Definitely! However if your first experience with HR is being discriminated against, raising concerns about discrimination can be dangerous. Who do you go to when HR is causing the issues? HR is there to protect the company, not you. If the easiest way to protect the company is to fire someone, HR will probably do that.

I’m not trying to talk OP or anyone else out of going to HR, they aren’t always sharks waiting to fire someone. It’s just good to be careful here and OP and their wife should be aware of the risks before taking any action. Definitely document this incident. If this becomes a repeat issue, documentation can be the difference between getting fired and winning a wrongful termination lawsuit.

It sure sounds like racism and poorphobia to me. HR trying to make sure her surroundings don’t look like what a “typical poor person” would have (clutter, children, signs of disability, “drugs”, etc.) It’s not super common, but it’s common enough that I hear about it every so often.

I can’t offer any kind of legal advice, but it sounds like this job will be potentially problematic and HR will definitely be one to watch out for.

ETA: There’s a lot of paranoia in the US right now about “laptop farms”. Remote jobs are paranoid about people getting remote work to send money back to North Korea. It’s completely ridiculous, and it’s causing issues for a lot of people, mostly marginalized people. I think it’s useful context to know why this kind of thing is happening more lately.

Not yet, but I’m learning to sew so that I can make my own clothes! The only things I can find in my style just don’t fit or have terrible colors and patterns. With parametric patterns I can make anything I want tailored specifically for my body shape, and I don’t have to spend money I don’t have on things made in unethical abusive sweatshops.

The best resource I’ve found so far is https://freesewing.org. It’s a community based around a piece of software for creating parametric sewing patterns. There aren’t many patterns there yet, but there’s two patterns for underwear and one of the people involved has a youtube channel with some great tutorials https://invidious.perennialte.ch/channel/UCvknI22P32FxprncDmtpWpw

I told you bro. I fuckin’ warned you.

People have called me “paranoid” for years for pointing out that this kind of thing was going to happen, and it’s so much worse than I thought it would be but at least I’m vindicated.

Tech companies will literally murder or enslave you if they think it would be good for their bottom line. We know that’s true because tech companies are murdering and enslaving people in the global south because it’s good for their bottom line. Stop giving them money. Stop buying wifi-enabled garbage that spies on you for the police state.

Maybe it’s a good thing that people with entirely too much money are being forced to rock their own crying child instead of having a machine do it. Using robots to soothe your child is a Phillip K. Dick-esque dystopia. Obviously a crying child take a huge mental and physical health toll on everyone in a house, but in a country where poor people are being forced to give birth, maybe the rich people should have to suffer a little bit too.

Anarchism is not anti-government. Anarchism is anti-hierarchy. Government is very possible without hierarchy, which is why most anarchists see direct democracy on the level of individual communities as the only valid system of government. One of the most popular forms of anarchism right now is anarcho-communism. One of the core ideas of anarcho-communism is that people need to band together as a free-association of producers society commune. It’s based on the ideas put forth by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread where his opening argument for anarchism is that everything that has ever been built has only been possible because of people cooperating and building off of each other.

It can sound a bit ridiculous at first because a lot of people spend their whole lives hearing nothing but anti-anarchist propaganda created by states that are inherently threatened by anarchism. If you’ve been told your whole life that anarchists are just weird people who hate the government then you’re probably going to end up believing it. Most anarchists I’ve met have held a negative view of anarchism at some point in their life because of it!

You should dig around the wikipedia page for anarchism a little bit. It might not convince you, but it does a decent job of presenting anarchist ideas as anarchists would describe them and you might get an idea of what anarchists are actually fighting for.

A law for gender reassignment surgery to be paid for by the state when people are incarcerated for murder? Well then say that.

That’s a horrible misrepresentation of what happened. The issue isn’t that there’s no “law for gender reassignment surgery to be paid for by the state when people are incarcerated for murder”, the issue is that trans prisoners have a law excluding them from receiving healthcare. The state has to pay for the medical care of prisoners. For “some reason” (transphobia) trans people’s healthcare is not included in that. Kamala Harris upheld an unjust and transphobic law. “She was just following orders doing her job” isn’t the defense you think it is.

Your misrepresentation of the problem is another great example of transphobia. Trans people are asking not to have their medical care excluded. You just think trans medical care isn’t necessary but you don’t want to say it, so you have to twist the actual problem to make it seem like the trannies are being ridiculous again.

And this is another great example. You don’t care about what trans people have to say, you don’t want Harris to be better. You want the filthy trannies and commie pinkos to stop whining and vote. You don’t want change, you want things to go “back to normal” so you don’t have to think about people suffering for the neoliberal regime.

So yeah, this is the part where you get mad at leftists for asking for any sort of change. It’s also pretty transphobic and you spent a lot of time trying to defend some pretty awful shit. This is exactly what I was talking about. You don’t want to hear what lefties have to say, but you won’t own up to that.

Yes.

Leftists are trying to push her left because they want a more progressive president. It’s a perfectly “valid” political position to think she’s perfect as is and want leftists to stop trying to get her to be more progressive, just own it. You’re pushing back against leftists and then pretending you aren’t, and that’s where you lose any good will or assumptions of good faith. By all means disagree with lefties, just own it.

My problem specifically is that this kind of thing happens any time lefties push for Democrats to be progressive. Exactly 4 years ago I saw leftists being chastised for trying to push Biden left because “he has to win first”, then it was “he just won you have to give him time”, then it was “we can’t worry about distractions like trans rights or antiracism, we need to worry about midterms”, then it was “midterms just ended, we need to give them time to get organized”, then it was “we can’t worry about distractions like trans rights or antiracism or genocide, we need to worry about Trump”, and now it’s looped back to “she has to win first”. In 6 months it’ll be “she just won you have to give her time”, and a year from now we’ll be too busy worrying about midterms.

Do you see the pattern here? There’s never an acceptable time for liberals to care about marginalized people. We’re not even saying Harris is evil or should lose, we’re literally just asking for her to do better. I genuinely hope she wins, nationalizes all the things, fixes racism and transphobia, and we all live happily ever after. I just don’t think we’ll ever get there without pushing our leaders to do better. You know how the right loves to say “love America or get out”? Leftists are taking the third option of “make it better” and you’re pushing back against them for it. You aren’t saying it out loud, but you’re embodying the “love it or leave it” mentality of the right.

We just want her to be better.

but posting “Harris isn’t progressive enough on —-“ right now is not okay

Trans people are literally just asking for basic human dignity, and you’re telling us that isn’t okay.

This entire response is an exercise in mental gymnastics. Leftists are bad for “not doing politics” but also leftists are bad for doing politics.

If we survive this election and Harris gets in, I’ll be right there demanding progress. For the next 87 days though, it’s more GOTV than Here’s My List of Demands.

If I had a penny for every liberal that said that and then didn’t actually care, I’d be able to pay the student debt Joe Biden thought I didn’t deserve to have forgiven.

I don’t have links because they get banned pretty quickly, but over the last week I’ve seen maybe 4 or 5 examples of lemmy users referencing “the race card” (derogatory) in response to others talking about systemic racist violence.

Run your candidate, get the votes. N’est-ce pas?

Out of curiosity, how would you respond to people voting third party instead of for Harris?

In the past day you’ve attacked people for trying to push for Harris to have more left-leaning policies. So you don’t actually want people to do the work to get involved in politics, you want people to just vote for whoever the Democrats run.

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If you’d rather have any amount of bad journalism over trying to fix things, then we hold such fundamentally different values that I don’t actually know how to talk to you. You’re also moving the goalposts a lot, you seem like you have your mind made up that somehow ads promote good journalism, which is just not true.

And the direct pay model has plenty of audience capture or the well known yellow journalism issues

This issue already exists and has for as long as modern sensationalist news has existed - decades.

IDK it seems to me like ABC of the 1980s was more trustworthy than cable news or social media of the 21st century.

You don’t actually think that, you just weren’t actually around for the media of that era so you don’t know what it was like. You’re blinded by rose-colored glasses. I’ll remind you that Rupert Murdoch built his media empire in the 1980s, and Murdoch’s one of the empires currently destroying media. There’s also the bit where Reagan couped multiple countries and the USAmerican public still thinks it never happened because it wasn’t covered.

I’m asking for a source specifically on how commanding an LLM to not hallucinate makes it provide better output.

Again, I’m not sure what kind of source you’d like to see for this, as it’s a basic consequence of how LLMs work. Maybe you could show me a source that proves you correct instead?

That’s not how citations work. You are making the extraordinary claim that somehow, LLMs respond better to “do not hallucinate”. I simply don’t believe you and there is no evidence that you’re correct, aside from you saying that maybe the entirety of reddit had “do not hallucinate” prepended when OpenAI scraped it.

I’d love to see a source on that.

Gotta let the people know they’re getting scammed with false advertising

You can’t tell an LLM to not hallucinate, that would require it to actually understand what it’s saying. “Hallucinations” are just LLMs bullshitting, because that’s what they do. LLMs aren’t actually intelligent they’re just using statistics to remix existing sentences.

they really want to blame trans people for everything and it pisses them off so much when they can’t do that.

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