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Well, the harm that it did is possibly being one of the catalysts for the modern alt-right movement which directly lead to fascist america so…
Sure, it wasn’t the only thing, but it sure as hell was a bug part of it (especially during gamergate)
And then… What is that money going to get used for, exactly?
That’s the fucked up part in all of this. A government is much closer to something like a non-profit than it is to a business. Because, like, when you’re a government and have a monetary surplus, what do you do with it? Of course you just wanna spend it!
I know the actual answer is “to give to the billionaires because apparently having enough money for 2000 uber-wealthy lifetimes is not enough” but you know
It really does feel like the beginning of the end
It’s WW2, but with nuclear weapons and climate change on top, as you said
Yeah, memes such as this are propaganda, they build morale and inspire people towards a side
They have their place, if it weren’t for stuff like that, you’d feel more alone with your thoughts
(And for the record, propaganda is a dirty word these days, but the literal definition of it is something that should be done, so long as it isn’t rooted in lies. After all, the allies in WW2 did plenty of propaganda as well, and chances are you wouldn’t call that a bad thing now)
In other words, literal time travel
Remember that a loooot of that goes to stuff like funding research, as that’s the domain of universities beyond just education. I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all
AR is going to become a big thing, the hardware just needs to get there first (and it is indeed getting closer)
This has been the case the entire time, it’s always been a promising technology. It’s not a new thing at all (then again, neither were LLMs, really. Most people just didn’t have this insight into the field)
I will say, even despite me being the one constantly yelling about the incoming american fascism, I also though it’d take at least a little longer
But here we are, with most institutions and companies just rolling over. Sure, I figured it would happen, but I at least thought it’d take more than a year. Not… 3 months
It’s… I lack words, even. This is straight up nazi Germany, except we have the hindsight of history, and yet it’s still all for naught. Incredibly incredibly scary
Rooster and football torture…? Huh, never heard of it before, what is it?
Or buy used clothes at thrift stores
Clothes stay good for a good while if not abused, buying second hand is a fantastic way of reducing waste
That’s because, for some reason, people don’t treat anger like an emotion
While you’re right, it’s incredibly frustrating when it’s near-impossible to convince onlookers on how the fascists operate on complete bad faith and we really should just not give them any time of day at all and ban them
I’ve had great difficulties in convincing people to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, leading to the fascists further exploiting it for their own gain
I don’t get this kidney stone response. How does a sugar free energy drink cause kidney stones? It’s mostly water
Only older people from what I’ve seen. At least, whenever I hear a ping out in public, it’s always someone older
So, to answer your question, no, not really
The more you take an interest in and try to learn at least a little about basically any other single topic, you’ll quickly realize that nearly everything has a near infinite complexity and depth
The rabbit holes are endless, there’s so much knowledge to have everywhere. The people who don’t appreciate this fact and say stuff like in the screenshot are a bit foolish, I think
I don’t know what they were teaching you at the course, but home/personal IoT was never the most interesting thing in the field. IoT sees a lot more interest and use in industrial application, for example stuff like logistics, farming, automation, measuring, stuff like traffic signals and smart grids, and so on
Sure, in high school or maybe early college
But the further in you get, the deeper you go into a topic, the more specialized you are, the harder it gets to condense the vast amount of knowledge you have into a reasonable space. Once you do stuff like a master’s thesis or a PhD thesis, you could just write and write and write and write, there’s so much you could put into that document, because there’s almost endless amounts of depth
Once you start to truly get deep into a subject, you’d be surprised by how quickly the pages fill up when you try to just comprehensively transfer the necessary information onto paper
What they are, are statistical models. You can verify the output, you know
I think the allies did a pretty good thing by fighting fascism and the nazis