Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@lupyuen

No, they didn't ban it. It is still legal to use TikTok in Montana and everywhere else in the US.

They could pass a law that said that no one could criticize the government of Montana, but it would still be legal nontheless.

No government in the US can ban speech.

@PhilipMartin @twitskeptic @ct_bergstrom

I found a source that said it's an uncountable noun but I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. I believe it's a mass noun like "furniture".

@TomSchmidt @stux

The US is an UNdeveloping country.

It's coming apart at the seems, but not because of guns which the US has had since day one.

The US just killed a million of their own citizens without firing a single shot, by using deadly public health policy decisions.

That's corruption and that's evil. That's not guns.

@peterdrake

Someone answered "Small arms fire". Meanwhile his neighbor, who likes to feed the squirrels, is using "Small arms fire" to get rid of those pesky birds...

@PhilipMartin @twitskeptic @ct_bergstrom

Here's a quote I found using the word "corns" in a grammatically correct sentence when referring to the edible corn.

"...sweet corns are widely distributed in western Mexico..." (referring to varieties of corn.)

Does anyone know if there is an English region where "corns" is used to refer to the edible corn?

@PhilipMartin
@twitskeptic @ct_bergstrom

Also, a person would be able to infer that it was the edible corn based on context, i.e., that you need to figure out how to get the "corns" across the river which wouldn't be much of a puzzle if the corns were attached to Bob's feet, unless they thought that the puzzle itself was a trick puzzle and the correct answer actually was the skin kind of corns.

It would be interesting to see what an LLM would do if it knew nothing about the puzzle in the first place and had to rely only on the context that it was given.

FYI, I thought maybe it was a grammatical error and I wanted to check myself if "corns" was a regional usage so I looked up "corns" on Google. I couldn't find it because Google only gave me ads for curing corns on your feet and such, plus answers for "corn". Google's response reminded me about the skin type of corn which prompted my response here.

@peterdrake

None of them work.

I swear if you figured out a way that actually worked they would figure out how to build a small aircraft to fly over to the feeder.

@2ck

>"HSAs are an overly complicated financial instrument for the purpose of paying for health care expenses."

...and for increasing the profits of banks who make donations to politicians.

@alfredo_liberal

Have you seen Biden's popularity numbers -- nowhere close to FDR. Also voters will not remember the six week ban on the abortion drug in late 2024, they'll be talking about the war with China or whatever has come up at that time. And Biden is very old and he may have to drop out for that reason so it makes sense for a viable candidate to stay in as long as they can.

@jgg @twitskeptic

Also it didn't even realize that the corns are attached to Bob's feet.

The plural of edible "corn" is "corn". The plural of the skin condition "corn" is "corns", so the question was asking about the skin condition, not the edible corn. Although corns are rarely described as "items" and someone familiar with the puzzle would assume the questioner made a grammatical error.

Also, there may be regions where English is spoken in which the plural of corn is corns in which case the GPT-4 would need to know where the questioner was located, or simply ask which "corn" they were referring to.

@mur2501 @freemo

Okay, there's no way I typed that in as "their". 😂

@krrw

Translate: "Taxes workers and subsidizes investors."

@freepeoplesfreepress

>'"Why would someone buy Parler, and then temporarily shut it down? That doesn't make sense."'

For the same reason most smaller competitive companies get bought out -- to eliminate the competition.

@freepeoplesfreepress

BTW, in the US public health officials have done everything they could to make the pandemic worst -- from delaying testing to
hording respirators to telling everyone to get "back to normal" (while thousands die every week).

BTW = by the way (sarcastic usage)

@freepeoplesfreepress

Well, big pharma will make a lot of money off of it.

@freemo

I think blocks and follows work pretty good. With all the algos on other sites and all the targeted content out there, it's sometimes difficult to get a feel for general trends or to learn what the "other side" is thinking.

I go out of my way to try consume content from sources or people that I ordinarily wouldn't come across just so I can maintain some kind of perspective and not end up in an echo chamber.

Also, I think not having the algo is more fair, especially for folks who may not have talent or skills to get their stuff through the filter.

@peterdrake

Hopefully they were sweet dreams. 🙂

@mur2501

Yeah, their all gone from twitter. 😂

@freemo