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Comment Re:Except (Score 1) 122

All GOP members that had morals were forced out during the last couple election cycles.

This happened in 2019 in the UK, when Boris Johnson was elected, and all the "one nation" Tories disappeared from the scene.

The Tory party is effectively dead, with Reform exploding from its chest.

For those that don't know, Reform is run by Nighel Farage, branded by Jamie Raskin as a “Putin-loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant”

Comment Also applies to politics (Score 1) 122

You're joking but this may be what they will do

Trump's mix of extortion, and bullying will work in the same way when it comes to politics. In the short term, countries may suck up to him, but I suspect longer term plans are being made to reduce the need to bow to US hegemony.

Comment Podcasts by Real People (TM) (Score 1) 100

it quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are AI generated

There was a spot on the UK radio news programme Today this morning by Melvyn Bragg, he presents In Our Time, now available as podcasts. All the programmes, which include ones on history, are presented by real people who are experts in their field.

Comment Re:scary (Score 1) 90

We have all but removed them already. In many kills these days, a human presses a button and that's about it.

But yes, removing them entirely removes that last bit of accountability. Next time a drone slaughters a market place full of civilians with no terrorist anywhere in sight, we won't even have someone to put on trial.

Well, we can try with the LLM making the decision. I'm sure it'll apologize a lot and invent a number of threats to justify its actions, if current AI is any indication.

Comment Anecdote (Score 5, Interesting) 26

Because I was looking for this information I asked it "what is the length of a honda 41411-VH8-640 flexible drive shaft?".

It thought I was looking for car parts.

I asked Grok and it knew I had one of two string trimmer base models but didn't have the answer either.

Grok recommended 25 websites to look at but I already stupidly spent an hour looking at websites instead of spending twenty minutes taking apart the brush cutter and measuring it with a tape and calipers.

Humanity is safe for now.

Comment Play from History (Score 1) 100

no pun intended...

* start your video for a few seconds
* go to the you tab with history
* click the video (in the leftmost position)

It will stop at the end of that video because it doesn't think it's on a playlist or anything.

Everything else seems to autoplay on mobile despite whatever settings.

Or use SmartTubeNext if you are using AndroidTV which is infinitely configurable.

Comment Re:evil contracts (Score 1) 25

Besides 'unconscionable clauses' being void, the sellers likely have a tortuous interference of contract claim too.

Unfortunately two things: they can't afford to take on Amazon because the Courts system is not a Justice system and this class-action isn't on behalf of the sellers.

The reason it's unconscionable is that Amazon charges various fees that a seller does not have to pay on his own website so his cost can be lower with direct sales. This hits small businesses hardest that are trying to make entry into a market.

Huge brands don't care.

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