Bernie Sanders.

most comedians are far too centrist for me, but i enjoy how they piss on the extreme left and the extreme right and their delusional self-destructive agendas. it’s terrifying how many people take extremest views seriously.

piefed blocks more stuff and makes it easier to block stuff. it generally has poorer federation.

lemmy is better if you want more content, piefed if you want more control.

she tried to get pregnant and baby trap me.

she confessed one night, drunk, and then was SHOCKED that i broke up with on the spot, and began screaming and throwing stuff at me. I kicked her out of my place, I had to put hands on her and shove her out the door, and I never spoke to her again.

that wasn’t even the worst breakup I had. haven’t had a relationship since. just many years of casual dating that goes no where because we’re so incompatible.

practice

No. LLM is code, determined inputs make determined outputs.

Biological neurons don’t work like that. You can give them the same input and they can have wildly different outputs.

they don’t teach romance and mystery books either.

because they aren’t literature. they are popular entertainment.

English teachers don’t love it, they teach it because it’s part of the standard curriculum of books they are allowed to teach. there are standard lists of books from which they get to pick, usually selected by the state or school board.

which is why pretty much every student reads the same books across the country, give or take a few different ones.

It’s dumb.

there is a reason it’s assigned to 8th graders. they tend to enjoy dumb stories, that require a minimum effort to read and very little effort to understand.

It’s not a scam if your town/well water is shitty or causes issues.

I don’t have one, but many restaurants in my city have them because the city water is hard, and will destroy pipes and equipment. Like, if you ran an espresso machine in my city w/o a filter the machine would clog every other week from mineral build up. So in terms of lowing your plumber and equipment bills it’s a very good investment. Often in my city water heater tanks, for example, will last 5-10 years instead of like 20. Also, a lot of people find the hard water in my city unpalatable.

The info about your water should be available through your town or city. The water in my city isn’t treated because it’s perfectly safe and clean, it just has high mineral content. I have lived in places where the water was treated with softeners because it was too hard, and that has other drawbacks.

If I was building a new home in my same town, I would totally install one because it would pay for itself in the long run. I use a Brita filter and that’s good enough for me to clean up the taste, and I do call a plumber to flush my pipes and all that every couple of years to prevent the build up that eats away at them, so that is an ongoing cost I have to eat. And retrofitting a filter system would be stupidly expensive for my building.

those things are well understood. consciousness isn’t.

and again, not everyone believes in them.

free will is your choices. whether or not you believe those choices are determined or undetermined, is the problem where people don’t agree.

Can you throw a baseball like a major league pitcher?

we can’t know consciousness because we don’t have access to other beings experiences. which means, we can only define our own consciousness, and they are all going to be very different based on the embodied knowledge and experience we possess.

the biggest mistake most people make is thinking consciousness isn’t embodied. AI isn’t embodied, it’s code. code to which we do, have direct access.

the gap is whether or not you believe human conscious experience and be reduced to a sufficiently sophisticated computer code, or if you don’t. and the issue, as you pointed in another reply, is that if you do, well then everything is conscious to some degree, as long as it can be modeled in computer code.

yes, but you’re likely destroy it in the process. bite valves are not designed to be cleanable or fixable, but rather replaceable.

buy a new one. and yeah if it’s too old, they won’t make new ones, so time for a new bladder.

I’ve broken every bite valve I tried to fix.

it’s supposed to be that the jedi and the sith are always moving to equality. one rises, the other falls, vice versa.

the obsession with purity and all that is what leads to the downfall of the jedi.

It’s not necessarily your problem. Especially on the internet.

Don’t let the opinions of strangers who are often willfully and ignorantly interpreting you dictate what you mean.

If you have certain discussions you want to be a part of, well read up on that topic, get informed. And choose sources, which, as you say, are interested in understanding things, rather than proving a point or ‘winning’.

They exist. But boy oh boy is most of the info out there some weird petty dummy who just wants to beat up on anyone else who has a different opinion. And most often this is the type of person you will encounter in discussions, both IRL and on the internet, and the best response to those people is to ignore them and focus your energy on folks who want to engage you in the way you want to be engaged.

potential means a lot, when you want to guilt and shame someone into conformity with your desires for them.

sadly lots of folks can’t distinguish between reality and fiction, more and more each day it seems.

it’s something irresponsible people need to believe in because that way they don’t have to take blame for their own choices.

you will notice the types of folks who believe in this stuff tend have life histories of responsibility avoidance.

I highly doubt you’re a paragon of empathy or understanding, and your post here is very clear evidence.

You want to dunk on them to boost your ego. You’re just like them, just younger and more arrogant and blind to your own prejudices, biases, and abuses of others.

look at any dating advice on social media. it’s all about how to manipulate and abuse people to get money or sex out of them.

could be worse. you could just not like how any treats you.

I do want to do it later. I prefer to clean in the morning. So I just go to bed and do in in the morning.