Read. I said it is a bad goal for them to have, but the system requires them to have it.

It is a weird reaction to be surprised or indignant that a corporation would do this. It is literally their job and why the profit motive is bad.

In zero-sum games, it can be the case that short term profit is the winning choice. One example is Go.

When AlphaGo was created and got good enough to beat world champion Go players, it did so largely by making moves that seemed to humans to be wildly aggressive and focused on small territorial positions (the game is won by surrounding territory and secondarily by capturing pieces, which reduces the opponents score). These small, highly territorial moves tend to force the human to respond locally, preventing big strategic moves, and then the AI just maintains its aggressive posture, keeping the human on defense while the AI keeps making points.

Most humans would have ignored these small battles for territory and focused on larger, more “strategic” moves that gain regional “influence” or help create opportunities to score more points down the line. But the computer’s moves were “correct” in the sense that they won games against the best players in the world.

BUT there’s a reason AplhaGo isn’t allowed in tournaments, for instance. So if the goal of AlphaGo was something like “be the top rated Go player”, it would have failed dramatically since it can’tplay in ranked tournaments.

Long story short, if you’re optimizing for 1 variable, like points/wins/money, it may be only logical move to focus on aggressive incremental gains that give up other strategic objectives. So, Google is optimizing for something that is clearly incorrect from the perspective of providing the best service - but likely correct from the perspective of making the most money even at the cost of the service being worse. And Google has a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits, basically guaranteeing this type of behavior

The experience I and some other ppl I know had was like:

Child Me: what is heaven like?

Them: you’re always happy all the time because you’re near god and singing his praises forever

Me: but wait like what about playing or doing stuff I like doing now?

Them: well you wouldn’t have a body anymore, and you’d like doing those things because you’d be in heaven then. It’s like being in church forever, but you always feel happy and loved because you’re with god.

Me, disturbed: What about my friends and my parents and family?

Them: yeah they’ll be there if they were good, but they wouldn’t have bodies. If they were bad theyd be tortured in hell for eternity by demons.

Me, more disturbed: and I’d still be happy despite that?

Them: basically, yeah

Me, super disturbed: god sounds like a seriously bad dude and everything you’ve said is terrible

98 of world’s hottest cities

It is 98/100 of the world’s hottest cities, just fyi - not like 98 of world’s 69,420 hottest cities, or something

I wonder if it’s a regional thing? I’ve only ever heard it in movies or older TV shows. Where I live people are much more likely to just say “crippled” or describe someone as walking with a limp.

I was confused when I saw Pulp Fiction as a kid because I was like “why is this handicapped guy in a leather suit and what does him being hadicapped have to do with his apparent hobbies” lol. But like I said, never really heard it used in other contexts.

Gimp is really just a rare/archaic ableist slur anyway - like to refer to someone with a limp or otherwise a leg/lack of a leg that impedes their gait. I’ve never heard it used in my life.

The sexual usage is from gay bdsm subculture in the 70s that the large majority of ppl who are aware of it are only aware because of Pulp Fiction.

My vote is for pimp

Yeah. Anywhere would basically be like this if you have enough money to retire luxuriously in that country. And anywhere you do that, poorer people will be making that lifestyle possible with their labor.

While I don’t doubt that the average urban Chinese citizen has a higher standard of living than the average urban US citizen, saying that moving to a poorer country where you are rich by comparison is “the american dream” is pretty wild when you’re just taking advantage of economic disparities caused by capitalism.

It’s irresponsible to move somewhere permanently when you don’t plan on really trying to integrate & instead just want to live cheaply as an expat.

Seems like a useful thing to say, though, regardless of who says it, right?

As a non-european, I’d like to see european resistance to the fascist forces of the US and Russia.

Tbh, cutting back was a big benefit for me.

I was up to 4+ coffees per day. At my worst, 8+ to self medicate with that sweet, sweet dopamine (which I now get from prescription meds). I did not realize how much it was increasing my anxiety and making me agitated.

I am back to 1 or 2 per day, not typically after noon, and it is much better. I sleep better, my baseline anxiety is lower.

I was agreeing with you

The framing and double-standard is chauvinist and bad.

But there are reasons to be skeptical of suicide stats worldwide due to cultural ideas and norms around suicide. Like, look at the US. It was common practice for coroners to put accident as cause of death even if it was clearly suicide - and still is, to some degree. Only recently have statisticians began including certain other cases of “accidental” death as suicide (some single car crashes, gun “accidents”, ODs, etc).

And different countries have different methods for reporting out on suicide. It’s not founded to say countries are intentionally skewing suicide stats, but it would be constructive to be skeptical about how those figures were arrived at before believing memes without citations.

Disliking AI is fine and good. But that is a really dumb argument.

“60 employees who can’t be productive without the internet? And this is progress?”

“60 employees who can’t be productive without computers? And this is progress?”

“60 scribes who can’t be productive without clay tablets? And this is progress?”

Etc.

Edit: LLMs/AI are going to change some things. They are going to make (shitty) coding and various automations much more accessible. They are probably not a revolutionary technology like computers/internet, but that they could be a core part of some people’s workflow is absolutely not unthinkable. It has been shown that there have not, so far, been major boons to productivity on the whole, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have some use cases.

Kobo is pretty good. I like mine. Is it as nice and user friendly as Kindle? Probably not. Do I own it, not rent it, am not served ads, and don’t have to deal with shitty DRM? Yes. Zero regrets. Got one for my sister and my wife, too. They also really like them.

Came here to say this. Very confusing

That was the point, though, I think. It’s a commentary on how society treats violence and mental health as individual, isolated character flaws rather than as systemic problems. Having a female & feminine character be the violent/troubled one was a brilliant choice imo because it goes against our stereotypes and further highlights this. That uncomfortable feeling you have would probably be less so if it was a character you expected to have issues like that

Hard to pick one, here are a few:

• Triangle of Sadness

Challengers

Conclave

The Wrestler

The Drama

Cheddar cheese biscuits (a la red lobster) come to mind - butter, baking powder & soda, salt, garlic powder, sugar, milk would be basically all you need.

Have that with eggs served however you want. Bonus points for eggs benedict if you can get a lemon too and some more eggs to make a hollandaise.

$4 for flour and cheese, probably $1.50 of butter, $1 of various pantry things, ~$0.50 for a lemon, ~$0.50 of milk, $3 for a dozen eggs. ~$10.50 total. 4 servings. ~$2.13 each

Eh. You posted one study that was inconclusive that is not representative of the state of the literature as a whole.

Note: I was obviously incorrect and irresponsible. The thing I said, as written, was misinfo and so I corrected it (you are correct to have called that out and I will be more careful in the future). Tbh I didn’t initially realize this was the Health comm, due to the post topic. But yes - you are correct that I should be careful about phrasing health related things - like not claiming the link is causative. There has been a link demonstrated, though - that part was not misinfo.

In actuality, it causes has been linked to alzheimers… curious…

Edit: okay, I should’ve sourced it, and no it isn’t proven causative. But don’t act like it’s settled. I have been following the literature on this for quite some time as I have increased genetic risk of alzheimers. There have been links found to cognitive decline and alzheimers specifically.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5405737/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12828987/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1567576924008154

https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/5281

You have to disengage once you know they’re actually doing it. Same with any manipulative behavior. But if you’re really not sure, I’ve had luck pressing them on why what they’ve said doesn’t make logical sense. If they can’t support it, I can dismiss it and disengage.