PoopingCough

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[–] PoopingCough 4 points 1 week ago (15 children)

There's also plenty of research that shows that people's earnings reflect how happy they are, but only up to a certain point. Different studies have different numbers for that point but it's pretty much always above the actual median income. After that the line flattens and for some even goes down. So yeah, it's not always a direct money = happiness but you'd have to be an idiot or intentionally obtuse to say that people wouldn't be happier if they didn't have to agonize over how they'll pay their bills/save for their future.

[–] PoopingCough 3 points 1 week ago

I don't recall any mention of her glasses being anything special, no.

[–] PoopingCough 2 points 1 week ago
[–] PoopingCough 1 points 1 week ago

Looks like they're out of stock on the on sale ones to me

[–] PoopingCough 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuuuuuckk i had forgotten about Scavengers Reign :(

[–] PoopingCough 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or just 8.4 more

[–] PoopingCough 9 points 1 month ago

There are many companies right now ~~exploiting~~ employing contract workers to rate chatbot responses in order to improve the models. I have first hand experience with this work and let me tell you it's...a complete fucking shitshow. I can't imagine they're getting much good data from it but they are absolutely throwing money at the problem hand over fist.

[–] PoopingCough 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The link has nothing to do with the comment, some people just add that to all their posts because they think it will prevent LLMs from using their comments as training data. It's useless and very stupid imo, equivalent to people on facebook a few years back copy and pasting that text about owning their pictures and not giving fb permission to use them even though permission was already given in the sign up agreement.

[–] PoopingCough 5 points 1 month ago

Good for you if that's an option i guess. For most people though it's not realistic, and as tempting as it sounds I'm not sure if I'd want to even if I could. Yes, 1/3 of the adults in this country seem to be welcoming fascism with open arms, and a not insignificant portion of the other 2/3s either didn't realize or didn't care what was at stake. But fuck if I'm gonna just bail when the going gets rough. I've never considered myself especially patriotic but I care about the lives and prosperity of the people here and if this is how it's gonna be I'll do my best to affect what change I can. Maybe this is a privileged take because I'm not in a demographic that will be targeted but I'd like to try to help the ones that are.

[–] PoopingCough 47 points 1 month ago

And Virginia went blue

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