I've read some people over here refer to Wikipedia like that. Do they only use western sources or something like that?

I have a lot of issues with AI in general, but frankly the biggest, most immediate one is that I reeeally hate when tech pretends to be human. Like search engines giving me a seventh grader's essay before the actual one-word answer I was looking for. Or the uncanny valley voice at the drive-thru speaker saying "great choice!" to everything I order. Or the AI on shopping websites saying "I'd recommend this model..." Etc etc.

There's just something so strange and uncomfortable to me about a thing that we all know is not a person pretending to be one; feels like someone telling a lie directly to my face, and I know they're lying, and they know they're lying, but I'm supposed to.. appreciate it? For some reason?

But a lot of people I know actually prefer it. They'll ask ChatGPT something—even something that has a simple, definitive answer that doesn't really need further explanation—rather than just looking it up on a search engine. I'm just curious what the difference in psychology is between us. And I'm wondering if maybe it's actually just a me problem; I mean, I hated Jeeves too, and he seemed pretty well-liked back in the day.

Since four of the first five answers I've seen are so mild, let me give you what my list would include and tell me if I'm wrong or if I'm missing something:

• Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those known to have committed child sexual abuse from the Epstein files
• Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those related to Trump's corruption schemes which are:
  • Stealing oil from Venezuela
  • Insider trading during the current aggressive unprovoked full-scale genocide against Iran, Lebanon and possibly all nations in the Middle East, including US all allied nations in the Middle East except for Israel.
  • Cryptocoin frauds
• Imprisonment and possessions seized for all those involved in war crimes
• Designate all detractors of these demands as rape, murder, thievery, and pedophile protectors

• Establishment of an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate allegations of ICE brutality
• Retraction of any designation for this protest made as anything other than peaceful
• Release of every political arrest made during this protest and any protest prior that are still in prison with exception of the Jan 6th Capitol storming
• Reimprisonment of every pardoned criminal during Trump's presidency

• An amendment that abolishes the first past the post winner-takes-all system.
  • Instead it should have indirect elections to prevent campaign fraud (so you only elect local leaders, who elect those above them) and an approval voting system, but if that is deemed to radical here, then at least have initial proportional representation, with a majority amount of seats shuffled towards the winning coalition in order to prevent lame duck governance.
• An amendment that guarantees all citizens, including prisoners universal basic income
• An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership of basic housing
• An amendment that guarantees all citizens ownership a basic amount of land that can prove themselves to be Indigenous First Nations US-soil Native American
• Rewrite the 13th amendment to abolish of slavery in prisons
• An amendment that secures roaming rights by making any vagrancy and loitering law illegal
  • Have the amendment above include making it illegal to restrict access to gated communities. So no walking or driving around 10-meter-high, kilometer-wide walls.
• Amendment that guarantees continuous slower traffic paths through faster traffic paths, so walkways > bike lanes > roads.

• Repeal the Patriot Act
• Universal Health Care
• Nationalize all casinos except those owned by native Americans
• End all sanctions and embargoes on other countries

It's everywhere. Why not just eat it instead of searching for veggies and meat which are more difficult to have?

Hello, I would like to say a few words at my mom's funeral service. I did not do so at my dads funeral because I did not think I could even make it through my first sentence before becoming a puddle on the floor. For those of you who had to do this, was it easier than you thought, or are there any tricks to try and hold it together? I am wondering if once I get up there, instinct will kick in and it won't be a problem. Sorry if I don't reply to what you have to say, but I will read all advice and am appreciative of it.

I've got this horrible neighbour upstairs who might possibly be the loudest person in the western hemisphere. Walking around in heels for hours at a time, phone rings so loud that it's more effective at waking me up than my alarm, constantly screeching furniture around all day everyday, blasting the same annoying movie at random times, and slamming doors every 15 minutes.

The apartment isn't even that bad for noise seperation, I never hear the neighbours beside me or the ones under me. This woman is just annoying and I've gone upstairs before to tell her to stop blasting music at midnight in the middle of the week, she treated me like I was the maniac for having the audacity to knock on her door.

As I'm laying in bed last night after getting woken up and hoping today is the day she drops dead, I was wondering why she even needs to close doors. When I lived alone I don't think I ever closed doors, maybe the bathroom on occasion but this old woman lives by herself with no pets yet she's constantly slamming doors. Do people normally close doors often when they live alone?

Lots of small companies won't survive the components price hike and shortage

According to Google maps: there's no definite border (indicated by dashed lines) between the Kashmir region (located near both India & Pakistan) in which India considers the entire region as theirs but both China & Pakistan argue against India's claim.

I’ll go first. Franz Marc. I particularly like “Blaues Pferd I”. I love me some German expressionism.

asking especially people whose country didn't qualify

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I'm kinda disgusted with Microsoft and Github has been declining into an AI-Centric hellhole, to the point my recommendations are almost exclusively AI related... And let's not forget, the new Copilot Training enabled by default (which honestly, how do you get rid of this thing, VSCode also feels intrusive with AI-First bullshittery)

I've been wondering about moving to Gitlab but.... "Finally, AI for the entire software lifecycle." is literally plastered in the landing page. So.. that feels like a no-go.

Codeberg is very decent, it's based on Forgejo so ActivityPub is also a thing (but is cross-instance contributions possible?) but it's exclusive for Source-Available and Free Projects, which, by all means, totally fine! Half of my "active" projects are for free, and are open source (does that make them FOSS even though I'm basically the only dev?)

And last but not least, Forgejo and Gitlab themselves are self-hostable, but...how expensive (price and storage) would it be to self host a Git Forge??

And maybe I'm being narrow-sighted... For FOSS projects in Github, sadly I'll have no choice but to contribute there, if that's the only place where the project resides, same for Gitlab, and Codeberg* (unless cross-instance contrib is a thing)

For now, I'm thinking of moving FOSS/OSS projects to Codeberg, but for personal projects? What are some good options?

Blend two universes... TV, movie, comic, whatever... What would you like to see?

Sandwich is a flexible concept. I will not argue with your sandwich. I hope you won't either while anyone is looking

Surprisingly, it’s been 1.5 years since this was last asked.

I pick Peregrine Falcon. They thrive all across the globe, they’re fast as fuck when they’re in a dive, they’re the cutest killers, but they’re not at the top of the pecking order, which means a lust for life.

It's a country that's overlooked since UAE has skyscrapers or high rises while Oman doesn't have that (since their focus is more on culture and maintaining the "old Arabia" look & vibe whilst being rich in their own way). I mean, you can look up travel content about the UAE and there's tons of results while for Oman the amount of travel content is kind of sparse in comparison even though people do go there.

I haven't had to think about ads in years with ublock origin, but have been forced to use Chrome for some tasks recently. What's a good alternative?

Something juicy. Something you wouldn’t admit to irl but you’re willing to divulge behind the safety of a keyboard

Argentina is going through difficult times (especially with the Peso being bad as it’s very volatile) since most Argentinians would prefer USD over the Peso either through savings or investment.

That’s because the dollar is the best bet not only for savings, but for making a living (if they can manage to get remote work). The thing is, how did Argentina end up in this situation in the first place?