I work at a school and I received training that explicitly told us zero tolerance does not work, made me do a double take. So in at least the northern states things are changing for the better.

America: “Oh, what did I do to deserve this!? I mean what specifically?”

Just leave a bunch of elements in a warm soup for billions of years and somehow you get these structures. Each piece of this picture popped up randomly at some point but for one reason or another didn’t dissolve or stagnate like most random structures would.

I suggest everyone research Friston’s Free Energy Principle then you’ll see a common thread between most human irrationality.

Basically the whole brain even down to individual neurons view updating predictive beliefs as energy intensive and it’s life mission is to reduce that energy.

This leaves a few strategies:

1: Create a simple and sophisticated enough mental framework that will turn out right in most cases. “What goes up must go down” is a useful belief that is rarely contradicted.

2: Change the world to align with your beliefs. “Humanity is meant to care for nature” then you save an animal to prove your belief.

3: Create an unfalsifiable belief. “God has a plan” well no one can disprove this so this belief never needs updating.

or 4: Shelter yourself from evidence through isolation, exlusive communities, habitual lying, ect. “Immigrants are ruining the economy” well if you lead a life that rarely engages with immigrants like humans then you can count the rare instances as exceptions to the rule and never update this belief.

I’m sure there are more but the Free Energy Principle explains a lot of behavior. Like why do people get addicted to games of chance? Because they know winning is possible and they want to predict it, but you can’t predict true randomness so the free energy cannot be reduced. Also why we cling to anything that gives the illusion of reducing uncertainty, like a gambler “having a system” or a football fan having lucky charms.

Maybe this is a Sodium (explosive) + Chlorine (corrosive) = salt (delicious) type of situation?

Multiple choice powerpoints but it’s competitive based on who submits the correct answer fastest typically played at school hosted by the teacher. Under a certain age basically all of us have done a Kahoot.

I don’t know if VScode Copilot defines MCP differently but it’s more about giving the llm api access to do things. Like letting the llm make github git commits for example.

I was looking through them all to see who I recognize and- wait squint is that fucking MatPat?

If it’s doubling each time wouldn’t this imply a forbidden C+? Maybe even a C- before that?

I feel like if this was a specific character going “wait that’s not normal lol” the joke would land better. But as it is the only frame of reference we have is one representing women and one representing men.

And it just all falls flat because women can have mental illnesses too? And yes men are forced to repress it more often but women often have their physical or mental health dismissed or ignored so it’s not much better either way.

I’m trans so I’ll never face a period but I can’t imagine the agony of going through one in addition to a mental health crisis or other sickness. And it’s not like women get “period days off” of work or school so you’re just expected to push through it.

It’s moreso that it’s under Microsoft’s thumb. See all the tech companies are unreliable and out for you data but Microsoft also consistently fumbles on everything. They made Windows and Office then just stopped doing anything new and kept making their old products worse.

Xbox is practically dead, they bought Minecraft and you can feel the vultures circling overhead, even the AI bubble they’re just funding OpenAI and making slight adjustments for their own versions.

I’m planning on jumping ship to Linux when I make a new PC. Only thing Microsoft I even consider using nowadays is VScode.

My main criteria for a browser is not being Chrome or Chromium based.

This leaves my only options being Firefox and it’s forks.

Or Microsoft Edge which stifles laughter I’m not gonna do.

Currently on Firefox but might give Librewolf a try.

Edit: I’ve been told Edge is also Chromium based now, the Firefox ecosystem really is the last holdout huh?

Here’s my answer that works with any kind of lightbulb.

Flip switch 1 on, switch 2 off, and get switch 3 stuck in a halfway point which I’ve done on both lever switches and flat switches.

If it’s on it’s switch 1, if it’s off it’s switch 2, if it’s flickering or dimmed it’s switch 3 and you should probably turn it off to stop damaging the relay.

So in things like this I typically hold the view of judging something based on the final product regardless of how it was made.

But every time I realize something’s AI, even if it looks good, it feels like all the color and depth has been sucked out. Like realizing it has no soul, that I’m staring at a husk.

To put it in more technical terms, the realization immediately halts any deeper analysis and appreciation for the work. The question of “What meaning does this background detail has?” always has the same answer of “It was the most probable filler for that area”.

It made me truly realize how much I took for granted that every part of a human art piece has a story behind it, whether intentional or not.

Interesting!

I thought credit card numbers were just for credit cards, what are the “things that aren’t credit cards”? Genuine question I’m just curious.

I do the default monthly donation, Wikipedia is a world wonder that has many frothing at the opportunity to burn it.

I’m 25 and I played Roblox as a kid. Back then it was just digital legos, now there’s mass produced bootleg copies of games accurate enough to be a financial threat and enough integrated microtransactions to make a mobile game blush.

PETA is weird because they’re not so much “pro animal rights” or “pro eco friendly” as they are “anti domesticated animals” including pets.

As a result a lot of their messaging is desperate propaganda, like spreading the pseudoscience that milk causes autism, or trying to imply that shearing sheep for wool hurts them somehow.

They’ve also done some pretty evil things because they believe animals are better off dead than domesticated.

Getting taken to an eccentric rich person’s island and being relieved it’s just a hunt to the death.