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"explore the world without desire" I don't know how I feel about this. I know when I can manage to accept things I feel better overall, but there is real joy in getting what you wa…

Impressed by what utter shit this is. Music video creators are safe for a while yet

> having humans watch every citizen on camera instead of just using computers which even Asimov in the 1980s could see was laughably inefficient 1984 was published in 1949. It's a …

Have you been neglecting to pay your child support?

This sounds awesome ... is there a way to enter text rather than talking? I'm guessing yes, but I can't see where

It's necessary for devs right now, no matter how good they are, and it's those devs' code the models are trained on

Ah weird - the text of the page says Atahualpa had 80k troops, but then the infobox describes the Inca forces as 3-8k in size. I guess not all the 80k were involved in the battle

You're missing a zero. It was EIGHTY thousand, not 8000.

Cats are native to the UK, and less damaging to biodiversity than they are in the US because local wildlife has co-evolved with cats

I get a lot of content about "how to promote your band"* and it's almost ALL about finding "superfans" you can sell merch to - so the actual art is reduced to ads for t-shirts * I'…

I came back cos I felt a bit guilty. You're right - I was condescending and I'm sorry I think your model of men's social status being solely based on strength, and women's on beaut…

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Nah, it is bizarre. > You need to think of things from this perspective rather than the perspective of what's "taboo". It's only bizarre because society has conditioned you to look…

> For women the core of their power anthropologically lies with beauty Physical attractiveness is a social asset, and it's a more useful asset for a woman because men are affected …

They're not. Really. You know less about the world than you think you do. Come to Ireland and talk to a cop

> This kind of song would not fly in any other country on Earth. No other country has Freedom of Speech laws strong enough to defend against insulting the police. What? You have no…

This is nonsense. Agricultural subsidies are the largest item in the EU budget. Nobody is starving in Europe

This is total horseshit. /me wonders if you're a bad actor or just delusional

and all the world is a stage

I used to play this on the street as a young lad, can't sing it at all anymore because I get too choked up to get the words out

It doesn't really matter what you have to say or ask - basically the point of small talk is to express to people "I like you!". Just try to find something to like and the conversat…

I live in a rural area (not in the US though). Everyone knows I'm a weirdo, and almost all of them are cool with it. This is how people lose their prejudices - they meet a foreigne…

> As if science and engineering comes from genius brains not from careful experiments 100% this. How long were humans around before the industrial revolution? Quite a while

My Dad (age 81) tore his rotator cuff splitting wood recently. It's slow to heal and he's in a lot of pain which (along with his Alzheimer's) is really getting him down. Maybe even…

> Why can't we architect the world we want to have? Side effects. Society is not planned, it evolves