Recent content by SmikeSmith

I’ve seen it posted other places already. I agree, in part, that it may not push the needle, but at the same time, I think there’s been good discussion here about what the problems are, and some good suggestions about how things might be better. The action itself is important, not just whether...

Fully support the petition. I think you make really good points, and have a good proposal. I think the biggest challenge is that there is such a range of providers, and one portal. To add to that, there are a lot of ethical issues within the SW, different kinds of service providers, etc. and...

“Are you married?”

Looks like I assumed and made an ass of myself. Thanks for the correction and a bit more insight into how things work.

My guess is that it would depend on your relationship with an individual provider, and you’d be more likely to find that with an independent, since it’s unlikely they’d be working all day at an agency if they were having their period. I generally have no issue with period blood, so if a provider...

Is it that you have to have the login cookies when you search maybe? Can you do the same search in incognito mode?

I think Forum Mod is amazing. 10/10 ymmv. Searching hasn’t been a huge issue for me, except when you hit those long review threads, like looking for someone and a recommendation/review is buried in a side discussion in someone else’s review. It’s always good to have some discussion on the...

Speak for yourself, my content is always _very_ interesting.

I guess if you make enough “blunt provocative critiques” against the same group of people often enough, people might start to think you’re not a great person. And to reiterate, no one here has said that murder is acceptable. As opposed to Charlie Kirk, who praised Kyle Rittenhouse for his...

AI doesn’t know anything. It is a statistical equation. It has no access to interviews, personal histories, FBI informants, or any of the other information that’s been gathered. The last version of Gemini was trained in April 2025, meaning it only contains “knowledge” of information up until...

AI is just a statistical equation. It doesn’t know anything. It puts terms together based on the frequency of co-occurrence and cannot be trusted for material on which it has not been trained. If you’re basing your opinion on AI as “proof” of anything, it’s not going to work.

This is pretty great. I used to have Pavement on my Walkman when I was skating 😅 It’s not a song for tight corners, but blasting down the highway with the windows open and Range Life playing on the stereo is the way to go for me. That last verse is so good.

I have an LCD Soundsystem, and Daft Punk is playing in my house.

The real giveaway is “100000% Companionship” there’s not actually any way to give more than 100% companionship, unless you’re in a duo or something. Seems fishy.

Regardless, so much of all of this conflict is all people trying to argue in good faith being met with endless trolling. Over and over again.