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The straight up "shout out" in the pop-up, I almost couldn't believe my eyes.

I don't think I've seen anything like it in a long time. I also don't think an American company would ever do that as it seems "unprofessional." Ironically, it probably got them huge bonus points so they know what they're doing.

It sounds dumb/cliche but the answer is to simply make good content. Anything else would just be spam and then you're competing with other spammers.

The fact Twitter bought Vine and just shut it down still blows my mind. Sometimes I wonder what things would look like if they kept it alive. At the very least, I don't think Elon could have bought Twitter.

Yea. I'm not even arguing for any policies right now, just wishfully thinking it could all disappear. Policies are complex. Headcanon where short form content never existed is easy :)

I think it would be depressing. I wouldn't be surprised if the average is 3-4 hours a day with the way some will spend upwards of 6-8.

I'm not addicted to it. I have a 15 minute timer and it locks me out of the app after 15 minutes... and even 15 minutes feels like too much sometimes.

I'm not arguing that it should be banned. I'm saying I simply wish these scrolling apps didn't exist.

I'm sure people get a nice high from heroin. I wish that simply didn't exist too.

What about it is confusing? I just wish they didn't exist. Even if I threw my entire phone away, it wouldn't change that so much time is collectively being wasted. Not to even touch on how its changed social gatherings. The minute something isn't "happening" the phones come out.

Well, the very first one seems entirely fair.

The California Coastal Commission seemed to be weaponizing and politicizing its approval. Approval to launch a rocket shouldn't be granted or denied based on if you agree politically with the CEO of the applying company. In the article it even says the Governor of California agreed with Elon.

> Republicans want to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases

Well sure, a lot of Republicans have _always_ disliked this tho. I got an EV and loved it but I can see how people that might be struggling find it unfair considering how expensive EVs are in the first place.

> Republicans also want to extend the 2017 tax plan that Trump signed

Extending republican policies is something republicans do, yes.

These really just sound like a bunch of things they were going to do anyways.

> The measures aimed at pleasing Musk aren’t all financially based. Some are personal. Trump has nominated Ken Howery, Musk’s longtime friend and occasional houseguest, who helped Musk lead PayPal years ago, to become ambassador to Denmark, where Howery’s prime mission would be negotiating a deal to buy Greenland — a pet project of Trump’s. Howery was ambassador to Sweden during Trump’s first term.

This, at the end of the article, is ironically probably the strongest example the author has but he chooses to add it at the very end.

It sounds a bit like nepotism. What qualifications does Howery have to be an ambassador? I guess he was before, in 2017.

Not to be on a high horse but I would actually love if these "scroll" apps all disappeared. So much time collectively (myself included) being spent on nonsense. I have a timer on mine to only let me spent 15 minutes and it just goes by so fast. I'll see something funny or something I like maybe 1/25 videos.

I know I should and could just delete it but my friends send me stuff and usually its pretty good stuff... it just hooks you in tho.

I've seen this TikTok thing turn staunch leftists into libertarians overnight.

I think a lot of normal and applicable arguments aren't entirely valid when the company in question is more or less an entity of a political adversary.

> because it is too successful and valuable to be foreign-held

That is not the reason at all. I highly doubt if it was made in Europe, it would be banned.

China would never allow a TikTok equivalent to operate in China, which is smart. We should do the same.

I know its getting off topic but I never understood why people seemingly couldn't accept that.

Current systems don't have a 1:1 with "hard work" and success/comp but its about as close as you can get, IMO.

I'll second a good IDE. I have nothing against code editors but I don't understand the point of having tons of different tools/extensions when a good IDE will have all of that included.

I love code editors for scripts and light projects... but I can't imagine trying to work on larger ones without an IDE.

Totally agree here... but I have no robotics experience to back it up.

Seems at the very least it could have little quad wheel things so it doesn't have to worry about balance as much.

This is one of the problems I have with modern discourse.

We're suppose to trust institutions based on the idea that institutions are inherently trustworthy.

Having dealt with a few I honestly think they're marginally more trustworthy _but_ are better at hiding and obscuring their biases... which is worse in some ways.

Best example in the article:

> “They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years,” said Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who runs the country’s largest youth gender clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

> That conclusion seemed to contradict an earlier description of the group, in which Dr. Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues noted that one quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment.

Also this study is funded by the government (our taxes) and has received almost $10 million. Not releasing the results is wild and the reasoning is worse. I have almost no faith that this team won't try some sort of p-hacking to get the results they wanted to see.

The one I hate the most is:

"X thing did Y, here's why Z"

Where X and Y can range from meaningless to national security but Z always remains an opinion (usually uninformed too).

Just search "here's why that's bad/good" on google news and there's so much "slop."

> Do you want an admissions process that is partially trying to decide if you're financially responsible? Do you want your school pressuring you to choose a more lucrative major? Do you want communications from your school reminding you that it's important to be making good financial decisions? If your school is co-guarantor of your loan, it's their business to make sure you're going to repay on time.

I wouldn't particularly enjoy this... but at the same time, the alternative seems to be students that "don't know what they're doing" taking out loans over $100k to get degrees that are not in demand. These people will then claim they were ignorant of the true cost, job prospects, potential salary, etc.

The elephant in the room is that many degrees simply don't leave students with a lot of earning potential. I never understand why the discussion seems to trend (not implying your comment did this) towards how we can pay for these degrees or make them affordable. It sounds harsh but I don't know how to see it any other way.

I truly think the real "target" of these campaigns is to just cause infighting.

China could pay a creator $1 or set up a Facebook page with only 1,000 followers and if any news orgs get a hold of it, it becomes "Chinese-based election interference." In an already highly-polarized environment, it would work really well.

> The row began in April, with the judge ordering the suspension of dozens of X accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation.

Not a fan of the idea that a judge (or politician) can just order accounts banned... especially banned for "disinformation."

In theory its fine but of course it all depends on who is defining what is disinformation and what isn't. I mean basically its a fancy word for lying. How often is "politician X is a liar" getting thrown around?

I hate how we've given weight behind "misinformation" and "disinformation" and "fact-checking" as if those are immune from bias just the same as "lying."

What mind-melting levels of incompetency. I would love to suggest pay raises so the Government can hire better individuals... but I worry the problem is so systemic it wouldn't do any good.

Everyone dropped the ball... and kept dropping it. The part where its handed to them on a silver platter and its essentially smacked away. Maddening.

> I just don't understand why people seem so upset about these new companies being GPT wrappers.

A lot are just close to vaporware. It also takes advantage of people more than most business models.

If your business is just adding a system prompt and trying to keep users from figuring out you could just do this with ChatGPT, I can't say I'm a fan. Not a hater... but not a fan.

If you have more functionality with actions, events and context, that's fine.

Well, I'm thinking more specialized. I mean, how often do people come up with the same riff or melody and end up in court? You don't need an AI to either purposely or accidentally skirt copyright.

That's for someone with legal experience and knowledge to answer.

I can only offer my opinion and more questions. For example; if you're a punk rock band and hire an artist to create promo material, and they draw a "vulgar Mickey Mouse" without your knowledge, who is in trouble? Seems you should just work backwards until you get to a human or org and have them tried in court on a case by case basis. Maybe that's a bad idea for reasons others can explain, its just my current opinion.

Well, that's essentially what I'm saying.

If you use an AI to "get around" copyright, you should face the consequences. Same if you hired a "consultant" that did the infringing.

I honestly just don't see how all this will work legally, in the future.

I don't know anything an LLM (or "AI") can do that a human couldn't, with enough time. If it can get a human in trouble, it should get the operators of the AI in trouble too. Likewise, if a human can do it, I don't see why an AI is any different.

So many levels of irony at work here.

It is kinda crazy. I thought Northern Virginia prices were insane so I moved. I always heard that Canadian and Australian housing was "crazy" too but only recently learned that it is mind-blowing crazy.

More housing will have to be built or people will have to move further from population centers. No way the average person is going to afford a $1MM house (not even large, or grand at that).

How in the world was Musk still paying for it? lol.

How to say nothing in so many sentences.

What is the "false information" he is seeing? I genuinely have no idea what he is referring to.

I would hope not.

I'm still "young" so every visit to a Dr, I've come out with a solution.

In any case, I've gone to therapy and it feels like you're making progress (and perhaps I was) but never fixed the problem.