Hate to say that video has been on my mind pretty much constantly these last 6 or so months…

Me

It’s been one of three things for me:

• Like having a cool friend you see a lot. Good memories, but never a relationship that lasted.
• Someone working out how to twist my own mind against me, controlling me for their own gain and never actually understanding that a relationship isn’t a transaction. (and hopefully that one isn’t stalking me on lemmy again, otherwise I or one of my friends will get harassed and I’ll be filling out an intervention order)
• The most beautiful thing that I didn’t know was possible, I thought I’d been happy before but when you meet the right person you really do just click and life becomes worth living. Never felt so good about myself as I did then, just hurt all the more to lose it so suddenly. I’ve written a lot about others I’ve only met briefly, songs about people who’d never think of me that way, but when it’s true love I just can’t. I don’t think anything I can say could really capture that. There just isn’t enough poetry in the world to describe how magical it is to look up at a pair of beautiful brown eyes swimming in a field of stars and hearing them say “I love you” for the first time.

Once again, Ada just does the right thing and someone got mad about being called out. Glad we’ve blocked NCD now

I don’t like commercial “AI” period.

That said, I did find some use for chatGPT last year. I had it explain to me some parts of Hawking’s paper on black hole particle creation, this was only useful for this one case because Hawking had a habit of stating something is true without explaining it and often without providing useful references. For the record, chatGPT was not good at this task, but with enough prodding and steering I was eventually able to get it to explain some concepts well enough for my usage. I just needed to understand a topic, I definitely wasn’t asking chatGPT to do any writing for me, most of what it spits out is flat out wrong.

I once spent a day trying to get it to solve a really basic QM problem, and it couldn’t even keep the maths consistent from one line to another.

For what it’s worth, I don’t really trust these ratings or put much value in them I just didn’t see where they said it was leftist. The UN in general seems more centre left than anything else, but I’m sure one could make a reasonable argument for any centre-ish leanings, I’m not actually taking a position here because I don’t care about the UN, beyond the fact that it sure isn’t leftist.

Am I looking at the wrong thing? Because it says it’s rated as centre left for me

Devices less sophisticated than smart phones were once pretty common in sci-fi novels, but they still achieved the same sort of thing, all the world’s knowledge in the palm of your hand.

You can get smartphones for absurdly cheap these days, and while crappy by modern standards they’re still technological marvels.

❤️

Legend!

Hell yeah, I can get behind this. I can’t comment on the O-Cedar as I can’t get them here and information online is sparse, but the equivalent I get in Australia is made from cellulose and is biodegradable, apparently sadly not including the scourer (after some digging it’s coated in polyurethane).

Protip: Don’t get the scrub daddy, the O-Cedar Scrunge is the highest rated sponge by virtually every chef and test kitchen for a reason, it’s non-scratching but has one of the best scourers ever and will clean stuff up like magic compared to some inferior brands.

If you’re an Australian like me, you can get the Vileda Pur Active which is seemingly identical (I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same company).

The gravitational constant is famously hard to measure, so I can get behind this.

I feel like the difference is what you’re preparing for, when I think of a prepper I’m thinking of people who are planning for an enormous society ending disaster.

I’ve also got a bug out bag, but it’s just for general emergencies if I need to leave my place in a hurry very unexpectedly.

Good point, time to order some trans pride programming socks

Terfs

I have a trans pride flag and a baseball bat next to my front door

The balls, sigh

That’s the best part, you have way more timelines where you aren’t the MC so there’s basically a 0% chance you’re in one now.

Depending on the mass of the black hole, the “shell” doesn’t need to be a shell it could be effectively completely solid with an atom sized black hole at the centre.

PBH’s as discussed in this article have pretty wild mass ranges, so anything is possible. It’s entirely possible to have black holes so small they can’t easily absorb new matter as they’re smaller than protons. Tiny black holes only have large surface gravity, nothing noteworthy at a distance.

I’m really not sure, I’m not the biggest theory person tbh. Depending on what you’re thinking of, that could just be anarchy.

I don’t want to assume what you mean, but if you’re perhaps talking about something along the lines of following and listening to experts, then that’s understood to be a positive thing to us anarchists. To use a painfully fresh example, following scientists/medical professionals on public health decisions, rather than conspiracy theorists

This is essentially why I’m an anarchist, it literally puts everyone on the same level and people who are put in places of responsibility report to everyone below them, and that responsibility can be recalled at any time.

I find people become communists over time and with some persuasion, but after learning about anarchy I found I already believed in every facet of it. If you have basic human decency, then you’ll likely be surprised how much you believe in it too.