Portal 1 and Portal 2. Every time.

Not at all.

By calling for education and healthcare to be free, you’re voluntarily giving ammunition to politicians that they can use to sway low-information voters.

If every person who supported public education and public healthcare stopped calling it free right now, the people against these public services would still call them free. Because they want it to sound like people are trying to get something for nothing. They like it when we call it free.

Calling something free just conforms to the narrative that education and healthcare are something you would have to pay for in the first place. Why would you ever have to pay for a basic human right?

Disclaimer: I 100% support “free” healthcare and “free” education.

Being a teacher is a job. Being a college professor is a job. Being a nurse is a job. Being a janitor for a college campus is a job. People need money and benefits to do jobs. We’ve not yet achieved a post-scarcity economy where people can work without being reimbursed for their efforts.

Anyone who labels the goal of providing publicly-funded education or publicly-funded healthcare as “free” is either arguing in bad faith or too naive to understand what the goal should be. As a society we should provide public services, such as education and healthcare, to all humans who ask for it. For the good of all humans. But it’s something we all have to collectively fund.

Do not discard advice from older people because you think “the world has changed” and old people are out of touch.

ALL the advice that the older people in my life gave me in my teens about money/college/jobs/people/relationships was right, but I refused to listen to any of it because they were old and didn’t understand my life.

Don’t force yourself to learn every life lesson the hard way, like I did.

You’ll probably learn everything the hard way…but I tried to tell you.

I don’t think we’re any closer to AGI due to LLMs. If you take away all the marketing misdirection, to achieve AGI you would have to have artificial rational thought.

LLMs have no rational thought. They just don’t. That’s not how they’re designed.

Again, I could be wrong. If so, I was always in support of the machines.

If/when we actually achieve Artificial Intelligence, then maybe it would be a concern.

What we have today are LLMs which are big dumb parrots that just say things back to you that match a pattern. There is no actual intelligence.

Calling our current LLMs “Artificial Intelligence” is just marketing. LLMs have been possible for a while but until recently we just didn’t have the processing power at the scale we have now.

Once everyone realizes they’ve been falling for a marketing campaign and that we’re not very much closer to AI than we were before LLMs blew up, then LLMs will just become what they actually are: a tool that enhances human intelligence.

I could be wrong though. If so, I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

Honestly, in my opinion, follow the money. In any situation, try to figure out who will be making money. That’s where the truth is today.

Politicians --> money

Corporations --> money

News --> money

TV/Music/Movies --> money

If I find random cutlery in my drawer that doesn’t match the matching adult cutlery that I purchased so we can look like adults…I chuck it into the recycle bin. I don’t care anymore. I don’t know how they get there and make them disappear.

Oh man that’s the worst…trying not to spoil something for other people. I’ve accidentally spoiled shows that came out years ago. What’s the statute of limitations on spoilers?

On the flip side they’ll not get to experience knowing that the channel you were watching was the exact same for everyone. It feels really strange and isolating to me to know that what’s on my TV right now is streaming just to me.

I know it’s silly; we were still watching TV alone, but there was something about knowing that other people were watching the same thing at the same time that made it better.

Yeah, Android Auto is definitely the thing I didn’t think I needed and now can’t live without.

I have no idea if there can be a foss alternative that would work with existing cars…

history 500 | grep *snippet of command*

I’m 50 and I’m still too young. That movie gives me the heebie jeebies every time, though Laurence Fishburne is the most cool-headed, logical character in any horror movie I’ve ever seen.

A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I was 8, my Mom said I wasn’t allowed to watch it. I watched it at a friend’s house.

I was so sure that night that Freddy was going to grab me through the bed like he did to Johnny Depp that I went to my Mom in her room and admitted to her that I watched it then promptly vomited on her due to the accumulated fear.

Subnautica. Love the atmosphere that the music conveys.

My credit union has this. That feature has kicked in for me a few times for me just this year.

You didn’t explain what would happen if your checking account had a $0.00 balance and your savings account had a $0.00 balance.

Seriously can someone tell me what happens? Because money keeps coming out of my savings…

I’ve done this a bunch of times when camping.

Good, crisp apples are the best. A carbonated honeycrisp apple is amazing!!!

This is great advice for signing up for streaming services, and very, very bad advice for a gym membership.

They absolutely will send your delinquent gym membership account to collections and it will wind up on your credit report. It’s part of their business plan.

You’d have to sign up with a false identity, which is technically fraud.

I expected nothing yet I’m still disappointed…

I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I’ll never sign up with a gym again…Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.

The “click-to-cancel” rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.

For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.

It’s been a law in Germany for three years now:

German Online Cancel Button Law