The Biden Administration on Thursday announced it is setting new policy that will allow it to seize patents for medicines developed with government funding if it believes their prices are too high....
The issue is that there is not always a physical element to addiction. You can become addicted to anything that gives you a positive dopamine boost. It’s why porn and food can become addictive to people.
I get what you’re going for here but almost anything can be considered a “drug” if we are just using addictive and bad for you as the qualifiers. Even drinking too much water can kill you.
An extremely well thought out and researched rebuttal. I have nothing further to say other than I appreciate you sharing your opinion. I still slightly disagree overall but I value the very strong points you bought to the table here. Very refreshing.
Thank you all who have supported my channel so far. I finally got 360 subscribers. Which to many is not a big feat. Considering all I’ve been through I’m lucky to be around to make videos at all. I got my first affiliate offer in my email today.
I’m sure thousands of these are sent out every day but this put a big smile on my face. I’m not going to accept their offer but I’m happy to have even been considered as all.
Come check me out if you haven’t already. I do mostly Linux, gaming and open source application show cases!
I have a question. Liking animalistic characters that have fur makes you a furry but what if you’re only attracted to lizards? Is it its own thing or does it nest somewhere under the furry fetish in general?
I felt a little sad and I totally get this feeling while reading this. One of the best parts of Reddit was the small community I left. I’ve found my experience on the Fediverse to be really toxic unfortunately.
Some people like yourself are happy to contribute but get almost no attention to the awesome contributions. I’m still a fan of that emoji script you made before.
The others though? I’ve gotten into some of the worst arguments I’ve ever had on the internet here. To the point that I attempted to delete my kBin account only to find that it wasn’t actually possible yet. Guess Ernest needs to roll that out.
So I mostly lurk these days. I’ll comment on posts with familiar users but it’s hard to even do that without getting dragged into some nonsense argument that has nothing to do with the post at hand.
Nice seeing you around friend. You’re a talented scripter and I encourage you to keep developing.
We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the...
There can be nothing new or original out of AI because all of its inputs are stolen from what already exists.
Ummm don’t humans learn exactly the same way? Pretty sure some random person wrote the textbook I read. Should I cite them every time I come go with a new idea based off of that knowledge?
Also, people steal shit all the time. I think everyone is looking for excuses to be upset.
No you won’t shill. You’d spend your money on Spotify so you can pay them to “rip their tracks”. Like hitting the record button on the tape player while listening to the radio station makes you some kind of fucking hacker.
I see through your bullshit. Why are you trying so hard to convince people you are something you clearly aren’t?
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died, his consulting firm says. He was 100. Kissinger dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China.
Can you just fuck off please? You literally try to turn every comment section into a hate thread by manufacturing edgy statements to intentionally get a rise out of people.
Cool let me check mine. Oh wait… I deleted my Spotify account because it’s entirely pointless to pay $10 a month to a service that is actively hostile towards artist and sharing the revenue they generate.
VPN > Torrent > Backup Drive > USB/MP3 player
Not only can I plug in a usb almost anywhere but mp3 is such a wildly accepted format I’m pretty sure I can stick it in the back of most TVs and get my music to work. Failing all that I’ll just use a portable speaker. There is no excuse to consistently subscribe to something like Spotify.
Oh fuck off with that bullshit. At least I come right out and admit what I do. Unlike you, I’m not going to sit around and shill services for a company that pretends it’s trying to do the right thing while actively working to fuck over the small artists trying to eke out a living on their platform.
I don’t give two fucks if Kanye West isn’t getting his pool upgrade until next year because I torrented his latest bullshit album.
The people most deserving of my money are the local and small artists that are trying to turn their passion into something more than a hobby.
I don’t torrent their music because I can’t and it’s more rewarding to buy it from someone who is putting all their heart and soul into their work.
What did you expect? You completely sidestepped my biggest criticism and attacked the lesser issues.
My biggest problem is you’re justifying horrible behavior because it suits your needs. I don’t need to justify anything.
If I do something bad it’s intentional. Same with when I do something good. There isn’t a grey area for me. We’re obviously cut from different clothes there.
Why can’t you just admit you’re shilling for them? It’s what you’re doing. It’s what everyone does from time to time. Paid or not if you’re pushing a service you’re shilling for that company. However if you’re going to shill, shill something like Mullvad VPN or other reputable companies and services.
You’re part of the overall problem and you’re trying to justify abuse through convenience. That doesn’t make you a shill, it makes you an awful person too. You have a moral choice where you obtain your illegally gotten gains and I refuse to use Spotify in capacity. They won’t get my data or my traffic and I don’t need their shitty mp3 files. I can get my own even if there are so few seeders.
The people demand more ponies. Give them ponies I guess. I’ve buried my hatchet with the pony folks. Let them have their weird magical pony shit and let them be.
I think we can all admit that we should be envious that a group of people that are so passionate about a subject they’ve literally transcended it to every platform humanly imaginable.
This is only shadowed by the among us meme. I’m sure a distro for that is just around the corner.
Looks like I’m behind the curve on this one. Maybe we’ll get a Doki Doki Literature Club Distro next. That one is hopefully niche enough to have not been invented yet 🤣
Little bit of rubbing alcohol and some water will do wonders on that. I don’t even have kids. I’ve drawn over the lines so many times on surfaces with permanent marker I don’t even bat an eye anymore.
Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users had earlier said breach affected about 1% of customers Company said some Okta employee information was also stolen
By Graham Starr
November 28, 2023 at 9:41 PM EST
Updated on November 29, 2023 at 12:18 AM EST
Okta Inc. has discovered that hackers who breached its network two months ago stole information on all users of its customer support system — a scope far greater than the 1% of customers the company had previously said were affected.
The company notified customers in a letter Tuesday that it has now determined the hackers downloaded a report containing data including names and email addresses for all clients that use its customer support system. As a result, Okta warned customers that they may face an increased risk of attacks and urged them to use strong multifactor authentication.
That’s so much work for something the developers should just have enabled by default. Has anyone stopped to think about the kid in the wheelchair that wanted to play this game?
I don’t remember asking Googles permission to display content on my property. This is why I don’t buy smart TVs anymore. If I want it to be “smart” I’ll just program a raspberry pi myself.
UPDATED Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished....
I was formatting and resizing usb drives for work. I had already started drinking and was only half pay attention to what I was doing since I wanted to go back to hanging out with my friends. I really needed them for work the next morning and I failed to realize I left the drive plugged in with my other USB’s and formatted them all during my conversation/drinking session. It was only in the morning did I realize what I did.
I’m so sick of seeing you around here trying to play the fucking victim when you’re out antagonizing the fuck out of everyone you interact with.
Can you and your race baiting, hatred justifying, goal post moving, projecting ass just fuck off already? Find a new group of people to annoy with your bullshit.
I’m still waiting for the update where I can reset my character but keep all my unlocked abilities and experience for a second play through, kind of like New Game+. I think it would make end game more interesting to look forward too.
Right. It doesn’t make a sound. It vibrates the air. Your ears interpret those vibrations as sound. They move through the air in a wave like pattern originating from the source.
This is wading into philosophical areas but think about this. We defined what sound is and if there are no biological creatures around to hear a sound or interpret its vibrations, than no there wasn’t a sound. Something fell, a reaction occurred and without an observer there is no sound since there was nothing there when the event occurred.
Also I’m reading more into this and reforming my opinions based on new information so this is an evolving position for me.
US sets policy to seize patents of government-funded drugs if price deemed too high (www.reuters.com)
The Biden Administration on Thursday announced it is setting new policy that will allow it to seize patents for medicines developed with government funding if it believes their prices are too high....
Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)
Back in my day (lemmy.zip)
✨ What is your favorite thing about kbin? ✨
Here are mine! A handful of things come to mind right away, but there are plenty more:...
French parliament backs proposal to ban vapes (www.theguardian.com)
Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. (lemmy.world)
We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the...
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An AI Singer-Songwriter Just Debuted Her Original Song—And The Responses Are Just Brutal (www.comicsands.com)
Dragon's Dogma 2 marks Capcom's first $70 base game (www.eurogamer.net)
Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100 (apnews.com)
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died, his consulting firm says. He was 100. Kissinger dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China.
Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)
Is there such a thing like AI Photoshop restoration? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay (www.them.us)
Pony approved distro (derpicdn.net)
Probably used by postal service.
Play Station (lemmy.world)
Oh, how terrifying. How can you stand it day after day? -Q (pixelfed.social)
businessinsider.com/amazon-unveils-its-ai-chatbot…
You find yourself in a room with people. Everyone else is someone you have had sex with in your life.
What happens next?
The cost of maintaining Xorg (mastodon.social)
Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users (www.bloomberg.com)
Pokemon Go at home vs POKÉMON GO (lemmy.one)
I know now why so many people skipped and/or hated this game haha! (Just got back from Disney). It was fun, but deleted now. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices (arstechnica.com)
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)
UPDATED Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished....
Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer' (www.reuters.com)
What did you have for breakfast this morning? (startrek.website)
This is the real deal. We're all doing it right now. (startrek.website)
How do you know if a tree that fell in the forest made a sound?
You check the crash logs
What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?
Odo on the Promenade (pixelfed.social)
They run out of things to say to each other by 9am each day. (startrek.website)