toasty228

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by toasty228 2mo ago
Fico get all the free shit from Europe to build his country and a boat load of free money from his personal investments in shady businesses, so in that case he does get both upsides.
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Most people talking about Slovakia wouldn't even be able to put it on a map or know what currency they use, but they become instant geo political expert. They don't even know how to pronounce Fico properly... Give me a break lmao
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Really? https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/ai-promised-to-free-up-wo...
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Do you trust the X app? Whatsapp? gmaps? Where do you draw the line? Is it one of these HN usual "ChInA BaD" psychosis ?
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by toasty228 2mo ago
What's the threat scenario here? Unless you Saddam Hussein...
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by toasty228 2mo ago
They're all doing some level of this
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by toasty228 2mo ago
20 million is a rounding error, 1.3 to 1.5 billion smartphones are sold per year every year since 2013. I was in the heart of the VR revolution in 2015, they were predicting 150b+ market by 2020, it barely reached 20b... In 2025... They&#x2
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Have you ever left your own little country lmao? There is like a literal billion people not eating beef in India alone and a lot of them see cattle as sacred
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by toasty228 2mo ago
It's feels like 3d TVs and AR headsets, they're trying to find a new customer base to milk but it just isn't here
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by toasty228 2mo ago
fyi taking care of a smallish homestead is a full time job, in winter, and two full time jobs or more in summer.
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by toasty228 2mo ago
At least the physical gatekeeping will protect us from most of the parasites that invaded hiking paths and treat nature as a checkbox on their chatgpt generated travel list (or worse, a trash)
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> The result of all this is that everyone will hate Israelis Will? I don't know in which circle you evolve but that ship sailed a long time ago
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by toasty228 2mo ago
We're in the meat proxy era, unplug your brain and feed the machines! I personally know people who ask chatgpt what to eat, to which bar to go, to plan their vacations, it's insanity.
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> Check your blood pressure regularly. Also avoid things that increase blood pressure and do more thing that improve your cardiovascular system. No amount of drug will make up for decades of abuse
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by toasty228 2mo ago
The tech industry cooking up some new way to screw people over for 25 years The tech execs waking up on a random monday: > I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we a
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> Small communities have the nasty habit of turning incestuous- sometimes literally. This isn't 1926 anymore, education and the ease of movement cured these problems by large. You can go shag someone from the next village after a 10
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Not everyone is a techie working from home with chill managers. Most people still have to clock in the office every single day, llms just make them take more work. Let's see how it goes in term of burnouts
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Nice reads if you're interested in it's origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterist_International
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by toasty228 2mo ago
It really depends on what you want from life. If you value gadgets, convenience, going for an impromptu beer with friends on a thursday evening then it's a net negative. If you value peace, space, slowing down, nature then it's ve
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> With the shift to AI, it could happen. You'll work more and they'll pocket the difference, as it's been the case for every advances in the last 50 years. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:AN
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> You could move somewhere rural, lower expenses, but then you are socially isolated to an extent. I got more social interactions the first week I moved to my house built in the middle of nowhere eastern europe than in my 10 years in a w
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Then they didn't stick to it, simple as that. Eat less than you burn = lose weight. Unless they broke physics, in which case we should put them in a sterile room and study them
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> In practice, GLP-1s are doing what a generation of preachers like you could not - making people more thin and healthier. Alright, then let's continue making food worse and worse over the years, let's keep building a system th
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by toasty228 2mo ago
From 0.01% to 75% people being overweight or obese in the west. The quality and type of food also completely changed, you can't ignore that. 5% of supermarket aisles are food, the rest are treats and comfort food you should have less t
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Failed for the past 50 years but worked for the last 300 000 years I wonder what changed in between? Maybe our food and our relation to it? Who knows right?
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> you can just No you cannot "just" do things like that sadly... you still need water, as much as 10L/day/sqm during a heat wave. Also you need proper night/day temperature cycles, a reasonable early/late fr
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Very very few people are in that category, and usually they have undiagnosed mental disorders. I don't even think it's possible to be leanish and have a BMI in the obese category from muscles without taking steroids or other produ
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by toasty228 2mo ago
Cool but then again what does calorie "unrestrication" cause? Tip: look at the top leading causes of death in the US
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by toasty228 2mo ago
> You always end up with the people pushing these foods being those who sell them. What do you mean by "these foods"? Just buy unprocessed food and 99% of the problems disappear. There is no fake, no people trying to sell you t
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by toasty228 2mo ago
It's a lifestyle, the optimal basic lifestyle, the one were you don't shorten your life/healthspan by decades. It's how thing were intended to be really. It's funny how proposing an healthy diet is unrealistic and w

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