🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

“All your base are belong to us” and the monologue about the Magic / More Magic toggle.

That’s a whole load of whataboutism bullshit.

if you’re wanting to wash it at home,

The AI should absolutely understand the implication that you want to wash your car at the car wash, not at home. The prompt is clear about that, even though it is implied.

“I want a hamburger. McDonald’s is three miles from me and Wendy’s is five miles. Which is the cheaper place to get a burger from when you consider the distance to each?” is not an exact analogy, but the point is that it should be ABSOLUTELY clear that you do not wish to make your own hamburger. Any response that discusses that as an option is ridiculout, unless maybe it’s one of those options-at-the-end thing LLMs love to do - but it has no part of the main answer at all.

You have to have the car there no matter what type of car wash it is.

If the car wash is some distance “away”, it means neither you nor the car is at it. Any attendant is not going to walk off-property to retreive your car, especially when most of them you drive up for service. Which is rather the point.

I’m not afraid to say that it took me a sec. My brain went “short distance. Walk or drive?” and skipped over the car wash bit at first. Then I laughed because I quickly realized the idiocy. :shrug:

Yes, except it’s not cute, nor really a game. Just stupidity. But otherwise, you’re right :)

at least a decade…

You’re not wrong, but even this article mentions a news article from 1991… heh

Excuse me, but I"ve been waiting here to check out for fifteen seconds. I want your manager!

The other three in the car including his sister said nothing about anything suspicious, and they surely would have.

And if you believe that “someone is keeping them quiet”, then all bets are off and nothing anyone says matters. :shrug:

You ain’t wrong, although it’s just hard to fight against the momentum. But I’ve found it better to try and answer what’s wrong rather than just RTFM^[1] as it seems to help a little. Sometimes. But not always. It’s human nature. heh

It’s not like it’s always wrong per se… like in this case one of the witnesses to an ICE shooting was killing in a crash and lots of the comments are about how it wasn’t an accident. But the article mentioned three other people in the car including the guy’s sister - and it was reported they took a highway exit too fast. Based on the time… I’d read “drunk” between the lines, though that wasn’t mentioned - but importantly: If it was suspicious, why didn’t any of the three survivors mention anything out of the ordinary?

But I agree that it would be suspicious… if we didn’t already have people who would be inclined to speak up not saying anything was out of the ordinary.

So I get the comments - except they should have RTFM.

But that’s just one example from today. It happens a lot, but most of the time people here seem to post decently thoughtful posts. And we have very few fascists. Sooooo, that’s nice. heh

That used to be the case, but the AI moderation is really going stupid. I posted elsewhere about what got me permabanned. It’s bullshit.

That said, you are still decently correct. A lot of people get legitimate bans. But reddit’s AI moderation has also gone off the deep end.

If it helps, I’m the “father” of /r/nottheonion, was a default mod, hung out with admins in IRC back in the day… not that it makes me super awesome, but I’m also not totally a ‘random’ guy. heh

One of the site founders, and a “Libertarian”.

Yep, that’s the phrase that got one of my accounts banned a while back.

I now cannot even make an account for longer than a few hours before it’s scrubbed.

I had that happen for a bit, but I gave it some time and eventually was able to. I suspect they might look at some browser/IP things that expire with enough time. May take a few months, though. For a few months, any account I made using different devices, completely new email address, new browser, whatever - all banned. But then a few months ago I made one and it survived. Well, until now.

The only real issue I’ve seen so far is that you’ll get a thread where people don’t read the damn article and someone will say something that we all might agree with if it weren’t DIRECTLY OPPOSED TO THE ARTICLE and people jump on the bandwagon.

Getting downvotes for pointing out something that everyone SHOULD have seen is just irritating. But whatever. I move on from those threads and idiots can fuck off. heh.

(I know I’m wrong about many things, but I’m talking about literally people not reading the article and posting something stupid)

I just picked up another permanent ban in one of the Ukraine subreddits on a post that showed a Russian solder walking with a crutch. Someone was pointing out hat it looked like he was faking it. I replied something like “Well, a drone will probably sort things about either way”. Apparently this is supporting violence now.

I’ve been on reddit since 2009. The place sure has gone fucking downhill. It was bad enough in the_donald days when the admins went so far out of their way and up their own butt to accommodate those fascists, but now this fucking AI moderation is just stupid.

I’ve lost about three accounts in the past year or two because things that used to be well within the norms are now considered harrassment. I’m fine with polite conversation, but jesus fucking christ they have gone absolutely overboard.

I’m waiting a couple of days before I create a new account, and again backing off my participation there - at this point to just my local city subreddit and one other that I was moderating. But that’s it. Fuck the rest of reddit.