It’s important not to think about the transporter too much. The transporter should be able to make everyone immortal and cure any disease. But they don’t tend to use it for that for some reason.

Yeah, except that new Tuvix won’t want to die either!

I want to see the chaos Janeway solution.

Dilemma: Tuvix doesn’t want to die. He can do both Neelix’s and Tuvok’s jobs, but he simply doesn’t have time for both, and Janeway is in a survival situation. She needs them both.

Solution? Just Tom Riker Tuvix! We’ll just have two Tuvixes!

Though honestly, this comic is genuinely beautiful, a real love letter to TNG/DS9/VGR era Trek.

You might find some inspiration in this desk I built.

Ah, lemmy.ml.

“Speak the Devil’s name and he shall appear.” :D

And even if they do succeed in producing something useful. If you become dependent on a megacorp’s AI to do your job, why shouldn’t they charge you half your salary for the privilege?

(as a reverse dictionary, for example)

Thanks for putting a name on that! That’s actually one of the few useful purposes I’ve found for LLMs. Sometimes you know or deduce that some thing, device, or technique must exist. The knowledge of this thing is out there, but you simply don’t know the term to search for. IMO, this is actually one of the killer features of LLMs. It works well because whatever the LLM is outputting is simply and instantly verifiable. You can describe the characteristics of something to the LLM and ask it what thing has those characteristics. Then once you have a possible name, you then look that name up in a reliable source and confirm it. Sometimes the biggest hurdle to figuring something out is just learning the name of a thing. And I’ve found LLMs very useful as a reverse dictionary. Thanks for putting a name on it!

Rational discussion on my Lemmy? No way.

Here. Let me make you feel more at home. Obviously all the AI data centers should be nationalized and the owners of OpenAI sent to gulags. The data centers will be requisitioned by a new state central planning committee for purposes of economic management. /s

You mean in how magnificent they are?

The problem for OpenAI and their ilk is that the actual legitimate uses of LLMs are so few and niche that they cannot hope to pay for the immense cost of developing and running these systems. Like, cool. Sure I can use copilot to generate derivative meme images, but what’s that actually worth to me monetarily? I’m not going to subscribe to a monthly service just to access a tool for shit posting.

Only left it twice!

Oh, and the fun kind!

Yes. And so did every other leftist you see on here talking about the Biden/Kamala genocide problem. But no matter how many times folks like you are reminded of this, y’all just keep going on and pretending otherwise.

I mean, you could inject say, 6 mg of estradiol enanthate weekly. That would produce dry climax for most people. Though, there may be some…undesirable side effects, depending on your perspective…

I mean you could take a 6 mg injection of estradiol enanthate weekly. That would produce the effects you want. Though…it…may also have some other effects…but anything’s work it for a dry climax, right? 😈 😆

/s for the dense.

Don’t be rude. Don’t accuse others of wanting a negative outcome. Don’t assume how people voted, because you just assumed wrong.

Again, in making such decisions, all we can judge by is the evidence in front of our eyes. I observe:

1. Liberal parties currently in power in Anglo countries are offering no meaningful resistance to Israel. None have stopped weapons shipments.

2. There is broad refusal among the Democratic centrists, who Kamala is a firm member, to endorse Mamdani, primarily due to his stance on Israel.

3. A continuation among Democratic party leaders to hold the line on Israel. Congressional Democrats haven’t used what limited leverage they do have to slow the flow of weapons to Israel at all.

4. A complete silence on Kamala since the election on the Israel issue. She’s still a very influential voice in the party, and she still has political aspirations. She now doesn’t even have the Biden admin keeping her on a short leash.

I am a scientist. I try to make judgments based on what I can directly observe. The default stance of centrist Democrats and of every liberal government in the Anglosphere has been continued unconditional support of Israel, even to today. And since Kamala hasn’t stated anything to the contrary, the median observable behavior of politicians like herself is the best predictor we have of how she would have behaved as president. If you take a dispassionate evidence-based view of the issue, it’s pretty clear that there would be no difference in the Gaza outcome between Kamala and Trump. Their policies are both 100% full support of the Israeli regime. Trump is just a lot more crass and cruel about it. Kamala virtue signals, Trump vice signals. But in terms of actual policy outcomes, their Israel policies are identical.

Over a hundred thousand Gazans were murdered on Joe Biden’s watch. That isn’t propaganda, that’s simple fact.

The best predictor we have of how Harris’s government would behave is Harris’s own words and the actions of the labor government in the UK. Both of them are indistinguishable from Trump’s current policies. Remember, it was the Biden administration that started the ethnic cleansing plan.

But something tells me you’ll respond how Democrats usually respond. Literally sticking your fingers in your ears.

No. This thread is just full of guys who don’t understand how female anatomy works.

This is why it’s now becoming standard design practice in the design of restrooms for large public buildings to simply build the women’s restroom larger than the men’s. This is really the classic “equality vs. equity.” Equality means building both restrooms the same size. Equity means realizing that to deliver the same level of service - the same average wait time, the women’s restrooms probably should just be built larger and with more total stalls. So you build out your restrooms with the number of stalls in the women’s room being about 40% or so greater than the total number of stalls and urinals in the men’s.