I think “sandbox game” would take on a very different game in a catsim!
This is fascinating, and news to me. What software are you using? Any tutorials on training or such? I have a couple of gigabytes of specialized HTML content that I’ve been wondering what a trained LLM would generate with. Can you add training to these models?
I hate to say it, but I understand the company’s position on this. It’s a sign of how fucked our society is.
So why is this the the company policy? What happens if an employee, following company policy, tries to stop a thief and gets killed? The company is now open to potentially a huge liability. What if the employee used too much force and killed a shoplifter? Now the company is again open to huge liability from the thief’s family.
It’s a lose lose lose to the company. Better the smaller loss from shoplifting than the potentially catastrophic damages from a lawsuit. With juries as pozzed as they are today, you literally cannot predict what will happen.
This exact situation happened at a HOME DEPOT in North Carolina a year or two ago when an elderly worker told a thug to stop. The thug shoved this dude to the ground and killed him; left him moaning on the ground and dying of the injuries. One of the most inhumane things I have ever seen (surveillance video).
We are fucked.
That’s exactly what the Butcher of Gallitep would say!
That's exactly what's happening. It's not even a new thing, it's just magnified and exacerbated by social media--a product that almost uniquely reasonates and amplifies the worst impulses of female social interaction. People talk about "toxic masculinity"? Well social media is the realization of "toxic femininity."
I won't link to wikipedia, but read the page on Nietzsche's view of women. It's fun.
Gotcha. Yes, that is horseshit.
Gah, I remember when they were promising every house to have its own little nuclear generator about the size of an AC unit! Free power! Then Three Mile Island happened.
Yeah, I remember a similiar article when I was kid talking about how homes of the future would all have fuel cells to make them energy independent, etc.
We're close with home batteries and home solar, for many parts of the country.
I completely agree. Toro mower, Dewalt trimmer, etc. If you get good quality, it will last.
Until it hits its end of life or becomes damage, in which case you'll likely just end up throwing it out since you can't repair it yourself or they'll charge you an arm and a leg to "fix it". By which I mean give you a new one because they'll likely just throw it into a landfill.
Who cares? Most trash goes in landfills anyway. My solar panels on my house covered ~91% of my electrical usage in 2022. I'm at greater than 100% coverage so far in 2023, but dropping fast due to increased AC usage. My panels are 5 years old and have lost a few percentage points of efficiency at worst.
If we are in an extended power out situation, I can disconnect from the grid and keep going. I have a tiny battery buffer now, and if I lived in an area that experienced longer outages I would upgrade that (but I don't).
If supply chains are fucked, your gas is running out long before my solar.
Oh, so you can make your own solar panel? Or are you relying on companies that are heavily subsidized by the government? You know, the same ones making them in foreign country using what is arguable slave labor while they dump corrosive chemicals into their water ways?
My silfab panels are manufactured in the US, thank you.
You're just retarded if you think this. Compare how easily you can repair something combustion powered to something electrically powered. My mother bought a lawn mower in 2014 and still works as well as the day she bought it thanks to general, user-end maintenance. Do you think a fucking battery powered mower is going to come anywhere close to 10 years? Go fuck yourself.
My string trimmer is 15 years old, on the original battery. Runs great. I've replaced the string countless times, no other maintenance.
My mower is now three years old, still cuts great, charge is still great. Another nice thing is that if it detects thick grass, it can automatically spin up faster. Beyond the electric, it's a Toro Super Recycler. It's a great mower (and I had a Honda before). I've sharpened the blade once, no oil changes, no gas changes, no draining for winter, no air filter replacement, no spark plugs, no nothing. Best mower I've ever had.
Do you think a fucking battery powered mower is going to come anywhere close to 10 years? Go fuck yourself.
Yes, I do. Love you.
I acknowledge, but don't much care, about climate change. I find other environmental cleanup issues more urgent and more immediately solveable. I support opening up additional areas in the US to mining.
Absolutely, I would never dispute that gas powered tools, equipment, and vehicles have many uses where electrcs just CAN'T work (right now at least).
BUT, for the average suburban yard of less than an acre, electric tools can easily handle every task (mow, trim, blow, wash, etc).
Pence rule. Enough said.
With solar panels you can produce your own energy.
Can you pump and refine your own oil?
Electrical tools make you LESS reliant on others.
I know, downvoting underway, yadda, yadda, but 2-stroke yard equipment can go fuck itself. Loud as fuck, stinks, pain to maintain.
I bought a Toro e-Super Recycler mower during covid. I have a 3/4 acre lot, easily does that on one charge. Dewalt electric string trimmer more than enough charge for what I need. Green something heavy duty leaf blower--powerful as shit, plenty of charge.
They're only getting better. Next up on my list is electric pressure washer.
The electric options are so superior for my usage, I'll never go back to gas.
My F150 has power plugs all over the place, so I can charge up my equipment while I drive too.
“You’re a faggot. Not one person respects you.”
Harsh!
"Stop. My penis can only get so erect."
Libertarian philosopher Albert Jay Nock believed in the idea of a "remnant." The remnant is a small group of people--a tiny group of people--those who see through the lies and propaganda and emotional appeals of society. He believed that when the shit really hit the fan, the remnant would be able to finally get something done.
I guess in modern day terms he was blackpill and accelerationist, but I often think about his idea of the remnant. Even if society continues to self-destruct, perhaps it's ok if there are just enough of us to hold the line and fight back when all others are losing their minds.
Interesting guy. He also wrote "On the Disadvantages of Being Educated."
Love Babylon 5, at least seasons 2-4.
My girlfriend in highschool used to give me VHS tapes with Babylon 5 episodes so I could watch. She was a huge fan, and loved Ivanova--I think she even adopted Ivanova's hairstyle. She also wrote B5 fanfic.
Her parents were super strict Asian tiger parent types, and she went off to college, decided she was bi, and flipped through 3 majors in 3 years before finally graduating with a hard science degree. Went to grad school, now married to a conservative white dude (good guy), 2 kids, moved to Texas, and she's totally a strict Asian tiger mom.
She was fun.
I don't know if there's a moral to that story, but it was a good memory!
Sigh, I miss those fake Lesbians, you know the ones that are either two bi girls or straight that have a girlfriend in on it that know the way to get easy money online is to just make out with each other. They're at least usually attractive and ARE WOMEN..
I don't know if it was unique to 80s/90s/early 00s, but lesbians were like the ultimate hotness at the time. I remember a friend in the 90s who said he would only watch lesbo porn because seeing a dick was gay.
How the turntables...
Fuck you Antonio. This is too far.
Lol, you had the best--and most accurate--response by far.
Yep. Nothing more to say.
My grandmother was a poor white woman from around Appalachia and in addition to doing household stuff, raising a family and cooking, she worked in a factory, winding electrical wires (e.g. around a motor). Fucked up her hands for the rest of her life but that lady never once complained about a damn thing in her life.
Near the end of her life she fell and cracked some of the vertebrae in her back. She wasn't paralyzed or anything, but it had to hurt terribly. At the doctor's office they asked her pain on a scale of 1-10. She said no pain. She tried to stand up, hissed in pain, but kept going and tried to leave. The doctor who was probably in his 20s, was like "wtf is happening."
Her life, like many of that era, was a tragedy. She stopped school after 7th grade so she could stay home and raise her siblings after her mother died. Dad was alcoholic and abusive. Dirt poor, family almost starved one winter, surviving only on a 100 lb bag of dried beans they had bartered for. She said she could never eat beans again after that. She lost one kid during childbirth and another one after a nurse at the hospital dropped her baby (?!). In her 70s raised her grandkids who had deadbeat parents.
She was the strongest person I've ever met.
I knew a relative who was studying to convert to Judaism (her husbands religion) in a very liberal synagogue with a female rabbi. Same thing. Divorced husband and left kids. She was always a nut.