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Counterpoint: Look at this dope ass bear.

I don’t listen to anything said by the others, but does Hasan actually support that position? I’m not convinced.

Vaush, then Destiny.

To be fair, a ‘strong’ password isn’t likely to help all that much.

Those compromised account lists are almost exclusively from websites that were hacked to harvest passwords, or didn’t hash their passwords sufficiently in the first place.

Making a strong password is obviously ideal. But people are generally better off with some basic in-browser password management - avoid password reuse is the real big deal. Maybe diceware is the thing to use if there’s a specific password you need to actually remember and re-type across devices

My number #1 example when people say nobody as deranged and idiotic as Trump has ever been USA president before… Sorry pal, it’s pretty standard.

In my personal experience, it absolutely does. Only time I’ve ever had seriously painful dry skin on my hands was when I was out of hand soap for a week. But I do wash my hands frequently.

My last car was 30 years old when I ditched it, the underside was rusted to a point of no longer being safe. Plus the exhaust kept falling off.

A car for more than like 5k. A terrifying stat is that 90% of people in my country buy their car for on finance for >10k, yet you can buy a reasonable used one for no more than 5k anywhere

There are niche circumstances where a pricey car could be worthwhile, lots of long haul journeys, need for fuel efficiency, etc, but 90% of people don’t need or benefit much from that.

I bought my current one for 1k just last year. It’s 20 years old, but it’s in perfect condition and the efficiency is not that much different from modern cars, certainly not enough to be nearly worth the extra money.

Except… none of these are proven, or even have any examinable evidence.

Most of them are “suspicions” and the others are just unilateral declarations by like, the UK police, which you can’t exactly take at face value.

That’s very true. Maybe their real use is to change other peoples’ perception. But that’s very… sad to need a diagnosis to do.

I can sympathise with that experience, I guess I can sort of see why you found it helpful. But aye, it certainly doesn’t reflect my own, at all.

Thanks for the understanding and open response <3

As an absolutely autistic person whose parents didn’t bother to get it diagnosed, I really do disagree. Diagnoses are basically just descriptive labels that can help identify potentially useful treatments, that’s it; they’re not some magical blame receptacle.

I think my greatest issue with this post is it implies that if you DON’T have a diagnosable mental condition, but still struggle, then it must inherently mean that you’re stupid, weak annoying, unloveable etc.

But I also think a child will conclude that they’re stupid … unloveable etc, if that’s how they’re taught to feel, with or without a diagnosis. I had many struggles, but my parents never ‘expected’ me to be “normal”, they just supported me and we worked out shit as it happened - my struggles were a result of a variety of behaviours specific to me, my personality, my flavour of autism, etc.

But this is the same for every human being to ever live. A diagnosis might’ve described some of those behaviours, but what would that have changed? I’ll be honest - I’m glad my parents didn’t get me diagnosed, they feared that would just place a wholly new unhelpful expectation on me, and I think they were right.

Obviously a lot of people absolutely benefit from diagnosis, not knocking it, but I also don’t think they’re automatically helpful in all circumstances.

Most of these companies DO provide for normal needs and commodities

Ah yes I’ll just eat that Nvidia chip cereal, wear those clothes made by Oracle, live in my house made by Figure AI, and get healthcare (not fake AI slop) from CoreWeave.

Obviously these companies play a (very) marginal role in these industries. Nobody is saying the companies don’t do outside of AI that is useful. but the point is an absolutely enormous percentage of money (ie, all the dosh invested in AI) is not doing anything productive in these areas.

And all those data centers aren’t suddenly useless if this bubble pops.

We were not in great need of more data centers before the AI bubble. And those centres will be filled with AI tensor chips and not geared toward actual needs. I’m sure they can be partially salvaged, but to think they’ll be worth anything near the cost is just silly.

The cutoff point is, kind of definitionally, when the circles include economic industries that actually provide needs / major tax revenue etc.

That is the point. For insane investment, these industries are not providing needs, and they’re not providing particularly useful commodities, they’re generally taking basically as much in subsidies as they’re paying in taxes.

Currently we throw a shitton of resources in, we get meager usefulness out, and there’s no concrete promise that massively useful resources will ever come out. That’s… what a bubble is. And that’s why the graph illustrates it.

I think it’s fair to say the Western Allies did more than ‘little’ to help WW2. But to say it was even close to a majority would be wildly incorrect.

Massive material, ideological, and anti-communist support from ‘Western Allies’ is basically how Nazi Germany got as bad as it did. If the UK and France had agreed to the anti-Nazi alliance the USSR was proposing in 1939, WW2 might’ve been avoided altogether, or at least otherwise significantly shortened.

Also, the classic poll “Who contributed the most to the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2” that shows the insanely successful propaganda since:

(4/100) * 75 = (75/100) * 4

I actually think the mutability of expressions is an under-taught part of maths until you reach like, constructing high-level proofs. Rearranging numbers into already-understood ones is a very useful skill.

Sure is

Boom, installed, cool addon

A blocklist for malware would be safeguarding. But you can’t claim this is “safeguarding” against… completely safe software?

And it’s not exactly easily overridden, otherwise this post wouldn’t exist.

Sadly, there a few annoying things in Firefox which absolutely are not overridable at all. Firefox is heckin’ awesome, but this just ain’t true.

This is exciting. FWIW, ‘young’ is expected to mean 18-45, but we don’t know until they publish in a month.

Accelerate western brain drain