I’m bilingual English and Mandarin and I mostly do this in Chinese restaurants. The real hole in the wall places with the best Chinese food where the servers greet you in Mandarin by default if you look Chinese. Mandarin is more “computationally” expensive for my brain because I’m so used to speaking English so as soon as I have to express something complex I’ll just blurt it out in English instead of stuttering it out in Mandarin, which prompts an English response from the server, and we’ll go back and fourth switching between the two languages.

Ancient Egypt was ancient before it ended. The time when Cleopatra ruled is about as close to today as it was to the first pyramids.

TIL. I’ve looked gift horses in the mouth but never gift sheep /s

I don’t know when you encountered this but “safe space” has been a meme for quite a while. So there’s a good chance the “safe space” you found was actually the exact opposite and using that term to mock “SJWs” and people who get “triggered”.

No I host the 70b version because I’m limited by my RAM.

I self host Deepseek R1 and it’s been pretty helpful with simple Linux troubleshooting, generating bash commands, and even programming troubleshooting. The thinking feature is pretty cool and I do find myself learning stuff from it.

What took it from gimmick to actual nice to have for me is when my jerry rigged home network broke and wouldn’t connect to the internet. Having what is entially an interactive StackOverflow/ServerFault running on a local machine was really helpful.

Running the model locally makes it easier to not overly rely on AI because of the limited token rate.

One of the people pushing the idea that gun violence is okay, actually. So by his own logic no one should feel bad for him.

New conspiracy theory unlocked: He was killed as a distraction.

I mean, which one did you learn in math class? Not saying it’s better, but it’s way more common.

Anti natalism right now is pro long term human survival.

There are too many humans on Earth. There are two ways to get the human population down to a point where we can sustainably live here. You can either exterminate most the existing humans or prevent new humans from existing in the first place. Which would you choose?

"Oh but that will trigger a demographic crisis when tbere’s too many old people and too few young people!” OK? That’s a temporary problem compared to the very very permanent problem of extinction. Which we’re on track to doing of we keep living like this. And most of the issues of a demographic crisis has to do with recession and pensions, both unique to capitalism. The solution is to get rid of capitalism, not guilt people into having more kids to keep the capitalist machine alive.

Tell them about this hellhole we live in and most would choose no.

Bet some country wishes they had a no confidence mechanism for firing an elected leader early.

IMO every democratic system needs this, but I also think it needs to accessible to the people directly and not a parliament. Approval below 50% at any point and you’re out, that kind of thing.

If this happens I hope the balkanization will be along Indigenous territories as part of decolonization efforts and not modern states or provinces.

They don’t exist, at least not in Western mainstream music. Record labels have learned from those artists and will now drop anyone who doesn’t toe the capitalist/imperialist line. Like the singers being cancelled for supporting BLM or Palestine.

And it’s very specifically just for leftist messages. Kanye straight up calls himself a Nazi and sold shirts with swastikas on it and didn’t get canceled for antisemitism, but tons of pro-Palestine artists did. If an artist straight up calls themselves a socialist like Tupac did it would be career suicide.

As someone in Gen Z, I have never heard a mainstream song released in my lifetime that actually attacks capitalism beyond useless lip service or calls for any kind of anticapitalist action by the general public. They definitely exist but only by indie artists who will either never get signed onto a label or will be forced to capitulate to the capitalist propaganda machine if they do.

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When all the humans you’re “supposed” to open up about your mental health to charge hundreds of dollars a session, need to be booked months in advance and cause you to miss work because their hours of operation are less than yours, and you need to actively convince them you’re suffering or else they dismiss you, yeah I wonder why.

Lab grown meat still requires live animals. You still need to collect stem cells to start a culture and you also need fetal bovine serum (blood plasma from baby cows) to keep the cells healthy.

We currently DO NOT have a way to culture mammalian cells without animal blood plasma. We currently DO NOT have a way of infinitely culturing mammalian biomass from a single cell sample. So lab grown meat still needs animals to be raised in captivity and slaughtered, just fewer. It’s not vegan for that reason and won’t be for the foreseeable future unless massive breakthroughs happen in multiple different fields.

IMO a better path to explore would just be to figure out which exact chemicals give meat their flavour and directly synthesize them from raw materials. Have something like a completely artificial bacon powder you can add to a vegan protein source and completely cut out anything to do with animals. We can make every other scent and flavour artificially, why not meat? And it’s not even that hard, a science YouTuber can do it.

Mobile games that have a cooldown timer when you play too much. Oh you don’t want me to play your game anymore? Cool. Uninstalled.

I’m Canadian. Sorry comes out of my mouth without thinking.

Actually, sometimes I’ll instinctively say sorry and then say it again when my brain decides it’s actually warrented because I’m worried the first one wasn’t sincere.