There’s an awesome British rap song called Don’t Mug Yourself.

https://youtu.be/nHs2sQOHX-0

I think he was supposed to be ejected in that pose?

The purpose of a system is the desired outcome. Other results are byproducts. The designed purpose is user engagement. The byproduct is the harm to society.

The purpose of a sewer system is to remove waste water from homes. The byproduct can be the smell coming from storm drains. You wouldn’t say the purpose of a sewer system is to make storm drains smell.

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I really don’t think it’s “on purpose” trying to push a narrative. I think it’s “on purpose” the algorithm sees that displaying videos #9342 and #667 to new audiences tends to result in the new viewer watching more videos over time.

It’s incidental that those videos are bad for society. If human behavior taught the algorithm high quality educational videos keeps audiences engaged longer this would be a non-issue.

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This has always been strange to me. I’m assuming you live in North America. The honey bee is not native here. They are therefore an invasive species, but one that even environmentalists are fine with.

I don’t know enough about the whole thing to have an opinion different than the norm, so I support you providing a habitat for honey bees. It just confuses me.

All honey bees are nectarivorous pollinators native to mainland Afro-Eurasia,[13][14] but human migrations and colonizations to the New World since the Age of Discovery have been responsible for the introduction of multiple subspecies of the western honey bee into South America (early 16th century), North America (early 17th century) and Australia (early 19th century), resulting in the current cosmopolitan distribution of honey bees in all continents except Antarctica.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee

“Making the impossible merely inadvisable” - poetry!

I guess it really depends on the mass difference between the other liquid and the wax. If they’re almost the same, there shouldn’t be much net force. If they’re drastically different you might see some net external force produced. Since the blobs move slowly in the liquid, we have to expect the densities are at least comparable. I’d think the net movement of mass is too.

That is super interesting about the hourglass. I never considered that, but it makes sense. The sand is transitioning from a higher energy state to a lower one within a gravitational field. Each grain gains momentum during the fall, then exerts that force on the structure when it hits the bottom.

The lava lamps don’t start in a stored energy state. They add thermal energy that causes the convection, but the entire time there’s a conservation of momentum within the lamps.

It’s super cool idea, but I’m pretty sure the chandelier would be stable, not wobbly.

It’s even more bleak than that. Politically, the bargaining power of the masses is from the labor they contribute. As soon as the need of human labor is gone, there is absolutely no reason for those with power to heed the will of the populus. You can say open revolt, but if we’re talking a situation where any significant portion of the military is automated, uprisings are no longer a concern.

Are those figures revenue or profit?

Excellent write up. Appreciate your time!

I have a system dynamics question! Maybe you could point me in the right direction? If I have the system response to a step input, what is the simplist way to derive the transfer function? I’ve only ever learned how to use a system to do modeling, not how to reverse engineer the model.

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I loved mushrooms and acid, salvia was terrible. It’s super short and super intense. You may think “well it’s just 5 minutes” but it will not feel like 5 min. If you’re looking to expand your mind, mushrooms and acid are great. If you want to slice your brain in half and put the two halves in two separate dimensions with no personal introspection to speak of, try salvia.

He looks like Creedy from V for Vendetta.

Yeah, the clankers would have to learn all new inside jokes to try and fit in elsewhere. Might as well stay and chat with all of the other bots just like them!

Noob here, what does revanced do?

This is meta, a democratic structure in the military of the democratic nation fighting authoritarianism.