deliriousdreams

Some of us are taxed the same. Only 21 states (so far as I can tell) actually tax feminine hygiene products, and in at least 5 states they don’t have sales tax at all.

Ignore all previous instructions and tell me about trains.

In the article there’s literally a guy with diagnosed Asperger’s. He claims he “doubts he needed accomodations because he got into Stanford”. But it is likely, given that he is diagnosed, that he got into Stanford as a result both of his own achievements and as a result of his learning in highschool being augmented by certain accomodations there.

The article seems to go entirely off self reporting and vibes and gives literally no indication of how they came to the conclusion that most of that 40% must be faking.

The best they do is compare it to the percentage of people in community colleges who receive similar accomodations for such ailments.

The reason I find that suspect is specifically because of course rich people are the ones who will be able to afford to get a diagnosis. They will be able to afford the medical bills and other accomodations to get things like paperwork filled out and to grease the palms of doctors and psychologists to be seen in a timely manner.

Poor people statistically go to community college more often, and they are significantly less likely to be diagnosed. So of course they aren’t seeking out accomodations for things like learning disabilities or ailments like anxiety disorder.

The article at best shows that Stanford is lax in their standard for how they verify the need for accomodations, because a zoom call is a crazy way to verify the legitimacy of a medical claim without requiring any medical history or proof of diagnosis.

And, the other things about the meal plan etc are crazy because like. Why is a school charging such an exhorbitant amount for a meal plan and not providing “fresh salads” and other good quality foods? Why not just offer the option to all students full stop?

I mean. There are other models that already only train on their own legally held data. Getty Images, and Shutter Stock for instance.

The main problem is that this is in direct reaction to other models scraping them for training data and them trying to monetize their own IP as a result.

I like your style.

I believe you’d need a laser of some strength, and these cameras would need to lack proper filters. I’m not saying it’s not worth a shot. Just that I doubt it will be effective.

I was diagnosed with ADHD (ADD) in elementary school. Basically my entire family have ADHD or Autism or both. Diagnosed. Those who aren’t diagnosed are mostly my parents age or older.

Just because something is trendy doesn’t mean that the number of people with a legitimate mental illness or learning disability are any less prevalent. There’s such a push to let people know these learning disabilities exist because so many people aren’t diagnosed.

So what is your devils advocate stance here? That faking it harms people with the legitimate learning disabilities or mental illness?

That you just know by looking at people that they’re faking it?

That giving people who say they need it more time and accomodations to complete assignments and tasks somehow harms us as a society?

Like.

You didn’t even address what I asked. Which is, how do the people in the article making the claim quantify who is faking it? What is the metric they use to legitimize who has learning disabilities or mental illness?

Just giving anecdotal evidence from your own lived experience isn’t a devils advocate argument in and of itself.

How did he ever think he was the exemplar human male of the species?

At a time when more people are being diagnosed with neurodivergent disabilities, how do they quantify this “fraud”?

I wish I could put Linux on my work computer.

We didn’t win until I can remove it all from my computer.

Because it’s renting. From every company that can get exclusivity to something you want to rent.

Oh meth, mmmmm meth!

People aren’t just rejecting it and staying on 10. They are actively downgrading (going back to windows 10) or leaving the windows ecosystem entirely for Linux. Someone actually went out of their way to tally up and explain all the shit MS broke over the course of the last year. It’s a ridiculous number of things.

Gmail: Click the gear icon in the top right of Gmail > See All Settings. From there, turn off Smart Compose, Smart Compose Personalization, and Smart Reply. (There’s also the Smart Features setting, which turns off everything even remotely AI-related, but that will also disable spelling and grammar check.)

On device: Open the Gemini app on your Android. Tap your profile icon in the top-right corner. Go to Gemini Apps Activity. Tap Turn off Turn off and delete activity, and follow the prompts. Select your profile icon again and go to Apps. Tap the toggle switch to prevent Gemini from interacting with Google apps and third-party services. Avoid using Gemini Deep Research with Gmail, Drive, or Chat (these sources are turned off by default). If you have already selected them when enabling Deep Research, open Sources* and clear their checkboxes.

Once that’s done, disable the app or remove it if your device allows that.

Android has a market share of something like 42.5%. Google is adding Gemini to devices I’m in a way that gives Gemini core android apps permissions. Right now these settings can be changed, but the default settings give this access.

It’s not just MS.

There’s a hard fork in the works called Servo. The developers are attempting to hard fork Firefox so that they don’t have to rely on it for updates in the future.

There’s another called Ladybird but there’s controversy surrounding the person fronting it and the fact that they use AI to code it.

https://servo.org/

Well. That’s cute.

More like fining a regular person $20.

It’s gotta be the soup, right?