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I have used grok extensively for politics questions and it was undoubtedly left-wing.

Goes to show that no matter how you try to change a bot to say whatever you want, you can't without making it too obvious. These bots have been trained on the output of internet fora, printed media, etc. which is overwhelmingly left-wing, and therefore either you have a left-wing bot or you try to “push it” the other way and the bot starts saying nonsense like "kill the boer" or mechahitler.

Re:Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:11PM (#47950440)
That’s cool. A moron will hurt himself. One less moron in the world.
What’s wrong with a VPN service as long as it doesn’t route your traffic or anything.
20% doesn’t seem so bad?

And the more natural a food is the more inaccurate the results will be because of natural fluctuations. Think the amount of fat a chicken can have. So making this percent stricter will only benefit foods that are all chemicals.

The usual goyslop made of shit ingredients allows for very low tolerances. Mayo has some lab-grade soy oil, lab-grade yolk, and perhaps some lab-grade starch as thickener. Yipeee, we have a tolerance of 0.1% in calories. But how do you reach that level of accuracy with a roast chicken with no added stuff?

Re:UAE Leaves OPEC and OPEC+ on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:56AM (#47936241)
You can’t convince (almost all) consumers to spend money on something that they do not want.
“Reproductive rights” is a loaded term.
>Dafeng Lin, 27, of Hamilton, Junmin Shi, 25, of Markham, and Weitong Hu, 21, of Markham
Re:Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27 on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:35PM (#47924657)
On an unrelated note, I use Time Machine and I’m surprised at how unpolished, not to say downright buggy, all the animations are. They used to look magical, but now they are a mess of elements popping on and off and things moving and then vanishing the next frame and so on. It looks like they kept changing Finder and Time Machine didn’t keep up; they kept fixing the bare minimum to have it compile and nothing more.
Only a German could come up with “AGPLv3§7¶4”
Re:Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:38PM (#47904389)
He should make that statement under his real identity if he feels so strongly about it.
Re:Humpback whales are forming super-groups on Saturday April 25, 2026 @12:53PM (#47902809)
There also has been, in the past, threat of indirect consequences that would happen in the future and which never came true.
Re:Social media is no longer social on Saturday April 25, 2026 @12:48PM (#47902768)
Pretty sure non-uni students were allowed on Facebook way before 2014
He notably worked at Microsoft before founding Valve.
Re:Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine on Saturday April 25, 2026 @09:42AM (#47901516)
Correct. You have to spend a while in settings disabling stuff.

The browser does not re-enable the things you have disabled, but they keep implementing new stuff that you have to disable too.

It’s annoying, although that’s how most software works nowadays (and I include Firefox unfortunately). You have to disable a lot of stuff to make it usable.

Re:Is Italy the new tax haven for the global rich? on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:26AM (#47899462)
> Italy has already been attacked by the French Government for using tax incentives to lure wealthy French and other international residents away

Has France tried to compete instead of criticise?