Voting them out is Plan B. Plan A is lobbying them (e.g. calls, emails) because it’s so much easier than Plan B. Sure, if they keep ignoring you, by all means, vote their asses out, but that is a task that is so much bigger than simply calling their office.

Call your representatives. Or email them.

Seems like the money is at its back so its going to happen,

Well, there’s certainly a lot of money being spent to make you believe this. I’m not buying it. Every day, dislike of AI grows. Meanwhile, AI companies still aren’t turning a profit. If the AI companies win, they’ll be in control of a public utility that many businesses will need to survive.

don’t understand why the atheist isn’t doing drugs and having rampant sex,

I would argue that you can do both of those things and still be morally right as long as it’s all safe and consenting.

I think that Christians over-estimate how morally bankrupt they would be without Christianity, because they believe that every human is the worst without Jesus. At least that’s what they tell me.

Atheists use whatever their morality tells them they should do. There’s a complex interplay of empathy, conscience, whatever moral codes they’ve picked up from their family, their education, and/or society at large. Hopefully, it’s all informed by logic and reason, but just like everything else we do it’s driven by emotion.

Quite a bit more than mildly infuriating.

Oh, they provide sources. At least, some of them do. It’s just that the sources don’t always back them up. It’s going to gin up sources whether it’s correct or not, because that’s what it’s programmed to do.

That isn’t the point. Why are you asking the question in the first place? If you don’t care whether the answer is true or not, you could just make up your own answer and save yourself some typing.

This is the argument that cigarette companies used for a long time to avoid accountability. It wasn’t the fault of the cigarettes. It’s all those contributing factors.

I saw a lot of that during lockdown. “She didn’t die from COVID! She died of pneumonia!” Wow, a lot of people are dying from pneumonia this year! That isn’t normal, is it?

I still can’t wrap my head around this. If you don’t care whether or not the answer is true, why even bother asking in the first place?

It doesn’t matter how trivial the question is. If it’s worth asking, I want the right answer. If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t ask!

If you run a local model, you don’t have to pay for tokens.

It isn’t intelligence, though.

i’m sure those summaries arent generated every time

Why? I’m not sure what you mean. If you re-run your search with the same terms, you get a different response.

When you build from source, how do you pull in the dependency tree?

What’s more important is impressing upon people how configurable Linux is. If your first distro was a bad experience, try a second distro. Try a third! Try a different DE. Switch from GNOME to KDE.

The reason I started using Arch is because I got tired of waiting (and waiting and waiting and waiting) for upgrades to hit the repos. That’s if the software was even available in the repos in the first place (and many times it wasn’t).

When I tried out Arch, it was like a breath of fresh air. Not only did it have the latest versions of everything, almost every program was available somehow (either official or from AUR).

Yes, it does break sometimes. That’s why Garuda takes a snapshot of your system when you upgrade. If your system breaks, you can roll back to a previous working version. I haven’t had Garuda break in years, though.

No. I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Ungoogled Chromium works, too.

Because some sites don’t work unless you have Chrome.

How about we ban AI?