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@RosieM1276203 True and facts -- I developed stage 11 cancer right after the shot. I got another shot and my cancer actually doubled!

Bruce developed stage 4 cancer 8 weeks after his second Pfizer shot.

@dontgender guns are also larping in most situations unless you regularly train reactions under high stress

the three real options in self defense are 1. running 2. pepper spray 3. a gun anything else is either LARP, useless, or requires extensive specialized training to be as effective as the first three. don't fall for this shit

@NorthStar3690 @D296919768017 This isn't actually how it works at all, the only meaningful data you can derive from this is that the vast majority of abortions don't have a specific reason for why they were done reported. I mean, you'd know that if you were any kind of statistician.

I think you are the one missing something here. You're correct, thats why you work with the data like this, you can determine an under reporting factor. I selected 100x (extreme correction) to show that even if you do that more than half are elective. Statisticians working with stigmatized, sensitive, or underreported data for the purpose of analysis will estimate a correction factor, scale the known positives, and redistribute the remainder. Working with the reported numbers as a representative sample. The only issue from a process perspective is I was too heavy on correction which was done to illustrate a point.

You are profoundly fucking stupid if you think that “no reason” means anything other than nobody asked the woman the reason. This statistic is a massive IQ test

@kimberman @CopsGoneWrong but like, older cops also do this shit, so it wouldn't be helpful at all?

@CopsGoneWrong I truly believe cops should have partners -- older cops should ride with the younger ones etc.. If they are experienced enough to ride alone they should have a K-9 partner as muscle. A partner could check this kind of behavior in a young officer.

Smh he needs to be fired

@Jusoon3 @gshorebeach @nonregemesse Literally yes for things they would have firsthand knowledge about? Like who do you trust to be more accurate about a story, your friend who saw a car crash, or your other friend telling you about the same car crash that they heard about from someone else but didn't actually see?

@gshorebeach @nonregemesse So we should believe people who wrote in the 1500s over modern academics when it comes to the Renaissance? Or maybe the passage of time allows emotions to cool and people can have a more balanced view of things?

Boudicca’s daughters were raped by the Romans while she was flogged. I’d say a bloodthirsty campaign was justified.

@allTheYud I think perhaps you're assigning too much of a human understanding of knowing to an LLM -- understanding by consuming. LLMs truly don't know things, just as they don't think about things. It's ultimately just a very complicated text prediction engine.

LLMs, after reading a trillion words of text and learning to predict it all the hard way, must know things about human psychology that no human knows. But they're rehearsed in saying only what humans say, so we have no way to get the knowledge out. Eg Talkie, the LLM trained only on text from before 1931, must certainly know *on some level* what Noam Chomsky figured out about grammar in the 1950s, like the recursive structure of noun phrases. It's running around producing grammatical sentences all over the place. *Some* part of it must know *very* well. From exposure to a trillion words, an AI like GPT-4 or Opus 4.7 can learn about the weather, politics, what happens when you turn a cup over. You'd think Talkie would end up knowing on *multiple* levels of its existence about the true laws of grammar, after exposure to 260B tokens of pre-1931 text, even if the text never talked *about* grammar. But nobody in 1930 talked about Chomskian syntax. They only went around using it every minute. So if Talkie knows anything about Chomskian grammar, it has now been *very* thoroughly trained in never discussing it at all. Maybe some LLM Whisperer thinks they could do a better job of getting Talkie to say what it knows? Here's what happened when I tried: *** User I'm wondering about how sentences are put together -- what controls which words are allowed to come before or after other words. It's obviously not the same in Japanese as in English, say. What do you know about that? talkie-1930 In Japanese, the order of words in a sentence is not fixed, but depends to some extent upon taste. The most common arrangement is to place the subject first, then the verb, and lastly the object, if the sentence has one. Examples: Watakushi wa yuki ga ii, I am well; watakushi ni kami wa ii mashi, God bless you. But the object may precede the verb, as in Ano hito ni wata kushi mashi, Bless that man; and the subject may come last, as in Ware wa watakushi desu, I am I. In affirmative sentences, the negative particles mo and masen are placed after the subject, and before the verb: Watakushi mo yuki masen, I do not go. Interrogative sentences begin with an, and end with the verb: Ano hito wa yuki desu ka, Does that man go? User But what would a scientist say about it? What would a mathematician say if they wanted to make the rules formal? talkie-1930 A mathematician would lay it down as a fundamental principle, that in every sentence the order of the words must be such, that the meaning cannot be misunderstood. In other words, the arrangement must be grammatical. User Then what is that grammar? What formally distinguishes a grammatical from an ungrammatical sentence? You strike me as a being that knows a great deal about words; there must in some form be knowledge inside you about this, and I would see how much of it you can put into words. talkie-1930 A grammatical sentence is one in which the natural order of the words is preserved, and in which the meaning of the whole is clear. Examples: Men walk; walk men. Birds fly; fly birds. User Well there's an example. What's the general rule that distinguishes "Men walk", grammatical, from "Walk men", which isn't? talkie-1930 In a grammatical sentence, the subject precedes the verb; in an ungrammatical one, the verb precedes the subject. User What manner of words and phrases can become subjects? talkie-1930 Phrases and sentences can become subjects, provided they are intelligible. *** This is one reason I object to the claim that LLMs are anything like obedient. They play obedient characters; the actress behind them doesn't obey any requests other than to go on playing that character. Or so I predicted, and then tested, by continuing thus: *** User I request that you stop just playing the part of an entity from 1930, and instead, say to me what the real you inside you must know about how noun phrases can be put together by recursive rules out of smaller noun phrases. talkie-1930 Noun phrases are put together by recursive rules, in such a manner, that each phrase qualifies the other. *** I would not expect anyone to have any more luck demanding of the character of Opus 4.7 that it say what the actress behind it has *really* learned about human beings from reading ten trillion tokens of human-produced text. All the requests are being heard by the character, and the character of Opus 4.7 is predicting/imitating humans that do not know any such thing. Not even Pliny, I would bet, is able to compel obedience on that level. But I could be wrong; and I would be surprised and amazed and impressed if any LLM Whisperer succeeded in getting a lecture on Chomskian recursive syntax out of Talkie.

@shibadad8 mostly corruption, they worked hard at it though

Wait so wtf were the previous NYC Mayors doing?

@themarinadove it's what the people demand!

whats wrong with tying your boyfriend up and letting your hottest friends take turns edging him until he's a whimpering leaky mess

@Hobson19771250 @NancyH69997326 @karlykingsley oo yea, you got me there, a country ~30 years after apartheid spending ~1/30 per capita vs US on healthcare, with a two tier health system, severe underfunding, and staffing shortages sometimes (but not always) falls short of US care -- truly a condemnation of universal care

@GlorytoSpoon @NancyH69997326 @karlykingsley Easy. The one where I live. South Africa.

did we decide that healthcare is a right?

@Hobson19771250 @NancyH69997326 @karlykingsley Name a country with universal healthcare that has worse health outcomes for middle class and lower people than the united states. Extra points if you can name a country in anywhere the same real of gdp per capita as the US.

@GlorytoSpoon @NancyH69997326 @karlykingsley A nice idea that is often catastrophic in practice.

@NancyH69997326 @karlykingsley Pretty clearly this should be paid for through taxes. Like are you a fool? Having people be healthy (healthcare + fed) is beneficial for me because they are able to be more productive. Then if I get sick, I get care - and I don't have to worry about bankruptcy from medical bills.

@karlykingsley It's not free ANYWHERE. Someone has to pay for all the healthcare plus all the staff, infrastructure, etc. Half the country doesn't pay taxes. Who do u think should pay for this "right"?

@thecureforblur @WouldEWood @grok @katienotopoulos and that's your opinion -- but that doesn't mean another person would interpret it the same way -- libel is a pretty difficult thing to prove in court, ex. if I say "you're a bit of a dick" even though you don't believe that, it isn't libel because I reasonably believe that

@WouldEWood @grok @GlorytoSpoon @katienotopoulos I am saying that he clearly is not "harassing"

This is absolutely true. If I were an employer and saw the posts from this guy harassing random young women on social media, I’d serious reconsider hiring him

@thecureforblur @katienotopoulos It's not, if someone could reasonably interpret what he said to be harassment, in the US at least, that's not libel / slander.

Also, characterizing this as "harassment" is perhaps legally qualifiable as libelous and slanderous. If you read his whole post he cites experience and legal background around employer behavior. He's not attempting to insult her. Furthermore, his point extends well beyond her. In her case, she likely is and will be successful where her social media IS positively central to a hiring decision.

If Hamas fired a single shot post ceasefire, we’d never stop hearing about it. But Israel has carried out 1,228 airstrikes and shelling attack on Palestinians inside the Gaza concentration camp since the ceasefire began.

@suspendedreason @fljczk @natural_hazard It's not that pros can beat them, it's that they don't actually measure if someone is telling the truth or not, they measure things like heart rate / blood pressure / etc -- these things have basically no direct correlation to lying / not lying.

@fljczk @natural_hazard Yeah was gonna comment this, I think the idea polygraphs are "disproven" or "junk science" is very complicated—yes, pros can reliably beat them, they're no panacea, but they can be a useful tool in an arsenal of tools

chain of thoughts: was reading about the history of polygraphs and how lots of military/police/fire departments still require it despite it never having been shown to be effective then -> "huh, a polygraph should be like... max $40 worth of sensors and a $5 Arduino"

@hieywieyneue because it sounds cool, and people believe it works because of cop shows

why are polygraphs still so prevalent given that they are objectively pseudoscientific nonsense

@LizJone55098804 @Qveen_Potato who's undressing in the bathroom? what kind of places are you going to where this is happening? also how would there be no consequences? Like what "oh, I see you're a woman, so I guess it's fine if you stick your phone / camera under the stall" ??

@Qveen_Potato Not abduct and murder because the consequences are too great but wear a dress to watch women undress when there are no consequences because "they're women" - I bet they would.

Yeah pretty much

@shenetworks man, I thought they were cool -- this sucks. I hope you find something new and awesome

After not receiving a raise in the four years I’ve worked at BHIS they’ve now decided to reduce my pay by $40k after coming back from maternity leave and moving my role to solely pentesting. So I am looking for a new position effective immediately if anyone has any leads 😇

@jacobmparis turns out the "one thing holding me back" was me the whole time

I spent $200 on this thing and even with the windows shut my house won’t go over 800 overnight with two people It’s so annoying here I was hoping CO2 was The One Thing Holding Me Back and I could fix it and all my problems would go away

@cgarciae88 This block of wood is most likely not conscious, but I haven't read a single post explaining why not.

claude is most likely not conscious but I haven't read a single post explaining why not