I was listening to a radio show (CBC) who had an expert on voting demographics. He was saying that a fairly sizeable portion of Trump’s base were irregular voters. That is to say, they only turn out if they feel strongly enough about something, and the promise they believed was that he would fight corruption.

They also have a core belief that the gov’t is run by a cabal of pedophiles, and that Trump would fix that. Backing down on the Epstein files is a huge slap in the face to them.

So while you’re absolutely right that these people would probably never cross the aisle and vote democrat, as you say, what they’re more likely to do is just not vote.

Me visiting cool places in vr:

“Hey cool, we made a smaller cave inside the cave!”

That YC comment section was an interesting read. One user there seemed very likely to be working on behalf of the AnAg industry, likely the NCBA or its ilk. It’s annoying how effective Gish gallopping is.

In some respects, I’m glad Lemmy still mostly flies under the radar.

I personally prefer the humped-back interpretation from the mid-90s:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/was-spinosaurus-a-bison-backed-dinosaur-12849430/

I can’t quite tell if it was accidentally omitted, or if it was intended as part of one of the listed theories, or it was left out because it’s just a silly meme.

Would.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. Pretty sure the point is, leftists wouldn’t advocate for just a little murder, or racism, or sexual assault. Even a little is too much.

I try and be pragmatic, so I’m still happy about baby steps, but when that’s all you advocate for, that’s all you end up getting. That’s why only calling for reduced cruelty isn’t good enough.

Edit: Just noticed this is vcj. Oops, oh well.

against expectations

😏

Divided? Only the CPC seem to be divided. Everyone else is firmly in favour of elbows up.

I always thought Conservatives were supposed to be more nationalistic, but it seems they’re happy to believe another country’s populist. I wish all the wannabe Americans would self-deport, but the US won’t take em.

It also reminds me of the incumbent NDP ridings we lost to the cons because liberal voters don’t do strategic voting, yet they expect progressives to.

Thank you for the very interesting peak behind the curtain!

I generally make it a policy to try my best to never be angry at workers who aren’t in the top 1% of income distribution. Usually problems like this arise because corporate has bad policies which result in workers unable to adequately address the situation.

It shouldn’t be up to the customer to police this. The CFIA needs to be doing a few more spot checks to ensure compliance.

Although I suppose any fines are effectively going to get passed on to the consumers anyways. :/

It’s been a thinly veiled secret that the dentistry industry in Canada is rife with charlatans recommending and performing unbeneficial procedures. It shouldn’t be too surprising that there’s going to be an increase in scrutiny on these practices, and that it’ll result in a lot of rejected requests.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ixo0V6rNqi0

I just hope it doesn’t end up going too far in the opposite direction, and necessary procedures are cancelled or delayed.

That said, it also seems like a lot of these rejected claims are from mistakes in the filing process, and these should lessen as providers get acclimated.

Is this not illegal?

AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it’s technically incorrect to conflate the two.

Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others. “GenAI” is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.

That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it’s incorrect to call this “AI”, good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.

I’m always sad when tomatoes season ends. IMO tomatoes are the singular item with the biggest difference between grocery store and local heirloom ones. It’s like night and day.

I suppose you’re right. It’s irresponsible to let him plead stupidity for fleecing us, when it’s all very calculated.

Carney can’t decide if he wants elbows up or not. In fact, he flipflops so much, he looks like hes doing the chicken dance.

Based and mikupilled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms

Sorry, I should’ve been more specific. Its a Pentium III Coppermine-based Celeron. Its the only chip Intel sold that ran at that clock speed.