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by lm28469 1y ago
And that's why with a bit of ingenuity you can grow plants year round in Maine as it has the same day length as northern Italy https://youtu.be/Xm6khNRIGhE?t=334
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by lm28469 1y ago
No rush then, modern humans aren't even 1m years old...
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Our job is to push the limits as much as we can What if that's exactly what will cause our extinction, you don't know what you don't know am I right ?
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by lm28469 1y ago
We could be late too, it hasn't even been 200 years since we're technologically capable. The universe is physically big, which means we'd have a hard time finding life even if it was going on at the same time as us, but add t
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by lm28469 1y ago
Believe it or not but the "really long time" you're mentioning is much less "long" when you run the card 24/7 at 100% in enclosed spaces Electricity is a moving part btw, electronic components do wear and tear
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by lm28469 1y ago
That's such a lazy and unimaginative take that basically skips 99.999% of human history during which sugar wasn't a problem at all.
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Most medications have negative side effects because otherwise our bodies would already have whatever changes they make through evolution. That's not what evolution is, at all
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by lm28469 1y ago
You can buy used car tires with 1% of thread left and they'll perform amazingly during your one time test too
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by lm28469 1y ago
We already have an abundance of things, food and energy, what we need is meaning and time, not iphones 5000.
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by lm28469 1y ago
I don't spend my life chasing productivity so that might explain why I find all of this borderline deranged.
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Yesterday, I checked out the Goodnotes app because I’m planning to buy an iPad to give note-taking on it a try again. You're setting yourself up for failure from the get go, stop chasing gadgets and 99% of your problems will go aw
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by lm28469 1y ago
> it's a joke and we all know it. "grab them by the pussy" -> just a joke selling cans of beans from the oval office -> just a joke shilling a pillow company from the white house -> just a joke "let's m
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by lm28469 1y ago
No we can't use such strong words here, theft is more appropriate
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by lm28469 1y ago
How old are you? That's what they've been selling us for the past 50 years and nothing has changed, all the productivity gain was pocketed by the elite
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by lm28469 1y ago
But wait they're just about to get AGI why would he leave???
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by lm28469 1y ago
> we must massively subsidize defense-specific (drone) manufacturers That's a feature not a bug, it's called the military-industrial complex, some people benefit from it, a lot
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by lm28469 1y ago
Which academic theories are you talking about? The US and Russia aren't under any kind of socialist system right now but suffer from the things you just described as socialism shortcomings. France was socialist for a long time and did
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by lm28469 1y ago
What you're describing is a mix of populism and plutocracy/kleptocracy/oligarchy, these can and do thrive under any type of political or economical system, they didn't wait for socialism to exist... and unless Putin and
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by lm28469 1y ago
I'm half joking but people who can't tell which side of a chat is an LLM aren't conscious
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by lm28469 1y ago
> give entire industries (steel, gold, petroleum) to the "workers" That's one way to put it, the other way to put it is that your corrupt government seized the industries and put their cronies in charge, which I would sa
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by lm28469 1y ago
I forgot to mention that 280 iq individuals who think socialism = communism = USSR = gulags can refrain from commenting No wonder we can't have any serious discussions on these topics...
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by lm28469 1y ago
Give me a definition of capitalism that only include the good things... Almost as if it was a spectrum, almost as if it was a balancing act between two opposites Almost as if we should not think in term of black and white definitions of ide
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by lm28469 1y ago
No offence but Venezuela is a political meme and one of the most corrupt country out there lol, given your natural resources you should be doing way better regardless of where the government leans. Socialism brought a lot of good things all
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by lm28469 1y ago
They're parasites, data parasites, political parasites, economical parasites, ...
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by lm28469 1y ago
All my friends are single and spend more time gaming than I spent exercising, by far, for most people it's a time allocation decision. My brother is more active than me despite having a kid
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by lm28469 1y ago
Oh sure we do spend, on foreign tech, foreign factories, &c. That's not what I call long term vision, if anything it's the opposite. Germany was Putin's bitch because of gas, now the whole EU will be China's bitch fo
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by lm28469 1y ago
> around the e-cig designs to ensure simple battery recycling would solve this. That's still not optimal at all, if they had any imagination we'd have - standard e-cig bases - powered by a 18650/AA/AAA depending on th
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by lm28469 1y ago
> This sounds like a modern version of Golden Age nostalgia. When France built their nuclear programs, or railways, it was a massive investment, the people in charge when these decisions were taken were long gone by the time the projects
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Walking 2 hours per day is a completely impractical fantasy. Tell people you spend 12 hours a day starring at a screen and they won't bat an eye, tell them you walk 10k step a day and they'll try to convince your it's un
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by lm28469 1y ago
It's almost as if Europe entirely gave up sometime in the 70s. People used to have vision for the next 50+ years, now they care about the next 3-5 years because they know they'll bounce to another position. That's why everyth

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