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The max thresholds don't mean it's fine if it's lower, just that at some point it becomes difficult to both detect the presence of things and there's a limit on how much can be prevented. If we were progressing in time correctly we should be lowering these maximum levels both in the ability of detection and in the beginning sources. Especially in cases like this where either the metals are being added or are part of specific ingredients that would cost more to process and remove the metals.
And wow, they said Washington State was lower than the FDA, but that's a magnitude less! Good job, Washington!
Ollama.com is another method of self hosting. Figuring out which model type and size for what equipment you have is key, but it's easy to swap out. That's just an LLM, where you go from there depends on how deep you want to get into the code. An LLM by itself can work, it's just limited. Most of the addons you see are extra things to give memory, speech, avatars, and other extras to improve the experience and abilities. Or you can program a lot of that yourself if you know Python. But as others have said, the more you try to get out, the more robust a system you'll need, which is why you find the best ones online in cloud format. But if you're okay with slower responses and lower features, self hosting is totally doable, and you can do what you want, especially if you get one of the "Jailbroke" models that has had some of the safety limits modified out of them to some degree.
Also as mentioned, be careful not to get sucked in. Even a local model can be convincing enough sometimes to fool someone wanting to see things. Lots of people recognize that danger, but then belittle people who are looking for help in that direction (while marketing realizes the potential profits and tries very hard to sell it to the same people).
Monty Python makes more sense than reality. I wish a moose would bite Trump.
Good for the staff. This is how you resist. I hope the front staff treated them like the assholes they are.
"Ma'am, we're with Homeland Security."
"And you came to an elementary school. Doing a great job there securing the nation."
I haven't seen the sequel to it yet, and sort of was fine leaving it open-ended. I can see how there are dark parts to that episode, mainly from sticking with Dark Mirror's premise that tech can be used badly. It also paints a not-so-great picture of the real people, hero worship, maybe the gaming industry? The sim copies seem to make out the best of anyone. Definitely a favorite, if I'd rate it on dark vs. positive, it's 8/10 positive, whereas San Junipero was a 10/10 in the end. Actually San was a 9/10, as it did show that some used the tech there as escape and didn't grow like the main characters finally did.
This felt like reading about someone who complains that The Daily Show doesn't have enough positive news stories on it. Dark Mirror fills a niche that people look for, it's not something that making people think a certain way.
And no mention at all of San Junipero. I guess that would break selling it as pessimism porn when there's examples otherwise.
The penguin is okay, that's the only thing important here.
"I love this "Make America Great Again" thing and I'm going to overuse it for every damn thing I can. The slogan, I'm not to actually do anything constructive."
Right? It's the biggest circus of all. Do you really want all those clowns looking for something else to do?
War, cold war, or trade war? Maybe a mix, like trade war (since that seems to be sticking around) and a proxy war that the US is using to keep the war supply industry rolling (since he had broken all other industries).
Don't forget plenty of other pandemic potentials, especially since the US officially doesn't recognize any problems anymore like climate or pollution or science.
Mass bleaching has been monitored throughout the Great Barrier Reef since the 80s. There was certainly bleaching but not at the level seen in the years listed, and look how that frequency changed. I doubt it's because we got better at documenting bleaching effects. The important thing is that bleaching to some degree is normal, but typically the population would have time to recover before the next event, and they would be localized. Large scale and every year doesn't allow recovery.