I got onto design there for a while. Sketchup Make is still free out there if you can find it. Blender is also an option.

Learning is another option. Khan Academy, MIT Open Courseware.

Brewing, taking care of plants, terrariums, puzzles, bonsai, yoga. All good stuff.

Came here to say this. I attend 1-2 times a month and mine has so far taught me about breathing exercises for meditation and the shadow self from Jung. Just a group of great people also searching for community.

Someone produced a puff piece about the line and how it’s transformed Saudi Arabia. It’s biased (so keep that in mind) but it’s also well produced and answers some questions retroactively on why the Line was so important to SA even if it failed to become reality. It’s worth a watch:

https://youtu.be/bOG4qCx0peA?si=OFiFT1yzywsekEyw

I came in to comment Bosch as well, but it seems they’re already well represented here. That said >$1000 was a steep friggin price for a dishwasher, not sure I’d do it again.

Buy land from the lunar embassy. Guaranteed to go to the moon!

If the building smells like, or appears to be, on fire, it is recommended that you do not enter it.

And doubly so if it appears to be unsound.

If you absolutely must, be prepared. Have a plan and an exit strategy. A special outfit and years of training is advised.

I really like that you put a lot of thought into this. I did not, just wanted to be tongue in cheek about that third one since our dumbass is acting like the world is his playground.

Also, if this was a legit list, it should get some additional gender representation.

Just like our servers, as the gods intended:

• Spider-Man
• Venom
• Captain America
• Ragnarok
• Thanos
• Thor
• Black Panther
• Groot
• Dr. Strange

You just named them after your poops, didn’t you?

Church and truck are way, way too small to provide adequate compensation for the red guys….ego.

It’s his same old song. Tear down what already exists, then huck a new version of it out for the very low price of $19.84.

I’m surprised he hasn’t added his name to the title of it yet.

AI is in the hype section of the emerging technology curve. A lot of good will come out of AI once we calm down and stop losing our damn minds.

It won’t be just cheap GPUs either. It will be things like more accurate cancer diagnoses, as Cory says near the top.

What we need is for regulation to catch up and start incentivizing the right things…that is, the things that will benefit society as a whole, not just the oligarchs.

Why not just work with Denmark to add some defense bases there if it’s so important? Oh that’s right, we already do.

Fun fact that I just made up - leche and leach derive from the same proto word meaning “to drain” you’re welcome.

Shew, what a headline. Keep in mind that AI is not just all LLM. I’m not sure how much more juice we can squeeze out of LLMs, but we’re just scratching the surface with other prediction models.

The ability to have smart cars that improve fuel efficiency by adjusting to traffic conditions may very well compensate for the increased electricity demand created by data centers.

New chemistry models may finally help us produce batteries that can meet the demands of a renewable energy grid.

We’re standing at a precipice. What we’re doing as a society is not working today - it’s not sustainable. And I’m not shy to say that I’m one of the few here on ActivityPub that think we may be able to leverage AI to dig us out of this hole we’ve started to dig ourselves in. But, in order to do that, we need clear heads, with clear goals and the incentives to encourage others to execute on them.

What we’re doing right now, just complaining about what’s not working isn’t going to save us.

Experiment 99. Assessing reactions within a broken bottle of beer when presented with melodic and visual stimuli.

Water? You mean like in the toilet?

• The great awakening (the original woke, bit ironic now, ain’t it?)
• Redeemer / post reconstruction era
• Fascism after the New Deal
• McCarthyism
• The “Contract With America”

I should probably throw in the Gilded Age too as it seems to fit with our current situation nicely. We had a decent progressive push after the last one. History rhymes, so here’s hoping.

And yes, Australia is probably great. Would love to visit one day. However, politically, It has been led by their conservative party for the majority of two decades now - and has outsized influence from China due to it being a major importer of Ozzie’s natural resources.

I have family here, I have a house here. I’ve built a life here.

Canada’s great but cold. Europe would require me to rebuild everything in my life. Plus, Europe is dealing with their own problems at the moment - its own rise of the right; the threat of Russia. In Australia, everything wants to kill you or cause you great pain, even the plants. South America seems enticing, but the US affords more opportunity for now, so maybe when I retire.

Everywhere you look, the deeper you look, you realize that everywhere has their own problems. Times change, seasons change. Right now we’re in a conservative phase. We’ve been here before. So instead, I’ll stand my ground and weather it out with the allies I have around me. I’d much prefer to be part of the resistance anyway.

Right? If I had a mom like that I’d be depressed too.

Oh wait, I did, and I was.