Movies by David Lynch show the dreams you have when bad stuff happen to you in real life.

Most plausible hypothesis right here

Typical of a 20-30 people company where everyone has to do different things.

It’s like people on social media. Not here to have a healthy debate based on facts and getting off on insults and hate.

Especially if you can get rid of them for a small monthly fee.

Maybe they are aiming for something like Temu: ultra low quality, super cheap and ready to flood the market in 6 months

Step 1 of the plan to close all public libraries in the US.

See also: Pliny the young complaining about how chariots getting bigger and bigger made the streets unsafe for Roman pedestrians.

Same here, but a lot of my old acquaintances seem to have been only performatively open-minded in their younger years…

Just wait til millenials or Gen Z turn 40…

A right is something you can claim for yourself. “Being punished for your actions” is not a right. I’d even argue that, from a political/social standpoint, punishment shouldn’t be the goal: at a minimum, we should seek to reeducate, and if that fails, isolation is the way to go.

That being said, at the individual level, I wholeheartedly condone the punching of nazis.

Vous avez beau ne pas vous occuper de politique, la politique s’occupe de vous tout de même

(You might not care about politics, politics will take care of you nonetheless)

I might be mistaken, but I don’t think a government can force it’s citizens to have a phone. There has to be a way to pay your taxes, buy stuff, etc that doesn’t rely on you having a phone. Paper money still exists after all.

It might be possible to live disconnected rather than giving away your privacy. You’ll have to say goodbye to social media, but I don’t see it as a bad thing.

Yeah this is what I don’t get. Of course the first 2-3 times you try, it might be bad, but use your senses! Use ingredients you like, try adding a little something, look, taste, put more if you like, stop if you don’t. If the texture seems weird, try to correct it (add a liquid if it’s to dense, let cook if it’s too liquid). Get that feedback loop running!

My longtime friend got diagnosed with a very aggressive stage 4 cancer 3 weeks ago. Last Thursday, his kidneys and liver began failing. He was hospitalized and doctors didn’t think he would survive the weekend. A dozen friends came on Sunday, and he’s doing a little better now. Still, I know his chances aren’t good.

But your picture gives me hope, and hope is always a good thing.

I don’t understand your comment, I thought liberals had a majority government…?

That’s it. As a teacher who has been dealing with this in the last 2-3 years, the only reliable way I have found is to do short interviews.

Students hand in their work, I grade it, then I ask them verbally a few easy questions about what they mean in specific sections of their work. How they score on these questions is used as a coefficient that I apply on the grade to get the final score.

So they can use LLMs, but they have to understand its output.

Keepassxc DB has strong encryption.

It could be a dangerous path indeed, giving the government full access to your phone. I’m not sure the bill says that though.

But I think most people already do… A huge bunch of apps collect everything they can on you; tiktok used to be the worst. I wouldn’t trust a government less than a private company.

I dunno, maybe forcing companies to put (or remove) specific features on their software could set an interesting legal precedent: it could be used to stop companies from pushing features people don’t want or designing apps with dark patterns.

Ok but isn’t it already the case anyway? How would age verification make it easier?