Which ingredient do you attribute the kidney issues to?

I reckon 3.5/10 bad.

Yeah I think it was.

An interesting one too. It acts as a message to investors about AI’s power, but also a message to users about it being a really messy and shite tool.

If I ask a piece of software to accomplish a task I don’t want it to cause a buggerload of new problems in the process.

This is probably part of the reason why AI is getting so much investment but is not turning a profit.

Sounds like you’ve been looking at All:Hot.

Re-sort by New, scroll, subscribe to communities you like, and then look at Subscribed.

Yeah, I’ve found everyone to be kind, patient and helpful to me since day 1 - not a single bitchy reply that I can remember. Been using Linux for about 3 years now.

I think in a lot of cases people have not much choice but to continue working in their job. In order to not go insane in that situation, a lot of those people willingly maintain the self-deception that they do actually want to be there and it is good. It allows them the make the best of the situation and to bond with colleagues etc.

When someone openly undermines that shared illusion there is actually quite a lot at stake emotionally for those people, and they don’t like it.

Major or minor?

What?

I suspect that people just aren’t really downloading files to their phones any more, at least not in the conventional sense.

Awesome, I didn’t know it know had slang 👍

It’s already too late. Even if everything goes ‘back to normal’ tomorrow we’ll be feeling all of the delayed economic effects of this which haven’t even come into full effect yet. That’s just in the short/medium term. In the long term there’s definitely going to be a very big impact on the way the world interacts with the US and therefore the global economy. I think that those of us who are fortunate enough to survive it are going to live through one of civilisation’s big ‘re-shapings’, of which this war with Iran will be an important episode of an important chapter.

I continue to be astonished at how much data people are getting through.

Am I technogrouch for continuing to watch video at no more than 1080p?

I agree - there will probably always be differences and that might be even be acceptable. But extreme differences (like we have currently) are just madness. It’s stupidly inefficient in terms of allocating limited material resources to where they are needed. And the ‘meritocratic’ moral argument quickly falls down once wealth and income differences exceed a fairly modest level. If you claimed that a person like Jeff Bezos has the same productive output as 2.5 million nurses or is 2.5 million times more clever or righteous or whatever, even an 8-year-old would think you have a screw loose.

My stance on the ethics of piracy is - the procurement of something is based on what is a fair value.

I think what you’re describing is a transactional dynamic, rather than an ethical one:

If you are hungry and someone has infinite loaves of bread, but they are charging £100 per loaf, you can choose not to buy one from them. But is it ethical that they are charging £100 for them? In this case, I would argue that the morally right thing to do would be for the seller to accept what you can afford, and for you to offer what is fair.

Artificial scarcity and extortion are two sides of the same coin IMO.

Very interesting question.

I don’t really know any Muslim doctrine but I think you could make the argument from first principles that if the ‘owner’ of the original work is not deprived of it then it doesn’t qualify as theft.

Also, does Islam have a concept of all things ultimately belonging to god? In which case they cannot really be stolen in a strict sense.

This has proven to be the one 👍

And Arnold Schwarzenegger by the way

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeuAg1DUvA

I have some nostalgia about my original experience playing Minecraft but these days I would just play VoxeLibre in Luanti