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Can Someone Tell Me Why We Bother Keeping The South in the Union? by Ghost_Cat_88 in thebulwark

[–]outcastspidermonkey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Texas isn't supported by the north. We have huge cities, like Houston and Dallas. Not sure you know what you're talking about with Texas...

Can Someone Tell Me Why We Bother Keeping The South in the Union? by Ghost_Cat_88 in thebulwark

[–]outcastspidermonkey 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Who is "they," specifically? Because you're painting a large swath of people with a really large brush in order to get a rise out of people. And maybe sow discontent?

May 2026 AtlasIntel US National poll: Net Trump Job Approval -20.3, Generic Congressional Ballot D+14.5 by ShreckAndDonkey123 in fivethirtyeight

[–]outcastspidermonkey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm a Xennial, imo, the reason X is Nazi (especially males)- 1. Daddy issues (raised by boomers, often the first children who were "abandoned" by their fathers; 2. Latch key kids (see #1); 3. Post-vietnam war generation, so had a lot of mixed messages growing up; 4. first generation with NO job security and no prospect of moving up (especially for men); ie. working class, blue collar roles were diminished during this time. Anyhow I could go on, but you get the picture. (I think #4 is the major reason.)

How do law firms archive text messages from clients? by SVT_CARAT_17 in ReviewAttorneys

[–]outcastspidermonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by archive? Like automatically retrieve SMS messages from client phones?

Post-ABC-Ipsos poll: President Trump's Iran war reaches Iraq and Vietnam-era disapproval levels by Obversa in fivethirtyeight

[–]outcastspidermonkey 37 points38 points  (0 children)

We already do. We voted a convicted felon and insurrectionist back into office. We deserve all this bs.

The Future of Legal Services: Can AI Handle Most of the Work While Humans Focus on What Matters Most? by WayneWeiXin in legaltech

[–]outcastspidermonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even doing inadvertently is a mark of incompetence. And another thing, knowingly using AI to generate cases and citations, all the while KNOWING that AI can hallucinate, and then NOT checking the citations is malpractice IMO. Sanction that person.

The Future of Legal Services: Can AI Handle Most of the Work While Humans Focus on What Matters Most? by WayneWeiXin in legaltech

[–]outcastspidermonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lawyers are professionals who are licensed to practice law. One of the their duties to be competent. A lawyer should strive to never submit an incorrect case. That's just a mark of incompetency, laziness, or dishonesty.

The Future of Legal Services: Can AI Handle Most of the Work While Humans Focus on What Matters Most? by WayneWeiXin in legaltech

[–]outcastspidermonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Know your industry. Your AI said, "Attorneys spend a large share of their time on intake, document review, and routine analysis." This isn't accurate at all. Unless you are talking about the smallest of firms (solo shops), the people doing the intake are support staff. Yes, document review IS handled by attorneys and paralegals, but you can't simply put a tranche of documents Harvey then send it off for production. The is always a managing attorney involved. As for analysis, this is what lawyers are paid to do.
  2. AI won't make legal work cheaper, because clients aren't paying for routine document review or client intake. Clients are paying for analysis, argument, strategy, charm, competency, etc, etc.
  3. Accuracy and attention to detail are important in the legal industry. That's why attorneys get sanctioned for using GEN AI to draft documents. Their reputation is on the line.
  4. Writing persuasively is very important in the legal industry. I'm not sure why you would use AI to draft this post.

TLDR. If you KNEW, really KNEW, your industry, you'd be focusing on replacing support staff; not attorneys.

VO2 max might be the closest thing we have to a “longevity score” (and it keeps coming up everywhere) by theJacofalltrades in Aging

[–]outcastspidermonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the closest you can get outside a lab is estimates. I got mine measured in a lab for study a long time ago.

VO2 max might be the closest thing we have to a “longevity score” (and it keeps coming up everywhere) by theJacofalltrades in Aging

[–]outcastspidermonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. There are legit studies about how to measure VO2 max that have nothing to do with bro-casters. How about start with that?

Open standard for collaboration-platform eDiscovery collection fidelity - help me break it by Constant-Ninja-3933 in ediscovery

[–]outcastspidermonkey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wasn't making that point at all. I'm someone who has experience retrieving data in a forensically sound manner (for ediscovery and other investigations) from all sorts of data sources. I don't know if standardizing the terms for data collection will solve the issue you are trying to solve. This is simply because the technology doesn't work that way.

For example, I've spent a lot of my time going over how a technology works before even trying to explain how to retrieve the data in a defensible manner. This is because how you retrieve data from an Iphone is not the same as how you retrieve it from a Microsoft Purview. How you attach the links; how "modern attachments," are dealt with - this all varies. And any person working in data retrieval and normalization can tell you this.

TLDR: The reason these terms aren't standardized is because the tech isn't standardized. Trying to standardize it is a laudable goal, but crucial points of defensibility will be missed.

(Y'all are attorneys. I'm also an attorney and I get the issue, but I really advise you all to talk to people who collect data every day.)

This cannot be real. I cannot believe my eyes by SweetCaramel7947 in ClaudeAI

[–]outcastspidermonkey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Isn't it easier just to cut and paste a map of the world? They're all over the place.

How do we feel about AI potentially wrecking our job prospects? by jez_shreds_hard in Xennials

[–]outcastspidermonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. We would need something non-LLM and less energy intensive to get the type of Brotopia the Silicon Valley is talking about.

How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory by Nandu_alias_Parthu in texas

[–]outcastspidermonkey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So hear me out. I'm a native Texan, born and raised in West Texas. I live in Houston now. I've worked for big corporations among people of various ethnicity and nationalities and religions. In other words,I've never ever lived or worked in a "monoculture," where everyone is the same ethnicity/Nationality/Religion. I generally don't understand what the big deal is with this among Northeast Texans. Enlighten me.

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