Notices by Flic (flisty@mstdn.social)

@futurebird I have only experimented with ChatGPT once but... Same. If it felt more nitpicky and less emphatic, like a university professor, I'd feel more suspicious it was intelligent. I *know* I'm not right all the time. I *want* to be corrected. Sycophancy creeps me out.

@mzedp https://youtu.be/e_oWmY_mkCA
amazingly the people at this car company were so car-brained that they filmed this whole ad without realising that they were saying exactly that.
@futurebird

@Sarahw @Disputatore @vfrmedia @kibcol1049 increased driving, even in EVs, which is currently incentivised because of low running costs and less user guilt, is still a net negative. Tarmac, car parks, urban sprawl and tyre plastic pollution are still terrible for the environment and still contribute to climate change. I'm not a hardliner - I own a car and drive it! - but cars are still *not good* even when they're EVs, and in an ideal world we would consider driving a luxury, not a right.

@Sarahw @Disputatore @vfrmedia @kibcol1049 even if it's not free, I think subsidies could go a lot further. Our region now has a very popular subsidy card for under-25s to use buses for £1. The problem tends to be that we assume public transport should run at a profit or at least break even. New/enlarged roads have billions spent on them, justified using often pretty spurious cost-benefit analyses, yet we expect new rail to be self-financing from fares.

@Disputatore @Sarahw @vfrmedia @kibcol1049 i have never really taken driverless public transport seriously. You'd still need some kind of safety personnel - to keep the people on the transport safe, to keep the transport safe from people who might only behave themselves if they know they're watched, and to act as a safety backup if the driving goes wrong. Waymo is basically remotely operated (like basically all AI).

@quoidian @Disputatore @Sarahw @vfrmedia @kibcol1049 not sure actually. But it's not unmanned - there's a guard (sorry, "passenger service agent", who is also a trained driver in case of breakdowns) on board.

@quoidian @Disputatore @Sarahw @vfrmedia @kibcol1049 they're trialling a driverless bus in Cambridge but I don't know what the outcomes will be. As I said, I remain deeply sceptical!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8p5v3rm5o

@TimWardCam our boiler is pretty new (as is the cylinder) so this is a real toss-up tbh

@scrummy @callunavulgaris @paco @lafnlab @stevewfolds @SteveClough @Walrus @telred17 @Ericthebeeover2 @Tooden @kibcol1049 have you got one of those as well?! This is all getting very confusing

@scrummy @callunavulgaris @paco @lafnlab @stevewfolds @SteveClough @Walrus @telred17 @Ericthebeeover2 @Tooden @kibcol1049 the New England law still applies then - the UK one is Grennitch (or Grennidge)

@callunavulgaris @scrummy @paco @lafnlab @stevewfolds @SteveClough @Walrus @telred17 @Ericthebeeover2 @Tooden @kibcol1049 you can tell a lot about someone by how they pronounce Haverhill (Suffolk). If their family has been there a long time and they have Suffolk accents, it's Hayvrull/Ayvrull. If they're bombed-out EastEnders who moved there in the 50s it's Hayverhill/Ayverill. And if you've never heard of it until you have to read it then it's probably Havverhill.

@artemis (NB it makes the Canadian situation with the suspicious sales even more *interesting*)

@artemis that's been known for a long time https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/investing/tesla-profitability/index.html

@christineburns @KimSJ a lot of nonsensical valuations by investment companies trying to get "retail" investors to buy and pump the price up so they can get out, as well, I think. Yesterday's was a particularly comical one https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cathie-wood-sticks-tesla-predicts-012052379.html

@jollysea @ruedi @alexlunaview apparently there is such a thing as California champagne https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/loophole-california-champagne-legal/ because everyone loves a loophole

@inthehands and somehow we ended up with a reality TV star as leader of the richest nation in the world. One wonders how

@GreenSkyOverMe Currently using a Logi wireless keyboard/mouse combo at my desk with a teeny weeny dongle, so your assumption definitely holds water...

@GreenSkyOverMe used to be the independent

@GreenSkyOverMe or rather, used to be the Independent's sister paper. Now it's its own thing and the Independent is digital only.

@GreenSkyOverMe @shimminbeg the only one I can't work out is bottom right. Otherwise t-b, l-r, they're the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Times, the Daily Express, the Mirror, the Daily Mail, the Sun, the i, the Guardian.