I think that’s exactly where they were aiming with the small finger stuff. They want kids in factories again.

Agreed, why just the penny, eliminate the whole decimal place.

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Oof. My heart goes out to you. Thank you for your service.

Yeah, that’s usually their “right” as a parent to enforce what does / doesn’t get taught in their school.

As a parent, this trend in offloading all parental responsibilities onto the people around us is infuriating. Guns, cars, drugs, porn, why is any of this an issue, just fucking parent.

Any man who fits those is too busy getting laid non stop.

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Safe and makes you 2 - 5% stupider are different things. I never claimed it’s unsafe.

“Measurable” is the beast here. IQ typically has to drop 20 - 30 points on average to be measurable. So it’s probable that the current Flouride levels of municipal water are dropping IQs by say 10 points on average.

This is all so fucking stupid!

Flouride provides unarguable protection from cavities. To do so it needs to come into contact with teeth.

Flouride also (very likely) has brain health implications. So you should not swallow it.

Obvious solution! : what every dentist already does, swish some flouride or hold it against your teeth, then spit it all out.

Our politicians who want to put it in, and keep it in the water can go right to hell for brain poisoning our youth.

Jokes on you, I’d pay $1 for the lot.

I had a paycheck bounce once. Bank of America retroactively applied a $30 fee to every transaction I had made in the three days since depositing it. My balance went from like $800 to -$2000 instantly.

They’re super conservative. I rode just once in one. There was a parked ambulance down a side street about 30 feet with it’s lights one while paramedics helped someone. The car wouldn’t drive forward through the intersection. It just detected the lights and froze. I had to get out and walk. If we all drove that conservatively we’d also have less accidents and congest the city to undrivability.

This is hard to quantify. I use them constantly throughout my work day now.

Are they smarter than me? I’m not sure. Haven’t thought too much about it.

What they certainly are, and by a long shot, is faster. Given a set of data, I could analyze it and pull out insights and conclusions. It might take me a week or a month depending on the size and breadth of the data set. An LLM can pull out insights and conclusions in seconds.

I can read error stacks coming from my code, but before I’ve even read the first few lines the LLM has ingested all of them, checked the code, and reached a conclusion about the necessary fix. Is it right, optimal, and avoid creating other bugs? Like 75% at this point. I can coax it, interate on the solution my self, or do it entirely myself with the understanding of the bug that it granted me. This same bug might have taken hours to figure out myself.

My point is, I’m not sure how to compare smarter vs orders of magnitude faster.

And can reproduce the whole business in a weekend with the help of AI. There are no moats anymore.

And that there’s no carrot on a stick, no incentive you can lie about that you’re rehabilitating these folks. There is absolutely no rehabilitation for people this far gone. They are nothing but a behemoth of a burden.

I mean, he shot his own mother dead. There’s no winners here.

Probably in solitary for his own protection until he’s 18