I remember when the first round of capacitive buttons showed up. I can’t find it anymore, but there was an article on a fan site for MP3 players I read in 2010 that showed the comparisons of physical vs capacitive vs touchscreens and capacitive buttons only had negatives. It baffled me when they just never stopped using them on things. That article was burned into my mind and now I see that logic has spilled into a thousand other industries.

Those fast track lines at the airport I recently read somewhere is supplied by a private entity, which means all those face scans are just added into a database for future surveillance.

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It’s important to identify that prayer in the traditional sense is still useful. Giving in just a little bit to your universe, if only for a short while, to let your guard down and express your innermost thoughts to an outside entity is incredibly helpful to the brain in reframing the challenges in life. Even if you don’t believe in a “higher power”, expressing these thoughts to the universe can help process things in ways that pure action or meditation can’t.

This video was what taught me how to visualize the 4th dimension. This video goes onto to explain 6 more, so feel free to stop after 4 lol.

https://youtu.be/XjsgoXvnStY

I’ve never been great at visualizing a “4D cube” or tesseract, but here’s another visual that might shed some light on it: https://youtu.be/0t4aKJuKP0Q

Just mentioned this in another thread, but the XTEInk X4 is one of the most focused and portable e-readers I’ve come across. Less than $100 and isn’t locked down so you can load custom firmware on it. For anyone like me who finds most e-readers go unused because they don’t go with you, I’ve yet to find a better option.

I’m your penis, I’m your fire, your desire.

Wouldn’t GrapheneOS have the Linux kernel and therefor also the same age restrictions? Genuine question here.

My head canon for this is that someone inside kept him in the system because they trusted him, such as the Precog technician or the warden.

The realistic answer is that incompetence and red tape delayed removing his credentials when they should have been.

This is known as gatekeeping. There’s no such thing as a “real fan”. People from all walks of life want to be involved in a conversation about a thing they find enjoyable. If anything, we should welcome those looking to be involved or experienced with things they don’t yet understand.

This is a bit different if they’re confidently incorrect and argue, but I have to imagine this is not the majority. You can take on the role of an educator to help those that don’t know understand more.

I can imagine the guy having to print this at the factory just pictures someone with schizophrenia making the board somewhere out there.

Oh, so like imaginary friends for adults!

It’s weird seeing a breakdown of the character that I got my username from.

I’ve heard the explanation being that it’s a defense against treating dead bodies as alive and spending resources on them at a primal level. Just imagining when we first developed empathy and tried at length to care for those who we lost and evolution needed us to focus on the live ones.

Tenna-mwah!

This is technically AI-driven, but not the same tech as all the image generators you see. This is an implementation of Style Transfer which came out years before OpenAI was even really on the map.

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This is also the origin of “saved by the bell”, if I’m not mistaken.

The difference being Facebook was buying an already up and coming, clearly successful business idea. Here, they’re buying a YouTube channel with basically no subscribers. So yeah, one sounds like a business decision. The other is delusions of someone who doesn’t know how to spend investor money.

Believe it or not, you can even be a fan of a team in a place you’ve never lived. The rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

There’s something poetic in that you’d be hard-pressed to find a public model that allows you to edit it back.