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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Lol, right before it cuts off it’s says:

    Much of the data is speculative

    If you get rid of all the speculative “data” AI companies keep pushing, the actual data that’s left says it’s not worth what anyone is paying and there’s no feasible way to make it profitable.

    Every company that actually cuts workers for AI, loses money and has to hire the workers back.

    Maybe someday it could replace workers, but investing in it before then is just lighting money on fire, once investor class realizes that and stops investing in it, it’s going to crash the whole house of cards.



  • Most kids still pay for the shitty standard cafeteria lunch tray…

    Sometimes in later in like highschool they’re given more options. But it’s pretty much comes down to capitalism.

    The vast amount of parents won’t pack a lunch and will never even see the quality of food.

    What’s fucked up is healthy food is actually insanely cheap at that scale and dependable need. We’d spend just as much feeding kids a healthy high protein/fiber low sugar/fat meal as we do giving them ultra processed garbage.

    There just would be profit margins for contracting companies if we did that

    Likeost things in America, no system is designed to be the best or most efficient at anything other than making money. Anything that doesn’t make money, the wealthy are constantly trying to privatize.

    That’s the whole “late stage capitalism” thing people always say.


  • Mac-L-more

    So if you mean “el” like “el tigre chino”, then that’s correct. “L” just eliminates confusion.

    I have no strong feelings about him as an artist

    He makes super upbeat and stupid music 99% of the time, but he’s got a lot more artistic credibility than most.

    Can’t remember if he was wealthy before music, or was just unsigned and smart about his money. But dude will at least stand by his principles even when it costs him money.





  • It shows up in the urine and stool of infected people and spreads via the fecal-oral route. Many people are thought to be infected early in life, and blood testing surveys have suggested that 50–90 percent of adults have been exposed at some point.

    Humans are nasty…

    But I think what this article misses, is just like HIV allowed this to “activate” due to weakened immune system, fucking everybody just got COVID and that leads to weakened immune systems for years, meaning there’s potentially a lot of people right now suffering the initial neurological effects, and will soon get the deadly physical effects.

    Ticking fucking timebomb, especially since the trouble communicating is getting written off as just long COVID, it could very well be this



  • “Plateaued” not “stabilized”.

    One thing about AI that no one seems willing to admit, is how impressive to anyone totally depends on the users frame of reference.

    An IQ of 70 will think AI is impressive long before someone at 100, and it will be even longer for a significantly intelligent person is impressed by it. It very well never happen because by it’s very nature AI will never plateau past its training.

    Best case scenario is asking AI is asking a human slightly dumber than average, but is 100% confident in what they say and will always compliment the user.

    Which is how con-men have operated since the dawn of time.

    That introduces the “cap” where at a certain point, the AI plateaus. At a certain point the AI can’t get anyone smarter to use it. It’s like a chess player that never plays better opponents, regardless of potential it can’t keep getting better. Where it differs is AI handling that workload lowers the user IQ, so the more a new users uses it, the dumber they make the AI.

    For some people, the current state is already incredibly useful in their day to day lives. And even if AI gets worse, it will become more useful as their own brain atrophies.

    They just don’t understand what they’re saying when they say how useful they think it is, and that it’s getting better when empirically it’s not.

    What’s changing is a user’s frame of reference


  • No, this is how bullies try to de-escalate.

    If Iran goes along with it, trump will hit them again when they’re not looking.

    They’re going to make him surrender, which will likely include nuclear weapons development if not outright nukes. It’s the only way to ensure another attack doesn’t happen, because only a complete idiot would trust trump and this administration.

    Just walking away isn’t enough to end this. It only takes one willing side to fight a war.





  • They react very, very quickly by adjusting orientation and shape.

    They experience time slower, to them a second just feels longer. It’s like Neo in permanent “bullet time”.

    When I was a kid it was pretty easy to catch one alive in my hand. But now my reflexes have slowed and I can only do it from experience and luckily having large hands.

    But my big ass hand smacking one out the air and catching it in the same palm is going to hurt it more than going out a window, and weirdly enough I’ve never killed a fly catching it.

    They’re a lot sturdier than people think. Any amount of bounce and they’re cool.