I've noticed a huge influx of anti-Biden posts and comments, to the extent that I honestly think we're finally getting the reddit treatment. I remember there, when the Russian Internet connection went down, and for like a day all those kinds of posts nearly evaporated. And it seems like those accounts don't just do the overtly political things, they also engage in other areas, usually with a conservative slant.

Not just calling "number," calling land lines.

Hi Emma! I'm not in that area or LGBTQ+, just an ally, and an old guy with paternal instincts, and I wanted to make sure that you stay safe. Lemmy seems much more progressive on average than most online spaces, but like anywhere there are predator types here too. Please make sure that any first meets you do are in public, safe spaces.

I hope you meet some great people that help you feel less isolated. Good luck!

Didn't forget, it's intentionally an abbreviated version of the puzzle with no wolf or cabbage (or constraints), so the man and goat can just go across. But the AI has a lot of examples in its training data and it's pulling from that.

I'm always interested in seeing examples like this where the LLM will get to a right answer after a series of questions (with no additional information) about its earlier wrong responses. I'd love to understand what's going on in the software that allows the initial wrong answers but gets the eventually right one without an additional input.

I wonder how much of this change is the result of the whole world saying "Well, he's 18 and getting into politics - the gloves are off now." Wouldn't surprise me if it was his mom's doing. I don't like her, but good on her if she pulled the plug on this.

This comment has the whole quote. It's usually a mistake to try and make sense out of what he says, but it kind of looks like he's trying to invoke the image of the cannibalistic serial killer and then saying that's the kind of criminal we're releasing.

There are quite a number of good articles on the subject if you want a thorough answer, but some of the main things are:

• He's responsible for a massive deregulation of financial institutions that were a precursor to the Wall Street issues that led to the giant government bailout.

• He pushed "trickle down economics," which is the theory that if you cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, they'll succeed more and create more jobs so that everyone wins. This is something conservatives always push and it's always a horrible failure that results in a bigger and bigger income gap.

• He funded his big tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) by slashing federal assistance programs, including low income housing subsidies and mental health support, resulting in an unprecedented surge in homelessness that we're still wrestling with today.

• Nancy Reagan was the "Just say no to drugs" lady - the figurehead of the largely failed war on drugs which was like trying to prevent teen pregnancy with an abstinence only education program.

There's a lot more, but those are some of the big ticket items.

When our daughter was little, we had neighbors with a daughter about the same age, and sometimes the girls would play. Our daughter had been really good all the way around, getting straight A's in school, being kind, never asking for anything significant, etc., so that year we decided to splurge and get her an American Girl doll for her birthday. If you don't know, those were dolls that were stupidly expensive and were all the rage in the early 2000s. We weren't wealthy but it felt like she deserved the splurge and we knew she'd take care of it and have it forever like all her toys (she's 26 and still has it in great shape).

She loved it and everything was great until the neighbor came over the next day, absolutely livid. He wanted to know why the hell we had to get our daughter an American Girl doll. I was just totally confused, trying to understand what the issue was. He angrily said, "Now we have to buy our daughter one, and we just can't afford it!" I didn't know what to say. Were we supposed to ask them what they could afford and only buy our daughter those things?

They bought their daughter two of them so she'd have more than ours did. Ours was really happy that her friend got two of them, and it didn't even seem to occur to her to want a second one - she liked the one she got.

People are weird.

If you believe that women are closer to being property than to being full and equal partners in a relationship, you don't want them being able to exit a marriage without a fight.

Some of these idiots actually say that a woman shouldn't be able to divorce without the husband's permission. Crazy and gross.

Transgender day of visibility has been March 31st for years, Biden didn't co-opt Easter for trans people (not that I would care if he did).

It's so crazy to me that the right wing thinks the left has completely subverted the will of the people, and the best things they can come up with as examples are that people dressed differently than traditional gender norms can read to kids, and that worker safety laws require chair legs to have five spokes to resist tipping when someone is on the job.

Meanwhile they see nothing wrong in dictating who can marry whom, erasing parts of history that make them uncomfortable, preventing doctors and parents from providing the best advised medical care, etc. Which side is subverting the will of the people?

I've only been back to visit a small, private sub, but I've seen a lot of posts here saying that a high percentage of bot content is obvious. The conjecture is that there's always been a lot of bots, but they were somewhat less obvious because there was more human content. With a lot of big content creators leaving, it's more apparent when a lot of posts and comments are from bots.

Plus some people think Reddit has increased bot usage to astroturf against the protests and to give the illusion that traffic isn't down.

Here's an odd one my wife and I were just talking about. Some years ago, we were redoing our kitchen and the contractor told us to go buy the kitchen faucet we wanted. We went off, looked at several, and picked the one we thought looked the best with what we were doing.

When the contractor went to install it, he opened the box and a battery pack fell out. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why a faucet would need batteries. It turned out that you can turn it on and off by touching it anywhere (handle, faucet itself, whatever), you just leave the physical handle open and set where you want it, then you can touch on and off. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and we'd never use it.

Flash Forward to now and it's one of the most used conveniences we've ever bought. All those times your hands are covered in raw meat or other cooking mess? Just touch the faucet with your elbow. Rinsing a bunch of veggies one at a time? Tap on, tap off. It works flawlessly, unlike those touchless ones at the airport: no delay and works every time. We will never have a kitchen sink without it - my wife wants them for the bathroom.

Your morning will be going worse if you click that link.

It seems like politics draws in a lot of flawed people generally, but Republicans have been electing an amazing number of absolutely horrible human beings. Gaetz, Green, Bobert, Cruz, Jordan, Santos... oh, and of course Trump. Lots more. Just really, really bad people.

Whenever Trump "predicts" something, it's code for telling his base to do that thing.

He is a patriot

How does anyone say that with a straight face? What a terrible joke.

But they'll probably get him in the chair after enough rounds of voting. I'd never put my money on the strength of character of house Republicans.

Jessica Tarlov, one of the panel’s more liberal co-hosts, said she was in favor of the game removing slurs, adding, “I think we can all agree on that.”

Two panelists replied, “Not so fast!” and “Be careful, Jessica.”

Jesus Christ, how do these chucklefucks convince themselves that they aren't terrible people?

Two things about that (overanalyzing your shower thought):

1. Geneticists have what they call the "50/500 rule," which basically means that you need at least 50 people to avoid inbreeding, and at least 500 to avoid genetic drift. So while three people are 50% better than two, it's not going to come close to avoiding inbreeding.

2. If you read up on Lilith, including your Wikipedia link, you'll see her name only comes up once in the Bible, and it's not as Adam's wife. All the stuff about her comes from other things, including Babylonian and Mesopotamian writings, and lots of folklore from the middle ages. And at that, she's sometimes Adam's first wife, with different explanations about what happened to her that really in her not coming back to the garden, or she's a demon. So there's not much likelihood that she's contributing to the gene pool.

What the hell, NBC News? Calling Jordan a "firebrand" (someone who is passionate about something)? That's like calling Andrew Tate a "self help guru."

Agreed, he seemed on top of it the whole time, including while responding to the heckles. A few times he flubbed up his words a bit, but that's been true forever. He's not the orator Obama is, but it was and excellent speech.

He has not, will not, and can not provide any reason for why she should recuse herself or in what why she's biased. He's just scared because she's been tough on insurrectionists so far.

There was a former solicitor general on NPR the other day who said that conservatives should want liberal judges, not conservative judges, when they're on trial. The reason being that liberal judges tend to be sticklers for defendants' rights, regardless of circumstances.

Says the guy who's actually moving them around the chess board.

This is the guy who was a former NY police commissioner, was nominated by Bush to lead Homeland Security, he lied to the feds as part of that process, withdrew his nomination, was found to have gotten $250k in renovations to his apartment that he didn't report from a construction company with mob ties , got four years in prison, and Trump pardoned him. Article about the pardon.

Not really passing Trump's loyalty test, apparently.

My understanding is murder dropped on both sides, but it was a bigger drop in the deaths of the wives. Women are more able to get away from abusive husbands with a no fault divorce - they don't have to go to court and prove the abuse. Abusive relationships often escalate over time, and can end in death if the abused doesn't get out.

The counter question is: why would that be an improvement?

For me, the stuff with the 3PAs was just a final straw; there were lots of ways Reddit had gone downhill from when I first joined several years ago. I was happy that they was finally a workable alternative that was young and could potentially grow without the bad things about Reddit.

My ex wife is an ex for a reason, I'd never ask my wife now to try to be more like my ex. We can do better.

It's worth noting that the stigma is very much a cultural thing. There are cultures where it's very normal for the kids to stay with the parents, even after they get married, with multiple generations under one roof.

You should 100% do what makes you and your family happy. If things change, you can make changes.

That sounds like a lot of blathering about how he’s better than the worst president in history

What does? Something I said? Something in the article?

I certainly don't feel that way. I didn't vote for Biden in the 2020 primary, and I had pretty low expectations for him when I voted for him in the general. That being said, I personally think he's been a good president and has gotten way more done with a divided government than I thought possible. He's not perfect, and I wish we had someone younger and more progressive, but he's really accomplished a lot. More than Obama, certainly, though the Senate opposition to Obama was insane.

I heard an NPR piece on it last week, and that was more than enough for me. When are we going to start holding law enforcement to a higher standard than everyone else? Instead of qualified immunity, we should start saying that an officer found guilty of a crime gets double the punishment of a regular citizen. Yes, that means fewer people will want the job - I'm okay with that.

I'm not celebrating until he actually has repercussions.

You realize there has not been one single piece of credible evidence provided suggesting that he was at all involved, right? If there was, don't you think it would be on Fox nonstop?

I signed up on the 12th, after spending a little time comparing with the information I had. My thought process was:

• I was uncomfortable with the fact that .ml was hosted in Malaysia
• I thought a larger instance might mean it sticks around longer, but didn't really want to be on the largest (which .ml was)
• Beehaw seemed otherwise a good fit, but their policies seemed too restrictive
• .world seemed to have liberal policies, allowed NSFW, was large but not largest, and was hosted in a country that didn't worry me

Earlier that session, Sexton warned Jones he was nearly “impugning the reputation” of Republican Rep. Gino Bulso by calling Bulso’s bills “reprehensible,” “asinine,” and “insulting,” including one being discussed at the time that would allow private schools with pre-kindergarten classes to have policies allowing guns on campus.

Democrats noted that Bulso himself had been told to stay on topic, including when he said Jones “continually misrepresents facts to the public,” then later said Jones “makes outrageous statements,” without being put up for a vote on whether he should be silenced.

So saying the bill is reprehensible, asinine, and insulting is impugning the author's reputation, but saying the guy himself misrepresents the facts and makes outrageous statements is perfectly acceptable.

These guys are so revoltingly hypocritical.

It's a testament to how far the right has shifted that they think General Milley is a liberal.

Actually, scratch that. They don't put people on a spectrum, they're 100 percent "for us or against us." There are trump supporters and everyone else, and the everyone else are by definition liberal scum.

We kept asking why he never faced consequences for all his illegal crap. Now it seems like a least a good hunk of them are all happening around the same time. Better late than never.

My guess is that her plan is to either become the Republican nominee of Trump goes to jail, or (more likely) set herself up for a 2028 campaign. Endorsing Biden would end her prospects for the latter, so it's not going to happen.

Title question first: yes, you absolutely can be too dumb to program.

But as others have mentioned, being bad at math isn't necessarily a deal breaker, especially if you're taking about the actual arithmetic part of math.

What turns out to be key to programming is breaking down a problem into steps and figuring out the logic to do what you want to do. The computer is going to do the actual arithmetic, but you'll need to tell it what you want to do step by step.

Really interesting video. I can imagine playing an MMORPG where you get around by actually walking and running. Suddenly the biggest computer geeks would be super fit.

As I recall there was a period a couple years back where Russia was cut off from the greater internet and a lot of interesting things got quieter, including r/conservative on Reddit.