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  • I think free will is an illusion that a brain creates to aid in human perception. This illusion is an evolutionary adaptation so that a human acts to preserve its body and its genes by perceiving its person as distinct from other persons and the environment.

  • I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.

  • It's a big improvement from making them from straw.

  • Having children doesn't make sense in a capitalist society, because children cost money without producing anything. Parents have to compete with non-parents for housing, employment, energy, and transportation, while having less to bid on these items because they are paying to raise children. Extinction is inevitable because the future, neither the environment nor its inhabitants, have value in the marketplace.

  • You would think that with all those kids watching, Xi would lean into the whole Winnie the Pooh resemblance.

  • The point is to show she can intentionally and decisively be cruel and mean, especially to an animal under her custody. This is seen as a desirable character trait to Trump's followers.

  • They still have huge ports and oil refineries going for them. Until the Permian Basin is drained.

  • Like many southern states, there is much natural beauty in Texas. It doesn't seem like many of the locals realize what they are blessed with.

  • It's glorified gambling, not investing in companies to provide them capital so they can generate profits and reward shareholders. I can't really sympathize with people to make money gambling or speculating for that reason: they didn't do anything of value or provide anything of value to someone who needed it or could use it, they just took a risk and happened to win.

  • Damn it feels good to be a dolphin.

  • How is it a breach if data was shared intentionally? This is a violation of confidentiality.

  • Hydrogen is an electron and proton. I am guessing that most protons have been fully ionized many times since the beginning of the universe, thus not being complete intact atoms. Checkmate scientists!

  • I wonder what kind of simulators they use to test their code.

  • Are the Dutch the same as the lizard people? Because if not, I don't get what this is saying.

  • I am 50 years old. I thought by becoming a research engineer I could improve the world like others before me who created things like radio, indoor plumbing, and textile factories. I published over a hundred research papers, but I learned that no one reads research papers anymore, and publication has become a complete waste of time. I learned that politics and money trump engineering considerations 100% of the time, and that the sole purpose of technology now seems to draw money from investors' wallets. I wanted to be a great teacher, but engineers are not paid to do that because it doesn't make money, so now I just make open source projects that I hope can be used to be examples to learn from. But I don't think I'll be remembered, as it seems technology nowadays is largely used as a means of swindling people out of their money so they can buy stuff they don't need and makes them miserable.

  • It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.

    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.