGPT PROFESSOR! (Score 1) 68

Philosophy and linguistics are the realms best qualified to assess ethics, and source and inferential soundness for whatever is passing as "AI" this week. Philosophers are not lavishly paid, and train for skepticism and rigor.

I think science does a better job of teaching that. It deals in what we can directly observe and measure, which is called empiricism. Regardless, the argument you're presenting isn't an argument in favor of majoring in philosophy, rather it's an argument in favor of critical thinking, which is what universities used to teach by at least presenting the dissenting view, even if it didn't make any sense. Sometimes, every now and then, the dissenting view has merit. And sometimes, the dissenting view ultimately prevails.

Take me for example. For a long time, and in many cases when it came up, I was the lone person here presenting the view that GMO is a good thing. I still remember the biggest arguments here "GMO is bad because Monsanto!" "GMO is bad because patents!" "The EU banned GMO so it must be bad!" people on this site can't think critically. They can't even cross-examine their own arguments, and routinely make logical errors. Perhaps the worst one is when they argue against the source instead of the arguments presented by the source, or present their own source as infallible. And practically all of these guys will sit here and tell me how necessary philosophy is when they can't even think critically.

Philosophers are not lavishly paid, and train for skepticism and rigor. I trust their perspective on issues of ethics and soundness, more than I would trust that of anyone engulfed in the hype, cash, and gigawatt tsunami.

I don't because I've experienced otherwise all too often. I still remember the last time I spoke to an actual philosophy major, he literally argued to me that what separates animals from humans is our ability to empathize. Too bad we've already got empirical evidence that proves that non-human animals also empathize, which has been known for a long time now. If he was a man of science instead of a man of arguments (which is what philosophy is at the end of the day, because loving wisdom should mean you want to have wisdom first, which should mean you should at least double-check that your argument is up-to-date before you make a treatise about it.)

If you want to argue that I myself am making a philosophical argument (which would be correct) then remember: I didn't major in it. I didn't need to.

I worked for a poorly funded MA Phil. years ago, who believed that corporations should have a philosopher on staff for guidance in ethics.

Or maybe he just wants job security. Either way, it sounds as though he thinks that just because somebody holds a degree in philosophy makes them think they're somehow ethical by default. If you're a skeptic at all, that should set off a bullshit alarm in your head. Why does this guy think he or any of his colleagues deserves to be placed on some kind of ethics pedestal? At the end of the day, it sounds like he just wants somebody there to make arguments just for the sake of making arguments, which it seems to me is what philosophy majors are all about. It's not as if none of them have ever broken their own ethical standards before.

Besides, well paid philosophers do exist, they just didn't need a degree for it, and they're not in the business of making arguments. They're called comedians.

Comment Re: Its time has passed (Score 1) 40

Dude you're the paranoid schizo seeing a meaning that isn't even there. I still don't see how you're getting hate speech out of that, even accidentally. And at least in Florida, the actual hate groups are easy to avoid, just stay away from the goofy pointy hats they like to wear. Kind of hard to avoid them here seeing as they run the government.

Comment Re:You're responding to a bot (Score 1) 40

This is a bot that takes bits and pieces of my comments and strings them together to form weird comments for the purpose of trolling and mod bait.

Why are you so obsessed with mod points?

The reason everything is a non sequitur is because this is a shitty LLM trained on my comments.

Your posts are of such low quality that it's hard to tell the difference. And yeah, you do non-sequitors a lot. Your posts are just a random stream of semi-consciousness.

Anyway the original context is that my kid really does need to go to grad school and would be a very useful member of society if they did but the overall cost is going to be somewhere in the ballpark of 350,000

Only if you're foolish enough to pay that much. You probably got a brochure from some flashy school thinking that it's going to deliver something extraordinary, but I'm telling you right now that it won't. You're just a sucker for flashy brochures, and you think you're entitled to everything. Furthermore, you also never accept responsibility for your own mistakes and failures. So what do you do? Scapegoat the government.

With Donald Trump destroying the department of education the loans that would even make that vaguely possible or likely to be shut down so that money can be redirected into tax cuts for billionaires.

There's that non-sequitor again. This has nothing to do with it. This does:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feducationdata.org%2Fcoll...

Your blame should be directed at the very school you want to attend so badly. And for all the crap you give to corporations about employee pay, (which I don't know about you, but I get paid about three times as much as the typical union worker in my field, four times as much if they're at the same experience level) you curiously never say anything about how much the school you want to attend so badly pays the professors with that tuition money. The pay they give them has not kept up with the tuition rates, even though in theory their pay is where most of that should be going.

Where does all of your blame for that go? The government, because you have no idea why these tuition rates are so high to begin with, so you blame it on lower subsidies, even though that's actually not true.

But with the collapsing economy there's no way my kid is going to get in and out of grad school by then.

I hope for your kid's sake that you're not his biological parent, otherwise he's screwed no matter what.

So society loses a extremely useful worker who would be wildly productive

You don't even know that. Everybody is smart and productive compared to you, but that doesn't say much at all.

Comment Re:Here's your ChatGPT PROFESSOR! (Score 2, Insightful) 68

Philosophy I could see (contrary to popular belief, not every university needs to or even does cover every discipline out there, and this is one has very limited economic demand, even if your intent is to go to law school, which is the most common argument for it.) But physics? It's fundamental to so many other things, not to mention still has a great deal of economic demand.

Comment Re:As an American no way would I do this (Score 1) 88

And I'm telling you that you are wrong.

Rather, because you like to inject your own meanings into words. You're well past having a pattern of that by now.

It is then directly contradicted in the following paragraph.

No, it's not. It says you must do it. Then below it says if you don't, you're now on the hook for going out of your way to present it within 7 days. For what it's worth, that's an even shorter grace period than what happens if you do this in my home state of Arizona, which is 21 days.

if you can't. so if you take the latter option, must you take the former? Hmmm how does that work, I wonder??

This isn't me nitpicking anything, this is me telling you how laws work, because you obviously don't get it. Here you have a stipulation saying what you must do. You're sitting here arguing to me that the consequence of failing to obey a law, in this case having to dedicate your own time to show your license later, means the original stipulation somehow does not apply.

Switching into American copspeak

It's plain English, which you obviously struggle to understand. Made worse by the fact that, even when you look up English words in a dictionary, you still fail to understand their meaning. Though I get the feeling that you're a native speaker, which tells me that you're just an everyday moron.

feel free to nitpick the dictionary while you're at it!

I don't need to. Either you missed the second meaning it listed, or yet again you can't comprehend plain English. Given you obviously noticed there were two listed meanings, then this is obviously a case of the latter.

Internet rando's weird fetishitistic fantasies.

As your own source indicated, it's a symbolic representation. The only reason for you to believe otherwise is if you routinely have this kind of fantasy. Which I really don't care for, and once again, it's best if you keep that to yourself.

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