Apparently not as useless as this website.

There's something instantly and uniquely recognizable about the tone of an AI asked to be nasty, like the world's most gently complaisant performer doing their eager best to play the role of a sadist, or a Labrador retriever pressed into the title role in Cujo. At least the ad is honest. Good luck getting enough of a response out of YC's increasingly vestigial farm league here to pitch some LP on actual funding.

The objective is to get you to sign up for their LLM-driven training so that you'll be less useless. They want you to feel like they understand something and you do not.

I can't be the only one having had fun writing out some approaches and getting roasted for it?

It must be hitting a nerve if people use it and it's getting overloaded (or they're cheap w/r/t API budget).

How can someone talk about democracy peaking when the franchise was extended to a tiny minority of the population. You don't give a damn about individual liberties, you only care that the "right" people have liberty.

My younger bro is convinced phones are eavesdropping on conversations and got particularly paranoid (I thought) a year or so back in regard to talking in earshot of his phone.

His evidence is empirical - Apparently he gets pretty high with friends and shit talks - but when when the search started to suggest some pretty way out things along the same lines, he landed that their conversations weren't private any more.

So I have an understanding of how much tracking is going on so I pressed him on that. But he assured me it was stuff he would not even bother to look up in a clearer mindset and of course smoking recreationally for a very long time knows not to go near some tools that could land himself trouble or awkward explanations. That's probably true he says a lot of stuff that a half decent search would put him straight. In the end I just figured loose permissions of one of the many apps he's installed and that's how they (the app) make their money, selling illegally obtained data to more legal sources.

Permissions are the problem with android phones - there needs to be a specific install route for users, one that the app starts asking for things it should not need have access to, the installer refuses to install and suggests the user look for something better. Camera apps for example really don't need access to communication channels, if it's updates it's need, it can ask - one time access.

Religion, and strict adherence to these laws by the general population, is a relatively late phenomenon. It only became as strict as it is now during the middle ages and more so in early modernity. Your Jewish friends are, to a large extent, a product of 18th-century Eastern European Jewish culture and Western / American homogenised understanding of religion.

For readers looking for context, Google tells me it was ~24% of GDP as of 2024