i bet childhood lead exposure in your parents is also associated with increased depression in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. you know because of the parental child abuse.

so real no one can do anything but upvote and try to forget the horrors, at least for the moment

if she is an adult its literally not your decision at all. you shouldnt be getting any say. you can be as involved as she wants you to be, but your role in supporting her is to advocate for what she wants not to make decisions for her, no matter what the risks are. i mean jesus youre comparing srs to your knee surgery. yeah its surgery, but believe it or not people have way more emotional investment in their junk than their knee. what if you had a horrible injury that made it so your genitals werent even shaped right anymore and didnt work at all, but there was a surgery that would make it right? can you honestly argue in good faith that you would let anyone stop you from going through with it because it might leave some uncomfortable scars, or even that it might not work? yet you would imply that you might want to do just that to your daughter. its an arrogant and patronizing position to take over someone you ostensibly care about, whatever their situation.

that would be our problem not yours. i would recommend you keep your nose out of it if you dont have plans to get bottom surgery yourself. someone might construe your “concern” as transphobic pearl clutching. those statistics do exist and trans people are well informed long before their surgery actually happens. i think most cis people would be truly amazed at the sophistication of bottom surgery these days.

landlords need to provide notice before entering the unit. many of them dont but theyre pieces of shit and deserve whats coming to them. like being bitten by a dog. or falling out a window.

thats my kinda neighborhood

when a bunch of nerds (complementary) hate misinformation, lies, and ignorance on the internet enough, they all get together and make a wiki. its a beautiful, natural process. not all nerds will contribute to a wiki, but all of us will have some feelings about it.

a dozen down, a couple hundred to go. maybe one day we’ll have a vaccine panel we give to children to prevent all the most common cancers like we do with viral vaccines. that would be cool.

guessing the point was they wanted palworld to stop existing and not only do they not get that but its one of the most popular games on steam. they failed utterly. this was totally self inflicted because yeah pokemon is like the biggest ip ever and nothing palworld could have done would have changed that in the least. just like none of the fan games or rom hacks that have been killed over the years could have. but nintendo just has to sue everybody anyway because copyright law go brrr. its just nice to see them lose for once.

i like the mental image of a huge body of water where most places are only a few inches below the surface but youll randomly find little lava tubes that go unexpectedly deep (evidence of temporary hyperfocus), several deep valleys (more enduring fixations), and a couple mariana trenches (special interests). reminds me of the train on the water in spirited away.

also this was me…

thats hot

sorry i was just standing in for my dad

thats not true at all. i have real values and i live in this shithole.

might as well roll dice. it boggles the mind how people keep taking jobs there and doing all this evil ass shit for them only to be rewarded with being laid off anyway, whether they did a good job or not. i get the ecomomic threat, but people still see these places as prestigious somehow.

what the panopticon hell batman. that would destroy my mental health so fucking fast.

i can see that youve had some coolaid. i hope you can stop drinking and start recovering. a lot of what you said is gibberish, but throwing more data at machine learning models has been shown to result in diminishing returns, and doesnt change that the technology is inherently fallible. it might get very close to 100% reliable, but the hallucination problem will never fully go away. thats not the end of the world, but it requires machine learning algorithms to be paired with more deterministic tools to be sure of results. it happens with our own brains too, which is part of why we invented math and computers in the first place.

i dont think ive ever used a speach computer interface that wasnt hot garbage and misunderstood half of what i said unless i talked to it really slow like it was an idiot. pretty much every time it would have been faster to use the tactile interface. i dont even have that much of an accent compared to generic american.

these are the same people who would unironically make the torment nexus, firmly believing that they will do it right and it will be good this time

a vital service

the greatest power of machine learning algorithms is the source of its greatest drawback. they are essentially heuristic models of something, constructed in a way that they are much cheaper to execute than a traditional algorithmic approach. this cheapness results in error, which for a lot of applications is fine because you can refine/check the result with more accurate tools, but it also means you can never just trust it like you can with more traditional tools. this problem is baked into the technology so theres no amount of scale that will make it go away, as we’ve seen time and again with LLMs. failing to understand this is the mistake most people make when it comes to “AI”, and results in all kinds of bad decision making. but in the hands of people who understand the limitations, machine learning can truly be a game changing technology. not chatbots though those are fucking stupid and i hope they go away when the bubble bursts.