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In this study, we conducted a survey (n = 742) including a representative U.S. sample and an oversample of gender minorities, racial minorities, and disabled individuals to examine how demographic factors shape AI attitudes.

I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and additional PC audio interface. I got it used for $500.

You can get super cheap mixers as well, but the quality will probably be hit-or-miss. (Proper grounding and interference being the biggest issues.) I got lucky with a $40 4 channel mixer that I use when running too many synths and just need to route sound somehow.

This also happens when the water is not good enough to drink. (That is a theory on why we even have beer at all.)

tankiejerk is also acceptable.

I have been using 6ghz for about a year or so now and I found it to be quite fast. MLO can be super weird sometimes and seems to get confused, but it works. (It's probably just a driver I haven't updated.)

I thought that was only really an issue if the fiber was damaged in any way. (It would create a point where the external light could refract into the core) Then again, there isn't going to be a sheath on that cable and its not exactly a sterile environment.

Meh, I'm an idiot and that's OK!

You would have to cut the fiber or hope the pulsed laser melts it.

90% of the physics aside, this theory is like saying that crossing flashlight beams would cause interference. This is also ignoring the density difference between the fiber and the air.

All things considered, I think we are looking at the new Russian wunderwaffe. Coming to a T-14 near you.

Yes. I was able to fake being Irish for a bit to a group of English folk. (It was just an alcohol induced joke at the time, s'all. They were either a few pints in or I did really well. Dunno.)

People are just people and there is probably a word or phrase for "gullible" in most languages.

The Internet would be great if it wasn't for all the other computers attached to it.

It's all about delivery of the message and "reading the room".

In my own neurodivergent experiences, those two "tricks" I mentioned above are damn near impossible.

In all cases that I have had issues with helping someone, I usually failed at asking myself the following:

1. Did the person ask for assistance, or, did I ask if they needed assistance?
2. Did I pre-judge that person's intelligence level (or lack of intelligence..)?
3. Was the person already frustrated and I failed to notice?
4. Could I potentially make the overall situation worse if I interject?
5. Am I actually walking down the street of a large city where interacting with random strangers might not be healthy? (/s)

Over my years of failing at interaction, I have built mental flow chart of how to interact with others. It doesn't always work and that is OK!

TBH, I kind of loosely define this is an internalized derivative of "masking", but not unhealthy. I have my own little checklists that I can think about and tweak. Failure is always an option and an opportunity to learn how to interact with others better next time.

Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment

In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I'll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)

Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward ("Selling shovels" analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)

Could you setup a "call center" in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to "work with" law enforcement to ensure your scam isn't busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.

Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward

Those are all normal scenarios above and it's based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.

(Sorry. I pulled a "wHellll aKshUallY" when you said it's not worth the time for the small targets.)

There seems to hundreds of studies on that and there seems to be a fairly uniform "Yes" and "More than you would guess", etc.

Here is one: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/ADR-220062

It's all about presentation, my friend. If we are going to make our millions off of this product before it starts to roll off of people's TikTok feeds, we need to move quick.

If we repackage PVA into a sales point for preschool nostalgia, we got it made.

Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.

Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work, so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.

If a solution for the bean-to-glue ratio can be found, I am also fine with that.

This seems to be from the TikToks, so no. Not real.

One of these things is not like the other.....

It's the guy pointing at something completely random.

B is for Buy n Large (and billionaire) your very best friend.

Thats one way to put it, sure.

Gender neutral phrases are supposedly "woke".