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In situations like this, CPS can actually be a good resource to help her make a change if other options fail. It’s a really tough call to make but know that nobody else may do it and the responsibility can be on you. If the safety of the child is at risk (and it seems like it could be), and she can’t get sober through other means, then it’s the right call to make. They won’t just ‘take custody of the child’ unless the situation is truly dire, and they can get her the help she needs.

If she’s having bad withdrawals then she should not quit without assistance since it can be deadly. She should enroll in an alcohol use disorder treatment program. There are a lot of treatment programs possible, both inpatient and outpatient. She can start with a family doctor or reach out to a treatment facility directly. You can call the SAMHSA National Helpline if you need help navigating anything.

I have two situations that are related. One is a friend, his mother had a really bad drinking problem when he was in high school and she refused to get help. His family worked through CPS to help her get treatment. The other is more personal, my sister is currently going through a psychosis where she hears the voice of god and it tells her to do things. She thinks her child is part of some divine plan. She refuses to get any treatment. Practically speaking, I don’t have any power to coerce her into getting treatment. I’m closely monitoring the situation and if I feel like things have gone too far then my plan is to call CPS. Since it will damage the relationship with my sister, I’ve giving her a lot of leeway, but if I ever feel like her child is unsafe then I’m calling immediately.

hexbear.net is on the list. It knows about benis.

Even more LLMs. It’s a carrot on a stick for businesses.

Louis Vuitton had to close its US site because of quality issues lamo.

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fwiw, I hear kratom hits different if you’ve never been on dope

I definitely think it should be legal and accessible because it’s a valuable tool for people on opioids. I don’t think we have a kratom epidemic. But in a conversation about alcohol alternatives with people who aren’t as informed about drug experimentation, I’d voice that kratom as a lot more potential consequences from say kava, cannabis, etc.

Not kratom in isolation. But if there is one drug that I’d say to not fuck around with it’s opioid and opioid-like analgesics. I have some friends who have been struggling for the past 15 years to get off of opioids, and many who didn’t make it. No other drug category has contributed more to decimating my friend group.

kratom

I don’t know how to say this nicely. Don’t do kratom unless you’re already an opioid addict and you need to come off. It’s not a safe drug to experiment with recreationally because it’s so easy to get addicted to. I’m a heavy drug user and promote experimenting with drugs except for opioids (and kratom) because of how many people I’ve seen absolutely ruin their lives on it.

I hoped the takeaway was to not evangelize the tech because it hurts people and withhold your labor from furthering this type of work, rather than “don’t use it”. People no longer have an option with not using it, the expectation of productivity has gone up and it’s either use it or be replaced by someone who will.

Sure but the argument is that we shouldn’t be so quick to accept technology that has negative consequences. This thread is all about job layoffs and loss of positions for those first entering the labor market because of AI speculation and labor replacement for low productivity tasks. This specific technology has consequences and maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to fervently accept it with open arms.

One big theme of the book is we have a moral obligation to withhold labor from developing technology that uniquely benefits governments and large corporations. Similarly, you’re defending the using ai to ‘stylize text’ even though it is disproportionately benefiting a fortune 500 news firm and hurting new labor entrants. The technology is not neutral and which side you are on?

The creator of Eliza found that people would sneak into his office late at night in order to have a secret conversations with it. They would say that the chatbot understood them, even those who understood it was a program. He would be asked to leave the room so they could have private conversations with it. He found this to be very alarming and it was one of the reasons he wrote the book. These stories are in that book.

The first chatbot (ELIZA) creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, wrote a book called Computer Power and Human Reason where he argued that we shouldn’t be so ready to accept technology that have extremely native negative moral and ethical consequence. It’s a good book and very relevant for something written in 1976.

The one down there is the boot. Then there’s the thimble, and the tophat.

You’ll have to pay the duty fee for your package to be released to you. Shippers usually want to cover this for you on your behalf, which will be offered as DDP (Delivered Duty Paid), in contrast to DDU (Delivered Duty Unpaid). If the package needs to be inspected, the carrier might charge $80-$200 (as per the image). If you got your package DDP then the shipper will cover this for you and shippers will generally amortize this cost over many customers so you’ll see the cost of shipping go up depending on how often these fees are levied.

That cost is also borne by purchaser

This company has the scariest labor system. There are no managers or product people, everyone is expected to contribute as if they are founders, which is why they have the most insane feature spread. You are constantly fearing for your job and they’ll do shit like send you to mexico for a “hackathon”. They have random rounds of layoffs to trim people who aren’t preforming at the top. They really figured out how to work people to the bone.

There is no expectation that it should go up (or down) because it doesn’t generate cash flows or have industrial use. The price only reflects sentiment.