I used to be real hyped about self-driving cars. I thought it would be just the answer we needed to our profound lack of public transportation. But after they took off the LIDAR system, it just became a money grab. And what was I thinking anyway? Self-driving cars? the answer to no public transportation? As if you’d want one of these cheap systems in charge full of a BUS of people?

My ex-wife was right. Shoulda just went with fucking trains. But we can’t, because an ego-maniacal billionaire wants to be a trillionaire. Reason #4,506 of why I hate living in the United States

That’s not what he said though

he said

I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights.

Everyone with guns is worth school shootings, basically. Sandy Hook isn’t an issue for him, because it’s worth it.

That’s what he said.

YES Daniel Radcliffe was so fucking bad in the harry potter movies, absolutely fucking ruined them. I loved that book series as a kid and he fucking RUINED the movies for me.

That being said, he’s gotten better at acting since then I think. … a little.

People who use doordash and food delivery apps extensively, without a disability, are some lazy ass people, who deserve the shitty experience and high price it costs. Just go fucking get it yourself if you want it hot and fresh and not thrown on the ground.

I was working a new role at a brand new site for a company. Working really hard, putting in a lot of effort, really trying to prove myself. I had 5 years of experience in the role, and wanted to move up in the company. Then my supervisor got one of her friends hired in the same role as me, he had zero experience, never done this before… and they were paying him $10k per year more than me.

I decided right then and there, I was never, ever, going to give a shit about work there again. I got a pay raise to match what he was making, but it took like a year, and my yearly raises since then have been far under inflation. I do not give a shit. I wormed my way like a parasite into the easiest position there, doing as little as possible, entirely remotely. and I still feel like a give too much of a shit. If the job wasn’t so easy, and the job market so horrible, I’d probably have left by now but, eh. I’m making more than most, while doing almost nothing. I can’t really complain.

but oh boy was I fucking pissed.

If you read the article, he talks specifically about that. The people using AI for real shit, like protein folding, can use it to improve their work, because they’re experts at it, and know when the AI is fucking up. The AI helps, but could never, ever, replace them.

The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: “How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?” The answer is that these AI users are “centaurs” – experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves.

Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad.

From Ohio, Can confirm, it sucks Ass

My Samsung S10 has headphone jack and expandable storage 😎 7 year old phone, bought it used for $130

mad? I just think vegans are fanatical and full of themselves? Kinda like sidewalk preachers… like, they could be preaching just love and the new testament teachings of jesus but… they’re still assholes.

oh dang, if my observations were so easy to disprove, you’d think you would do it 🤔

Was talking to this woman on tinder. She told me she was vegan, and I instantly stopped caring about meeting her.

Like, it’s just performative bullshit. And it’s hypocritical. The only reason you can even BE vegan, is because society has advanced to the stage that there is enough varied vegan foodstuffs available that you can passable survive off it. But that doesn’t mean it’s all simple, like grains and veggies. No, half the time they’re eating this super specialized, water-intensive crops and laboratory grown shit with energy-intensive production cycles that actively harm the environment. It’s not some ultra-enlightened approach to living, it’s just a thin veneer of ethical consumption based entirely upon other heavily industrialized processes.

It’s bullshit. and you’re better off just eating mostly vegetarian, with meat being a special occasion thing, like it’s been for the majority of our species time on this earth.

The company claims that it is allowed to operate the existing turbines without permits

xAI has been operating gas turbines that have the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of smog-forming NOx per year.

the Department of Justice sided with SpaceX in the NAACP’s lawsuit, saying the unpermitted turbines were a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”

just another case of “I’m rich, therefore, the law doesn’t apply to me.” And the 1000% corrupt DOJ turning around and being like “yeah, actually, that’s true.”

This coming from the administration that thought transgenic mice were transgender 🙄 🙄 🙄

They did all that terrible shit to these journalists, because they posted one short article about how the Ebay CEO was earning 152 times that of it’s employees.

What’s MORE ridiculous, is that’s from 2019. Now it’s more like 300 times.

I feel like that intimidation campaign of sending live cockroaches and bloody pig masks should really be going the other way, dontchya think?

I was just postulating to a friend, that if we built a huge array of solar panels, set out in a pattern not unlike solar sails, and deployed them out in-between the Earth and the Sun, we could block an appreciable amount of heat, which might act as a way to slow down climate change on our planet. Additionally this array could be connected in a grid, making it a huge space station, and energy source, where we could potentially use it as a base to start collecting and mining asteroids.

And then I read about these dumb mother fuckers who want to redirect sunlight back at the earth, making climate change worse, all to replace a couple flood lights? How fucking stupid is the person who brought this to reality? Jesus fucking christ.

artificial scarcity exists by design

yeah seeing him dancing in those stupid fucking AGI commercials now makes me hate him. I tried to watch a cute movie called the Sheep Detectives, and as soon as I saw his dumb ass face I had to turn it off.

But how quickly will hackers be able to gain total control of them? Cops will probably have the administrator password as “password123” or some shit. Or maybe instead of engaging in combat directly, they’ll just be running humanoid cameras, lunging after you no matter how quickly you run, or whatever fence you jump over. Long gone will be the days when you could simply outrun the overweight, poorly trained cops. Now these things will be just inches behind you, the whole way blaring sirens and recording your every move. 😐

Might not be the best way to do it, but hey, they’re doing something. I’m proud of them.

I downloaded this program called “Driver Easy,” which scans my hardware, searches automatically for driver updates, downloads and installs them for me. If I could download a wizard that got rid of windows, installed a nice user-friendly version of linux, while keeping my old programs, files and junk… I’d do it in a heartbeat. All I want to do is play my video games from Steam, download shit to watch, browse the internet, write in Libreoffice… Can I do all those things with Linux? Can I download some install wizard to switch?

If that wizard existed, a shit ton of people would switch. It’s just the idea of deleting my current OS and putting in a new one makes me thing I’m gonna brick my machine.