I finally put my rack on a dedicated 20A breaker and replaced the old ups that was failing with a new (to me) ups that keeps things going much longer
I don’t mind doing electrical work but any time I have to open the panel I get a little nervous. Glad to have this done
No don’t you see, they ran their findings past a mother, as all archaeologists do (the implication of course being none of those dumb science idiots could handle being a mom as people can’t do 2 things). The mother then corrected them, likely with folded arms, likely going “mmmhmmm” once they realized that her wisdom beat their book learnin’
thus, she cemented her legashe. And that is why we all know her today: random nameless mother.
I don’t know how you can see a thumbnail with those dead, soulless eyes plastered on it and think “yeah, I wanna both watch this and buy a very poor quality chocolate bar from this ruthless capitalist making bottom of the barrel content”
Like he is basically morally equivalent to the guy that made bumfights except he realized that being slightly more family friendly would make it actually marketable outside of “shocking dvd you won’t believe exists”. “I challenge poor people to do wild shit for money in such conditions that I was sued for exploitation multiple times” is one step removed from “I literally recorded myself giving homeless people cash to fistfight for my amusement”
Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta/The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All is one people are getting more enthusiastic about these days. The “green yuri”, as it’s known.
Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii Kana/How Do We Relationship? Just ended its run after 7 years and it’s pretty great and down to earth. (Sidebar: absolutely horrible title translation. A more literal translation of 付き合ってあげてもいいかな would be something like “so you wanna date, or…” or “I guess I could date you” and these capture the tone a lot better. I normally despise the chuds that are like “translators that use any kind of slang or artistic license/interpretation are shit! Translation should be literal! I completely don’t understand how Japanese works!” But this title choice, imo, is just bad and the work is great)
It’s crazy that people don’t see this is where computers are heading.
The day tech bros realized they could squeeze recurring monthly subscriptions out of you for basically increasingly banal shit the writing was on the wall. The end game is that you have a chromebook with 800 subscriptions to streaming services for your os, music, movies, tv, games, image editing software, music DAWs, plugins for both the aforementioned softwares, subscriptions for hardware associated with the software (eg drawing tablets or midi keyboards), etc but covering every niche you can possibly think of and not just graphic art and music.
And when you bitch about it tech bros and weird alphas and young zoomers who were raised on this ecosystem and indoctrinated by it will go “well you see it’s fair because updates cost money to develop” as if the old system of expecting bug fixes and security patches to be free but not necessarily feature updates was unfair. Like if I buy a car and it’s fucked up I expect it to be fixed for free but I don’t expect them to feature match the next model year.
Tech workers are disproportionately high paid and so whiney when they have to provide even a modicum of support because then they have to potentially cut into that disproportionate high pay. Like “oh no i make 80-150,000+ a year but if i support this I’ll have to work more without generating sales and will maybe only make 60-130,000+. The horror!” fuck those libertarian shitstains that are literally overthrowing an entire government (and possibly more) with technofacism so that they can justify their “I know python, I should be able to earn as much as I want, fuck ethics, I never emotionally matured past 16” bullshit
How did it make big oil lose even a single penny? Did Captain Planet viewers decide to take the public transit that didn’t and still doesn’t exist
That’s a different argument. Is consciousness meaningful? Yes, because I like it, but of course someone who is passively suicidal will disagree. Who is right? Debatable. That doesn’t change theory of mind though.
Edit: this is an example I don’t mean to imply you’re passively suicidal, to be clear
You are rejecting modern philosophy of mind so you can embrace science fiction and (more likely) wild fantasies about defeating mortality
Again this would upend everything we know about biology, physics, and neuroscience.
If the Descartes quote is all you care about then it’s potentially a different story. Like do you want to live forever or exist forever? Different things. Elon musk is probably chasing both but okay with the latter, for example
Duh, that’s the inherent philosophical construct. The body dies but a consciousness continues. What “is” consciousness. Is it a “soul” that can be extracted from a corporeal form and injected into a (in this example) carbon copy? If that is the case how does one “verify” the “extraction” occurred and the process of creating a carbon copy did not create a carbon copy “soul”? To the outside observer the scenario you describe would happen but you would die on the train and you 2.0 would pick up where you left off.
Perhaps (and far far more likely) consciousness is a byproduct of extremely high quality sensory processing with the capacity for storing both long and short term memories and attending to stimuli. But even again if we created a perfect replica of this that is all it would be, a replica. It would think it’s you, but it’s not. The original you, the you it’s copied from, is dead.
To defeat this means to upend several sciences as far as I know. Biology, neuroscience, physics. A clone will always be morally distinct, and teleportation would always ultimately result in creating a clone. What the legal ramifications of this would be i dont know. Capitalism is wild and if someone did figure this out I bet money there would be a product on the market that was rushed despite not having answered these (likely unanswerable) questions and probably protected from criticism because it “revolutionizes transportation” or some shit
So what would happen if the original wasn’t “destructively” scanned and was just scanned. 2 would exist. Ergo, you’re dying each time.
I’ve thought about this for over 25 years at this point. Ever since the first journeyman project game and moment where you teleport to work and it’s like you die, then come back to life, because that’s the only way it could ever work. Unless there’s some weird physics shit I don’t understand where you like slip through a wormhole or something. I don’t know I suck at that kind of physics
They get high on the propellant (usually difluoroethane), basically, enhanced by hypoxia
Nitrous oxide (“whippits”) is a whole other thing that is very much a grey market drug dealer “this should probably just explicitly be legal at this point because the hoops people jump through are kind of silly”. Like if you’re into cooking nitrous oxide chargers are a valid thing to own for making whipped cream and such so headshops often stock huge tanks under the guise of “for culinary use only”, just like how people only use bongs for tobacco, right
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Some people have schizophrenia, shithead
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She made bank off her tour, don’t speak as if Ticketmaster took all the money and she made nothing. Her “company” took in about 2 billion in revenue from the last tour and after expenses she made out with like 700 million in profit because she, like all shitty billionaires, extracts wealth from workers. I’m sure the roadies, people selling merch, tour musicians, etc are just doing great and definitely all have health insurance and aren’t being exploited because they work for Taylor and isn’t that so quirky and fun. She gave the musicians bonuses! That’s much better than a livable wage for everyone with benefits and definitely not a pr move slash a gift for the peons Taylor actually has facetime with and developed some empathy for.
Also Ticketmaster takes a smaller cut from people like her. Don’t get me wrong, they still take a monster cut and that’s part of why your concert tickets are stupid expensive now as you say, but part of the unfair advantage she has is the resources to negotiate far better terms than say, band z getting off the ground. Both she and Ticketmaster knows she will 100% sell out every single ticket of the entire tour in seconds and she and her team leverage this for a more advantageous contract. The capitalist calls this shrewd, everyone else calls this an unfair advantage that makes the already rich and famous even more rich and famous.
I saw that exact post and came to mention the comment you’ve already highlighted. They’ve highlighted some weirdos that post to the conservative subreddit constantly, which definitely plays, but those weirdos might be turning point weirdos, or GOP weirdos, or just straight weirdos like my creepy neighbor that still has trump flags all over his house from 2016 with the “pence” part covered in duct tape bc he’s too cheap to upgrade to the new models. This is where trump is correct and trump derangement syndrome is real: it’s obviously not true for everyone who criticizes the piece of shit, but the john oliver neolib types that are still 9 years later like “ohh drumpf tiny hands Hillary should have won Russssssssssssssia 😏” it’s very much a thing.
This is indicative of a much wider problem on the broad internet that is regularly exploited: users on content aggregation platforms and social media read the headline and take it at face value. There is no critical thinking, there is no questioning the source, there isn’t even clicking through to read an article that is more often in this day and age less than a page. Even here on hexbear, a place where I’d expect people to at least be primed to read shit, I’ve gotten pushback for moderately lengthy comments like this with pithy replies like “I’m not gonna read all that”. People are fucking stupid now thanks to a weaponized program of algorithmic content that is designed to destroy your ability to attend to anything that’s longer than 1-3 sentences. People want that reddit top comment that justifies or concisely counters the headline. A systematic defunding of education combined with a societal push for “being smart is lame” doesnt help.
We are doomed
One time my 50lb dog ate an entire rotisserie chicken from the trash at a friends house. Like they literally bought one and threw it away without touching it and he at it 100% bones and all. It looked like he was pregnant. We thought it was going to cost so much money but while the vet was examining him he had the most impressive amount of vomit I’ve ever seen in my life relative to body size (and I’ve worked in hospitals). They examined him a bit more and said he was probably fine and sent us home. Cost $120. He’s still going strong 6+ years later so they were right.
I still have a picture of his belly from that day because it’s wild how bloated he was
They still often (but not always) give you fentanyl or sufentanil. those feel pretty great especially when injected. Like people do crime for those
As if he hasn’t been drawing the same basic picture 500 times a day for 50+ years. He can probably draw and color a perfect Garfield strip blindfolded with a broken arm.
It’s like one of those Chinese artisan teapot makers that’s 70 years old. When you watch a video of them making a teapot it looks so simple and elegant but you know that ability to make such deliberate and precise action comes from basically making 100 teapots a day for 50+ years. Then you see that laminar flow and the intricate detailing and you’re like oh my god I want that and you search it up and find out a proper one from someone like that is like $400 so you stick with your electric kettle that was $17.99.
He’s like the shitty banal grandma comedy version of that
we have a very good traditional bread that is served with a sauce or maybe flavored oil
This happened in NJ and the billionaire who “left because of taxes” has both returned to the state since and pretty consistently stated he did not leave because of the tax hike and never said that was his motive. While I am sure these scumbags will do whatever is necessary to avoid paying taxes my point is don’t expect the media to not propagandize here.
The narrative being built is clearly one to make the average person think “increasing taxes on the wealthy will hurt us!” This is what happened in New Jersey. “If the tax increases are passed and David Tepper leaves it will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars and ruin everything!”. It’s that domestic abuse shit; “you should just let me exploit the fuck out of you and if you don’t I’ll bail and it’s your fault for not letting me continue to do so”. Also fwiw while Tepper left NJ was fine and while his loss was notable to the tax budget it was not insurmountable by any means. NJ and California are already quite wealthy states.