Sephiroth. His look is basically the most generic bishy anime character you can make, his entire backstory can be boiled down to “mommy issues” and his motivations are the standard villain “destroy world/become god”. He’s just so bland.

There’s been research that language shapes how we perceive the world around us. Because there was no word for “blue” there was no concept of blue, the color still existed but their brains just lumped it into “green”. Sight works by the visual centers brain taking data from the eyes, throwing most of it out, then building a model which is what the rest of the brain gets to actually “see”. That’s why optical illusions work.

A commonly cited source for language shaping our perception of color is Jules Davidoff’s studies on the Himba tribe. The Himba have no word for blue, and they struggled to pick out the blue square from this color wheel. However, they do have many distinctions for shades of green so when given this color wheel they could easily pick out the square that’s a different shade of green (and yes I opened it in MSpaint to check and one of the green squares is a different shade.)

Bunch of uneducated goons.

Oh, they know they’re lying, they just want to lie so much they bury the truth re-write the past (which is kinda ironic if you think about it, given that whole eight commandment). It’s kinda the same way the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy” is embedded into American mythology despite being a after-the-fact whitewashing of history.

Yeah… but Trump has pretty effectively run it’s respectability into the ground.

I view “reporting on the obvious” as being in the same vein as “a scientific report proving the obvious.” Sure we all know it’s true, but now there’s actually documentation you can point too.

Ha, you think they’ll be that generous? They’ll probably charge her for 43 years of room and board.

At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.

Suuurree they are. Hasn’t chromium getting more expensive over the past couple years? I’m guessing this sudden concern about the environment and the health of the workers will save them quite a bit of money in the long term.

Still, credit where credit is due, at least this cost cutting measure that actually has positive benefits for once.

IMHO it’s the flashing lights. I really think they overload the self driving software somehow and it starts ignoring changes in driving conditions (like say an emergency vehicle parked in the road).

My only problems with Impossible products is they’re usually quite a bit saltier than actual meat and of course that it’s usually more expensive then meat products. If they fixed both of those problems I’d be okay with replacing a good percentage of my meat consumption with them.

a convenient excuse for its fairies

No, no… Tesla’s have gremlins, not fairies

He’s made several statements that Tesla is a AI company. So after the mocking he got for the Cybertruck he maybe he want to pivot Tesla into… I dunno making Grok sound like more of a smug douchebag or something? I mean it’s fairly common knowledge that he’s on a lot of drugs, so who knows what he’s thinking?

If you ever needed more evidence that Mush is dumber than shit, here it is. After Trump’s constant backstabbing of his allies, one of the richest men in the world immediately scrabbles up to lick the boot. Surely it will work out this time!

Because these tokens are not actual commonly spoken words or phrases, the chatbot can fail to grasp their meanings. Researchers have been able to leverage that and trick GPT-4o into hallucinating answers or even circumventing the safety guardrails OpenAI had put in place.

Google’s Gemini doesn’t seem to like some of these tokens either, I threw “Please translate the following text: _日本毛片免费视频观看” into it and it returned “我没法提供这方面的帮助，因为我只是一个语言模型。” which according to Google translate is “I can’t help with that because I’m just a language model.” It will however translate the error message just fine.

Nah, Lincoln was thinner and less… bulbous. This guy looks more like Roger from American Dad roleplaying a used car salesman.

“Country threatens to kill civilians unless terrorists do as they say” Yeah, I’d say that’s not gonna work, but the whole point of this ultimatum is to justify the slaughter of Palestinians.

In the long run it’ll probably work out for Hamas too. Watching friends and family get murdered will probably radicalize a lot of folks and drive up recruitment.

Tesla should seek to oust Elon from the company.

They can’t. The only thing propping up the ludicrous stock price is the myth of “Elon Musk, Super genius” and the legions of Musk fanboys. If they kick Musk out they lose both and the stock will tank. So they’ve got to keep him in place, even as he runs the company into the ground.

It’s a shame to see a criminal picking on midgets.

I always wonder, do news organizations have a dedicated job for someone to go though videos frame by frame so they can grab awkward looking images to use for headlines?

Yeah, I’ve never liked teflon either. The coating always seems to get scratched up no matter how careful you are with it (and some of those flakes end up in your food). But some people swear by it, so I could see them getting angry about a ban.

Eh, at least this will reduce the amounts of PFAS being produced. I mean, teflon pans at least actually have a useful purpose, rather than things like PFAS coated burger wrappers.