iNow

Both. It depended on which side of the hallway I was on

2 hours ago, Genady said:

But how is this humor political?

MAGA has morphed into MAHA under RFKennedyJr and now the “vaccines are the enemy” mindset which became common during Covid more so on the right is even more amplified.

48 minutes ago, Genady said:

Details matter here. It depends. Which humans? How were they trained? What parameters were given for the analysis?

Bravo. Agreed. /chefskiss

2 hours ago, studiot said:

Would AI be any better (more likely) to pick this diagnosis error up

Details matter here. It depends. Which AI? How was it trained? What parameters were given for the analysis? Would humans have done any better / worse? Probably the latter.

18 hours ago, swansont said:

The OP seems to be based on (or possibly even actively promoting) poorly constructed propaganda

It’s the latter clearly, plus a dash of shit stirring to get people who are otherwise friends to turn against one another. Basically every post they’ve made since joining further evidences this assertion.

Neither action nor reply needed, just amplifying your obviously correct point.

1 hour ago, swansont said:

Blaming the system is a red herring, IMO, because the problem is inherent in any population of people.

Again hitting nails squarely on their heads.

15 hours ago, npts2020 said:

Just one question Mr President. How will we know when America is great again?

Monochromatic populace. All others on the visual spectrum too afraid to come or stay. See also: My friends get richer, be damned everyone else.

People are often afraid of what they’re told to be afraid of. Don’t overthink it

There’s usually not a lot of rational analysis or reasoning involved

Simple answer: It depends on your definition. See also: Consciousness. See also: Freewill

Don’t even need to bring a cooler when stocking up on all the flexes stuff (tho I do wonder they’ll enable a system whereby the shopping carts can head up to the higher levels and get returned for those days when you have both 36 rolls of paper towels AND 904 toilet papers)

Cockney and creole both come to mind

Language evolves and dialects form. There is no one right way, only the way considered common within some arbitrary local context and culture

On 12/20/2025 at 7:00 AM, raphaelh42 said:

I don't understand what you want/wanted to ask me exactly...

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding in this thread. It’s okay. We can move on.

I suspect it’s not certain human rules from which you want freedom, but instead certain humans in your life. If so, then I’m sorry to hear that and wish you well.

5 minutes ago, raphaelh42 said:

Like building a cabin in any forest, making fire, hunting without a license etc: the essential needs

I was asking which human rules you needed freedom from. This reply doesn't makes sense to me with that context in mind. Will you please elaborate?

22 hours ago, studiot said:

What happens when everyone along the Rhine wans to do this ?

That sounds like one of those "good problems."

5 hours ago, raphaelh42 said:

@iNow i guess i meant freedom from human rules

Like which ones?

15 minutes ago, raphaelh42 said:

if you want real freedom, you need to learn to live naked, without money, like an animal

Even here, you won't be free. You won't be free from struggle. From suffering. From a need to find and protect shelter. From the need to locate and acquire food and resources.

Quite the contrary. Without money to make those things easier to acquire, you'd be less free. Losing all of your time simply finding the basics for survival and having no other time for anything you wish you were free to do.

I'm not saying availability of money is required for freedom. I'm saying your freedom to choose to do whatever you want is facilitated by it.

It depends a bit on how you define time. It is, however, a concept that is frustratingly resistant to simple definition.

Many of the words you use are ambiguous and vague. They’re not helpful in understanding. Precision matters in topics like this.

Instant is meaningless. You cannot stop time. Time is change. Entropy increasing.

Perhaps you mean what our feeble limited human minds perceive as time. As right now. As this moment or this instant, but even that is delayed by several hundred milliseconds from when the event occurs. There is a measurable space between interactions and our awareness of them.

There are perhaps other dimensions to consider, too. We are aware of 3-dimensions and exist in 4, but perhaps there’s more. That likely informs the answer here.

Without input of energy, disorder increases. Time is a way we use imperfect human terms to describe that growing entropy. It’s a measure like distance and you’re essentially asking “how does distance pass?”

This conversation will forever remain a philosophical one, and it requires you ask better questions with clearer terms. This is part of why math is so appealing on this topic. Clarity is embedded and misinterpretation mitigated.

The overlap in Venn diagram circles for racist and snowflake amazes me in its consistency.

Display name appears but edit option does not, at least not for me as nonstaff member

AI Company or AI Lab are most common, but Gemini is a division within Alphabet (aka Google). It’s essentially a software company with a specific type of software

5 hours ago, Markus Hanke said:

Is there any way to change one’s display name on this forum? Maybe I’m blind, but I wasn’t able to find such a setting anywhere.

IIRC, Admins like @Cap'n Refsmmat can do it, but Mods nor Members cannot

Tell it to “align” the turbine with the flow of the water

Try it in Gemini instead. Easier to refine the first few drafts with followup prompts

10 minutes ago, Linkey said:

all of these phenomena have a common cause: politics.

You misspelled cell phones and social media

11 minutes ago, Linkey said:

Western democracy is illusory, the deep state rules there.

For someone who laments politics, you sure do bandy it about heavily in all your posts.

12 minutes ago, Linkey said:

I am certain that if we introduce a political system with many referendums, people will easily make friends anywhere, and loneliness will disappear, as well as alcoholism.

Well, so long as you’re convinced that’s good enough for me!

I smell some Gish Galloping approaching