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  • I wasn't medicated until my early 30's, so I get it at least. The anxiety and the depression that came with not being medicated sucked ass as well, so take that very seriously if you need.

  • I haven't experienced the full 'GO GO TAKE CARE OF NORMAL THINGS'

    That behavior is learned, for the most part. The meds just help you follow through and stay on track to actually complete "normal" things.

    Procrastination is normal. Starting to work on cleaning a room but somehow end up sorting screws in your neighbors garage is not normal.

    Meds have limits and they aren't magic. They are fucking awesome, but still, not magic.

    There is a ton of stuff that you will need to sort out in your own brain over the next few months or years, TBH. Some ADHD'isms run deep. Some issues are correctable, some are not but that is for you to figure out on your own.

  • After updating from the play store directly just now, blocking @loops again, it is now on my block list correctly.

    Thanks!

  • I just checked and loops isn't even making it on my block list. My block list only has 197 communities, and I am fairly sure I have blocked more than that.

  • You still need an Internet connection.......

  • According to Baidu and most of .ml, absolutely nothing. It was a perfectly normal day of getting emulsified by tanks. There are no unhappy people in China, and they have the CCTV recordings to prove it!

  • Food contains sugars and other things that cause plaque. Food gets stuck in between teeth. Bacteria love that shit.

    Toothpaste is an abrasive cleaner that can contain things that kill bacteria. Tooth paste is usually minty, making your mouth feel fresh.

  • 94 I think. Mid 80's is typical for my family, but smoking or drinking was usually a factor.

  • Photons are the smallest unit of energy that can be transferred between a light wave and a different particle.

    That is a much better description than what I have heard for the last 30 years: "A photon is a packet of energy". That made no sense to me back then, and makes no sense to me now and, IMHO, doesn't quite give a good visualization. It's a placeholder, and I suppose it is slightly accurate depending on how "packet" is defined.

  • Enjoyment of art is subjective and not generally related to education level or even awareness of art being generated by AI or not. Is someone likes something, they like it.

    If you like green circles and I like blue squares and we are both self-aware and confident enough to understand our own feelings, there is not much education that could change our feelings. Education may change our respect and appreciation for other forms of art, but it should rarely change our preferences unless there is something extremely relatable I lean about your green circles. (There are thousands more conditions that might shift my opinions. Education is just a single variable, is my point )

    Edit: My use of caveats was intended to be extremely liberal in this particular case. Opinion and preference can be extremely dynamic.

  • I know more 4 year olds that have better communication skills than some politicians. Plus, you can reward them with some ice cream every time they tell the truth.

    Jokes aside, as long as a person is a legal adult and they can prove they are capable enough to hold a serious position, sure! Let them do it. Realistically, you are likely correct: The minimum age for my requirements is also likely in the 30s.

  • That'll break a few brains. To elaborate with an example: From the perspective of a photon, it's "life" is over as soon as it begins. Even though it takes about 8 mins for a photon to travel from the sun to the earth from our perspective, no time at all has passed for it.

    (Correct me if I misspoke.)

  • Yes, but light always travels at the speed of light, regardless of its speed. It travels at c in a vacuum.

  • I'll sell you mine. Hell, I might even trade some points for a block of your finest cheese.

  • Not really surprising as we had recently evolved to stand on two legs and probably lacked the brain power to hunt effectively. We only started using fire sometime during the following two million years as a we transitioned into "modern" humans. Fire was likely a huge motivator to begin consuming meat once the maillard reaction was "discovered". The last ice age probably kicked out hunting skills into high gear due to sparse vegetation and the need to consume more fats and proteins.

  • Maybe. People with more technical knowledge should understand that LLMs aren't magic or sentient and have some severe limitations. Hell, I have been tinkering with ML and ANNs for a better part of 15 years or so and they can be extremely useful. (I am no expert and never indend to be.)

    It's the marketing wank, scams, art theft and all the bullshit that pisses me off now. In that regard, I am squarely in the "Fuck AI" category. There is absolutely nothing phenomenal that has come of this recent bubble in the commercial space. AI generated images are mostly trash, articles are riddled with gross factual errors, phishing and other scams are more realistic (and maybe even more dynamic) now and public forums contain even more annoying bots. And the worst bit is that AI generated media, like music, is just a collection of averaged values with no originality.

    That bell curve represents something but it isn't IQ.