Interesting Links for 27-05-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Husbands create 7 hours of extra housework a week

(tags:housework men society )

2. Loopholes and massive losses - How Temu Is Losing Millions of Dollars to Send Americans Cheap Socks

(tags:China USA shopping Doom )

3. Using LLMs for research will end badly. Legal research will end *very* badly

(tags:law ai epicfail )

Comments

[nancylebov]

So if you don't like China, you should order a lot from Temu.

[yalovetz]

That explains why we always seem to have so much neverending housework that we can never get on top of, given that there are two husbands in our household.

[andrewducker]

It is known that polyamorous gay male communes have to spend all of their time doing housework.

[yalovetz]

Oh no! We are polyamorous. I hadn't even thought of the implications for if we brought another partner into the household. Right, that's it, I don't think we can afford to bring in any new domestic partners. The amount of housework could just end up multiplying exponentially. >:O

[andrewducker]

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you were - just that households that were would be in trouble.

[yalovetz]

No apology necessary, we are!

[hairyears]

(2) It should be shocking, rather than wearily depressing, that American consumers have been offered something even worse that Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

[calimac]

The main effect on me of Musk buying Twitter is that it now takes much longer to load Twitter links from your link list than it used to.

[andrewducker]

It is annoying, and I wish people would post their interesting things elsewhere!

[anna_wing]

3 I was rendered temporarily speechless, reading that affidavit...

[andrewducker]

One of those things where I really want to know what they were thinking.

And then make sure they never practice law again.

[anna_wing]

Some hapless Gen-Z intern will doubtless be blamed...

Running a test to see if it was actually useful would have been a perfectly legitimate course of action, but not using a real, ongoing case!

[andrewducker]

Oh yeah, sure, ask it what a good approach might be. But for goodness sake verify!