ChewTiger

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ChewTiger,

Yeah I’m sure an AI that advanced could figure out a way for us to not even notice everything is devoted to its own goals. I mean, all it needs to do is make sure the proper people make enough money.

ChewTiger,

They are not talking about going to school but having people at the school do the dental work.

ChewTiger,

What kind of products are in those warehouses that employees kept stealing?

ChewTiger,

It sucks that it took all that for her to understand, but it shows great character that she came around to understand things from your perspective.

ChewTiger,

Yeah, I don’t think “mentally ill people” only exist in specific places or that specific areas are “full” of them. I mean, I know for sure at least one deranged person lives in your area.

Also I highly doubt you truly worked in retail if you never experienced a customer like this. If you did, you must have been lucky and in an extremely high end store.

People are the same everywhere in the world, no better or worse than anywhere else. Which is kinda great IMO.

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....

ChewTiger,

I don’t message anyone with an iPhone. Other than the different colored bubbles what does it do? How is the quality degraded?

It just seems like Apple kept it separate so their obsessed fans would have something to feel superior about.

ChewTiger,

That last sentence is illuminating. I hadn’t thought about it that way before.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

ChewTiger,

The problem is the improper distribution of resources, not overpopulation. If we truly tried we could sustainably support our current population and work on healing the world.

Talking about intentional population control is a fat too slippery slope.

ChewTiger,

I don’t think everyone sat down and agreed to that being what plus means. It’s like labeling food as organic, it means nothing. It’s just a name. Odd thing to obsess over, you’ll get nowhere trying to understand marketing people, just let it go.

What they are adding is a more condensed experience accessing NASA content and making it easier for casual viewers to access. The more people paying attention to science the better. I think this is a fantastic move from NASA

ChewTiger,

I believe that is our destiny as millennials, to turn the tide and act as brakes on the growing insanity in the world. I also believe that we can do it.

ChewTiger,

When I was like 11 I made two emails, one with a dumb name and another more professional one that’s just my name. I didn’t want to send emails to adults with the dumb name one because I didn’t want to explain it.

11 year old me was way too serious.

ChewTiger,

I’m fine with them just going into new territory regarding the timeline. I just don’t want to see shows rehashing events that have already been exhaustively covered.

I want to see the universe move forward, I’m sick of looking into the past.

ChewTiger,

The power to be comfortable in any environment in just shorts and a T-shirt. No sunburn, no soggy shoes in the rain, warm while sitting in a snow drift.

ChewTiger,

Drop used to be so much better before the rename.

ChewTiger,

Yeah this isn’t true. While automation has made machines more effective than humans in many cases, they haven’t made human labor less effective. Not sure why you would think that. Advances in tools and software have made every sector of the workforce more productive. There’s a million little things.

They have flattops at fast food places that cook the top and the bottom of the burger patty at the same time. So one worker can do more. Roofers have faster and lighter nail guns letting them work for longer. Hell, when I did lawn care as a teen you’d see another crew with some fancy new mower every month, and the improvements were usually worth the costs.

ChewTiger,

Yeah, they really did have a good run worthy of being proud of. I think a lot of people subconsciously think the businesses they see every day will be around forever, forgetting that nothing lasts forever. Least of all an entity whose driving goal is just to make money by any means possible for an aimless mob of shareholders headed by sociopathic elites. Any means possible isn’t how you build the foundation of something that lasts decades or longer like this business.

What’s really funny to me is how the same people who scream about survival of the fittest in capitalism are the first to approve of corporate bailouts. I’m starting to call it corporate socialism to see if it makes them hate bailouts due to the dreaded “s” word.

ChewTiger,

Pretty much all data has margins of error, including “real life data”. The margin of error just often doesn’t matter.

ChewTiger,

Wouldn’t the fillers be obvious just by looking at it? It’s not like magazines are bigger than they need to be.

ChewTiger,

I’m not going to pretend that I’m on the side of the landlords here, but I don’t think individuals who own and rent out a few properties are part of the problem. In fact, there should be more people like that.

I think it’s the large corporations owning tons of properties across multiple cities or even countries that are the issue. Houses shouldn’t be treated as financial products or investment vehicles for massive entities, they are places for people to live. It’s insane to have more empty houses than homeless people, there is no justifying that. I think requiring companies to have local offices in the cities they have properties would go a long way to address this.

I’m currently trying to convince the company that manages my current place that yes, they do have our insurance and to please stop charging us fees. They want insurance with both my wife and I 's names on it. I’ve submitted it 3 times over the last couple of months, and I swear they only read the top name on the paperwork and reject it.

ChewTiger,

This was incredibly well said. I have always struggled with phrasing when talking about this issue and I like how you’ve worded it.

ChewTiger,

Not saying I’m a fan of Edge, but I booted up my old Surface after not using it for a few years and out of everything Edge was surprisingly one of the most responsive programs. Oddly enough it also opens up PDFs super fast. Guess that’s just a long way of me saying it’s definitely better than IE and at least a step forward.

ChewTiger,

Love your praying with that last sentence.

ChewTiger,

Wait…what? I’m struggling to comprehend this level of nonsense.

ChewTiger,

That knowledge shouldn’t be gained through the barbaric butchery of helpless animals.The research should at the very least be conducted in a manner that is respectful to the animals.

There is no reason for them to live lives of terror only to die brutally. Considering how much this technology could advance humanity giving them more comfortable and smiling lives during this whole process costs effectively nothing.

ChewTiger,

I question the humanity of anyone who can read that and not be upset.

ChewTiger,

I don’t care what other people drink. In fact I love it when people show me their favorite drinks. Even if I don’t like it I enjoy the experience of something new. I get bored very easily.

That being said, I moved to the Pacific Northwest a few years ago and it seems like local breweries only make IPAs. They’ll have like eight local or inhouse brews and 7 will be IPAs. I just miss the variety I used to be able to find in other parts of the country. It also seems a little lazy and uncreative on the brewery’s side.

ChewTiger,

Why don’t they just let the kids in? Who cares if they are a little late. Life’s complicated, shit happens.

ChewTiger,

They tore down at least two in the city I used to live in the Midwest. Now I’m on the west coast and I’ve seen one turn down and another converted in the past few years.

ChewTiger,

Mine acted similar to yours. I recently started watching a few more short videos and now it’s showing me an unfortunate amount of that far right nonsense.

I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse

I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don’t belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren’t installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian....

ChewTiger,

IDK, if we’re comparing scourges against humanity I’d say “the rich” in general are worse, be they kings, CEOs, religious icons, politicians, or whatever. Their pursuit of money and the power to keep that money corrupts everything. They ruin everything from companies to countries and even religions (makes them even worse).

Really though, the most evil thing is cancer. It kills indiscriminately and tortures its victims the whole way. Even if you win, you never get the peace of knowing it’s truly gone. True evil.

ChewTiger,

Would definitely be a step in the right direction. I’d even be ok with exceptions for the tiny churches in small towns.

ChewTiger,

Not sure which I like more. I think I’ll use both.

ChewTiger,

I know hardware compatibility has massively improved, but back when I was messing with Linux in high school compatibility was a huge issue. I managed to end up with two laptops and some desktop hardware that were truly difficult to get running. It’s like I somehow found a list of incompatible hardware and chose the worst options.

The most frustrating were an evil Broadcom (I think) wireless card and an AMD switchable card (they did actually make a few). That graphics card wasn’t supported for very long and was a bother even in Windows.

Edit to add: I was just saying that to point out why some people might have that opinion, even if it isn’t valid anymore. I’m actually thinking of jumping back on the Linux bandwagon.

The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)

It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month....

ChewTiger,

Competition is good, especially with regards to privacy and cyber security. Customers benefit when companies don’t have a captured market. A lack of competition only leads to monopolies and stagnation.

If no one offers a secure product, then customers have no choice but to either not use anything or put up with it. Competition means that at any time a newcomer can offer a better product (that is hopefully open source).

Edit to add: Ideally you could message people on different apps with the same account. But I’ll take fragmentation over a monopoly.

ChewTiger,

Even with those limitations, duplication would still allow food producers to make less food go a longer way. Smaller farms could feed more people, reducing pollution. You could duplicate the food at the point of sale, which would drastically reduce transportation costs as well as traffic. Hell, cities could have small farms and fed themselves. It would also drastically reduce water consumption that is used in farming, reducing droughts. Producing and transporting food is a massive contributor to global warming. Farms and ranches take up tons of space, all that land could be returned to its natural state (I bet wizards could speed that up).

If wizards showed up with the cure to cancer and fed the hungry they’d easily have 1/5 of the world’s population on their side. Unfortunately the wizarding society is extremely exploitative of animals, even worse than the average muggle.

I get that wizards were persecuted and don’t want to have muggles expect them to solve all their problems, but they could literally save the planet.

ChewTiger,

Maybe they don’t get along, or they use magic in entirely different and incompatible ways.

ChewTiger,

Thanks for adding this. I’m sure it’ll be useful to know and save me some heartache.

I tried out Linux a long time ago and have forgotten a lot of what I knew. I’m thinking of switching back again.

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