Actual lizards would do a better job than a number of governments I can think of.

Mine was from not REI but somebody like REI, basically industrial strength camping gear baby kit and was also awesome. Lasted through my kids, then my sister’s, and now a cousins. Like 10 kids and almost 20 years and still looks nearly new.

Some things ought not be meddled with.

There’s plenty of evidence of homosexuality across broad swaths of the animal kingdom, but gender is a human social construct (until the apes and whales tell us otherwise) so I don’t know how this would even translate to any other animals.

Comforting words in “interesting” times. Thanks as always.

Taekwando-unto-others

(yes, which I know is Korean and not Japanese)

I hope to have to use this information someday.

I think it just means an occupation ie something you do to earn money – as opposed to the jobs we do around the house in the course of taking care of ourselves. Regardless yes it’s inane. (we should be eating healthy tho, regardless of religious affiliation)

Except everybody hates health insurance execs. It’s like the one thing we can all agree on.

they should just respond with 2 photos, one of LA in the 1970s and one from today. There’s a reason it doesn’t look like this anymore.

Y’all from the Midwest?

While it is commonly believed that there is only one correct way impale a human, the author here contemplates several alternatives.

You might be interested in Integrated information theory, which proposes that everything - from an electron up to a galaxy or bigger - can be said to have some unit of consciousness (for certain definitions of consciousness). It’s something between a mathematical framework and a philosophical one, but does put forth some hypotheses that touch on cosmology and thermodynamics and isn’t just nut job pseudoscience.

" Time poverty is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution ," says the article. In fact, neither of these is true. Time poverty (in the US, at least) is an invented means of social control. Our Puritanical leadership has – for probably close to a century now – turned “having idle time” into a moral failing which can then be used as a cudgel by bosses, a call-to-action (and exclusion) by politicians, and explanation or excuse by people looking for reasons why things go wrong (without, you know, having to actually go looking for the actual reasons). David Graeber’s excellent book Bullshit Jobs goes into great detail about how our society has invented all sorts of requirements for keeping busy because our leadership is terrified by the idea that many of us could actually be idle sometimes and society wouldn’t come crashing down.

You can - I currently have a few “real” VMs running along side LXC containers for Linux-based stuff that isn’t docker-ized yet, and of course a bunch of individual apps (jellyfin, photoprism, etc.) that come from truenas’s library and run in Docker containers natively. So everything seems to be working well, I just wonder if there’s something I’m missing out on (FOMO/grass is always greener, etc., etc.)

It’s not cowardice, it’s intentional. He wants a timeline where techno-lords with divine authority oversee their vassal states and nations are a thing of the past. Bending over for a fascist party is the fastest way to get there.

You can put videos in a text thread. I’m on a 31-person thread that has been active for about 15 years. I promise there’s no shortage of videos.

Try to get them to text them instead. Giant family text chains are a lot more fun (and chaotic) than generic social media.

thanks, fixed.

Lol, but there are lots of applications for nondeterministic computing that are not LLMs. Some of the famous-y ones would be like Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), which is used in reinforcement learning (e.g., AlphaGo) to explore game trees probabilistically, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), where you use randomness to sample from complex distributions (e.g., Bayesian inference), and zero-knowledge proofs, where you use randomness to verify information without revealing it. You could probably get an LLM to make a longer list :)