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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't know a lot of trans people.

Do they usually pick the opposite-gender-version of their birth name? Seems like many do not.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 15 points 2 days ago

I think this is just a form of propaganda. If you really want a name then maybe Ad Nauseum.

Tricky to moderate. You need to identify, and have objective evidence of, a pattern of behaviour from a user. It needs to be enough that an independent ambivalent third party would agree that the intent is propaganda. I think this is kinda impossible honestly.

If its a small ~~fiefdom~~ community, just ban them.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 11 points 2 days ago

Neither of these really apply?

The big lie refers to a very big lie, but OP is talking about something subtle.

A gish gallop refers to many lies, such that an opponent cant refute all of them, but OP is talking about one lie.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 8 points 3 days ago

USA is an obvious first choice for many.

I don't really think that this is true at all.

In the past the USA might have been appealing because there was real opportunity. If you show up, and work hard, there's a good life in a stable environment for your kids and their kids. Those financial opportunities don't seem to exist anymore, and the political and social environment seems... undesirable for migrants.

Presently the USA might be desirable for people already in the Americas because you can get there, and the currency exchange is favorable.

I wouldn't want to make generalisations about Africa. There might be some locations on the continent that would be suitable, but IDK about that. You certainly wouldn't want to be wealthier than the local population, because that dynamic wouldn't continue very long.

I don't think there's a sensible answer to OP's question. I imagine that only a minority group from Europe could really require 'asylum' (like Jewish people during WWII), and the answer depends on the nature of whichever group is seeking asylum.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 4 points 3 days ago

These concerns have been raised by clans, tribes, cities, and countries in receipt of migrants since the dawn of time.

You're correct that migration needs to be balanced against the ability of the services and existing resources to support migrants, while acknowledging that migrants bring with them needed skills and investment.

You're probably also correct regarding the stability of housing and cost of living. That's how things are in Australia at present in any case.

However, asylum is a special class of migration. You're not accepting migrants because you want them, but because they will face persecution if you don't. If a stream of Europeans arrived on Canada's shores by boat, and they faced imprisonment on undue punishment if you returned them, would you provide them shelter?

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 3 days ago

Define love.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 4 days ago

My "company" is tiny, and only employs myself 1 colleague, and an assistant. We're accountants.

We self host some models from huggingface.

We don't really use these as part of any established workflow. Thinking of some examples ...

This week my colleague used a model to prep a simple contract between herself and her daughter where by her daughter would perform whatever chores and she would pay for cello lessons.

My assistant used an AI thing to parse some scanned bank statements, so this one is work related. The alternative is bashing out the dates, descriptions, and amounts manually. Using traditional OCR for this purpose doesn't really save any time because hunting down all the mistakes and missed decimal places takes a lot of effort. Parsing this way takes about a third of the time, and it's less mentally taxing. However, this isn't a task we regularly perform because obviously in the vast majority of cases we can get the data instead of printed statements.

I was trying to think the proper term for an english word which has evolved from some phrase or whatever, like "stearing board" became "starboard". The Gen AI suggested portmanteau, but I actually think there's a better word I just haven't remembered yet.

I had it create a bash one liner to extract a specific section from a README.md.

I asked it to explain the method of action of diazepam.

My feelings about AI are that it's pretty great for specific niche tasks like this. Like the bash one liner. It took 30 seconds to ask and I got an immediate, working solution. Without Gen AI I just wouldn't be able to grep whatever section from a README - not exactly a life changing super power, but a small improvement to whatever project I was working on.

In terms of our ability to do our work and deliver results for clients, it's a 10% bump to efficiency and productivity when used correctly. Gen AI is not going to put us out of a job.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 4 days ago

My point is, bots on reddit are farming karma. They're not doing that here.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Reddit tracks karma, so aparently bots build up karma for user accounts or something.

Lemmy doesn't do that.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 7 points 5 days ago

I would add to this that there is significant controversy around the ideological alignment of the lemmy developers, and most people would find the political leanings of the instances they're associated with to be... unpalatable.

I'll leave you to undertake that journey of discovery for yourself, suffice to say that freedom of speech is particularly limited on those instances.

Other software operates in the fediverse and is interoperable with lemmy. For example, myself and the commenter you replied to are registered with piefed servers, while this post is on a lemmy server.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 5 days ago

This is the US import origins, according to OEC World, the source of the data in your map.

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China may not be the US biggest trading partner, but it's not far off.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 5 days ago

For profit companies already run reactors on dry land, which don't move, and are heavily regulated and constantly observed.

Obviously, the risk profile is vastly different when you put the reactor on a boat.

Putting them on a boat is not well understood. Australia just doesn't have personnel experienced with any kind of reactor. We don't have a nuclear industry. It's not as simple as plonking a box named "reactor" on the boat and calling it a day.

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