gmbfly98.bsky.social
Computer engineer; pilot and flight instructor; fan of science, technology, and the arts (especially theater); staff to two cats.
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The problem is, these rich, useless CEOs *still* have more to gain by supporting the party of "trickle down economics" because they know it works in their favor.
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I prefer *no one* spying on me, especially a government.
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It's nice to not need separate devices such as: taking photos, checking email, navigation, etc. I think the problem is *requiring* a single device for all these things. I feel the important part is letting the end user choose the device and whether it should be one device or many.
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Neat. Wondering when you'll show a video of the time machine you acquired 😄 (unless I saw it wrong, you set the date to 5/15, but it's only Apr as I view the video)
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All of the medical articles I've read suggest standard time is better as a permanent time than DST, because it more closely matches our natural biological clock.
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That would certainly be better than year-round DST.
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And the fact that society runs on what time the clock says. People who have to be at work at, say, 6am, will be in the morning dark much longer than someone who doesn't start until 8am. Or kids going to school in the dark. Biologically, that isn't healthy.
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Unless the articles of impeachment come from the current majority party, it won't mean much at all. And I don't get the sense that they'll be at that point any time soon.
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Others with less money almost certainly have *lost* money, though. The goal isn't just to get richer, but to also make others poorer.
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*He* may or may not have planned it, but it's likely others telling him what to do may have. In which case, incompetence is not an excuse and seems like at least a "misdemeanor".
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It very much is a trap. I've learned that working in bursts of productivity allows me to output more than someone working 100% all the time, because I don't get burnt out. But it's much like financial debt - once you're in the hole, it becomes difficult to get out of it.
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The trick for using automation appropriately is learning not to *need* it; It's not an all-or-nothing decision. I think the OP is referring specifically to *relying* on the automation and never being willing to turn it off. Or put another way: "I can quit whenever I want".
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While that is likely true for some, I don't think it's universally true. But I do believe that's the *perception* most have. The problem is, if you're always giving 100% all the time, what you accomplish in that 100% declines over time. It's the paradox of productivity.
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I get what you're saying, but that also means those people are devoting too much of their personal resources to someone else. I learned long ago that it doesn't make sense to kill yourself for your employer, because they'll just as easily let you go without a care for the effort you gave them.
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Unfortunately that's also a problem with the newer gasoline vehicles. And IMO, it's a major issue that needs legislation to curtail. Even OTA updates are an issue because with *ehem* some car brands, you can wake up to a car that is basically a different one than you went to bed with.
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I think part of the problem is that gasoline-powered vehicles are so common that folks are used to what is involved with them. EVs are still fairly new, like when gas vehicles were new and there were few gas stations. While EVs can use slower charging almost anywhere, it's a change in mindset.
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But the Tesla boycotts *are* having a noticeable impact. I mean, the potus and his buddy had to do an infomercial at the White House, so that tells you that they're concerned about it. What's worse than apathy is resignation.
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It's hard to see the positives when there is so much bad news, but people are starting to see that things like the Tesla boycott are having a measurable impact, so I think we will see more boycotts and protests taking place. The US effectively "boycotted" England once, so we're not done for yet.
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Though that system includes the citizens. The problem is, the citizens have chosen to let this happen. That's the double-edged sword of democracy - it can be its own downfall. But while an individual might not matter much, many individuals can make a difference.
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That is precisely why those currently in power are working so hard to dismantle the few safety nets we still have.
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Certainly never since Reagan. It's just that this time, they're unambiguously showing exactly how bad they are for the economy.
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"I vote Republican because they're good for the economy" 😂😢
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Websites are still allowed to do that, but they don't have to. Remove Section 230 protections and now everyone will have to moderate. So this discussion right here might not even be able to take place (or it would be delayed to the point of being unusable).
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It's not just the output, it's also the input. A website/app's input is open to anyone with a computer (and maybe an account). A print publisher isn't going to print random articles because it costs them money to do so, so it has to have some value.
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The difference is that print publishers have to explicitly decide to physically print something. With the internet, the "publishers" are everyone who posts there, not the owners of the website or app. They can moderate the posts, but they can't stop people from making the posts in the first place.
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Maybe now those who voted for the criminal and get bit by it understand how the rest of us feel about *them*
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I think it is getting worse, though. Internet-accessible LLMs have "democratized" these tools to the point that it is all too easy for anyone to use them. It takes a lot of discipline to skip the easy way out, because humans have evolved to be lazy (it conserves energy).
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Not just research, but learning in general.
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Every day, it seems we are *actually* getting closer to the future described in the song "In the year 2525". That's an even scarier future than the future of The Terminator.
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I think it's even beyond that, and the question they're asking is "what will get more people to talk about and buy our product". Re: people buying a product to make a video about destroying it as a "protest". It's still a purchase, so the company wins.
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😄 As they say, "I see what you did there"
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That's probably because you use the subscribe feature correctly. I know there are some out there that subscribe to almost everything they watch, which to the algorithm is like pouring every color of the rainbow in one spot, so you get...brown or black.
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Same here. Though usually I'll semi-intentionally not immediately subscribe to a channel until I've watched a few videos and decide I want to consistently see more of them.