At the risk of sounding uneducated, I wasn’t to say I don’t think I’ve ever read a 45 minute article.

I mean most days I would spend at least that much time reading technical advice or commentary, but not an “article”.

Who will do all the things though? ChatGPT can’t clean my toilet or wash my dishes.

Also, what is the point of being wealthy and powerful if there’s no one to rule over?

My point is, you just have to navigate these interactions as you would any social encounter.

If someone asks me to stop whatever I’m doing and go and do whatever thing for them I would politely decline and explain why I’m unavailable.

It’s kind of preposterous to suggest that someone who is asking you for free help would tell you you’re “sand bagging” when you told them you’re unable to. I don’t really have friends or family like that. If I did it would be the same approach though - just having an open and honest conversation about why I can’t help.

Yeah mine takes forever to boot.

There’s a lot of cringey responses in this thread. Just be a nice person and talk to your family and friends in an open and honest way.

Firstly, this happens in any profession. I’m a tax consultant. People always want to talk to me about tax.

Thing is, 100% of the time people will understand if you say “I don’t really know very much about that particular thing I’m sorry.”

When someone says “my wifi isn’t working” they’re not necessarily saying “please will you come over and fix my wifi”, often they’re really saying “what should I do to solve this problem” and the answer is usually “turn it off and on again, update adobe reader, if it’s still not working take it to whatever shop.”

If someone directly asks you “please will you stop what you’re doing and come fix my x”, which never actually happens, then you just deal with it as appropriate. “Sorry nan I have a lot going on right now, you’ll have to take it to the shop”.

This is for the oil and gas industry.

Ain’t nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.

Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.

I think that an obvious bot can still manipulate users. Fb has infinite resources with which to test this stuff prior to roll out. They skittish do it if it didn’t work for them.

I hadn’t heard of CBC. I consume a lot of BBC content. Also maybe check out ABC (Australia). These public broadcasters produce some great journalism IMO.

I get this type of intrusive thought. I think there’s a french phrase for this “l’appel du vide” or call of the void. I think it’s quite common actually.

No. There’s a reason cheap apartments in China have enclosed balconies.

This is my understanding, and rightly or wrongly it’s the theory underlying the artistic license supporting popular fiction like the star trek and star wars universes.

Obviously my views are supported by confirmation bias, but in the only ecosystem we know of the hominid body plan is the most successful.

Things would be different in different environments, like higher gravity or ocean planets, but in the absence of any data about those the safe bet is that most intelligent life looks similar to us.

Yeah noongar.

People would 100% correct you if you use an alternative system.

That’s what I thought.

The core tenets of far right in the UK and Germany just wouldn’t seem that relevant to a wealthy person. It’s not like he’s going to interact with migrants in any way.

What is it about the right that benefits him though? Small government and reduced regulation?

I genuinely would like to know…

Does he actually believe in these ideologies, or do they just happen to align with his interests presently?

I suspect it’s the latter.

Even pizza shops with their own drivers. I’d usually prefer to go get it myself so it’s as fresh as possible.

Even in places with good infrastructure and generally non-murderous drivers it still gets very sketchy.

The majority of drivers just havent ridden a bike since they were 3, and just don’t understand that you’re part of the traffic, as though you can magically just slip around between all the cars.

I mean you’re right, but it’s not very enthralling.

It’s mostly the contentious political questions that hit the front page.

The model the US uses […] places the start of each season on the solstices and equinoxes which means that midsummer is actually the start of summer there.

We do meteorological here in Australia so December to February style. I had no idea there were places that put the equinox as the start.

That said, dividing the year into 4 seasons has always seemed very reductive to me. Our local indigenous aboriginals describe the weather in 6 seasons. People who have spent a life time observing the weather in the course of earning a living can describe what changes in patterns to expect from month to month. Of course, this knowledge is only applicable locally.