> after talking to a chatbot named ELIZA

Ummmmm……. this ELIZA?

[EDIT] ok I found a nonpaywalled summary; not that Eliza.

> The man apparently was so anxious about climate change he started to believe AI and tech were the only way out of disaster. During his conversations Eliza reenforced these ideas, and when the man proposed sacrificing himself if Eliza could save humanity, the chatbot encouraged him.

Sad story, but I’m not sure the AI is really the main character in it.

"get number 5"? What on earth are you babbling about now?

C'mon, man. You can't possibly be as dense as you're pretending to be right now. That doesn't even make sense as fiction, let alone as something that could actually happen on earth.

For what you're describing to be true would require a worldwide conspiracy involving basically every health care worker and records-keeper on the planet, with literally every government and organization suddenly cooperating even with their direct ideological enemies, all of this working in concert, all in perfect secrecy.

Not to mention that recording other types of death as COVID deaths would be obvious at a glance to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention, because there'd have to be a sudden unexplainable drop in the number of recorded deaths from every other cause.

And all of this for literally no reason or benefit other than to, um, *checks notes* increase the rent in Sydney? That's your grand conspiracy?

Seriously I don't understand how people like you get tricked into spouting such obviously ridiculous beliefs. I really don't.

Oh my goodness. I didn’t realize I was speaking with an actual raving lunatic; I hope you’re getting the mental health care you so obviously need.

In other words, “the precautions worked, therefore we didn’t need the precautions.”

Jesus, dude. That’s just appalling.

Millions of people died. Millions. How have you forgotten that already? How dare you downplay it as “relatively harmless”?

Incorrect. The anti-vaccine garbage you’re repeating is the fake news.

That aside: have you still not noticed which government is under discussion here? You know there’s more than one, yeah?

Facts are facts.

Hey you guys in here knee-jerking about “the government”: Y’all know there’s more than one of those, right?

You just made it 1000% clear you didn’t read past the headline before you started jerking your knees around.

Grow up

Hemp is not a substitute for hardwood.

No, we can’t. Not even close. This is preliminary research, it’s nowhere near production-ready technology.

I’m so sick of the overinflated headlines on this site

How are there still climate skeptics? The effects of climate change are happening. They’re not subtle.

Oh wow! I hadn’t realized that was today! Thanks!

You’d need to take the fabric off the chair if you were going to to spray paint it, too ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This is one of those things where trying to save time by skipping a step or two is going to end up costing way more time cleaning up your mistakes — do it right or don’t bother

Nope nope nope nope. Paint isn’t meant to flex and move around, it’ll peel off all raggedy and be impossible to clean up.

If you don’t want to buy a new cover, fabric dye is cheap and easy to work with (easier than spray paint, really, just do it outside in a bucket or something, and wear gloves…) but if at all possible you’ll want to test on a swatch of the same fabric to check the color; it can vary a lot depending on the material.