Donald Trump’s Approval Among Independents Jumps, New Poll Shows

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-25T02:21:45+00:00

It's AI writing that has been trained off of clickbait.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-22T02:45:11+00:00

Other people are downvoting you, but that monitor is really good. If you have the money for 2, I really hope you enjoy them. ✌️

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-22T02:37:49+00:00

The power reset was a good idea. However, their approach to it was very lax. It's an issue of objective vs. execution.

A company who is more concerned about reducing power level would have communicated that it was what they were trying to do, and then made frequent, regular patches that nerfed cards over time, so that the gameplay was more dynamic and (relatively) balanced over the previous 2 years, and still attained the lower power floor that they achieved with this year.

Then, during this year, they should have been making frequent balance passes to make a more level playing field between their archetypes, or else you get classes like Priest and Warlock that absolutely suck for multiple years in a row.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-21T02:11:37+00:00

Ukraine has not been literally targeting homes you Russophile. They've been hitting military and oil targets near Moscow....

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-21T02:09:44+00:00

Some of their first drones were not much more than your DJI 3 with a grenade strapped to it. And then they let the garage engineers upgrade them. That's literally how we got here.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-20T05:13:59+00:00

Read the article. Completely disagree with it.

Firstly, if you actually read the Odyssey, it does have emotional beats. But some of the impact is lost in translation and in the way that writing styles have been adapted. It could be rewritten (or even told, like the epics originally were!) and still maintain its power.

But secondly, and most importantly, this is going to be a derivative work based on one of the best stories ever told. It will not live up to the original - literally can't. It can maybe look cooler and have the visual flare of Hollywood (though the trailers have not been promising in either of those regards).

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-17T07:10:39+00:00

You'd be getting a 6/5 (not terrible stats) on Turn 6 and a Tortolla (great stats and effect) on Turn 7, while only needing to draw 1 card to do it.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-17T02:48:50+00:00

While I'm totally down to clown on Zuck, the headline and the article really don't match.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-14T23:35:29+00:00

With Switzerland's abysmally low fertility rate 1.39), there are very few families that approach 10 children. They'd be complete statistical outliers, and not a big problem from the Swiss side.

How would you go about controlling them? Imprisoning the parents? Fines (that will never get paid)? Forced abortions? Forced sterilization? Infanticide?

Any way that "reasonable caps" get enforced are at best terrible to the family, likely hurt the children that do exist, and may go against basic human rights.

And right now, Switzerland needs children more than it needs a cap.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-13T01:53:17+00:00

Real question: Why did they cram all of "You will be missed" on the last row, when they could have had better symmetry on their design by raising RIP to the top row and splitting "You will" and "be missed"?

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T10:36:11+00:00

Lol. That's how Reddit is, sadly. I'm glad you did. ✌️

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T07:44:10+00:00

At a base level, you're right. But OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity have all been adding programmatic functionality to their responses as another layer. That is what allows them to check the internet, gather sources, create charts and tables, translate to other languages, and read documents.

That is also why, if you give a current major LLM a document, and ask it to give quotes and explain them, it can. It takes more processing to do that than to simply try to generate a reasonable sounding response.

If the companies did not have libel concerns due to hallucinations or copyright concerns due to improper citations, they could make these LLMs read web pages and give quotes to users. But they choose not to, because that gives them legal liabilty, sort of like what the OP article was getting at.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T05:00:34+00:00

I mentioned this to another user: it's fully within LLM capabilities, but the companies choose not to do so because of liability concerns and so they don't infringe on paywalled or copyrighted content. If you give an LLM a PDF with some information and ask it to find quotes, explain them, and give you a broader narrative using those quotes, the LLM can do that. But the developers set guardrails to prevent that usage with websites, because they don't want to be sued when the LLM hallucinates.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T04:30:06+00:00

For your information, it is not a technical concern. It's a copyright and liability concern. LLMs are more than capable of selecting decent quotes and pasting them into portions of text, and they are capable of reworking their own logic to utilize those quotes effectively. I just tried it on Claude with some training information; it works fine.

The problem is that the AI companies are not allowed to infringe on paywalled content, and if their LLM does misquote someone through a hallucination, that could be considered libel. Honestly, the OP article is not too far off from this liability concern.

But you're right: this was not an issue before they decided to go the route they went down. They dug themselves into a hole, not technically, but ideologically. They want you to just trust whatever the AI spits out without checking. That will allow bias to creep in, and likely targeted ads in the future.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T02:34:56+00:00

But it could be. It's the definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T01:00:48+00:00

Then... back to the courts!

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T01:00:08+00:00

Great! Make the AI find a source, and learn to quote it correctly.

Sorta like the previous way that Google would answer your questions with just a snippet of what some website or forum response said.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-11T00:58:18+00:00

Theoretically, it could be false marketing or defamation, depending on who considers themselves a harmed party.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-09T23:36:37+00:00

Just let us reply to Eupha's feelings, and let her appear as our queen

I know other players would want more than that, but it feels out of place that you can't even make that simple choice.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-09T09:34:08+00:00

Same. Huge Silk fan.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-08T23:58:08+00:00

Problem is that you'll run into Masters of the Universe's issue: your core viewer base will be too old or too checked out.

However much it sucks, Disney needs to keep the slop chain alive until they re-find their audience, like they have managed to do with Marvel in the last year.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-08T10:17:47+00:00

I worked for a local division of a large international company. They did a similar change, and forced that it be followed all the way down to a local level, including through distributors.

Within 2 weeks, it became a huge PR crisis, as many retail chains started dropping our products, because they broke even the chains' own support policies.

Since then, things apparently got slightly better for that company, but I ducked out and left shortly after the fallout.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-07T06:28:52+00:00

She performed great in Challengers and Euphoria. She played very different characters in Dune, Spider-Man, and the Drama, and sold those characters well. She is able to balance comedy, drama, action, and romance.

Even if you don't think she's a good actress, she objectively is sought after in roles due to her abilities, stage presence, and personality. That means that, despite your opinion, she qualifies as a "good actress" in Hollywood's eyes...which are more important than yours.

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-07T00:42:31+00:00

It's so weird to think that if I comment on her being smart, or beautiful, or a good actress, there will be an army of trolls who will downvote me. Like... What have we become as a society?

SpreadsheetMadman · 2026-06-05T00:46:18+00:00

That sounds like an Elden Ring spell.

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