Sin Vega"Child Sin, don't be ridiculous, how could decades of replacing anything resembling education with rote memorisation of how to regurgitate whatever sounds like the kind of thing that will pass the exam possibly cause massive intractible social problems most people can't even recognise as problems"
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JP@futurebird there was a minor controversy about it in the uk a few years ago. Some water companies (who are notoriously corrupt parasites) had policies that let staff dick around with "dowsing" if they wanted to. I believe some changed their policies when some mildly famous person challenged it, on the grounds that it is bloody embarrassing
Richard BarrellSomething that is bothering me right now: a lot of sci-fi uses "dimension" to refer to alternative universes that are separated from us by some distance on a fourth spatial axis. A lot of fantasy uses the term "plane" for this instead.
It's really bugging me that the fantasy term is mathematically correct and the sci-fi one is mathematically garbage.
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░One positive thing I can note, however: at the top of every episode, they do a TV news update on the state of the war; they really got Howard K Smith to read the news, too. It's pretty great, and tells little side stories of victory/defeat across the globe.
However, I'm not quite sure what at Preedom is.
nixCraft 🐧Here's an unbelievable fun fact:
The legendary creator of Linux and git, Linus Torvalds, once admitted in an interview that he had never used Debian. Why? Because he found it too difficult to install!
To this day, he reportedly still hasn't switched. Linus famously uses Fedora as his primary Linux distro. He further clarified that he is not the system’s guy i.e. IT professional who knows how to deal with different OSes. At least he is honest and wanted something that allowed him to do his job.
Jed BrownOpenAI lawyers tried to convince a German court that their users are liable if their products emit infringing content. If any court were to accept that argument, it would have a profound impact on the industry and expectation of due diligence for every response.
