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Once upon a time, down the street from where Junie Speakman (sponsor of the legislation) lives, there was an SRO hotel called the Harriet Bradford Inn. About 25 years ago, it got sold, and turned into ~12 condos w/ an average price of $1 million each.

Part and parcel of the gentrification happening in that neighborhood over my lifetime-but, even 1bdrms in Providence are > $900 a month, so I'm not sure how much effect adding more one-bedrooms can do for families.

Not sure what your point is. This seems like a great way to create another housing option. It is an alternative for those who can't afford the studios or 1BRs (which, BTW, would be a bargain anywhere close to $900).

You can call it (pejoratively) gentrification, but, due simply to demand and not enough houses, there is certainly housing that is not luxe that is quite pricey as well.

$900 for a 1-bdrm in Providence (not between Main St. & Gano) is ...ludicrously expensive historically speaking. Part of that is RI salaries being terrible, and another is that to get a cheaper place you have to live in the shootier neighborhoods on the Westside.

And-I am not complaining about the gentrification; far better a condo in that bldg. than a new McMansion on a greenfield site. I just think the legislation is barely worth the effort.

The guy left a suicide note that ratted out ChatGPT for simply being a good buddy. No good deed goes unpunished, ai guess.

Very different impression than what I got, I read that as him marking the ChatGPT conversations as an extension of/footnotes to the suicide note itself, or that the conversations made sense to him in the headspace he was in; he thought that reading it would make the act make sense to everyone else, too

How does that differ from what they said?

“Ratted out” implies blame from the user himself towards the AI for the outcome, which just wasn’t the impression I had.

That’s a better perspective.

Thank you for your service.

So does Youtube's new Theater Mode.

No man ever slides behind the wheel of the same Tercel twice.

> No man ever slides behind the wheel of the same Tercel twice.

Pantercel Rhei

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Never buying Michelin tires again if I can help it.

Well, "addictive smoking" causes cancer, let's say.

The visual appeal is undeniable ;)

Thank you! I am quite happy with how it turned out and looking at it now reminds me a bit of the clock in Lost when it turns to Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

I use ChatGPT sometimes, but only after I've exhausted google's results for my search and not found the answer I was looking for, or when the query is so obscure that the enhanced problem solving ability of ChatGPT warrants going to it first. I like ChatGPT for solving mundane math problems because I can check its work, and getting the answers I need that way are quicker than doing it myself manually. I still don't trust ChatGPT for anything subjective, because I get spurious results from it anytime the answer to my question is not cut and dry. But what it can do, it does well.

I don't have a circle of friends, so I have no idea what other people are doing, outside of what I read online.