LwL

Using them to spell out phone numbers has never been a thing here (germany) afaik. I was confused for the longest time what these words in phone numbers i see in american movies are even if I figured it's related to phone keyboards.

It gets stricter the further south you go, where people are more religious. In bavaria shops close earlier and can't sell alcohol after a certain time either. Overall the country is quite religious though, and especially historically has been extremely so. And something like a sunday where almost no one has to work isn't without benefits, so it won't just go away. Even shops being open on saturday past early afternoon was something that was only allowed in the early 2000s iirc.

Ive been on this platform for years and I don't think I've seen that ever wtf are you smoking.

God does not necessarily mean the abrahamic god. You can insert any non-falsifiable claim there.

Your views seem generally consistent though so at some point it's just a matter of subjective morality (and I do agree with your views on insects and crustaceans in agriculture actually, I'd just put llms far below either), but other AI models (such as image recognition, image/video creation) are also ANNs, so it seems to make sense to me to include those.

Not how that works. It's like saying show me the study where they prove god doesn't exist.

I think saying "it's a computer program it can't be sentient" is far too reductive as a general answer, but we know how llms work so we can pretty confidently say that they are really just word predictors. The norns from that game creature someone described in this thread seem closer to protection worthy than llms to me, and the average insect is still infinitely more complex and I don't see many people advocating for insect rights.

Language arises from complex thought, not the other way around. Language on its own can evidently emulate similar results, but since there is nothing behind that that would imply any actual feelings, I don't see a reason to give LLMs any rights.

Kann ich leider nicht so ganz glauben, weil das ja produkte sind, auf denen nicht müller steht. Wenn genug leute aufhören würden das zeug zu kaufen, würde doch bestimmt die müller-milch zuerst einbrechen.

Ich werd das alles weiterhin nach bestem wissen vermeiden aber ob das wirklich daher kommt...

I find those tiny keyboards much harder to use than my onscreen kb. I still get like 60 wpm without swipe or autocorrect or anything which is easily sufficient. Sure it's not nearly as fast as a PC kb but I can't imagine I'd be faster on a tiny physical one.

It's insulting when it's going out of your way to do it. If you only ever used they/them for everyone, it'd just be the norm. But if you call everyone who wants he, she, or they by exactly what they prefer, and neopronouns also as they, you're treating them differently.

Fwiw I both agree that fundamentally neopronouns aren't helping with overall gender perception but also that if someone prefers them I'll do my best to accomodate because it doesn't hurt me to do so.

And iirc 1 Joule is the energy required to lift 100g by 1m

Noita is a game where every time you ask yourself "i wonder what happens if I do this" the result is finding something cool.

It is brutally unforgiving and will kill you in a lot of dumb ways but it's also just really good.

They do have caning.

But yea it's surveillance and fees mostly.

Japanese loves abbreviating english loan words to two syllables (see also: remote control -> remokon, personal computer -> pasokon), so I'd suspect it was called pokemon colloquially very early and then the international branding caused it to become official.

Wikipedia seems to agree but i didn't check sources