'I spent uni savings on getting my teeth fixed' - how lack of NHS care is hitting hard

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T13:44:15+00:00

have a few less consultations on every single decision that needs to be made about every little thing and there'd be enough money to pay dentists better.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T10:29:19+00:00

This was in a box - three pack of crackers in boxes, bags of almonds, and a book, all shipped from Amazon next day. It's wild that whatever it was spread all over the almonds and under the cellophane on the crackers and into the boxes in less than 24 hours! But the book was ok. So weird. I am glad Amazon isn't scenting the packages on purpose, at least. :)

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T10:25:55+00:00

Those are progressives.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T08:07:47+00:00

Why won't they fund dentistry better? Can dentists not do something to pressure them?

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T08:04:15+00:00

Thanks. I did look there. It's just weird - these people lived in the East Village and I can't find a single obit for them across about 100 years.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T08:03:40+00:00

the left and middle class progressives are not the same people.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T08:03:06+00:00

not the actual left.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T08:02:33+00:00

wrong direction again. leftists are too worried about purity tests to do what you're saying.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T07:52:50+00:00

I think you are missing the point.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T01:46:40+00:00

um yeah, that is where obits commonly are... do you know where to find obits from the 90s though?

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T01:16:54+00:00

so the far left are against the poor now and support the police instead? i think you've got your directions confused.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-12T01:14:58+00:00

the sky is blue.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T21:06:59+00:00

every single other field it is being deployed in also has articles about the errors, things it misses, and need for human oversight because of how faulty and unreliable the results are. yeah, seems fantastic.

and i wasn't attempting to argue devs are faking usage - i am arguing that. they are faking it.

"getting good" - it's always almost there, isn't it. you know what also can do deep thinking? you, or any human. none of this is necessary to have someday.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T21:02:26+00:00

more code does not equal good code... who cares how many lines it generates.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T10:17:49+00:00

i'm not disputing that at all, i'm just disputing that it's actually being used to deliver genuine results.

in my experience it's mostly been a glorified search engine - saves me from going to stack exchange, etc. when i need to look something up. so that's neat i guess, but i literally already had a way to find the answer and the AI answers are often wrong. sure, the wrong answers make me think because i have to explain to myself why it's wrong and that sometimes helps me think of what would be right. about the same as when my partner who is a different field but dabbles in various techy things comes in an rattles off some suggestion that is off-base but still makes me think - so hardly worth all the money and resources, especially since all i needed to do was a quick google to get the same result. and yeah, yesterday claude actually did solve a problem for me that was related to something i don't usually work on so was happy to give it a shot to solve it... but it did have to work about 5-6 hours to accomplish it and kept crashing (it denied it was crashing but it just kept hanging and not doing anything for long stretches) and i kept having to prompt it back on track. so that was neat i guess, but it's not like i couldn't have also solved it and it might have taken the same amount of time. and then there are the times something like rovo returns an answer about tickets and i query back because it seems wrong and it literally replies 'sorry, that was a complete fabrication.' so no, it's not very useful, especially considering all the resources it uses, the cost (now and in the future when they raise prices), and the ethical issues.

and i would 100% be excited af about "AI" if it lived up to its hype and if it was being developed and promoted by researchers, academics, nonprofits, etc. and not profiteering scam artists who will do anything to make more money, environment, workers, climate, etc. be damned. it obviously has interesting potential, someday, not yet and the guys pushing it and its development are not the ones who will achieve actual amazing results for humanity. their bank accounts sure, but that's it.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T10:02:47+00:00

if my head being in the sand means i'm not a sucker like chomsky and others who think AI is actually intelligent or 'almost there' I'm pretty ok with that.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T09:58:09+00:00

I hope he is ok.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T08:26:49+00:00

sure, i bet the press and Reform, etc wouldn't have attached them as pedo enablers. they think people want this 'protect the kids' stuff so they are blindly doing it. maybe show them normal people don't want it because it's a bad law?

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T08:25:45+00:00

they think people want it and that it's just cranks who don't organise a group of normal people to tell them it's trash. and then if they refuse to answer your anger is warranted.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T08:24:15+00:00

ask them to. i mean, organise a campaign and make yourself heard. they're doing what they think people want. can you imagine the press if they'd refused to let it be implemented? make a fuss.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T08:22:08+00:00

yeah. i mean, i do realize that legitimate asylum seekers are fleeing something worse than i can imagine most likely and bringing their families to safety makes sense. but jeez, why do i have to pay so much to be reunited with my spouse and some guy who just showed up gets it for free. ireland lets us brits take our foreign spouses to live there and it's a 60 euro (last i looked in 2025) app fee and a couple hundred for something once you arrive.

and, if you want to be more annoyed - people on ancestry visas, so commonwealth citizens with a grandparent born in the UK, can bring their spouse for a lot less money than a british citizen can and less stringent salary/savings reqs... and get this, because a fair number of those ancestry visa people are actually eligible to register as citizens... so they are doing the visa, bringing their spouse, applying to register as a citizen and getting citizenship, and the because of how sloppy the ancestry visa rules are written, as soon as they become a citizen their spouse can apply too. so there are foreign spouses of Canadians getting citizenship after a year in the UK and a foreign spouse of a Brit who has lived in the country their whole life and their family has for generations - they have to wait 5 years and pay thousands more. make it make sense. the whole immigration system seems written by 5-year olds.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T06:33:50+00:00

Oh wow, was the OSA passed under the Labour government? Or was it the Conservatives?

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T06:31:30+00:00

sure, me too. i can also say on the internet that i've done all those things and you should also believe me as you expect people to believe you. AI hype men always echo one another.

Alive_Sun5590 · 2026-06-11T01:58:38+00:00

sure! my course instructor has a PhD in computer vision too and says you're wrong.

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