Oh, absolutely agree. I think: the more people contribute to European independence, the better.

you’re an hero!

Funny thing is that ours doesn’t even have PVC in it. We don’t have chlorine in our water either.

We mostly have trace sand, chalk, and minerals, but that’s it.

But that’s the thing, grifters might earn a lot of money with the few gullible people, and then use their wealth for nefarious ends.

I agree with you that some people are just too dumb, but in this age I’d prefer to not let grifters get any chance.

I oppose it, mainly because it takes advantage from gullible people, and opens the door for companies making water expensive.

Tap water here costs £1 per 1,000 L.

£19 a bottle (1 L) would amount to £19,000 per 1,000 L.

So, nope.

Fucking fascists. Whoever shot the reporter deserves to get hanged.

RFK JR supports a pedophile. Reveal the unaltered Epstein files and step down

A waste of time and space, those cops are.

But now that they look over that crosswalk, perhaps a great opportunity to do it elsewhere.

A livability index would be nice, to make it clearer.

You could chop it up into various bits. In no particular order:

Costs
a) Food, water, electricity prices as % of median net hourly wage.
b) Median home prices, include quality of housing

Comfort
c) Safety and good governance (Corruption perceptions index,
d) % of roads that have dedicated, interconnected pedestrian and bicycle paths
e) % of city interconnectively covered by public transit (density, frequency, punctuality, comfort)
f) % of cityspace dedicated to green space (trees, parks, etc.)

and so on, and so on.

Doesn’t DeepSeek still censor sensitive questions (e.g. about Taiwan and the Tiananmen protests) when ran locally and offline?

Although it’s certainly got its merits (being FOSS? and much more energy-efficient than most models), censorship of state violence is still bad.

I wonder how other chat AIs do, concerning that censorship. Grok we already know to be shit, it warps the truth beyond words. Even regarding non-political stuff, its accuracy is trash compared to other models.

How about ChatGPT? Ollama? Kobold? Llamafile? Do they censor stuff?

And Ollama then? Kobold.cpp? Llamafile? Those might arguably be better.

Ah, weird. The enter key I have isn’t L-shaped, hence why.

This seems like iit’s AI made buf I’m not sure. Notice the L-shaped key.

Pro-tip: block using keywords. Some instances also are defederated from others, meaning you don’t see their comments or posts.

Don’t. If the sport teams want to reach you, they gotta do it another way.

It’s both.

There’s no russophobia when that country would want you killed for opposing authoritarianism. Or when that country routinely invades Europe. Or when it shoots down a plane and doesn’t apologise nor extradite the criminals who did it (Girkin and Putler).

Or when it opposes your very existence as a person. Or when it infects your people with the disease of far-right hatred. And I could go on. Fuck Putler’s Russia.

Where did I talk about a 4-year-old? I’m not exactly appealed with you putting those words in my mouth.

That said, obviously there is a big difference. I already mentioned the gentle guidance, for that sixteen year old; eg. that if they ever have questions concerning the house maintenance and all that, they should always feel free to come ask you.

And… these aren’t really dangerous years to be unsupervised. In fact, I think it’s more dangerous to live supervised by a deeply controlling helicopter parent, evangelist family.

As I said: gentle guidance. I ask you to read before commenting.

Going by all your comments, honestly, I’d say, why not? You get privacy, your kid grows independent. Try it out for half a year or year at least.

Make clear arrangements:

• Clean your apartment every once in a while.
• Take good care of yourself, but don’t be afraid to ask for help.
• Pay utility bills themselves.

You could give a low allowance (so you can pay the rent for them). Once they work/study and can pay rent themselves, offer that they pay rent themselves in exchange for a higher allowance.

Or withhold a bit of the allowance (10%/mo?), and later together pick out a useful household item to buy, from that withheld bit.

You could try doing it with a trial for say, half a year, if that goes well, perfect.

Other than that, let 'em go for it.