Canned Barqs root beer (the can part is important, it affects the flavor) for non-alcoholic, Woodchuck Amber for alcohol. Hopefully obviously I do drink plenty of water though, I just don’t go out of my way to drink extra.

I completely forgot about NIMBYism, that’s a perfectly good counter-example I will admit.

I have never once seen or heard of market deregulation resulting in an improvement in the health of that market.

Hey, Canada is an American country, in that it’s on the North American continent. This could be called America first, if you want to be obtuse about definitions,

That didn’t happen.

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

And if it was, that’s not a big deal. <- We are here

And if it is, that’s not my fault. <- Or maybe here

And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it. <- And I’m pretty sure they used this one already

Adolf should be a perfectly fine name, don’t let one asshole ruin it for everyone else.

Please, for the love of god, tell me you didn’t write that post with AI, because it really looks like that was written with AI.

I’d buy that if your original comment didn’t sound very much like something a tankie would say.

Because it’s a pretty normal detail to go unmentioned when discussing minimum wage. That detail has always been the case, at least as far as I’m aware.

I’m pretty sure tip workers still have the lower minimum base wage.

In case you didn’t know, the .ml instance has a very earned reputation for hosting tankies.

Is that going to kill the need for the various modloaders?

reducing foreign aid

You mean like the $40 billion offered to Argentina by Trump?

Why yes, I do frequently google things. Searching for proper tutorials and official documentation for technical subjects is a more intelligent thing to do than asking an LLM to do all my thinking for me. As for the actual humans I was talking about there, I meant bringing my car in to be serviced by a mechanic as an example, if I learned the mechanic working on my car was just following instructions provided by chatGPT I would be fucking livid.

I’m in a similar position to OP, kinda. MonHun Wilds will occasionally, and as far as I can tell completely randomly, cause my entire system to completely freeze while in Linux (also observed in Stellar Blade IIRC) which just doesn’t happen in my Windows dual boot. Also modding Skyrim is magnitudes easier on Windows, but it’s mostly the first thing that is my motivation.

I’ll be honest, my biggest problem with something like this is that ai sophisticated enough to do anything useful cannot be run locally. That means every single time the clanker is asked to do something you are uploading significant amounts of personal information in an unencrypted form to some datacenter somewhere, for whoever to just do whatever they want with it.

Except for the medicine stuff, I am confident I would be able to do all of those things actually, given a bit of time for research and enough motivation. Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don’t care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.

My answer to you is that I fully expect the ability to do stuff yourself to be seen as extremely valuable in about 2 or 3 years. This whole AI thing is pretty definitely a bubble, and on top of that it also looks to me like the blockchain and metaverse tech-fads, and I strongly believe that when the bubble bursts people that can say “I spent all that time learning to do things myself rather than rely on ai to do my thinking for me” are going to be the only people with careers.

Counterpoint, I lost an unknown number of files (unknown because I have no idea what all I failed to recover) years ago when my OneDrive backup filled up and my attempts to clear out space in the cloud backup propogated to my local storage, deleting everything I had in my local documents folder.

Did you even look at the article?