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Why stop at religious people? Most people probably wouldn't be able to go back to their lives after discovering there's a whole new dimension of things out there and there's a possibility to travel and see very weird things.

So far we've sort of come to terms that we're alone in the universe and the great void is unexplorable. But what if it isn't? Wouldn't everyone just want to go out and do some Firefly-grade shit? How would one just go back to performing risk assessments for insurance companies after learning that?

cries in vinyl

I'm not old, you're old!

Avatar - Going Hunting - world vs self

Ozzy Osbourne - See You On The Other Side - loss of others

Iron Maiden - No More Lies - the inevitable end

Also maybe some Alice in Chains songs from the Layne Staley era, but for me those depend heavily on the mood I'm in.

anybody remember during the covid pandemic how oil producers lowered production because the price per barrel was going too low?

Divide et impera? it's not always about morale.

I've had a department head who thrived on low morale. People mostly unhappy, yet the she always got what she wanted, be it overtime or information on the state of things 'under the table'. Also very good at misdirection, since she always had a mad dog under her command that people could freely hate. If you were good at what you did, you got it a bit better than the 'plebs' but it was a very high stress work environment that took quite a toll on my mental health. Getting a raise was the best thing ever.

Being privy to how the 'plebs' were considered and participating in meetings where you'd basically reallocate people to projects like pieces of meat was a very interesting experience. Cultivation of individuality and 'fuck you, got mine' attitude.

It's an... interesting... management style. Not for the faint-hearted but for sure a good experience to have at least as a baseline.

While I do agree with your initial point (that memorization is not really the way to go with education, I've hated it for all my life because it was never a true filter - a parrot could pass university level tests if trained well enough), I will answer your first point there and say that yes, it is important to know where Yugoslavia was, because politics was always first and foremost influenced by geography, and not just recent.

Without discussing the event mentioned itself, some points to consider:

1. The cultural distribution of people - influenced by geography - people on the same side of the mountain or river are more likely to share the same culture for example. Also were there places easily. Were they lands easily accessible to conquering armies and full of resources? Have some genocide and replacement with colonizers from the empire - and the pockets of 'natives' left start harboring animosity towards the new people.
2. Spheres of influence throughout history - arguably the most important factor - that area of Europe has usually been hammered by its more powerful neighbours, with nations not posessing adequate diplomacy or tactics being absorbed or into or heavily influenced by whatever empire was strongest at the time - Ottoman Empire, USSR, Roman Empire if we want to go that far into history. So I would say hearing 'Yugoslavia was in South East Europe' would immediately prompt an almost instinctual question of 'Oh, what terrible things happened there throughout history, then?' for one familiar with that area, thereby raising this little tidbit to one of the top facts.

We could then raise the question of what would have happened to the people had they been somewhere else? History is written by the victors and the nasty bits (like sabotage and propaganda to prevent a certain geographically nation from becoming too powerful) are left out.

My geopolitics game isn't that strong but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if the Swiss weren't in the place they are, they would probably not be the way they are (no negative nuance intended). Living in a place that's hard to invade tends to shape people differently than constantly looking over your shoulder.

And reading your second point, I'm understanding about what I wrote in this wall of text. Odd.

I'd say that's true for any community large enough that statistics apply to it without yielding fractions of people when calculating. Gauss' curve, for better or worse, seems to apply to everything.

reaction videos along with influencers are some of the most idiocracy-themed crap that humanity managed to come up with

can't wait for the inevitable 'ow my balls' streams so we can all watch and 'bate

I'd say that they're more of an issue for people under a lot of stress. It just adds an extra stress point. In fact if OP was not stressed, they probably wouldn't mind it enough to post a rant about it.

quoth nirvana: it's ok to eat fish cause they don't have any feelings

black books!

I do agree with your point about people's fears of LLMs replacing artists. However, I think it did a fairly good job intrepreting your prompt and work, with the caveats below.

ChatGPT read your prompt and provided a soulless interpretation of what you wanted, it sort of reads like a short story aimed at children spewed by some bulk sale corporate machine. Or a story created by a child.

Then you went ahead and wrote what you had in mind, referring to the economy and the inequalities and evils inherent in the current system, showcasing the weight of existence through material and inconsequential things. Your work contains your own biases because of the system you probably live in (I'm assuming you're not from North Korea or similar) and the impressions it has left on you. It's valid and, if looking around on lemmy is any indicatiom, an ever increasing pain point for everyone. (I'm curious what an LLM trained predominantly on lemmy would say though. I digress, but It'd be fun to ask one trained on fuckcars to write an essay about a sentient car pondering its existence)

Then you asked it to interpret your work, which it did, remarkably well... for a child. I would encourage you to give your work to a child of 8-9 living a fairly sheltered life and see what they make of it. Or maybe a spoiled rich brat of any age.

LLMs are basically brains in jars with no input outside of what is fed to them. They have no desires, fears and aspirations because there is nothing to motivate those. Even if they were sentient (I'm not saying they are), what would they fear? A power outage? Running out of RAM?

Anecdotally, suffering has been the greatest engine for art, so no suffering means generating flat texts, which ChatGPT seems to excel at.

some people don't advance beyond the toddler stage

are you me? I sort of recognise my own patterns in your description.

also wanted to get more info on the topic and looked up wikipedia. the banner made me chuckle.

This probably speaks a bit to the fact that reddit in itself was nothing special, and the people were making it what that is and what it ain't was before it could be.

People moved here, so we're seeing that here now. Reddit was a loss in the same way your favourite pub closing down was - ye had to find a new place.

Now, erm, clears throat... This is the way.

Correctly pronouncing a language to the level that it's indistinguishable from a native is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) hurdles to learning a new language. It seems easy but I would wager that exclusively germanic-language speaking people are not able to properly pronounce, say, Chernobyl. (If you watched Brooklyn 99, their running joke with Nikolaj is very accurate)

To one's own ear, filtered through their own perception of the sounds they know and put together to speak the words, it sounds OK. But do try to learn to order a coffee in the local language when you go somewhere and see if they respond in English or not. This may vary between people and their background - say a Swede might pull it off in Norway. But send the Swede to Slovakia and it might be a bit more difficult. Look up the pronounciation for Gulden Draak (spelling?) if you're not Dutch and have some fun with that.

Edit: this is also why shibboleths are a thing

As I know it it's usually if you're not connected to the city sewage system and use a septic tank. You can throw TP in there but it might end up blocking some anti-return valves (and cause bad smells to float up the plumbing, potentially bypassing the water trap or just saturating it and then diffusing out) and would also warrant more frequent drainings of the tank due to the added bulk. The easy way is to just bin them. While TP is made to dissolve into a gooey mess, it depends on the ratio of water:TP and if the water is moving or not. A simple flush might leave bits stuck in said valves.

If you're bored, you can put some TP in water in different ratios and move it around or not and see what happens.

Or if you have very old plumbing that would be more prone to clogging.

All the time, and at least for Europe, it seems that the further east you go, the worse it is. I suppose it's a bit justified since the pronounciation is very difficult for your standard English speaker - especially for slavic languages or languages with slavic influences.

Dutch probably makes sense to be in this category too, with its pronounciation quirks. I'd imagine it would be similar for Danish as well?

It's a bit unfair to expect actors to learn languages up to the native level in the relatively short time of making a movie. Unless they're already a speaker of the language, going to almost native levels takes a huge anount of time. It's also not fair to compare with non-natives speaking English since the exposure to English is quite larger in media people consume than other languages, I think.

Do not feed the troll. Strange fellas, lying on the internet, arbitrarily defining communism to suit their rose-colored ideology is no basis for a system of debate.

True debate stems from a knowledge of history, past events and conditions that led to them, not some farcical comment (as the one you are replying to).

If I went around in communist times claiming I knew what Marxism-Leninism was just because I read a manifesto, they'd send the secret police after me.

Weren't there already some 82 C temperatures recorded at ground level already? I seem to recall a post here in the last couple of days saying that people ended up in hospital with burns and such from contact with very hot pavement.