Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
To be very uncharitable, the same people that go into hysterics about AI artwork would be the ones celebrating en masse if AI suddenly took over all long-haul truckers jobs.
I think we're seeing a very odd case of twisted future shock, where the expectation that AI would suddenly come in an usher a gay communist utopia has proven to not be the case. Instead, we're seeing AI used as tools meant to augment skills and intelligence, rather than physical work, and the same people that thought their creative skills protected them from being replaced have discovered that their creative skills are easily replaceable.
I don't really have an issue with AI artwork, myself. I think it's neat.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
The reason for the low number of babies via IVF is because of the expense.
You'd have to decrease the cost of IVF to a large degree in order to see any real changes on a measurable scale.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
Reported an arguably-overstated value for real estate they own?
IIRC, not even the bank had issue with the valuation.
It's not as if these people go into it blind. If it was anything like when I had to borrow money to purchase land, the bank did it's due diligence and sent out someone to examine the land and do their own valuation to determine how much they were willing to lend.
There were no aggravated or harmed parties. That lawsuit was pure political warfare.
Grant_us_eyes
6mo ago
More importantly, this also isn't their first rodeo.
Florida is well-acquainted to dealing with hurricanes. They've had devastating category 5 storms in recent living memory that were extremely and extensively damaging, yes. But there's something odd I've begun to note with hurricanes, especially in the recent years - people have begun to learn from them. Infrastructure modified. Procedures amended. Housing codes changed. So that when the next one comes through, people and infrastructure are actually better able to handle it than the previous one.
This is the reason why Helene is so devastating - this is a region of the country that just doesn't have to deal with this sort of weather. It's a one-off fluke, their one-in-a-century storm. No one sensibly could have predicted it would have happened, no one could have accounted for it. Mother nature be like that, sometimes.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
Weirdly enough, I recall reading an article that basically said exactly that; a Jew found he was much happier living in Israel than he was in America, despite the issues you outlined.
He basically concluded that it was a mix of close proximity, similar culture, and a sort of espirit de corp - a type of shared experience leading toward tighter and closer bonds.
I wish I could remember the name of the article, though. I hate how my brain works, sometimes.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
The capability to manage your kitchen and clean as you go is a skill, but it can be learned with enough practice.
Though it's important to remember step zero - make sure your work area is easy to clean.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
A curious example of the liberal bubble in action. Farmers have been rather irate with John Deere for years due to their black-box repair and maintenance policy, so I imagine the company in question getting screwed over would result in Farmers cheering.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
I've seen some very good salesmen whom live purely off commission, and some very bad salesmen that I have to come in and correct their lies after the fact, or watch them fumble something horribly where I unintentionally gave them a potential deal on a silver platter.
I confess to not being very impressed with the majority of salesmen.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
Shrug. I like them. Don't know what more to say than that.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
Their job is to protect and serve
It is not. A policeman's job is to enforce the law, which they can be selective with.
'Protect and serve' is just good PR.
Grant_us_eyes
7mo ago
Great book, horrible ending. Which is about in-line with anything Charlie Stross writes.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
How is it antagonistic to describe the activity I've seen with my own two eyes?
If you have better terms to describe it, I'm all ears.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
My experience having to do daily deliveries in a small American town that had setup a bike trail that intersected with downtown roads is that cyclists are suicidal, law-breaking, moving hazards and that most of them are far too stupid and/or arrogant to be allowed on the road. Ever.
I'm saw multiple instances where they'd blow through four-way stops, weave in and out of the road and sidewalk, and one marvelous instance where he blew threw a four-way stop by going on the pedestrian cross-walk only to immediately weave back into traffic. Occasions where if I - in control of a rather large transportation van - had not been driving extremely defensively, people would be dead.
The only time - the only time - I ever saw one of them obey the laws as required was when I dealt with a cyclist actually signaling she was going to turn. I signaled as well to allow her to pull in first, and I went behind her gently to park. She actually came up afterwards to thank me for that, which I thought weird, given that she was the one actually doing her due dillagance and doing what needed to be done.
I don't have much sympathy for cyclists.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
Most people here just hate Trump. 'The adults are back in charge' was the common phrase uttered when Biden was elected, which aged like sour milk. 'It's just a stutter', which also aged like sour milk, was the common reply when others pointed out Biden's declining mental capabilities.
For all the claims that this place is very much right-wing/alt-right coded, it's still very much a liberal-leaning bubble that tries to hide alot of it's biases behind a layer of claimed neutral observations.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
In Japanese media, the closest to that you'll likely get is Japanese right-wing themed focus on re-militarization.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
One sci fi novel that i have no ideahow it became popular
To give the devil it's due, this is a phrase that could apply to western media, as well.
I picked up the Expanse well before it became popular, and it came across as a bland paint-by-numbers sci-fi series. And now... makes vague gestures toward the media landscape.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
Sigh.
The reason long guns are rarely used in crime is because the majority of documented crime is basically blacks shooting and killing one another with their handguns of choice. Funny, despite the prevalence of glock switches displayed on public forums like, say, youtube, you never hear about the ATF raiding and confiscating them.
This is one of those tells that people whom actually know anything about guns can sniff out - politicians always, always bang on about banning ar-style platforms and their ilk in the wake of their pet tragedy, despite, numbers and capita wise, they're never used in violent crime.
But that's not my point. I'm looking at the law of unintended consequences. Mauser-style and lever-action long guns tend to be hunting rifles, and despite the snide asertions from various political pundits about how 'deer don't wear body-armor' when it comes to critiquing ar-style rifles, the typical hunting round, such as, oh, say, 30-06, is a much, much more powerful round than 5.56.
5.56 puts holes in people's heads, 30-06 makes heads disappear.
People respond to incentives. You ban ar-style rifles(for some reason) and only allow hunting rifles, and suddenly people are defending themselves with said bolt rifles with much larger cartridges, likely ending up with alot more dead criminals.
And before you say 'Well, actually, bolt rifles are much more difficult to wield than ARs', no, I've handled both. They may weigh more, but that doesn't make them more difficult to handle, especially when you're defending yourself.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
Your policy would likely result in a much larger number of dead criminals and/or people, and basically boils down to 'black plastic bad, wood good'.
Most bolt/lever action long guns use much heavier caliber cartridges than your typical AR platform.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
He might be referencing the old adage of wearing a tie around machinery that it could get entangled in and potentially do bad things to fragile human flesh is a big no-no. Rings are similar.
Other than that, I have no clue.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
Bold of you to think those of us stuck with such thing actually view it as a positive or good.
At least, that's my take on it. I view them as less than worthless and more an annoying road-tax that I have to pay so often(on top of getting my windshield replaced, again) and a punishment for being a good little citizen that criminals just skirt on by without a care.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
It didn't stop them in the Caribbean, though.
Also, minor correction on my part. The British manumitted their slaves in 1838 - it was the French that kept them until 1848 before it was abolished. My apologies - it's been a while since I've cracked open those books.
That said, I'm perhaps being very cynical. But if I'm sure the British had required the manpower, they would have worked some legal and/or financial shenanigan out.
This is all pure supposition on my part, however, so feel free to ignore it.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
Slaves are not 'free'. Intial purchase, maintenance, oversight - all costs. Then there's the social aspects - slaves in the South were, ironically enough, treated very well compared to thier brethern that went elsewhere. It's why you get twisted situations such as the Irish Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, that was so named due to all the Irish immigrants that died during it's construction in 1830s.
Why didn't they use slave labor? Because immigrant labor was much, much cheaper.
Grant_us_eyes
8mo ago
While I think some people are limited in some fashion, I also think basic math is just taught in a horrible fashion.
The contrast between my econ and finance courses and the math courses I was required to take were like night and day.
Atleast a few studies on soybean oil implies that is has alot of effects, none of them good.
I personally try to keep them out of my diet. Your mileage may vary.
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