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So if someone tells grok it’s April 30th 1945… would it self destruct?

Yeah it’s almost like they don’t care for children at all and the point is the invasion of privacy, control, and oppression…

That iPhone 8 (plus) was like 750. So like a hundred a year. I literally am the person than spends less on phones out of my entire social circle.

Edit: also I’ve had three android (not so) cheap phones—one handed down to me, previous to the iPhone 4, that I had for a few months. And my current and former work phones, provided by my company—and hated (still hating the current one) the hell out of them, utter trash full of ads and uninstallable spyware.

I ain’t no apple fan, but my old iPhone 8—which is now my sister’s work phone since one year ago—just received a security patch a couple months ago, eight years after it was bought. And yes I went with an iPhone 16, because only two phones in 14-15 years (iPhone 4, 8, and now 16) is something no other brand can currently compete with. Unpopular here, I know, but I don’t care about a jack port (my android work phone has one and its only function is to build up pocket dust), or sideloading (I don’t even ‘sideload’ much in my laptops, almost everything comes from the official repositories).

I really hope the phone landscape changes and, in six years or so, I can buy a proper FOSS phone, but I’m not holding my breath.

We probably kill insects just by walking, but it’s not reasonable to never move again to avoid that.

There’s this Hindu sect whose adherents wear veils, sweep the floor before them, and/or tread very slowly and carefully to avoid injuring, killing or eating any small insects. As you said, it’s about doing as much as you can, but if it were a competition they’d win for sure.

People here saying single handle faucets must have much better ones than what we’ve got where I’m from, no fucking chance of getting the same temperature again after shutting it. And the middle of it is extremely sensitive, it goes from 10% to 90% in like the middle two millimeters, and I think the pressure of the hot water overcomes the cold’s so you have to turn a bit left and then right again to stabilize the temp.

For my shower, which is the one that matters most for me, I got a thermostatic one—you set the temperature on the right handle and the flow on the left one, and that’s it, perfect temperature forever. Even if someone flushes, which only happens when my sister is visiting because she doesn’t understand boundaries, it doesn’t change one whole degree for more than a second, only the flow is be affected.

As a side note my grandma’s bath tube some 30+ years ago (it had probably another 30 or more) had two handles for hot-cold, left and right, and then another two for the shower-faucet flow, up and down. It wasn’t as fine tuned as my modern one, but worked quite well. You would only open or shut without touching the proportion of hot/cold.

Given you use them often, I would go for professional earplugs. Anything above €25~30 would be infinitely more comfortable than disposable ones, and you would still be able to understand people talking to you. If you feel extra fancy and have the cash (€150+) there’re some you can adjust the level of attenuation so you could use them at a concert as well as, let say, the super market.

I recognise their username. It’s half sane takes, half absolute wankery with them.

First, punk is where it’s always been: in the streets, the boroughs, in the young people that are discovering how trashy this world and society are… I’ve been out of the scene for quite a while, but from time to time I do still go to some concert or other events.

Second, Edelweiss is not anti authoritarian, or anti right wing at all, even if it’s meant as a ‘fuck you’ to the nazis. It’s a nationalist song sung by a member of the Austrian military. For context, the Austrian right was divided on this matter, with the Austrian fascist party being staunchly against the Anschluss. Julie Andrews rocks, though.

Thought the same thing. Instant ramen and mac&cheese gotta have more or less the same shelf-life and nutritional value than candies, probably less than a candied apple, even.

It has many variations: ‘hijoputa’, ‘hijo de puta’, ‘hijo de la gran puta’, ‘hijo de la gran putísima’, ‘hijo de mil putas’…

It does. I’m posting this comment on the Mbin pwa on my iPhone, works pretty well.

It might be that we are not more resistant in general, but that ads and propaganda are tailored for normative minds not for ours. If they made them specially for autistic people it could be the other way around.

So, is abolishing slavery and child labor an attack on freedom? Would it be more free a country where these are legal?

It’s easy. You protect children from religion the same way we already do with alcohol, tobacco, porn, explicit violence… and all the other adult things. Developing problematic behaviours around these things is much more likely the younger you start. Religions know this well, that’s why they start as soon as the child is born. It would be very difficult to convince an adult person to do crazy things for the magic man in the sky if it wasn’t drilled since they were a baby.

[Not a doctor, take with a grain of salt] This is the only reaction I would consider appropriate in that situation. Bees kill lots of people, you don’t know if you’re allergic until one has stung you, and anaphylaxis acts extremely fast, specially in the neck so close to the airways.

I’d say you’re doing alright. When in doubt go to emergencies and let the doctors and medical professionals decide if they send you home, unless you’re in America and this would bankrupt you that is. Better to be safe than sorry, specially with your kids.

And the widespread use of stimulants like coffee, tea, and cocaine.

Small correction, the article doesn’t say he was going to therapy. It says that his mother was a therapist, I had to reread that sentence twice:

Neither his mother, a social worker and therapist, nor his friends

The mother, social worker, and therapist aren’t three different persons.

Not quite… I mean depending on what you’re comparing it to. Like if you compare it to a person doing it—breathing, eating, space(home, office…), electricity…—the Ilm is much more efficient. Now a random person that wouldn’t have produced any image, text, song… whatever, that is now generating a hundred of them a day is, indeed, very wasteful and bad for the environment.

For comparison, the co2 emissions from training gpt3 were equivalent to 1250 people’s breathing for a year.

Now about the stealing part, I’m not very fond of ‘intellectual property’ very much myself, nor am I very respectful of it, so I will not discuss it.