WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @lemmy.world

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I'm still waiting for GDOT.

In practice, your plan would just result in abandoned dead towns in rural Kansas being turned into fenceless concentration camps for the formerly homeless.

Can't wait to see someone riding this at 100 mph in the bike lane, wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops.

Just proceed as planned. If the company is so fragile it can't survive one week without someone to cover a position, well it's in such dire straits that it's going to be out of business within a year anyway. If you company survived Covid, it can certainly survive this.

Unless you stab your boss and set fire to the building on your way out the door, you can have zero worries about your end of employment details showing up on a background check.

Mamdani won by focusing on affordability. But crucially, he also made a very clear and concise plan for HOW he was going to accomplish the things he wanted to. He had a whole series of bills he could cite that were currently being held up by the existing mayor, and he had a clear path to accomplishing what he promises. Democrats promises are mostly just vague platitudes. They often would require impossibly large margins in the Senate. They make no plans for bypassing the filibuster or hostile rulings by a corrupt Supreme Court. And they have no clear plan for how they'll avoid the "rotating villain" problem of their always being a Manchin or Lieberman there to sink positive legislation.

They need to focus on affordability AND make a clear and convincing case for how precisely they can achieve those aims. The reason no one believes them is because they never have any real plan on how to carry through their impressive-sounding agendas.

Classic copypasta.

They may or may not be hung, but they should be hanged.

Darwin at work.

"Market-based culture"

Translation: "The primary reason I work this job is to coerce sex out my employees, and that just doesn't work as well when y'all are working remote."

https://www.amazon.com/Microwave-Cooking-One-Marie-Smith/dp/1565546660

You're correct in a technical sense but incorrect in a social sense. In 2025, "AI" in the common vernacular means LLMs. You can huff and puff about it, and about how there are plenty of non-LLM AIs out there. But you might as well complain that people mean silicon-based Turing-complete machines when they refer to a "computer," even though technically a computer can mean many other things. You might as well be complaining about how a computer could refer to someone that does calculations by hand for a living. Or you could refer to something like Babbage's difference engine as a computer. There are many things that can technically fall under the category of "computer." But you know damn well what people are saying when they describe a computer. And hell, in common vernacular, a smart phone isn't even a "computer," even though it literally is just a computer. Words have both technical and vernacular meanings.

In 2025, in the language real speak in the real world, "AI" is a synonym for "LLM."

I do not baby cast iron at all. I use plenty of dish soap and scrub it. But then again, I've also to completely refinished cast iron before. You learn to appreciate how durable seasoning can be when you actually try and remove it. My main skillet I've in the past taken it down to bare metal with an angle grinder, then built the seasoning back up from nothing.

Popcorn made in pre-used oil can be awesome, and an easy way to get rid of 100ml or so.

Then there was that time in college I tried to re-use oil I had previously fried shrimp in.

Turns out shrimp-flavored popcorn is not an enjoyable experience!

That already exists in one setting, the field of nuclear weapons design. See born secret.

A lot of billionaires lately are concerned about population decline. At least, they claim they're concerned about population decline. But they're really ultimately motivated by the same "Great Replacement" conspiracy theories and eugenics ideals as any other right wing ghoul. I know for certain that Elon Musk is as much concerned about what kind of children are being born, rather than just that a certain number are born.

I know this because, to my knowledge, none of these ghouls have ever directed any of their vast fortunes towards developing assisted reproduction technologies. These technologies include artificial gametes, but they would also include technologies like artificial uteri.

Imagine being able to produce an embryo via in vitro fertilization and grow that embryo to full term without ever needing gestation in a uterus, a true artificial womb. Bypass the problem of infertility all together. Think what that would enable. With access to better and cheaper reproductive technology, then more LGBT couples could have children. And couples could have children at later years. Menopause would be no barrier to couples having children. The only limit on who and what ages people could have children would be based on what resources and remaining lifespan couples have to care for them.

But Musk doesn't want to help trans people have children. Musk doesn't want to help couples have children in their forties or fifties. He doesn't want LGBT couples reproducing. He wants women at home in the kitchen, pregnant in their twenties instead of couples using artificial uteri to have children in their forties or fifties. He's far more concerned about his vision of social control and eugenics than he is about the impact of an aging population on national pension systems. If these billionaire ghouls were just concerned about an aging population, they would be pouring billions into assisted reproduction technologies. Instead they pour their money into politics. The fact that none of them have really shows a great deal about their motivations.

I named the currency.

Or the real dark horse candidate...the Nigerian naira!