There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
The positive use has been covered by other comments. Aware of things.
The negative use is much like certain red hats. It helps show which people to avoid having discussions with, as they’ll beat you with their experience in idiocy. My usual response to them if any at all is “the opposite of woke is sleeping”.
“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
Then you’re wasting their time and yours, as well as the effort to change anything. That’s the funny thing about the “danger” of voter fraud, it rarely is a problem because of how little one vote alone has any power. Maybe a small local district that comes close to a tie. Not that your votes isn’t important, but it’s one drop in a bathtub of water. If no one votes, it’s empty.
But they want you to think that it’s the few people who may try this that’s the problem so they can put in ID laws for other purposes, and to deflect attention from the efforts of mass manipulation of results or the disenfranchising of large demographics in strategic areas. That isn’t done by the voters, but by those in control or who work for them.
Everything he touches…
I understood that reference.
It would have been a longer and more complex article requiring a lot of research if they tried to go through all the issues that could be contributing. Hell, it’d be a book.
Yes. They will definitely get the message, this time.
Too young mentally as well. Which could be from society, but even in times where people were forced to be an adult early (working and having children), they did it from necessity and not because they were ready.
It was joining Facebook long ago and adding people I knew that made me realize I’m not going to ever bother going to a reunion. I only had a few close friends in high school, and the rest… well, let’s just say it didn’t take long for me to block their constant postings about all sorts of junk topics. My mistake was seeing Facebook as a newer version of the BBS forums, but once I figured out it’s all about saying “look at me”, and not about actual discussion… not my thing.
The LCD screen and size were the selling point beginning with the first ones. Newer phones can do more, and for some that might be better, but I don’t like the smaller screen, and will go to a computer before I try to see a website on my phone. Guess it depends on your needs and priorities.
Getting ready to retire, and boy I do not want to be around once my scripting that everyone relies on breaks. And it will, it requires regular upkeep by me. Not by design or maliciousness, but because of Microsoft 365 stupidity. But oh well…
Not a real monologue, but Humbaba mocks Gilgamesh and Enkidu for their hubris and lack of wisdom. He specifically attacks Enkidu, questioning his origins and his betrayal of the wild. He vows to slaughter them both and feed their flesh to the birds and beasts of the forest.
Opens when you press it. Not finds a solution. Never has found a solution.
If you just put something else in the cart to bump it to 24 million, you would get free shipping.
Explains why it responds/opens so quickly. Tight coding.
My mother was once hit from septic shock, and barely got through it. She waited thinking it was just something she ate or whatever, and had they waited another 30 mins to call 911, it would have been too late. Don’t ignore your body tells.
Maybe it’s not AI slop, but we’re just too dumb to understand it.
Even though if you didn’t tell them about the part they’re missing, they wouldn’t realize because it’s so little of the whole. But they have to have every damn cent they can grab.
We don’t know for sure. Maybe he was in terrible pain, briefly. Let’s just keep that possibility to make us feel better.
When the first image of black hole was due to be released, a few science channels had videos on what we should see (and did). And was also depicted as in the movie Interstellar.
The very simplest reason is because of the accretion disk, which is the only part we can actually see, and how the black hole’s gravity warps the back part of the disk around so we see many sides of it that we wouldn’t without the strong gravity bending the light. I.e., we don’t see the part of Saturn’s rings that are behind the planet.