There is unethical behaviour on both parts. Overbred indoor cat, and (hopefully neutered) outdoor cat that ruins wildlife populations of birds and other sensitive populations. If the outdoor cat isn’t neutered, that makes it ten times worse.

I completely agree. What I forgot to add was that I would be just fine without it. And the people who send in complaints would not have as much text mass with nonsense to plow through either.

At the level of spell check. Word, as it is, had always since the 90’s had a seriously spotty spell check in other languages than English. LLM:s might improve on grammar and wording, but facts are far beyond their reach.

Don’t confuse intelligence with word and grammar parsing.

Edit: I meant that LLM are not intelligent, they’re mainly word and grammar parsing until they mess up ”facts” and start hallucinating. And people send us the weirdest shit that chatbots and LLM parsers vomited out.

No lolz here.

At my work, I am using a LLM preloaded with agents to the legalia related to a limited range of my specific lines of work.

I use them. Why and when? When I have to process huge amounts of text mass. Why? Because I have thousands of pages to sift through of various human written content and AI grifting shit.

Do I rely on the LLM answers? Do I ask it to tell me what people said? Do I ask it to tell me what to write or reply?

No. I fucking use them for text processing at the level of spell check, legal paragraphs (which are triple checked) or grammar control. And, as the pure fucking reasons I see LLM as useful: check if I missed anything from real peopling in the river of **** I have to deal with daily so that the signal isn’t lost in the noise.

Your grandma and baby cousin will be heard and replied to if they raise their voice.

What bugs me out are the people who try to use LLM:s to enworsen citizen participation.

My life, work and community without LLM:s will work better. The form we use them for today is so dystopian and horrible that we as public servants have to fence this shit in the way to fight for climate resilience and justice in order to in any way support our local communities and efforts.

As I said to another commenter:

No idea, I can’t even tell a Boeing apart from an Airbus until the doors come popping off mid flight.

Then they mentioned huey something and I looked it up. Closer to chinook maybe. The noise was so way more different from Vietnam movies compared to these though. On the other hand, shots from pistol, gun, machine gun and rifles don’t sound in RL like they do in movies either.

Thank you for providing a reference, but no, bigger and bulkier. Not important anyhow, but thank you for trying to check with me.

No idea, I can’t even tell a Boeing apart from an Airbus until the doors come popping off mid flight.

When I was a kid, there used to be a military airfield near where we lived, that had normal helicopters and tandem-rotor helicopters that they flew by with daily. The noise was quite distinct.

Now we have ambulance helicopters and police helicopters flying directly overhead from twice a week to twice daily. I stopped looking years ago until I one day heard a different sound, yet oddly familiar somehow, that sounded like something was punching the air aggressively with fists. I had to go out and saw that ancient dark green monstrosity of a tandem-rotor helicopter again. And then another. Last year they seemed to have daily exercises for a week with them during defense training operations. Didn’t want to complain about them online since it would be inappropriate to share pinpoint locations and times, but was very grateful when they stopped.

Enamel can get chipped and scratched, and if you don’t clean it regularly it will stain and disintegrate.

Source: rented places with enameled bathtubs and sinks.

That was very interesting and enlightening. Thank you, as always for your great posts with pictures and accompanying information from many sources.

Not so much that they misunderstood, the human smugglers chose to present it like that in order to extract their last reserves of money.

The cruelty (part of it) is that they’ve already crossed the obstacles of desert and wastelands.

Poverty, starvation, their family are suffering and their country can or will not help. They hope for a better future for themselves or to become an anchor for their family in Europe.

I seriously hope they cluster AfD with the other extremists of the same ilk, and not exclude ”this flavoring of extremism” just because…

I love this article, but it’s around two weeks old. Fantastic to not have to wait in line for hours to visit the rock or the historic places.

The bottle caps are not annoying unless you have decreased hand mobility or strength. Any young able-bodied guys complaining are just lazy or limp.

It is extremely difficult for elderly (or anyone) with rheumatoid arthritis, arthroscopic injuries or just deteriorated hand grip, as most windows require a strong two-handed grip to open, tilt or close. I love them, but my elderly relatives require help from us relatives or home aides/helpers to even manage to ventilate their homes.

Russia is now harvesting what they’ve sown, and riding on the wave of propaganda, disinformation that they’ve made part of public discourse in Poland, such as about the Wołyn massacre and the land grabs that the Soviet Union made and integrated into the western parts of Ukraine after WWII.

I have relatives in Poland who could never forgive having their families ousted from fertile farmland that had been in their family for generations. They recently went from blaming the Soviet Union to blaming Ukraine and Ukrainians in particular.

So Russia is now fanning the fire.

TLDR; since the ships are anchored for so long, different species can latch on and establish on the ship hulls, and once the strait opens this can release invasive species around the world.

The possibility of a remote off-switch makes me worry a bit.