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[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Without a functioning government that actually prioritizes public health, there is no ridding ourselves of either. Towards the bottom of the article is a link to a document put together by the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center titled "Not Just a Joke" which helps to explain the problem, frame it through a public health lens, and provide broad tips for intervention at various levels of social support. Like most public health crises, there is not a simple "answer" to a complex problem and the best solution is to provide resources to a variety of places recognizing that each of them touch lives in unique ways and that each of them will be able to help affect a positive change on some individuals based on who those individuals might be willing to listen to and trust.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

While you are correct, and the author deserves to be called out on their behavior, the context of the entire article is around how they are struggling with being bombarded with things taking up their attention and time. This response is seriously lacking in any compassion for the author's struggle and more or less ignores the entire point of the article in order. Beehaw isn't the place for one-liner gotchas. Please try to engage with the content if you're going to comment.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 10 points 3 days ago

Ah yes, integration of church and state, just like the founding fathers wanted 🙄

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago

Eh frankly I just see us moving to more strict reputation based systems - someone has to vouch for you.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago

So how is an AI prompt poking for Holocaust denial different than a Google search looking for Holocaust denial?

Because one is something you have to actively search for. The other is shoved in your face, by a figure that many feel is one who has some authority.

Why are you defending anything about this situation? This is not a thread to discuss how LLMs work in detail, this is a thread about accountability, consequences, hate, and society.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Definitely something I've observed even here. Luckily we get few applications and there is a report button, but I share the author's frustration and the author's jaded view of a limited timeline on services such as ours being tenable. Eventually it will be trivially easy to flood this place with slop.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

gpt-4o was also used, check the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18412

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

“There is going to come a time when everyone is retiring and there’s not going to be a workforce.”

Well there certainly wont be a workforce if we keep framing immigration as only murderers and thieves and trying our hardest to deport them all (and a bunch of legal citizens in the process).

I find it interesting that this article takes the framing of freedom, options, and a positive reality. Where's the mention of cost? If your average worker is struggling to get by paycheck to paycheck more than 50 years ago, is it really surprising that less people are willing to take on the financial burden of kids?

And what of thinking about the future of our planet as a whole? We're cooking the planet and many of the young adults alive today know they'll be facing dire times in the upcoming decades. If I were younger and considering kids I would surely think twice knowing my kids would be drafted into the climate wars...

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

One of the most salient and annoying sludges I ever experienced was doordash support. There was an issue with my account where the credits they gave me for a failed delivery somehow broke the ability for it to process payment (the total credits exceeded the cost of any reasonable single meal). No amount of adding different cards would fix it. There is a second line of service which supports via email, but they do not keep on the same ticket, it goes back to an inbox which multiple people see and every single reply was from a different support person. In addition to changing the support person each reply, they are clearly incentivized to reply quickly, rather than thoroughly. I say this because I would get the same questions, for which my reply would be "please see the full email chain which is included, this question was asked by and the answer is in the reply". I got stuck in an endless loop of this before I decided to just entirely give up on the app. There is no number you can call, there is no way to get a person who will read through the entire email to understand the problem and troubleshooting steps taken. It was hostile by design, and designed to make you go away.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

314m what a joke! Still, good to see them lose this court case

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

LMAO criminalizing disinformation, yeah right

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You believe that a police officer, who is doing public actions, in a public role, should be given privacy while performing public actions? Say more

 

I'm currently sick with strep! 4th time in a year, doc said maybe it's time to get the tonsils out. I'm not sure I'm sold on the idea - outside of the last 2ish years I feel like I don't get strep all that often. Anyone else have their tonsils out as an adult? What was your experience?

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