Yeah, apparently a site admin blocked over 300K users for not being fond of AI.

Because that's a highly professional way to run things...

By "all Australians" she means "all Australians (that I give a shit about)".

I think a block would be more in order than a reply to that racist knob

I don't live in Sydney. I tried it and hated it and ended up back in Perth.

But the idea you can solve housing by driving people to uproot their lives is unfair and unhelpful.

In short, because people who live in Sydney, who's work is in Sydney, who's friends and family are in Sydney, who's identity is mixed up with Sydney shouldn't have to move to Newcastle, Nowra, Coffs Harbour, Orange or Dubbo?

"Move to the regions" is a cheap and nasty non-answer to the problem.

Well they're right about some cultures being dysfunctional.

The thing is that the main dysfunctional one is the tech-bro culture that they're the driving forces for.

My wife has a theory about boys - we have all boys - that they all tell their younger brothers the (stupid) things they haven't got around to doing yet.

They should also require 10 years of security and system updates.

Not a West Australian though.

Self-governing feudal tech bro demenses you mean?

We live on your land, I hope I can be grateful enough that you share it with us.

I once worked with a guy who "didn't do trains" (station was 200m from office). It wasn't he was car brained (he'd ride a bike to work regularly), but he thought trains had to be gross.

Then he got jury duty, and had to catch a train for a week. The following week he got to work by train.

"Explain to Claude grammar and semantics".

So add the new programming language to the training set, right?

LLMs can only produce derivatives of their training set.

Of course, a much better use off all that renewable energy would be to mitigate climate change, rather than power AI slop.

You didn't watch last year's Eagles.

Three quarter time leads weren't that uncommon last year. Think would have won 6-8 games had there not been a last quarter.

Well that explains all the problems then.

The sheer ubiquity of Milo in Singapore and Malaysia surprised me. Like seeing it on a Maccas menu or in the food court at Legoland or ... well pretty much everywhere.

So much more than here in Australia.

I can't imagine anything worse than being in an office full of people attempting to train bonkers AIs by talking to them.

It sucks enough when the person next to you has to do a remote meeting.

That would have been a great nickname for Jetstar Asia.

Historically most One Nation MPs are just future independents anyway.

I always want to know why the US has to change perfectly good names though. It's properly the Great British Bake Off - as the hosts will say regularly.

It is indeed really calm and easy to watch. Also the Great Australian Bake Off variant, not quite as good, but still good.

That bunny will not be white in a few years time after a thousand more cuddles. But it will be very, very loved.

(I just look at my kids' toy bunnies - and Quacky the Duck of course - and compare them to pictures of them as new toys)

It's by far the *most* stupid way to write a date.

Either you go most to least or least to most significant - so y/m/d or d/m/y, but the US m/d/y system - like most backward anachronisms the US holds on to (ie imperial measurements) - is incredibly stupid.

(The best date format is yyyy-MM-dd)

They're more like taking the bin out. You do that, but more rubbish just arrives.

Someone should tell Karl that if an Australian soldier is getting away with committing fucking war crimes, that he's letting you and us, and the country down way more than if he faces the consequences of his actions.

Even if he is the product of an "elite" private school.

We've got to stop saying that someone's worth is their available funds. We need a different term for how much money someone has than worth.

Musk has no worth, despite all the money he has.

That's harsh on my 7 year old.

Perhaps they should call Obama in to see what he could sort out

This will one day be seen as the first victory of the Butlerian Jihad.

What would be a really good idea would be to remove the core reliance on this system working, and abolish "mutual obligations".