I’m pretty sure some of the newer ChatGPT-like products (the consumer-facing interface, not the raw LLM) do in fact do this. They try to detect certain types of inputs (i.e. math problems or requesting the current weather) and convert it to an API request to some other service and return the result instead of a LLM output. Frankly it comes across to me as an attempt to make the “AI” seem smarter than it really is by covering up its weaknesses.
I refuse to believe anyone actually likes this. Nobody could possibly fall for this abomination just because the houses technically meet the bare minimum for being a waterfront property, right?
R-right?
Getting revenge after his mother wasted all of their savings on the Trump NFTs.
Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.
And he says he “wouldn’t even think about” buying again from luxury brands like “Burberry or Louis Vuitton”.
You live in the country that probably manufactured them in the first place. You can buy a knock-off which is just as good for a fraction of the cost.
Kamala calling Trump a landlord
I thought the one on the right was Pence and I was confused because I thought he had fallen out of favor (until I realized that it was RFK).
I remember some hysteria being spread about pro-Palestinian protesters wearing face masks, hence the rhetoric around “criminal” and “dangerous” people wearing masks to conceal their identity (given that left-wing college students are more likely to wear them for health reasons anyways). Probably not the main reason but I think there’s an element of that.
Extremely critical support to the engineers who made US warships touchscreen-controlled.
how many players are using an adblocker enough to make an impact?
Given the context in which Modrinth was created, it’s likely that their userbase is significantly more likely than average to use adblockers.
The largest host for Minecraft mods is Curseforge, which hosts effectively all Minecraft mods. They intend for you to download mods and modpacks through their ad-infested launcher, and part of the ad revenue is used to pay the mod creator per-download. However, there was an alternate open-source launcher, MultiMC, that used the Curseforge API to download mods without having to see ads. Even aside from that, MultiMC was better than Curseforge in effectively every way.
Some time ago, Curseforge announced plans to step up the ads on their launcher even more and block MultiMC from using their API to try to force users to use their launcher. This sparked a lot of backlash because their launcher was obviously much worse than MultiMC. Modrinth had been around before this, but it gained a lot of popularity in the wake of this incident because people wanted to move away from Curseforge. Modrinth was open-source and allowed mods to be downloaded through MultiMC, which gave people the impression that it was more trustworthy than Curseforge.
However, they had promised from the start that they would have payments to mod creators as well through “ethical ads” on their website. This is a problem for them because their userbase (both mod creators and players) is mostly made of people angry at Curseforge, and thus more likely to be free/open-source software enthusiasts and anti-advertising. That being said, their website is still a lot nicer than Curseforge and they don’t push ads as aggressively.
Because Modrinth is still relatively small and payments to mod creators only started recently, the vast majority of mods are still only available on Curseforge. However, Curseforge’s protection measures were pretty easily bypassed and PrismMC (the successor to MultiMC) is capable of downloading off Curseforge anyways.
“Today is a good day for [the] EPP. We won the European elections, my friends. We are the strongest party, we are the anchor of stability … Together with others we will build a bastion against the extremes from the left and from the right. We will stop them!”
Staking out its ground in the culture war over the EU’s identity, the EPP opened its EU election manifesto with its commitment to Europe’s “Judeo-Christian roots.”
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German physician and politician
Saying that you’re “building a bastion against the extreme right” and then immediately following up with a Christofascist dogwhistle, very cool.
He regularly supports antisemitic conspiracy theories (most notably stuff about Soros and the “Great Replacement”) on his website while also parroting the bad-faith accusations of antisemitism against pro-Palestinian activists (and he has also made a trip to Israel to rehabilitate his image aided by several pro-Israel figures).
The funny thing is that it’s relatively agreed-upon amongst economists that the point on the Laffer curve that maximizes tax revenue is ~70% for the highest earners. American conservatives bring it up to “prove” why raising taxes doesn’t work but even under their own framework it basically says that rich people don’t pay enough tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve#Empirical_analysis
It’s amazing how “state’s rights” people can almost recognize that the USA, as a settler-colony, requires the use of violence to enforce its borders and laws, but then thinks that magically stops being true when you call it a “state government” instead of a “federal government”.
Has there been a single high-level Democrat who’s pointed out how many right-wing talking points are derived from (implicitly antisemitic) conspiracy theories, with the idea of “Cultural Marxism” in particular being taken directly from the literal Nazis?
In the House on Tuesday morning, the Illinois Republican Mary E Miller acted as speaker pro tempore to oversee debate on the Republican antisemitism awareness bill.
As a choice, it was not without irony. Miller made headlines in 2021, when as a newly elected member of Congress she was forced to apologise after saying in a speech at the Capitol: “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ Our children are being propagandised.”
So basically the entire US political establishment has decided that saying “Hitler was right” and echoing conspiracy theories of Jewish Marxists corrupting the youth is just a “difference in opinion” whereas pro-Palestinian activists should be shut down without debate.
It’s always funny to me when g*mers complain about a company (supposedly) changing something to appeal to “woke” customers because it’s a tacit admission that the “free market capitalism” they like so much can, in effect, act as a censoring force.
I think you could argue that these people view rape not as a violation of autonomy but as property damage. Because they view their children as their property and women who have sex outside of marriage to be “damaged”, which is why they force victims of rape to marry the rapist to “fix” the damage. It also explains why they get whipped up in a murderous rage by cases of rape (supposedly) carried out by non-white or queer people, since they view interracial/queer marriage to be even more shameful, so they cannot “fix” the damage. Whereas when it’s carried out by a “respectable” white man they can just cover it up.
If this keeps up we might get a Part 3 to this meme.