Yeah, from the pics in other posts I’m wondering if this is just a very old lamp. Following the blueprint of its gas predecessor without any thought of what was no longer necessary…

Like a beta of an electric lamp? Before they realized the downsides of a wired connection compared to the “wireless” gas lamp predecessors.

OK, I was convinced this was a cop out answer. But the pic is literally the gas version of the exact same thing.

Honestly I’m just as infuriated and we have an arguable use case for it.

I work in av and we’re looking into camera tracking for presentations with AI.

The amount of time and effort we are putting into using AI over just motion tracking with two cameras is just…

Like, AI makes us immune to fishtanks, but introduces false positives like statues, paintings, false negatives, and nobody puts any thought into what happens if the AI is ever wrong?

Real case scenario, I had an AI solution locked onto my crotch when I was wearing tan pants… whaddya do? Your share holders flew all over to hear your presentation. I guess you just have to swap pants and hope for the best.

If you track movement, you can always get rid of the extraneous movement or give your presenter CPR to get them moving again. Like, you can physically point to the problem and instantly understand with the old systems.

Lots of reasons.

It’s yet another thing that is only going to benefit corporations. Because they get unsleeping workers that don’t get sick or talk back or strike. They get to charge us for the benefits.

It’s built entirely off of everyone else’s work and content.

The servers that house the AI are draining water sheds and power grids and in the case of Elon Musk and Tennessee literally poisoning people.

It sounds way too much like a cult. Promising the sun and moon on essentially a chatbot.

It looks way to much like a bubble, our stock market is currently going up because of Nvidia largely.

AI taking over is literally one of the main plot points of Sci fi.

It’s infuriatingly blameless. If the AI therapist says “try meth” you can basically only sue the massive faceless organization that built it spinning your wheels for possibly nothing.

Driving people manic by feeding into delusions

It’s a God send to scammers, trolls, propaganda, sexual harassment, people in college just for the paper degree at the end, teachers who can’t be bothered to write, upper and middle management who can’t be bothered to write. Lots of just terrible people.

And for every new protein and material that’s discovered because of it. (Some of the most useful and least destructive uses of it) They are immediately gobbled up by patents for a corporation that now has even more control of the universe and everything useful in it. And no human can decide to just open it for the world like vaccines.

I mean, it’s not surprising when you’re not sure if you’re going to be where you are in even three years.

I love the furniture on the left, but until I bought a house I was NOT gonna put that into an apartment. I never spent more than five years in an apartment. The longest I ever spent in a single location was the house I lived in college where I lived with five other college goers and grads about 7 years.

You can genuinely get some fantastic deals on furniture like the left. I got a gorgeous 4 poster queen bed for 15 bucks. It was an absolute nightmare to move, had to rent a truck to move it, it works great though. If I had to move it every three years though, fuck that.

hmm, something tells me that facepaint will come into style in the next 10 years…

music video that plays with this idea

Well first, this is not as achievable as you think.

Marrying into money means meeting a partner with money which means spending money. You think they’re gonna hang out at the local bowling alley? Like genuinely, just use this motivation to network and look for a job without linked in. That would at least allow you to make gains of either gender.

At the very least, you should multi-task. Makes you look less like a gold digger too.

Second even if you find a perfect partner. Unless they are rich rich, if anything happens you become a widow with no job history. You think a 21 year old with no job experience sucks? Try a 48 year old with no job history. That partner is going to be a single point of failure and even if you love eachother deeply, they will die someday, and it’s not guaranteed to be when you’re 90.

Also others have hit on this but you are betting on a partner. You have two competing interests, you don’t want a monster, but you also want to be taken care of. Be… be very aware that the people you would be most worried about, are looking for someone with your goals, persuading someone to have your goals, and are gonna try to raise your need for safety, and lower your expectations.

In some ways… being honest with your goal can almost be ringing the dinner bell to a monster.

I mean, the bigger reveal is him admitting that over half the Jewish vote probably voted for Mamdani.

He pushed the antisemitism HARD. Every outlet pushed the antisemitism HARD. He’s admitting point blank it failed miserably.

That is a well done photoshop

bravo

I’m actually planning a twoshot of DC20 next week. So hopefully I will be able to do just that.

From everything I’ve been reading I’ve liked quite a bit, hopefully it works just as well in practice.

Holy crap, this map is awesome. They have the grills, picnic tables, even all the ski lifts on the ski hill.

Don’t care if the graphics look like they came from the 90s. I love the details

Yeah, when it takes 3 or 4 lakes of thatch to make a thatch roof, you only ever get one building.

The amount of stone required for bricks, the amount reed required for any sort of storage, the amount of sticks to power your kiln. There’s so much grinding for base materials that making anything pretty cuts so deep into your survival.

Leather in particular sucked because you needed borax or limestone or chalk. Took so long to find but it was the difficulty of building materials that drove me absolutely batty.

Was just about to recommend this. Really wish I could get a server of people playing it. Single player is ROUGH. It takes so much time and effort to build cool stuff in survival and there’s just not enough time to gather all the raw resources in a day.

God that split sucked it was the last straw for me.

I think it’s a good thing to try and explore how easy or hard it is to build this. It can all translate into building something entirely local, building things at higher quality for less money, or even building things in times of quarantine, trade embargoes, or just lower tech areas.

I never made the rules. No swearing in school was always the rule.

Seems absolutely nutty to ban “love that for you” but apparently fuck is fine? No swearing is not up there.

Spent my whole High School career being passive aggressive, because swearing was the bridge too far.

If you can’t even be passive aggressive you may as well never leave your front door.

It’s such a bizarre list too.

They’re not cusses. What’s wrong with “love that for you”? I could’ve easily seen myself saying that in 2009, is the meaning vastly different than what I think?

Went perfect. Although I had a friend who went same weekend. It did NOT. Couldn’t peel the first layer of the eye.

Otherwise I have full 20/20 vision. No side affects.

It was so WEIRD though. I felt like I was on an assembly line. The process was so fast.