Or, you know, some people like their fucking jobs. Not everything needs to be some min-max'ed income thing - sometimes people do what they love, as utterly mind-blowing and completely incomprehensible as that apparently is to the folks raised on social media.

> Because it's either plainly stupid virtue signalling aimed at the current strawman

This seems reductive. Do you think that code-hosting sites should be unable to determine their own standards and the projects they host, solely because they make you feel bad (that "you" presumably neither wrote nor understand a single line of code in your project)? Do you think a lack of clarity on copyright rules is actually "tragic"?

Or is the real "virtue signaling" always in the whiny comments because someone's rules on their own site hypothetically affected "you", for once?

> Do you think that code-hosting sites should be unable to determine their own standards

Not at all! They can do what they want, exactly as I'm free to judge what they do.

And no, I'm not affected- I had never even heard of Codeberg before.

> Providers are arming up with AI to listen in on provider-patient sessions to prove the billing codes are legit

This is not a decrease in quality of care - this is your provider having actual evidence of the care needs they discussed with you when they close their note, hours or days after seeing you.

Except AI has an unacceptably high rate of hallucinations that will result in adverse health outcomes if not outright death.

Similarly, I think anything we can do to help take the burden off the mundane parts of the job has helped clinicians focus on the actual hard parts. Where we get... bristling, is when there's any suggestion of "legislating" (operationally, not like, governmentally) care patterns and telling clinicians how to care for their patients.

Which is great, because anyone suggesting AI should replace clinical judgment and work is an idiot.

> (or widen your claim to 'almost all IPOs are scams')

In a world where retail basically has no access to true IPO pricing, I don't think this is untrue for the majority of investors.

Jamming SpaceX directly into a bunch of indexes just because Musk wanted it (and everyone is a coward or complicit) stunk of "scam" in a very different way, though.

> Wouldn't a strict interpretation of your opinion imply speed governors?

Shouldn't we have them, if we generally agree that speed limits are good? If not, why have speed limits at all?

Would it not be better to physically limit your speed to 20mph in school zones, for instance? What "freedom" is being limited, in that case?

(Let's ignore stupid edge cases: sure you could need to get to the hospital - in that case you should call an ambulance. The availability and expense of that service is irrelevant to the question, here.)

I think your final statement outright negates the prior one. You cannot devote your working life to making teenage girls depressed and teenage boys angry and not be evil.

You just think they wear nice masks when they’re at home.

Do you think they actually view that as their life's mission?

If someone can live two lives or wear to masks, then which one is real? Maybe it is at work when they are wearing the mask?

I did not say they “made it their life’s mission” - you made that up. I said they devoted their life to it - given the numbers I hear about working hours at Meta, they literally do just that.

> Since Reddit itself is entirely text-based, it remains accessible and efficient, and appending site:reddit.com is still the best way to make Google search queries return anything approaching useful.

This is nonsense, trivially proven by looking up literally anything you actually understand. Everything is tired, stupid memes, outright incorrect information, or 16 year olds pretending to authoritatively give recommendations on things they don’t know anything about.

The only people who still think Reddit has particularly useful information or the people still most susceptible to not understanding misinformation in the first place.

And that’s to say nothing about the clear prevalence of bots and AI on any sub with more than 20 people.