I mean clearly those people do exist, so I’m curious if you have something specific in mind? Kinda feels like asking how people feel about folks with anger issues. Not great but they exist?

16gb and a number less than 16gb both not being big enough numbers is making me crack up

Define victim mentality with examples perhaps?

Very

The things that make a company successful are not the same as the things that make executives successful

You fucking what

Oh god

Oh fuck I’m so old

Yeah I don’t trust the good will of corporations, even the ones I personally like

Yeah GOG is a better ownership model. Steam is not ownership

I mean I hate to say it but if steam closed up shop tomorrow your games are gone too. You buy a license, not a copy, from steam

What everyone else has said but - apologize when you’re wrong. Tell your children that you were wrong, why you acted or said what you did, and how you will try to do better next time. Set the example that everyone is wrong, that it’s more important to make it right than be perfect

You WILL set up Cortana or you WILL be put through the Setup Wizard

In the US Flonase as well

What if you can’t afford a fucking doctor and you need to see a regular one instead of

Oh shouldn’t be more than a few hours. Reason? Since when have we needed a reason?

1. Network effects - “my friends and family are on there”
2. Switching cost - “if I leave I won’t have all my photos and albums I spent so much time organizing”
3. Social / specialist communities - Facebook is still far and away the most popular place to find groups of people organized around VERY specific things, from hobbies to life events (my wife uses Facebook exclusively to access a group of people specializing in moving from the US to a specific country, and we’ve gotten a lot of resources from that)
4. Facebook marketplace
5. Nostalgia
6. Business info and communication. Lots of live music is nearly exclusively organized on Facebook.
7. Community info sharing - Facebook is a “one of many” approach groups like governments and NGOs use to communicate to broad audiences. It’s still a great place to get info and stay on top of things.

I think the era where people use Facebook exclusively to keep up with Aunt Shandelle or Cousin Pablo or your mother-in-law Sharon are over

Citation needed that LLMs are passing these tests like they’re nothing.

LLMs don’t have intelligence, they are sentence generators. Sometimes those sentences are correct, sometimes they’re gobbledygook.

For instance, they fabricate real-looking but nevertheless totally fake citations in research papers https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41032-5

To your point we already know standardized tests are biased and poor tools to measure intelligence. Partly that’s because they don’t actually measure intelligence- they often measure rote knowledge. We don’t need LLMs to make that determination, we already can.

Bad troll is bad, go away

The whole point is deliberate engagement and sharing. Don’t like the content coming out of an instance? Don’t federate with them. It allows communities to stay small and focused, or grow large and be a big tent, according to their users.

I paid for my entire family to go to see the Grand Canyon for Christmas. 11 of us in total, rented a big house and a van and we were going to drive all together for fifteen hours. Fly down early to spend time with my mom and she gave me Covid. She has been sick for a couple weeks and didn’t take a test.

She is a nurse.

Unfortunately it’s not just not posting on Facebook. Facebook uses tracking pixels and those little like and share buttons on sites to track you outside of Facebook domains (that’s why porn videos have them. No one is sharing porn on Facebook and Meta doesn’t expect them to; they just buy the tracking). As much as possible separate your devices and networks from any device that accesses Facebook, and disable cookies and trackers using an ad blocker and privacy-respecting browser all over. You’d be amazed at how adept Facebook and others are at linking you across devices and networks.