In the spring and summer, in a park near my home, there’s a three feet-tall crane that makes appearances before sunup, and on the days I can’t sleep, I get up early to go see him. Birds can be really neat.

These fuckers need to stop using LLMs to generate code when they need things to function with precision.

Oh yeah.

Knowing that it’s just seven companies propping up the US economy, and the private ones don’t have to publicly report if they just lost half a trillion dollars, it gives one pause. I’m definitely reevaluating if and when I want to move my investments to cash.

You could build your own spreadsheet using LibreOffice Spreadsheets.

I’ve been meaning to do it because my diet doesn’t change much, and it would just be easier to track it myself.

It’s probably Alfred stuck watching for the signal, really.

Good to see you get some good utility from it. 💪😎

It’s objectively a bad thing when a country’s entire economy is being propped up by seven companies and the vast majority of consumer spending is concentrated in the top 1%.

That’s awesome, but I don’t need it. :)

I’m kind of glad that I don’t mind flipping switches and pressing buttons. I’ve never felt the need for a smart home, so this stuff hasn’t affected me much personally.

the only way to change our course is violence at this point.

Sadly, yes.

And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.

It’s not meat.

It’s cars and planes. We know this because we observed a drastic drop in air pollution in both 2008 (following the financial crash) and March 2020 that can be attributed to basically the entire planet no longer commuting and traveling.

That said, LLM’s water and carbon footprints are likely going to be far more devastating than meat consumption, not that it’ll matter. Everyone is still going to vote Democrat and Republican and things will steadily continue to get worse.

The key with a VPN is to buy long term. I got a black friday deal for Proton last year that comes out to two dollars and pennies a month.

It’s a manufactured famine, which is a war crime. (Not to mention murdering civilians at will when they try to obtain aid.)

But try telling that to an Israel apologist.

Sure Jan.

IDF themselves designated for evacuation dozens of times

LOL, telling people to evacuate when there’s no real infrastructure to do so… does not absolve them for committing a genocide.

I could sail out to the middle of the ocean, put you on a rowboat, and tell you that you’re free to go “safely” and it’s still going to be my fault when your ass drowns.

That’s even more true when you’re creating a famine on purpose, because people can’t exactly evacuate if they’re starving.

why do you guys wear uniforms and operate openly and build military bases away from schools and hospitals

Two reasons: First, they actually have a military, generously funded by the US taxpayer. (And Palestine does not.) Second, you’re right, it’s so rude for Palestine to directly place their schools and hospitals in the path of American Israeli bombs.

See also: It’s your fault for putting your face in the way of my fist.

Totally.

Hamas should not have put their hospitals in the way of American Israeli bombs.

Palestine doesn’t have an army, a navy, or an air force.

But, enjoy all the excuses you will undoubtedly see in this thread from genocide Israeli apologists.

Hell, Palestinians can’t even go to a designated aid station for food without getting massacred by Israel.

But it’s not just Israel/Palestine. War has always been like this.

These are not the people who raised me or the values they raised me with.

Agreed. The version of my parents that I loved is already dead and gone.

Anytime they bring up politics, I just tell them we can’t discuss it.

If they press the matter, I say the same thing, except the second time I add: “…because it’s going to make me hate you.”

They’ve been borrowing my car to drive for DoorDash since April 2024 and still haven’t figured out that this government they voted for is really fucking shitty.