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_9ptr··on How do we stop AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images?
The practice shows that hate speech is just speech they hate.
_9ptr··on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
You're right. If the minimum amount is actually the minimum and not less than necessary, you don't need to exceed that.

What the poster before wanted to imply was that we sacrifice safety or sustainability or some value other than material/money (which may well be true).

_9ptr··on Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital
SNAKE SNAKE OH GOD IT'S A SNAKE
_9ptr··on Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp
Can't wait for the cheeses
_9ptr··on How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
But it's more than a mile away!
_9ptr··on Why more SaaS companies are hiring chief trust officers
How'd you get so cynical?
_9ptr··on Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
In what way does it take power from the government, when everyone's dependent on the state?
_9ptr··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
I don't know why you're getting downvoted
_9ptr··on Heroin addicts often seem normal
It doesn't translate because you don't get the death penalty for having 1g of Cannabis
_9ptr··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
That's moving the goalposts.
_9ptr··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
30min+
_9ptr··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
For the German enjoyers among us I recommend also this old song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5mICXIG9M
_9ptr··on The collapse of the econ PhD job market
You're right
_9ptr··on The collapse of the econ PhD job market
Because the job can be done by AI.

Yes, I was unprecise to the point of being wrong.

_9ptr··on Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]
What? Are you saying that the CDU is secretly working for the AfD?

First time I heard that, what bubble are you from?

_9ptr··on The collapse of the econ PhD job market
One of the more salutary effects of AI will be the removal of bad journalism and bad science (bad in the sense of slop).
_9ptr··on How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
He probably means science in a wider sense as opposed to the anglo-american narrower sense where science is just physics, chemistry, biology and similar topics.
_9ptr··on When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
And where do you sort the letter ä? (After a is correct in German, but I think Swedish does it differently.)
_9ptr··on How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?
Why not chemo-therapy? Just nuke and re-build.
_9ptr··on The death of east London's most radical bookshop
Bartending does not give you a "working-class background"
_9ptr··on The death of east London's most radical bookshop
Depends on your definition of success
_9ptr··on Solar panels + cold = A potential problem
Obviously you include everything, otherwise it wouldn't be a maximum. You can define a minimum temperature for this, of course, but the customer should know about it.
_9ptr··on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Old people are becoming more, not less
_9ptr··on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Oh yeah? Can you even recognize all these stop signs?
_9ptr··on ChatGPT Pulse
Thanks for putting the citation for the Tour de France. I wouldn't have believed you otherwise.
_9ptr··on ChatGPT Pulse
In germany soymilk and the like can't be sold as milk. But coconut milk is okay. (I don't know if that's a german thing or a EU-thing.)
_9ptr··on ChatGPT Pulse
The latin word for that is "incontinentia".
_9ptr··on Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high
"Cancer? Me? I'd like to speak to your manager!"
_9ptr··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
I assent to that statement
_9ptr··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
Remove the first and last comma and the sentence works splendidly
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