toomanyrichies

> Astonishing that this guy isn't polling at 0%.

As an American, I agree. The unfortunate reality is that this kind of thing will continue until his supporters love things like the rule of law, checks on presidential power, and basic decency more than they hate "woke".

> Adrenaline chasing is addictive behavior

Gambling disorder is a recognized diagnosis in both the DSM-5 [1] and the WHO's ICD-11 [2], with a $14 billion annual social cost [3] in the US alone. Show me the equivalent DSM entry and social cost for "skydiving addiction".

The word "addiction" has an actual clinical meaning. It's not just vibes. The person has lost control over the behavior, and they keep doing it despite harm. There's no "Skydivers Anonymous".

With gambling, spouses and kids lose savings, debts don't get paid, and the public bears the cost of the ER visits in the headline. Gambling externalizes the costs in a way that skydiving doesn't. That’s the difference.

> Yes they do.

An injured skydiver is a net loss for a skydiving company: insurance, lawsuits, lost business, bad press. You gave no evidence for how they'd profit. You just said "Yes they do". Cue Hitchens's Razor: what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

1. https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gambling-disord...

2. https://icd.who.int/browse/2025-01/mms/en#1041487064

3. https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/faqs-what-is-prob...

This is a terrible analogy. Skydiving isn't addictive, the risk falls on the participant, and a skydiving company doesn't make more money from the customers it hurts.

Gambling apps get a large share of their revenue from the small group of users who can't stop. Meanwhile they cap the bets of people who win too much, so arguing that "betting is just entertainment in a free market" is false on its face. These are predatory companies and they should absolutely be regulated as such.

Consider the possibility that your brain chemistry is different from that of other people, and that this could affect the level of responsibility people bring to bear here.

Reading someone's words as written isn't being "too literal". With a blog post, as with this thread, it's actually the only thing there is to go on.

Drawing conclusions is fine, if they're traceable to something on the page. This one started with "always" and "all day," which aren't in the post, and when that was pointed out it moved to the author's mentality. I can assign anyone any mentality I want, and it's impossible to prove me wrong.

You can't quote a mentality, and you're not a mind-reader. You're putting words in the author's mouth, and then arguing against them. Saying it's "clear to see" is just asking others to find your evidence for you.

"All day" and "always" are your words, not mine, and not those of the article's author.

I'm arguing against TrnsltLife's (now flagged and disappeared) comment. They said it was conspicuous that people are opposing refugee status for white South Africans, but not opposing refugee status for other groups. The point I'm making is that the opposition is about only giving such status to white South Africans, to the exclusion of everyone else.

There’s a difference between things that literally everyone has to do as part of being human, and things that only “strivers” seem to enjoy- climbing the corporate ladder, “obsessing over customers”, polishing Powerpoint decks, working overtime to win that big account, picking that perfect background song to kick off the Zoom all-hands meeting, posting on LinkedIn about what having a kid taught them about B2B SaaS, etc.

No one here is saying they’re going to stop clipping their nails or feeding themselves. If that’s how you interpreted the article, you’re being uncharitable.

> You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff.

Gregor: It would be nice to do something.

Sam: We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting.

"Ronin", 1998

Couldn't that simply mean that his Nazi proclivities go back all the way to at least 1999? ASCII was invented in the 1960s.

> why the histrionics when they were welcomed as refugees in the United States?

Because white South Africans were the only refugees welcomed this year. [1]. 6500 refugees (down from 100k+ in 2024), and every single one was a white South African. Calling that out is not "histrionics".

1. https://www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Refugee%20Arrivals%20by%...

To paraphrase "The Princess Bride"- you keep using the word "communist". I don't think it means what you think it means.

One can acknowledge the very real harms done by the United States over its history, without also believing that private property is evil and workers should seize the means of production. Can you see how those two things are orthogonal?

Here's the falsifiable version:

- the Indian Removal Act of 1830

- the Trail of Tears

- the several hundred ratified treaties that were broken

- the Dawes Act, and

- the intentional decimation of bison herds from tens of millions to a few hundred by the late 1880s, which some Army and Interior officials at the time openly described as a way to force Plains tribes onto reservations. [1]

Which of those do you think "communists" are fabricating?

1. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/great-americ...

That same hacker can choose to responsibly disclose the vulnerability through the proper channels, or take advantage of it to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Which one they choose objectively determines the quality of person they are.

There will always be a certain percentage of the population whose greatest aspiration is to be "house slaves" as opposed to "field slaves". They're the ones that today would be described as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires". [1]

1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-john-steinbeck-once-...

"When European settlers arrived in the Americas, historians estimate there were over 10 million Native Americans living there. By 1900, their estimated population was under 300,000.

...In the late 1800s, blankets from smallpox patients were distributed to Native Americans in order to spread disease.

...European settlers were paid for each Penobscot person they killed.

In the 19th century, 4,000 Cherokee people died on the Trail of Tears, a forced march from the southern U.S. to Oklahoma." [1]

America is built on the genocide of indigenous peoples. That fact is well-documented, whether you want to admit it or not.

1. https://hmh.org/library/research/genocide-of-indigenous-peop...

What part of what they said is inaccurate?

Conman: "Nah, this data center's not for you. It's more of a Shelbyville idea."

Mayor: "Just a minute! We're twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville! Just tell us your idea and we'll vote for it!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJ4MFCxiuo

I had mine done in Rio de Janeiro, not in Turkey, but I understand the costs are similar for both. I had 2 sessions performed 6 months apart, total cost of about USD $5,000. In the US it might have been $20,000 or more. Each session was about 10+ hours, but with the local anesthesia it went by surprisingly quickly. I take dutasteride and apply topical minoxidil daily.

This was in 2023, and I'm largely happy with the results since then. If I had my 20s to do over again, I would have tried to go just the medication route and avoid the procedure. I do think that would have resulted in a more natural appearance vs. what I have now.

Their carnitas super taco was life-changing for me. Perfectly-cooked meat, generous helpings of avocado and sour cream. It was too big to fold at first, I had to eat it down to a manageable size with a fork before I could pick it up.

Still chasing that dragon to this day.

Note for others - "ATH" => "All-Time High"

100%. One can't advocate for the dismantling of the Dept. of Education, the tearing down of "educational elites", and the wholesale banning of books, while at the same time crying foul when people say they have the intellectual capacity of a 12-year-old.

I mean, this kinda pushes them past the "in between" phase and squarely into "overtly evil" IMO:

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2045574398573453312

Every day I grow more and more glad that I turned down a Meta offer. It was probably a hire-to-fire offer anyway, not based on any engineering prowess on my part. Still, I couldn't be more relieved I dodged that bullet.

> all kinds of thumbnails with people with their mouth open, very 'colory' thumbnails (more childlike)

What is with the thumbnails?!? I mean, I know what's with them- content makers have found a technique that works, and are beating that dead horse until it stops coughing up money. [1]

I guess my question is- what is with the median Youtube viewer? Are they just completely governed by their id? Does it not register that they're falling for the same bait every single time? That would bother me, but if people realize they're being manipulated and are fine with it, I guess that makes me the old man yelling at clouds. Oh well, I've been called worse.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVGpvzcHko

Your comment made me ask myself: "Then why remove it? If it really is just a system prompt, I can't imagine tech debt or maintenance are among the reasons."

My best guess is this is product strategy. A markdown file doesn't require maintenance, but a feature's surface area does. Every exposed mode is another thing to document, support, A/B test, and explain to new users who stumble across it. I'm guessing that someone decided "Study Mode isn't hitting retention metrics", and decided to kill it. As an autodidact, I loved the feature, but as a software engineer I can respect the decision.

What I'm wondering about is whether there's a security angle to this as well. Assuming exposed system prompts are a jailbreak surface, if users can infer the prompt structure, would it make certain prompt injection attacks easier? I'm not well-versed in ML security, and I'd be curious to hear from someone who is.