30 some years ago?
Everything was just more fractured. Instead of a handful of options for social media, there were thousands of forums on their own websites. ICQ handled IMs and away messages was basically twitter. Before YouTube/spotify everyone used Winamp and internet radio streams for music, you didn’t have songs on demand, but compared to local “real” radio or MTV it was an overwhelming about of choice.
It’s honestly not that much different though.
Trolls trying to argue in bad faith.
The brand new accounts that keep asking this same question over and over again?
Yeah. They’re absolutely trolling this sub…
But uv blocking sunscreen literally impedes the body’s natural synthetization…
And that’s not even getting into how OP is explicitly talking about correlation, and people still keep confusing it with causation
What?
Vitamin D is something we don’t get much of from a modern diet, and we need a substantial amount to make very important neurotransmitters, the lack of which causes depression and anxiety, or at least symptoms to be worse, meaning complaints are more likely.
Like, that’s a real scientific thing we’ve known for decades.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9468237/
A correlation with increase use of sunblock, I’m not really sure of. I’d assume it’s more that people spend substantially less time in the sun in general regardless of UV blocking.
It was a meme in the Navy, if anyone looked sad or mentioned depression while out to see, the first fucking thing everyone said was “drink more milk” because they put a shit ton of vitamin D in the milk for that reason.
The second was usually “smoke more cigarettes” tho, because most of the time to smoke you had to go stand on a deck in the sun.
But especially for /shower thoughts, there’s not a lot to judge OP on here. It’s pretty accurate and something that someone very well could have just realized one day
It won’t last forever though…
A lot of the non-upgradability is the pursuit of smallest form factor. But then everyone throws a case on it anyways. Miniaturization has diminishing returns and we hit that long ago with laptops.
Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.
That’s why manufacturers are trying to push us to watches or glasses. They need to shrink the form factor to keep up the (insanely profitable) strategy of selling a brand new unit every 2 years.
Apple aggressively throttled CPUs when new models came out.
They claimed it was due to age of batteries and to prevent overheating. But then Samsungs started exploding and I think people just let it go.
Not sure if they still do it or not.
If you’re actually being sincere, you might want to ask people how to articulate your view, you’d have to let them know what your view is though. Or ask for peoples opinion on the question.
It’s really fucking scary that The Oregon Trail generation got the best education American public schools have provided, ever…
It was shitty then, but God awful before and after that brief window.
Lots of animals can think abstractly.
What separates humans from animals is communication and tool use. Obviously other animals can, but none come close to humans in either category.
Books is a huge example of both. Humans don’t have to figure out complicated concepts each on our own. The Internet is that on steroids, someone on the other side of the planet can read this post the second I hit “reply”.
That exchange of information through tools is why we’re ordering Taco Bell thru Uber from the couch instead of still chasing animals till they pass out.
Whether or not that’s a good thing for us and the planet tho…
It’s trump…
If you’re trying to argue he’s loyal and won’t switch sides in an instant, well, I’d be shocked anyone but a trump supporter would say that.
trump supports whoever gave the largest bribe, or the most recent substantial bribe. Hed turn on Israel in a heartbeat if it was personally profitable
Since nothing is going to stand in their way, how can we make sure they are held accountable for generations to come?
All that needs done is America threatening to cut off funding.
If Obama hadn’t have done that, this would have all happened a decade ago
Biden openly said he’d never do that, and talked shit as VP when Obama did. Kamala said she’d be the same as Biden.
trump, depends on if someone bribes him more.
But if America gets a progressive president next with the courage to say “genocide is bad” and actually cut off Israel…
That will make Israel stop electing genocidal maniacs. The only reason they can vote for people like Bibi, is knowing no matter what they have the backing of America.
Without that, they wouldn’t constantly be attacking other countries.
It’s like if you had a annoying little brother that picks on everyone despite being small and weak, because if shit goes down, you protect them
Sometimes, you got to let your little bro learn what happens when no one else fights their fights for them…
Driving the news: Sirens sounded across Israel on Thursday night. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared a special state of emergency across the entire country.
“Following the State of Israel’s preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the state of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future,” Katz said.
Who would have guessed Israel would surprise attack another country and then immediately play the victim…
TIL! Never heard that definition, thanks for that.
Yeah, it’s pretty accurate and comes from the guy most equipped to talk about what consciousness is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff
He’s spent the last 30 years working on consciousness with literally the world’s smartest physicist if not human:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
Like, you know how everyone knows Stephen Hawking? Penrose was the guy doing the hard science to finish up Eisntein’s work, Hawking was the “face” who explained it to people. When it was just Penrose and Hawking working on something, Hawking was the dumb guy at the table. Which is just wild.
But for the longest time people said Hameroff and Penrose couldn’t have been right because quantum entanglement couldn’t happen somewhere as “warm and wet” as the brain. About 11 months ago we found out microtubules can not only work as tubes that can sustain entanglement, it can sustain quantum superposition.
So, another decade or two and we should have a better answer for what consciousness is and what anesthesia actually does. But for now, that’s the best we can do
I mean, people already are…
We don’t have a better definition for consciousness then “it’s what anesthesia stops” and we don’t have a better idea about what anesthesia does than “stops consciousness”. So it’s a chicken/egg thing.
The thing is, anesthesia works on everything, humans, animals, plants, even single celled organisms.
Literally everything is consciousness. Tomatoes even feel pain thru our most common definitions.
So yeah, people that claim to be vegan because of animal suffering are still causing suffering and pain to life, then ending that life.
You’d need to be some super specific type of vegan where you only eat fruits because those specifically evolved to be eaten in a symbiotic relationship with animals.
But like, I’m pretty sure that would just give you organic diabetes or something.
So everyone draws their personal line wherever, but none of us really have an “ethical diet”
Like, why did you manufacture this intractable problem by mandating clothing and shaming nudity in the first place?
You think humans invented clothing because of shame?
That’s completely backwards, we invented clothing for protection, and not seeing everything all the time led to shame when someone could see us.
Like, I’m pretty sure hermit crabs feel something similar to shame when they don’t have a shell, they need something to drive them to not only protect themselves, but to ensure they can reproduce and raise their young. That’s why humans instinctually get weird about exposed genitals and boobs, those are the most important parts of a human from an evolutionary perspective.
I get what you’re trying to say, it’s just you’re going about it completely backwards
It’s not for the right reason…
Beta was better than VHS, but Beta didn’t have porn, so everyone got VCRs.
Meta is so big they could get sued for letting users openly make porn like this, but they don’t want everyone using the ones who can make porn. Because that’s the biggest threat to their advantage in the market.
If Meta thought they could get away with it, they’d dive dick first into porn.
but why don’t manufacturers of basic cars just put a fancy-looking exterior onto them?
“Kit cars” are a thing…
Not sure what’s popular these days, but for a while people were putting Shelby Cobra bodies on Miatas.
It’s way more than a Miata, but way less than an authentic Shelby.
So people who just care about the looks have been doing this for decades now.
But when it happens as a production, people don’t buy it because other people recognize it for what it is, look at the PT Cruiser.
So if a couple people do it, it passes as expensive. If a lot do it, it comes off as tacky and becomes a joke.
if you feed it the rules of chess and the dimensions of the board it should be able to “play in its head”.
You’d save a lot of time typing, if you spent a little more reading…
Yeah, but it’s chess…
The LLM doesn’t have to imagine a board, if you feed it the rules of chess and the dimensions of the board it should be able to “play in its head”.
For a human to have that kind of working memory would be a genius level intellect and years of practice at the game.
But human working memory is shit compared to virtually every other animal. This and processing speed is supposed to be AI’s main draw.
Dogpile 4 life…