This actually happened with my father. Not only was the missing rent due, but they also had a lawyer argue that by dieing, my father had broken the lease, so we had to pay the fee for that too. The judge reduced the fee a bit, but we still ended up having to pay thousands out of his estate to that shitty apartment complex’s parent company.

So yes, at least in the state this happened, the missing rent was required to be paid out of the estate. Not sure what your role is in this scenario, but if someone died, consider kindness rather than trying to secure every last dollar possible.

What an exciting time to be building software! With AI, we’re able to achieve production outages with unprecedented frequency!

Duolingo isn’t just teaching vocabulary — it’s teaching real communication.

Wow, nice, even the article’s written by AI! /s

Come to think of it, why would I even bother learning a new language in the first place? I’ll just have my AI talk to my friend’s AI, and that way I won’t have to think or interact with another human at all!

In Texas, voters just passed a constitutional amendment giving parents the right “to exercise care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to make decisions concerning the child’s upbringing” specifically for cases like this. Almost everyone I spoke to was in full support of it and kept saying “obviously a parent should decide what’s best for their child”. But as someone who grew up in a toxic religious family, it makes me so sad to see that there’s no protection for kids in these situations. Parents can ensure they’re doomed to a life of ignorance and bigotry before they even have a chance. :(

I’m kinda with you tbh. At the rate he’s going, maybe, just maybe, the frog will realize it’s being boiled.

Ah, yep, that’s what it is. Thanks for the clarification. Found this in another article:

The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.

So does Texas actually. But the part that I finally found in this article which is noteworthy is this:

The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.

So what got sent to the federal government included additional PII not present in the public dataset.

They were not

Where are you getting that from? As I mentioned in another reply, you’ve been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I’m not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government…

Yeah, I’m kinda confused here as well. You’ve been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I’m not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government…

I know this comes from a good place, but you are misunderstanding how LLMs work at a fundamental level. The LLMs “admitted” to those things in the same way that parrots speak English. LLMs aren’t self-aware and do not understand their own implementation or purpose. They just spit out a statistically reasonable series of words from their dataset. You could just as easily get LLMs to admit they are an alien, the flying spaghetti monster, or the second coming of Jesus.

Realistically, engaging with these LLMs directly in any way is not really a good idea. It wastes resources, shows engagement with the app, and gives it more training data.

For the FAANG companies, they do it in part so they can then turn around and make those flashy claims you see in headlines like “95% of ours devs use [insert AI product they are trying to sell] daily” or “60% of our code base is now ‘written’ by our fancy AI”.

Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.

This is such a bizarre take.

I wouldn’t characterize musicians who depend on some financial return as “low effort” at all. Almost all the best musicians, going back to classical music and beyond, were dependent on their music as a source of income.

If anything, the people who do music as a side hobby are usually more “low effort” than those who actually make it their main career. And if artists can’t make money of their music anymore, we’ll really only get music from rich people who can afford the lessons, instruments, recording studio, production, etc. as an expensive hobby rather than a source of income.

This isn’t really an answer to the ‘universal negativity’, but for a somewhat reasonable analysis of the pros and (surprisingly high number of) cons as well as some interesting grey areas, there’s an old LWT episode on this topic: https://youtu.be/AJm8PeWkiEU

The median age of first-time buyers rose to 40 in 2025 from 38 the year before, and is up sharply from 33 just five years ago

In case anyone else was wondering what “typical” means, they’re referring to the median. Not sure why they wouldn’t put that in the headline since, unlike “typical”, it actually has a clearly defined mathematical meaning.

Any company that pays for ads closely tracks the efficacy of ads and can more or less prove that the ads are worth it. There’s no guess work.

While I understand the sentiment, I don’t feel like that’s a particularly fresh revelation… If anything, I was surprised at the handful of dissenting voices on the right. Even before this latest wave of Epstein news, I was willing to bet Trump could just straight up admit to pedophilia and still wouldn’t lose much of his base.