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When something is stated simply with an "all you need to do is...", it's not much of a reach to imagine that the person who said it has either no understanding of how difficult that would be or that that person has some simple solution in mind.

I was trying to cover all bases with my response to it, but I guess I made it sound like too much of an accusation. Sorry about that.

Relevant, but also not relevant at all: The North Pacific Deckpecker

[Preferred refugee destinations] have to make the home countries of immigrants attractive enough to stay there

Most governments take a very dim view of other governments interfering in their region's affairs, and further, the aforementioned destinations generally used to be colonial powers and don't have a good reputation in that regard to begin with.

Sending boatloads of cash to the migrant source won't fix the problems either, because it will just end up in the pockets of a small, corrupt few as it does literally everywhere else in the world, and nothing will change.

If you're in favour of abandoning ethics for a quick fix there are two or three "solutions", but there doesn't seem to be any easy ones otherwise.

FWIW, I'm very much not in favour of abandoning ethics.

Also UK here. Since it's mostly used as the verb to mean "hit

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Perhaps that was a symptom of my own weak bean.

Are you in the Russian army?

DuckDuckGo currently provides free access to four different LLMs. They say they don't store user conversations, but I'm not sure I trust that, or that that won't change at some point even if they don't right now.

Most of them have the strawberry problem (or some variant where that word is explicitly patched(?)), fail basic arithmetic and apologise repeatedly and often without being able to better themselves when mistakes are pointed out. Standard LLM fare for 2024/5.

Certain molecules have "handedness", and life on Earth is based around one of the two possible states.

Scientists experiment with the other handedness because there's no reason it shouldn't work that way around and it was just by chance that it happened the way it did on Earth.

The two forms are largely incompatible, and so no-one really knows what would happen if a wrong-handed life form was to escape the lab. Maybe nothing. Maybe really bad things.

Feel free to write your own apocalypse movie.

Pretty sure it's a Debian family key-binding, so Ubuntu and LMDE also have it. And yeah, I use it all the time.

I love(d) the drop-down console in Quake-like games but have always preferred my command windows to be floating boxes for whatever reason.

This doesn't add much to what others have already said, but there's a useful saying that applies extremely well to low online prices:"If it seems too good to be true, it probably is."

The tricky ones are the ones that are between, say, 10% off and full price. Some are legit, others are scammers hoping you'll pick their slightly cheaper option. And you still need to figure out why the legit one is cheaper. They rarely do it out of the good of their heart.

I'm genuinely confused how my advice to minimise harm has itself caused harm. And sometimes, someone's "best" isn't much at all. That'd be me most days.

I should probably have put a conditional on "Look at yourself" to tie it in with the "might" in the lead sentence, though, that's on me.

In the sense of one day you're there, the other day you're not, may I suggest not realising that you're not looking after your mental health, having a total meltdown and finding yourself walking erratically up the road away from the place in a roughly homeward direction, followed by not being OK ever since?

Actually, no, I take that back. I suggest doing the polar opposite of that. Once that particular Prince Rupert's drop pops, it's an impossible task to put it back together again.

Also, when back looking at it, you'd begin to realise that the warning signs were there all along, so maybe everything wasn't so sudden, or isekai, as you put it, at all.

Unrelated: I can't not hear "he's a guy" when I hear "isekai".

Someone or something has clearly hurt you and you appear to want to hurt others in turn. I'm not the brick wall you're going to run into one day, but I can tell you that if you keep this up you're going to hit it sooner rather than later.

Male loneliness is as much a symptom of the "suck it up" toxic masculinity that pervades your comment as it is the content of your comment.

Men are taught to be stoic, to rely only on themselves, to suck it up and get on with it, and for some, they're trying desperately to conform to something that seems frighteningly easy for others. They're expending all their energy on that unnatural - for them - attempt to conform rather than being able to simply exist as they might otherwise be.

Your instinct might be to attack me for pointing this out. That's toxicity at play. Look at yourself.

But I haven't made my main point yet. It's this same toxicity and trying to "be a man" that turns men into the monsters that women fear, and so it becomes a vicious cycle of negativity breeding loneliness and on and on.

My advice would be "Do better. And if you can't do better, do your best. And whatever you do, minimise harm."

It's a lot easier to complain than it is to make the world a better place. And before you think that that's a complete agreement with your reasoning, note that 1) Your comment is also an easy complaint and 2) Does this mean that people who can't produce quality content shouldn't be allowed to complain when there's a lack of it?

The big irony here is that OP actually went to the effort of creating content, even if it was "only" a complaint.

Sadly, I doubt anyone will get to use it any time soon. His faithful are our contemporaries and they won't let that happen.

Some countries have only banned it on paper. Don't ask how rich countries in the middle east get their buildings built, for example.

And then there's always the loopholes that allow unscrupulous employers to pay employees less than minimum wage. Not quite slavery, but it's pretty damn close.

For example: My country has a scheme whereby some unemployed people have been forced to take on work in order to qualify for, get this: their unemployment benefits. The employer won't then take them on because then they'd have to pay them, and pay them minimum wage to boot, rather than get free workers from the government.

Shiii- I was blanking on answers (trauma response maybe), but this reminded me of the Minecraft horse I lost one time. I mean, I am, and was, a grown man playing a block game for fun, but that horse dying. Oof.

I am reminded of the joke about the chihuahua that killed a Rottweiler, with the punchline being "it got stuck in its throat".

But what if: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_triangular_number

Slightly more seriously (but only slightly), what if what we see as Heisenberg uncertainty and probabilistic wave/particle weirdness is actually the result of multiple overlaid timelines caused explicitly by time travel, and if time travel wasn't possible, the universe wouldn't have those properties?

Objectively wrong for your part of the world maybe.

I guess my part of the world probably doesn't have a word for the distinction because here it can mean either.

Either that or it's a case of common parlance versus learned parlance, like, for the sake of any example, when people say "theory" but mean "hypothesis" and in learned parlance "theory" has a different meaning.