My favorite is when they drive right next to you on the acceleration lane for hundredths of meters waiting for you to let them merge and once they merge they accelerate right away to go way faster.

I mean at least the cars thing is pretty legitimately true.

Only in US. Many things are fucked up in US for many different reasons. People support it because of brainwashing. It’s not slipped trough without anyone noticing.

“Once everyone has a credit card they will ban cash so that every transaction can be tracked”

“Once every phone has GPS they will make it mandatory to send your location to the government at all times.”

“Once everyone has a car they will make walking illegal”

“Once everyone has an ID they will make it mandatory to scan it on every step”

“If you let gays get married people will marry their pets next”

Do those thing ever come true at all? Other than US being a fascist state run by corporations, did any country managed to pull off this slippery slope type trick? From what I see people either consent to being tracked in exchange for likes on social media or governments simply push mass face renegotiation and tracking (like in UK) without any sort of “step by step, boiling frog” type bullshit.

Apropos “Cut of the Stone”. I read a book about history of surgery and one chapter was about a guy who remove his own bladder stone. Back then people didn’t have great hygiene and urinary track infections were common. Those would cause bladder stone that would get worse and worse witch each infection. The stone would block the urethra entrance so you would feel you like really need to pee but once you stand up you wouldn’t be able to. This wasn’t very pleasant so people would try to remove the stones. Typical way was to go through the taint, open the bladder, remove the stone. There’s a lot of blood vessels there so survival chances were not great. Doctors refused to do it because patients would die to often and then family would blame them and they had enough shit to deal with already. So you had traveling bladder stone removers. They would do the surgery and by the time patient would die they would be on the road again.

So this one guy, a blacksmith, tried to get his stone removed twice or had two stones removed already, it’s not clear. Anyway, he didn’t like the traveling stoncutters. So he got a sharp knife, asked some guy to assist him and did the surgery himself.

Someone needs to post detailed explanation of all those things. I hope it doesn’t have to be me.

Found this: https://mediachomp.com/cause-of-deaths-in-london-in-1632/

My favorite: Thrush = yeast overgrowth / yeast infection of mouth (or genitals)

And good luck finding a charger that´s actually next to a highway. Most of them are in the middle of some town so you have to lose additional 20 minutes just to get to them and then back on the road.

the new 1,500 kilowatt (1.5 megawatt) Flash charging stations

Must be nice. In Spain the charging infrastructure looks like it’s literally designed to torture EV owners.

This looks desperate. They already sold $300B worth of data center capacity to OpenAI and this move will save them up to $10B.

They sell software that sits so deep in people’s stack that replacing it takes tons of effort. Companies calculate that it’s cheaper to keep paying Oracle than to rewrite crucial services.

I tested all the alternatives and NordVPN was the only one that worked well with my work VPN. What alternatives do you know that work in parallel with tailscale?

Just tell her it’s for your boyfriend.

You can install iode on a Fairphone. I was using iode for years without issues. I would be surprised if it had many bugs specific to Fairphone.

If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.

Yes, I can see how it can easily happen to stupid lazy people.

I believe those chargers are battery to battery, not grid to battery. You don’t need 2.5Mw connection directly to the charger. You charge the charger’s battery at normal speed and then pump it into the car rapidly. This means that you can charge only couple of cars in a row at that speed.

I will get excited once this leaves the lab and is actually on the market.

Oh, wait…

Which part of physics prevents that exactly?

AI’s don’t go crazy like that after 5 prompts. You need to spend weeks and weeks talking to them to corrupt the context so much that it stops following original guidelines. I wonder how does one do it? How do you spend weeks talking to AI? I had “discussions” with AI couple of times when testing it and it’s get really boring real soon. For me it doesn’t sound like a person at all. It’s just an algorithm with bunch of guardrails. What kind of person can think it actually has personality and engage with it on a sentimental level? Is it simply mental illness? Loneliness and desperation?

You Firefox also hoards RAM? I thought it’s just mine.

Shit, turns out lions are conscious! They are just stupid. Stephen Hawking said it in 2012. I honestly didn’t know that.

I was focusing more on the “hooking up conscious brain to computer” part than about the damage and infection part.

Thought experiment: let’s say we have a dead brain patient. You have verified that there is no neural activity in the brain beyond cerebellum. There’s no consciousness in the brain. Legally it’s still considered a person. You can’t for example shoot them.

We also have a 5kg blob of lab grown human brain tissue. We have verified there is neural activity in the entire blob but we don’t know what it’s doing and we can’t communicate with it.

Which one is more conscious? Which one should be considered more human and should have more rights?