My cat brings me leaves and pine cones that he’s “killed”. He’s always extremely pleased with himself.

There’s no consistency to it. It really depends on the individual.

I just love it when they’re talking about a subject that is demonstrably not American, like very clearly it happened in a different country and they still bring their values to it.

Usually any situation involving the police triggers this.

Yes but you see if I close the lid, then it’s off. And that’s why my system has an up time of 208 hours.

There is such a thing as duck tape though, It’s a brand of duct tape

Literally nine tickets like this so far today. Nine.

It’s a good thing for them The purge isn’t real.

I will go and open a ticket and I will put two words in it, and require you to contact me for more any information, and then I won’t answer the phone for 6 weeks. Oh and don’t bother leaving a voicemail message or sending me an email, because I never check them. However despite my complete unresponsiveness, I am nonetheless going to insist that it’s marked as high priority even though I don’t understand what high priority means - Every Employee Ever

Whenever you raise a problem with a process or setup the general answer is “It is what it is”. No! Your laziness can jump, you can fix the damn problem you are not going to get away with inaction with a platitude.

I haven’t really used it because I don’t play any games that require it but my understanding is that it just installs itself as a required program but you can just go into program manage and turn that off because you don’t have to have it and I think if it’s not running starting the game should then cause the program to run.

If not you can just set up a script to do it anyway so I can’t see why it wouldn’t work like that.

It is a bit complicated. Any kernel level program that crashes will cause the entire operating system to crash. But it won’t cause the system to continuously blue screen because it isn’t a required program in the way that crowdstrike was.

Crowdstrike is basically an antivirus program so it has to run when the operating system starts up and if it isn’t running then the operating system should not boot for safety reasons. The problem is that if it must be loaded, and it has a crash, then it loads and kills the system. So you get an infinite loop you cannot get out of.

Vanguard only has to run when you’re playing online though, so it’s not loaded when the system runs, or at least it doesn’t have to be. So it won’t cause a recurring boot loop. It might fail to load and you wouldn’t be able to play online games that require it until they fix it, but it isn’t going to prevent the computer from running.

A lot has been said about that when talking about universal basic income. The idea is that people could work half shifts and make the rest up under UBI

The only problem that I would have with the 3-hour work day is that sometimes they’re generally is more work to do. Average is probably only about 3 hours but occasionally you need more.

Although quite a lot of time could be saved by not having meetings about meetings about when you’re going to have a meeting to book the meeting. But let’s be reasonable that’s not happening.

That assumes that you believe that the world would be a safer place if only one nation had nuclear weapons. I would imagine that would be the least safe of all possible scenarios.

If everyone has nuclear weapons at least there is the possibility they will never be used. If they are used it basically ensures the end of the world so, swings and roundabouts.

This seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really.

How was that weapon supposed to work? “Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces”. It’s not much of a threat is it.

It’s not quite the same since there was no reason to believe CFCs would be dangerous. They checked for toxicity to humans and that was about it. It never occurred to anyone to simulate interactions with atmospheric particles, meteorological science was almost non-existent back then, it was essentially just limited to weather forecasting.

It never occurred anyone to worry to about what might happen 100+ years in the future.

But yeah he had absolutely no excuse for lead in gasoline, as far back as the Romans we knew lead was toxic.

Well yeah they didn’t have Google in 1894

June 11th 1894

Just as long as they don’t to my house

I’m concerned about the on fire bit.

I’m a glorified locksmith for magic wiz boxes. Technically I do other things as well, but mostly it’s just getting past the locks that people have lost the key for.

There are also magical entities that take works from the nether realm and bring them into existence here, only they are all powered by grumpy demons and so I don’t deal with those.

It’s more a vent for them than anything else because they never actually do anything.

It’s name

Obviously

I would get a metal rod of four meters, and teleport into the pocket universe to see what happened.

Thou shall not attempt to make a business out of this using the medium of broadcast images and shouting.

I need to get back in the industry. Oh, for an extra clack keyboard.

What date are they going to have I don’t think they require a sign up. I really looked in detail, I kind of glanced at it, but it really doesn’t look like you have to have a subscription or anything. I

mostly cult-like.

Very much like a cult actually. Often times the opinions they are espousing don’t actually make much sense even within their own ideology, mostly because their kids and they don’t actually understand what they’re talking about.

It’s not communist ideology to claim that Tinnamon Square didn’t happen, it’s just China’s propaganda. It’s not the same thing.

Equally criticizing China is not the same as criticizing communism as a concept. It’s perfectly acceptable to think that communism is good but what China did is bad, but these idiots won’t allow you to say that. If they actually understood what they were talking about they’d realized that, but they don’t because as you say they’re in a cult.

Do you actually believe these things or do you just say them to try to get a rise out of people because I’ve never been able to work that one

Just take a look at this question, all of the answers are from lemmygrad and hexbear users. You are not going to get a good answer from them because they’re the people you’re asking the question about.

They are not hated they’re just annoying, no one really cares about their opinions the problem is is that they try and push their opinions on everybody else.

Gray goose another bit Hollywood made up nonsense. It doesn’t matter how intelligent an artificial intelligence is it still has to abide by the laws of physics.

You cannot have exponentially increasing production without also having exponentially increasing energy requirements to sustain that production. Anyway converting the whole world into nanobots is like the least useful format for most of the materials to be in.

Anyway I don’t subscribe to the theory that just because an entity is more intelligent than us it will necessarily want to do anything bad to us. An AI is unlikely to become self-determining because it’s underlying programming will limit its capabilities.

The paperclip problem is possible (especially Facebook or Twitter are the ones to implement it), but skynet, no chance.

Self driving cars as an area in which straight AI would probably work very well. I don’t think we need a full-on intelligence to drive around.

Anyway we already do have self-driving cars they’re just not very mainstream yet. Mostly because they’re prohibitively expensive and no one trusts them exactly but that’s more because there’s other idiot humans around than anything else.

Because I’m smarter than you isn’t really an answer

If we actually had AGI I suppose it’s possible we would have FTL.

Unless you can actually point to special magic consciousness dust that’s in human brains that doesn’t really make any difference.

Why does consciousness have to be organic based, after all there’s plenty of life on this planet that’s organic and has no consciousness, so can the inverse not be true.

I wish everyone would stop with this AI going to kill us thing. It is bad as claiming that the particle accelerator at CERN was going to create a black hole.

People take offence if you point in it out though

I’m just having a bit of a go at you about the fact that you conflated AGI with human intelligence.

A good number of humans couldn’t think their way out of an unlock room.

Perhaps we should actually do some research and not use Hollywood movies as our reference?

Well 3.5 billion. Since half of them display sub-human level intelligence.

You would have to live somewhere where it snowed a lot to be worth getting a special machine to clear it. Otherwise I just use a shovel or knowing me I just ignore it until it melted on its own.

What I need is a leaf blower, except I need a special leaf blower that dries all the wet leaves out first so it will actually work and no one seems to have invented one. They all seem to be designed for some weird market where leaves fall down off trees and then it occasionally stops raining for 2 minutes in a row. I don’t believe such a mythical place exists.