It’s wild how casual people are about it. Data in 2013* found outside cats killed 1.3-4 billion birds, and up to 22.3 billion mammals a year. That’s just devastatingly high.

*https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

While I agree that the idea of dramatic, instant societal collapse is unrealistic, this person’s idea of a fulfilling life is clearly pretty toxic. Since when is “hanging onto clothing” a major problem? Or a group/country/society working together? And why is their sole concern “the American man”? All sounds too similar to those that claim pointing out problems in a society is communist/“reverse racist”/misandrist.

And why do you think every service is demanding people make accounts to use their site? Or outright stating they “need” to use tracking cookies if they don’t? It’s for the user data. Yes, there is some obvious data that a server needs to store to make things usable, but these companies are gathering much, much more than that, and to defend the blatant ploy to acclimate users to the unlimited gathering of their information is naive at best.

For real, though. It’s always annoyed me how popular these things are. Just companies saying outright that they’re tracking every fucking thing the user does, but put a “feature” bow on it and people eat it up. Uuugghh.

Cringe is just other peoples’ embarassment of another person’s confidence. Let 'em wallow in their own insecurities and be bold.

I’ve seen numerous articles announcing it already, and it’s plainly announced on the main page for the product. That’s not “quietly”.

I’ve never seen anyone else really talk about how, as soon as people started to distinguish the misused “ai” with “general ai”, suddenly all the tech bros were calling it gen(erative) ai. Fucking bullshit scammers, the lot of em.

I just remembered this review I ran across years ago for “audio rocks”. Audiophiles are a strange bunch.

http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/26/01/2018/audiophile-rocks-down-the-rabbit-hole-once-again/

Mech-toparasite

I missed the news about a sequel and was popping off when this showed up. Hoping it’s not as resource hungry as AW2 was, but excited either way. Control was amazing.

Super Bombad Racing is the only true Star Wars racing game (/s). But for real, this looks cool. Curious what the gameplay looks like.

That’s an oligarchy, not a “narco-state”. The poor attempt at scaremongering just discredits the rest of the point and anyone else trying to make the same point.

Real life isn’t Rick & Morty.

Llms will never become sentient. It would take an entirely separate and much more sophisticated technology (probably more than one) making use of something like llms to even approach that possibility. Don’t let techbros fool you.

Or 150 TB, for the correct way to write it.

there’s literally zero downside to having them in your car. Literal worst case scenario is that they simply do nothing.

That IS a major downside. Relying on something that won’t work in a life-or-death situation wastes precious time. Knowing they don’t work is important so better alternatives can be prepared and planned for.

That was the case when these tools were effective. Has your research shown it still holds true? I would assume the same changes that made the glassbreakers ineffective would do the same for those ceramic shards.

Despite common public perception, ADHD is a lot more than just the “Squirrel!” brain disorder it’s usually known as.

Well obviously.

You may be surprised how not obvious this is to some people, hah. But your suggestions are interesting. I feel like Valve is just constantly adding surprising features with the on-board tech. Would be cool if that stuff got added.

Screen off ≠ off. The deck will always have to be on and out of sleep mode to do anything like that.