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Here I am, an old man in a dry month...

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My youngest has played Roblox half her life, but is very angry about recent decisions like requiring ID to chat in-game.

Still, if she's anything like other players, she's spent countless hours playing some of the most mindless Roblox games, and we've spent a few $100 on Robux gift cards over the years.

[dead] 5 months ago

What evidence did you gather to determine that it's true, and have you informed the U.N. about the "concentration camps" mentioned by this site?

[dead] 6 months ago

Here's a CNN segment from 2016 about ICE enforcing in Chicago, without the spin we see today, yet essentially the same operations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXTqyH54ww

Many on the right who had Obama Derangement Syndrome didn't know how well Obama's administration enforced federal immigration law.

I keep a forum going that's been up since 2007 for hobbyists. I keep it going because of the priceless historical information on it, not the present quality of discussion.

My sense is that people have become less literate, less polite, and less patient.

Again, this is for a simple hobby so there aren't necessarily many intellectuals in this hobby, but 10+ years ago we had many lively, intelligent, long discussions.

What happens is you start getting more and more users who barge in, hijack threads, and do not contribute anything useful.

They can also be abrasive, which spooks the old timers from prior generations who were used to intelligent, polite discussion where they agree to disagree.

Eventually the quality content thins out, and there's a sort of Reddit effect where you get one solid reply for every ten useless ones.

These days I find most of the new users are just looking to find out what their collection is worth.

As those new users fill up screen space with vacuous content, the old timers are fading away either through attrition or illness or death.

On the technical side, you're constantly battling bots because your domain age and reputation is targeted by spammers.

How many of his Coffee with Scott Adams broadcasts did you watch before forming the "off the rails" opinion?

ChatGPT Health 7 months ago

Most doctors are just people who had a strong ability to pass tests and finish medical school.

Most of the ones I've worked with aren't passionate about their specialty or their patients, and their neglect and mistakes show it.

I'm skeptical of some of this guy's stories.

In one interview he says that after being surveilled overseas for a while by an obvious amateur, he told the station chief who then gave him the OK to kill the guy.

Surely they would try evasion, counter-surveillance, or maybe even sending a team to grab the guy off the street to figure out who he is?

He claims the only reason he didn't kill the guy is because for some reason he randomly decided to mention it to a general in the local intelligence service, and then suddenly the tail vanished.

https://youtu.be/BXtDH2IXKY8?t=650

I work for a finance firm and everyone is wondering why we can store reams of client data with SaaS Company X, but not upload a trust document or tax return to AI SaaS Company Y.

My argument is we're in the Wild West with AI and this stuff is being built so fast with so many evolving tools that corners are being cut even when they don't realize it.

This article demonstrates that, but it does sort of beg the question as to why not trust one vs the other when they both promise the same safeguards.