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  • I love where he goes on a bike ride to show relative sizes and distances in the solar system.

    But if I had to come up with my favorite obscure Bill Nye reference, it would have to be this spoof of a 90s dating gameshow on Almost Live.

  • Computer chips, simplified, consume inputs of 1s and 0s. Given the correct series, it will add two values, or it will multiply two values, or some other basic function. This seemingly basic functionality, done in very specific order, creates your calculator, Minesweeper, Pac-Man, Linux, World of Warcraft, Excel, and every LLM. It is incredible the number of things you can get a computer to do with just simple inputs and outputs. The only difference between these examples, on a basic, physics level, is the order of 0s and 1s and what the resulting output of 0s and 1s should be. Why should I consider an LLM any more sentient than Windows95? They're the same creature with different inputs, one of which is specifically designed to simulate human communication, just as Flight Simulator is designed to simulate flight.

  • Being in a tropical country, I imagine most/all of your trees are non-deciduous, as in they don't lose all their leaves in autumn and then regrow in the spring? Imagine all the leaves drying up, falling off, and the mess is left all over the ground. Cleanup is a laborious effort. Leaf blowers speed up the process by blowing the leaves from trafficked locations and/or to more centralized locations that are easier to clean the debris. Helpful, noisy, and often environmentally unfriendly.

  • The article mentions only noticing 2 hits on the body. My understanding is that there is always 1 blank in a firing squad execution, to leave some amount of doubt in the minds of those pulling the trigger. I would point to that as to why there were only 2 bullet holes, but I would also expect everyone, from those quoted to the journalist writing the article, to know that, so now I have to second guess whether or not that is the case after all.

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  • "Get paid doing something you love and you'll never work a day in your life!" Yeah, it sounds great, and a small handful of people accomplish it. For most people, this advice will just ruin what they love by turning it into a job. My advice is to find something you don't mind doing and it can pay the bills. I work with computers. I don't love working with computers, but it's fine, I like it. My hobbies get to continue being things I enjoy doing after work. I don't recommend finding a passion to inspire you to work (or study, assuming you would plan to study something that would turn into a job qualification). Instead, find something that you merely like well enough but there is a demand for in the job market, and then use that to fund your future passions, long term goals, and some emergency savings.

    Btw, I don't think your attitudes are unusual for your age. Large percentages of students begin university as undeclared majors and/or aimlessly switch their declared major many times over. And if homemaking really is your thing, consider taking classes and looking at majors that focus on cooking, nutrition, interior design, art, personal (or even business) finance.

  • That will work until the Executive decides they aren't needed any longer. A big "Go home, Capitol closed by executive order until the emergency has passed" sign on the Capitol doors. Those that ignore the sign wake up in some third world prison or as the next contestant on 47's newest prime time game show, Who Wants to be Treated as an Insurrectionist Traitor. Their best bet is to organize a fast track impeachment before 47 can stop them, but the longer this all goes on, the faster that whole impeachment thing would need to occur.

  • I hate it, and it isn't right, but that's how The System always starts its negotiations. Amp up the charges to 11, throw in a bunch of "stretch goal" charges, and panic the defendant into taking a deal. From the defendant's side of things, why risk 20 years of your life in prison for something you mostly aren't guilty of, when they'll accept a plea that will allow them to look both tough and merciful (and clear their name of all wrong doing) and only cost the defendant 3 years of probation and time served?