Agree that it weakens certain things, but I don’t see how we can overcome that. It’s great to have a knowledgeable GP as your doctor, but their breadth of knowledge causes them to fail at a deep knowledge of specific disease states. So he might be able to determine you have cancer, which then causes him to send you to an oncologist who specializes in that area.

Basically, there is a limit to the volume of information a human can hold. This was partially what AI advertised it could help overcome, but it’s so much worse than expected. If we could somehow increase the volume of information a human could hold and process, you’d be in much better shape for those doctor visits that end in “well, I guess this symptom is just you getting older” when really it’s SOMETHING but the doctor completely lacks the knowledge of that area.

I think of it this way. The immune system is like an army, ready to fight off foreign invaders. If you were a king, would you want a huge standing army at all times, or the ability to draft soldiers as needed? Having a huge standing army is not only a waste of resources if there isn’t anything to fight, but your soldiers might get bored and invent things to fight or just stir up trouble.

So my guess is you’d be prone to inflammation and develop food sensitivities, but it’s a total guess. If they were the case though, chronic inflammation is really bad long term.

I’m really surprised no one photoshopped in a Mario with the fire flower

Sorry, you are thinking of a tuba and a piano. Easy mistake.

Meanwhile, I got written up for using more than 4 days in a year

Than vs then is important here

Not that I disagree but, have you seen how low effort all of this has been for them? It wasn’t some sort of complicated pizza code like maga thought Democrats were doing, it was literally just emails like “when is the wildest party on your island?”

Naw I like this move. Obama ended “thanks Obama” with his own use of it, since no one would ever top that. Maybe Kamala can end 6-7 in her own way.

I did buy a super expensive dimmable tunable led strip from Yuji LEDs. It was expensive even before the tariff situation, so really bad now probably. But the LED was top notch. I followed a guide someone had posted to reddit to make a SAD lamp, and used ESP Home to make it so it made a sunrise effect starting all the way as far yellow as it went and ending at the brightest point. It is just a strip with 2 different temperature LEDs on it and it combines them with directions from ESPHome (oh I had to get a controller for the ESPHome connection. It’s just a “dumb” strip that you have to control the voltage to change).

Since programming it was rough for me, I had some fun experiences where it would just randomly go from super dim to full bright while I was sleeping and hoping for a gentle wake up from a nap. My half asleep brain really thought someone had opened the curtain to the sunny outside. I started thinking of my project as “sunlight in a can”.

Anyways I happily shipped that expensive project off to my brother who suffers from SAD and he never used it even once.

Oh if it’s Blaze pizza or similar that’s a huge win haha. I go there and load up the toppings too.

I think this is the bulb I bought. I want to redo the lighting in my house and I was considering putting these tiny bulbs in the ceiling. It’s pretty bright though, so I was worried it would be annoying to look up at. You are using it now, does that seem accurate?

I am going to be redoing the lighting in a house I just bought. I went down the rabbit hole of learning about all the options. It’s hard to find but it is possible to find dimmable, tunable LEDs with a high cri and have matter support so I could use them with Home Assistant. I haven’t actually purchased any though so I can’t report my experience.

My Christian mom didn’t let us watch Harry Potter because our church said it was evil. I guess it’s not for Christians either, though I think that has changed and it’s fine now.

It shouldn’t be more expensive than takeout. You have to do everything from scratch for it to be cheap though. Flour, yeast, olive oil, canned tomatoes/spices, and a block of mozzarella to shred yourself. Wait for a good sale on the mozzarella.

It’s not super duper cheap but even dominoes is getting expensive these days, and making it yourself should be healthier too.

Isn’t that strange though? Catholics trace themselves back to the disciples (though I think Roman and Orthodox both claim this), yet the new ones that split somewhat recently claim they are the real ones.

Haha that might actually be great. No US athletes going to the Olympics because we are too busy trying to sort ourselves out at home is actually a good message.

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I actually would kind of like ai in games. Not slop visuals though. What I really would love would be in a VR game, going up to an NPC, and getting a feel for different cultures of the world I’m in through talking. Maybe you have to have a certain type of conversation to find out the plot for a side quest, or talk to a guard at a bar and work your way to find out the shift rotation as he gets drunk or something so you can infiltrate the castle.

I feel like ai could be useful like that…but getting rid of artists in favor of ai slop is just the worst way to implement this AI thing.

Ah so the Uber business model then

Have you not been paying attention? Trump tested the waters of attacking Panama, Greenland, and absorbing Canada as a “51st state”. He really wants a war SOMEWHERE so he can try to halt the next election. It has to be close and scary, or Americans won’t bat an eye. We are so used to wars elsewhere.

MAGA will 100% believe it if he says Canada is sending fentanyl over on a nuke or something and they will be excited to go to war over it.