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i usually have a little burst of computer productivity in the morning then it drops off a cliff, so that by the evening, i'll sit there and stare at the screen and take 1/2 hour do something that i could do in 2 minutes the next morning
shop work is a bit more consistent. if i'm actively doing something in the shop, i'm actually doing it, not sitting and staring at it aimlessly. then when i get tired i just stop
Trump is working on regime change in Europe โ fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient โcivilizational allies,โ branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resistโeffectively exporting Trumpโs culture war to erode European sovereignty.
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Departmentโฆ
AI isn't taking jobs. That is some weird thing people say but that facts don't back it up. Jobs are up, not down. Most employment in the United States isn't in large companies. It's small business.
When was the last time you called practically any company for any sort of customer service? What's the first thing you hear? AI.
AI has taken over most phone support systems these days, it's almost impossible to speak to a human anymore, because they've downsized the staff and have AI do practically everything.
When was the last time you walked into a Dollar Store? You're lucky if they even have two employees working at any given moment, because yay self checkout, who needs cashiers anymore? And the damn self checkout wants a fucking tip no less!
And now we got driverless cabs out there, because who needs a job as a driver? Just let the computer do it instead!
Hollywood hardly even needs actors or video producers anymore, they can just have AI crank out new movies for us.
I'm sure there's way more examples that can be added to this list, but yeah, AI and modern technology in general are indeed taking over jobs.
Yes, voice systems have been around for quite a while. But there was almost always an easy way to bypass all that and talk to a human. It was just as simple as dialing 0, and there wasn't hardly much wait time, they tended to have more actual people operating the phones back then.
And you don't go to the Dollar Store to socialize with people, you go to save money when buying toilet paper and cat food or whatever the hell. But hey, you do you, if you got enough money to piss away just to avoid low income people, then by all means piss away and live in your little bubble. The rest of us tend to look for ways to save money when we can.
You sound like the sort of person that would tell a poor person to go get a job rather than offer them a job cutting your grass or washing your car or something.
That sort of thing is part of the problem too, many would rather avoid poor people than to offer them an opportunity to earn money.
Plans by Israelโs defence minister to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp have been condemned by legal experts and academics, who described the scheme as a blueprint for โcrimes against humanityโ.
Israel Katz said he has ordered Israelโs military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a โhumanitarian cityโ, on the ruins of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Haaretz.
PLANS by Israelโs defence minister to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp have been condemned by legal experts and academics, who describedโฆ
@DeAngelisCorey: I just received a copy of the National Education Association's resolutions that they passed at their annual convention. They kept them private this year. The nation's largest teachers union adopted ...โฆ
The UN human rights office on Tuesday raised alarm over reported proposals that Israel is working with other countries, including the US, to potentially facilitate the so-called voluntary movement of Palestinians out of Gaza, warning that such plans could amount to forcible transfer under international law.
"This raises concerns with regard to forcible transfer," spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters.
DOJ update from the acting US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas on the July 4 ICE ambush in Alvarado TX (south of Ft. Worth). youtube.com/watch?v=9VK9M-uxm_โฆ
Federal authorities have charged 11 suspects in a coordinated ambush on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. The attackers, dressed in bl...
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Dudes. 24 short hours from now my PhD defense will be all over, one way or another. Iโm spending the time between now and then in deep review. Wish me luck!
Acquitted self honorably. I am a doctor! Alltime superthanks to Oli, Kurt, David, Suzi, Fran, Olivia, Carrie and always always Nurri โ there is *no* way I would have made it through without you all. โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
Also Iโm seeing Messthetics at OTO tomorrow night regardless of outcome, which will be awesome. I havenโt seen Brendan and Joe since the sidewalk outside the 9:30 Club in, like, 1990 or something stupid.
hope you enjoy it- you get to talk about what youโve spent the last few years deeply immersed in & they will have read about and ask hopefully insightful questions.
It seems to me that the ability to read source code will become more and more important over time. This skill is rarely taught, as far as I can tell. The learning situation resembles that for natural language: knowing how to produce/generate text does not immediately translate into the ability to read it, let alone read it well.
I have some Godot framework codebase to understand (godotforums.org/d/29497-mock-uโฆ ) and with some work I can understand what one methods do (most of the work consisting in understanding what other methods from other classes it calls and how they relate to each other) but when I start trying to understand the next method I happen to have forgotten the first...
I wouldn't be able to teach you how to read source code on Mastodon any more than I could teach you how to read Greek. It's a skill that takes sustained effort and practice.
From what you've said it sounds like it'd help to diagram the code. Sequence diagrams can be helpful in understanding the logic; I like to start with those. Start with some simple flow and build up from there. I don't know how long you've been working with that codebase but I wouldn't rely on memory alone till you're quite familiar with it.
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.
ok attempt #2 at buying a lower engine splash guard for the RSX. first one was never delivered.
missing these plastic things can definitely have a negative effect on your engine when driving in wet conditions. they're there for a reason. this car was missing many little things like this when i got it
temptation is really high to do all the remaining body work on the RSX but ugh. i really need to be moved out of this shop by fall. getting extremely nervous
the RSX body is ok now, in that it's not going to rust apart, and the door closes and everything seals properly. i just don't like all the dents and crap making it look trashy.
body work takes forever. i would probably regret starting that. i can do this stuff later after some of the pressure is off and i'm moved onto the property
Chinese defense industry manufactures equipment comparable or superior in quality, but always much more affordable than #NATO. Moreover, the West is already facing problems as they lose #Russia's and #China's rare earths. #Iran is in talks to buy an entirely new air force with J-10C and AWACS aircraft from China. If China were to arm Iran, it would reshape the military and diplomatic landscape of the entire Asia. Checkmate
This is a good deal for both sides; it will enhance Chinaโs weapons export market and give Iran considerably new capabilities, as its air force was in shambles even before the war.
Offset 'air superiortity' of F35s? ๐คฃ Theyre junk. Built junk and remain junk. Deathtraps actually. They fall out of the sky for no apparent reason as a recent vid showed. A flaming scrap pile BEFORE it hit the ground @IAmSpartacus
#Israel has perfected the art of snuffing-out #Palestinian lives. Their speciality is babies, infants, toddlers, and children. #Hitler would be proud. He taught them well. #PalestinianHolocaust
In North Korea, dictator Kim Jong Un has been making more public appearances with the person many believe will succeed him as supreme leader, his daughter...
BBC | #Israel 's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an "operational plan for a crime against humanity".
"It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the #Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,"
Central Gazaโs Al-Aqsa Hospital to run out of fuel within hours
It is one of the barely functional hospitals left in the central area, and this chronic shortage will have severe repercussions on the lives of many patients who are receiving treatment inside, and will lead to the potential suspension of a number of medical services, including kidney dialysis treatment.
The war in Gaza has "created a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principlesโ.โ.โ.โas a secure, modern prosperous society."
Anti-genocide campaigners receive warm welcome from delegates furious with Graham and cronies Some of the protesters outside Uniteโs conference yesterday. Unite members lobbying the unionRโฆ
ALEX JONES SAYS A DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE DEEP STATE CONCERNING EPSTEIN
( No Deals! )
====Bullhorn Barry๐ข (Opinion / News)
According to Alex, the Deep State is supposedly going to roll over and let Trump do his thingโas long as he backs off the Epstein disclosures.
Yeahโฆ no. Thatโs never going to happen.
You canโt make deals with devils.
Now, Iโm not even saying I believe that claimโbut IF thereโs any truth to itโNO DEALS CAN BE MADE! Personally, I think what's happening is something else, but I don't think anyone knows for sure except for those on the inside.
Multiple Israeli women have testified to a joint Knesset committee, accusing senior figures of involvement in ritual abuse. One survivor said that her harrowing experience is only โa drop in the ocโฆ
El Gobierno ๐๏ธ๐ช๐ธ autoriza a Defensa a comprar tecnologรญa a Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ para su plan de rearme
Alegan โla carencia de capacidad industrialโ para abordar โavances urgentesโ en sistemas antimisiles, guerra electrรณnica y sensores de รบltima generaciรณnโ.
El Ejecutivo ha decidido permitir al Ministerio de Defensa adquirir tecnologรญa militar israelรญ en el marco del plan de rearme, justificado por la carencia deโฆ
Trying to explain "How Capitalism Works" without mentioning its disastrous structural flaws for the masses is just a cover-up, albeit an entertaining one, I must admit.
#Capitalism needs "suckers" on an individual level, all the way to colonies on an "empire" level.
Fortunately, -although I have some doubts about stupidity- both of these "characteristics" are beginning to disappear. And this is precisely the path that capitalism will inevitably take.
ย ย ย ย ย ย Today on the popular FOX News panel show, The Five, liberal host Jessica Tarlov suggested that people being held in ICE detention centers are reporting sexual abuse by the workers at these facilities.
I think one of the reasons I tend to enjoy "retro-styled" games (eg. pixel art and possibly chiptune music) isn't really about nostalgia at all - there were no games like Eastward, Animal Well, Kingdom: Two Crowns, Stardew Valley or even Undertale when I was a kid with an Amiga. Playing them feels nothing like what playing games felt like when I was a kid with an Amiga either.
Rather, I think it's because pixel art and that sort of gameplay feels much more like a piece of artistic craftsmanship someone cared about. I get the same feeling from hand-drawn vector art (ranging from the simplistic-looking art in eg. Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included to the "cartoon you can play" style of eg. Spiritfarer). I only very rarely get this feeling out of modern 3D-rendered game art - for lack of a better term, that often feels a lot more "alienated", even when it's technically much better.
(Possibly I'm just better at judging pixel art than 3D rendering, which would be because I'm old. ๐ )
One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.
Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.
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Brazilโs most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaroโs goals while in office was to โexterminateโ the countryโs Indigenous peoples.
โHe really wanted to exterminate us. But Indigenous peoples across Brazil united to resist his government,โ he says, adding that โfrom now on, every president elected in Brazil must respect Indigenous peoplesโ
@RichardJMurphy hits the nail on the head (as so often):
'if any political party wishes to truly succeed โ not just scrape by, but build lasting loyalty and transform this country โ it must make the promise that it will put people first, meet their needs from cradle to grave, and offer them freedom from fear'!
However, our political class seems quite some way from that agenda....
I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or so. This is now published, but only for subscribers.
Itโs made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the pretence of humanity by ensuring some aid to those whose suffering you created in the first place.
As things stand, the system of aid distribution in the Gaza Strip is intended to cause suffering and destruction to recipients.
On Tuesday, The Guardian published an opinion piece by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in which he accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of orchestrating a "campaign of devastation" in Gaza and called on the international community to move beyond symbolic outrage toward concrete action in defense of international law.
Petro has emerged as one of the most outspoken world leaders condemning "Israelโs" war on Gaza.
If you're just tuning in, it turns out Al Qaeda in Syria are not terrorists but the peace activists in the UK are, the guy committing genocide in Gaza says the guy backing his genocide deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and Jeffrey Epstein was an misunderstood angel who killed himself.
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