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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Depends heavily on the disability. For, for instance, blind people, the day cars were banned would be the best day of their lives!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The best was when you heard how the Professors got their job back in the 70s-80s.

They generally just finished a PhD and were given a position!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The real answer is that there is currently an AI arms race (mostly) between Google and OpenAI.

The way that the modern internet economy works is that the winners generally take the majority of the market and everyone else takes the scraps.

I work in machine learning and have spoken with some of the Google engineers about it recently. They said that when ChatGPT blew up last year, it sent shockwaves through the whole company. They had thought that they were ahead on AI, but suddenly realised that they were WAY behind.

Now they are putting a ton of effort into trying to push new models and uses because they are worried about becoming the "Bing of AI" rather than the "Google of AI"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Recently got back into Dota 2. It's still incredibly good!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Italy wins the euros and then falls to qualify for the WC again?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Depends on the country though as well. Its probably pretty easy to figure out for big ones like the USA, but in smaller countries its often a mess...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

For any sort of online banking you generally need a password.

A lot of banks these days are online only.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Ranch dressing is a big one, since you can't get hidden valley anywhere!

I always request that one from from family in the US (along with good bbq sauce and hot sauce)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

There is literally nothing I would have wanted more as a 12 year old than to be able to walk to meet my friends or play football in the park without having to be driven around...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh man this is so me!

I grew up in the rural USA in a pretty area with lots of space. I enjoyed a lot about it, but I didn't realise how suffocating it was until I spent a couple weeks living in a walkable city in Europe.

It was magical! The freedom I felt by being able to walk/cycle/take a bus somewhere without having to be driven! The feeling of being able to just go meet people!

Fast forward a decade or so and I moved to Europe (as an adult). Still magical! Imagine being able to walk to the bar! No looking for parking! No car payments!

I'm never going back...

That being said, I understand why many people are resistant to density. Cities that do density poorly (I.e. 99% of US cities, and many European ones) are miserable to be in. There is a reason that people visit Venice and not Houston...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Honestly, I know you mean we'll but I find statements like this extremely dangerous and damaging.

There isn't some 'international council of men' that could collectively sort anything out. Ideas like blaming the whole gender is part of the reason why we have a rise in far-right sentiment among young men, as it's easy to feel like the world is against you for things that you personally have no say in. Young men (just like anyone else) need support, and not to be blamed for bad-behavior of others!

Instead it's up to those of us (the vast majority) who don't represent toxic masculinity to set a compassionate example

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The issue is that most people in despair are inclined to vote for a massive change. They just want anything different than the current status quo.

At the moment in the USA, only the right is offering substantial, systematic change. As awful as it sounds to centrists and the left (I.e. the majority of the population), they don't offer any substantial alternative.

We're basically at a point where the current status quo/political center WILL be replaced by something else. Centrists need to realise that the only alternative to right wing change is left wing change...

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