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Now I know she was an even bigger piece of shit than I thought.

But... The teacher is just flat-out wrong. It says right there in the problem that Marty ate more, and then uses that fact as a foundation for the question of "x is true, HOW can x be true". It'd be different if the question was "someone claims x is true; is it?"

We're in the cursed timeline where Carlin didn't lead the second American revolution.

Real talk though, it's because we don't have an education system, we've got a babysitting system. POSIWID.

I... Um... I've been looking at this for a minute and I can't tell why the answer is unconventional, nor what the fuck the teacher is on about.

Yeah, I'm in California's central valley, which is a lot like the Serengeti in that it's a grassy desert-ish thing that's seasonally wetted by snowpack melt. It's actually pretty swampy in its natural state. Used to be that you couldn't drive forty minutes here without your car being a hopeless mess, especially in the late winter/spring. Now, I almost never hit a bug at all. It's been that way for years. I pointed it out to my nature-loving MAGA mom and it freaked her the fuck out.

Let this be a lesson to never ever take conservatives seriously. "Nooooo, universal healthcare and trains will cost too much money, muh fiscal responsibility :(" has turned into "let's go into more debt than anyone has ever thought of to make the poor poorer and the rich richer"

I think the thing I haven't quite sussed out is... Well, let's take Wal-Mart and Dollar General. Wal-mart and DG both have this weird niche of being both major employers for rural areas, as well as depending on nearly their employee base as customers. If they automate all their jobs away, who do they think they're going to be selling to? My guess so far is that all these MBAs think that certainly their customer base won't run out of cash by having their jobs automated away.

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Sure, but ChatGPT costs MONEY. Money to run, and MONEY to train, and then they still have to make money back for their investors after everything's said and done. More than likely, the final tally is going to look like whole cents per token once those investor subsidies run out, and a lot of businesses are going to be looking to hire humans back quick and in a hurry.

I don't see "an increasingly difficult to ignore urge to bomb an oil pipeline" on here.

I'm going bog witch, but I'm a dude, so I guess druid?

Seems like a good time for shameless self promotion. I moderate a comm you might be interested in.

https://lemm.ee/c/close_encounters

Well, the thing is that we're hitting diminishing returns with current approaches. There's a growing suspicion that LLMs simply won't be able to bring us to AGI, but that they could be a part of or stepping stone to it. The quality of the outputs are pretty good for AI, and sometimes even just pretty good without the qualifier, but the only reason it's being used so aggressively right now is that it's being subsidized with investor money in the hopes that it will be too heavily adopted and too hard to walk away from by the time it's time to start charging full price. I'm not seeing that. I work in comp sci, I use AI coding assistants and so do my co-workers. The general consensus is that it's good for boilerplate and tests, but even that needs to be double checked and the AI gets it wrong a decent enough amount. If it actually involves real reasoning to satisfy requirements, the AI's going to shit its pants. If we were paying the real cost of these coding assistants, there is NO WAY leadership would agree to pay for those licenses.

I don't think I understand what the point of colonization would be. At some point, the cost of keeping slaves exceeds the benefit of the "free" labor you get from them; likewise with colonial administration. I think if a species had access to the kind of energy capabilities necessary to make an Alcubierre drive run, then that's functionally a post-scarcity society for a number of reasons, and the only possible reason they'd want to colonize or enslave is if they're just kind of hard wired to go out of their way to be major league assholes, even by human standards. Even if you somehow figure out a configuration of an Alcubierre drive that makes it so you could power it with a conventional energy source, that still bumps us way up towards post-scarcity because of all the cheaty/hackey bullshit we can now do in space. Deploying even a small array of solar panels around the sun to beam as much electricity as we could want to wherever we want would become a trivial task. Oh, an asteroid with sixteen quadrillion dollars of gold? Ez. Just pop on over and scoop up as much gold as you can fit on the ship. Want to colonize and mine the moon for a laugh? No problem, just pop on up there and set up your tent, no giant fucking rockets needed, that'll be two seconds, please. Transporting goods, people, and cargo across the earth becomes comically fast and easy, no more need for big ass jets and airports. The Alcubierre drive would probably have a bigger impact on our QOL than the discovery of electricity.

I think it really depends. My city was able to build about two miles (IIRC) of fully separated multi-use path along a busy arterial for I wanna say about $4 million. The beauty, of course, is that well constructed bike and pedestrian paths can last a lifetime, where car infra needs constant replacing, so it's a really good investment.

US be like: sorry, we simply have no money for bike lanes or sidewalk repairs :(

Look, I'm open to a more nuanced conversation. I believe in regulation, not bans, not oppression.

FUCK. Wishing you guys all the best!

So, we all know what's going on here, right? They're gutting any part of our society that relies on intellectual work and trying to compete with motherfucking robots to bring factories back. They want to cram everyone into sweatshops. The plan was never to bring good jobs back, the plan was always live-in factories and suicide nets on the windows.

E: well, at least the Roman space telescope lives on, I guess. I'm unreasonably excited for it; it's already built and just needs to be launched, basically.

And yet, when is Elon's court date?

If a law isn't enforced, then it functionally doesn't exist. If the law only exists for some of the population, then it's a tool of oppression.