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[–] flerp@lemm.ee 222 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Trump: makes incorrect claim

Moderator: Actually there is no evidence that happened

Trump: well I saw it on TV! Someone said it on TV! Someone wouldn't just go and say something on TV if it wasn't true!

Shouldn't the president of the country have a bit of higher standard of evidence than "I saw someone say it on TV"?

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Except that loose carts roll away and get blown by the wind scratching other people's cars. Carts put up on curbs and in gravel etc. ruins the wheels making everyone's experience worse. Carts left in the parking lot block spaces so people can't park in lots that already sometimes are overfilled.

You're not 'sticking it to the man,' the store owner or corporate shareholders who make the rules and set the prices don't care, you're making life worse for your fellow shoppers.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know you're supposed to confirm things for yourself but I'm very sensitive to audio and sounds have a tendency to stick in my brain. I'll take your word on that so that I don't have to stick my head in a blender later tonight.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

What will be left will be mentally ill and addicts which can further be helped by throwing money at support instead of punishing them.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's father than I would take it personally

[–] flerp@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago

That's not my theory. That's the data.

One interpretation could be that women were constantly engaged in strenuous endurance activities and so through evolution built up tolerances against exhaustion that at least rivals if not exceeds that of men. And one historical activity that used a lot of stamina and took a lot of tolerance against fatigue was the way in which ancient humans hunted.

That's not what a theory is, it's a hypothesis at best, hope that helped.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Women were first allowed to compete in marathons in 1972. In 1972 the men's record was 2:10:30. The current record is 2:00:35 which is about an 8% difference. Pretty close to the difference between men and women currently.

The first women's record was 3:40:22 and the current women's record is 2:11:53.11 which is 40% faster.

Once funding for women's athletics reaches parity and once girls are encouraged into athletics as much as boys, then we will see if the ladies catch up. So far they're doing a pretty good job catching up, and you can't look at one current window in time and say you have the answer, you need to look at trends.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Evidence shows that women have better endurance for long distances. They tend to be less susceptible to fatigue and beyond 195 miles are actually faster than men. Considering humans were better at outlasting their prey and chasing them to exhaustion rather than burst speed, this data indicates that women are at least as capable as men at those tasks if not better.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well I'm definitely not pushing for more AI and I like to try to stay nuanced on the topic. Like I mentioned in my first comment I have found it to be a very helpful tool but if used in other ways it could do more harm than good. I'm not involved in making or pushing AI but as long as it is an available tool I'm going to make use of it in the most responsible way I can and talk about how I use it knowing that I can't control what other people do but maybe I could help some people who are only using it to get answer hints like in the article to find more useful ways of using it.

When it comes to regulation, yeah I'm all for that. It's a sad reality that regulation always lags behind and generally doesn't get implemented until there's some sort of problem that scares the people in power who are mostly too old to understand what's happening anyways.

And as to what's the rush, I would say a combination of curiosity and good intentions mixed with the worst of capitalism, the carrot of financial gain for success and the stick of financial ruin for failure and I don't have a clue what percent of the pie each part makes up. I'm not saying it's a good situation but it's the way things go and I don't think anyone alive could stop it. Once something is out of the bag, there ain't any putting it back.

Basically I'm with you that it will be used for things that make life worse for people and that sucks, and it would be great if that was not the case but that doesn't change the fact that I can't do anything about that and meanwhile it can still be a useful tool and so I'm going to use it the best that I can regardless how others use it because there's really nothing I can do except keep pushing forward the best I can, just like anyone else.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Walkable cities are even better. I used to drive daily and then I moved close enough to walk to work with conveniently located grocery stores. Didn't drive much at all for years and THAT was convenient. Never sit in traffic and just stop in the store and pick up a few things on your way home from work. As long as I have to be working that is as close to livin' the dream as possible for me.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

RFK sweating bullets

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Exactly. It's a helpful tool but it needs to be used responsibly. Writing it off completely is as bad a take as blindly accepting everything it spits out.

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