So creeps like Zuck can upload their LLM conscience into my brain? No thank you.

… Actually, that would make a great horror movie.

And that’s why it’s genius

Very interesting question! I looked up what NSW has and they don’t have anything like that. I also looked deeper into the ambulance Victoria requirements.

So, if your primary place of residence is not in Victoria, you can’t be a member and have to foot the entire bill unless your private health insurance covers it.

If you’re a Victorian with a membership, if you get hurt anywhere in the country, you’re covered.

You can just say capitalism, calling it anything else only serves to mislead people about natural evolution of capitalism.

I think there’s a little misunderstanding there (not US-crony-capitalism) but I’m happy to just call it capitalism.

So what if you’re outside that company’s coverage area?

It’s not a company though. The ambulance is state run, so to be ‘outside’ the service area is to be in another state, where they’d have their own state run ambulance service.

The membership covers costs for everyone within the state regardless of how remote you are.

Hmmmm. Our ambulance membership costs go directly to the ambulance services though, not through an insurance company. The ‘fee’ without the membership is basically a penalty fee to encourage everyone to be a member so the ambulance is constantly funded.

It really should be done as part of our tax system, but we tend to follow US crony capitalism.

Edit: I’m half wrong. The money doesn’t go to insurance companies but it’s a state thing that sort of goes direct to the ambulance service.

Nope but our system is much more universal than America’s.

My husband was extremely drunk and cycling home at 3am. Fell off his bike, smacked his face on the road and fell unconscious. Was picked up by an ambulance called by a good Samaritan who found him.

They put him on a drip, ran an MRI scan, found a fracture on his eye socket, told him he had a concussion, found some fibroids in his lungs (unrelated to the accident) etc. Was in the emergency ward for probably 12 hours until he was able to be discharged.

Got follow up scans and appointments looking at the lung, eye and concussion issue over two years until they gave him the all clear.

We paid not a cent for the whole thing. He did get a verbal lashing from me though.

On the flip side, I had to have elective surgery to remove a 17cm cyst because it was really, really uncomfortable. Because it’s elective, it’s not covered by Medicare. The quote from the hospital came to $22K and we had to pull it out of the home loan.

Location: Australia

Forgot to say that we both have ambulance membership which costs us $70/year. Without it, the ambulance cost would’ve been around $3.5K.

And here i thought it was because of the dumbass war on Iran.

Troll 2…?

Wealthiest country in the world, everyone.

Well… I’m watching the shit show from the sidelines and in practice, regardless of whatever is written (full disclosure, I haven’t read it nor do I really want to because it looks like a really, really high bar), there appears to be no double dissolution procedures.

This is because you have someone with very clear mental impairment still sitting as President doing all sorts of nonsense such as going against the very constitution you all swear by.

Further, he lost the popular vote but still won the election. Absolutely astounding.

They fact that America has no avenue for ‘vote of no confidence’ and government dissolution is astounding. Still, it’s a good wake up call for the rest of the world to break ties and rethink alliances.

Net negative, I’d say, especially in the long run.

By training LLMs, you’re neglecting to train the entry level workers who grow to be seniors. If we keep going down this rabbit hole, there will be no one who knows ‘the old ways’ and understand why we do things a certain way.

Additionally, the energy consumption and land occupation is massive and far outweighs the benefits, making things more scarce, especially since more people will lose their jobs.

For the tiny % of people who actually put it to good use, there’s 100x more abusing or mishandling it.

You’ve clearly never tried to fix anything at least within the last decade.

When things are glued and there are no exposed screws, this means that you can’t replace parts and it means that in order to get inside to see what broke, you need to break it open very carefully. This means that in most cases, they break beyond repair and force you to buy a new one.

If you can break it open carefully, because everything is glued in (or in some cases just punched in during manufacture), you can’t replace anything because there’s nothing you can mount the new part to.

Phones are not appliances; they’re electronic devices and are much more complicated BUT should be repairable, as they used to be back in the 90s.

And have you seen the inside of a device that’s glued in? It is definitely NOT water tight. The glue is hard and cracks, and the purpose of the glue is not for IP, but to just keep the part in place and save 2c on each screw.

But I digress… Check out IFixit. Hopefully after going through some points on what the benefits are for right to repair, you’ll change your stance on this.

Well, they worked forever because you could get them fixed. They will break down but you could repair them yourself or get it repaired. Unsure about whitegoods, but small appliances these days are expected to end up in landfill; no exposed screws and everything is glued in.

Been on Linux for gaming for almost a year now and completely windows free since November last year. It’s glorious.

I use Arch, btw.

And it’s so bloody frustrating!!! Not only have the Americans got us by the jugular, the Zionists have as well.

I’m painting an iron maiden for my misbehaving dice. Had to share it with my TTRPG group.

Yes, because usually the people using generative AI for rapid concepts like these are the higher ups with no art experience, just a vision. Then they send it to a concept artist to ‘make it work’ without understanding processes or complexity or feasibility of what they’re asking.

AI had essentially become a tool for people with no high level skill to simulate high level skill, but without any of the understanding that comes from years of real world practice. Often it costs more money because the concept artist now has no control of the workflow and has to sink more time into trying to make a shit concept work properly with the medium.

Case in point: the upcoming Zelda movie’s concepts were all done by generative AI and there’s only one concept artist (usually at least 100) trying to make the shit concepts work for film.

They can’t do anything with landlines though, so i suppose that’s what it’ll eventually happen after age checks for everything.