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SkyeStarfall , (edited )

I swear, if I could afford just a good 2 or so years long break to stabilize my life, I would actually be able to do good and effective work. Instead I feel like I am always just barely scraping by at the edge of my ability, due to being overworked and burnt out.

SkyeStarfall ,

I am so utterly sick of hearing the same goddamn 5 Christmas songs over and over and over and over again every fucking year

It feels like I’m trapped in fucking limbo, god lmao

SkyeStarfall ,

Well, sorry if I’m not sympathetic to Poland there and their far right party at the time.

A nonprofit group is pushing to get estrogen FDA approved for gender-affirming care (www.statnews.com)

Hormone replacement therapies have long been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use by cisgender patients, such as women who take estrogen when going through menopause. Now, for the first time, a nonprofit group is pursuing research with the goal of FDA approval for the use of estrogen as a gender-affirming...

SkyeStarfall ,

Research shows that the vast majority of trans kids are trans, and should get puberty blockers at the very least.

SkyeStarfall ,

We have enough people, especially now that we are entering some form of second stage of automatization with AI developments. We’ll be fine if we end up being a few billion less.

What we should be aiming for is a more steady state economy, and not one that relies on endless growth (outside of like, new technology and gathering knowledge). Even today there are so many jobs that could be eliminated by more sane resource distribution, like eliminating fast fashion, building things to last, etc.

SkyeStarfall ,

This is pretty much fandom

The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels (www.businessinsider.com)

The stainless steel body of Tesla’s Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels::The Cybertruck’s steel is made in “coils that resemble giant rolls of toilet paper,” WSJ reported.

SkyeStarfall ,

Knowing about crumple zones makes you ask why you would even want a “stiff and solid” vehicle in the first place lmao.

SkyeStarfall ,

Cuz adhd is way underdiagnosed

Also they literally said to get it checked out? As in, go to a specialist?

SkyeStarfall ,

But they’re then getting absolutely freaked out about every benign thing. It has to be super exhausting and stressful

SkyeStarfall ,

Sometimes it is like that, despite everyone’s best efforts. It’s okay. As long as people had fun!

COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals (www.bbc.com)

The documents - obtained by independent journalists at the Centre for Climate Reporting working alongside the BBC - were prepared by the UAE’s COP28 team for meetings with at least 27 foreign governments ahead of the COP28 summit, which starts on 30 November.

SkyeStarfall ,

I’m sure the billionaires that feel like they just have to travel the entire world in building-sized yatches, and living in gigantic villas, as well as having private jets to fly everywhere, would love to spend the rest of their lives in a security bunker with the same people (that definitively won’t ever rebel).

SkyeStarfall ,

Wait, they want more foreign ownership of real estate?? Are they high lol. That’s going to price out every last young person there from homes that’s not already priced out.

FBI Labels Anti-Fascists and Anti-Racists as Violent Extremists (unicornriot.ninja)

A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled “Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the American...

SkyeStarfall ,

Sure, just “ignore” it, conveniently forgetting they’re very much embedded in mainstream politics now and starting culture war campaigns, banning books, and actively attempting to dismantle democracy.

Fascism in the US is already here.

SkyeStarfall ,

But it can also be so comfortable and nice 🥺

SkyeStarfall ,

To me it’s absurd how Microsoft gets beaten by a free desktop environment when windows is like their main product. They have billions of dollars. How do they manage to not do better?

SkyeStarfall ,

Well, that’s the thing, it’s the core part of their entire business. The glue that sticks everything together. Or at least used to be until Azure.

Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden’s powerful unions — The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union model (www.theguardian.com)

Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden’s powerful unions — The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union model::The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union...

SkyeStarfall ,

“We live in a meritocracy” btw

SkyeStarfall ,

A major criticism people had of generative AI is that it was incapable of doing stuff like math, clearly showing it doesn’t have any intelligence. Now it can do it, and it’s still not impressive?

Show that AI to people 20 years ago and they would be amazed this is even possible. It keeps getting more advanced and people keep just dismissing it, possibly not realizing how impressive this shit and recent developments actually are?

Sure, it probably still doesn’t have real intelligence… but how will people be able to tell when something like this has? When it can reason in a similar way we can? It already can imitate reason plenty well… and what is the difference? Is a 3-year old more intelligent? What about a 5-year old? If a 5-year old fails at reasoning in the same way an AI does, do we say it’s not intelligent?

I feel like we are nearing the point where these generative AIs are getting more intelligent than the least intelligent humans, and what then? Will we dismiss the AI, or the humans?

SkyeStarfall ,

With middle school math you can fairly straightforwardly do math all the way to linear algebra. Calculus requires a bit of a leap, but this still leaves a lot of the math world available.

SkyeStarfall ,

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”

SkyeStarfall ,

For another very clear example, money is a social construct. But people live and die by the hands of it.

SkyeStarfall ,

That’s what they said.

The internet was revolutionary, but dotcom was overhyped at the time.

SkyeStarfall ,

You are correct, and this is a big reason for why “explainable AI” is becoming a bigger thing now.

SkyeStarfall ,

Slightly overrated is where I would put it, absolutely. It’s overhyped, but god if the recent advancements aren’t impressive.

SkyeStarfall , (edited )

But gravity may be useful in many applications. We don’t really know how to effectively manufacture many things in microgravity at the moment. The moon would still be important for early space infrastructure.

Edit: In addition, the moon will be useful for mining and resource extraction for a long time, most likely, due to its proximity to earth and size.

SkyeStarfall ,

But you didn’t have NASA level technology. There is a lot you can do to increase food production using less space if you’re willing to pay the upfront and energy costs.

SkyeStarfall ,

The problem is that such space stations are very complex to build and maintain, and can more easily catastrophically fail. It’s certainly an option, but it may not be worth it.

Of course, all of this is speculation, but my point is mostly that if we don’t have sufficiently advanced space construction capabilities, surface habitats and infrastructure on the moon may be preferable.

SkyeStarfall ,

But the thing is, it very much can end. The past does not set a precedent for the future. Every year that goes by us a new situation with new technology, weapons, and climate.

Maybe the world had little chance of ending before nuclear weapons, but after? We know for a fact it can.

SkyeStarfall ,

This is genuinely a very nice song, if put into context. She got so much undeserved shit for the original, and in the end, embraced it while making a name for herself in hyperpop (and I do like her hyperpop stuff, also dorian electrica etc.).

As someone in the youtube comments said, this song is the embodiment of dancing on the grave of cringe culture, and we’re better off for it.

SkyeStarfall ,

Someone is bonking alright

SkyeStarfall ,

And what’s the worst that can happen to them? “Oh no, instead of having 2 villas I will only be left with 1?”

Chances are they already can choose to not work for the rest of their lives. They will never get into a worse position than the average worker already is in.

SkyeStarfall ,

I know, I was furthering the point. Even if they “lose”, they don’t lose.

SkyeStarfall ,

Once you need it, or, alternatively, once you have enough to live comfortably for the rest of your life. It’s exponential growth, you only get one chance, just gotta decide what your goal with the money actually is.

SkyeStarfall ,

The argument isn’t to not develop these things, the argument is to not let rich people become immortal while everyone else stays mortal, but spread the good among everyone.

SkyeStarfall ,

I don’t know, slight spoilers for the general mood, but, outer wilds is that, but it’s more like… wistful, or melancholic, or bittersweet. It’s sad, but it’s a good sad. It’s emotional, and emotions feel good.

I feel like, if I were in a bad place when playing that, I don’t think it would have made it worse. It might have made it more meaningful, and be kinda… nice, in a sense. But I also feel like art like that help me a lot when I am in bad places. It’s kinda like seeing beauty in sadness, right?

But I am not you so, y’know, YMMV

SkyeStarfall ,

You know, if you just want to grow boobs there’s HRT for that

SkyeStarfall ,

Extremely real

SkyeStarfall ,

It’s less acceptable for men to open up, it’s one of the toxic masculinity traits that harms men the most.

SkyeStarfall ,

And Google doesn’t exactly say their maps are incomplete or are wrong, and if you are going someplace you absolutely need accurate maps, you should use something else. They just say they are best in class map service, and there is little to disprove that… until the worst happens.

SkyeStarfall ,

“what’s so hard about Facebook, anyway”

A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school.

Right now there is a loneliness epidemic throughout the world. More and more people aren’t entering relationships. Gen Z men are having significant trouble dating while there are some economic factors in the mix. From my own view and experiences combined with what I’ve read most Gen Z men are lack the social and...

SkyeStarfall ,

Bad parents exist. Should their kids just be doomed then?

SkyeStarfall ,

Boo, get new material.

Seriously, sexually identifying as an Apache helicopter? Go back to edgy 2012.

SkyeStarfall ,

Just like “mix”

SkyeStarfall ,

All words are “fake”

SkyeStarfall ,

Yeah…

GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)

While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

SkyeStarfall ,

That feeling when you have played (and loved!) Like 90% of this list lmao

…do I play too many games?

…nah

SkyeStarfall ,

For strategy paradox games are always fun

SkyeStarfall ,

Yeah

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