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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • 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.









  • Removing fertilizer would cause a major economic downturn but most agriculture isn’t grown for human food. It’s calorie crops that get turned into feed and fuel.

    Everyone is agreeing with that…

    Good land doesn’t stay empty for long.

    The problem is “good” land.

    Even if we only grew the most efficient crops and utilized proper crop rotation, we wouldn’t be able to feed just humans without fertilizer.

    And not only are we going to run out, the runoff into the environment is fucking shit up.

    Like, that’s what people aren’t understanding, and I honestly can’t think of an easier way to explain it.