note to self: hot metal and cold metal look the same
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fullsquare@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft Copilot AI tries faces instead of a pearly blobEnglish9·1 day agoare they just reinventing clippy but now it will remind you about eating your daily recommended pebble?
you’re using up enough paracetamol to kill a
horsesmall herd of horses before it goes bad?
i don’t think there are limits on paracetamol, but there are limits on codeine and such, you need ID for that. it’s just that nobody needs this in these amounts
i’m starting to think there’s something wrong with healthcare out there!
americans you have paracetamol pills packed 100 per box? biggest common box out there is 50, and usual 20 per
hotdog is s sandwich, poptart is a sanwich, ravioli is a sandwich, this really does not narrow down anything
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Another Russian tank with improvised drone protection.11·1 day agoor any other arty, or any competent ATGM, or bomber drone, or mines (perhaps also laid by a drone), or FPVs detonated on command (with EFPs or something like segment of MON-100 mine)
i think that conspiracy theories are more about feeling special about knowing some secret knowledge, lots of people fall for this and even create conspiracy theories without realizing, no matter how smart they are
fullsquare@awful.systemsto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Video of ChatGPT being told to have a conversation with itself; ends up just getting into an agreeability loop25·2 days agothis is an effect known for almost 60 years now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
fullsquare@awful.systemsto World News@lemmy.world•Russian diplomat warns of dangerous nuclear ambitions of NATO countriesEnglish5·3 days agothat’s no news, that’s China’s final warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China’s_final_warning
landlord beige
fullsquare@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish4·4 days agowait, how much compute would they need for this, ignore patent absurdity of it all for a minute? would they wrap it up under 1 quadrillion dollars?
there is a common criticism of charities in general: these give some random unelected unaccountable Specialest Billionaire Boy, along with army of weirdos willing to catch a bullet for him, outsized influence over what might be millions of people. there’s also magic of money in that that big donors will be able to steer charities to serve their own goals, under threat of withdrawing funding
want to distribute resources from people who don’t need them to people who do? at scale? in a way that works? it’s called “welfare state with progressive taxation” but EAs don’t like taxing billionaires out of existence, because it takes away their control, and also takes away funding for machine god cult and ultimately makes them unimportant. my point is, some meanings of altruism don’t collide head on with being a libertarian control freak
fullsquare@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Friend AI fails to make friendsEnglish7·4 days agocrazy how techbros understand consent (to be recorded all the time) only when it impacts them personally (i assume that was the main problem)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto News@lemmy.world•Swedish hawks want their own nuclear weapon101·5 days agoyou realize they had one in the past?
fullsquare@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish3·5 days agoi assume this is in relation to this cognitohazard
fullsquare@awful.systemsto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution?7·8 days agoRadio transmission doesn’t require state-level capacity (yes there are other barriers like cost or skill) and waves don’t care about borders. Receiving foreign radio was a big thing and it doesn’t require special equipment
commercial planes are a bit subsonic, you’re asking for 300-400 km/h trains. high speed rail is like 200 km/h