Liz

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Unironically, the provider of the chat bot should be liable for anything the chat bot says. Don't fire humans so youn can hide behind a neural network.

But this ain't suicide encouragement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Are mortars rocket propelled? I thought they were just short indirect cannons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I lived in that beautiful era. It was glorious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The Rollercoaster Tycoon manual made up game mechanics that didn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I do not want the program to react when I left click ordinary text. The program should not anticipate my needs. It should wait until I've told it I need something (with a right click) before doing anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think they do it for the gut bacteria, but I'm not an elephant gut ologist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Added sugar to peanut butter is an affront to the mighty peanut. Just grind that shit pure and smack it in your mouth like nature intended.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Elephants will eat each other's shit. I've seen an elephant reach onto another's anus and pull out some delicious shit to eat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

So it's fairly likely it really was only a couple, but they were already devout and already had teammates to go and start this new church, which explains their success and gumption in starting a new church. Within a few years the descriptions of Jesus post-crucification become more and more elaborate and more and more robust against doubt. Essentially, as the disciples encountered resistance to their word, their stories became harder and harder to refute. Afterall, what's a little embellishment when you're trying to save people's souls? In the earliest gospels we have, Jesus is only seen by a few people and he ascends almost immediately. It's not until the later gospels that we get Doubting Thomas and Jesus walking around for 40 days before ascending.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

The way statistics work, 1000 people is more than adequate for a population the size of Israel. It's honestly overkill, if anything. The real question is "are the respondents a representative sample?" That is, is the way you chose who to question and how to question them introducing any systemic bias in your results? For this survey, if everyone lived in the West Bank, that would be a clear source of bias in the data. But if people are randomly selected by, say, phone number, then you would have to worry about more subtle biases before agreeing that the data is sound.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

We gotta change to proportional representation if we want different results from our government.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He was a doomsday prophet.

He claimed God was about to show up and judge everyone for their sins and then start a new world order. But then he got killed by the state and one or two of his followers had hallucinations of him a few days later (more common than you think). They essentially then rationalized WTF him coming back from the dead meant, and that morphed into Jesus being God. The first few decades after his death was a whirlwind of arguing about the "true" nature of Jesus and standardization within the baby church. Over the next few centuries there were more arguments that were less fundamental than turning Jesus into a God, though being a religion, the arguments were insane and fierce. Cue to today and we have a bunch of sub-versions of Christianity and even a whole spin-off religion.

 

Ecosia is a German search engine company which donates 80% of its revenue to planting trees. They take Bing, reskin it, and spend the profits from advertising on planting trees. They're up to about 175,000,000 trees so far.

https://info.ecosia.org/what?_sp=c00c1905-82ee-49a9-a802-904ebfaef758

Edit: This is just a convenient way to turn something you do every day (use a search engine) into a force for good. It's a slow process, 1 tree ≈ 45 searches, but you were going to make those searches anyway, might as well plant trees! Think of it as the digital equivalent of buying local food.

 

A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of an Indiana man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame. The app flagged one of the family's devices as having accessed Pornhub even though it didn't, and this was the only evidence used to throw the man back in jail. They didn't even try to prove he was the one who caused the app to flag Pornhub as visited, they just assumed it was him. The article contains multiple levels of "oh my god our system is messed up."

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