We have so many houses going unused. We have food and resources for everybody, but we've set up a system that arbitrarily concentrates most of it on a few people! Young children, with no understanding why society is this way, are suffering and dying because they live in a world that collectively agrees to let this happen unnecessarily

Fuck, I'm stoned but you know I'm right

Edit: and the sad thought hits me: the first step is realizing the system doesn't have to be this way, the second step is realizing it isn't going to change, at least not any time soon

If it was legit it would probably take off

This is not said with any kind of malice to the trans community, I respect my trans homies. But literally no one gives a shit about dudes.

The Lowe's on roku city drive doesnt look like the ones in real life

Pretty weird but everyone seems chill about it

... eating ice cream directly from the pint.

It always destroys spoons eventually, might as well use ones too sharp, too tinny, too light, the wrong shape, or with just the wrong bend in them already.

Edit: for all the head scratchers out there, it's a trait some of us neurodivergent folks have. Some forks or spoons or whatever are nice to hold, and some are actually upsetting to use.

But they don't hunt demons I think

I've been studying a bit of human history recently and as many of you have probably heard, the worldwide population count increased sharply in the last century or so. link

the world's population was between 250 million and 500 million throughout the entire medieval age (500 AD to 1500 AD), so i assumed 330 million people on average (which it was around 1000 AD). 330 million people for a thousand years makes 330 billion human-years.

In the time period since 1970, approximately 6 billion people lived on earth on average, so that makes 55 * 6 billion = 330 billion human-years.

so, roughly speaking, as many human-years happened since 1970 than in the entire medieval history.

that might do a part in explaining why technological and societal progress has been so fast in the last couple of decades.

I was looking at r/LSD and made the realization that they freak out about normal water bottles, an AI generated video would obliterate them

1D and 2D are just mathematical abstractions. Everything is just 3D and that's it. There is no time, just space with a state.

(I tried to explain better in comments so please check that. I would be glad if someone could give me a response to this brain fuck I’m having)

I can see someone in the future watching a program run and asking "wow, is that ai? A PERSON typed those cryptic letters? No way!"

Pay attention to what companies do behind our back and you’ll quickly learn which ones are super creepy.

For example, Mistral Le Chat released the memory feature, but were kind enough to notify me about it. The notification itself also had a nice toggle that allowed me to disable said feature. That was unusually considerate of them.

However, opt-out is still rude when compared to opt-in settings. Think of Debian’s package popularity statistics for example. During installation, Debian gives you the option to enable the statistics or just ignore the whole thing and move on.

Contrast that with Microsoft Copilot that also rolled out the memory feature a while back without telling me anything about it. One day, I just noticed that Copilot is referencing an older conversation, which I find super creepy. That just made me feel betrayed. I already knew that Microsoft is a creepy corporation, just like Google and Meta, so that shouldn’t surprise me one bit. Speaking of Google, better check those gmail settings on again. I’m sure Google can’t stop messing around with them and enabling privacy violating settings from time to time.

I have a box of assorted 1GB and 4GB USB drives.

Funny how stuff you've had for years just feels "normal" even when it's highly unusual.

Since exercise is really easy for them, they wouldn't burn as many calories and would have a harder time losing weight

Trying looking at a sign or a sentence directly without reading it.

If I am fluent with the langauge and alphabet I kinda just start reading the words automatically.

I can't tell myself to not read.

In many RPG games, when you level up, it feels good. You see your stats increase, your damage output and damage resistance go up, all the numbers get bigger. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. But then, you are made to face tougher enemies which completely cancel out the progress you've made. As a player you're locked into a gameplay loop that acts like a treadmill that keeps you struggling all the time while providing an illusion of progress.

Inflation and "pay raises" are doing exactly the same thing. When you get a pay raise, you feel like you've progressed because you make more money than you used to when you first started. But if you take inflation into account, you've never really progressed at all. For most, their struggle only got even harder even.

odds of it happening eventually, go up the longer you live.

Despite this DNA replication being highly controlled and very accurate, the sheer number of times it is performed in the lifespan of a person (estimated to be 10,000 trillion times!) means the introduction of a significant number of errors into the DNA of some of our cells from this fundamental process is inevitable. source

Listening to another pitch about how AI can empower workers at various jobs across my industry, I was striken by the comparison in the title

3d printing, just like generative models, have it's actual niche uses, where it's obvious downsides are irrelevant and they come handy, e.g. prototyping, replacements, small-series production

Where it comes to the top-down AI promotion trend, it feels not unlike the idea of printing the whole product - a car, or a house, from the smallest details - applying the least effective method, doomed to have a worse than average outcome due to technological limitations

And screws, the thing that we nailed down long before, and that is completely incompatible with that mode of production, is a screaming, growling, shrieking example of how helpful tech can be mispurposed in the most stupid way