BluesF

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[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Antisemitism has be co-opted and applied to any and all criticism of Israel, as opposed to it's previous meaning, hatred of Jews/Judaism. This isn't strictly because the meaning of the word is being used differently as much as it is that proponents of Israel like to conflate Israel with all of Judaism, or even more broadly with all Jews (as an ethnic group as opposed to a religious one). Since Israel takes any criticism to be hatred, the inevitable consequence is that criticism of Israel becomes antisemitism. I'm splitting hairs here and probably making things more complicated than they need to be... But hopefully you understand what I'm getting at.

Incidentally, even in its more broadly accepted definition "antisemitism" itself is a bit of an etymological oddity, because "Semites", or the Semitic people, are both Jews, Arabs and others... Judaeophobia is an alternative that is unquestionably specific to Jews/Judaism.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The tie is the most egregious part, if you zoom in the pattern makes no sense at all.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately most English speakers don't really understand the reasons we use a lot of the weirder cases & tenses. I don't know if the same is true when learning German as a first language, but certainly in English most people just learn past/present/future and that's about it... You don't really get into the nitty gritty around situations like "I had intended to go to the pub later that day", i.e. speaking about the future from the perspective of the past.

Anyway, in the case of was/were I will do my best with an acknowledgement that I am no expert despite being fluent in the damn language.

Was/were are usually singular/plural words that take you into the past continuous rather than simple past - consider "I worked" vs "I was working", "we worked" vs "we were working". The former of each pair implies that the work was a distinct event while the latter implies it was ongoing (I used it again there with "was ongoing").

The "subjunctive mood", mentioned in the title is about hypotheticals, e.g. "If I were you, I would go to the park today", "I wish I were taller", . In the subjunctive the verb remains in its infinitive form, which in this case is "were".

To be completely honest though.... "I wish I were never born" might be grammatically correct, but to my ear it sounds quite old fashioned, like something a Jane Austen character might say. I don't think the majority of people would blink an eye if you said "was".

There's also "had been" and "would have" to consider... "If I had been taller everyone would have thought I was pretty", this is also a hypothetical but honestly I don't know what the case/tense we're using here is... I'll just have to leave you with that :D

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just curious, does the LLM generate a text prompt for the image model, or is there a deeper integration at the embedding level/something else?

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a motte-and-bailey argument, in fact. The whole purpose of the "skill based hiring" argument is to serve as a comfortable retreat from the more controversial "black people can't fly planes".

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The company I work for (we make scientific instruments mostly) has been pushing hard to get us to use AI literally anywhere we can. Every time you talk to IT about a project they come back with 10 proposals for how to add AI to it. It's a nightmare.

I got an email from a supplier today that acknowledged that "76% of CFOs believe AI will be a game-changer, [but] 86% say it still hasn't delivered mean value. Ths issue isn't the technology-it's the foundation it's built on."

Like, come on, no it isn't. The technology is not ready for the kind of applications it's being used for. It makes a half decent search engine alternative, if you're OK with taking care not to trust every word it says it can be quite good at identifying things from descriptions and finding obscure stuf... But otherwise until the hallucination problem is solved it's just not ready for large scale use.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I know the topic at hand is not funny but the image of huge, bouncy, floaty syrofoam buildings being dropped rom the air onto Gaza is very funny to me.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well hopefully after you use the bidet there won't be any shit there lol, but no. The last few times I used a bidet there was TP as well, you just dab yourself dry with a little bit and put it in a bin. Less paper, not in the sewer, but you get a dry arse. Best of both worlds.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Alternatively you could dry yourself afterwards.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"I suffered through it, so now it's your turn" - some strawman I made up

 

As is, once a post is solved it's revealed in the name, but this means you can't then try to guess already solved posts - only new ones. If we reveal the answer in a spoiler in the post body instead, the sub's historical posts will remain playable for new players to practice.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by BluesF@lemmy.world to c/askouija@lemmy.world
 

Tricky to explain exactly. Sometimes the comment button goes straight to adding a new comment rather than the post's comments. To reach the comments I have to press it again. But because it's not consistent sometimes I have to press it several times to reach the actual comments.

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