happybadger

joined 5 years ago
[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Thankfully it hasn't made it into my workplace yet. We have a quarterly newsletter that someone tried to submit ChatGPT slop to. It was immediately identified and rejected by the rest of the horticulturists. My bosses are the kind of people who only talk about plants in Latin so there's a big institutional focus on getting the right information from primary sources and then using multiple layers of expert review.

However, we're facing massive budget shortfalls over the next few years and I doubt that will get any better if the economy crashes. Outside of installing/maintaining plants, the bulk of the job is intellectual and creative labour that the public isn't even aware of. I can absolutely see my workplace hollowing out the job and not hiring based on expertise. Instead of five people with scientific degrees debating a space for an hour, at some point it's going to be someone who hasn't seen that space feeding words they can't pronounce into an LLM that doesn't understand what space is. On paper it will look great for the metrics admins and other departments track. In practice it will immediately ratfuck everything that makes our urban forest function and drive away the really rare pool of overqualified people we have.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lingojam.com/FancyTextGenerator

There might be a better one out there. This one sometimes displays the text wonky.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

My great grandfather had the monopoly of eggs in all of China and my grandmother was super rich living in a mansion when the cultural revolution happened and communism took everything away. kitty-cri-potato

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm just as much a leftist as you, but my opinions reflect the US State Department's for 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The .45 has me disgost. That's specifically the cartridge that people buy when they want to say a 9mm is too weak for whatever combat scenario they have in mind. Some guy near me has a bumper sticker that says ".45 ACP: it's like 9mm for men". You can't be both a .45 ACP chud and a smol bean.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

You can't complain about the quality of your guns in the US. If I pissed in a circle I'd hit six gun stores. $300 and an hour later, I'd have a better weapon than any of the insurgent groups that beat the US military.

 

It's chill. You know I'm chill. All my friends say I'm wayyyyy too laid back to do something like that.