Rhaedas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody wants to work anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  "But at least you have a job!"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody wants to work anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for that on the label "liberal". I grew up thinking of myself as a Gen-X liberal, and somewhere along the line missed it changing meaning. So for the longest time I'd hear it referred to negatively and by certain groups, and was so confused. I hate labels. I prefer to discuss ideas to understand the true meaning, and the online culture has slowly killed that form of communication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody wants to work anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You're right. "All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." People deal with shit while they can, rather than changing.

  But the phrase mentioned is an old one used against people who finally had enough for whatever reason, and always leaves off why they've had enough, and what gave them enough motive to change to something else. One could say that the increase of "nobody wants to work anymore" is a signal of a new wave of quiet rebellion.

  The lesson is that people shouldn't have to settle for things because they don't have a choice. In anything. Work, relationships, health, food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody wants to work anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  "Nobody wants to work anymore..." is always an incomplete sentence. "for these wages", "under these conditions", "for little gain", etc.

  No, they don't, and shouldn't have put up with it this long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are doctor's of presidents still bound by HIPPA even if they see a major decline that would massively effect the country? Or can they tell the truth? And can they lie if under pressure from one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Dug your hole and threw out both the ladder and the shovel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That's the rub. Local models have some positives, but overall the source for them is a negative. And the worst thing is, we can't fix that now. We can't undo what's been done, we can't start over with new data that is fair, and we can't seem to get AI out of where it's been jammed in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. The short is that AI was done wrong in so many ways, for the wrong reasons, and was the wrong direction for the goal they continue to state. The science and technology and what it can do, even the worst of it, is fascinating, but this is not what it should have been. Money corrupted yet another thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨living on the edge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That has the same energy as James Burke's episode about the single power relay that brought down the East Coast. People aren't aware of how many potential cascade effects we have around us just waiting for the right moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After outliving 6 Star Trek TV shows, Star Trek Online deserves more love⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I jumped on the bandwagon when it first came out, found some stuff interesting, but yeah, the ground aspect didn't work for me. Probably didn't help that everyone was doing the same stuff, so there were lines to scan and collect and whatever. Didn't feel like a real away mission. Might be better with age, since much fewer would be in one place.

  I think for the ships I was expecting more like Starfleet Command, which was not realistic for an online version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a few things that work better without or don't need the VPN, like some games, a good VPN will have a tunneling feature to let that one thing through while staying on for everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate atheists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah. This side of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make the missing pieces. Various ways to do that, from hand drawing it in if you're good or the picture there is simple. Do a reverse search to find the puzzle box photo or the original image it came from and use that. AI, if you're not against that, could probably fill in that pretty well. Or just leave it, chances are depending where the pieces are most people may not even notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wowee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But 17, probably not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you have wiped once already and your butt has a change of heart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why it's better in so many ways. But for the topic of this particular post, it could have made things worse. As in a return trip soon after once you get moving. Whereas physically disturbing things sometimes encourages completion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are some things heavier than others?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The why of mass is "just" more material within the same unit area.

  What always gets me is how adding one more of the pieces of matter, specifically another proton, changes the very properties of that atom, sometimes dramatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history repeats itself once again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clicking on newer revision lets you walk through time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not a matter of getting back what you put in, but to be able to not worry about supporting your basic needs in the last part of life. That many have paid into the system their entire working life and it isn't enough without some extra supplement suggests it's not working well enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be, but there's also population growth. It's not really a surplus if it's an ongoing balance between incoming and outgoing with an above zero balance that fluctuates. You don't want it to dip below zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The last part is exactly what they want you to think. It WAS meant to be sufficient, but that would have cost someone else, so they invented the idea of people taking care of themselves with the 401K invention. Now when your SS doesn't mean your needs, they can point and say, well, you should have saved up better.

  There used to be company pensions too, but they've slowly eroded away as younger people entered their jobs. My job gave me the option years ago of keeping the pension going or converting it to a secondary 401k that would earn lots of money, promise. I said hell no, give me my pension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they sit down at the table with them, or allowed them to sit there, they are one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depluralize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1 Angry Man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Environmental collapse laughs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ermm Actchually⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is correct, but in the end Frankenstein is the real monster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it stay on, or is it blinking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love this, they are so deep in their own bubble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's certainly not a direct comparison, but both changed things. And blew things up in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or tell her she has a mix, and let her decide what she wants to be. I've seen plenty of people who look one way but claim roots and heritage from something I didn't know about. She's not just white, nor just brown. She's Violet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first chapter of Larry Niven's Ringworld mentions this. At that point they have had transporter technology for a while, where you step on a pad and instantly you're somewhere else in the world. Opening up that level of ability to move around meant people mixed as well, and after a few generations everyone tended to be more similar than different. Probably not realistic, as there will still be culture and prejudices that influence pairing for a while, even if everywhere and everyone was just a step away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love this, they are so deep in their own bubble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the negative part, but in a way she's right. The Industrial Revolution wasn't perfect nor all great. In one sense both it and agriculture ended up causing so many of our problems. So AI is right there with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York lawmakers endorse Governor's plan to reduce car insurance premiums by making it harder for crash victims to seek compensation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Lowest insurance in the state! Only $10 a month!"

  In very small print - "Deductible includes total costs for medical and vehicle"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might explain some of my dating missteps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, but maybe on the positive side consider maybe they feel comfortable enough with you to let things out. Assuming that they don't do it with just anyone, in which case they really do need help. It is inappropriate to do in a first or even later dates, but people are holding things in and it doesn't take much.