ZDL

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 hours ago

It's a pity you were banned. It prevents me from having the pleasure of blocking an obvious troll and idiot account.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 hours ago

If you've sold them your voice under the condition they can do whatever they like with it, I don't see it being unethical. You walked into it informed (presumably) and accepted the "pennies" (presumably). It may be stupid. What comes out may be shit. But it's not "unethical".

If they stole your voice, or if you had content limits that they breached, or if they're paying you less than you agreed for, then yes, it's unethical.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh for FUCK'S SAKE!

Stop playing fucking coy. FUCKING NAME your "information lookup services" that are AI powered but not LLMs.

(Hint: they're probably LLMs under the covers, and thus have all the problems that said papers are referencing. But you already know that and are just desperately clinging to the fictitious world you inhabit where "AI", as it is commonly understood to refer to today, is a good thing.)

Compassionate fucking BUDDHA are your kind fucking wearisome to deal with!

So name it. Or shut the fuck up.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, sorry. I've seen so many people say what you said unironically I reacted with my almost-boilerplate response immediately. My bad.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 24 points 5 hours ago

Someone doesn't know what a logo is for, I see.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 0 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, actually, they do. It took me literally SECONDS to find this:

And that wasn't even the one I was looking for. The one I was looking for I found about a minute later:

I guess you should have asked ChatGPT to find that for you.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

"It's shit" is different from "it's unethical".

If people want to pay for shit, let them pay for shit. They can't make me listen.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

But I guess it is “ethically” sourced as they kinda asked by making it opt out, I guess.

No.

As your mother's case shows, making it "opt out" is emphatically not the ethical choice. It is the grifter's choice because it comes invariably paired with difficult-to-find settings and explanations that sound like they come from a law book as dictated by someone simultaneously drunk and tripping balls.

The only ethical option is "opt in". This means people give informed consent (or if they don't bother to read and just click OK at least they get consented hard like they deserve). This means you have to persuade that the choice is good for them and not just for the service provider.

TL;DR: Opt-in is the way you do things without icky "I don't understand consent" vibes.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 14 hours ago

I still have two slide rules from my youth.

They were anachronisms even then, but I thought it was funny watching my fellow classmates' and teachers' faces as I solved my math problems with these aluminum things stained a bright yellow.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 23 hours ago

The 50 came from a heat wave here in Wuhan. (It routinely goes to 45 here, so 50 is a hot day surrounded by pavement in the sun.)

The -50 came from living in the high arctic. One day only, ever. But -40 was pretty normal.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

And in the context of pools, "0.5" is a thing if it really bugs you.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“The Weather” is rarely below -17C and rarely above 37C: 0F to 100F

Tell me you've lived in very narrow portions of the world.

While obviously I've never hit 100°C in weather, I have hit 50.

In both directions from 0.

 

Technically this doesn't really count as an obscure instrument where I live, but I suspect there are very few people outside of here who know it. These are stone chimes that date back to "scary-antiquity" times (at least 2500 years and likely more). The set being played is a reproduction of the set found in the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng currently sitting on display in the Hubei Provincial Museum.

As is usual when describing some of the odder musical instruments here, I use the "it's like … but" formulation.

It's like a xylophone, but arranged sideways, and also suspended on wires or thin ropes (depending on which era), oh, yeah, and the sounding plates are made of stone.

 

When he struggles to reach across the board to move his chariot, I lose the plot.

 

 

… that everybody who confuses correlation with causation winds up dying.

 

 

I'm not joking …

… but he is.

 

…but we can do better!

 

So when they return to port they can just Scandinavian.

explanation if needed"scan the navy in"

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