Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
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    It does. I was looking something up and ran face first into a redacted account that once had the answer I needed. I was very conflicted about it.

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    Couch menace
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    Yeah going high hasn't exactly been working. Let's give them a (metaphorical) kick in the teeth instead.

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  • The Religious Right in the United States
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    Congrats you've fallen into a common stats trap!

    You can't know what the average is for the hypothetical society to which you are comparing despite that being the optimal way to compare. If you were to actually attempt this comparison, you would take two comparable societies that differ only in religious adherence, controlling for non religious cultural things (hint: you can't separate those easily if at all). And even if you did manage that, you've only shown correlation, not causation. Proving the latter is much harder.

    If it sounds like I'm agreeing with you, I'm not! I'm saying you cannot know one way or another. But your inane, tautological statement of "the average domestic abuse rates for society are about average" drove me to inform others of how terrible this argument is. You're clearly a lost cause.

    If you want to prove your point, don't try stats, you're bad at it. Go for a logical argument, though I suspect you're bad at that too.

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  • Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards?
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    That's... disingenuous. Lot of stuff happened between those points, including the murder of homosexuals for the crime of existing.

    The LGBT community keeps the fight up because complacency gets our rights taken away. Justice Thomas has explicitly stated that gay marriage is on his list of wrongs* to right. To say nothing of Project 2025.

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  • AI bros
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    Absolutely. It's why asking it for facts is inherently bad. It can't retain information, it is trained to give output shaped like an answer. It's pretty good at things that don't have a specific answer (I'll never write another cover letter thank blob).

    Now, if someone were to have the good sense to have some kind of lookup to inject correct information between the prompt and the output, we'd be cooking with gas. But that's really human labor intensive and all the tech bros are trying to avoid that.

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  • AI bros
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    Gradient descent is a common algorithm in machine learning (AI* is a subset of machine learning algorithms). It refers to using math to determine how wrong an answer is in a particular direction and adjusting the algorithm to be less wrong using that information.

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  • Chat GPT appears to hallucinate or outright lie about everything
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    Best use I've had for them (data engineer here) is things that don't have a specific answer. Need a cover letter? Perfect. Script for a presentation? Gets 95% of the work done. I never ask for information since it has no capability to retain a fact.

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  • Illegal voting by noncitizens is rare, yet Republicans are making it a major issue this election
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    There's an amendment on the ballot here in Missouri to ban non-citizens from voting this year. Also to ban ever adopting ranked choice voting, but it's really about that non-citizen thing. Totally not ballot candy to do something undemocratic.

    If you're in Missouri, vote no on amendment 7 please.

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    But I have so many followers!
    Suddenly it all makes sense.
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    In this case, nothing. High dose testosterone is a hormone, hgh is a hormone. Both are PEDs (performance enhancing drugs). Now, the difference between them is a bit more interesting.

    Testosterone, the original steroid, makes you big by maximizing your existing muscles (super paraphrased, as is everything I'm about to say). It's the one that gives you breasts and shrinks your balls (for those that have them).

    Human growth hormone makes you big by inducing the creation of new muscle. As well as everything else. The stand outs being the heart, which you really don't want to grow, and the intestines, which gave bodybuilders roidgut.

    Like I said, very paraphrased, but that's the gist of it. And doesn't touch more advanced things like tren.

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  • So I stopped generally using Reddit after the whole API thing but my husband still does and we talk about stuff since Lemmy gets the job done. One thing he likes is to hop on r/freecompliments and participate there. Well, today he got permanently banned. Why? Because a bot dredged his profile and found that he sometimes participates in porn subreddits. Usually to complement people there, never posting himself. He's pretty ace, so it's rarely, if ever, sexual. But that was enough for the bot to ban him. They sent a message about how they are sfw subreddit and don't allow users to participate in NSFW subreddits. He's heartbroken about it. He really likes to be nice to people and it makes his day when they respond to him. Now he can't do that in a sub that's meant for it. I feel like the site rules have opinions about banning like this, but it's not like the admins give a fuck. So fuck those mods and their puritanical bullshit making at least once persons day worse, for the low cost of a user that was participating in good faith. And since I'm on a roll, fuck spez I tried posting this to trueoffmychest to dredge some sympathy for him, since that seemed appropriate and he was good with it, but they don't allow 'anger' or 'impersonal' posts and that got quietly removed immediately. So fuck them too. I didn't realize how far down the shitter reddit has gone.

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