IMHO it’s really all about you being worried about how others react. Speaking as a 50 year old guy, I would walk around naked if it was normal in society. Put the bikini on and stand in front of a mirror. Make sure you’re confident that it looks normal (no tags still showing, nothing that is too revealing or pinching in the wrong spot or whatever… then put it on and go out in public and don’t think about it. It’ll be fine and nobody will think twice about it other than maybe saying “damn she’s keeping herself in shape!”

It’ll be fine. Don’t let others get in your head so much that it determines what you’re going to do or wear.

It’s funny, I hate clinical people like you almost as much as the evil people doing this to us. Democrats are not complicit, especially when they don’t have any power.

It’s stupidly low. It opens our government up to being bought very easily.

If you can’t tell the difference between Biden and Trump, then you need to quit sniffing glue.

Holy shit, someone’s getting fired at the CBO! How dare they put out honest data.

This is the real take away from all this. xAI is trying hard to keep up with the big-boys and has to pay a shit ton of money just to be in the game. xAI’s revenue will be in the deep red for a long time at this rate.

“digging thru trash and bunch of obscure websites for info, using critical thinking to filter and refine your results”

You’re highlighting a barrier to learning that in and of itself has no value. It’s like arguing that kids today should learn cursive because you had to and it exercises the brain! Don’t fool yourself into thinking that just because you did something one way that it’s the best way. The goal is to learn and find solutions to problems. Whatever tool allows you to get there the easiest is the best one.

Learning through textbooks and one way absorption of information is not an efficient way to learn. Having the ability to ask questions and challenge a teacher (in this case the AI), is a far superior way to learn IMHO.

The thing is… AI is making me smarter! I use AI as a learning tool. The absolute best thing about AI is the ability to follow up questions with additional questions and get a better understanding of a subject. I use it to ask about technical topics and flush out a better understanding that I ever got from just a text book. I have seem some instances of hallucinating in the past, but with the current generation of AI I’ve had very good results and consider it an excellent tool for learning.

For reference I’m an engineer with over 25 years of experience and I am considered an expert in my field.

It’s also a tragedy-of-the-commons type issue. Nobody else can use the park if they are camping there. There are legitimate safety concerns due to the mental health and drug issues that are prevalent in the homeless. To pretend these aren’t real issues is stupid.

I’m being honest here. This is an issue that is a challenge to solve, but I still don’t want a bunch of homeless people in my neighborhood. I’d like to find a solution and I’m not afraid of my tax money is going to help them, but tent encampments are not the solution IMHO…

I’m very liberal on 95% of issues, but if there is one issue I lean conservative it’s homelessness. I want them to get the help they need, I support programs to help them, but I do not want to see a homeless encampment s take over public parks or other areas. I don’t want the trash and safety issues near where I live and near my family.

I know this will get me dumped on my the ultra leftists here, but I didn’t think my feelings are unreasonable.

What other examples can you give? As a California resident I think your comment is bullshit.

Yes and no. That’s a much harder thing to argue in reality. I’m an atheist so I’m pretty anti-religion, but the reality is that all parents want to teach their child at least some of their worldview. If that worldview includes religion, who are we to say “no, you can’t teach that”? The child can always change their mind when they’re older and in theory there’s no harm. But a child can’t decide to get their foreskin back. (I know there is a surgery to try to add some back, but it’s just aesthetic, the nerves will never be recovered.)

Stop circumcising children. Let men decide if they want to be circumcised when they reach the age of consent at the age of 18. I guarantee circumcision will drop by 95% or more.

And if that’s the case, that circumcision only exists if you don’t give the boy the choice, then don’t fucking force this on an infant!

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They’ll be allowed back in the White House, but they’ll be put in the “special reporter zone” that is two rooms away from the press briefings with Fox News playing on max volume.

He’ll champion women’s rights. Trump always picks the worst person for the job.

I’m kind of surprised that all the institutional investors haven’t bailed already. It doesn’t take much to look at the fundamentals of Tesla and realize it’s all smoke and mirrors. The emperor has no clothes and the stock is 10 times more expensive than it should be.

I’m a liberal, what the fuck are you on about?

Don’t worry, this number will go down very shortly. Oh, not because we’ll stop the spread, but because these morons will fire all the people in charge of tracking why all the kids are dying.

xAI is 80 billion? That’s a load of shit.