Any major housing crash will probably affect your ability to purchase a home. The real solution is laws limiting property investment combined with building new, dense housing in areas that already have services.

“It took getting freaky for life to get freaky” was right there…

LLMs are trained to do one thing: produce statistically likely sequences of tokens given a certain context. This won’t do much even to poison the well, because we already have models that would be able to clean this up.

Far more damaging is the proliferation and repetition of false facts that appear on the surface to be genuine.

Consider the kinds of mistakes AI makes: it hallucinates probable sounding nonsense. That’s the kind of mistake you can lure an LLM into doing more of.

I assume it’s from Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’?

Your impression of a city is probably skewed by how you interact with it. If you drive in, pay for parking, go to events or attractions, eat out, etc. it all adds up. But that’s not necessarily the experience of someone who lives in a city. They’re living their life, not sightseeing.

I think the first option.

AI eat your heart out. This is perfect.

This is the most ignorant take I’ve heard in a long time, so congrats on that I guess. Walkable towns are in some ways easier than walkable cities. A city you need to be walkable across the entire city, over and over again, a town just needs to do it once. Anyway, I live in a walkable small town. One of several I’ve lived in. It’s great.

Hear me out: A cool shop or company should donate some pittance of every purchase to a good trans focused non profit and then have the signage “Make every transaction a trans action”

I mean, “an historic” is perfectly fine. You’re embarrassing yourself here. For a long time, in many accents, the first “h” was not pronounced in words like historic, meaning it was preferred to use “an”. As the “h” began being said, most people shifted to “a historic”, but “an historic” remains perfectly correct and fine.

Oh? https://en.wikipedia.org/...

Unfortunately it’s easier said than done. They clamped down on immigration a few years back (because they were letting in a bunch of people while also not doing anything about the housing market and got understandable blowback).

Also I’ll point out that Canada is only one (goose) step behind the USA, and may not stay safe. There are a lot of fascists and bigots here too.

You remember how weird and scary and paranoid everything was in the early days of the pandemic? That’s a bit what it was like on/after 9/11. It was a shock to the entire nation, and the world suddenly felt uncertain in a way it hadn’t on 9/10.

You’re contextualizig the attack in terms of loss of life, numbers, but what you’re missing is the vibe of the thing.

lol, spoken like somebody who has never actually tried to speak English in Germany. As a shameful monoglot, I have had occasion to test the limits of English understanding in a variety of countries, and Germany has pretty low rates of English speakers in my personal experience. The Netherlands on the other hand…

Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.

Like what? I’d love to know more.

EVtopia just sounds like an electric car website to me

They should move the Surrounded By Psycopaths book on the lower shelf to be in the middle of these F*CK books

Yeah I’m gonna need examples. I read a shit ton of science fiction and can’t recall having encountered this.

You should read up on the Silurian Hypothesis. It’s a fun scientific paper asking whether, if another intelligent species had arisen on Earth in deep time, we would be able to detect it. One of the most promising theoretical signals might be unexplained carbon spikes…. Very little other evidence could be expected to endure. No reason to believe it’s true, hard to prove a negative, etc etc, but it’s fun to think about.