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hydroacetylene
26m ago
And that most people ate them proportionally less often, you had a balogna sandwich if you couldn't cook a meal for whatever reason. That's not to say their home cooking was very good- it often wasn't- but there was a lot less of the other kind of any description. 50's purchasing power was just too low, and technology too backwards, to sustain any alternative to cooking.
Composing and recording music is already dirt cheap.
There's at least, like, one semester of instruction required to learn a DAW. I can teach myself C++ and how to sys admin and use a DJ mixer. But a DAW just feels too hard without hand holding, same as Photoshop for me.
Being able to prompt Suno and get something fun to listen to (albeit flawed) feels liberating.
Is this going to be akin to that study about how good programmers working on mature projects did not save time using AI tools even though they thought they did?
Bingbong
45m ago
I've had a few friends kinda dabble in furry/gay/whatever culture whilst effectively 'incels' during University which generally went away as soon as they managed to somehow find a girlfriend. I also think that the whole transfetishist movement is a tad bit different to homosexual inclinations on part of a decent chunk of society, or atleast there's a feedback loop that's emphasizing it at present.
rae
1hr ago
I think the opposite explanation is far more likely, until recently the pressure to be in a hetero relation was extremely strong and any “divergent” behaviour was kept tightly under wraps. The Kinsey reports from the 1940s found 37% of males had at least one homosexual experience, 11.6% were about equally bisexual and 10% were more-or-less exclusively homosexual.
I’ve known plenty of gay and bisexual men and none fit the profile of “watched too much porn, couldn’t get a girlfriend”. Gay men just have completely different innate sexual appetites, and lots of bi men are closeted and cheating on their girlfriends and wives. The closest thing to what you’re describing would be bisexual men choosing to hook up with men because it takes less effort to organise than ordering from DoorDash, or men dating trans women because they’re more “chill”, but I can’t believe being an incel for long enough will make you want to shove a penis into your mouth with as much enthusiasm as these guys had.
orthoxerox
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2hr ago
The Gestrals, I guess. And Esquie.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
3. They're deliberately distracting people from the issues at home
Didn't cross your mind? It especially makes sense when it's a public broadcaster.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2hr ago
Interesting story. I feel as though it's too well-written to be realistic. All these people are making smart moves, only to be checkmated by a smarter being.
Apparently Microsoft only just stopped outsourcing Pentagon IT to China: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/microsoft-china-digital-escorts-pentagon.html
The US military is not going to be making smart moves regarding human-in-the-loop AGI/ASI control loss situations. They don't make too many smart moves elsewhere in their area of expertise, developing weapons and winning wars. The Iraq-Afghanistan bunglers are still in power, there was no military purge or anything. They don't know how to win wars and they're not great at procuring weapons either - Constellation, LCS, Zumwalt... Why would they do a good job with AI, a seductive and dangerous, unknown and unprecedented technology?
It's like how back in the old days, people were concerned with how a powerful boxed AI might escape the box to interfere with the outside world. There's no boxing, there are huge companies working around the clock to give powerful AIs more access to the outside world! And in China they don't care about AI safety at all, they just laugh and move on.
Law of undignified failure: https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-ed-sec-calls-artificial-184225319.html
President Donald Trump’s education secretary repeatedly referred to artificial intelligence as “A1”—like the popular steak sauce—instead of “AI” during a panel on artificial intelligence in education.
“I wish I could remember the source, but there’s a school system that’s going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon, 76, said at a summit put on by Silicon Valley investors in California on Tuesday.
Making the situation even more bizarre, McMahon pronounced “AI” correctly earlier during the same panel discussion. The Education Department didn’t respond to the Daily Beast’s request for comment on the secretary’s apparent mistake.
Ioper
3hr ago
I've been playing the game for quite a bit in early access and while I enjoy it well enough this does feel like "safe horny" the game, but extended to every single character and interaction. Everything is so HR approved and "safe" that I find myself just skipping through all the dialogue. Nothing is said and while it's mildly witty at times it's never funny.
I think a major issue is that they've replaced many of the major roles with women for the sequel and they don't think it's ok to make jokes at the expense of women so what we get is a whole load of anodyne nothing.
striker
3hr ago
Small observation, struck me as interesting. I’m in Ireland. In the car this morning, radio on. The top of the hour news came on (public radio, state-funded). Top three stories:
- Gaza situation, MSF and WHO statements
- Iran nuclear situation, new sanctions
- Denmark drones situation, new sightings over military bases
There’s plenty happening in Ireland (presidential election campaign, housing crisis, Budget 2026 to be announced next few weeks)
Two competing thoughts:
- We (and maybe many EU countries?) have a very broad perspective on the world, and this is generally a good thing for Ireland’s place in a globalised/interconnected world.
- Our state broadcaster is sourcing its news agenda from international wire services, probably with many political biases intact and unquestioned, and doesn’t fund enough of its own journalism and newsroom anymore, and this is generally a very bad thing for everyone in Ireland over any time horizon.
phailyoor
3hr ago
this looks and feels like a school shooting to me: no apparent motive beyond causing mass hysteria, which judging by this thread, was very much achieved.
Do you know what would cause even more mass hysteria? Probably gunning down normal people or alternatively important people who are popular. But instead he chose to try to gun down Satan's goons, the empire's stormtroopers, the left's greatest boogeyman and people nearly every leftist hates and despises.
Somehow I am not convinced that the guy just wanted to cause hysteria and had no political motive.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
4hr ago
Personal Assistant.
"AI, please do my taxes, handle the car damage insurance case in a maximally profitable way, and tell me which area of work to focus on today. Also, which one of my friends have I neglected to catch up with the longest? Remind me to call them this evening, but not too late."
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
5hr ago
"Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"
Maybe AI will do what Ron Paul failed to do and make anime real.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
5hr ago
ControlsFreak
5hr ago
Truth is the central problem with your comments, though. It's not a minor problem that can be routed around.
cjet79
6hr ago
I just keep going back to Starship Troopers Extermination. Its 16 player player vs computer (bugs). Not a perfect game by any means, but I just don't want to be in PvP matches, and this game saves me from that.
I play with a light military sim discord which makes things way more fun. 1stmi.gg
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
6hr ago
I'm leaning towards layoffs.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
6hr ago
I would like to think that it be for something serious.
By serious I don't mean an annual general (heh) meeting. I mean either 'the federal govt layoffs are coming and high command will be cut by 25%' or 'We're getting into a fight with China over Taiwan. Soon. Really'
Bingbong
6hr ago
Yeah. Most of that divergent stuff has come from people having too much access to weird porn and finding it hard to accomplish the proverbial 'get a girlfriend'. Whilst I'm sure there's some small % of the Queer population that'd lean that way regardless, but there's a pretty heavy social contagion that's only been exacerbated by systematic dysfunction in normal hetero relationship formation.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
6hr ago
I got up to the swamp biome before moving on from SilkSong, but from my understanding all flying enemies were programmed and placed to be as annoying as possible. Also for some reason they share the same hp as tankier, slower, ground based enemies.
Some parts of the game are very high qualities, but in others you can tell that it could have used more QA or a larger consensus on what they were doing.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6hr ago
Mystery drones have been lurking around airports and nuclear plants for years, prior to the war. May be Russia, may be some other source.
functor
6hr ago
The US was founded by people who used violence against the government and made it a constitutional right to bear arms. If you had asked the founding fathers about the NSA, the crazy levels of nepotism and corruption and how self-centred the American elite is, they wouldn't have called shooting them terrorism. What level of incompetence and acting like the elite in Versailles is required for the constitutional right to fight back to take effect?
MayorofOysterville
6hr ago
I do think those traditional definitions are a bit impractical though. Everyone refers to Arianism as Arian Christianity. And it seems really hard to define a protestant church which uses the the Biblical canon, the traditional hymns, a normal communion as non Christian. I get that Unitarian Universalists aren't that, but any outside observer who went to one of those Hungarian unitarian churches would likely call them Christian.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6hr ago
v5 is much better but it still sounds Suno... It's indescribable, something about the clashing sound (if I was a musician I could be more clear).
Is what I was going to say, till I found one that didn't sound Suno at all. Wow.
Anyway, if there was ONE arena you would want AI to reach superhuman capability, one particular application that would improve your life even if AI progress stalled out otherwise, what would that be?
Writing long-form fiction to even a high-human standard. Turn all my neverfinished story ideas into full stories, better than I ever could.
There were two sexual revolutions and they both had major social instability coming in about forty years later. Can I explain it entirely? Not really. But the 2010's social chaos occurred roughly the same timeframe after the sixties/seventies sexual revolution as the sixties/seventies social chaos occurred after the 20's/30's sexual revolution. Perhaps we'll see in the 2050's some chaotic results of something LGBTQ related, history rhymes.
As for the forty years timeframe, I would suggest that it's when children who grew up entirely under the new paradigm are reaching the age to start making bad decisions. Social change is slow even if at the surface level it looks like lightning.
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