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The people leading the health system are highly credentialed. Moreover, highly credentialed people, in medicine as in all fields, frequently disagree on what studies show, how valid a study is, what it's flaws and limits are, how conclusive it is, and so forth. And the consensus has a long, time honored tradition of being wrong from time to time.

Ultimately, the woo woo people are the ones who rely on someone in a labcoat to tell them whether ingesting government approved (there's your first red flag) synthetic fluoride from industrial byproducts is "necessary".

If it's useful, brushing it onto your teeth and into your gums 56,000 times in your life is probably sufficient, particularly given that we don't know with absolute certainty beyond any shadow of a doubt that the industrial waste options are totally without health consequences. I'll literally just take care of my teeth and cross my fingers over listening to modern medical consensus on a range of topics where I simply trust intuition and common sense more.


We need a blog post documenting the ironic trend of people—themselves NPCs, actual human bots, just now realizing the em dash exists despite seeing it hundreds if not thousands of times before LLMs—flattering themselves by suggesting that anyone who understands the language at above a 5th grade level must be an LLM.


Taking knowledge of the three extra pixels that are "more correct" as some kind of indicator of intelligence is silly. Pretending you're somehow above them is just sad.

Must be lonely at the top.


This thread is rampant with anti-intellectualism that deserves to be called out.


You aren't special for using em dashes, and it doesn't make someone an NPC to notice that AIs frequently make use of them.


The comment above is not about being special, it is about proper typography that is still everywhere around us: books, serious websites, anything done by real designers. Those people had to try hard to miss all of that.

No, it is not “politically incorrect” to call people lacking curiosity and/or education like you see them.

No, someone's personal preferences or transitory fashions are not automatically promoted to the holy reference for the whole world.


The lack of em dash usage in popular culture speaks more about typical people than it does about whether a text's author was an LLM. In fact, the average person has never even noticed—let alone considered—that the em dash exists. If they've read for 20+ years, they've seen at LEAST hundreds of them.

Imagine being an NPC (a human bot), flattering yourself with the thought that people who understand the language are language bots...


21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024 and 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level[1]. “The average person” isn’t really a high bar, unfortunately.

1: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...


Is this a legitimate institute? The linked article offers many statistics and even financial figures but cites no sources or studies. There is a “TOLL FREE” (capitalized) phone number in the website footer, and the comments are full of prostitution ads.


Wikipedia[1] contains more links to data, if you want to sample a few more sources.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States


Not at all. It's just inconvenient for most of the Windows-using world, as the characters are not accessible. It's ALT+[whatever] or Google-it-and-ctrl+V. Hence an awful lot of internet writing didn't really use any of that stuff properly.

See, e.g., Boss Szabo's blog: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-many-tradition...

Two chained hypens, as was pretty much the norm back then.

And did you just call me an NPC?!? It's not a matter of "understanding the language" at all. It's a matter of convenience and of a sort of evolved convention.


Why did they annul it? I'm assuming they gave a reason, not sure if that's a reasonable assumption.


Real reason: Opposition (CHP) is the first party since the local elections and it is almost certain that Imamoglu will replace Erdogan in the next elections. CHP primaries will be held this weekend and Imamoglu was the sole candidate.

Made-up reason: Imamoglu transfered to Istanbul University from a foreign university (Cyprus) in 1990. They claimed that university was not accredited by Turkish Higher Education Council. That was not really a requirement for the transfer at the time and the universities used to have more autonomy. Today they also annuled the degrees of 28 more people who did the same thing in 1990, just for the optics. I think one of them is a college professor.


> I think one of them is a college professor.

I saw an argument about this latter decision which (rightfully) claimed that, if what happened is lawful, then they should also revoke the diplomas of all students of that college professor.


Per the article:

> In a statement, the university said 38 people had transferred to its management faculty's English-language programme in 1990 in an irregular way.

> The graduations and degrees of 28 of them, including Imamoglu, were annulled as being "void" and due to "clear errors" regarding the regulations of the Higher Education Board (YOK), the school said.


They annulled it so he couldn’t run against Ergodan.


Linux is nice if, like nixos users, you want to spend hundreds of hours over several years writing every QoL feature totally custom for your unique use case.

For me, Mac is 99% of what I liked about Linux, and there is ALWAYS an existing QoL solution—usually reasonably polished—for everything it lacks.

Windows has none of the benefits ofLinux, none of Homebrew or even the AUR, a tiny fraction of the QoL third party features from Mac (usually unpolished)—to say nothing of the first party QoL features—plus the hardware is comically bad. Diving board trackpads are normal on $3k windows machines in 2025, 500nits displays, whistling fans on about 17 high-end laptops I tried in the past 6 months. Truly the worst experience imaginable. Abominable, even.


Windows can at least open a Linux shell without running a VM. It's far from my first choice, but I will always reach for a Windows device over a Mac for software development.

I don't really butt heads with people that demand good defaults. I just hate on-device advertising with such a passion that I could never personally support Apple or Microsoft. Not having to deal with first-party services, nag notifications and constant advertising is well worth the week or two it takes to set up NixOS.


Well, for starters ublock origin is the gold standard, and it's free, and it's open source, and it's been refined over many years, and etc. etc. etc.


Implying any publication with a financier/owner and an editorial staff doesn't always and necessarily present the views of those who control it...?

Was anyone genuinely under th delusion that it was any different when it was Bezos' benefit to placate the progressives?


> doesn't always and necessarily present the views of those who control it...?

Of course it doesn't.

> Was anyone genuinely under th delusion that it was any different

It wasn't a delusion, it was.

It's generally been the policy of editorial pages to print a diverse set of opinions pieces that contradict each other. And that aren't under control of the owner, look up the term "editorial independence".

This isn't a question of being "under a delusion", it's simply how American newspapers have traditionally operated because it was good for business.

Media owners have generally prioritized making money, not "presenting their views".


Imagine believing that, not only after living past age 5 where you start to develop a complex model of reality beyond "what seems simple and straightforward is true", but after growing into full adulthood and recognizing what is widely known to be profitable in "news"—which is selling a narrative to a target audience.

This is so elementary that anyone can see it. It's commonly mentioned in precisely the mainstream "respectable" publications like WaPo.

There's almost certainly industry jargon and marketing models for it, and technical terminology and decades of documentation about it, if I were to ask any LLM what the words and concepts are.


Yes (mobile Firefox)


Cramming thousands of tokens of potentially irrelevant context through unclear indexing paths isn't "proper".

The best results come from feeding precisely targeted context directly into the prompt, where you know exactly what the model sees and how it processes it. The prompt receives the most accurate use of attention—whereas god knows what the pipeline is for cursor or what extra layers and context restrictions they add on top of base Claude.

Giving the model a clean project hierarchy accomplishes a lot efficiently in terms of context tokens. The key is ensuring it only sees what's relevant, without diluting its attention.

Tools like reopmix and OP's version, feeding targeted context straight into models like Claude or Google's offerings, outperform Copilot and Cursor in my experience, even though they use the same base models. Use the highest-quality attention (the prompt context) directly, rather than layers of uncertainty and "proper indexing".


Ignoring the bombasticism of certain individuals, Gulf of America seems like a reasonable name.

The shores are roughly 50% not-Mexico, and both countries are America.

This is progressivism.


The name change coming from the F your feelings crowd who believe you shouldn’t be able to call yourself whatever you want.


Like trans stuff?


Bit weird to rename something after 400 years for purely nationalistic reasons though. Maybe Mexicans will be up for it though if Americans accept being called Unitedstatesians in English.


The name is now finally NOT centered around one nation.

Plus, it's the opposite of weird. National reasons are the most frequent cause for renaming areas after hundreds of years.

Additionally, the order doesn't change the name of any gulf along Mexico's Eastern shoreline. So whether they're "up for it" is inconsequential.


>The name is now finally NOT centered around one nation.

'Gulf of the Americas' would make more sense in that case. But that doesn't project the intended message from the new administration.

You can justify it however you want, but the intention was not to be inclusive and I think that's pretty clear. Unless talking about annexing Greenland and absorbing Canada are also just ways of making us one big happy family, I think the intention of the name is clear, regardless of how much sense one can force it to make after the fact.


The name predates Mexico by 200 years. The name refers to the city of Mexico, smack dab in the middle of the gulf.


Salient point, the US is the only American country with America in it's actual name. Names of things change. It's how language works. Even though I think Gulf of America is actually more apt a name, I and most people in the US could care less what it's called. It's just Trump playing power games like China does with the "South China Sea" v. "Sea of Japan".


Just call them USians. When I say 'americans' I often talk about north Americans, I use USians to disambiguate.


I have never heard American refer to anything but a United States resident, so I seriously doubt you. USian is disrespectful to the preferred demonym, if you do care about that.


Pedantically, the formal name of Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or United States (of) Mexico. USians would then be ambiguous.


Remember freedom fries saga? Pepperidge farm remembers. Roughly same emotional load, roughly same reasons and reasonability behind


Imagine being triggered by french fries, sad.


The shores are 100% "America", referring to the North and South American continents. It's as if the EU renamed the Baltic Sea as the "Sea of Europe", as an attempted swipe at Russia, ignoring that Russia also is (partly) in Europe.


This name makes zero sense and is entirely stupid. Something like a gulf is named for its proximity to the immediate geographic body to identify it with increased precision. This is clear effort to pander to nationalism and racism, and to stir shit up and get people mad about it. It's old tricks.


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