Pacific drive coded

Capitalism is truly the most efficient system. Needing whole teams to control the owner just because he’s the one that owns the workplace due to having money

Do you even need a robot arm for that? Just have the gridle be on both sides of the burgers (and have like a locking mechanism or something. Kinda like a waffle machine) and then just attach a motor to it that periodically rotates it. Then a timer for when it’s done

But it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures

A lot of modern monitors have one built-in for convenience yeah

Another example, see: ads

There’s a reason the advertising industry is maaaaaassive. And no, you aren’t “immune to ads” or willingly make yourself “less likely to buy the product”. You think you are, but you’re not.

You’re not immune to propaganda

When people keep telling me to basically deny my reality, it makes me feel more shit than anything else. I’d much rather someone empathize and tell me that, yes, things actually do suck. And guess what, that does make me feel better and more sane

If you don’t acknowledge reality and stay realistic that things actually are not always that great, then the next time you get knocked down by something, or your challenges make something you aspired to do rail, then you’re just gonna fall apart like a house of cards. Especially if you start internalizing that you should be able to do this and that it’s your fault you didn’t succeed etc

Treating mental health in an individualist way sucks, and sometimes is worse than nothing

What are you on about

I don’t know if it’s just my neurodivergencies speaking, but that’s wayy too much. No way I’d ever do that, nor expect someone to do that for me. Basic things such as clean sheets and cleaning yourself? Sure. Dusting shelves, shampooing carpets, making sure everything is perfectly order, and other less important things like that? No I find that excessive and exhausting (although I don’t like or have carpets in the first place). If someone comes over to visit they better be satisfied with a dryer rack full of clean clothes

But I’m definitively someone that does not care about the dance, as you call it. It’s too exhausting. And as we’re all bogged down by too much work, mental health issues, and/or neurodivergencies and disabilities… what purpose does it serve? All it ends up doing is make us more isolated because we feel like we have to present ourselves as “perfect” for other people. If we can’t actually feel comfortable in a social situation with someone and actually relax and reduce our stress… something has gone wrong.

Like yes, don’t have moldy food in the counter, but some dirty dishes in the sink are fine, you know?

But again, maybe it’s because I’m more entrenched in neurodivergent/disability culture. I don’t hold this kinda stuff against people, and I hope they don’t hold it against me back. I know how hard it can be. I think it’s much nicer when we can accept, and enjoy time with, imperfect humans, than always expect and demand perfect humans. Especially when none of us are perfect in reality.

Mm, I’d dispute that we developed technology only as a result of war. Humans are naturally curious. We would develop technology no matter what

But it is true that the trajectory would be different, and there’s be differences in investment levels as well, but that’s more of a symptom of what our societies value

Also known as Harvest now, decrypt later. And it’s a serious security threats that Signal must consider and handle

LLM are good at certain things, especially involving language (unsurprisingly). They’re tools. They’re not the be-all-end-all like a lot of tech bros proselytize them as, but they are useful if you know their limitations

If you use them properly, they can be a valuable addition to one’s search for information. The problem is that I don’t think most users use them properly.

A web browser is already basically a “virtual machine”. You can even run what basically amounts to native code using WebAssembly (yeah it’s closed to JVM but you get what I’m trying to say).

No wonder veritasium has felt “off” for me for a good while as well. A few years ago I deliberately stopped watching that channel, seems there was a deeper reason behind my superficial reasons and gut feelings

as automation really, really starts taking flight for these kinds of jobs (why we started applying AI to things like white collar jobs first I have no idea)

They are, though? And it has massively changed the dynamics in agriculture. They just don’t make headlines because they’re technical behind-the-scenes stuff

It’s something that annoys me a bit when everyone started talking about AI, but only really a small part of it, and then thinking that’s the be-all-end-all of the field. It never was, and still isn’t. People just don’t know about the rest, and don’t read up on it either

Side note: farming is an area where the “Internet of Things” is used extensively as well, but when people think of IoT, they similarly only think about smart homes. Same problem as well

It’s weird when “political” has become such a dirty word that even one of the most political things, such as setting a national budget, is implied shouldn’t be political

So obviously I can’t speak for all European countries, but I find it hard to see in what way the Dems would not be at least center-right here

It’s yet another step in the fascist playbook

Seconding “In Stars and Time”

Your link doesn’t say that Warren called it a genocide, but that “she thinks it will legally be defined as a genocide”. That’s not calling it a genocide, that’s thinking it will be called that. There is a difference there

But you need to think of it from a political lens moreso than one politician saying it meaning it will immediately have legal consequences