Not unless you also swallow something that will explode if you get tasered

You really have to have an explosion already for c4 to explode

Honestly they’re probably taking a loss to punish people who miss payments on their eggs. One person on the debt treadmill is worth a lot more than a few cents… Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they’re just looking to further exploit the poorest people

Either that or they think the dollar is about to deflate lol

Honestly, it’s scale. It dillutes the humanity to nothing, and all that remains is our worst selfish impulses

Communities become so large that bonds and reputation mean nothing. We create organizations to try to artificially recreate that, and they grow so large their primary purpose is to self purpetuate

It’s hard to muster up the will to hurt people right in front of you, it’s much easier if you can abstract it all to rules and numbers, and separate the actor from the decision maker

I think the only way something like communism works is like the fediverse - we need to find a way to weave ourselves into small communities that can act together. You can’t let power sit anywhere for long, or you’ll draw in power hungry sociopaths like flies - but inside a community they have to keep on good terms with others

We still have to collaborate, but if we shared methods and designs openly we could produce a lot of stuff locally. We don’t have to always be scaling up - if you have a thousand people, you don’t have to produce a 100k phones a year to make a phone. Working at that small scale even let’s you get creative and make better things - there’s all sorts of technologies that we don’t have access to only because they can’t be produced at scale

Plus it means people would be smarter and more skilled… Capitalism wants people to be interchangeable cogs, and that makes for craftsman that require a whole supply chain to be useful. Giving up scale means you have to make things last and be easily reparable. It means picking and choosing between your priorities

Why does noone support my 4d earth theory?

Know what? I endorse it. Aside from the cyber truck, if you want to pretend, ok take that as “I was bamboozled”. But the cyber truck… There’s no hiding that. There’s no hiding the timeframe on that. You can’t just call that POS a Toyota

Sorry, but that’s a bridge too far. Deal with the consequences… It’s just spray paint, if anything it’s protective compared to the lack of any kind of paint. Take it on the chin

Oh sure… But basically you’re burning the boats. Everyone you know is dead, now you either integrate or die. There’s no going back, only forward

I’m not saying it would be seamless or wouldn’t cause issues, but humans naturally readjust to the people around them. Assuming they got some support integrating, their values and habits would quickly move towards the average. And the average for us is a huge range depending on culture, subculture, and even online microcultures

I mean, true, although I thought they were pretty upfront on wanting to produce the fuel in-house and specialize two reactor lines

Which, yeah, isn’t ideal… But if it works, they can’t patent an element. They won’t be able to monopolize the tech forever

It seems like a very elegant solution… If they can overcome the engineering challenges. There’s probably far better designs that could be made from the core idea

On that note, why do we assume the human wouldn’t quickly adjust? My grandma went from horse carriages to getting upset if Netflix isn’t working

Yeah, they’d be like “holy fuck, what is that shiny rectangle with shifting text???” But if everyone around them was just like “yeah, it’s a phone, they’re pretty great and everyone has them, check out these neat videos of humans doing incredible things” they’d be shocked, maybe afraid, maybe entranced… And 5 years later, they’d have a phone too and probably fit in with an unusual appreciation for random conveniences

It works great if you’re starting from 0 - you see every keystroke, you get hours of background information you may or may not need. It’s dumping the entire process from start to finish on you. You can follow along, understanding what you can and copying what you don’t

And then slowly, more and more of the excess information is just things you already know. Now you’re looking at a 40 minute video that may or may not have one sentence of information you’re searching for, the entire thing explaining it to you like you’re a total newbie

It makes me want to pull out my hair

Well it’s signed idiot of the East, but…

It takes a relatable concept, combines it with a couple Korean tropes from manhua, and does it all with fresh art. It’s self referential too

Now look at it in context. Clearly this is a webcomic artist, it’s not badly done, but it looks like it was done quickly. It has a message - “sorry, I didn’t have anything special to say, I’ll share the feeling of getting caught doomscrolling”

Based on the name and the comic, the artist seems to have a self depreciating sense of humor… It seems in line with that

It’s stupid. It’s layered. The layers are stupid. But it’s stupid and layered on purpose with a clear message. That’s art

It reminds me of a video I saw today where someone bought a pineapple and put it on an exhibit for a laugh, and came back to find a glass case around it. He asked his professor about it, and the professor complimented the way the glass case pressed down on the pineapple leaves.

The guy then owned up to it all, the venue decided to just leave it as is… But they said they had no idea who put the case on it

The idea is they’re marketable worker replacements

If you have a call center you want to switch to ai, it’s easy though to make them pull up relevant info. It’s harder to stop them from being misused

If your call center gets slammed for using racial slurs, that’s an issue

Remember, they’re trying to sell AI as drop in worker replacement

Not really. You can run the 8b model with like 6-8gb of vram… It’s literally in the realm where people can run it on their phone

True, but who cares about the base models? Usefulness is what matters - the 8gb model is pretty useful, better than the free tier of anything I’ve tried

Maybe the paid models are better… Just like adaptive cruise control, I refuse to rely on it until I can rely on it. I’m driving, I know the top models still need me to drive them, so I’m happy with what I have… Why rely on something that could be taken away?

Run it on your local machine if you can… The retirements are pretty modest

I feel like it’s a common gen X belief. So many men his age have just launched into unprompted lectures about civility politics when I’ve spoken with them on the topic…

It’s so out of touch, who gives a fuck about the law? MAGA certainly don’t. I don’t either - the law is a broken tool, an empty promise of equality and fairness so the powerful can avoid the pitchforks when they do something to deserve it

Interestingly, evolution doesn’t seem like it’s actually random. There’s mechanisms to it we’re only beginning to understand

It seems to only improve in a single area (genetically) so much before switching, it doesn’t optimize, it is focused, and the rate of evolution is driven by stress.

My theory is that too much success would cause a population boom and bust, and so it’s encoded into terrestrial life very early on - the studies come from bacteria genetically edited to break respiration pathways, and all the evolution was focused there before the evolution moved to a different area - but they didn’t even recover their original efficiency, possibly because they just reached a comfortable point without competition

So in this case, I think the female hyenas were probably being killed opportunistically, which led to evolutions related to size and dominance. Bigger females that fuck the males in dominance rituals are enough to relieve the evolutionary stress, and so evolution slowed and they reached “good enough”

Aren’t they scavengers and opportunistic hunters though? They tend to be much easier to convince to fuck off, there’s a lot of weaker bite forces that wouldn’t let go

Because they’re just teaching their understanding of the world, it’s not like they’re lying. Propaganda works

And it’s not like it comes up often. And even if it does, very few people are able to explain why that’s wrong on the spot

We call both localization, because what you’re doing is branching out controls, formats, and such to a locale, which is not necessarily a location or a region. You could have en-us, en-ca, en-us, en-uk, en-au, en-sp, or you just have en to translate it to English and call it a day

Elementary school through high school, and they taught socialism to basically be when the government runs services or really does anything someone else could be making money off it

I think healthcare was a big sticking point for the label, but they basically described any social safety net as socialist.

It not have been in your curriculum, but teachers watch mainstream media too…