Labradors are amphibians.

So, you’re saying that an MP has filed a police report against you for harassment?

You’re assuming a bad outcome and then acting as if it’s a guaranteed outcome. This is maladaptive behavior under any circumstances.

Please actually talk to a therapist about this if you can. I guarantee this behaviour pattern is occurring in other places in your life, and it’s not healthy.

This is fundamentally the real problem. Submitting false reports to police will always be possible. Anyone can do it. But a false police report should never endanger someone’s life. That’s only possible because of bad policing.

I’ve actually personally made a police report that resulted in our version of a SWAT team being sent. They’re called ETF here in Canada. I saw what looked like a domestic violence incident, with a knife involved. Because there was a weapon, policy said to send ETF.

When they arrived they locked down the entire area, and then they talked to the people inside the apartment. They gave clear and simple instructions, they made them both walk out one at a time, they got everyone’s stories, and they resolved the entire incident without violence.

ETF are trained by JTF-2, one of the best special forces units in the world. These are absolutely terrifying people. If violence had been needed they would have dispensed it with ruthless efficiency. But that training also gives them the confidence to not use violence as a first resort. They’re taught to de-escalate, to resolve situations safely and calmly wherever possible.

This is how policing works all over the developed world. Only in America is “murder by cop” a realistic option, and that’s 100% a problem with American policing.

And, I want to be absolutely clear about this; Canadian policing sucks. We’re not even a good example. So many countries do it better than us. America has set the bar so low that even our middling efforts look amazing in comparison.

It genuinely is the actual name, because Hegseth genuinely is that cringe.

Instead of theorizing, just call and ask why they haven’t responded. If the answer is “Because we’re snowed under”, well, there you go. And now they know that you really give a shit because you’re badgering them for a response. They get a lot of form letters but very few people follow up. That immediately ups the seriousness in their minds.

Be unreasonable if you have to be. I don’t mean impolite. Be nice to the human being on the other end of the line. But be demanding. Your MP works for you. Make them work.

Functionally, yes, it is auditory dyslexia. You’re not struggling to hear, you’re struggling to get the sounds to process into words.

@ OP; This will be happening everywhere in the LLM space (see my other comment for why). It’s not really Character AI’s fault, it just costs too much to run these models, and those costs aren’t solvable, not even with scale. The industry as it was only existed because they were essentially giving away a very expensive product. It’s like someone gave you a combustion engine car that “doesn’t need gas” and it turns out they were just paying a guy to go to your house and top it up every night.

I’m sorry that you’re losing access to a creative outlet that you enjoyed. Maybe you can take this as an opportunity to bring that creative energy to other things? If you like roleplaying, there are tonnes of online spaces dedicated to it. Not all RP is people arguing over stats and slaying dragons. Systemless RP like the conversation flows you enjoyed with CAI do exist and plenty of them are anonymous too. If you’d still prefer something you can do in private, maybe try writing? You’re already handling one side of the conversation, so why not just pick up the other as well?

For the record, this is happening all over the AI space. Usage limits are tightening significantly, not only for free users but paid plans too. The major players are upping their costs per token, reducing token limits on subscription plans, and increasingly talking about moving all of their customers to paying direct inference costs instead of subscriptions.

This will kill the industry, and they don’t have a way out of it. Regular consumers aren’t going to pay per token. You think about the people you know or hear stories about, the people who love ChatGPT because it “listens to all their problems” and “gives them real advice.” The people who use it as a therapist or ask it what to eat at a restaurant. Now imagine those people having to mentally budget every conversation they have with an LLM. No way. Not a chance.

And business users are looking at their skyrocketing AI bills, with zero meaningful productivity gains on the other side of the balance sheet, and they’re calling bullshit. It’s doing nothing for them and they’re paying outrageous prices for the privilege. And right now those prices are still subsidized.

This has always been the fatal flaw in the entire industry. In the entire concept. They could have survived the hallucinations, the low quality output, the scandals and deaths and AI psychosis, if only the damn thing was cheap to run. But the cost is what will kill them.

So, nothing but upsides.

And all of that would be fine if they were still acting like an ally.

Phone their office, demand to know why you haven’t heard back from them. Make them search through their emails and pull up every message you ever sent. Make them uncomfortable. Be a problem.

I’m not sure what you feel like you’re adding with this reply.

Well done for making the effort. Thank you, and we all appreciate it.

But what do you want other people to take from this? Are you trying to discourage other people from taking action? Because you encountered resistance other people shouldn’t try at all, even though they might end up speaking to someone more receptive?

Even your MP may end up changing their mind if enough people speak up. The goal is not to single-handedly sway their opinion, it’s to add your voice to a growing chorus. You’re joining a movement, not fighting a solo battle.

If you’re a Canadian, please contact your MP about bill C-22, and do it now. They’re voting on this in the next few days.

https://dontsurveil.me/

Salt Typhoon, a hacking group connected to the Chinese government, used the backdoors put in place by CALEA in the US to spend months buried deep in US telecoms providers surveilling citizens. The Liberals are proposing to put in place a worse version of those exact same backdoors. Bring this up to your MP, remind them that when the Chinese (or North Koreans, Iranians, Russians, or even Americans) inevitably exploit these backdoors to do the same thing to us, it’s going to blow up in their faces.

Read the link above for more salient points about why this is bad law. Read Open Media’s articles on it (https://openmedia.org/press/item/ottawa-repackages-its-surveillance-backdoor-in-bill-c-22). Bring up these points to your MP. Email them. Phone and demand to speak to them. Make a stink about this.

If nothing else, send the form letter from Open Media (the other options are better, but something is better than nothing); https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1#main-content

They already tried to pass this law once and it failed. Yes, they have a majority now, but it is a very slim majority. If a few MPs defect this bill will die.

Uh… “The West” absolutely uses depleted uranium weapons. The US makes depleted uranium warheads for the Abrams tank, the A-10, and even the Bradley. The UK has depleted uranium rounds for the Challenger tank. This isn’t just a Russian thing.

But yes, it’s not some kind of “nuclear weapon” despite what the intentionally vague headline suggests.

Can I get in on those beans though?

Oh no! Not my private jet!

Anyone doubting this should look up what happened with CUPE in Ontario, Canada. The government passed a law that would fine them for striking. They went on strike anyway, and a collective of national unions threatened a general strike. The government repealed the law and wiped out all the fines.

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Ahhhhhh she’s so pretty!

I have a BMC too, they’re such beautiful dogs.