Accumulated knowledge in our society really is frail. Take a computer mouse, tons of people are involved in making them, they’re considered extremely simple tools. Yet not one person on the planet could go out into nature, get the natural resources required, and without help turn those resources into a working computer mouse.

I asked ChatGPT to generate a utopic looking city but make the buildings curvy. It got pretty close.

That’s not what they said, you’re presenting a false dichotomy. The truth is, in determining what another person feels, if you refuse to trust their words, then you can trust nothing. Yes, there are signals that hint at things that might lay below, but you cannot tell someone what their inner thoughts are better than they themselves.

In that vein, something often said of those who have killed themselves is “but I saw them yesterday and they looked so happy!” By your logic, if they looked happy they must have been happy, and just felt like ending it one day for no real reason.

Technically yes, with perfect or near-perfect management, we could double our population and minimize the damage. But realistically, our resource usage will certainly continue at a rate similar to or more than it is now.

The good thing is, birth rates are proportional to available resources, quality of life, and education; and birthrates globally are already on a decline in non-developing countries. Low birthrates have negative implications on society, but for the planet as a whole, less humans are a good thing

I think it’s just easier for people to cope with bad things happening around them if they can simply point a finger at someone or something and blame that. It’s easier than accepting that the universe is random and chaotic, and sometimes random chaos decides to hurt you.

I think my credit report still says I work at “DOMINOES” after like 5 years of not being there. It doesn’t effect anything, but I get mild amusement out of it being misspelled on top of that.

No, it’d be like if we blockaded and bombed Mexico, then complained that their military isn’t giving out food to the general population.

When you blockade supplies and infrastructure from an entire region of people, most of whom have done nothing wrong, then yes, food shortages are your fault.

Leaving Reddit gave me the opposite of FOMO. I’m glad to not be fed as much algorithm-tailored BS as before. I still use YouTube, but most of my YouTube viewing is at least related to my other hobbies.

Shout-out to the GM of the Aaron’s calling me an idiot that doesn’t know how to operate a dryer when they sold me one out the door so clogged I’m amazed my house didn’t light on fire. Swore up and down they quality checked everything, the 2 hours I spent with that machine open scraping the lint out suggests otherwise.

Yes, I’m still salty about it over a year later.

The RIAA’s lawyers will be there to take that bird for everything it has.

No amount of ML expertise will let someone know how a model produced a result, exactly. Training the model from the data requires a lot of very delicate math being done uncountable times to get a model that results in something useful, and it simply isn’t possible to comprehend how the work inside is done in a meaningful way other than by doing guesswork.

Oxygen makes iron turn into rust, don’t let that be your lungs. Oppose Big Oxygen.

I wouldn’t be that surprised if that look became a meme face

Weird

Edit: I guess I can’t post the HTML even in code blocks. RIP.

Basically, since the bra is holding up the breasts, the body isn’t putting as much into the ligaments and such that would normally do the job. Resulting in saggier breasts than would result if you didn’t wear one as often.

I don’t know how much formal research has been done on it, but that’s the usual line of thought.

A lot of my dreams “zoom out” and turn out to be me playing a game, usually if too many fantastical elements are happening in it. Most of my dreams are relatively grounded, so my brain tries to explain itself when they aren’t, I guess.

It’s basically rule #1 to not give an addict money, but give them things they can’t trade for material value instead.

DVORAK is a keyboard layout that you can enable via your OS and use with a QWERTY keyboard. It’s laid out with the most used keys on the homerow to reduce finger movement.

I’ve tried swapping to it a couple times. Problem is, you have to throw all of your established muscle memory in the trash to learn it. I kinda wish I’d learned it first in a sense, but QWERTY is so dominant that I’d be struggling anywhere I couldn’t change layouts.

https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU?si=72Z4ZIM2N5BZydGM

No, copyright systems really are just that stupid if they want to avoid liability.