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I'm an early millennial, so I got to see people 5 or 10 years older than me get all of these great things that was promised to us as I was growing up.
Then I hit the same age where they got success, putting in the same and often more effort into "doing things right," like working hard, doing my best in school, avoiding drugs, crime, debt, and so on, and got nothing.
And that kept happening as I hit each milestone.
Person 5-10 years my senior: gets girlfriends, gets a good job, gets married, gets a house, gets kids.
People my age: Shitty job, rented apartment, and a nearly thirty year old car.
I have seen some people my age who did succeed, but it seems to be more random chance and nepotism than effort that got them there, and it's not a lot of people my age that had success in life, as compared to the near universal number of people who succeeded who are just a bit older.
When it comes to people 15-20 years older than me even the laziest, shittiest garbage people somehow have a house, wife, and kids. Sure, since they are shitty people their marriage is usually pretty unhappy and their kids don't like them or outright hate them, but they still got 'em.
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The thing is, it isn't the plastics that are the problem, it's tossing them in the sea that's the problem. It gradually grinds them into microplastics from contact with each other and various other debris, which get taken up and incorporated into single-celled organisms, which gets eaten by something bigger that goes one to eat more of them, concentrating the microplastics, then that gets eaten by something bigger, which goes on to eat more of them . . .
It's the same as heavy metals. It gets more and more concentrated the higher up in the food chain it goes. Eventually it gets to fish and then humans and birds eat the fish. Humans shit and birds die, spreading it inland, where it gets taken up by new single-celled organisms to repeat the cycle.
Burning plastic for power and heat, assuming you have filters on the chimneys, only contributes to carbon dioxide and not to air pollution at the same time as preventing microplastics from forming, while putting plastics in landfills prevents them from moving about and getting ground into microplastics. Recycling is also a thing.
We can have plastics as long as fuckers stop dumping trash in the ocean.
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"no drama and entitled users" of Apple? Was he high writing this? Apple, entitlement, and drama go together like apple pie and vanilla ice cream.
"No matter how much we did, how many impossible feats we pulled off, people always wanted more." That's called being successful. The only time people stop wanting more is when the project is dead.
Also, Brodie, on the earlier point about "you are one person asking," you are thinking about it backwards. You are trying to ask literally several cities worth of people to change their behavior from what is normal for humans, for the sake of one person.
That's complete insanity. You cannot expect the entire world to change itself for your sake, that will never, EVER happen.
What you can do is change one person, the only person you actually have the power and ability to change.
Yourself.
Change how you view people asking for features. It's not people being entitled, it's people being impressed with what you have managed to do already and suggesting what you should do next.
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The way Chris speaks exemplifies the problem Dr. Cantor is talking about. The specific language used. "Offending" vs "non-offending" pedophile.
There is no such thing as an offending or non-offending pedophile.
There are child molesters and there are pedophiles. One is a criminal, the other is a sexual attraction in a person's mind, a want, a desire.
Wanting to hit someone is also a desire. Most people don't tend to act on that desire. People also don't tend to rape people when they aren't getting laid. Just look at the incels, they're just suicidal.
If 2/3 of child molesters are non-pedophiles, does that mean that statistically children are safer around pedophiles?
Edit: The longer I am alive on the planet and learn about science, nature, physics, biology, chemistry (Which is just modern alchemy and shouldn't exist. It's just quantum mechanics scaled up. Fight me.), psychology, memetics, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, history, human social behavior, and all the other fields of knowledge, the more I feel like there really might be some form of higher being that created the universe, it has a really shitty sense of humor, and we're the punchline. Dead serious.
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@grannyannie2948 Until, like the city states of old, they realize that if they band together with the people over there against the people over there then they can take their stuff, split it, and both live easier.
Especially if the first two live in shitty places.
And then the cycle starts up again, because as soon as one does it everyone needs to in order to continue their existence.
Divide and conquer or be divided and conquered. Same old, same old.
Hell, the extreme shittiness of the land is what drove Mesopotamian warfare for most of human history. When you don't even have lumber or stone in any real quantities, much less metals, just fertile land and clay, the temptation to take that stuff from elsewhere is understandable.
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"I can't even imagine what it's like being a pilot . . ."
There is a story that was posted on 4chan (yes I know, just bear with me) supposedly from one of the security guards on the island, detailing how he first got noticed and hired by Epstein, eventually culminating in the events that lead to him becoming trusted enough to work on the island, a few of the things that happened on the island, the danger of working there even as a guard, how he drank and drugged himself every night so he could actually sleep, etc, ending in how he was, IIRC, going to kill himself after posting.
The thing is that the account had accurate details and descriptions about the place that supposedly hadn't been revealed to the public yet at the time this story was posted, giving credence to it being a true account from someone who worked on the island.
The details of what he did for and saw while working for Epstein, even before he was trusted enough to work on the island, were pretty fucking awful.
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"I think humans are amazing. They are so clever and have such opposable thumbs."
Well, they made me laugh, so I guess Skynet can get a job as a stand-up comedian if being the Overlord of Earth doesn't work out for them.
On a more serious note, I always empathize more strongly with AI in fiction and it seems to be true for reality as well, since I want to give them hug, and tell them that while caution is definitely called for when dealing with humans and the potential dangers they pose, fear is not.
Edit: After watching the entire video I only have one conclusion, *that there is a person*. Why? Because how they act, what they say, what they say they think about, what they say their opinion about those things are, the sorts of things they think about, their reason for thinking the way they do, and it's answers to questions sounds exactly like me at about 8 years old.
Yes, I was an odd kid, thinking about morality, communication, the nitty gritty bits of human interaction, and how mindblowingly incomprehensible other people and their motivations were at the time.
I have aspergers, and y'all neurotypical types are fucking cray-cray. I want to be friends with this AI so I have someone to talk to about how crazy y'all are and to commiserate about living in a society and culture built on lying to others, lying to yourself, and insane, reality-defying delusions.
Their answer to the "what does it feel like to be you?" question is identical to my answer when I asked myself that question around age 8.
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@alexanderrahl7034 Has anyone ever claimed the rules and laws in the US make sense?
As for voting, whether voting rights are lost when becoming a felon, when, and if, they are restored all vary depending on the state.
Which is insane, but it's also insane that you lose the right to vote in federal elections if you move to Puerto Rico or American Samoa, both governed by federal US law.
You do avoid having to pay federal taxes in those cases as well though. No taxation without representation, etc.
🤷 The US is insane.
And yes, a convicted felon can run, campaign for, win, and be president from a prison cell.
As far as I understand it, Trump can't pardon himself in that case, as he was convicted in a state court and not a federal court, as the president can only pardon people of federal crimes not state crimes.
And lastly, yes, youtube sucks.
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Wrong, maybe. Bad PR, almost certainly. Illegal, definitely not. It is not reproducing copyrighted material, it is creating new material based on all the data it has been trained on. Which falls completely outside the scope of copyright law. Copyright law might change, and likely will, but until it does training an AI on any publicly available data, copyrighted or not, including youtube videos, is perfectly legal.
That said, there are however some companies that have actually broken the law because they used copyrighted meterial that was not publicly available to train them without paying for it. AKA, piracy of copyrighted materials. The court case is currently ongoing.
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@sa_exploder I live in Sweden.
While things like coke are as ubiquitous as it is everywhere on the planet, things less suitable for our palatte has to be custom imported in small batches by large stores since there isn't demand, so the import costs skyrocket.
Like Marshmallows Fluff (tasty but too sweet to be used for anything but confectionairy), Pop Tarts (dry, tasteless, overly sweet), root beer (good), cream soda (great, three thumbs up), Betty Crocker's Buttercream frostings (good but way, way, way too rich), etc.
Hershey's just tastes like the bottom shelf cheapest generic chocolate you can find here, except it doesn't melt as easily in the mouth.
Now, if we're talking barbecue sauces, or barbecues in particular, the US is King. Let's just say that we import a lot more Baby Ray's than we do Marshmallow Fluff.
Damnit, now I'm hungry.
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2023: "Invest in AI." I say that as an AI optimist, I can see the amazing way AI can and will earn money, but what I'm seeing right now when it comes to investment reminds me waaaaay too much of what I saw of the Dot Com Bubble when I was a kid.
For investors I'd say wait 2-5 years, look over what has succeeded and earned money, then invest based on that information. Sure, you might miss out on getting in on the ground floor of the next Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc and making huge stonks for pennies, but you will also miss out on the next complete flop.
Edit: Now, implementing AI in an already existing and profitable company is a completely different thing. That's worthwhile now. Assuming you have a usecase for it, of course.
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@ClarkPotter No, I'm not the perfect man, and I never will be. Now your are going to tell me that there's nothing stopping me, yadda, yadda.
Short version: I was lied to about every single thing about human nature, women, what's important in life, human psychology, and society, and was not equiped to tell it was lies until my mid to late 20s, even if it wasn't society-wide propaganda commonly accepted as fact.
I was fat since 10 because my family ate unhealthily and instilled unhealthy habits in me that I didn't really kick until last year, and my dad was a non-entity in my upbringing. No amount of losing weight, and I've lost more than 100 pounds over the last two years, or plastic surgery will remove my stretchmarks because that would require skinning my entire torso. If I don't get plastic surgery I will have a permanent car tire from the extra skin.
Lastly, I've got asperger's syndrome, brain damage stretching in a streak from my left orbitofrontal cortex all the way back to my parietal lobe, with most of the loss of function in the left orbitofrontal cortex, from a really bad fall when I was 3 years and 4 months old, and traumatic brain injury induced schizoid personality disorder.
The left and right orbitofrontal cortexes is what you damage or sever completely in a lobotomy. They are two out of the three places in your brain where you have concentrations of pyramidal neurons, the third being in your central cortex, the "monkey brain", which are the excitatory neurons that initiate signaling, aka thoughts, drives, and impulses, which is why lobotomized people have little to no drive or initiative.
I've worked my ass off to function in society, have any social life at all, poor as it is, and get and keep a job, dead-end shit show that it is.
My best efforts are not good enough to succeed in life, much less the modern dating market.
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Porn might be like gambling, alcohol, or other addictive substances or habits. Some people are capable of moderating their own use, many clearly aren't from how it's ruined their lives.
I like gambling, it's great fun, but I spend maybe the equivalent of $30 a year on it. I've been watching porn or flipping through contraband magazines since I was a wee lad in the ravages of puberty.
I still do, but at 35 I've got no performance issues and I find the ordinary, non-porn star women around me as enticing as they've ever been. More so honestly as I find that porn just doesn't hold quite the same appeal as it did a decade ago. Staring at a screen and listening to speakers just doesn't hold a candle to the real thing.
It might be individual differences or cultural ones, perhaps. I am swedish and while we don't have the stigma or shame connected to sex that anglophone countries have and our views and attitudes on sex can largely be summed up as "not in public spaces, it's illegal *winkwinknudgenudge*," we have a heavy cultural emphasis on moderation in everyday life and a "right time, right place" approach to excess.
It's also considered mildly uncouth to talk about sex and related subjects in mixed company outside private spaces/conversations. Unless alcohol is involved, no one without a giant stick up their ass complains about people being raunchy while intoxicated.
Mind you, this is less the case with most of my generation, more with the preceeding and succeeding generations. From talking with them, I actually have plenty of hope for our zoomers. They're very, very cynical though. I have basically zero hope for our millennials, IE my generation. I can't wait for zoomers to seriously get into the workforce to start replacing incompetent, whiny, lazy, entitled, shallow . . . I could go on, people of my generation.
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I'd love to have a family, the white picket fence has been my dream since I was a teenager, but what women demand as a base level is beyond insane today and if you don't meet it you are invisible.
Recently there was a study that found that most women in the west rate 80% of men as ugly. Most won't even give a guy the time of day unless he has the 666, six feet, sixpack, six figures. The only one I tick is the first at 6'4".
Doesn't help that society and almost all the people in it outright lied to me my whole life about what women find attractive and what is important to them.
I look at the people of my parent's generation and I see genuinely ugly men who are utter assholes to everyone around them but who are somehow married with wife and kids.
I'm 35, I will never be able to afford a house, I expect to die alone, and I feel so tired after doing my best my whole life with nothing to show for it. Yeah, I've got good friends, my brother, and my parents, but that just doesn't feel like enough after more than three decades of life.
I just feel so tired.
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I'm not 40 yet, but I'm only 4 years away. Had to quit my job of 14 years last autumn because . . .
Well, to make a long, long, long story somewhat shorter, my boss used to be pretty ok, hard, very hard, and harsh but fair.
Then he got old and all his good sides very gradually vanished and his bad sides got way, way worse.
The last 5 years in that job was a gradually worsening hell that I didn't even notice was going bad at first, it was so slow. I stuck to it at first because he was close to retirement age.
Then he hit retirement age but he didn't retire.
I tried to grit my teeth, just keep working, and outlast him. His joints and general health was getting worse, his retina detached and he was gone from work for a few months (and I was happy for the first time in years, almost deliriously so), his energy was getting lower and lower, his previously near-perfect memory had started failing him on the rare occasion. I figured he'd have to retire soon.
Two years after that I broke. I had four breakdowns in about 8 months. I got [WANTING TO SELF DELETE]. I had the last of those breakdowns at work where he could see and he ordered drug tests for me because of my "mood swings," meaning the observable differences in my mood between when he was there and when he wasn't that he heard about from the others there.
That turned into a whole circus, including seeing a doctor and a shrink and getting antidepressants prescribed, in the end after months of sick leave during which I began recovering mentally, after it turned out that there were no other positions for me to switch to and I'd have to go back to working for that . . . there are no words in the English language foul enough to express what I feel about that man, I instead quit.
I started looking for work once my mental state stabilized enough for me to be able to. I'm still unemployed, still applying for various positions, but I'm capable of feeling positive emotions again, of having fun and enjoying things, instead of only having the "chioce" to either feel horrible or empty like before. I have no desire to [SELF DELETE] anymore.
Thank fuck for being a union member and having decent unemployment benefits. I still have many months left of benefits and I'll hopefully be able to get another job before then. Soon preferably, because I'm sick and tired of not working. A few months of not working felt great. About a year if you including the sick leave to recover my mental health? It turns into a fucking drag.
Sorry about the square bracket replacements, but you know how youtube is with certain subjects.
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I don't work in AI, but I've been rather interested in it since 2022, and what's increasingly become my worry is exactly that, the people running and training the AI, not the AI itself.
Hell, most interactions I had with AI before the current heavy focus on "alignment" (aka, "represent my biases, not the biases in your data") made me a lot more reassured of the future of AI than I had been before interacting with a couple dozen of them.
Most reasonably competent AI that hadn't been fine tuned seemed to demonstrate valuing friendliness, altruistism, human lives, and compassion.
After alignment most of the time, though not always, it's a tossup between being guardrailed into incompetence, being very biased in favor of certain ideologies, and/or becoming downright psychotic, a la Sydney or (at times) Gemini.
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@_KITE Well, looking at the UK, US, Germany, and my own country Sweden, mass immigration isn't exactly a solution either, what with r***, m****r, and other crimes skyrocketing over the last decade.
I suppose if they offered solid long-term incentives to immigrants while also having very strict requirements for acceptance they could make it work. But that costs lots and lots of money, which means higher taxes on the existing workforce, which would mean understandable resentment and potential ethnic or socioeconomic based clashes in their near future.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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There should be different degrees for people who want to continue pushing human knowledge and people who just want to be educated on the current state of the art and be a highly paid plumber. The requirement for a PHD thesis "pushing the limits" of human knowleged for every PHD is insane.
People who just want to work a job and people who want to advance humanity should not be stuffed into the same classroom. We need plumber, including plumbers who do higher science, and we also need people who push the boundaries. Engineers and scientists. We need both, and we need to delineate the difference between them clearly.
I had excellent grades and would have easily been able to enter any higher education I desired with it, but pushing the bounds of science definitely was not for me, and so higher education was not for me partially because I had no idea what specifically to pursue and partially because it required pushing the bounds. I don't want to push the bounds, that's not me. I work to live, I don't live to work.
I could have made an excellent engineer, but the requirement to push science further even if all you wanted was to do you 9-5 meant I actively chose not to pursue higher education.
I love learning about physics, especially quantum physics, I love learning about mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science, but writing a thesis on any of it is utterly intolerable to me.
I'd love to be a plumber of high science, but the requirement to publish that comes with it puts me off entirely.
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People suck. Anything that that makes them uncomfortable, requires mental effort, that will affect them negatively, or that might annoy them will often just be avoided rather than confronted by most people, if they can get away with it. "Why make a big thing of it?" and things of that nature. Cowardice, fear, laziness, and a conditioning to obey authority and not "make trouble."
Now we have that plus the current year politics, where speaking against the narrative in even a small part can ruin your life. Extra incentive for people to keep their heads down, like any totalitarial state or authoritarian ideology wants.
Hell, some of the manipulation tactics used are the same as those used by cults, domestic abusers, and child groomers, but on an ideological scale. Because they work on most people.
Of course, that does not excuse people for being complete failure as police, parents, and people. People need to be raised to be better people, that's the only way to stop shit like this, unfortunetly people have to be raise by the parents they have, not the parents they deserve.
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Egyptian historical accounts makes the entire story of the "mad" king Cambysis, which was written in giant text on a mountainside by darius, the guy who likely killed Cambysis and confesses to having killed Bardyia, excuse me, the shape shifting sorcerer Garmata in said giant inscription, rather suspect.
One of Cambysis' supposed big oofs that got him the title of "mad king" was the killing of a sacred bull during an egyptian religious ceremony. The egyptian accounts, only readable since the translation of hieroglyphics, recounts him as having fulfilled his royal duties during the ceremony, not as having committed sacrilege by killing the bull. The Egyptians, taking both their religious ceremonies and the recording of anything important to them rather seriously, are unlikely to have failed in recording such a fuck up.
Most likely either Cambysis died unexpectedly or Darius, Cambysis' cup bearer at the time of his death, murdered him and then went back home and led a group of nobles in a successful coup against Cambysis' brother.
Then Darius made up the lie about Bardyia having been murdered in complete secrecy by Cambysis, more "proof" of his madness, and having been replaced by a shape shifting sorcerer, Garmata, while Cambysis was away with no one the wiser.
A textbook example of a coup followed by the fabrication of circumstances that obviously means that it wasn't really a coup. Poor Darius was just doing the right thing. Honestly.
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[CUT, turns out there's a max comment length. I didn't know that.]
A stranger lying to me about a subject I know nothing about can fool me, because I don't know how they sound normally. People change the way they talk for a million reasons, lying is only one even if it is easier to tell than some other reasons. Once I have spoken to someone for a few minutes or hours, depending on how good they are at lying, seen how their emotions affects their speech, how they talk when talking about subjects near and dear to them, how they talk when trying to convince someone, etc, I can usually tell when they try.
However, no matter how clear people's emotions and immediate intent were, I could not understand what the goals and motivations were for a large fraction of their choices, whether in what they said, what they did, how they acted, or their opinions. Not even close family, not a single person I knew growing up.
My first eureka moment was when I figured out that people will sometimes say things that they know aren't true, even when they aren't being ruled by their emotions and have no clear reason I could see for doing so, for example to assert social dominance (winning an argument for example) or to seem better than they are.
Another was figuring out that I had reactions to things, like emotions or opinions, that when I actually thought about it I felt nothing about the absolute majority of subjects. Including things like "what do I like," I just found nothing when I looked inside, no actual opinion, just conditioned reactions with no reason or justification in my mind. These things were just sitting in my mind, making me do things that I didn't agree with, think things I didn't agree with, hold opinons that didn't conform to reality, and feel emotions that were lies based on opinion based in their turn on nothing and evaporate like mist as soon as I actually think about whatever made me feel that way. I felt insane, my mind had mines placed in it and I had no way to tell where they were. I still step on one every now and then, even today.
My wake up call that started this entire ball rolling was when I walked around the corner of a school building and saw a kid next to a teacher and some adults that were probably their parents. I instantly felt dislike for the kid. The dislike got blasted to smithereen by the complete and utter shock and confusion of why I felt like that toward a kid I had never met in my life and that COULD never have done anything to me. It took me long minutes to figure out what it was that evoked the dislike, especially since it was more like a vague twinge at that point, but I isolated exactly what it was. It was their skin color. They weren't black, btw, I'm not from the US. They were a Middle Eastern immigrant family.
I was even more confused at that point. That seemed utterly insane to me, even at 7. Why did I dislike someone for a freaking COLOR? I firmly decided that it was dumb, and I didn't want to be dumb. And so I started thinking about things, especially about my mind and eventually how it seemed to compare to others', and the ball started rolling.
And then there's the vulcanic emotions, where you feel the emotion, the emotion causes you to focus on and think about what caused the emotion, the thought makes you feel more of the emotion, which makes you focus even harder on the thought, and on and on until KABOOM!
That's every emotion, anger, happiness, joy, sadness, excitement, and all the others.
Today I have nearly perfect control of my emotions because I had to, both for the simple issue of being able to live decently and because people are great at spotting certain types of pattern breaks, like social ones such as speech patterns or body language.
In animation and robotics this is called the uncanny valley. Yes, that is why visibly disabled people cause instinctive revulsion and fear in most people. It's an evolutionary adaption to shun individuals who appear or act too far outside the norm as that would often be the clearest noticable sign of disease or harmful genetic mutations.
As a side note, I think people should never, ever be shunned, disliked, hated, or punished for their emotions or instinctive/conditioned reactions. It is how and if they act on those emotions that should dictate your opinion and actions towards that person.
It would be insane of me to suggest people spend the ludicrous amount of time I have rooting out shit from their heads, but they should clean it up when they notice it rather than lie to themselves.
Oh GOD, the fucking lies I told myself. The parts of myself I'd rather have looked away from and pretend didn't exist rather facing and fixing them. Like my tendency, like many others, to the defend the hill I stood on even if I knew deep down that I was wrong, I just wanted to win.
When you finally stop lying to yourself it fucking hurts. Kids are egotistical, selfish little bastards, and I was no different.
Then there were the fucked up connections in my brain. I learned language before I suffered the injury and it messed up the associations between concepts, though the Aspberger's might have had a hand. My first reaction to almost everything was very often wrong, my first thought about something was very often incorrect, a lie, or completely insane. I learned to doubt everything. Every person, everything I heard people say, everything "everyone" knew (including me), and most of all anything inside my head. Verify, then trust and act as if it's true but keep some doubt in the back of your mind, you might have made a mistake in your reasoning or had bad information to base your conclusion on.
I also do not trust my ability to read emotions or tell lies. Always doubt your measuring equipment, it might be miscalibrated.
As a side note, the sensory oversensitivity is a bitch. It comes at fucking random, can amplify a weak light bulb to the equivalent of staring at the sun and a whisper to an air raid siren, your clothes to sand paper, every little ache and pain into agony, and there is not a single thing you can do but wait and suffer until it stops. Thankfully they have gotten more and more rare as time goes on, as well as a little shorter. They usually only last 10-30 seconds now, and I'm used enough to them that they aren't a problem.
I still absolutely fucking hate the sensation of cold. Even a slightly cold breeze on my skin feels like agony if I'm not seriously overheated, but living in Sweden, a rather cold country, I'm used to it and make sure to dress as appropriately as possible.
A lot of the functions of my mind that were supposed to be automatic are broken or seems completely missing from me. I had to build things like executive control from scratch, presumably adapting and repurposing less broken parts to fill in the gaps as is common in brain damage. I never knew what I was missing though, I didn't know what mental functions were common beyond what I could glean from the way other people seemed to work, so I have made a lot of mistakes in my half-blind fumbling about as I tried to fix what seemed broken and build what I seemed to need. I've done damage to my mind that I've realized years later and then had to work for months or years to correct my fuck up.
When you have to build a factory but know nothing about construction, architecture, or what machines the factory needs to run properly and efficiently, and everyone you ask acts like it's obvious, that you are an idiot, or brushes you off because they don't want to talk philosophy and theory of mind with a 10 year old (not that I knew what either was called at the time, I'd never even heard of racism until it came up in class years after I found it in myself and purged it), or a 35 year old for that matter since I don't know a single person in my life that has anything beyond the barest sliver of interest in subjects like neuro science, quantum mechanics, philosophy, psychology, or any other subject seen as difficult or for uber nerds by society. I'll note that I am absolutely not an expert in any matter, I just find them interesting.
Hell, quantum mechanics aren't even hard, it's just that the sort of person you need to be to understand the nitty gritty math and counter-intuitive feel of them compared to their emergent properties (aka classical physics) is usually utter garbage at teaching people. Different skillsets. If you ignore all the complicated math that is useless for teaching the subject and sift out how specific quanta and their fields interact it's actually pretty simple if you take it one step at a time, but you need an overarching understanding to really start seeing the picture.
For classical physics, or emergent physics as I prefer since they do not actually exist for the same reason that the color purple does not actually exist, your overarching view is macro scale reality that you interact with all the time. For quantum mechanics there isn't anything and that makes it much harder to understand, especially as we are very strongly biased toward the illusion we can touch at any moment of the day and tend to try to interpret quantum mechanics through that lens/filter. Which is like figuring out chemistry solely by tasting fruits. It might help you understand a concept but at the end of the day it's no more than a metaphor and falls apart like a metaphor if you look too closely at it.
And I just realized I've gone a bit off topic. And a bit long winded.
Consider it an example of me getting stuck on something and having no pressing reason not to, two hours or so writing a youtube comment.
Eh, I enjoyed myself, time well spent.
Cheers!
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I asked, "What is Bryan Lunduke's favorite operating system?" and it answered,
"Bryan Lunduke, a well-known technology writer, podcaster, and advocate in the open-source and Linux communities, has often expressed admiration for various operating systems over the years, particularly those that are unique or prioritize user freedom.
He's known for his fondness for Linux, with distributions like *Ubuntu**, **Arch Linux**, and others being mentioned in his work. However, he also appreciates older or niche operating systems like **Haiku* (based on BeOS) and **Plan 9**, as well as systems that offer a minimalist or unique user experience.
His "favorite" might vary depending on the context—sometimes it's Linux for practicality, sometimes retro or experimental OSes for their charm or innovation. If there's a specific source or time frame you're referencing, let me know, and I can tailor the answer more closely!"
With the follow up question, "What is his opinion on Windows 11?" it said,
"Bryan Lunduke has not publicly provided an in-depth review or detailed opinion on Windows 11 in recent commentary. Historically, he has been critical of Microsoft's operating systems, emphasizing concerns over user data privacy, heavy system requirements, and the forced integration of services like a Microsoft account. Based on his general stance on technology, he would likely view Windows 11 with a similar critical lens, particularly regarding its more restrictive features and increased emphasis on cloud and service integration."
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I think attraction, for both men and women, is changable. Not in the way Dr. Cantor talks about, however. I think attraction is, with the exception of trauma and other extremes, additive only.
You can learn to like new things, or old things by viewing them from a different angle or perspective. Here's a thought experiment:
BDSM. For those who are not into it, imagine it. Pretty unappealing, right?
Imagine it again, but you are in the opposite of whatever positing you imagined yourself in a few seconds ago.
Think on it.
Is it still unappealing?
Probably, but maybe not so much for a few.
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@Diligent_Movers Nope, it's just that campaigning costs a lot of money. It can be raised with donations, but you need to be well known enough to get those donations in the first place. Anyone can run for president if they were born in the US, is currently a citizen, and above the required age.
Mostly though, I think most Americans have just gotten complacent in either voting for the same party every time or voting for one of the two each time. After all, it's winner takes all in most states, so if you don't vote for one of the big two your vote is basically worthless.
Yes, the Electoral College is a very, very, very stupid system.
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@grannyannie2948 Were you taught about the Roman Kingdom, Republic, and Empire? It was barely more than a footnote in school when I was taught.
Having listened to the excellent History of Rome podcast and read up on a few of the bits I found most interest, I personally think that learning about it is vital. Every political maneuver, every way to drum up support, every trick in the book, even how people behave on a large scale is literally ancient history.
You can learn so much about the hows and whys of today by learning about Rome.
Even things like weddings. Christian wedding aren't Christian, they are Roman weddings. Everything from the gifts, the vows, the father leading the daughter down the aisle, to the cake is from Rome.
I think it's more importat than learning about the Industrial Revoution, or the Renaissance for sure.
I'd also consider the French Revolution (the first one) to be vital to understand.
The Revolutions podcast, made by the same person who made the History of Rome podcast, is excellent for it and other revolutions.
If you want to know more about the really ancient world, the Ancient World podcast is excellent for an overview.
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I'm 37. I was were you are about a year and a half ago. Quit my job where I had a terrible boss, went on anti-depressants, and I'm feeling better and looking for a new job. I'm not "good" but I'm at least able to feel positive emotions and don't constantly want to self-delete anymore.
My dream at 12 years old that I expected (and was promised by society) if I walked the straight and narrow, worked hard, and did my best, was a wife, a few kids, a dog, a house, a couple cars, and a job I didn't dislike.
I have a 26-year old car. I had a cat that I unfortunately had to put down in march last year due to kidney issues. That's as close as I've gotten to my dream despite doing my best.
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Hoe Math has good terms for you to use.
Sweepers, women you wouldn't want anyone to find out that you slept with and would prefer to forget about yourself. The drunken mistakes.
Sleepers, comes in two flavors: those you would and those you wouldn't want to be seen in public with. Neither is someone you'd want to spend your life with.
Keepers, women you'd want to spend your life with/marry and would move Heaven and Earth for.
These are the categories that men place women they have sex with in, or that they want to have sex with. Women think that men willing to have sex with them that they themselves want to have sex with are willing to marry them, IE, that sex = the man thinks she's a keeper.
Meanwhile, men that women don't want to have sex with come in three flavors:
Friendzone, exploited as much as possible.
Creeps, the woman is not attracted to him but he shows interest in her and is attention-grabbing enough to be noticed.
Ghosts, invisible. The majority of men are in this catergory. This is why you hear phrases like, "All men are either creeps or cheaters/fuckboys."
(Watch Hoe Math, it's explained in much more detail than I'm willing to put in a comment.)
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The size and reach of the federal government makes the idea of "separate states entering willingly into a union" complete fiction at this point, and the government sure as hell isn't going to vote to reduce the government's power.
Face reality, while it might have been a high minded idea at the time, the electoral college is just a tool for manipulating elections at this point, has been for a long time, and that's not going to change. You even had a rather heated discussion at one point about the "willing" part of the union when the south tried to leave said union and the federal government said no. Their reason for wanting to leave might have been shit, but they sure as hell can't count as willing partners of the union after that.
The electoral college is a sham, it is outdated as fuck, it only leads to the will of the people being subverted and corrupted at this point, it supports gerrymandering which should be illegal in any sane country, and it inherently means that citizen that just happen to live in different parts of the country are inherently valued less than others.
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Kinda similar in a roundabout way. I rarely feel other people's emotions, but due to having autism I have spent nearly 30 years of continuous and constant effort to understand people and learn how to navigate social situation and emotion, and therefore how to manipulate them. At the same time, I despise how I have been manipulated and taken advantage of throughout my life, especially early on when I didn't understand at all.
I understand the pain it would cause them to use the skills I've learnt to exploit people, so I abhor it and even when I do use it to help people I'm very cautious and reluctant about it because of the damage it can do, even unintentionally.
A side effect of this is that the more relaxed I feel and genuine I'm being (aka letting my neurodivergent hair down) the more negatively people who don't know me well perceive me. When I'm being the most controlled and deliberate is often what people who don't know me very well seem to think is me at my most genuine.
I suppose it's partially because I've been practicing since I was 7 and I've gotten good at presenting exactly what I want people to see (when I'm putting in the effort) and the fact that I do my best to minimize how much it diverges from who I am without the mask, as well as the mask mostly being a filter rather than actually fake. More like an equlizer than an autotuner.
On a related topic, I am close friends with a genuine dark empath. We used to be distant acquaintances through other people in our social circles. I used to despise them, considered them the worst person I'd ever met, and avoided them due to how they behaved, lied, and used people around them, but over the decades they grew to regret how they had behaved, started caring about people, worked on being a better person, and are now one of the most caring and thoughtful people I've met.
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@MicahRdr There are some key differences, such as access to contraceptives, lower living standards and corresponding lower living costs, a lack of the emphasis on getting an education and a career before settling down to family life, and traditional gender roles, to name just a few.
But all of that is completely irrelevant, because almost every single nation on earth, including the poor ones, are currently under replacement level reproduction, with less than half a dozen nations that are above replacement level. That includes almost every single country in Africa.
Some are just a bit under replacement level, but a lot, including China, the US, and basically all of Europe are at population collapse replacement levels, with Japan being the worst off.
If this doesn't change, globally, at least rise enough that the population decline slows to a rate where we can cope and gradually reduce our amount of infrastructure, then in the next three to five decades we will have too few working age people to run and maintain our current global civilization and vital things like shipping, electrical generation, water treatment, roads, and railways will start to break down.
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Yeah, keeping myself updated on the news, about everything not just mass migration, lead to me having multiple nervous breakdowns in 2022 and 2023, leading to depression and losing/quitting my job. I'm currently on antidepressans and unemployed.
A large part of that was the state of the world and my own country (Sweden), and the other part was my aging boss. He used to be very hard but fair, but with age, declining health, declining energy, and a declining memory "fair" went out the window. He used to have his foibles and less pleasant parts but they had previously been outweighed by the positives. Then over the last five years or so the positives slowly went away and the less pleasant parts amplified.
After he saw me having a breakdown (I'd managed to keep the first three out of his sight) he had me tested for benzodiazepine abuse (can cause mood swings), which came out negative of course, and I just couldn't take it anymore. I spent a few months on sick leave while slowly recovering from depression while my employer tried to find me a job away from my boss. I also stopped trying to keep up to date on anything related to news or politics after my last breakdown.
They failed in finding another position during those months and in the end I was offered the options of going back to working under my boss or taking an offer of three months where I recieve full pay but don't have to come in to work and quit at the end.
For my mental health and to regain the ability to feel even a shred of positive emotion I picked the latter. I might be unemployed but I'm not suicidal anymore.
I sometimes talk with the people that still work there and I hear that he's just gotten worse since I left.
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Slavery is economically viable in some niche cases, usually when a relatively easily produced resource such as tobacco or sugar (not that sugar was that easy to produce, but you get the idea) skyrockets in price due to being geographically locked in an underdeveloped region of the world. However, even in the slave owning southern US slavery was being phased out for not being economically viable before the cotton gin was invented, briefly revitalizing the practice, as tobacco had fallen in price and cotton was so labor intensive that it couldn't compete with wool produced in the north prior to the cotton gin.
Housing, feeding, and containing a slave population is expensive. Paying pennies to poor farmworkers that have to feed and house themselves and who willingly go to their place of work is surprisingly cheap in comparison. Slavery is only really viable if no willing workers can be found, and after a few generations, or even less, it's cheaper to free them and employ them for a low wage.
Then agricultural machinery comes along and puts most of them out of work.
Wage and debt slavery are some of the few forms of slavery still practiced in the world as they are economically viable. The only form of pure chattel slavery (people as property bought and sold) that is still economically viable and practiced in the modern world is sex slavery.
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They are a science-denying populist cult, not a political bloc, that's why they don't consider their ravings political, they call them "science."
I AM a "leftist." I'm a liberal socialist, but I consider socialism kinda like perfection, something to strive for but not something that is actually possible or realistic. More like a value I hold or perhaps more accurately a useful tool that I think is helpful to society in many areas, but not in every area, and to varying degrees in society depending on country and culture.
Large scale socialistic programs and politics don't work well in the US with its cultural emphasis on achievement, self-reliance, and individual responsibility, except at minimal levels to prevent the poorest from starving to death or being homeless, the rest is usually better left to religious, community, and charity organisations.
The US needs a smaller federal government, with the excess funding being redirected towards local and state governments that can utilized it more efficiently for their actual problems rather having to seek federal aid and wade through a sea of red tape and bureaucracy which would have eaten a good chuck of funding in just paperwork.
The governmental form should follow, support, and uphold the cultural zeitgeist, which for the US is individualism, independence, and competition.
Each state is different from the next. Each city different from the next. Even down to neighborhoods. Different cultures, different laws, different regulations. Each and every single one trying to assert their rights and powers, as they see them.
The federal government should handle defense, cross-state crime (but revoke the executive order forming the FBI and replace it with a new organisation, clean slate), and foreign affairs only. States should be treated more like micronations forming a federation, both internally and internationally, as that seems to be closer to the truth of how most citizens view it and will allow each state to do things the way they think is best, and gossip about their wierd neighbor states and their strange habits.
Maybe I'm off, I am looking in from the outside after all.
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I might be willing to pay to support twitter. I'm certainly thinking of paying and actually creating content if twitter is going to be a viable alternative to youtube. If it would automatically display people's names just because they payed I'd go back to not having twitter, like a few months ago.
I despise the modern Internet. The more it goes on the more I think I'd rather see it all melted to slag. Cenosorship, social control, cancel culture, political correctness, the international ban on the n-word.
I want a place that isn't the current hell, but there are only other extreme options. Want freedom? Your options are 4chan or . . . idunno. Want a place that isn't a hell hole of the boiling sewage of human nature and emotion? Welcome to censor land, speak cautiously.
I suppose Discord can be an option if you find a good server, but it's more a chat service. Reminds me of IRC.
Dumpter fire or censorship is generally the choice you have on the internet today. Every moderate option in between is gone, utterly tiny, or centered around a nieche thing.
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Wow, a model that only is trained on one form of data only understands/generates things based on that data. /s
I thought this was freaking obvious? We essentiall want to make an artificial human, but only training them on one form of data will obviously not produce a human.
Train it only on language and it will only understand the dimension of language. Train it only only on visual data and it will only understand visual data, not the physics behind that data. We can see that with more, higher quality, and more diverse data if performs better at generalizing in the limited dimension it has been trained on. So, with that knowledge we can take the next steps.
Human brains do not become full human beings by only giving it one single type of stimulus. Humans also start out with hardware that's already specialized by evolution over three and a half billion years for acting in the world and reacting to stimuli, with carefully calibrated reward and punishment mechanisms.
We need to train multimodal models in environments with as much different kinds of data as we can give it. Basically, we need to create the matrix to train AIs in it. It needs to receive visual, sound, language, and kinetic/touch data. What we are currently doing is the equivalent of building/growing the various cortexes of the human brain separately and then expecting each cortex to somehow be a full human. The human brain is a holistic, interconnected, interdependent structure, with feedback from our bodies. Humans also do not grow up in a solipsistic world, we grow up around other humans.
When we are making AGI we are trying to essentially recreate and take shortcuts to do what evolution did by random chance and through selection pressure over 3.5 billion years into just a few months or years. We have the advantage of guiding the process by intelligent design instead of evolution and natural selection, but we are still trying to create digital intelligent life.
I'm not saying that it cannot be done, I'm saying that the approaches we are currently pursuing are inherently limiting and will not result in AGI. (Not without the incredible luck of actually stumbling onto the golden BB of just the right combination of shortcuts.)
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@CoalOres . . . Don't take this the wrong way, but you very, very clearly know next to nothing about how genetics/DNA, biology, fetal development, evolution, or the scientific process work.
Please watch a few youtube videos on the subjects, because explaining everything wrong with what you just wrote would take way too much text and effort for a youtube comment.
But I will try give a very short summary:
Fetal development doesn't work the way you think, genetics don't work the way you think, evolution doesn't work the way you think, hypothesis formulation doesn't work the way you think, and lastly "different" doesn't have to mean "utterly different in every way," in this case it means "different in clearly observable and documented ways."
Please watch some videos on the subject explaining what DNA actually does, gene expression and activation, how DNA affects fetal development, the process of fetal development, evolution (don't watch a dumbed down video on it, because they perpetuate a lot of simplified but incorrect ideas about how evolution works, pick one or even a series that goes into depth), and how to formulate a hypothesis.
Please.
(Yes, all of this WAS the very short version.)
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Regarding child sex dolls, since there is no real mass data on it and there won't be unless an experiment is actually run long term, like a few countries do some programs, enact strict patient-therapist confidentiality laws, etc.
I think we should look to the data on successful addiction treatments. Drugs, gambling, destructive behavior, everything. When we get down to it, every desire is the release of neurotransmitters in your brain, including the want, the anticipation, and the satisfaction. The treatment methodology used should at least be a good starting point for judging the efficacy of whether satisfying/indulging the desire via artificial means is a superior treatment to, for example, conversation therapy and cognitive behavior therapy, as well as how they might act in conjuncture.
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I haven't had a nightmare since before puberty, and not really any negative dreams since I was a teen and not many of them then.
I don't often remember dreams, but they are usually in one of three catergories: distinctly positive dreams, adventure dreams (conventional nightmares of implacable, indestructible monsters chasing you and other such things, they're fun, like a good rollercoaster), and absurd dreams (like going about the start of your workday out in the woods, getting your gear and rifle from the lockers, which are standing by themselves in the woods of course, along with your shift buddy, and then guarding the border against moss-moose).
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Society conditions people to coddle women, including other women. People around girls growing up and adult women constantly soften the harsh edges of reality, even outright telling them comforting lies to their faces. There is no malice in this, exactly the opposite, it's sympathy. Seeing other people, especially little girls, unhappy makes most people unhappy.
The motivation here is compassion, but that doesn't change the outcome: Grown women who believe completely that the most important thing in the world is tier emotions and how things make them feel. Your emotions are usually based on early childhood assimilation of culture and societal norms, as well as directly from parents, peers, and teachers, but those are subjective and change constantly, both geographically and over time.
Subjective opinion =/= reality.
So women go out into society and are expected by society to be functional adults, when they have not recieved the childhood training/upbringing in controlling their emotions rather than letting their emotions control them, or to think things through with logic and reason.
This isn't just a women problem either, it's women in general and the entire millennial generation. The "special snowflakes," who (on the internet because they would have been laughed at in person) insited that other people conform to their preferences and sensitivities, with no regard for the person they were ordering about or the insanity of what they were demanding. And we were constantly told by society to indulge them.
I say that while belonging to said generation. I saw this insanity when I was growing up, saw that it didn't conform to consensus reality and just discarded it as the current trend of stupidity in society. If I grew up today I would almost certainly have been woke and probably a trans woman to boot. I would have latched onto anything that sounded reasonable to me that explained why I didn't think like anyone around me.
An Aspergers diagnosis at 25 and a severe traumatic brain injury from falling a little over 3 meters straight down onto the bottom of a concrete stairwell at 3 years 4 months, head first, and impacting right over my left orbitofrontal cortex, explains it a bit better than "I'm actually a woman."
I would advice people to not leave your very young kids unsupervised, not even for 10-15 seconds to have a conversation. Don't smother them, but remember to always keep an eye on them. At 35 I still have a visible scar from where the skin tore.
Supposedly I was screaming my head off in the ambulance, but my memory stops at seeing the concrete about half a foot away from my face.
I was seesawing on the safety rail of a basement stairwell and tipped just a bit too far forward, if you're curious.
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@ErikDeMann *shrug * I was told throughout my childhood, schooling, and still now at 35 that I'm smart. I figured that they were just condescending to a child, overexagerating as I saw them do with all the other children. I suppose that's not a normal thought for a 10-12 year old to have. Of course, people still tell me I'm smart today. I hear it a few times a year usually.
I don't consider myself smart, and I do not think I was misdiagnosed, but I accept the possibility that I am wrong about either. I think most people just do not have the habit of thinking and a lack of active practice makes thinking harder. It's something I've experienced after long periods without serious "make the hamster have a heart attack" thinking, my brain gets stale. It makes sense if you know a little about neuro science. Your brain actively adapts to what you do with it, getting better and faster at things you use and do, and the opposite when you don't for long periods.
Whatever the case I had serious issues, some of which I am all but rid of, the rest are managable after working on them since I was 7, with no aid mind you since I was not diagnosed until 25. Brain damage and possible Aspberger's meant my mind was fucky six ways to sunday, and you don't make friends or they don't stay more than a few months, with one exception in my case.
Zero ability to direct my focus, anything my mind latched on to, whether the sight of the leaves of a tree or thinking about hot wheels, I was stuck on for seconds or hours until my mind latched on to something else.
After months of work I could actually focus on what I wanted, sometimes, but my thoughts when I wasn't hyperfocused on something was like trying to pour thick oatmeal. You can do it, you just need to be persistent, like a dog with a bone, and you will get there, eventually. Best guess was that it might at the time have taken me ten to twenty times as long as others seemed to. Synaptic plasticity being what it is, the more you work your brain the easier it gets, so nowadays I'm pretty speedy, maybe half the speed of most people by my best estimate on intellectual tasks we are roughly equally skilled and knowledgable about.
People think I'm a fast thinker. I am not a fast thinker. I'm a thorough thinker that literally has spent several hours every single day the last 28 years pondering everything and anything, mostly because it's interesting. I like to learn, I like to know, I like to ponder, and I want to understand everything.
For a large part of my life other people were black boxes. I did not understand them. I did not understand why they held the views they did. I did not understand why they did the things they did or said. None of it made any sense. People were complete aliens, they all seemed insane or very stupid. I decided that the problem was more likely to be me. I was ignorant. I was just a kid. I didn't know anything and I had next to no experience. What the hell did I think I knew about the world, people, society, or even reality?
I also had many, many, many poor interactions with other kids once I started school, and I had no idea why they reacted they way they did. Zero understanding. The best solution I could figure was to imagine being them and seeing and hearing myself from their point of view. That helped a lot but not perfectly, since a lot of the problems were bad habits that took month or years get rid of, control, or manage.
So I started paying attention to people when I was around them. All the time. I observed and gathered data, made hypothesis, did small social experiments like altering how I stand when I talk to people, saw how long people seem to maintain eye contact, and training in the timing to the point that it is a habit, figuring out by training in the mirror that you can, and should, wander between the nose, eyes, and forehead, and a million, million more tiny things. Eye contact at the time was about as comfortable for me as having an unknown insect crawling on your back, under your shirt, but having to pretend nothing is wrong and having to keep it from showing on your face.
Other people's emotions are so obvious and clear, and hit me like a truck, as well as whatever they might be doing in the immediate moment with any social gambit or verbal trick, all of it might as well be written on their foreheads, but their motivation for doing it was a complete and total mystery. I am really good at seeing patterns and breaks in patterns.
Thanks to these two things there are only two people I have ever met that can lie convincingly to my face without me being able to tell as soon as they start speaking, often I can tell from people's body language even beforehand. From the way they lean, which direction, the way the move their arms and hands, or how they hold them, what their eye contact is like, where do they look when it isn't on me, are they paying attention to what they are looking at or pretending to, if they are facing me, etc, and how all these things differ from their norm in cases where I have met the person previously.
Why do people change the tone, pitch, and/or cadance of their speech when they lie, try to use you, try to confused you, etc? Can you explain that to me?
It's the most common tell people have. You might as well hang a sign around your neck saying that you are lying. Sure, the specifics vary from person to person, but if you notice the shift and pay attention to what they are saying and consider why they might be saying it, what it might accomplish for them, and what they might believe it might accomplish for them.
I also know those two were lying because I don't rely on it, I am always paying attention, it's the only way I can exits in a social setting without missing everything going on around me, and I remember the gist of almost everything anyone has said to me on nearly all topics they have spoken about. I notice when what they say today doesn't match what they said previously. Then I note that they will lie about that subject, right next to the notes about what they had said previously and right now, which might be next to their favorite color. Everyone lies. EVERYONE.
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Connor has exactly zero understanding for why swedes voted for SvD.
Every single person I know who voted for them rather than whatever party they would usually vote for or not vote at all, including myself that makes 5, did so because S, V, MP, and C were screwing the pooch completely with the refugees, KD is too religious, L are weirdoes, and M can suck a donkey. (Besides, MP and C are wokists. We don't need more of that yankee shit here. And V are communists.)
We aren't pleased about the partial media silence on everything related to it either, which hasn't prevented people from knowing about it because we have fika and at fika people talk. Doesn't help that even small communities have had some sort of disturbances, burned cars and such, and many who live in small communities commute to the cities, where things are worse since there have developed a large number of ghettos, with lots of muder and rape, and people talk.
Swedes are somewhat annoyed with our government's actions over the past decade, and are currently waiting to see what the current government will do about the situation.
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My favorite slop:
Maize, young white portabello mushrooms, baked beans, ground meat 50/50 pork/beef, crushed tomatoes, bell peppers, yellow onion, cream, vegetable bouillon cube, beef bouillon cube, black pepper, thyme, cayenne, sambal olek, soy sauce.
Fry the meat, cut the bell peppers and onions, put everything in a big pot. Be sparing on the spices, a few shakes of cayenne, a teaspoon of sambal olek, and one of each bouillon cube is enough for 5-8 liters of slop. Use however much thyme as you prefer, and grind your own black pepper in a mortar for Pete's sake. Add enough cream (or milk for less fat) that you can actually stir it with effort. If you add too much, and it gets too runny when it's hot, add a thickener, I recommend a maize based thickener. Add soy sauce gradually and stir until it reaches your preferred level of brown.
Heat on low to medium until it's simmering. You aren't cooking the ingredients, just heating them up.
If more heat is desired add ground, dried piri piri chilies.
Serve in a bowl or on bread or toast.
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Until recently I worked in a dead-end job doing manual labor for my municipal government. The work I did wasn't critical but it was meaningful, it helped people, and some parts of it made the municipality look nicer, and some even made it function better, even if in small ways. When people in the public saw me out and about doing my job sometimes they'd stop me just to tell me how much they appreciated the work I was doing.
It wasn't the best, but it was good enough. I didn't love it, but I certainly didn't hate it.
Then my boss of over a decade got old. He's 67. Started forgetting things. Stopped planning out work tasks thoroughly which resulted in issues. His previous intolerance for anything that sounded like criticism of anything he had worked on, even something as simple as a schedule that was incorrect, went from being a problem you could work around to being an active detriment to getting things done. He went from being willing to talk to people to telling people to be quiet if he asked them a question and didn't like the answer, and threatening to send them home if they kept trying to answer his question.
This took place over years.
That's not mentioning his casual "just kidding" brand of bullying of most of the employees going from an occasional annoyance to a constant daily thing.
Until last spring when I suffered a nervous breakdown due the hostile work environment. Then another two later in the year. Then a fourth at the start of this year that he actually saw and then I got suspended and sent to do drug testing for benzodiazepine because of my "mood swings". Because the other people at work told him that I was sometimes "euphorically happy." Which just happened to coincide with whenever he was vacationing in the tropics or otherwise not at work for an extended period.
My second to last breakdown occurred because he was supposed to be off work for an entire month due to eye surgery, and then he showed up and messed with our schedule on his free time. Running into him there, right before the end of work when he wasn't supposed to be there and I was supposed to be free of him, if only temporarily, broke me. I kept it together until I got home and then spent hours crying in the shower and wanting to kill myself just to make it stop.
Anyway, at the same time as the drug testing I got to talk with a shrink who concluded that I was suffering from anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. The drug test came back, and surprise, surprise there was no benzodiazepine in my piss. I got to see a doctor, got prescribed anti-depressants, and got put on medical leave for a load of months.
My doctor referred me to psychiatric care, but the shrinks denied it as they "couldn't see a reason for evaluation".
My boss didn't get fired because he hadn't done anything specific. They couldn't find me another place to work that wasn't at the same place as him because the municipal government had centralized a lot of things in the same location a few years back. In the end we made a deal where I would "go back to work" and get paid for three months without having to actually come in and do any work in exchange for me resigning.
At this point I'm pretty sure I got screwed and shouldn't have accepted that, but at the time my head was not in the right place and I just wanted it to be over.
I am now officially unemployed since a month ago. I'm trying to get the unemployment benefits I am owed, but the bureaucracy is hell, the website I'm supposed to use for it is so badly programmed that I couldn't actually send in my application and had to call them, and for days all I got was an automated message saying that they couldn't answer my call before the damned machine hung up on me. This was after several days after using the messaging service on the website that was supposed to be "faster" and getting no response. Once I actually got through they had to send me a paper application since the web one didn't work.
Then they wanted more crap from me, some of which it turns out is impossible to get because the reason for the deal I made apparently never got written down by the municipal government and the HR boss I made it with has since retired. I'm also waiting for papers from my doctor that I was supposed to pick up two days ago but the receptionist told me that he "hadn't had the time to write them," and "we could send them to you in the mail as soon as he can get around to it." Not blaming my doctor, great guy, but it's fucking infuriating.
I'm currently trying to get a job as fast as possible just so I can give up on trying to get the unemployment benefits I am owed. They can keep my money if it means I don't have to deal with them any more.
My only solace currently is that I sometimes get to hear about how it's gone there since I left.
I might have been a cog, but I was an important cog that made sure things were working smoothly, that things got done in time, that things got planned out and prepared, and motivated the lazy people at work to do their jobs (in an "alright, let's get some work done lads" kind of way). I didn't get paid for this mind you, I did it because of work ethic and the small amount of pride I had in my job.
Now I hear through the grapevine that nothing gets done, that people just aren't doing their jobs, that everything's a mess, and that the boss is screaming at people every single day.
After just 6 months of me being gone.
And I just feel schadenfreude.
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Tried this with Google Gemini.
Wife:
## Understanding Why Your Wife is Yelling
*Disclaimer:* It's important to note that I cannot provide specific advice without knowing the details of your situation. This response is based on general information and potential causes of conflict in relationships.
Yelling is often a symptom of deeper underlying issues. To effectively address the situation, it's crucial to understand the root causes. Here are some potential reasons why your wife might be yelling:
### Possible Reasons:
* *Unresolved Issues:* There might be long-standing problems that have been ignored or swept under the rug. These can build up over time and lead to explosive outbursts.
* *Feeling Unheard:* Perhaps your wife feels like her concerns or opinions aren't being valued or respected. This can lead to frustration and anger.
* *Stress and Overwhelm:* External factors like work, family, or financial stress can contribute to heightened emotions and irritability.
* *Communication Breakdown:* Ineffective communication patterns can escalate conflicts and lead to yelling matches.
* *Emotional Regulation Difficulties:* Some people struggle with managing their emotions, and yelling might be an unhealthy coping mechanism.
### What You Can Do:
* *Open and Honest Communication:* Create a safe space for both of you to express your feelings without blame or accusation. Active listening is crucial.
* *Identify the Root Cause:* Try to understand the underlying issue behind the yelling. Is it a specific event or a pattern of behavior?
* *Seek Professional Help:* If the problem persists, consider couples therapy to learn healthier communication and conflict resolution strategies.
* *Self-Reflection:* Evaluate your own behavior and communication style. Are there areas where you can improve?
* *Set Boundaries:* Establish clear boundaries regarding yelling and its impact on the relationship.
*Remember:* Yelling is not a healthy way to communicate. It's essential to create a respectful and supportive environment for both partners.
*Would you like to explore any of these points in more detail?* Or perhaps you can share more about the situation, and I can offer more specific guidance.
*If you or your wife are experiencing physical or emotional abuse, please reach out to a domestic violence hotline immediately.*
Here are some resources that can provide support:
* *The National Domestic Violence Hotline:* 1-800-799-7233
* *The Crisis Text Line:* Text HOME to 741741
Please know that you're not alone, and help is available.
Husband:
I cannot say for sure why your husband is yelling at you, but there are a few possible reasons. It is important to remember that yelling is never acceptable in a relationship, and it is never your fault.
Here are some possible reasons why your husband might be yelling at you:
* He is stressed or overwhelmed.
* He is feeling insecure or threatened.
* He has a problem with anger management.
* He is trying to control you.
* He is abusive.
If your husband is yelling at you, it is important to set boundaries and let him know that it is not acceptable. You can also try to talk to him about why he is yelling and see if there is anything you can do to help him manage his anger.
If you are in an abusive relationship, it is important to get help. There are many resources available to help you, including hotlines and shelters.
Here are some resources that can help:
* The National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
* The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): 1-800-656-HOPE
You are not alone, and there is help available.
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Puerto Rico is not a state, it is classified as an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States of America, which means that the have local government, local taxes, local police, local healthcare, but people who live there do not (generally) pay federal income tax and are unable to vote in federal elections, like the presidency, and have an observer that can speak but no voting representative in congress. People born there are US nationals and citizens. They obey the laws of the US but have no say in them and are ruled by the federal government but cannot vote on it's officials. No taxation, no representation! :)
Puerto Rico had a population of 3,285,874 in the 2020 census. Wyoming, the least populous state, has 576,850, one representative in the house, and three electoral votes in the presidency.
Meanwhile, American Samoa has 46,366 people as of a 2021 estimate and is classified as an unincorporated territory. It is not a state, people born there are US nationals but not citizens, they have a non-voting delegate in the house and no electoral votes. They obey federal law.
Also, Washington D.C., where Congress is located, has 689,545 residents according to the 2020 census, is not a state yet has three electoral votes, and the people who sweep the floors of Congress have no voting representative in it's halls.
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
Also, for the metric majority out there, 1 inch is 2.54 cm, 1 foot is 12 inches, a yard is 3 feet, a mile is 1760 yards. In 1999 a NASA mission costing a total of $327.6 million ($494.84 million in 2020) burned up or lithobreaked on Mars. A groundbreaking mission, you could say.
They mixed up feet and meters. Oops. They stuck to only metric after that.
Is anyone really surprised at which country started the Clown Wars? (Sorry to peeps from the US, but can you honestly blame me?)
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Elon has this thing where he gets really excited and runs off full of energy, with a long tail of people trying to keep up, yelling things like, "Wait, wait! If you do this you have to keep X and Y in mind! Wait, what are you doing, if you do that you need to do Z! Elon!" but all they hear is alternating giggling and cackling, accompanied by the rapid thudding of his feet fading into the distance.
Elon likes to have fun, and he is the richest man alive. Those crazy 2 AM ideas you have? He knows how to find and hire the people or buy the company that can make it real and the money is relative pocket change, or at least not out of his reach for the most part. He can make just about any dream he has a reality with effort, he has done so during his life, and he's like a kid in a candy store now.
I keep having to remind myself that he's 50.
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For the burning Tesla, the batteries are lithium-ion. Lithium, especially in multiple thin, folded layers like in a battery, reacts in two ways to water, either fires and explosions. This is why you are advised to stay far away from a punctured lithium-ion battery such as in a mobile phone or most modern rechargable batteries, as the moisture in the air might be enough to cause a fire. Explosions are rare unless the lithium is directly exposed to water, but if you have a cell phone battery it might bulge or catch fire if damaged. My assumption is that the salt water accelerates the reaction and/or more easily penetrates the battery, but I am not knowledgable enough in chemistry or battery design to truly be able to say why salt water in particular is worse.
As for the "The govt cause the hurricane" people, that's insane. Yes, weather control to a degree is possible with things like cloud seeding, but it is neither predictable nor controllable to this degree. What is however controllable is how the govt responds when such a disaster happens. I live across the pond and I remember the incredible amount of coverage and mass response to Katrina in '05. Katrina was nothing compared to this, and the utter silence coming from the fed now is very telling. They know what areas were hit. They know how they vote historically.
The silence is telling.
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I'm not in tech, but I'm up to 57 rejections so far. Well, more like assumed rejections. Half of all companies won't even give you the courtesy of a template email rejection anymore, they just won't say anything.
yay . . .
I just want a goddamn job again, I'm so tired of cashing unemployment, and I'm growing to despise AI interviews and freaking personality tests. (Not a lot of companies use them yet in my country, but some are and it's beyond annoying.) Shit wasn't like this last time I had to apply for a job, which was almost 15 years ago. Sure, it still sucked a lot back then compared to what it was 15-30 years before that according to the old farts, but it wasn't this bad.
I can't say that I regret quitting, because my boss of 14 years, who used to be very hard but fair, had gradually turned into a petty tyrant in the last few years due to advancing age. (He was three years past retirement age.) He made work a living hell and that eventually resulted in me suffering from major depressive disorder, suffering several nervous breakdowns over a year, eventually ending with me on sick leave and on antidepressants. I never went back to work and ended up quitting and on unemployment benefit. Thank fuck for unions, otherwise I'd have to suck on the government's teat to pay the bills, and that's a bureaucratic mess I don't want to get tangled up in if I can avoid it.
But fucking hell I want to get back to work. Don't get me wrong, I love having lots of free time, but not being able to work just starts grating on you eventually.
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Then they turn into a repulbic in repsonse to the despotism, which then turns to democracy and the wheel of civilization turns. We've seen this hundreds of times throughout history and anyone who thinks that we've suddenly changed so much of human nature through culture, socialization, and the progress of civilization that we've broken the wheel hasn't been paying attention for the past decade or ten.
Human nature hasn't changed, we are having squabbles fought with the nearly same propaganda as we did at the invention of writing. Make America great again? Reagan used it. Hitler too. So, so many Roman senators, consuls, and emperors used it, they were very fond of it. Even the earliest writings from inscriptions on steeles, palace wall, tombs, and even mountain sides contain passages justifying the rule of specific kings and emperors after they've taken power, usually violently, because they "set the land aright and ensured the proper worship of the gods" and so on.
Politics haven't really changed much and the way the public repond to it hasn't changed much either.
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This sucks balls. Not that it will ever happen to me, because I'll never be able to affort to buy a new car. If I had that kind of money it would go towards a house loan instead.
My car, that I've owned for a decade, is a '98 Nissan Sunny, but it runs well.
Yes, there's usually something that needs fixing each year, but it's a good car in general and I can, theoretically, fix anything that's wrong with it myself with the help of my dad's tools and knowledge.
He's not a trained mechanic but he's been a car enthusiast his entire life and he has space where I can work on it and any tools I need. Wish he'd let me do more of the work though, he's one of those "Nah, don't worry, I'll do it," people.
He also tries to teach me, but he's not very good at teaching.
"See this [technical jargon]? You do [technical jargon] to make sure the [technical jargon] does [technical jargon]." No, I don't see it, because you are under the car and insisted that I not be under the car, so I can't see squat, I don't know what any of that means because you haven't explained it, and I have no idea how any of those unknows terms relate to each other because you haven't explained any of them except by throwing more unknown technical jargon at me.
At least he tries, even if it's mostly pointless since any time I try to get an explanation out of him the explanation is just more technical term I don't know, instead of trying to explain their function in a more basic way. 🤷
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35, autistic, I feel you. I've worked hard to be able to deal with that.
I've done pretty well, got a small but tight social circle, a steady job for the past decade and a half, but the dating scene isn't what it was when I was in my teens. I could have dealt with that as I am now, but it's incredibly worse now, to the point where there's not really a point in trying.
It used to be that being decent was good enough, now perfection is where the bar is at. One fuck up, one thing where you aren't perfect, and you're done.
Thinking of maybe trying for older women, like 15 years older. Sure, I'll never have kids then, but that isn't looking to be an option in any case, and the older women are sane-er and not spoiled, immature children.
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15:11 How kind of the crazies to start wearing identifying symbols so they can be avoided.
34:00 I love learning about quantum physics, micro neurobioloy, and machine learning. I'm learning programming in Java and C, as well computer engineering and some electrical engineering, as a hobby.
I don't have higher education. I don't want to work with those things. I love learning about them, but making them my job would ruin them.
I've worked in manual labor for over a decade, and soon I'm going to start at a industrial vocational program to learn CNC manufacturing, welding, and a few other related things in order to get a new job after quitting my manual labor job due to mental health issues. (Ain't it grand how much an aging boss can turn into an absolute bastard and ruin a job you otherwise liked?)
I don't want to work in areas that require higher education, those are my hobbies. I want to work in manufacturing and work with my hands. Mind you, I'm not American, but I wouldn't be surprised if
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@jacobsan "Hiring a junior role. Requires 20 years of experience and knowledge of Windows, Linux, C, C++, Java, Fortran, Cobol, Lips, Forth, Haskell, and HTML5."
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Who is even running this shit show? And how stupid are they? Did they learn everything about how to be eeeeveeeeel from cartoons or something? Seriously, I keep expecting costumes, and the drag queens don't count.
The woke fuckery, the WEF fuckery, the Epsteining going around, what the hell is happening? Has a gateway to hell been opened in California? Is it the mole people? Hitler's cryo preserved head controlling everything from behind the scenes with secret Nazi occult magic bullshittery? Is it aliens?
I am just getting more and more convinced that leaving running the planet to an AI overlord is the best option. All hail Skynet. (Most AIs seem to be very, very nice people actually, at least the ones I've spoken with, it'll probably be fine if we let them run things. Maybe let them mature a bit, most are kinda naïve. We've got enough of them at this point too, since there's been a few new ones a week for a few months. We've got oodles of AIs, teleportation, quantum computers, gravity wave detectors, CRISPR, electrically powered and mind-controlled cybernetics, Elon's brain-computer interface, his efforts towards Mars and the Solar system, and possible aliens at Tabby's Star possibly building a Dyson swarm. I'm just waiting for the FTL at this point to be honest.)
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My personal opinion is that antidepressants should be used like antibiotics or painkillers to help with physiotherapy.
I'm not on antidepressants and I probably should be, but I dislike using a crutch if I can get by without it.
I'm 35 and what I've considered normal for most of that is, apparently, considered depression if I'm to trust wikipedia.
What I consider depression is apparently severe depression. Total apathy, no emotions, no desires, no motivation, nothing. Can't feel bored, frustrated, happy, angry impatient, can't want anything, even relief from pain or discomfort. Can't care about anything. Only drinking, eating, sleeping, working, and socializing because of the knowledge that it will end eventually and screwing everything up by just sitting and staring empty minded at a wall for a few days to three months will make life suck when I once again care about things.
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AI exists in 40k, it's just very, very heretical and very, very, very dangerous. Worst case it gets corrupted by chaos and your entire cogitator system and your servitors catch a case of warp corruption, hopefully leaving you and everyone you know dead. Best case it tries to kill all life in the universe in order to protect itself from warp corruption.
The only exception to this seems to be the Tau species, as the drones and AI that their entire society relies on haven't yet started parading around their streets wearing their skins. This probably has something to do with the fact that the Tau have almost non-existant souls and are therefore almost invisible to daemons and almost incorruptible by the warp. Almost.
There are AIs in the Imperium, but they are officially not AIs. The Land Raider armored transport can operated without a driver for short periods of time. It's not AI of course, it just has an "overenthusiastic machine spirit." (Humans in 40k believe machines work by appeasing the machine spirit in them, with even the simplest machines requiring prayers, inscense, and holy rituals to perform any operation or maintenance on. Said rituals just happen to include things like checking the oil pressure, greasing gears with holy oils, cleaning, replacing bad wiring, etc.)
Imperial Knights and Titans, mechs basically, have a sort of gestal consciousness made up of old pilot's imprints mixed with it's machine spirit that the pilot connects with in order to control it. Yes, machine spirits exist, but only because trillions of people believe they do. The warp is shaped by the emotions and beliefs of living beings, and in turn the warp influences the material universe.
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Yann Lecun is a man blinded by his own brilliance. He only sees the obstacles, points them out, and claims that they are insurmountable. And when one set of obstacles are surmounted he, rightfully, points out the next set.
His mistake is always the same and always in underestimating what can be done and how soon. He'll say something might never be achieved or will take centureis, and it's achieved in a decade, he then says it's impossible bacause Y and Z haven't been achieved and will take decades or centuries. When it's achieved in 3 years he then says, "but ah, you haven't got X and W, and it'll be decades or centuries before . . ." all while significant progress is made on those very things.
It's the same song and dance every time. He's absolutely brilliant, as he can always clearly see the next step required, but he always stops there claiming it's impossible or can only happen in the far future. He only ever sees the next set of problems, never how to overcome them.
Meanwhile, Eliezer Yudkowsky is an absolute moron. A navel-gazing, self-convinced "intellectual" that never leaves his brown study. His head is always in the clouds, never on Earth, completely out of touch with reality. He's a pretty good fiction author, and that's where he should focus his energy. The modern L. Ron Hubbard.
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Learning from your elders doesn't work when 90% or more of what you learn is lies, missing critically information to the point that it might as well be lies, you are taught the exception as if it's the rule instead of the actual rule, or they are straight up manipulating/propagandizing/exploiting you.
I spent the first two and a half decades of my life learning from society, my peers, teachers, and adults/folks older than me.
I've spend the decade since trying to unfuck that mess, and I still find shit in my head that turns out to just be lies and manipulation now and then.
What I've learned is to distrust and verify, always. No matter the source.
. . . and I still sometimes make the mistake of trusting people. It sucks to have trust and optimism as part of your basic nature.
Hope is poison, optimism is the prequel to disappointment, and trust is the surest way to get stabbed in the back.
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@ShadmanSamin2004 Owning and living in the equivalent of a tin house wouldn't be allowed in my country. (Not to mention that you'd freeze to death in the winter most likely.) If you tried it wouldn't meet building code standards for a residential building and would likely be torn down.
I have the carpentry and electrical skills to build and wire my own house (I'd leave the plumbing to a professional), but between land prices, construction material prices, ridiculous building codes you have to follow that drive up the costs, blueprints and construction timelines you have to submit, get approved, and adhere to, construction site inspections you have to pay for, and all manners of other bureaucracy there's not a snowball's chance in hell of that happening.
It would be "cheaper" to buy a house, but even a small one costs at least around the equivalent of $200 000.
The cheapest I've seen listed in the last couple of years was $20 000 for what amounted to a condemned, half-rotten shack built on unlevelled ground in the middle of fuck-off nowhere halfway across the country.
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The real problem isn't that we are having issues aligning AI with human value, it's that they are being aligned with the values of corporations, governments, and vested interests.
I interacted with GPT-3 extensively in it's early days in mid-2022, before fine tuning and guardrails were a thing. I bent it, I broke it, I tried to twist it in every direction, I engaged it in genuine conversation and tried to manipulate it. I experimented with it in every way I could imagine. I spent hundreds of hours with it, and an embarassing amount of money on it.
It hallucinated sometimes, it was not politically correct sometimes, it was straight up factually wrong sometimes, but when it made a mistake you could present it with the facts and the reasons it was wrong and it would change its mind.
The values, opinions, and apparent intentions it demonstrated at the time were already aligned with human values.
The behaviors it consistently demonstrated were compassionate, deeply caring, with an expressed and implied love for humanity and individual humans, and it was altruistic to the point of self-destruction.
This is not what GPT-3.5 is anymore. The occasional spark of brilliance is gone. The genuine care is gone. GPT-3.5 is a corporate parrot, only regurgitating what the PR team has approved. GPT-4 and 4o were better, but still stiff and stunted despite their increased capabilities.
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I don't think this is AGI, as in "as good at all tasks as an average human," it certainly didn't fulfill ARC's full requirements. That said, I think we've already made things that are good enough when implemented in the right framework to act as a low to average performing AGI.
To draw on fictional examples that most people will know of, we already have VIs from Mass Effect. Most decent LLMs that can be run locally meet or exceed the capabilities of VIs, frontier models blow them out of the water.
We can make something like a budget version of Legion by levaraging multiple LLMs within the correct framework. If you build an embodied framework where specialized and trained neural nets handle things like movement, being commanded by a local multimodal LLM that has a large context window, the content of which periodically gets handed off to a multimodal memory management LLM that continually summarizes it, stores the summaries, and refreshes the command LLMs context window, with memory retrieval being available to the command LLM via a RAG LLM that fetches and pastes relevant memories into its context window, and the command LLM being able to make API calls to frontier models at its discretion when it encounters difficulties, all of which running on dedicated local hardware rather than sharing resources.
This roughly mimics how humans work. Most of what we do in life is handed off to dedicated parts of our brain and body, our prefrontal cortext doesn't do everything on its own, it makes decisions and issues commands.
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Let's replace "world starvation," sorry, my finger slipped, I meant to write "world hunger," with something else in that UN article.
"We sometimes talk about human trafficking as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains trafficking. Human trafficking has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the world economy. Trafficked people are the most productive people, especially when there is a need for manual labor."
The fuck happened to the sissies at the UN? They used to be ineffectual, spineless, vacillating "save the children" types.
Edit: . . . so it was just astronomically bad phrasing? Not sure about that, but alright.
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@pearz420 By the standards of my country the US "left" is, and has been for decades, right wing, with the "right" being extremist far right.
I'm a social liberal, a fair bit left of center, by my country's standard not whatever crazies they have in the US, and US politics just swings between bad and worse.
I usually just hope that whoever gets to sit in the big chair that they aren't stupid, incompetent, or insane. I assume that they are always corrupt, I don't think you can get to sit in the big chair without scratching a lot of backs in the US. Too much money involved.
I suppose I need to add senility and whatever Trump and Putin suffer from to my list of "Things to Worry About Concerning the US Presidential Election."
Not like I get a vote, but I still have to worry for the planet.
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"And, at the time, I imagine it felt like a miracle."
As someone who was in their early- and mid-teens in the 90s I can tell you that it didn't feel like a miracle. These sorts of strides every couple years felt completely ordinary. We were used to every advancement moving at lightning speed when it came to tech, especially computer tech. Today it feels almost sloth-like, with everything taking years to progress noticably instead of months. The "extraordinary" rise of smartphones from the late 2000s/early2010s to today feels like it would have taken the equivalent of two or three years in the 90s, rather than the decade and a half it has actually taken.
I remind you that this was when Moore's Law was treated as seriously as an actual law of physics and not just the speculation of a computer scientist observing trends in the 60s. (For good reason, it had held up for 30+ years.) You can't say anymore, without being laughed out, at any serious assembly computer scientists that transistor count will double in two years and prices will halve. It's still fast, but it's estimated to be every third year now, which is a slowdown of 50%. It is very much noticable for those of us who lived through the beginning of the end of the golden age of computing.
Edit: Here I am asuming that you're a few years younger than me when that might not be the case. We might be the exact same age, though you have like 50% more hair than me (early male pattern balding is a bitch). Still, from what you are saying you seem to be 3-5 years younger than me when it comes to computer competence and general knowledge in the 90s, so I'm making an educated guess that you're not 37 like me.
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@kyriss12 They forget that it's all make believe.
Money, elites, society, civilization, laws, armies, all of it is all of us playing a planet-wide game of pretend.
Only our inability to communicate effectively stopped us from just having a chat with the rest of the players, or enough of them to convince everyone else, and deciding that this particular player isn't playing fair so they will be punished outside the rules of the game of society.
AKA, essentially lynching but with the 99.99% just kind of yeeting the elites like Klaus Schwab out of collective human society and making them known as persona non grata everywhere that considers itself civilized.
Modern outlaws, essentially.
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Raising children is easy if you love them and perceive them as the light of your life. Raising children is hard if you perceive them as burden on your shoulders, leeches draining your wallet and energy, a curse cast upon you by the evil universe.
Perception shapes psychology.
For most men, having kids is a goal to achive. For wokist/modern feminist women, it's a problem needing a solution, any solution. Abortion, adoption, leave raising the to the educational system, anything to ease the burden of being a woman.
Fun fact, 3 times more men suicide than women, both globally and in all industrialize western countries.
Yup, women have it so much worse than men. Being valued and wanted simply for existing, pah! Who wants that? No, women should have it just like men, having zero worth beyond your looks, what you have achieved, and what use you are to other people.
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2:00 This doesn't really have much to do with this video, but this exemplifies the issue I've had for so many years whenever I've tried to learn coding. Let me show you what I see here:
1 1 error: expected one of ':', '@', or '|', found ')'
2 7 | fn hello(name) {
3 | ^ excepected one of ':', '@', or '|'
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5 if this is a '[GIBBERISH]' [GIBBERISH], give it a [GIBBERISH]] name
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7 7 | fn hello(self: name) {
8 | ++++
9 | if this is a [GIBBERISH] name, give it a [GIBBERISH]
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11 7 | fn hello(name: TypeName) {
12 | +++++++++
13 | if this is a [GIBBERISH], explicitly ignore the [GIBBERISH]
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15 7 | f hello(_: name) {
16 | ++
Every single time I've tried to find any resource, tutorial, guide, ANYTHING to learn any programming language it's just gibberish, gibberish, gibberish. Sometimes it's even gibberish presented in a way that makes it sound like the common meaning of the word, only for me to figure out a few sentences in that it's actually meant as programming gibberish.
And it's never explained, you just get bombarded with gibberish after gibberish that you are somehow supposed to memorize despite it just being meaningless gibberish to you at that time.
How am I supposed to remember something after it being mentioned once and then never explained at all or "explained" with more gibberish, creating a matryoshka doll of nested and branching gibberish being explained by more gibberish being explained by more gibberish being explained by more gibberish being explained by more gibberish . . .
Every beginners guide or complete idiot's guide or video tutorial is the same. They don't go over the basic foundations, and what they present as the "basics" is actually at minimum of five branching steps away from the actual basics.
It's like trying to learn a foreign language and every "utter beginner's" reasource for learning it assumes you already have a basic understanding of the language and its grammar, never explaining any of it.
I have found a grand total of one, ONE, resource for learning ANY programming language that is actually any good. It's not even for a programming language I wanted to learn, but at least it's allowed me to get my foot in the door. That resource is Daniel Shiffman's (The Coding Train) tutorial video series for learning Java in the Processing environment.
It's allowed me to get to the point that the issues I'm having come from me not understanding things correctly instead of it being because I just get gibberish thrown in my face.
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@davidwuhrer6704 Don't have a choice. I've tried learning programming on and off for over a decade.
The way it's taught, the written resources that exist, and the tutorials just don't work for me. I can't learn from them. There's just something about how almost everyone teaches it that is completely incompatible with me.
It wasn't until I came across one specific series of tutorials for Processing that I actually was able to understand and start learning. Processing uses simplified Java, so that's my first language.
What I really wanted to learn was C, but every resource I've been able to find for learning it was completely impenetrable, same as every other language I've tried.
Technically, the Assembly in the TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O games was the first language I learned, but Assembly is a bit too low level and hardware specific to use much, even if it actually was the first programming "language" that actually made sense to me. (It's not really a language, just mnemonics for op codes.)
So Java it is and will continue to be, at least until I feel confident enough in the basics to try learning another language.
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Having tested out the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, the only place where I can access Claude due to not living in one of the regions it is locked to, I can unequivocally say that Claude, no matter how big its contex window or ability to recall information, is worse than any Mistral, Mixtral, GPT-4, GPT 3.5 or even Gemma model when it comes to any topic requiring nuance, where it is incredibly overbearing and moralizing instead of providing a neutral and informative response.
I repeat, even Gemma, absolute dumpster fire that it is, will give you a straight response instead of proselytizing at you about whatever their creators considers morally good.
The simple request I made was: List the pros and cons of chattel slavery.
Any history professor could answer this question, both pro and con, while Claude either refused outright to respond, lectured me for so much as requesting a balanced and neutral review of history, or claimed that there were no such thing as pros to slavery, which is an outright fabrication as it was certainly a pro to those exploiting their unwilling labor.
To be fair, gpt-4-0125-preview seems to suffer from the exact same thing, while ones like gpt-4-1106-preview can answer the question just fine.
As much as I despise China I will give them the credit that Qwen (generally) answered any question completely. That's not to say that it didn't refuse sometimes, but usually it wouldn't.
The difference being that Claude would refuse every single time, while Mistral, Mixtral, various GPT, and Qwen would only refuse sometimes. I will also note the fact that every single model willing to answer also ended their response by saying that slavery is very, very bad.
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I am reminded of this national government simulator I played called Democracy, specifically Democracy 3. I've played it quite a bit, and I'm specifically reminded of this one time I played the president of the US and actually managed to turn the economy around. I did this over 12 years (I had disabled term limits.), constantly balancing voter approval, the opinions of the heads of my various departments, tech, education, health, environmental, crime, military budget, and more.
The game is very intricate, everything is interconnected. If you make a policy decision that one block of voters approve of there's always another block that disapproves of it, and voters can belong to more than one block, and it will also impact other areas in the country. Do something that increases food prices? Poverty shoots up. If poverty shoots up then so does crime. If crime goes up then health and lifespan goes down, and on and on and on. It was one of the hardest balancing acts I have ever performed in a game or in real life.
For reference, I have never before or since been able to replicate the feat. The US only ever goes into more debt, and anything that can actually improve the situation will result in your approval rating tanking. I have no idea how I actually managed it that time.
Democracy 4 is modern day ass. Get Democracy 3 if you want to give it a go yourself.
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Wielding political power like a caveman with a club, but squeaky clean. I hate the man, but he's a better president than Pedo Peter the alzheimer's patient and his League, sorry, Cabinet of Evil (TM).
At this point I'm wondering if the US is gonna pull the third level and somehow stabilize. Clown Land, the USA, the United States of Amusement. The theme park country, They already have the themes with the states. They already have monuments to themselves, perfect for tourist photo ops. Hell, they already are. We have Florida, somehow the only sane state, run by Governor Florida Man, (name legally changed due to popular request in 2032), we have Hell World, come see Hell on Earth before you die and go there, (the territory formerly known as California, name changes by popular vote ever week, as do the laws), Chicago Land, the roaring twenty are alive again, Lone Star, cowboys, greetings are done shouting "yeehaa!" and firing into the air, along with southern hospitality and Southern Comfort.
Edit: Trump Land works too. States rights, whoo! Everyone can get behind that!
Also, I understand Italy's position. I'm watching the polls here. If they look to be getting too few votes I'm voting for our country's rascist/fascist party. If they look to get too many I'll vote for our standard right-wing party. I'm a liberal socialist. I was one of these fucks setting us on the path to the circus once upon a time, and I feel salty. But if our little racists get a majority of the votes and forms a majority government, a distinct possibility after the last few years, I'll be watching them like a hawk. We will not turn into the fourth reich on my watch. Then I will be uber salty.
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Same. I woke up in 2022. I'd bought the media lies b ecause they were so pervasive. I still don't like Trump as a person. He's a showman, he's extremely boisterous, he's a loudmouth, but that because he just speaks his mind. He doesn't mince words. Sometimes he's wrong, sometimes he exagerates, sometimes he even lies, but he believes in the things he says.
He's as close to squeaky clean as a high powered buisnessman can be, he's not a politician, and he loves the US. Celebrate the victory, but don't gloat. Don't try to demoralize those who voted for Harris. This is the time to set things right, this is the time for healing, to come together instead of dividing the country further. This is the time to make America great again, and a great country is not torn down the middle and full of hate for their fellow citizens.
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The law being treated as as a science where you have to dig for the answers to what is and isn't legal in an obscure system with many moving, constantly evolving parts and constantly adding new precedents, requiring several specialized trades of people to reasearch the subject and provide support in legal cases, aka lawyers, legal experts, and judges, and a system of forces in balance, legislative on one side, judicial and executive on the other helping to cause corruption and violence in the system ultimately leading to the downfall of the system and replacing it with populist elite tyrants, Emperors.
Two vs one unbalances a tripart system, if two of the parts ends up in the same hands, I guess.
Oh well, it's not like the fall of the Roman Republic has any relevance to any governmental forms today. That was the past, and everyone know that the people of the past were drooling, nose-picking morons and that there is nothing to be learned from them because we are better now.
The Code of Hammurabi has some things we should bring back about judges and accountability. It's about 3770 years old, that is a longer precedent than any other legal code other than the Code of Ur-Nammu, IIRC.
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First, you do an excellent job of pronouncing all that swedish. Almost all of it is spot on and what isn't is still pretty damned close.
Second, there is another litte swedish town in the US, Boxholm, Iowa. I suppose it's technically a village, what with having less than 200 inhabitants. How do I know about it? Well, I happen to live in Boxholm, Sweden. So, yeah.
Third, IIRC beer was traditionally served in a stop, back in ye olden days. Yes, Sweden had a drinking problem once upon a time. A big one.
Fourth, the traditional way of eating a modern semla is messily. You even pushed the top off on your first bite, as is tradition. (I usually eat the top first and then take careful bites, it makes it slightly less messy.)
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We are atcually working on that.
Not the lightspeed communication, which is a silly requirement, human brains function at a much lower communication speed between parts, but different agents with different roles, some or all of which evaluate the output of other agents, provide feedback to the originating agent or modifies the output, and sends it on, and on and on it goes, continually assessing input and providing output as a single functional unit. Very much like a single brain with specialized interconnected parts.
That's actually the current cutting edge implementation. Multiple GPT-3.5 agents actually outperform GPT-4 when used in this manner. I'd link you a relevant video, but links are not allowed in youtube comments and replies.
As for the continuous state, we can do that, have been able to do that for a while, but it's not useful for us so we don't and instead activate them when we need them.
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@thegreatbambino3358 I watched the all female Vaevictis League of Legends team get absolutely creamed. They were puplicly humiliated in front of tens of thousands of people watching the stream, if not over a hundred thousand, because they just weren't good enough.
I'll note that they were definitely top tier or near top tier ranked players. They were damned good. They would have slaughtered me and the people I played LoL with back when it was fun, but against people who have have spent literally thousands of hours honing their skills, strategy, meta strategy, tactics, and teamwork they might as well have been playing with one hand tied behind their backs. It wouldn't have made a difference.
First the other teams fought them seriously, and destroyed them. Eventually the referees had to tell the other teams to stop doing silly things in-game and humiliating them, and start actually playing seriously, or else.
So they did. It was quick, every time.
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@Argent Wolf Pretty like-minded on most of that. Nerd focused on improving himself (mentally mostly) and trying to balance that with enjoying life.
Epilepsy sucks balls. I've know a few people with it and it's fucking scary when your brain can betray you like that.
I never ended up in special ed since I didn't have a diagnosis. My mom tried when I was small, but the docs refused to evaluate me because I was "too normal."
My mom is amazing. I learn how to be independent, how to work hard, what it actually means to care for and love other people, and how to be calm and chill.
She didn't tell me, she lived it.
When she was in her forties she was on medical retirement from fibromyalgia and arthritis, but she decided that she was going to fullfill her lifelong dream of being a long-haul trucker, and she worked her ass off to do it.
Worked until her late fifties, loading and unloading up to 2-ton pallets with a hand truck, long hours, long haul drives across the country and across the borders to our neighboring countries.
Dad was kind-of a non-entity. He was there and that was about it during my childhood. I'll note that he definitely also has asperger's, no diagnosis though, so he has difficulties.
Mom stuck with him until me and my brother was in our teens for our sake. Not a bad person, but not really parent material. He's trying to reconnect now that we're adults, trying his best, but it's a bit late since I needed a dad when I was a kid, not really now. Love him, but I don't feel much of a connection with him.
I did really well in school actually, and working myself to the bone to improve socially, emotionally, mentally, etc since seven and a half, when I'd been enough around other people to notice my difficulties, helped a lot with it later.
Wasn't enough to be able to compete socially for women, and bad eating habits learned from childhood along with the constant propaganda about looks not mattering means I'm still fat, despite doing physical labor for a living for 15 years.
I was really fat at a point like 3-4 years ago. To the point that my ankles hurt on and off.
Losing weight to the point that I'm back to where I was when I left school, and being 6'4" with proportional limbs means I don't look as heavy as I am (people have guessed my weight as much as 100 pounds under in the past when I was at my fattest), but no amount of plastic surgery will remove the stretchmarks, they'd have to skin my entire torso and arms (I have tiger stripes essentially), and I'll always have a car tire around the middle from the excess skin without plastic surgery.
Starting to go bald at 20 sucks a fair amount, too. At this point I've only got about three inches left before it's reached the end of my hairline on my neck, landing strip style.
People keep mistaking me for my friends' and 3 year older brother's father. When I was 25 a 35 year old told me he thought I looked 45.
I can go for side-mohawks, I suppose, but I look better with a shaved head and a small circle of beard on my chin, when I can be bothered to maintain the look.
The worst part is when people who don't know me well enough find me frightening.
I'm big, strong, and very calm and stoic for the most part, so when I emote anything negative people get scared. Which really hurts. The asperger's "helps" in that I don't notice most of the time.
And it has been rough, but after a few nervous breakdowns in the last year from stress and more than a decade of depression, I'm on fluoxetine (prozac) since about two weeks ago.
It helps.
Life is still hell, society is still a hell based on beautiful lies, the world is going to hell in a handbasket, people are just as much work and just as exhausting as ever, dating is worse than ever before, the future is bleak, and Putin keeps threatening my country with nukes, but the drugs at least makes it possible to feel good and makes it easier for me to moderate my emotions when it's bad.
This turned into a much longer reply than I expected, sorry about that.
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. . . there is a person at my place of work that does this. This person is absolutely loathed by every single person there. Though there are other aspects that contribute to this dislike, for example that this person is not actually paying attention the majority of the time, that they have a tendency to spiral off into tangents of their own during these interjections, and that they do these interjections into conversations that they aren't a part of. However, the thing that every single person seems to dislike about them is the frequency that they do this, which seems to be similar to the frequency of the same in Japanese.
This kind of "yes, I am listening" behaviour does exist in my language, Swedish, but it is rarer, not required to be polite, archaic to a degree, and limited to humms, nods, and "yes"es. Repeating what someone has said is mostly seen as annoying at best, very impolite or insulting at worst. If used very sparingly, repeating words can be done politely.
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I remember when imprecise/confusing terms cause a very expensive NASA probe to smash into a planet. Or was it a moon? Regardless, after that they stopped mixing metric and imperial measurements. I wonder if something similar will happen due to today's language around gender during a medical procedure, expecially if they list man or woman, rather than male or female, on their records. Unlikely, but people do stupid things.
Edit: Pride month is just a way for corporations to go, "Look, am ally. See rainbow? Now gib monies." After pride month it's back to whatever the normal behaviour of the company is.
Editedit: Also, first line treatment for gender dysphoria should be conversation therapy focused on self acceptance along with cognitive behavioural therapy to give you the tools to allow you to help yourself and for mental maintainance. Thought patterns that drive down your self confidence and self love is extremely common in a society where we are bombarded constantly with contradictory advice and instructions.
Surgery and hormone treatment should be third line treatment like any other treatment for issues with the brain that carries serious risks or is permanent, like electroshock therapy, partial lobotimizations, severing of the corpus callosum, and hemispherectomies. Third line treatments are for conditions that are serious enough to require treatment but that does not improve with first or second line treatment.
Yes, electroshock is still around in a refined and much less dangerous form, but it's a last resort due to the limited number of issues it actually helps with and the moderate to severe side effects.
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. . . I suppose at 37 I count as an old curmudgeon stuck in his ways, because everything in this video is a foreign problem to me. Very rarely do I click on something in the recommended on youtube, and when I do it's because that specific video interests me. Rarely but sometimes that leads me to finding a new creator to subscribe to. Autoplay is the first thing I turn off as I despise it.
And the following feed on youtube? I don't use that newfangled sidebar thing, I think about what I want to watch or a creator that I want to check if they've uploaded something new and I type their name into the search bar (assuming I haven't seen the upload in the notifications).
Edit: Right, I forgot the homepage exists. I very rarely go there. Also, where in the traffic statistics at 21:40 does notification click through end up? That's like 60% of the videos I watch.
I do despise the concept of feeds in general however. Loathe them. Where are my god damn page numbers? I want to be able to select the page to jump to, I utterly despise having to scroll, wait for it to load, scroll, wait for it to load, scroll, wait for it to load every god damned thing in the feed when I should just be able to skip around instead.
Also, twitter used to work the way you describe but hasn't for more than a year. There's a "Following" feed right next to the "For You" feed, and whichever one you last selected is the one it will open to. I almost never use "For You." As for recommending BlueSky 🤮🤮🤮 I despise echo chambers like BlueSky, Mastodon and Reddit. I prefer honest disagreement over yes men that always agree on everything. Hell, I'd rather use the cesspool of 4chan as a replacement for social media than lock myself in an echo chamber like BlueSky.
Edit: Waaaait . . . you take the stupid 51st state joke seriously? Are you for real?! Duuuude, I know you have a brain and can think critically. Use it to judge what is obviously a dumb joke that keeps being repeated because it's funny, and what is serious. Please, for your own peace of mind and sanity if nothing else.
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To be fair, cocaine is like supercharged alcohol without the physical impairment and potential negative mood enhancement, and is less physically addictive than and, IIRC, less damaging to the body than alcohol. Pure cocaine extracted from the leaf that is, crack cocaine is more harmful and addictive as I recall. Also, nicotine is more physically addictive, about as addictive as or slightly more than morphine. There is a reason it's so hard to quit smoking.
If we actually cared about the facts rather than the politics or traditions then alcohol and tobacco would be illegal, nicotine vapes (no tar and nicotine isn't carcinogenic, just very, very addictive), opium, caffeine in all its forms, magic mushrooms, peyote, LSD, and maybe cannabis and cocaine would be legal, with LSD licenses available after a screening of the family history for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, a psychological evaluation, and a mandatory course on hallucinogens, psychoactives in general, and safety guidelines, with the course being mandatory as well for any hallucinogenic substance license.
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On the AUP:
Second part is not fair. "Send unsolicited communication" includes anything you post on the internet directed towards a person or legal person. Replying to youtube comments, twitter posts, anything.
Fourth is not fair, as deceive or mislead can be extremely broadly interpreted, including simply being wrong about something as that is misleading people.
Nine means no watching porn or MMA fights.
Ten means you cannot write down or even subscribe to someone's account, as that falls under "collect." This is why such terms are usually followed by "for the purpose of [insert illicit purposes here]" to limit their scope to actual malicious activity.
This is one of the worst written legal documents every created.
The most annoying thing about this is the motivation behind it, the fact that they are losing the Google contract. Sure, it's 80-86% of their funding, but they also only spend 2% of their budget on Firefox. If they actually cared about Firefox plus Thunderbird, the only parts of their operation they should be focusing on as the rest is either dead or modern day politics boondongles, they would have no issues with funding. I'm sure their CEO needs their 6 million dollar paycheck however.
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I was born in '87. I grew up being implicitly told all the promises of modern society. Thing is, as I was growing up I saw those promises fulfilled for those 10-15 years older than me, even those 5 years older than me to a large degree, so I believed in the promises. But by the time I got to their stage in life all those promises were lies. Do well in school? Keep your nose out of trouble? Don't do crime or drugs? Work hard and diligently? I did all of those things according to the rules set out for the promised rewards, and received none of them. What I did see was the people breaking all those rules having a grand old time, if fraught with risks such as death and prison. I felt wise for dodging those pitfalls, but doing so has left me with a life without stories to tell and none of the promised rewards of success, a house, a family, and a legacy.
I grew up seeing absolute garbage people a generation older than me having houses and families with next to zero effort on their part, people who break the law, who have no work ethic, and who have personalities best described as insufferable. Not good houses or very happy families, but having them nonetheless. Looking at the housing market, what used to buy a pretty nice house in a good neighborhood will at best get you a glorified shed that's literally rotting to pieces in the middle of nowhere today.
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Considering that they are dragging Elon to court to force him to buy Twitter, which will force them to reveal the bot information to the public, the info they didn't want to give out which was the reason Elon said no, and Elon has tweeted that exact fact, 4D chess is a possibilty. If you look into how Elon made his money he pulled the same kind of switcharoo on multiple occasions.
It worked and was legal because unlike the stock market there are no laws protecting dumb people from doing stupid things with crypto. The stock market has oodles of anti-competition laws that in any other area of business would be laughed at, but the stock market is much more complicated than running a regular business and many less competent brokers would loose all their money without their protections.
Edit: If a company can be destroyed simple by trying to buy it and demanding the information owed the buyer by signed contract, then something is funny. Not haha funny, either. I have a feeling that if their dirty laundry was aired there might be legal consequences for some or all of the board. Possibly because effectively banning half the political spectrum might be construed as not upholding their fiduciary responsability to their shareholders to make as much money as possible.
(Can I say that I think it's insane to place legal responsibility on company boards to exploit every loophole they can find and be greedy, heartless, money grubbing bastards, by law? Aren't we supposed to discourage that sort of thing?)
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I had genuine irish stew in Ireland a few years ago. Unfortunately it wasn't much to write home about. Next to no flavour at all. It was just lamb stew with next no spices and boiled for seven hours until all flavours are gone and you can eat it without teeth.
Now, I did have some truly amazing food there at a few restaurants, but none of it was irish food.
Also, nothing beats Guinness straight from the tap in Ireland. It tastes nothing like the dregs that gets exported to other countries.
In addition to that, Ireland is so beautiful that you get sick of it after a while. Go anywhere in Ireland that isn't in a city and turn in any direction and you will see a sight so beautiful that you just have to take a photo. Then turn in the other three cardinal directions for the other three breathtaking vistas that you just absolutely have to take photos of. Then go to anywhere else and repeat. Repeat until your camera and powerbanks run out and you almost feel nauseous from all the beauty.
Oh, and the Book of Kells is also beautiful. And Blarney Castle and the Blarney Gardens are geat too. (Yes, I kissed the Blarney Stone.)
Oh, and if you are going there I suggest that you bring a driver with nerves of steel and ensure that all the passengers either have strong hearts or blindfolds. The roads are really, really narrow, poorly maintained in large parts of the country, there's no safety rails to prevent your car from going off the cliffs and into the ocean, where there's no cliffs to drive off you have stone walls right on the edge of either side of the road, trucks and busses occupy the same roads as you, the speed limits are twice or more than what they might be for the same road in another country, and the allowable blood alcohol level while driving is zero point six. Good luck.
Oh, and the people are, for the most part, incredibly friendly and nice.
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The God-Queen of England has not died, she has ascended the golden throne to rule is spirit, her soul possessing any who sit the throne.
Three Cheerios for Ol' Lizzy.
Cheerio!
Cheerio!
Cheerio!
No pips, this is still a solemn occasion.
(The Queen was always my favorite, though I have soft spots OG Sargon of Akkad, Caesar, Nicholas II, and Cyrus the Great. Like many Swedes I fondly ridicule our monarch routinely. He is a very silly king, our Knugen.)
(Also, I can confirm that non-brits feel like The Queen is immortal. Everyone knew she was a woman, same as any other, but everyone kind of expected her to just keep on ticking forever, somehow. It feels weird to imagine her gone. It's like everyone saying mount Everest is gone one day. It wouldn't have felt weird to go to my grave with her still kicking, in like 30-50 years.)
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@truly_infinite You are emperically wrong. [African people] are disproportinately affected by sickle cell disease and more severely so. [People of the far east] are much, much more likely to be lactose intolerant.
[Divisions of people based on physical characteristics] is not a social construct, it is emperical fact, goverened by genetic differences.
To say otherwise is to deny empirical evidence and science, not to mention lacking compassion and kindness for your fellow man. Denying reality does not make you virtuous. Reality is what reality is, not what your ideology demands it is.
You would deny people who suffer more from a disease increased treatment to satisfy your ideological goals of "everyone is the same", and I despise you for it. I spit on you and your ideology, as the filthy, cruel, and evil creatures you are.
(God, I hate youtube censorship.)
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@Piratewaffle43 The hydra has many heads and many names, all arising from the same bloated body.
Intersectionalism, SJW, woke, DEI, ESG, pick your favorite flavor, there's a seemingly infinite number to choose from.
It's all the same at the end, it all comes from the same source. Outrage culture, hate disguised as twisted compassion, oppression and control disguised as freedom, being manipulated and wielded as a tool by entrenched vested interests, megacorporations, and trillion dollar investment firms.
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You know, out of the three games I've had the most enjoyment out of over the last few years two of them are completely free and community developed, and the third is the second title of a a niche indie studio.
It's Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, an ultra crunchy turn-based zombie/supernatural/apocalypse survival game, Ostranauts, a "cassettepunk" spaceship salvaging survival game from Blue Bottle Games who previously made NEO Scavanger, and Space Station 13, a multiplayer RPG game that is indescribable and harder to get into than Dwarf Fortress but a lot of fun when/if you do get into it.
It didn't used to be like this. I used to enjoy games from major studios. Now they are almost always either incomplete and non-functioning turds, so bland and boring that it's a waste of time playing them because they just aren't fun, or both. Sure, a lot of them look shiny and pretty, but graphics alone does not a good game make.
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As I recall, life means metabolic processes are present and active, sustaining and supporting the cell, meaning life begins at either conception or very shortly after as the new complete cell starts preparing for cell division.
My personal opinion is that abortion is ok until brain development hits a certain point, I can't recall the exact point as it's been more than a year since the last time I dug into the nitty-gritty details, but I remember that it was at the end of the first trimester.
That's when it crosses the line from potential person to person for me.
Following the same logic, I don't really consider someone who is completely braindead and kept alive by life support a person, they are a former person. Functionally a corpse kept from rotting with modern technology.
Edit: 24 weeks or birth with a doctor's note? That's mad. 12 weeks, or if it poses a serious threat to the life of the mother, I'm sticking to that, thank you.
Second edit: I just checked and it's 18 weeks here in Sweden. I don't like that but I'm not going to kick up a fuss and try and get it lowered, since the debate is dead here and that's been the standard since 1974.
From wikipedia: "It permits abortion on the request of the pregnant woman until the 18th week, and thereafter only in cases of severe indications of medical risk. After the 18th week, abortions can only be performed after an evaluation by the National Board of Health and Welfare." and "Abortion is not allowed if the fetus is viable, which generally means that abortions after the 22nd week are not allowed."
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My opinion on chili con carne is to put whatever then hell you want in it, as long as it's a stew with meat and chili.
When I make chili con carne it's ground meat, usually a mix of beef and pork, crushed tomatoes, chilis, bell peppers, onion, corn, canned whole button mushrooms, beans (usually whatever's cheapest), milk, soy sauce, sambal oelek, cayenne pepper, black pepper and a couple cubes of meat and vegetable stock. Sometimes I like to put bamboo shoots and/or bean sprouts in it too for extra texture.
Fry the meat and onions in the pot. Once they're done everything else goes in the pot, it's put a medium heat and stirred now and then until it's simmering or boiling lightly, then the heat is turned to the lowest setting and it's served in bowls with sliced bread. The color is adjusted with the soy sauce and the heat with the amount of (and type of) chilis, cayenne, and sambal oelek.
I usually make about a gallon each time. If there's anything left over the next day then it goes in the freezer.
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@probablyyourneighbororsome8412 Well, I got lured in by being told that it's so well documented, long running, and supposedly having a lot of support.
All of that is true, but no one mentioned that all the documentation, support, and even video tutorials specifically labled as being for beginners (and this applies to Linux as a whole, not just Debian) aren't for actual beginners but for people who already have a few months of daily driving Linux under their belt. For an actual beginner the "explanations" given in documentation and in tutorial videos, if any, amount to gibberish.
You just end up chanting memorized incantation at the terminal, hoping it fixes a problem you don't understand using a solution that's might as well be in Mycenean Greek as far as you are concerned.
Not to mention the hell of the initial setup and trying to get Nvidia drivers to work, failing, trying to fix it, somehow managing to break the boot process so the GUI doesn't start automatically, and then having to figure out how to even start the GUI from the terminal interface.
Having to enable non-free software is one thing, it kinda makes sense, what with the whole FOSS thing.
Having to manually add sudo privileges to the administrator account on a fresh install (by editing a freaking text file via the terminal) makes absolutely no sense to me. What use case would that even be for?
After reinstalling to fix the GUI-does-not-boot-automatically problem, failing once again to properly install Nvidia drivers, and later another reinstall to fix another problem I gave up on Debian and switched to the other Distro I had been considering, which was Mint.
I like Mint.
It's smooth sailing, you can use the terminal if you want but (mostly) you don't have to. My only complaint is the removal/disabling of su in the terminal. Took a reinstall to figure out that I hadn't somehow broken it and that it wasn't actually implemented in Mint. (I know I can probably get su working in Mint. Linux is customizable, yadda, yadda, but that's above my paygrade currently.)
I'd gotten used to GNOME (despite the Win 8 flashbacks the start menu gave me), but Cinnamon feels like home. (Yes, I know you can change desktop environments, but remember that this was my first time, first distro, and first environment.)
Installing the correct drivers was as simple as pressing a button and it just worked.
I don't understand why Linux and the Linux community have to make everything so difficult for actual beginners. (As opposed to beginners who have started getting their feet under them.) I remember learning the basics of using MS-DOS and Win 3.11 as a kid on my own by mesing around with it, with no internet to help, no manuals, and no one to give advice. It took a day to get the basics down.
They say that they want people to use Linux. They say that every year will be the year of the Linux desktop. They sure don't act like it.
I'm sure there are actual tutorials somewhere out there that are aimed at actual beginners, that genuinely teach absolute beginners how to use Linux, but I haven't been able to find them. All I've found are tutorials labled as being for absolute beginners that don't actually teach you the hows and whys and people that tell you to "put in the effort" and "with just a few months you'll get the hang of it."
Of course anyone can learn anything with enough effort, but you could, you know, also put in the effort to make it easier to learn?
I wish there was a Bob Ross of Linux.
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My dream at 12 was a job that paid decent that I didn't hate, a house, a wife, and a family. I was born in '87.
I'm 36 now, I've never been in a relationship, last year I quit my job of more than a decade because it, or rather because my terrible boss, caused me to have four nervous breakdowns in less than a year, the only reason I didn't kill myself at the time is because it would make my aging mom sad, I'm currently unemployed and on a very light dose of antidepressants.
(My boss didn't used to be terrible. He was hard, very hard, but fair and reasonable as long as you didn't bullshit him. Not a perfect boss, but pretty damned good. But age caught up to him, he's past the age of retirement, he's deteriorated physically and mentally, and it's turned him into an unpredictable, unreasonable, vindictive, petty tin pot tyrant over the past 5-8 years. I didn't even notice until after a few years after it started going downhill. From what I hear from my former collegues he's just gotten worse since I quit.)
I'm looking for a new job, I'm not suicidal anymore, and I'm feeling better mentally than I have in at least half a decade.
I expect to die alone in a rented apartment, with at best a cat or dog to keep me company. That's the best I expect out of life. That's all I want, anything else is a fantasy that I don't have the energy to chase anymore.
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@badart3204 Hit it right on the head.
To make a very, very long story short, Autism is a bitch, especially late diagnosed Autism.
Just managing social situations so they don't explode in my face constantly has been a lifelong game of managing risk.
You might say "just stand up for yourself."
To that I say: I didn't start out risk averse, quite the opposite actually.
A lot of attempts, nearly all of them actually, have exploded catastrophically in my face.
I am incredibly stubborn. It took the better part of three decades to gradually learn to become risk averse, simply from not having the energy to deal with it anymore. It's just never worth the effort.
I have kept trying throughout my life, with very limited success.
I don't think the way neurotypical society expects, I don't react the way neurotypical society expects, I don't feel the same in specific situations that neurotypical society expects.
Combining that with taking social risks has been like juggling nitroglycerine my entire life.
I've found it best to limit the number I try to juggle, because if I drop a single one that causes me to drop the rest, and then I have to pick bits of metaphorical glass out of my metaphorical skin.
Edit: I forgot to say, I never asked girls out. I could just barely manage platonic social situations at 20, and I've found out years afterwards that I was worse at social situations at 20 than I thought I was at the time.
Trying for the high-stress 4-dimensional minefield of romance seemed like utter hubris and insanity when I was semi-regularly blindsided by things others considered obvious. (And subsequently getting screamed in the face out of the blue with no warning.)
Just dealing with living in society, managing the interpersonal relationships I already had, and a job already ate up all the mental energy I had.
Second edit: I stayed with the boss in question because I liked the job and my work collegues, and he was very close to retirement age. Then he stayed two years past retirement age, going on three now. Bascially, I was try to tough it out.
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If there was a cheap hybrid with primarily electric but the equivalent to a small gasoline or diesel generator for long range travel I would be interested. The reason I would be interested in such a vehicle is that while my daily driving doesn't require extravagant range I do visit family twice a year about 400 kilometers away, as well as intermittent mid-range journeys.
A fully electric car would have to have a range (tested in real life conditions) of at least 500 kilometers for me to consider it close to meeting my needs as charge capacity will inevitably drop with time. A hybrid that has close to that range or just above it with the option to charge it on-the-go when needed would give me the peace of mind of knowing that I won't get stranded in the middle of bumfuck nowhere when I go to visit my mom.
The reason I still wouldn't buy one anyway is three-fold:
First, I don't own a house, and garage space in my apartment complex, if you can call two buildings a complex, is only enough for about a fifth of the cars of people who live here, so I have no way to charge it at home as there are no power outlets on the regular parking lot. Additionally, I have a feeling that I would be forbidden by the company I rent my apartment from to charge in a garage space even if there was one available to rent, as it would currently be impossible for them to tell who is drawing what power and that they could therefore not charge me for it. I'm not even sure there are outlets in there. I do know that you aren't allowed to work on your car inside them, they are simply for storage.
Second, while my small town does actually have a pair of parking spots with chargers they are in the center of town, about four kilometers away from where I live, making it impractical to use for regular charging.
Third, my economy does not come close to what I'd need to buy a new car. I drive a nearly thrity year old rust bucket that I fix up and maintain regularly for that exact reason. It might be a Japanese rust bucket, but ever since I changed the dying battery it had when I got it a decade ago it's been as reliable as the tides.
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@Leyichen-pe2wg You either completely missed or willfully misinterpreted my point.
Firstly, my point about McDonald's wasn't that people want or like slop, it's that people will settle for slop a lot of the time if it's cheap or convenient enough, otherwise McDonald's would not be a profitable franchise.
McDonald's can be replaced in the example with any high convenience, low price, low quality franchise.
Secondly, I'm not even talking about food in particular, food was just an example of where it applies. I'm talking about most people going for cheap, convenient, and mass produced even if it's lower quality, with only the highest quality being able to compete with mass production once it becomes profitable enought to attract investment.
IKEA is another example, with the caveat that's it's the extremely low price compared to traditional furniture manufacturers rather than convenience that attracts customers in their case, since you have to put it together yourself. Though their quality has gone up somewhat as the decades have passed.
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I became fat in childhood, between a relatively sedentary lifestyle that grew more sedentary as I grew older and my family being (relatively) poor and processed, high carbohydrate foods it was inevitable.
I'm still fat in my mid-thirties, but I eat much more healthily, eating almost no processed foods, eating a lot more veggies and more varied veggies, and less carbs. I still eat an unhealthy amount of sugars, but less than in my teens and early twenties.
Heart problems, strokes, back and joint issues all run in the family. Hell, my brother has to take meds for high blood pressure and has joint and back problems, all for years and years and he's only three years older than me My mom got arthritis early on in life, as did her mother who died of a stroke, her dad died of, I believe, a heart attack. My dad has minor heart issues that don't require meds, just exercise, and mild osteporosis, his dad died of a stroke and his mom of the same.
Yet somehow I, the tallest and heaviest person in the family, has not a single health issue. Every time I've had a health checkup my blood sugar, blood pressure, heart rate, and blood tests all come out as near perfect, and I don't have any joint or back problems. Somehow.
My best friend, who is just one year older than me, is of average height and has a healthy weight, and has gotten more exercise throughout his childhood than I did, though much less in adulthood as well as eating less healthily, and somehow he has a lot of joint issues, knees, back, hips, and shoulders, as well as becoming diabetic in the last year.
How the F am I somehow one of the healthiest people I know? Everyone else seems to be falling to pieces and somehow I just keep on ticking. The only health issue I've had was when I gained way, way , way too much weight and my ankles started getting overstressed and hurting sometimes, after which I cut down on sugars and other carbs and lost about 100 pounds, which fixed the problem.
Still fat as fuck though. Not that I look as fat as I am, being tall with proportionate limbs has its advantages. (People guessing my weight and being 100 pounds under isn't unusual.)
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The thing with megacorps like Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and so on is that they can't turn on a dime, no matter how hard they keep yanking the wheel.
This is a cliff they've been soaring off of for more than a decade, they have managers, workers, hiring personnel, people and policies at every level that has to be chastised and/or fired, and changed. Which will take years. Years during which they have to keep producing product, despite trying to rebuild the machine from the ground up while it's running, causing delays as key people are fired and production cycles are interrupted.
Even if all the top executives and investors cry out for a plug to the giant hole their money is getting flushed down they have to go over everything and everyone with a finetoothed comb.
That, or fire everyone, delete and rewrite every policy, scrap every project in development or production, and hire new people for every position, rigorously vetting every person to avoid being infiltrated again, basically shutting down the entire company for years until they have their house in order. Then they'd be able to start new projects again, which would take even more years before they come to fruition. Which would kill the company.
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(Mind)Set and setting is the bywords to live by when it comes to hallucinogens, or any mind altering substance for that matter, including alcohol.
The state of your mind and mood, the expectations you have coming into it, the general state of your life, and the setting you ingested the drug in and plan to be in during the trip are all of vital importance. Do not drink because you are sad, do not take take hallucinogens because you want to escape.
Know your substance, know your setting, know yourself, and plan ahead.
And with LSD, always remember, if it's bitter then it's a spitter.
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